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Unveiling a reflective diary methodology for exploring the lived experiences of stress and coping
This article unveils a diary methodology exploring accounts of ongoing experiences during the final furlong of university life and examines the role of diary keeping for gaining insights into stress and coping with performance-related and general life stressors. The focus is on thirty young people who, following a year working in industry, were in the midst of their final year of university study—undergoing coursework assessments, preparing for final examinations, making key career choices, and taking part in the whole process of job applications, assessment centres, and interviews. All were attending a course exploring theoretical and practical approaches to self-awareness and interpersonal skills development. The article shares insights regarding the use of diaries for the exploration of stress and coping from the perspective of both the researcher and the diarist.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
Journal of Vocational BehaviorVolume
79Issue
1Pages
204 - 216Citation
TRAVERS, C., 2011. Unveiling a reflective diary methodology for exploring the lived experiences of stress and coping. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 79 (1), pp.204-216.Publisher
© Elsevier BVVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2010-08-10Publication date
2010-11-08Notes
This paper is closed access.ISSN
0001-8791Publisher version
Language
- en