scholarly journals Smiling in the Face of Adversity: A Spouse’s Account of Recovery and Personal Growth

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-78
Author(s):  
Patrick Tak Ching Lau
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
The Face

scholarly journals A Study of Nurses’ Stress Management in Facing and Caring for COVID-19 Patients: A Qualitative Content Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahboobeh Hosseini Moghaddam ◽  
Zinat Mohebbi ◽  
Banafsheh Tehranineshat
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The Face ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

Abstract Background Being in the frontline of the battle against COVID-19, nurses need to be capable of stress management to maintain their physical and psychological well-being in the face of a variety of stressors. The present study aims to explore the challenges, strategies, and outcomes of stress management in nurses who face and provide care to COVID-19 patients. Methods The present study is a qualitative descriptive work that was conducted in teaching hospitals affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran, from June 2020 to March 2021. Fourteen nurses who were in practice in units assigned to COVID-19 patients were selected via purposeful sampling. Data were collected through semi-structured, individual interviews conducted online. The collected data were analyzed using MAXQDA 10 according to the conventional content analysis method suggested by Graneheim and Lundman. Results The data collected in the interviews resulted in 14 subcategories under 4 main categories: providing care with uncertainty and anxiety, facing psychological and mental tension, creating a context for support, and experiencing personal-professional growth. Conclusions Despite their concern over contracting the infection and transmitting it to their families, nurses feel compelled to provide professional care to patients under all circumstances. Work overload and working in exhausting conditions lead to nurses’ physical and psychological burnout, thus their need for the support of authorities and their families. Based on the nurses’ experiences, the primary outcomes of caring for COVID-19 patients are personal growth and professional empowerment.

Resiliencia, estilos de vida y manejo del tempo en jóvenes universitarios de Colombia, ante la pandemia COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-212
Author(s):  
Sandra Posada-Bernal ◽  
Ana Elvira Castaneda-Cantillo ◽  
Marlucio De Souza Martins
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Life Project ◽  
The Face ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

ResumenEste artículo de revisión tiene como objetivo reflexionar sobre la forma en que los estilos de vida y el manejo del tiempo se fortalecen a partir de la resiliencia en los jóvenes universitarios de Colombia, ante la pandemia COVID-19. Los constantes cambios que los jóvenes universitarios se enfrentan determinan la forma en la cual establecen sus prioridades ya sean personales, académicas o sociales. Dentro de estas se encuentra el tener una vida saludable desde una planificación de actividades que permitan manejar el tiempo y consolidar hábitos. Es allí donde la resiliencia le permite al joven, a pesar de las dificultades que el entorno le plantea, sortear los retos propios de la etapa del ciclo vital en la que se encuentra. Se espera con este trabajo que, dentro del contexto universitario, los docentes acompañen al joven en su proceso de crecimiento personal con una perspectiva resiliente, para consolidar un proyecto de vida sobre la base de hábitos de vida saludable.Palabras clave: Resiliencia. Estilos de Vida. Manejo del Tiempo. Resilience, lifestyles, and time management in Colombian university students facing the COVID-19 pandemicAbstractThis review article aims to reflect on the way in which lifestyles and time management are strengthened by the resilience of young university students in Colombia in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The constant changes that young university students face determine the way in which they establish their priorities, whether personal, academic or social. Among these priorities is having a healthy life from a planning of activities that allow them to manage time and consolidate habits. It is there where resilience allows the young person, despite the difficulties that the environment poses, to overcome the challenges of the stage of the life cycle in which he/she finds him/herself. It is hoped that, within the university context, teachers will accompany young people in their personal growth process with a resilient perspective, in order to consolidate a life project based on healthy living habits.Keywords: Resilience. Lifestyles. Time Management. Resiliência, estilos de vida e gestão do tempo em jovens universitários na Colômbia, diante da pandemia COVID-19ResumoEste artigo de revisão visa refletir sobre como os estilos de vida e a gestão do tempo são fortalecidos pela resiliência dos jovens universitários na Colômbia diante da pandemia COVID-19. As constantes mudanças que os jovens universitários enfrentam determinam a forma como eles estabelecem suas prioridades, sejam elas pessoais, acadêmicas ou sociais. Entre eles está o de ter uma vida saudável a partir de um planejamento de atividades que lhes permita administrar seu tempo e consolidar hábitos. É lá que a resiliência permite ao jovem, apesar das dificuldades que o ambiente coloca, superar os desafios da etapa do ciclo de vida em que ele se encontra. Espera-se que, dentro do contexto universitário, os professores acompanhem os jovens em seu processo de crescimento pessoal com uma perspectiva resiliente, a fim de consolidar um projeto de vida baseado em hábitos de vida saudáveis.Palavras-chave: Resiliência. Estilos de Vida. Gestão do Tempo.

