Family Distancing following a Fatal Farm Accident

Rosenblatt, Paul C.; Karis, Terri A.

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“…22 There is also some evidence that bereaved families try to comfort themselves with assurances that the event which resulted in a fatal injury was, "an accident". 23 And it has been hypothesized that families who perceived their loved one's death as having been preventable suVer longer and more intense grief. 24 Also of concern are studies suggesting that: people are less inclined to pay for government programs that prevent deaths from which victims could have protected themselves, 25 26 the more preventable a hazard is thought to be, the more likely people are to have an optimistic bias with regard to how much it threatens them personally, 27 and hazards considered to be "controllable" are perceived to be less risky and deserving of strict regulation than are hazards over which people have no control.…”

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How members of the public interpret the wordaccident

Girasek¹

1999

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Only in the case of "unpredictability" does the public's interpretation of the word accident match many experts' expectations. The concept of "unintentionality" is what seems to be communicated most strongly by use of the word accident. Persistent attempts on the part of injury control professionals to eliminate this word from social discourse may result in unintended consequences, which are discussed.

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How members of the public interpret the wordaccident

Girasek¹

1999

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“…Interview differences were present not only in the work on families in business and on parent bereavement but also in work on farm families in serious economic difficulty (Rosenblatt, 1990), the challenges family members have supporting one another when they are grieving the same loss (Rosenblatt et al, 1991), and farm families dealing with a fatal farm accident (Rosenblatt & Karis, 1993, 1993–1994). With each study I thought that the interviewer differences represented a failure in my training and management, and maybe they were.…”

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One Interviewer Versus Several: Modernist and Postmodernist Perspectives in Qualitative Family Interviewing

Rosenblatt

2012

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In the past I worked at meeting modernist research standards by carrying out qualitative family research using multiple interviewers. But different interviewers brought back different interview material, and although from a postmodern perspective that is to be expected and can be beneficial, it created several problems. As I have evolved to be more of a postmodern researcher, the modernist standards I once believed in still matter to me, but I now think that, from symbolic interaction, social construction, and other perspectives, single‐interviewer research is legitimate and, in some ways, preferable. But then I have found in my recent interview research that there are good reasons to use more than one interviewer as long as they interview together.

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“…There is also some evidence that bereaved families try to comfort themselves with assurances that the event which resulted in a fatal injury was, “an accident” 23. And it has been hypothesized that families who perceived their loved one's death as having been preventable suffer longer and more intense grief 24…”

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How members of the public interpret the wordaccident

Girasek¹

2015

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Objective-To explore what the word accident means to the lay public. This interpretation is of interest because it has been raised by injury control professionals as one justification for discouraging use of that word. Methods-A national telephone survey of 943 adults in the United States was conducted. Respondents were selected at random from households whose phone numbers were generated using random digit dialing techniques. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were performed to determine if respondent characteristics predicted their interpretations of the word accident. Results-Eighty three per cent of respondents associated preventability with the word accident, and only 26% felt that accidents were controlled by fate. However, 71% thought that accidents could not be predicted, and 4% felt that accidents were done on purpose. Age, education, income, and race emerged as independent predictors of various accident interpretations. Conclusions-Only in the case of "unpredictability" does the public's interpretation of the word accident match many experts' expectations. The concept of "unintentionality" is what seems to be communicated most strongly by use of the word accident. Persistent attempts on the part of injury control professionals to eliminate this word from social discourse may result in unintended consequences, which are discussed. (Injury Prevention 1999;5:19-25)

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Family Distancing following a Fatal Farm Accident

Cited by 15 publications

References 3 publications

How members of the public interpret the wordaccident

How members of the public interpret the wordaccident

One Interviewer Versus Several: Modernist and Postmodernist Perspectives in Qualitative Family Interviewing

How members of the public interpret the wordaccident

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