Index

Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde, UK)

Dealing With Change Through Information Sculpting

ISBN: 978-1-80382-048-4, eISBN: 978-1-80382-047-7

Publication date: 21 July 2022

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Ruthven, I. (2022), "Index", Dealing With Change Through Information Sculpting, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 261-270. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-047-720221011

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INDEX

Abilities
, 130

Acceptance
, 20

of being
, 45

form of
, 179–180

of misinformation
, 66

Accessibility of information
, 9–10, 161

Achievers
, 119

Acting on information
, 118–119

Active information sharing
, 143

Active media users
, 134

Active model
, 14–15

Acute changes
, 3

Adjustment
, 39

perspective on work responsibility changes
, 102–103

Adolescent sexuality
, 133

Adoption
, 83–84

Ageing population within prison
, 158

Alignment
, 37

Analogical mappings
, 4, 32, 35

materiality
, 32–33

modes
, 33–34

plasticity
, 33

representation, presentation and curation
, 34–35

tools
, 34

Analogies
, 173

Ancestry tourism
, 12

Anger
, 105

Anticipation
, 184

Anticipatory deidentification
, 110

Anticipatory socialisation
, 17, 99

Anxiety/worry
, 8, 83, 117

Anxious preoccupation
, 9

Appraisal-based coping
, 13

Askers
, 118–119

Assimilation process. See Organisational socialization

Attention, paying persistent
, 115

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
, 156

Autobiographical memory
, 35

Avoidance
, 56–57

Avoiders
, 118–119

Awareness
, 20, 39

of gender transformation
, 147

Bail process
, 157

Basic facts of information needs
, 122

Becoming ill
, 116–118

‘Becoming somebody’
, 16

Being honest
, 78

Beliefs
, 93

Belonging
, 15, 185

Bereavement
, 1, 16, 92, 94

Bias
, 185–186

Bibliotherapy
, 8

Biology-focused coping
, 7–8

Blunters
, 57–58

Body
, 117

dysmorphia
, 144

Bourdieu’s theory habitus
, 61

Bricolage
, 34

Bridge metaphor
, 174

Cancer
, 119

CAPTCHA tests
, 128

Career

mentoring functions
, 104

stage perspective on work responsibility changes
, 101–102

Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire
, 105

Cause and effects
, 78–79

Change

adjustment perspective
, 102–103

career stage perspective
, 101–102

decision-making perspective
, 104–105

identity perspective
, 103–104

movement between religions
, 14–15

realising need to
, 14–17

relational perspective
, 104

role exit theory
, 16–17

in work responsibility
, 101–105

Chatman’s theory
, 67

Child sexuality
, 133

Chronic illness
, 120

Cognitive avoidance
, 9

Collaborative problem-solving
, 8

Collaborators access Internet information
, 124

Coming-out
, 142–147

Communal meaning-making
, 189–190

Communication
, 22, 109–110

Comparison
, 16

seeking for information on
, 10

Compensation
, 167

Competence displays
, 113

Competence-cultivating mechanism
, 116, 180

Complementary techniques
, 118

Compromised levels need
, 70–71

Concealable stigmatised conditions
, 24–25

Confined escapism
, 160

Conscious need
, 70–71

Conservativism
, 186

Conserving behaviours
, 185–186

Contradictions
, 39

Control

active
, 120

control-seeking
, 130

gaining
, 120

sense of
, 92, 122

Conversion
, 15

Coping
, 122

coping-based framework
, 107

mechanisms
, 26, 166

needs
, 123

with uncertainty
, 55–57

‘Coping capital’
, 22

Coping theory
, 4–5, 7, 11

coping and information
, 8–10

crisis decision theory
, 10–11

Crime
, 155

being victim of
, 164–170

going to prison
, 156–161

and information sculpting
, 170–171

leaving prison
, 162–164

