Changes in the concept of time among North Korean refugees: A socio-cultural perspective.
| Autor: | Choi J; aSSIST University, Republic of Korea. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of health psychology [J Health Psychol] 2024 Nov; Vol. 29 (13), pp. 1533-1547. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Nov 09. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/13591053231208618 |
| Abstrakt: | Refugees from diverse socio-cultural backgrounds and geopolitical locations face temporal challenges during their transition, yet more research needs to be conducted to understand their time conception in the host society. This study explores how North Korean refugees from remote rural areas in North Korea and China adjusted their time conception in a metropolitan city in South Korea. Data were collected through a pilot study (January-March 2017) and ethnographic fieldwork (February-July 2018), entailing semi-structured interviews, informal conversations, and field notes. Vygotsky's psychological tool and Ricoeur's interpretive approach were employed to solicit the mediation of time conception through organizational activities and narrative meanings. The analysis reveals themes that challenge refugees' time conception reflecting North Korean values and daily activities-Kimilsungism, collectivism, and task-oriented attitude-and the changes in time conception on the sense of the self. Refugees' learning in time conception is a holistic spiritual, social, and personal process. Competing Interests: Declaration of conflicting interestsThe author declared no potential conflicts of interest concerning the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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