Speech act of thanking: a contrastive analysis among Iranian EFL learners in terms of gender and level of proficiency
Autor/in:
Hesabi, Akbar; Azima, Mina
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 59, S 76-84
Inhalt: The speech act of thanking is one of the fairly neglected areas of research in the Iranian context. The present study seeks to investigate the ways in which this social act is expressed by young male and female EFL learners. To collect the data for this study sixty participants (30 males, 30females) were selected randomly from among the population of BA and MA students of Najafabad university and students learning English in a language institutes located in Najafabad. The major focus of this study was the role that gender and individuals’ level of proficiency might play in the application of thanking strategies. Students were asked to complete a discourse completion test (DCT). They were supposed to read thirteen natural situations, and react to them via expressing gratitude. In order to analyze the utterances of thanking, Cheng's coding scheme was employed. Students' responses were further classified according to the gender and level of proficiency. The results revealed that the females were more cautious in selecting strategies of gratitude. Individuals' level of proficiency was also found to play an important role in the process of strategy selection.
Comparing the self-control and behavioral problems of girls in employed and unemployed mothers
Autor/in:
Babanezhad, Fahimeh
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 58, S 68-74
Inhalt: This research aims to compare styles of self-control and behavioral problems of girls in employed and unemployed mothers. In this research that was done using casual-comparison method (after events) 100 employed mothers and 100 unemployed ones of girls of elementary schools in district 4 of Tehran were selected as the sample based on cluster-random method. Self-control questionnaire (Allahverdipour et al., 2005) and children's behavioral problem questionnaire (parental form, 1994) were used for information collection that was previously normalized in studies conducted in Iran and its validity has been confirmed. In this research, reliability of the questionnaire was assessed through Cronbach alpha and was confirmed with a high reliability of 0.80. The t-test was used to test the hypotheses. The results showed that the average of self-control in employed mothers is significantly more than that in unemployed mothers. Also, the results showed that there is a statistically significant difference between girls of employed and unemployed women in hyperactivity and aggression, anxiety and depression, disorder, and lack of attention. This research confirms that employment of women results in enhancement of behavioral disorder among children. It is suggested that policy makers and planners in the country must pay attention to this point.
The relationship between the quality of life and hope with depression among divorced women and divorce applicant
Autor/in:
Tavakol, Mostafa; Heidarei, Alireza
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 55, S 95-100
Inhalt: The aim of this current study is to identify the relation of hope and the quality of life with depression in divorced women and those who want to get divorce in Ahvaz City. The population of this study include all of the women who referred to the Family Divorce court Ahvaz City in 2014.The population of the number of divorce cases was 125 people and 191 available widow were selected in available sampling method and the total number of them were 316 person.The tools which were applied in this study consist of miller hope scale (1988), the world health organization quality of life questionnaire summary (1998) and beck depression questionnaire (1978).The study design was correlation that the obtained results based on correlation and regression analysis shows the a=0.001 and there is a relationship.Between Hope life and qualify of life with depression among divorced women and divorce applicant in Ahvaz City.
Schlagwörter:Iran; woman; Iran; Depression; hope; divorce; Lebensqualität; depression; Hoffnung; Ehescheidung; quality of life
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sozialpsychologie, psychische Störungen, Behandlung und Prävention
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 49, S 30-42
Inhalt: This study seeks to investigate the ways in which the speech act of disagreement is expressed by young male and female Persian speakers. To collect the data 100 participants (50 males, 50 females,) were selected randomly from among undergraduate and graduate students of University of Isfahan and Islamic Azad University (Najafabad branch). The focus of this study was on the role that gender and power might play in the employment of strategies to mitigate the threat of disagreement. Students were asked to complete a discourse completion test (DCT) designed by the researcher. They were supposed to read nine suggestions situations, and react to them via making disagreements. Respondents were expected to disagree with three interlocutors with higher status, three peers and three with lower status. In order to analyze the utterances of disagreement, Muntigl and Turnbull’s taxonomy (1998) was employed. The results revealed that although both males and females were concerned about the power status of interlocutors and try to apply the appropriate strategies while expressing their disagreements, females were more cautious and used different strategies from those of males.