Criminal justice system
, 155

Crisis decision theory
, 10–11, 37, 47

Cross-cultural adoption
, 84

Cross-cutting themes
, 183–190

bias and conserving behaviours
, 185–186

imagined realities
, 184–185

individual factors
, 188–190

social factors
, 186–188

uncertainty
, 183

Cuing behaviour
, 16

Cultural attitudes
, 188

Cultural context
, 118

Cultural norms
, 94

Cultural values
, 169

Culture
, 78

Curation
, 34–35

Curators
, 119

Curricula
, 136

Cyberchondria
, 126

Davison, Pennebaker, and Dickerson theory
, 13

Death
, 90–94

bereavement
, 92–94

dying
, 91–92

Decision-making
, 113, 180

perspective on work responsibility changes
, 104–105

Deferral problem-solving
, 8

‘Deformity’
, 24

Deliberate disclosure
, 25

Demographic statuses
, 163

Denial
, 19–20, 39

Depression disorders
, 123–124

Designers
, 119

Diagnosis
, 117, 122–123, 129–130

Digital Divide
, 69

Disability
, 126, 129, 139

Disclosure
, 78

Discrepancy
, 12–13

Discrete emotions
, 105

Disguising conversations strategies
, 100

Dissonance
, 39–40, 43, 112

Distance coping
, 26

Distrust in healthcare professionals
, 125

Doubts
, 38

Eating disorders
, 123–124

Ebaugh’s role exit theory
, 17, 38

Elderly prisoners
, 162

Emotion-based coping
, 7–8

Emotional consequences
, 10–11

Emotional needs
, 91

Enacting
, 47, 180–181

Encounter
, 99

Engaging
, 45, 113, 178, 180

Enhancing social functioning
, 122

‘Epidemic proportions’
, 164–165

Epistemic injustice
, 188

Establishing process
, 48–49, 181–182

Event
, 2, 43

Life Before and
, 177–178

Everyday life information seeking (ELIS)
, 51, 61, 66

Ex-role creation
, 38

Exit
, 99

Expedient-Flexible patients
, 119

Experience
, 39–40

Experiential information
, 116, 187

Experimenting behaviours
, 130

External involvement
, 19

Facebook
, 89–90

Families
, 77

death
, 90–94

and information sculpting
, 94–95

parenting
, 80–87

relationships
, 77

Fatalism
, 9

Fear
, 27, 91

of revealment
, 169

Feedback seeking
, 113

Fighting spirit
, 9

Financial information need
, 93

Financial needs
, 91

Formal crisis
, 176–177

Formalised need
, 70–71

‘Formidable complexity’
, 2

Forums
, 23, 85, 125

online
, 128

social
, 126

Four-phase model of reaction
, 120

Four-stage model of help-seeking
, 170

Framing
, 109

Free-standing sculptures
, 35

Friction
, 43–44

Genealogy
, 12

General accessibility
, 161

General Belief in a Just World (GBJW)
, 11–12

Global meaning systems
, 11–12

Good communication
, 109

Graduation
, 16

Grieving, processing of
, 93

Health
, 116

authorities
, 130

concern
, 117

disability
, 126–129

health and information sculpting
, 129–130

health-related situations
, 115

mental illness
, 120–126

physical illness
, 116–120

research
, 118–119

Health information
, 118

behaviours
, 115–116, 126

provision
, 117–118

Health professionals’ behaviours
, 115–116

Help-seeking
, 105

four-stage model of
, 170

Helplessness/hopelessness type people
, 9

Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale
, 2

Homo sapiens
, 29

Homosexuality
, 155

Honour killings
, 164–165

Human intermediaries
, 187–188

Hyper-masculinity
, 159

Identify formation of gay
, 146

Identity
, 189–190

construction
, 103

creation
, 17

formation
, 143

perspective on work responsibility changes
, 103–104

Ignorance
, 56–57

Illness
, 1, 115, 130

Illness uncertainty theory
, 53

Imagination
, 185

Imagined realities
, 184–185

Imagining
, 39–40, 148–149

Independent-Skeptical patients
, 119

Indirect strategies
, 100

Individual context
, 118

Individual factors
, 188–190

Individualisation
, 98

Infertility
, 84–86

Information
