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KMID : 0895020050080010012
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Chungnam Journal of Nursing Academy
2005 Volume.8 No. 1 p.12 ~ p.23
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A Study on the Concept of Uncertainty
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Oh Hyun-Sook
Ahn Hwang-Ran
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Abstract
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Purpose: The study has been conducted to identify conceptual system uncertainty of Americans and to compare conceptual system of Americans with that of koreans in 1999.
Method: The major questions to get qualitative data was “Please list three items(words or sentences) in the order as they occur to you when you think about uncertainty.” And 7 additive open -ended question were used to enhance the reliability and validity. Data analysis involved three levels of increasing complexity and abstractness with a grouping process of concept with meaning and value to form a more abstract and a greater in scope.
Result: Initial level l grouping with listed words or setences yields 14 distinct categories : relationship / family / time / health / trenscental power / life / luck / emotion / society / confusion / doubt / unawareness / unpredictability / others. Categories of confusion was new categories identified from this study in comparing with those categories in Koreans in 1999. Categories of subjectivity was not identified from this study. Level two abstraction with the above 14 categories from level one grouping yields the categories of ’subjectivity of uncertainty’, ’outcome’, and ’social environment’. The final abstraction yields the greatest concepts in scope of ’human’, ’environment’, ’concurrent concept’.
Conclusion: The results could provide theoretical support on the universarity of the concept of uncertainty.
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KEYWORD
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Uncertainty
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