Sensemaking of Workplace Bullying, Gender Discrimination, and White Privilege
Research Abstract Assignment
For this assignment, you will read the article that I assign to you and you will then write what is called an abstract. An abstract can be considered a summary of the article, however there are particular parts of the article that must be included in the summary. This assignment will be composed of two parts – First, a summary section. Second, a personal relevance section where you connect what you’ve read to your personal life somehow. See the next page for an example.
General Guidelines;
1. Do not have a header on the paper with your name or class info, start the paper with an APA citation of the article.
2. Have 1-inch margins surrounding the entire document.
3. Submit the document to the Dropbox as a Microsoft Word file.
4. Should be 3/4th – 1 full page in length, SINGLE SPACED.
Section 1 – Summary;
1. First, identify the purpose of the article. Most research articles will state very early in the paper something like “The purpose of this current research study is….”
2. Second, identify why this research is necessary or why the author states they are doing the research. Has it not been done before? Is there a lack of research in this area? This too will be somewhere early in the article.
3. What is the research question(s) and/or hypothesis of the study?
4. What did they find? What were the results of the study?
5. In the discussion section, what do the findings mean? What were the limits of the study? What were the strengths?
Section 2 – Personal Relevance;
1. This section is a chance for you to be more creative. Think of a current situation in your life or something from your past and connect it to the findings of the article.
Hecht, M. L., & Krieger, J. L. R. (2006). The principle of cultural grounding in school-based substance abuse prevention The Drug Resistance Strategies Project. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 25(3), 301–319.
Summary:
Hecht and Krieger (2006) adopt findings from previous studies to design and construct a culturally grounded drug prevention intervention aimed at targeting diverse populations of elementary and middle school students. Through the lens of communication accommodation theory (CAT), the researchers strive to understand what optimal accommodative prevention messages are necessary in order to best educate children in drug prevention. By implementing a culturally grounded approach, the intervention was based on the experiences and narratives of actual children in the community. The process of developing the intervention included (1) developing four resistance strategies based on interviews with 100 adolescent participants and (2/3) the incorporation of the impact of norms into decision-making regarding substance use, discovering the personal norms play the most significant role in substance use across ethnic groups. Three curriculums were developed based on these findings (Mexican American curriculum, White/Black curriculum, and multicultural curriculum) known as kiR, each consisting of 10 lessons promoting antidrug norms and teaching resistance strategies and other social skills. The results of the study demonstrate that each intervention showed a significantly slower rate of increase in substance use as compared to the control condition (school’s intervention), with the multicultural curriculum having the widest range of effects. Overall, this study demonstrates that such interventions are most optimally accommodating when the program includes cultural elements from a number of different racial and ethnic groups as opposed to targeting an individual’s ethnic group for that may be interpreted as stereotypic.
Personal Relevance:
I love this intervention! The fact that it was built from the ground up makes it so unique. It really shows how to translates scholarship. Whereas the research could have stopped after analyzing the interviews and coding for resistance strategies, this work kept developing until utilized in a variety of schools across the U.S. Not only transnationally, but theoretically this is SUCH a cool finding for CAT. Gretchen and I were mulling over this same concept of optimal accommodation in Intergroup Comm with Jordan last year. This is EXACTLY what we were interested in… at what point is accommodation optimal between the under/over accommodation proposition? My initial thoughts after reading through the various conditions (Mexican American, Black/White American, Multi) was “well, Mexican Americans will most likely appreciate the Mexican American curriculum, Black/Whites will most likely appreciate the Black/White curriculum, and the multicultural curriculum will be somewhat but not optimally beneficial. BUT, then after the results I thought “Duh! Why would anyone want to take part in an intervention that they perceive as stereotypical to their culture?!?” Such a cool study… definitely something I want to see my own work turn towards. I could see myself working from the ground up in developing interventions that help families grieve and cope, based on what families day best help them grief and cope. Further, CAT is a great framework for understanding the necessary accommodation needed for grief amongst various cultures.
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