BACKGROUND This study explored the attitudes of psychiatric nursing staff towards mothers with mental health difficulties. Working with mothers experiencing mental health problems can evoke negative reactions in staff that activate value-laden beliefs regarding the capacity of these women to care for their infants, which could diminish the provision of optimal care and treatment for patients. ...

Self-other positioning was investigated in a group of obese youths in order to empirically test the clinical hypothesis – based on the constructionist theory of Family Semantic Polarities – that obese people are affected by a negative self-perception and low self-esteem. Repertory grid technique was used with 30 participants (15 obese-overweight and 15 control) to elicit and compare their perso...

ion: Underlying Topics Made Visible It is quite common to evaluate artifacts (or a set of artifacts) to improve their design. Often neglected is the additional step of abstracting and generalizing from the data obtained (Carroll et al., 1992). Such abstractions could stimulate the develop452 Hassenzahl and Wessler Table 2: Number and Percentage of Personal Constructs Belonging to Different Type...

The repertory grid has proved a useful tool for knowledge elicitation, yet its ‘flat’ entityattribute-value-value structure seems to preclude its use in developing the hierarchical knowledge structures common in semantic networks. However, it is known that general knowledge representation schemes, such as those of KL-ONE type systems, can be represented as an entity--attribute-value matrix in w...

We describe the application of the repertory grid technique (RGT) as a tool for capturing the user experience of technological artifacts. In noting the artificiality of assessing the emotional impact of interactive artifacts in isolation from cognitive judgments, we argue that HCI techniques must provide practical solutions regarding how to assess the holistic meaning of users’ interactive expe...

The terms “¿ macrocosm― and “¿ microcosm― have been taken by Jung from the traditions of the alchemists and the philosophy of Leibnitz for expressing his theories, but they are not often used elsewhere in psychiatry or psychology so it may be as well to define them when introducing them here.* The macrocosm is the entire universe around us, with everything in it. It is also the orderly ...

With the emergence of the global marketplace, cross-cultural differences are becoming increasingly recognized as a key factor in the successful adoption of new products (Lee & Harada, 2000). It is thus not surprising that designers have begun to consider the role of culture in design and to develop methods and processes for taking cultural aspects into account when designing new products. Cultu...