Attentive presence: A lived experience of human becoming
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Attentive presence involves a vigorous rhythmical flow of relating to another, it makes explicit that the other is cherished, and it is inextricably related to the way people make choices about what is important. It is a universal lived experience that is important to health and quality of life. The purposes of this research were to identify the structure of the lived experience of being attentively present to another and to contribute to knowledge about human becoming, the nursing theory that guided this study. Participants included 11 families whose members ranged in age from 7 to 81 years. These family members were persons living in the community who were willing to share their experience of being attentively present to another with the researcher during dialogical engagement. The Parse research method was used to answer the research question: What is the structure of the lived experience of being attentively present to another? The processes of dialogical engagement, extraction-synthesis, and heuristic interpretation were used for data gathering and analysis. The central finding of this study is the structure: The lived experience of being attentively present to another is penetrating engaging, as shifting with the cherished arises with quieting-disquieting regard. This structure is comprised of three core concepts, penetrating engaging, shifting with the cherished, and quieting-disquieting regard. These core concepts reflect the unitary experience of being attentively present to another for the participants in this study. Using the participants' descriptions, the findings are discussed in relation to how they enhance understanding about human becoming and in relation to how they can inform future research and practice.
This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3056410; ProQuest document ID: 275680253. The author still retains copyright.
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Type | Dissertation |
Acquisition | Proxy-submission |
Review Type | None: Degree-based Submission |
Format | Text-based Document |
Evidence Level | Other |
Research Approach | Other |
Keywords | Relating to Others; Quality of Life; Being Attentively Present; Nursing Theory |
Grantor | Loyola University Chicago |
Advisor | Parse, Rosemarie R.; Velsor-Friedrich, Barbara |
Level | PhD |
Year | 2002 |
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