Which statement is an operational definition of a concept?
a. Death anxiety is an uncomfortable feeling on contemplation of one's own death, measured by Templar's Death Anxiety Scale (Templar, 1986).
b. Pain is a pattern of responses to protect the organism from harm (Sternbach, 1979).
c. Maternal identity entails maternal cognitions and affect with regard to the maternal-infant relational system (Walker and Montgomery, 1994).
d. Spirituality is a way of being or experiencing that comes about through an awareness of a transcendent dimension and one's identifiable values with regard to self, other, nature, and whatever one considers to be ultimate (Elkins, 1988).
Question 2
When reading a report of results of a nursing research study, the nurse notices that the theoretical framework is drawn from a discipline other than nursing.
When critiquing the theoretical framework, the nurse should determine the answer to which of these questions?
a. Does the research have implications across disciplines?
b. Is the researcher a recognized leader in the discipline of nursing?
c. Does the author have special expertise or education in the discipline from which the theoretical framework is derived?
d. Has the author clearly indicated the meaning of the theoretical framework to the study and linked it to nursing?
