Research project guides for CSUB student researchers
P10: Hello! Kh: Hi, P10! How are you? P10: Fine good evening. Kh: Good evening. Sorry. Let me just pull up the questions really quick. P10: Okay. Kh: So, 1st and foremost, I just want to say that we appreciate your willingness to participate in this interview, which should take about 45 min, and once we finish the interview you will receive the $20 gift Amazon gift card within 48 h. So our goal is to understand your experiences, living and working in the San Joaquin Valley, especially concerning environmental issues like air pollution. Kh: Your insights are valuable and will help us better comprehend how these experiences influence community connections. Kh: And so I’ll be asking you a series of questions. But please feel free to share any thoughts or experiences you find relevant. Kh: Now, if you’re comfortable, extending our conversation beyond 45 min, we we’re more than happy to do so. P10: Alright, no problem. Kh: So the 1st section is employment and daily life. The 1st question would be, could you tell us a little bit more about your current role in your job. Kh: Do you have. P10: Okay, I’m I’m a school teacher, elementary school teacher. Kh: Okay. Now, is there any required physical presence or like? Do you work indoors or outdoors. P10: I walk outdoors. Kh: Okay. Kh: Now, can I ask about your flex? Work? Flexibility, like, how flexible is your job in terms of when and where you work. And is this level of flexibility something that you would prefer. P10: We? Yes, yes, yes, yes, I prefer it. Kh: Okay. Would you say that the job is flexible, though. P10: Yeah, yeah. Kh: Okay. Kh: Oh, can I ask? You had mentioned that you were a teacher? But you ha worked outdoors. Could you elaborate a little bit more on that. P10: Okay, I work back time. P10: The elementary school teacher, and every day, like Monday to Friday. P10: Yeah. Kh: I’m sorry. Could you say that again? Monday to Friday? You work. P10: Yes, I don’t work on weekends like Saturday, Sunday. Kh: You had mentioned that you had worked outdoors. Can I ask a little bit more about how that setup came to be. P10: Oh, okay. P10: Well, 1st of all, I you know, as a school you don’t have to be indoors. It has to be outdoors. So I have to go to work, you know. I don’t have to teach inside the house, so P10: pilots. Kh: Oh, okay, now, can I ask what? Your if you could describe your relationship with your coworkers? P10: We are cool. I’m cool with my coworkers. We communicate. P10: I mean, if you have a little break, you know. P10: Just yeah. Kh: Awesome. Kh: Now, do you think you could walk me through a typical day for you, including both work and non work activities. P10: Sorry. Please. Can you take that again. Kh: Yeah. Do you think you could tell me what your everyday day looks like, including both work and non work activities like, what time you wake up and all that. What do you do? P10: Okay, you know. 1st of all, I’m a married woman. P10: And I have a daughter so. P10: and she goes to school, so I’ll say my everyday life, let’s say, from P10: Monday to Friday I have to wake up on time, you know, as a teacher I have to prepare my family, and my husband has to go to work. P10: so I have to wake up on time. Make breakfast, maybe my daughter. P10: and also I have to go to work today. Weekends you know. P10: I also wake up, but we have to go to sports like Saturdays. We go for sports and. Kh: Okay. P10: So, yeah. Kh: Thank you so much. We’ll be moving on to the second section now. Could you tell me a little bit more about your family, and who you live with. P10: Okay, like I mentioned earlier. I’m married, and I have a daughter. Kh: Okay. P10: So while I live with my husband and my daughter, and my cousin. Kh: Okay, do you? Okay? You live with all all of these 3 people Kh: awesome. Now, can I ask, how long have you lived in the San Joaquin Valley. And what brought you here. P10: Okay, I’ll see. P10: I stay in Florida before I met my husband. P10: So when I got married to my husband, we moved out here. Kh: Okay, to the app. P10: Yeah. Kh: Here. Did you move to San Joaquin Valley? P10: Please. Can I take that again. Kh: What year did you move into San Joaquin Valley? P10: 2020. Kh: 2020. Okay? Awesome. Kh: Now. Kh: I just have a few more questions in terms of the environmental experience and perceptions. How do you feel about the air quality in the San Joaquin Valley? P10: Oh, I’ll see! P10: It’s it’s negative. Kh: Oh, okay. P10: The weather is so negative, you know. P10: it causes a lot of health issues like asthma. P10: My specialty, daughter, yeah. Kh: Okay? Kh: The next question is actually something. A little bit related to the last part that you mentioned. But in what ways does the air quality affect your daily life at work and at home? P10: Well, like I mentioned earlier. It’s. P10: you know, since I frecked my daughter with the Cosmo parts, it has not, really. P10: you know, it’s a little bit complicated. Yeah, especially our home. P10: She like she has to be on her drugs every time and no. P10: and affect her. Yeah, from going to places. She’s kind of indoors when she’s back from school. P10: I know that. Yeah, I see it. Kh: I’ll be up. Kh: I forgot to mention this in the earlier part of our interview, but if you’re comfortable, would you mind opening your camera. P10: Oh. P10: okay, I’m comfortable now. P10: Yeah, yeah. Kh: Oh, God! P10: Cool. Kh: Observations. Okay, so sorry. Just trying to find the next part of the question. P10: Okay. Kh: Okay? So the next question would be, do you think experiencing air pollution with others strengthens your sense of connectedness in your organization? P10: So can you take that again. Kh: Yeah. So you mentioned that the air quality is bad. Where? Even where you work? Kh: Yeah. P10: Hello! Kh: Do you think experiencing air pollution with others strengthens your sense of connectedness in your organization? P10: No, it doesn’t strengthen. P10: Yeah, it just strengthened. I would say. My family. Kh: Okay. P10: Yeah, it’s because we are mostly indoors together. Kh: Okay. P10: He had his. Kh: How do you feel when others, I guess in this instance, your family? How do you feel when your family shares similar experiences related to air pollution? P10: Well, I’ll say not