{"title":"Recruiting and engaging with people in deprived locales: Interviewing families about their eating patterns","authors":"Victoria O’Key, Siobhan Hugh Jones, A. Madill","doi":"10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.2.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.2.30","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses substantive personal and practical challenges which emerged during PhD research in which the first author interviewed low-income families about their dietary patterns. This research is informed by national and international concern about poor dietary habits, growing obesity rates (World Health Organisation, 2006), and relatively ineffective healthy eating campaigns (e.g. NHS five a day, 2004; Change for Life, 2008), particularly in relation to lower socio-economic groups (Billson, Pryer & Nichols, 1999). We anticipated some challenges undertaking this study and are now in a position to reflect on our participant recruitment and data collection. In particular, it is evident that some of our broadly held assumptions about participants were misplaced; in consenting to be involved in the research, we supposed that participants would be interested in the study and reasonably accommodating. This was not always the case. Reflecting on this disjuncture has sensitised us further to the importance of the research context and the relationship between participants and researcher. In this paper, we reflect on the ways in which our participants engaged with the research process and how this was experienced from the researchers’ perspective.","PeriodicalId":278221,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological Review","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128009043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teleshopping: A uses and gratifications approach","authors":"Moira Cachia, M. Lauri, P. Cachia","doi":"10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.1.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.1.17","url":null,"abstract":"Teleshopping has become central to the content of Maltese television in the last five years. This exploratory study examined reasons behind the success of these programmes amongst Malta’s television audience. It was hypothesised that the popularity of this genre is related to the gratification of psychological needs besides the overt marketing function. Factor analysis of data collected from 150 participants indicated that, at least partly, viewers watch teleshopping programmes because this activity provides them with a sense of identification with a particular group of people who they perceive to have a better lifestyle than they have. Specifically, these programmes inspire the belief that buying the advertised products makes consumers more important and respected, enhancing their self-esteem and instilling hope in a better future. Teleshopping allows viewers to identify with a higher social group than the one they belong to while providing relaxation and entertainment as well as escapism from life’s realities. The results of this study emphasize the primacy of the emerging virtual community. This genre seems to have partially replaced what the physical community used to offer in the provision of companionship, setting of norms, and providing benchmarks for a comfortable lifestyle.","PeriodicalId":278221,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117146448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Well you made me do it!’ Perceptions of the targets and perpetrators of everyday deceptions","authors":"Rachel Taylor, Crystal Rolfe","doi":"10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.1.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.1.51","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278221,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological Review","volume":"166 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122437178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Postgraduate Issues: What to expect from your viva","authors":"Rachel M. Calogero","doi":"10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.1.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.1.61","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278221,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological Review","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123451822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interaction and seclusion: The meaning of the domestic landscape of loft-style apartments","authors":"R. Ozaki","doi":"10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the way in which the domestic space of ‘loft-style’ apartments, in conversion projects, is used by residents and what it represents in terms of their psychosocial values. Loft-style apartments have recently gained popularity in the UK, firstly in London but also in other cities and towns. They characteristically have an open-plan layout with no boundary between the front and back regions, as is traditionally found in UK houses. The housing literature claims that the form of the house, i.e. design and layout, expresses social relations and underlying values. If this is so, this new domestic layout is an indication of changing values and lifestyles. The empirical study was conducted in two areas of London. The results demonstrate that residents value interaction within the household and enjoy open plan, but not at the cost of privacy, and the paper argues that there is a gap between the image of lofts, and real lived experiences.","PeriodicalId":278221,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131322686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photographic methods: An under-used approach","authors":"Brunsden, J. Goatcher, R. Hill","doi":"10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.1.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.1.45","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278221,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological Review","volume":"202 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132827936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing research with a ‘familiar’ group","authors":"J. Montague","doi":"10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.1.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsspr.2009.11.1.39","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278221,"journal":{"name":"Social Psychological Review","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134066664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}