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Post–Breast Cancer Lymphedema and the Family: A Qualitative Investigation of Families Coping With Chronic Illness
Get PDFThe number of women who experience breast cancer is increasing. Meanwhile
there have been improvements in technologies used for detection and
intervention. As a result, more women are living as breast cancer survivors
who are now dealing with issues of quality of life related to the aftereffects of
treatments. For about one third of women who have treatments involving the
removal of and/or irradiation of the axillary lymph nodes, secondary lymphedema
of the arm is likely to develop.We take a qualitative approach to investigating
how lymphedema affects these women and their families in terms of
task completion and family functioning. The Family Adjustment and Adaptation
Response (FAAR) Model is used to interpret findings. These indicate
that families who are more flexible in modifying daily tasks and who have preexisting
resources for coping with stressors have more positive outcomes
than do those families who are rigid and cope with stressors poorly
Multi-measure investigation of the divergence of implicit and explicit consumer evaluations
Get PDFThis research extends findings that implicit and explicit attitudes may diverge to a
consumer evaluation task using multiple measures of implicit evaluation: Evaluative
Movement Assessment (EMA; Brendl, Markman, & Messner, 2005), and Evaluative
Priming (Fazio,Jackson, Dunton, & Williams,1995). These measures were significantly
associated with each other for both positive and negative implicit attitudes. Neither
measure predicted explicit liking of the product or explicit intention to purchase the
product. We believe this to be the first such demonstrated divergence in a naturalistic,
unconditioned consumer evaluation context. Implicit activation of the product’s
emotional benefit (e.g., “relaxation”), as assessed in a lexical decision task (LDT) was
not associated with the EMA or evaluative priming, but was significantly associated with
both explicit emotional state (e.g., relaxation) and explicit purchase intention; the latter
effect was not mediated by explicit emotion
Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Literature of Tolerance
Get PDFWhen Liudmila Ulitskaia published The Funeral Party in 1997 the novella received
the critical scrutiny warranted by the latest work of an already prominent figure in postSoviet
letters. The
plot, set in New York
in the humid summer of 1991, revolves around the
dying
artist Alik
and the crowd of friends, former and present lovers, and chance
acquaintances
gathering in his Chelsea loft. Booker Prize laureate Ol'ga Slavnikova
misdiagnoses
this narrative as an engaging failure: it attempts to achieve the impossible by
trying
to fill the void left by the deceased
Critical Gameplay: Software Studies in Computer Gameplay
Get PDFThe computer game software with which we interact on a daily basis not only entertains us, it trains us into specific patterns. Critical Gameplay is a design practice which endeavors to expose and redesign the patterns to which standard gameplay subscribes. The ongoing
project seeks to identify the dominant values,
philosophies and problem solving models reinforced by computer games and provides prototypical alternates to those standards
Preparing the Aging Network for Choice for Independence : Title VI Survey Results
Get PDFWith a grant from the Administration on Aging, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging(n4a) partnered with the Scripps Gerontology Center to conduet the 2007 Aging Network Survey of Title VI Native American Programs. The survey was launched national wide and 86% of programs responded. Results show the capacity of Title VI organizations to provide long-term services and supports to their elders
