自然埋葬:美国葬礼主任的态度和做法的探索性研究
1Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, USA.
Omega
|September 5, 2024
概括
由于环境和成本因素,自然埋葬正在增长. 这项研究调查了葬礼主管,揭示了他们对自然埋葬做法及其对死亡护理行业的影响的看法.
科学领域:
- 死亡研究 死亡研究
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 环境研究 环境研究
背景情况:
- 自然埋葬市场正在扩大,这是由环境问题,精神信仰和成本效益驱动的.
- 现有的研究主要集中在消费者看法上,忽视了行业专业人士.
- 了解葬礼经理的观点对于自然埋葬实践的发展至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查葬礼经理对自然埋葬的知识,态度和做法.
- 探索自然埋葬对死亡护理行业专业人士的社会学影响.
- 解决关于自然埋葬行业行业参与者的研究缺口.
主要方法:
- 对346名葬礼主管进行了一项跨州的匿名调查.
- 收集的数据包括对自然埋葬的认识,感知和参与的信息.
- 应用了社会学镜头来分析这些发现.
主要成果:
- 葬礼主管拥有不同程度的知识和参与自然埋葬.
- 对自然埋葬的态度受到消费者需求和专业培训等因素的影响.
- 该研究确定了在葬礼行业内采用自然埋葬的关键挑战和机会.
结论:
- 葬礼经理的观点对于自然埋葬的成功整合和扩展至关重要.
- 需要进一步的研究来制定有针对性的战略,以支持自然埋葬专业人士.
- 这项研究为从行业角度了解自然埋葬的社会动态提供了基础.
相关概念视频
02:30Naturalistic Observations
15.4K
If you want to understand how behavior occurs, one of the best ways to gain information is to simply observe the behavior in its natural context. However, people might change their behavior in unexpected ways if they know they are being observed. How do researchers obtain accurate information when people tend to hide their natural behavior? As an example, imagine that your professor asks everyone in your class to raise their hand if they always wash their hands after using the restroom. Chances...
15.4K
01:17Bonanno's Theory of Grieving
70
Grieving is a complex psychological and emotional process that varies significantly among individuals. George Bonanno's research on bereavement identified four distinct patterns of grieving, offering a nuanced understanding of how people cope with significant loss, such as the death of a spouse, over extended periods. These patterns — resilience, recovery, chronic dysfunction, and delayed grief — highlight the diversity in emotional responses and adaptive mechanisms.
Resilience
Resilience
70
02:16Surveys
14.7K
Often, psychologists develop surveys as a means of gathering data. Surveys are lists of questions to be answered by research participants, and can be delivered as paper-and-pencil questionnaires, administered electronically, or conducted verbally. Generally, the survey itself can be completed in a short time, and the ease of administering a survey makes it easy to collect data from a large number of people.
14.7K
01:20Actuarial Approach
68
The actuarial approach, a statistical method originally developed for life insurance risk assessment, is widely used to calculate survival rates in clinical and population studies. This method accounts for participants lost to follow-up or those who die from causes unrelated to the study, ensuring a more accurate representation of survival probabilities.
Consider the example of a high-risk surgical procedure with significant early-stage mortality. A two-year clinical study is conducted,...
Consider the example of a high-risk surgical procedure with significant early-stage mortality. A two-year clinical study is conducted,...
68
02:20Longitudinal Research
11.9K
Sometimes we want to see how people change over time, as in studies of human development and lifespan. When we test the same group of individuals repeatedly over an extended period of time, we are conducting longitudinal research. Longitudinal research is a research design in which data-gathering is administered repeatedly over an extended period of time. For example, we may survey a group of individuals about their dietary habits at age 20, retest them a decade later at age 30, and then again...
11.9K
01:54Attitudes
28.3K
Attitude is our evaluation of a person, an idea, or an object. We have attitudes for many things ranging from products that we might pick up in the supermarket to people around the world to political policies. Typically, attitudes are favorable or unfavorable: positive or negative (Eagly & Chaiken, 1993). And, they have three components: an affective component (feelings), a behavioral component (the effect of the attitude on behavior), and a cognitive component (belief and knowledge;...
28.3K