, 1, 84–85

accessing
, 9–10

available online
, 124–125

avoidance
, 57

barriers
, 68–69

coping and
, 8–10

sources of
, 145–147

and support
, 167–170

types of
, 9

Information behaviour
, 2, 29–30

enacting
, 47

engaging
, 45

establishing
, 48–49

event
, 43

initial information behaviour theory of transitions
, 42

Life After
, 49

Life Before
, 43

model
, 51

negotiating
, 45–46

resolving
, 47–48

theory of change
, 40–49

understanding
, 43–45

Information behaviour and change

information behaviour and information sculpting
, 72–75

information behaviour theory of transitions
, 73

information needs
, 70–72

information poverty
, 66–70

sense-making
, 58–61

uncertainty management
, 51–58

Information gathering
, 98

Information grounds
, 63–64

Information horizons
, 62–63

Information imbalance
, 108–109

Information inequalities
, 69

Information landscapes
, 64–66

Information literacies
, 65

Information needs
, 70, 72, 141–142, 144

change
, 135

prisoners
, 157–158

victims
, 165–167

Information networks
, 187

Information obtaining in prison
, 159–161

Information overload
, 183

Information poverty
, 66–70

online interactions
, 69–70

small worlds and information barriers
, 68–69

Information practices
, 189–190

Information professionals
, 13

Information providers
, 23

Information Science
, 4–5, 57–58, 75, 115, 133, 151

Information sculpting
, 4–5, 29, 31, 173

Allard and Caidi’s translocal meaning-making
, 39–40

analogical mappings
, 32–35

creating information sculpting theory
, 36–40

crime and
, 170–171

cross-cutting themes
, 183–190

Ebaugh’s role exit theory
, 38

families and relationships and
, 94–95

final information behaviour theory of transitions
, 172

health and
, 129–130

information behaviour and
, 72–75

information behaviour theory of transitions augmented with behaviours
, 96

information search process
, 35–36

result of theory synthesis
, 40–41

sexuality and
, 151–152

Straus’ model of religious conversion
, 38

Sweeny’s crisis decision theory
, 37

transitions
, 175–182

Williams’ transitions cycle
, 39

work and
, 112–113

Young and Lockhart’s transition curve
, 39

Information Search Process
, 35–36

Information seekers
, 14–15

Information seeking
, 52, 99, 101, 190

Information Seeking of Sexual Assault Survivors model (ISSAS model)
, 60–61

Information solution process
, 4

Information sources and behaviours
, 123–126

Information withdrawal
, 56

Information-coping trajectory
, 120

Informational support
, 81

Innovative behaviour
, 29

Institutional barriers
, 69

Institutional prejudice
, 164–165

Integration
, 20

Intellectual-Researcher patients
, 119

Interactions
, 125

Interactive strategies
, 79

Intermediaries
, 187–188

Internet
, 23, 82, 121, 123–124, 140–141, 144–145

Interpersonal crime
, 164–165

Interpersonal uncertainty
, 54–55

Interpretation
, 37, 175–176, 178–179

Interpretative abilities
, 182

‘Interrelated uncertainty chains’
, 53

Interventions
, 124

Intimate partner violence (IPV)
, 60, 167

Invisible changes
, 4

Juvenile criminality
, 156–157

Knowledge of transitions process
, 19

Kübler–Ross’s Change Curve
, 19–20

Kuhlthau’s model
, 173

Labelling
, 179

of experience
, 129

Laying away information
, 95

Leaders
, 119

Learning

disabilities
, 128

Internet
, 140–141

parents
, 138–140

peers
, 140

school
, 135–138

about sex and sexuality
, 135–141

social norms and practices
, 15

Leaving home
, 87–88

Legal information need
, 93

Leisure-based coping
, 8

Level of repetition
, 3–4

LGBTQ+ youth
, 144, 146–147

Libraries
, 145, 149

Life

events
, 77

mastery of
, 188–189

stressors
