Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted SAUDI UNIVERSITY-BASED LANGUAGE INSTRUCTORS’ PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY: A NARRATIVE STUDY(University of New Mexico, 2025) Alharbi, Husam; Chamcharatsri, PisarnLanguage instructors’ professional identity involves a multitude of factors and characteristics that explain practices, meanings, and values, particularly pedagogical ones, that contribute to the identification of identity(s) (Block, 2007; Beauchamp & Thomas, 2009; Beijaard et al., 2004; Miller, 2009; Varghese et al., 2005). Guided by narrative approach (Clandinin, 2015; Clandinin & Connelly, 2000; Connelly & Clandinin, 1988, 1990; Oliver, 1998; Riessman, 2008) and communities of practice (CoP) principles (Wenger, 1998), this study employed eight narrative prompts to answer two research questions: (1) how do Saudi university-based EFL language instructors construct their professional identity without their entitled academic privileges and/or accommodations?; (2) what does their future professional aspiration reveal about their current professional identity? The study’s findings have implications for EFL academic education programs, suggesting the need to revise the regulations that affect EFL language instructors and support the formation of their professional identities based on their lived experiences.16 0Item Restricted The Impact of Missed Nursing Care on Organisational Commitment(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-05-19) Alsubhi, Hattan; Meskell, Pauline; O’Shea, Deirdre; Doody, OwenMissed Nursing Care has been described as a global problem for nursing practice, potentially affecting numerous nursing outcomes. The overall aim of this study was to investigate the psychological mechanisms through which missed nursing care impacts organisational commitment. A quantitative, longitudinal survey design was implemented with data collected using an online survey across four-time points from nurses working in Saudi hospitals across the five regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (N= 1,905 at time 1; N= 176 at time 4). Descriptive, correlation, ANOVA, and regression statistics were performed in SPSS 26. In addition, Hayes’ PROCESS Macro was used to perform a sequential mediation analysis of the relationship between missed nursing care and organisational commitment mediated by work meaning, professional identity and job stress. The findings showed that missed nursing care did not impact organisational commitment directly (LLCI = -0.11, ULCI = 0.11) and neither were they significantly correlated. In addition, work meaning (BootLLCI = -0.01, BootULCI = 0.01), professional identity (BootLLCI = -0.03, BootULCI = 0.012), and job stress (BootLLCI = -0.08, BootULCI = 0.02) did not mediate the relationship between organisational commitment and missed nursing care. Similar results were realised for work meaning and job stress (BootLLCI = -0.01, BootULCI = 0.00). However, professional identity impacted on job stress significantly (LLCI = -0.70, ULCI = -0.12) and could explain a 6 percent variance in job stress (ΔR2 = .06), while job stress impacted on organisational commitment negatively (LLCI = -0.48, ULCI = -0.14) and could explain 12 percent variance (ΔR2 = .12). Other results showed that nurses working in the general medical surgical nursing reported higher missed nursing care than nurses working in either emergency or critical care nursing or daycare/operation theatre nursing/obstetrics and labour room. Therefore, it can be concluded that job stress is one of the most critical factors for achieving organisational commitment among Saudi nurses. Although the prevalence of missed nursing care is not very high among Saudi nurses in general, nurses working in units associated with higher work meaning and professional identity based on clearly defined roles tend to have comparatively lower missed nursing care.20 0