Date of Award
1991
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Beck, Cheryl
Abstract
The phenomenon central to this study is "struggling in changing priorities," a universal lived experience of health. Parse's (1981, 1991) theory of human becoming was the lens through which all aspects of this study were seen. The participants were four young adults infected with the AIDS virus. Parse's research methodology consisting of the processes of participant selection, dialogical engagement, extraction-synthesis, and heuristic interpretation was used to uncover the structure of the lived experience. Struggling in changing priorities is inspiring new awareness while camouflaging the perilous evokes solace amid harmonizing opposing rhythms. When taken to a higher level of abstraction and linked with the major concepts of Parse's theory, the theoretical definition of struggling in changing priorities is imaging the revealing-concealing of transforming.
Extent
81 p.
Recommended Citation
Brown, Linda L., "Struggling in changing priorities" (1991). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 240.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/240
Identifier
FADT14775
Comments
Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991.|Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991.