, 80

transitions
, 53, 175

Life After
, 49, 182

Life Before
, 43

and event
, 177–178

Life change

axes of
, 2–4

characterising
, 2

coping
, 7–11

disorder
, 1

meaning-making
, 11–14

realising need to change
, 14–17

social capital
, 21–24

stigma
, 24–27

theories of
, 7

transitions theory
, 17–21

Liminality/liminal states
, 102–103

in transitions
, 43–44

Literature on health
, 116

Living sculptures
, 31

Lloyd’s theory of information landscapes
, 64–65

Location
, 39–40

Macro-experiences
, 112

Major Life Events Taxonomy
, 2

Manifestation of life changes
, 4

Mastery of life
, 61–62, 188–189

Materiality
, 32–33

Meaning-making
, 11–12, 14, 75, 95, 181–182

Meaningful life
, 12–13

Meaningfulness
, 186

Mediators
, 112

Medical models
, 126

Medical system
, 122

Meditation
, 118

Men-Who-Have-Sex-With-Men (MSM)
, 146

Menopause
, 117

Mental illness
, 120–126

diagnosis and needs
, 122–123

information sources and behaviours
, 123–126

Mentoring
, 104

Mentors
, 187–188

Meta-ethnography
, 37

Metamorphosis
, 99

Metaphors
, 173

of food
, 174

Micro-experiences
, 112

migrants/immigrants
, 65–66, 169

Migration
, 71–72

(mis)representation
, 78

Misdiagnosis
, 122

Misinformation
, 66

Model of being
, 47

Model of change
, 44

Modelling
, 33–34

Modern human behaviours
, 31

Modes
, 33–34

Monitoring
, 100–101

Monitors
, 57–58, 119

Mood disorders
, 176

Motherhood
, 80

Motivation during life changes
, 52

Movement between religions
, 14–15

Multi-faceted identities
, 189–190

Murder
, 155

Narrative(s)
, 15, 181

creation
, 75

meaning-making
, 14

Naturally use spatial metaphors
, 173–174

Needs
, 70, 91, 122–123

Negative event of life
, 175–176

Negative events
, 3

Negotiating
, 45–46, 180–181

Negotiation
, 113

Non-voluntary work ending
, 107–110

communication
, 109–110

information imbalance
, 108–109

psychological effects of possible redundancy
, 107

Normality
, 117, 150, 186

normality-seeking
, 152

Normative misinformation
, 66, 186

Observing strategies
, 100

Obsessive compulsive disorders
, 123–124

Offline dating
, 78

Offline environments
, 23–24, 118

Older prisoners
, 162

Online dating
, 77–78, 7830

Online interactions
, 69–70

Open communication
, 109

Open-minded-Exploring patients
, 119

Operant conditioning
, 30

Orderliness
, 186

Organisational socialization
, 98–99

Organizational barriers
, 69

Origin of change
, 4

Ostracism
, 66–67

Overt techniques
, 79, 100

Parenthood
, 1, 80

Parenting
, 80–87

adoption
, 83–84

infertility
, 84–86

leaving home
, 87–88

termination
, 86–87

Parents
, 138–140

Park’s model
, 12

Participatory systems
, 109

Passive-Dependent patients
, 119

Peers
, 140

Perceived misinformation
, 66

Perceived moral dimension
, 26

Perceived stigma
, 150

Person in progressive situation
, 60–61

Personal beliefs of professionals
, 169

Personal changes
, 17–18

Personal crime
, 155

Personal development information
, 98

Personal narratives, creating
, 14

Personal qualities
, 188–189

Physical disability
, 135

Physical illness
, 116–120

acting on information
, 118–119

becoming ill and understanding illness
, 116–118

phases of information interaction
, 120

Physical information grounds
, 64

Physical libraries
, 145

Physical needs
, 91

Physical tiredness
, 81

Place of change
, 3

Planned changes
, 3

Planning
, 3, 95

Plasticity
, 33

Pornography
, 145–146

Positive life effects
, 175–176

Post-Incarceration Syndrome
, 162

‘Posthumous disillusionment’
, 90–91

Prayer
, 13–14, 176

Pregnancy
, 82, 117

Presentation
, 34–35

Prioritise medical approach
, 115

Prison

going to
, 156–161

leaving