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 48, S 78-90
Inhalt: The speech act of disagreement is one of the neglected areas of research in the Iranian context. This study seeks to investigate the ways in which this act is expressed by young male and female Persian speakers. To collect the data 100 participants (50 males, 50 females,) were selected randomly from among undergraduate and graduate students of University of Isfahan and Islamic Azad University (Najafabad branch). The focus of this study was the role that gender and power might play in the employment of strategies to mitigate the threat of the act of disagreement. Students were asked to complete a discourse completion test (DCT) designed by the researcher. They were supposed to read nine situations, and react to them via making disagreements. Respondents were expected to disagree with three interlocutors with higher status, three peers and three with lower status. In order to analyze the utterances of disagreement, Muntigl and Turnbull’s taxonomy (1998) was employed. The results revealed that although both males and females were concerned about the power status of interlocutors and try to apply the appropriate strategies while expressing their disagreements, females were more cautious.
Quelle: Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 18 (2015) 4, S 197-202
Inhalt: From the oversexualized characters in fighting games, such as Dead or Alive or Ninja Gaiden, to the overuse of the damsel in distress trope in popular titles, such as the Super Mario series, the under- and misrepresentation of females in video games has been well documented in several content analyses. Cultivation theory suggests that long-term exposure to media content can affect perceptions of social realities in a way that they become more similar to the representations in the media and, in turn, impact one's beliefs and attitudes. Previous studies on video games and cultivation have often been cross-sectional or experimental, and the limited longitudinal work in this area has only considered time intervals of up to 1 month. Additionally, previous work in this area has focused on the effects of violent content and relied on self-selected or convenience samples composed mostly of adolescents or college students. Enlisting a 3 year longitudinal design, the present study assessed the relationship between video game use and sexist attitudes, using data from a representative sample of German players aged 14 and older (N=824). Controlling for age and education, it was found that sexist attitudes—measured with a brief scale assessing beliefs about gender roles in society—were not related to the amount of daily video game use or preference for specific genres for both female and male players. Implications for research on sexism in video games and cultivation effects of video games in general are discussed.
Schlagwörter:Längsschnittuntersuchung; longitudinal study; Computerspiel; computer game; Sexismus; sexism; Cultivation Theory; cultivation theory; Federal Republic of Germany; Jugendlicher; adolescent; junger Erwachsener; young adult; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Messung; measurement; Einstellung; attitude; CATI; computer-assisted telephone interview; soziale Wirklichkeit; social reality; sexuelle Belästigung; sexual harassment; Wirkungsanalyse; impact analysis; Beeinflussbarkeit; influenceability
CEWS Kategorie:Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sozialpsychologie
Being a woman and having an injured body: a study of social representations
Autor/in:
Alves, Raiana Marinho; Carvalho, Evanilda Souza de Santana; Oliveira, Jeane Freitas de; Araújo, Edna Maria de
Quelle: Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 6 (2014) 4, S 1513-1524
Inhalt: Objective: To discuss the social representations of women with chronic wounds about being a woman and having a body injured and the implications of these representations on social relations. Methods: Qualitative research with women with chronic wounds, attended at health units in Bahia who answered the interview in depth and draft-story theme. The data were submitted to thematic content analysis. Results: Representations about being a woman and having a wounded body are centered on ideas and experiences that reveal stigma, pain, sadness, loneliness, irritation, dependence, and the need to approach God. Conclusion: The representations of the participants interfere in the way of dressing, of relating to oneself and to the people in their surroundings implying in isolation and solitude. Representations reproduce stigmas about body image that do not meet socially and culturally determined beauty and health criteria.
