Reconstructing Cultural Identities: The Lived Experiences of Jamaican Canadian Immigrant Women of the Pentecostal Faith

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dc.contributor.advisorArthur, Nancy
dc.contributor.authorDixon, Sandra
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-12T15:39:39Z
dc.date.embargolift2016-02-22T07:00:00Z
dc.date.issued2015-11-12
dc.date.submitted2015en
dc.description.abstractThis study was undertaken to expand my understanding of how Jamaican Canadian Immigrant Women (JCIW) reconstruct their post-immigration cultural identities using the Pentecostal faith. Viewed as a contentious faith tradition, the Pentecostal faith is often misrepresented, misunderstood, and misperceived in various psychology literatures. The findings generated from this research, however, address the saliency of the Pentecostal faith in the lived experiences of JCIW as they strive to cope with post-immigration stressors such as culture shock and acculturation difficulties. This current research was informed by a social constructionist framework to emphasize multiple realities constructed through social interaction and language. Developed by (Moustakas, 1997), Heuristic Inquiry (HI) methodology was employed in this study to collect, analyze, and synthesize the data. The flexible and creative nature of HI allowed for the integration of my lived experiences into the research alongside those of the six participants. Utilizing a semi-structured interview method, data was collected and reviewed using thematic analysis. Four categories were identified: Lived Experiences of the Pentecostal Faith, Gender Role Expectations, Defining Cultural Identity, as well as Seeking Counselling and Taking Action. Additionally, numerous overarching themes and subthemes also emerged from the data. The relevance of the results is discussed as they relate to the existing literature and new perspectives arising from the study to inform multicultural counselling. Strengths and limitations of the study are presented, as well as implications for theory, research, and practice.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDixon, S. (2015). Reconstructing Cultural Identities: The Lived Experiences of Jamaican Canadian Immigrant Women of the Pentecostal Faith (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27561en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27561
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/2635
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectEducation--Religious
dc.subject.classificationJamaican Canadian Immigrant Womenen_US
dc.subject.classificationPentecostal faithen_US
dc.subject.classificationReligionen_US
dc.subject.classificationSpiritualityen_US
dc.subject.classificationCultural Identityen_US
dc.subject.classificationBlack immigrantsen_US
dc.subject.classificationHeuristic inquiryen_US
dc.subject.classificationGender rolesen_US
dc.subject.classificationMulticultural counsellingen_US
dc.subject.classificationSocial constructionist frameworken_US
dc.subject.classificationPost-immigrationen_US
dc.titleReconstructing Cultural Identities: The Lived Experiences of Jamaican Canadian Immigrant Women of the Pentecostal Faith
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineEducational Psychology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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