good. I don’t feel good. P10: especially when it comes to the health part. P10: Yes, when I, when they share about the health P10: and what he has done to maybe their friend, their colleague. Like my husband. P10: I don’t feel good. Yeah, I don’t feel good at all. Kh: Now, sometimes people actually feel a strong bond with others when facing common challenges, like dealing with air quality. Kh: How did you feel when you share the experiences about air quality with your colleagues? P10: Oh. P10: I will say I’ve really talked about it with my colleagues, those maybe the one I’m close to that. She’s like my friend, my sister, so P10: I tell her especially about my daughter’s health. P10: What the pollution has done to our health. So P10: she feel very sorry for me, and also try to help P10: sometimes, maybe assisting, getting her drugs and making sure she’s fine. Yeah. Kh: Okay, cool. Kh: Now, how has this sense of bond affected your thoughts, feelings, or actions towards your organization? P10: Oh, Chris, can I take that again. Kh: Yeah, of course. You had mentioned that you did relate these experiences to your colleague, which you felt like was a sister. The question was, how has this sense of bond affected your thoughts, feelings, or actions toward your organization? P10: I would say it really affected the organization, because is something like personal. P10: Yeah, yeah. It’s personal, too, does it? Kh: I feel like you’ve already answered this question a little while back. But do you think you could elaborate a little bit more? Have you ever shared personal or family vulnerabilities related to air quality with your colleagues? And if so, how was it received? And how did it affect your connection with them? P10: Okay, like I mentioned earlier. She’s like a sister just like you said P10: so. She she was open to listening and also trying to help, and it’s already P10: grow the bond, because she’s not like a family friend. She comes. P10: maybe, when she’s free, during the weekend to visit my daughter. P10: So we have this, we have this bundle. Yeah. Kh: Nice opsy moving on to the next section. Kh: What actions, if any, have you taken to deal with the challenges of air, quality? P10: Okay, I’ll 1st of all, I’ll see a wear, protected Max, when stepping out. P10: Yes, and make sure my daughter uses same same with my husband and my cousin, and P10: if we don’t have anything to do outside, apart from work, we just stay indoors. Yeah. Kh: Okay, what about your colleagues? How do those around you cope with bad air quality? P10: Well, I think they do same as well, but you know it’s something personal, so I don’t really have more details on that. But P10: from what I’ve seen, they use the masks and also try to stay indoors. Yeah. Kh: Okay, cool. Kh: How? Kh: How is your organization helping employees to overcome air quality issues? P10: Okay, they provide resources and support P10: when I mean resources. I mean, no smarts offering health screenings. And no, I see. Yeah, yeah. Kh: What do you think about your organization’s actions? P10: That we can’t that again. Kh: What do you think about your organization’s actions? P10: Okay, I feel it’s cool because it’s helping us, the workers. P10: yeah, to create a heavier workplace for us. P10: So the environments can be conducive P10: even on the other part, where the. Kh: I see, I see, has support from your organization, changed your perspective on air quality issues? P10: Yeah, I’ll say yes, partially. But yeah, web door. Kh: Now does support from your organization, strengthen your connection to the organization, and if so, in what ways? P10: Well, it does, because. P10: you know, whenever you’re going out to work, you have a conducive environment, at least your also. P10: they have like support to give you. So it’s it’s okay. Kh: Do you see yourself continuing to live and work in this area long term? Kh: Why or why not? P10: For now also I don’t really know, since I stay here with my family. P10: so I don’t really know if I plan on staying long term or not, but for now P10: 5 most threatened, yet. Kh: Okay. P10: Oh! Kh: Now. Kh: if you could imagine the air quality significantly improved, how do you think that would affect your life and your connection to the community? P10: Okay. I took that again. Kh: Imagine that the air quality here in San Joaquin Valley significantly improved. Kh: How do you think that would affect your life and your connection to the community? P10: Okay. P10: 1st of all, I’ll say it’s P10: it’s going to be. It’s going to be okay, especially for my daughter’s health. P10: I, my family as a whole, because P10: I have to live a day without being scared of losing my child to asthma due to the bad weather. It’s it’s going to. It’s going to be great. Yes, it’s going to be great, very, very great, especially for me. Kh: Yes, absolutely. Kh: What factors do you think can make people leave the San Joaquin Valley? P10: Well, like I mentioned earlier, it’s a bit personal P10: for them, like, yeah, it’s a bit personal for them. So I can’t really say. Kh: Yeah, okay, I see. I see. Kh: Do you think you could think of maybe Kh: factors just in general that can make people stay in the San Joaquin Valley. P10: Will like you, said India, if they can. If the weather can improve to be better. P10: So it can be conducive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can be conducive, inconducive. Sorry, I think P10: that’ll be. That’ll be nice. Yes, yeah. Kh: Something Kh: that was actually the last question for the interview. Is there anything else that you’d like to share about your experiences with air quality and community connections in the San Joaquin Valley that we haven’t discussed. P10: I don’t think so. Yes. P10: I’ve made sure my daughters have my relationship with my colleague. P10: my work. And so I don’t think, yeah, I think that will be all. Kh: I see. Alright. Well, if you don’t have anything else to add, that actually sums up our interview again. Thank you so much for participating in our research, and please expect the Amazon gift card as our way of thanking you within the next 48 hours. P10: Alright. No problem. Thank you very much. Kh: Thank you so much, P10. Have a great day. P10: Alright! You too.
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