Gaynor Sadlo
Biographic Data
| ID | 248180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaynor Sadlo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaynor |
| FAMILY NAME | Sadlo |
| SIGNATURE | SADLO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Embroidering as a transformative occupation
The influence of arts on health has long been researched but often in general terms or related to a patient population. Specific practice within everyday life remains under investigated. In this paper I argue that embroidering is an occupation where limited knowledge exists about how engagement might influence health. This qualitative narrative inquiry-based study was situated in the United Kingdom and gathered discursive data over 6 months with …
Threshold concepts for educating people about human engagement in occupation: The study of human systems that enable occupation
Educators face a challenge to conceptualise and identify what knowledge and understanding needs to be included in programmes that focus on the science of occupation. The notion of threshold concepts, as proposed by Meyer and Land (2003 Meyer, J. H. F., & Land, R. (2003). Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: Linkages to ways of thinking and practicing. In C. Rust (Ed.), Improving student learning: Theory and practice ten years on (pp. 412…
Rethinking Occupational Deprivation and Boredom
Boredom is associated with a range of problematic feelings and behaviour, and may be on the increase. There is a popular assumption supported by occupational science which suggests that the experience arises from a lack of occupation, however, it is not clear why boredom should still exist when most people in affluent societies have more opportunity for engagement than ever before. This paper explores boredom in literature from the arts as well a…
Exploring Optimal Experiences: A Reversal Theory Perspective of Flow and Occupational Science
This article introduces reversal theory in relation to flow theory and occupational science. The reasons why reversal theory might be compatible with research into the flow process are explored. Reversal theory itself is described and the methods by which people are thought to move between domains and metamotivational states are explained. The variety of research underpinning reversal theory is examined and an explanation for the limited research…
A Reversal Theory Exploration of Flow Process and the Flow Channel
This article follows on from a previous discussion paper Exploring optimal experiences: A reversal theory perspective of flow and occupational science, which argued the utility of reversal theory for increasing understanding of optimal experiences of engagement in occupation. Flow has been argued to be an optimal experience that occurs when people get so absorbed in what they are doing that they lose track of time and forget everything else. This…
I Have Mastered the Challenge of Living With a Chronic Disease: Life Stories of People With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Our aim with this study was to explore the narrative life story of individuals diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. An open qualitative approach, namely narrative biographic methodology, was applied to include the life context of the participants and to deliberately exclude predefinitions of concepts. Ten people with rheumatoid arthritis who retired early because of the disease participated and were interviewed three times according to a narrativ…
Further Explorations into the Conundrum of Flow Process
This study builds on previous research that has aimed to clarify uncertainties regarding what happens before, during and after a ‘flow’ experience, a psychological state that appears to arise during optimal human experience. A phenomenological approach was taken to examine the flow experiences of seven participants. The method included participants keeping journals and semi-structured interviews. The flow process seemed to vary between challenge-…
The phenomenon of boredom
Boredom remains a poorly understood phenomenon despite its evident association with dysfunctional behavior and mental health problems. However, little research has been devoted to the topic, and the bulk of studies have almost exclusively been quantitative in design. For this reason, a qualitative, interpretive phenomenological study was carried out, during which ten participants were asked for their accounts of the experience of boredom. These p…
Retirement: An occupational transition with consequences for temporality, balance and meaning of occupations
The aim of this study was to explore retirement as an occupational transition. Twenty‐nine participants aged 66 years were interviewed and the data analysed using a comparative qualitative method. The analysis showed that a new temporal structure developed where the participants were gliding into a slower rhythm. Some occupations also changed meaning when they were performed in the new circumstances of retirement. A common pattern in the transiti…
The phenomenon of boredom
Boredom remains a poorly understood phenomenon despite its evident association with dysfunctional behavior and mental health problems. However, little research has been devoted to the topic, and the bulk of studies have almost exclusively been quantitative in design. For this reason, a qualitative, interpretive phenomenological study was carried out, during which ten participants were asked for their accounts of the experience of boredom. These p…
Retirement: An occupational transition with consequences for temporality, balance and meaning of occupations
The aim of this study was to explore retirement as an occupational transition. Twenty‐nine participants aged 66 years were interviewed and the data analysed using a comparative qualitative method. The analysis showed that a new temporal structure developed where the participants were gliding into a slower rhythm. Some occupations also changed meaning when they were performed in the new circumstances of retirement. A common pattern in the transiti…
Threshold concepts for educating people about human engagement in occupation: The study of human systems that enable occupation
Educators face a challenge to conceptualise and identify what knowledge and understanding needs to be included in programmes that focus on the science of occupation. The notion of threshold concepts, as proposed by Meyer and Land (2003 Meyer, J. H. F., & Land, R. (2003). Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: Linkages to ways of thinking and practicing. In C. Rust (Ed.), Improving student learning: Theory and practice ten years on (pp. 412…
Rethinking Occupational Deprivation and Boredom
