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The Adolescent Female's Lived-Experience Of Obesity, Jamie L. Randall-Arell, Rose Utley
The Adolescent Female's Lived-Experience Of Obesity, Jamie L. Randall-Arell, Rose Utley
The Qualitative Report
For adolescent girls, negative messages about obesity and body image from society, media, school, family, and peers are plentiful. Yet the lived-experience of obese adolescent girls has rarely been reported in scientific literature. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived-experience of the obese adolescent female and understand the impact of the messages received. A descriptive phenomenological approach was used to conduct face-to-face interviews with eight adolescent girls, age 11-18. Participants were recruited through network sampling and had a body mass index of 30 or more. Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of embodied perception guided interpretation and data analysis. Seven themes …
A Critical Dialectical Pluralistic Examination Of The Lived Experience Of Select Women Doctoral Students, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Roslinda Rosli, Jacqueline M. Ingram, Rebecca K. Frels
A Critical Dialectical Pluralistic Examination Of The Lived Experience Of Select Women Doctoral Students, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Roslinda Rosli, Jacqueline M. Ingram, Rebecca K. Frels
The Qualitative Report
The purpose of this study was to explore and to understand the daily life experiences of 8 women doctoral students who were in pursuit of their doctorates. A partially mixed concurrent dominant status design was utilized in this study embedded within a mixed methods phenomenological research lens and driven by a critical dialectical pluralistic philosophical stance. Specifically, these 8 students were interviewed individually to examine their lived experiences as doctoral students. The interview responses then were subjected to a sequential mixed analysis that was characterized by 2 qualitative analyses (i.e., constant comparison analysis, classical content analysis) and 1 quantitative analysis …