Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Tags: health, social sciences, wellness, mental health, aboriginal women, women's health, psychology
| Principal Investigator: | Hewitt, Cecily (1) |
| Licence Number: | 13016 |
| Organization: | Nipissing University, Ontario |
| Licensed Year(s): |
1999
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| Issued: | Dec 16, 1998 |
| Project Team: | self |
Objective(s): The objective is to develop a description of how 4 Inuvialuit women think of and experience power, powerlessness, control and empowerment in their lives as a result of their culture. Empowerment has been recognized as one of the main variables that a person must experience in their life in order to live a healthy life. Research has found that there is a direct link between lack of feelings of control over one's life and sickness. All descriptions of personal power and empowerment in health education and adult education research have focused on persons of non-Aboriginal culture and descent. This research is being motivated by the fact that descriptions of thoughts and experiences of power and empowerment of 4 Inuvialuit women will assist persons working in fields of health promotion and adult education to recognize any potential differences thereby reducing the probability that such professionals will try to impose their own power concepts onto Aboriginal persons whom they are working . The data will be a narrative of 4 Inuvialuit women's concepts, words and descriptions of personal power and empowerment. The resulting document will form a bridge connecting Aboriginal persons and non-Aboriginal health workers.
Project Description: The objective is to develop a description of how 4 Inuvialuit women think of and experience power, powerlessness, control and empowerment in their lives as a result of their culture. Four Inuvialuit women will be invited to participate in a series of four interviews with the researcher during which they will be asked to reflect on and describe their experiences, meanings, stories and thoughts regarding power and empowerment as they it experience it in their lives and culture. All information will be kept confidential and no names will be used in any reports. Each individual will have opportunity to review and edit content including the final document.