Schlagwörter:woman; Schönheit; beauty; Körperbild; body image; Identität; identity; gender; Gesundheit; health; chronische Krankheit; chronic illness; Krankenpflege; nursing; Pflege; caregiving; soziale Isolation; social isolation; Einsamkeit; solitude; psychische Faktoren; psychological factors; Brasilien; Brazil; Lateinamerika; Latin America; Südamerika; South America
SSOAR Kategorie:Medizinsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sozialpsychologie
Meaning and influences of domestic violence: feelings reflected by women in the state of violence
Titelübersetzung:Significados e influencias da violência doméstica: sentimentos refletidos por mulheres em situação de violência
Autor/in:
Soares, Maria Cidney da Silva; Silva, Geane; Medeiros, Cláudia Maria Ramos; Araújo, Verbena Santos; Cordeiro, Renata Cavalcanti; Dias, Maria Djair
Quelle: Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 6 (2014) supl., S 155-163
Inhalt: Objective: Identify feelings of women victims of domestic violence. Method: This was an exploratory, descriptive, qualitative approach developed in August 2011, in a women's police station, with 08 women who denounced the violence. We used the workshop to produce the data through semi-structured interviews, which were recorded and transcribed for analysis according to the analysis thematic category. Only after approval of the ethics committee and research under protocol number: 0078.0.405.000-11, this research was operationalized. Results: The results show that women are vulnerable to violence as a matter of socially constructed that it is inferior to males should be submissive and obey him. Conclusion: Women victims of violence express feelings of anxiety, shame and disbelief, and hope in order to continue despite all the abuse and violence suffered.
'Über das Dunkle im dunklen Kontinent': Leerstellen im Konstrukt 'weibliche Identität'
Titelübersetzung:The Dark at the dark continent - aggression, sadism and atrocity: blank spaces in the theoretical construct 'female identity'
Autor/in:
Hannemann, Isabelle
Quelle: Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik, 36/37 (2013) 4/1, S 125-149
Inhalt: Der Beitrag diskutiert klassische psychoanalytische Perversionstheorie, um sich dem Konzept 'weibliche Identität' anzunähern. Diesbezüglich verbindet die Autorin beispielsweise Freuds Thesen zur frühinfantilen Entwicklung (die sich auf das männliche Subjekt beziehen), Melanie Kleins Konzept der "projektiven Identifizierung", einige wahrnehmungstheoretische Ansätze und stellt ihre Theorie der "phallischen Präformation" vor.
Inhalt: The article discusses the psychoanalytic theory of perversion to approache a model of the 'female identitiy'. Therefore the author links for instance the Freudian theory of primary development (which usually refers to the male subject), Melanie Kleins concept of "projective identification", some ideas of perception and introduces her theory of "phalic preformation".
Zwischen Selbstermächtigung und Unterwerfung: eine Analyse der Darstellung weiblicher Enthaarungspraktiken im Diskurs um Schönheitshandeln
Titelübersetzung:Between Empowerment and Subjugation: an Analysis of the Representation of Women's Body Hair Removal in the Discourse of Beauty Practices
Autor/in:
Steinicke, Katharina
Quelle: Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik, 37 (2013) 2, S 69-89
Inhalt: Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit der Schönheitspraxis der Körperenthaarung bei Frauen. Anhand der Analyse eines Artikels der Frauenzeitschrift Brigitte Woman, welcher dieses Phänomen thematisiert, soll Fragen nach dem Spannungsfeld von Selbstermächtigung und Unterwerfung im Kontext dieser Praxis nachgegangen werden. Gleichzeitig versuche ich in meinem Beitrag aufzuzeigen, dass die Sprechweise, mit der die Thematik verhandelt wird trotz selbstbestimmtem und kritischem Unterton das Phänomen nur auf eine Weise verfügbar macht, die eine fundamentale Kritik an dieser Praxis nicht ermöglicht.
Inhalt: This article discusses the beauty practice of body hair removal by women. By analyzing an article of the women's magazin Brigitte Woman, I want to look into the field of empowerment on the one hand and subjugation on the other hand with regard to this practice. Furthermore I want to point out that, despite its apparently critical tone, the way in which this issue is debated in the magazine does not make a fundamental critique possible.