, 162–164

obtaining information in
, 159–161

prisoners’ information needs
, 157–158

Pro-active coping
, 8

Problem-solving coping
, 8

Problem-solving legacy
, 176

Processing of grieving
, 93

Professional mediators
, 112

Progressive situation, person in
, 60–61

Prolonged life changes
, 3

Psychological discovery
, 7

Psychological effects of possible redundancy
, 107

Psychological needs
, 91

Psychological stress
, 7–8

Psychological well-being
, 17

Psychology
, 19–20

Psychosocial mentoring functions
, 104

Puberty
, 117

Public stigma
, 27

Qualitative research synthesis
, 37

Quality of life (QOL)
, 25–26

Rape
, 157–158, 164–165

Rational decision-making
, 104

Re-establishing information practices
, 65

Re-establishing perceptions of normality
, 18

Receivers
, 118–119

Reciprocal translational analysis
, 37

Recognition
, 179

Reconstruction
, 39

of valued self-identity
, 48

Recovery
, 39

Recruiters
, 112

Redundancy, psychological effects of possible
, 107

Reference groups
, 18

Rehabilitative needs
, 157

Reimagining
, 39–40

Reinforcement
, 15

Relational perspective on work responsibility changes
, 104

Relational uncertainty
, 79–80

Relationships
, 77

ending
, 88–90

finding someone
, 77–78

and information sculpting
, 94–95

starting
, 77–80

uncertain interactions
, 78–80

Religion
, 13–14

movement between
, 14–15

Religious belief
, 176

Religious conversion theory
, 37–38

Religious coping
, 7–8

Religious information
, 15

Repetition of transition
, 20

Representation
, 34–35

Resolving process
, 47–48, 75, 181–182

Resources
, 93

Response options
, 37

Retirement
, 110–111

Revealment
, 25

Risk-taking
, 95, 130, 181

Ritual
, 176

Rituals and behaviours
, 93–94

Role clarification
, 16–18, 37–38

Role insufficiency
, 18

Role modelling
, 18

Role rehearsal
, 17–18

Role supplementation
, 18–19

Role-appropriate information
, 18

“Role-making” process
, 16

Romantic relationships
, 77–78

Same-sex attraction
, 146

Schizophrenia
, 121, 123–124

School
, 135–138

(school) curricula
, 134

Sculpting process
, 4, 31–32, 48

Sculptors
, 44–45

Searching for information
, 20, 183

Searching for meaning
, 11

‘Seasonal life cycle’ of life changes
, 175

Secrecy coping
, 26

‘Secret tests’
, 79

‘Seeker’
, 14–15, 118–119

Seeking alternatives
, 38

Self-awareness
, 143

Self-blame
, 26–27

Self-deception
, 55

Self-depreciatory identity talk
, 103

Self-directing problem-solving
, 8

Self-esteem
, 24–25

Self-expression
, 13–14, 152

Self-help and peer support
, 122

Self-making
, 12, 35

Self-narratives
, 181–182

Self-protection
, 67–68

Seminal Information Search Process
, 173

Sense of belonging
, 185

Sense of coherence (SOC)
, 189

Sense-giving process
, 33, 103, 113

Sense-making process
, 11, 51, 58, 61, 72, 99, 171

ELIS
, 61–66

information grounds
, 63–64

information horizons
, 62–63

information landscapes
, 64–66

person in progressive situation
, 60–61

Sense-unmaking
, 72

Sensory sculpting
, 31

Serendipity
, 148

Settled lives
, 81–82

Sex
, 133–134

becoming sexual
, 133–141

coming-out
, 142–147

developing sexual information needs
, 134–135

entering subculture
, 149–151

information behaviour theory of transitions augmented with behaviours from
, 153

information needs
, 142–144

learning about
, 135–141

sexuality and information sculpting
, 151–152

sources of information
, 145–147

transgendering
, 147–149

Sex education
, 134

tensions at play in
, 137–138

Sexual assaults
, 157–158

Sexual curiosity
, 160

Sexual education
, 133

Sexual health information seeking
, 133

Sexual identities
, 149

Sexuality
, 133–134