scholarly journals The Joyful Life: An Existential-Humanistic Approach to Positive Psychology in the Time of a Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent Dean Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Face ◽  
Autobiographical Narrative

In the midst of a global pandemic, psychology has a duty to identify dispositional or character traits that can be cultivated in citizens in order to create resiliency in the face of profound losses, suffering and distress. Dispositional joy holds some promise as such a trait that could be especially important for well-being during the current pandemic and its consequences. The concept of the Joyful Life may operate as bridge between positive psychology and humanistic, existential, and spiritual views of the good life, by integrating hedonic, prudential, eudaimonic and chaironic visions of the good life. Previous phenomenological research on state joy suggests that momentary states of joy may have features that overlap with happiness but go beyond mere hedonic interests, and point to the experience of a life oriented toward virtue and a sense of the transcendent or the sacred. However, qualitative research on the Joyful Life, or dispositional joy, is sorely lacking. This study utilized a dialogical phenomenological analysis to conduct a group-based analysis of 17 volunteer students, who produced 51 autobiographical narrative descriptions of the joyful life. The dialogical analyses were assisted by integration of the Imagery in Movement Method, which incorporated expressive drawing and psychodrama as an aid to explicate implicit themes in the experiences of the participants. The analyses yielded ten invariant themes found across the autobiographical narrative descriptions: Being broken, being grounded, being centered, breaking open, being uplifted, being supertemporal, being open to the mystery, being grateful, opening up and out, and being together. The descriptions of a Joyful Life were consistent with a meaning orientation to happiness, due to their emphasis on the cultivation of virtue in the service of a higher calling, the realization of which was felt to be a gift or blessing. The discussion examines implications for future research, including the current relevance of a joyful disposition during a global pandemic. Due to the joyful disposition’s tendency to transform suffering and tragedy into meaning, and its theme of an orientation to prosocial motivations, the Joyful Life may occupy a central place in the study of resiliency and personal growth in response to personal and collective trauma such as COVID-19.

scholarly journals Elderhood, Agency and Existential Vulnerability

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 499-499
Author(s):  
H E Laceulle
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Successful Aging ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Cultural Image ◽  
The Face

Abstract Popular conceptualizations of elderhood often use a spiritually inspired language of personal growth and wisdom. These conceptualizations are rightly critical of the language of activity and productivity that abounds in dominant successful aging discourses. Instead, the emphasis is placed on embracing our diminishing strength and increasing dependence with an attitude of resignation and gracious acceptance. Problematically, however, this can reinforce the ageist cultural assumption that old age lacks agency. If the emerging discourse about elderhood is truly to serve as a more inspiring cultural image of late life, it requires a reconceptualization of agency in the face of existential vulnerabilities. This paper aims to present a possible philosophical outlook for such a reconceptualization. It will draw on sources from feminist philosophy to argue how confrontations with vulnerability need not be an obstacle, but rather inspire alternative conceptualizations of agency that are a welcome addition to gerontological thinking.

Integrative approach to pain and other symptoms

2021 ◽  
pp. 202-213
Author(s):  
David M. Steinhorn
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Integrative Medicine ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Available P ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Paediatric Palliative Care ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face

Palliative care and integrative medicine (IM) share many of the same goals of alleviating suffering, restoring wholeness, enhancing resiliency in the face of health challenges, and optimizing opportunities for personal growth and healing. Integrative approaches often contribute a sense of peace and wholeness that cannot be achieved with pharmacologic means alone. A range of integrative modalities is discussed in this chapter, which fit well with paediatric palliative care medicine in developed countries, as a complement to conventional medical efforts to cure disease or thwart its progression and reduce suffering. They also play an important role in many of the countries in the world, where less access to conventional Western medical care is available.