Boredom is associated with a range of problematic feelings and behaviour, and may be on the increase. There is a popular assumption supported by occupational science which suggests that the experience arises from a lack of occupation, however, it is not clear why boredom should still exist when most people in affluent societies have more opportunity for engagement than ever before. This paper explores boredom in literature from the arts as well a…
Embroidering as a transformative occupation
The influence of arts on health has long been researched but often in general terms or related to a patient population. Specific practice within everyday life remains under investigated. In this paper I argue that embroidering is an occupation where limited knowledge exists about how engagement might influence health. This qualitative narrative inquiry-based study was situated in the United Kingdom and gathered discursive data over 6 months with …
Exploring Optimal Experiences: A Reversal Theory Perspective of Flow and Occupational Science
This article introduces reversal theory in relation to flow theory and occupational science. The reasons why reversal theory might be compatible with research into the flow process are explored. Reversal theory itself is described and the methods by which people are thought to move between domains and metamotivational states are explained. The variety of research underpinning reversal theory is examined and an explanation for the limited research…
A Reversal Theory Exploration of Flow Process and the Flow Channel
This article follows on from a previous discussion paper Exploring optimal experiences: A reversal theory perspective of flow and occupational science, which argued the utility of reversal theory for increasing understanding of optimal experiences of engagement in occupation. Flow has been argued to be an optimal experience that occurs when people get so absorbed in what they are doing that they lose track of time and forget everything else. This…
Retirement: An occupational transition with consequences for temporality, balance and meaning of occupations
The aim of this study was to explore retirement as an occupational transition. Twenty‐nine participants aged 66 years were interviewed and the data analysed using a comparative qualitative method. The analysis showed that a new temporal structure developed where the participants were gliding into a slower rhythm. Some occupations also changed meaning when they were performed in the new circumstances of retirement. A common pattern in the transiti…
The phenomenon of boredom
Boredom remains a poorly understood phenomenon despite its evident association with dysfunctional behavior and mental health problems. However, little research has been devoted to the topic, and the bulk of studies have almost exclusively been quantitative in design. For this reason, a qualitative, interpretive phenomenological study was carried out, during which ten participants were asked for their accounts of the experience of boredom. These p…
Further Explorations into the Conundrum of Flow Process
This study builds on previous research that has aimed to clarify uncertainties regarding what happens before, during and after a ‘flow’ experience, a psychological state that appears to arise during optimal human experience. A phenomenological approach was taken to examine the flow experiences of seven participants. The method included participants keeping journals and semi-structured interviews. The flow process seemed to vary between challenge-…
I Have Mastered the Challenge of Living With a Chronic Disease: Life Stories of People With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Our aim with this study was to explore the narrative life story of individuals diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. An open qualitative approach, namely narrative biographic methodology, was applied to include the life context of the participants and to deliberately exclude predefinitions of concepts. Ten people with rheumatoid arthritis who retired early because of the disease participated and were interviewed three times according to a narrativ…
Rethinking Occupational Deprivation and Boredom
Boredom is associated with a range of problematic feelings and behaviour, and may be on the increase. There is a popular assumption supported by occupational science which suggests that the experience arises from a lack of occupation, however, it is not clear why boredom should still exist when most people in affluent societies have more opportunity for engagement than ever before. This paper explores boredom in literature from the arts as well a…
Exploring Optimal Experiences: A Reversal Theory Perspective of Flow and Occupational Science
This article introduces reversal theory in relation to flow theory and occupational science. The reasons why reversal theory might be compatible with research into the flow process are explored. Reversal theory itself is described and the methods by which people are thought to move between domains and metamotivational states are explained. The variety of research underpinning reversal theory is examined and an explanation for the limited research…
A Reversal Theory Exploration of Flow Process and the Flow Channel
This article follows on from a previous discussion paper Exploring optimal experiences: A reversal theory perspective of flow and occupational science, which argued the utility of reversal theory for increasing understanding of optimal experiences of engagement in occupation. Flow has been argued to be an optimal experience that occurs when people get so absorbed in what they are doing that they lose track of time and forget everything else. This…
Threshold concepts for educating people about human engagement in occupation: The study of human systems that enable occupation
Educators face a challenge to conceptualise and identify what knowledge and understanding needs to be included in programmes that focus on the science of occupation. The notion of threshold concepts, as proposed by Meyer and Land (2003 Meyer, J. H. F., & Land, R. (2003). Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: Linkages to ways of thinking and practicing. In C. Rust (Ed.), Improving student learning: Theory and practice ten years on (pp. 412…
Embroidering as a transformative occupation
The influence of arts on health has long been researched but often in general terms or related to a patient population. Specific practice within everyday life remains under investigated. In this paper I argue that embroidering is an occupation where limited knowledge exists about how engagement might influence health. This qualitative narrative inquiry-based study was situated in the United Kingdom and gathered discursive data over 6 months with …
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Flow Experience in Various Fields (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (3 works)