FEELING ALONE WHILE WITH OTHERS (PARSE'S THEORY).
Contributors: Loyola University of Chicago.
Published: 1996
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Health Care Management.
Description: The purpose of this nursing research was to advance nursing science by gaining an understanding of the universal lived experience of feeling alone while with others from persons living the phenomenon. Parse's human becoming theory of nursing, a unique theory in the simultaneity paradigm, guided the research. The Parse research methodology was used to uncover the structure of the lived experience.

Dialogical engagements with ten participants who had lost a significant other were audio tape recorded. Through the extraction-synthesis process, core concepts surfaced, and were joined to generate the structure of the experience of feeling alone while with others. The structure, the answer to the research question, is: feeling alone while with others is the recognition of diversity amidst an exhausting turmoil, as the disclosing-not disclosing in flight for solace arises with the ambiguous possibilities in engaging-disengaging. The conceptual interpretation, at the theoretical level, is: feeling alone while with others is imaging powering in revealing-concealing the originating in connecting-separating.

This is the first study that investigated the structure of feeling alone while with others from any paradigmatic view. Three core concepts of the phenomenon surfaced: recognition of diversity amidst an exhausting turmoil, disclosing-not disclosing in flight for solace and ambiguous possibilities in engaging-disengaging, At the theoretical level the concepts were: imaging powering, revealing-concealing, and originating in connecting-separating. The juxtaposition of the concepts at the theoretical level is the meaning of the lived experience derived from the descriptions of participants. The meaning of feeling alone while with others arising from this study enhances understanding and clarifies a universal experience, adding to the knowledge and literature on the phenomenon.

This research enhances and adds to the science of nursing as it contributes knowledge to the human becoming theory of nursing and its research methodology. The findings are related to the human becoming theory, health and quality of life. Recommendations are made for further research about the phenomenon of feeling alone while with others and the three core concepts.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-03, Section: B, page: 1711.

Thesis (PH.D.)--LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1996.

School code: 0112.