scholarly journals Personal wisdom development involves suffering: Experimental Validation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankita Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Action Orientation ◽  
Choice Making ◽  
Personal Wisdom ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
Personality Disposition

Personal growth occurs with life experiences and most importantly handling and reflecting on negative life experiences teaches us more (Mickler & Staudinger, 2008; Staudinger & Gluck, 2011). The distinction between personal and general wisdom is based on the differences in the development process and happiness-satisfaction distinction. This article argues that personal wisdom development involves pain and suffering (Staudinger & Kunzmann, 2005) yet feels more satisfying in retrospect. The wisdom literature so far is focused on understanding the concept which is majorly correlational, and recommendations are to study the idea experimentally so the concept can be brought to the intervention arena. Therefore, the present study attempts to explore, 'the effect of personality disposition (emotional regulation, reflectiveness, openness to experiences and action orientation) in decision making and affect handling (regret handling) as an indicator of wisdom. Precisely, 1) if people with different personality disposition differ in the choices, exploring the alternatives and handling regret in the face of failure; 2) if people with higher action orientation chose a risky option and if this choice results into failure how do they handle and finally, 3) does personality disposition predict regret handling. The objective was explored by applying SAWS questionnaire, Action Orientation questionnaire, and share the market task. The results suggested that openness to experience, and preoccupation vs. disengagement, hesitation vs. initiative dimension of action orientation significantly influences choice-making and comparatively less regret experience. Additionally, individual high on openness and action orientation explore more alternative, choose risky options and report less regret if faced with failure. The common explanation for less regret after failure may revolve around the theme of 'at least I tried'. The mediator regression analysis suggested that the individuals with initiative tendencies regret less, similarly, people with an openness to experience also regret less than their counterparts. However, individuals with high initiatives and openness to experience regret more in comparison to people with only openness or initiative tendencies. This experimental evidence confirms the observation that individuals who are open to different experiences and take specific actions to try new things will face more ups and downs and experience more regret.

Strength through adversity: Bereaved cancer carers' accounts of rewards and personal growth from caring

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.K. Tim Wong ◽  
Jane Ussher ◽  
Janette Perz
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Benefit Finding ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective

ABSTRACTObjective:Many studies have identified negative and distressing consequences experienced by informal cancer carers, but less attention has been given to positive and beneficial aspects of caring. This qualitative study examined the positive aspects of caring as subjectively constructed by bereaved informal cancer carers, a group of individuals who are in a position to make sense of their caring experiences as a coherent whole.Method:Twenty-three bereaved informal cancer carers were interviewed, and their accounts were analyzed using a thematic analytical approach from a phenomenological perspective.Results:The participants were able to identify positive and beneficial aspects of caring. These included the discovery of personal strength, through adversity, acceptance, and necessity; the deepening of their relationship with the person for whom they cared; and personal growth through altered relationships with others and altered perspectives on living. Many participants gave accounts of focusing on these positive benefits when they reflected on their caring experiences.Significance of results:We concluded that benefit finding in the face of adverse events serves an important function in allowing individuals to incorporate difficult experiences into their worldview in a meaningful way, thus maintaining positive beliefs about the world. This has implications for the development of interventions for informal cancer carers and for those who are bereaved following caring.

scholarly journals Work, Unity, and Aesthetic Plenitude in La Peste by Albert Camus

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 242
Author(s):  
Carmen Romero Sánchez-Palencia
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

<p><em>Albert Camus, and his work, is the perfect example of achievement through personal growth, with a unitary conception of the individual and their relationship with the world and with others. In confronting the immediate, the author offers repose; in the face of the absurd, revolt, and in the face of a meaninglessness he proposes love. His task is advance, our advance, climbing a long ladder that we may also descend, although transformed, no longer as we were the first time. This project will analyse the book La Peste / The Plague, relating it and the ideas here expressed with the concept of work. Work being understood as something beyond mere occupation, or way of making a living, but the endeavours of the subject as an essential component of life. This becomes evident when one seeks to grow fully, in harmony with humanity as embodied by Camus’ characters in a situation of collective emergency, in a city in the grip of the plague. The result is a hymn of hope, of momentary triumph not without repeated stumbles, recalling again and again what we are and what we can become. Just as in our own lives, the nebulous is the constant companion of victory, which is never entirely complete.</em></p>

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