information behaviour theory of transitions augmented with behaviours from
, 153

and information sculpting
, 151–152

learning about
, 135–141

Shaping processes
, 29, 31, 173

Shock
, 19, 39

Short-lasting artefacts
, 31

Slow change
, 17

Small worlds barriers
, 68–69

Social capital
, 21, 24, 188–189

Social comparison theory
, 13, 182

Social context
, 118

Social factors
, 100–101, 186, 188

Social grouping
, 186–188

Social mediators
, 112

Social models
, 126

Social networks
, 23, 89, 95

Social norms
, 25, 66–67

Social proof
, 118

Social settings
, 67

Social support
, 22, 58, 81

Society shapes
, 188

Solitary
, 181

Sophistication, increasing
, 39–40

Spatial metaphors
, 173–174

spiritual/spirituality
, 167

information
, 167

needs
, 91

‘Spoiled identity’
, 24

Stigma
, 7, 24, 27, 150, 163

management
, 25

Stigmatisation
, 4

Stigmatised conditions
, 24–25

Strategic information interactions
, 38

Strategising
, 113

Straus’ model
, 15

of religious conversion
, 38

Stress scale
, 77

Structure Retirement Planning
, 110

Sudden changes
, 3

Supplement-and-define approach
, 102

Support
, 15

information and
, 167–170

Supportive information environments
, 45–46

Surveillance strategies
, 100

‘Survivor’
, 108, 130

Sweeny’s crisis decision theory
, 37

Telling stories
, 184

Temporality of change
, 3

Termination
, 86–87

Testing
, 20

behaviours
, 130

limits strategies
, 100

Theorising change

analogical mappings
, 32–35

creating information sculpting theory
, 36–40

information behaviour theory of change
, 40–49

information search process
, 35–36

Third party strategies
, 100

Tools
, 34

Totalistic organisations
, 111

Trans-people
, 148

Transgendering
, 147–149

Transition
, 40

dealing with
, 7

Transition Curve
, 19–20, 37, 39, 45

Transitions
, 2, 67, 175, 182

information behaviour theory of
, 73

Life After
, 182

Life Before and event
, 177–178

negotiating and enacting
, 180–181

resolving and establishing
, 181–182

understanding and engaging
, 178–180

Transitions psychology
, 19–21

Transitions theory
, 17, 21, 174

transitions psychology
, 19–21

Translocal meaning-making
, 39–40

Trauma
, 43, 183

of being
, 170

cognitive representation of
, 170

trauma-informed prison environments
, 164

Traumatic life events
, 156

Traumatic stress syndromes
, 2

Treatment
, 122

Trial-and-error experimentation
, 45–46

Triangulating
, 95

Trust
, 65

Truth-telling
, 55

Turning point
, 12, 17, 38

Twitter
, 64

Two-system approach
, 104

Uncertainty
, 105, 183

interactions
, 78–80

Uncertainty management
, 51–58

blunters and monitors
, 57–58

coping with uncertainty
, 55–57

interpersonal uncertainty
, 54–55

nature of uncertainty
, 52–54

theory
, 80

Understanding
, 43, 45, 94, 178, 180

illness
, 116–118

Unintended disclosure
, 25

Unplanned changes
, 3

Valency
, 3

Verifiers
, 118–119

Victim of crime
, 155, 164, 170

sources of information and support
, 167–170

victims’ information needs
, 165–167

Victims
, 108

Visceral need
, 70–71

Visible changes
, 4

Voluntary work ending
, 110–111

Williams’ transitions cycle
, 39

Withdrawal coping
, 26

Wondering
, 184

Work
, 97

changes in work responsibility
, 101–105

information behaviour theory of transitions augmented with behaviours from
, 114

and information sculpting
, 112–113

information seeking
, 99–101

non-voluntary work ending
, 107–110

organisational socialization
, 98–99

problems
, 105–107

retirement and voluntary work ending
, 110–111

starting
, 97–101

Working and living conditions
, 122

Workplace
, 97

information
, 174

‘Wrongness’
, 177–178

Yoga
, 118

YouTube
, 124–125