Theories-Basics
Refers to an abstract generalization that explains how phenomena are interrelated.
Theory
The overall conceptual underpinning of a study
Framework
In this model, humans are viewed as biopsychosocial adaptive systems who cope with environmental change through the process of adaptation.
Roy's adaptation model
An example of a non-nursing model used by nurse researchers that is sometimes referred to as self-efficacy theory
Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory
Traditional series typically have these as their purpose.
Explanation or prediction
In a study based on a theory, the framework is referred to as
Theoretical framework
The building blocks of this framework include five assumptions relating to human life processes: wholeness, openness, unidirectionality, pattern and organization, and sentience and thought.
Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings
Some qualitative researchers specifically seek to develop these types go theories that are data driven explanations that account for phenomena through inductive processes.
Grounded theories
This type of theory can thoroughly describe a single phenomenon.
Descriptive theory
In a study with roots in a conceptual model, the framework is known as
A conceptual framework
This model proposes that people commit to engaging in behaviors from which they anticipate deriving valued benefits and their perceived competence or self-efficacy increases the likelihood of actual performance of that behavior.
Pender's Health Promotion Model
In the classical use of theory, researchers test these BLANK that have been deduced from an existing theory.
Hypotheses
These macro theories purport to describe and explain large segments of the human experience.
Grand theory
These are considered a less formal means of organizing phenomena than theories
Conceptual models
In this theory, holistic comfort is defined as the immediate experience of being strengthened through having the needs for relief, ease, and transcendence met in four contexts of experience (physical, psychospiritual, social, and environmental)
Kolcaba's Comfort Theory
Once hypotheses are developed they are subjected to testing through Blank and Blank.
(During the testing of an Existing Theory)
Systematic data collection and analyses
These theories attempt to explain such phenomena as decision-making, stress, comfort, health promotion, and unpleasant symptoms.
Middle-range theory
The term model is often used in connection with symbolic representations of a conceptualization. These BLANK are visual representations of some aspect of reality.
Schematic models or conceptual maps
This theory explains the inability of a person to determine the meaning of illness related events through subjective appraisals to assist them in interpreting the experience of illness and treatment.
Mishel's Uncertainty in Illness Theory
In both qualitative and quantitative studies, researchers a theory or model as an BLANK or as an BLANK
Organizing framework or interpretive tool