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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"150 Psychology"”.
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Cognitive neuroscience framework of conscious dreaming: dream lucidity applications and novel induction protocols
Undertaken research consists of 9 peer-reviewed, publicly-accessible and published scientific articles. To contextualize the selected outputs as a coherent body of work, the aim and the body of this research portfolio can be demonstrated as a three-fold methodological approach. To investigate the …
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Exploring the experiences of depression within Krishna consciousness devotees: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… a growing area of research in Counselling Psychology (CoP), particularly examining its use as a protective measure for depression. A new religious movement known as Krishna Consciousness (KC) has lately become a topic of interest with research indicating a large presence of depression …
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The representation of the concept of personal growth by counselling psychologists: a longitudinal Foucauldian discourse analytic study
This piece of research investigated representations of the concept of 'Personal Growth' through the discourses that emanated from the talk of three Counselling Psychologists as they moved from their final year of study into chartered status. Previous research in this area has highlighted the …
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A qualitative investigation of cabin crews' experience of long haul travel: implications for coping style, psychological health, and personal, professional, and social relationships
… future research, crew rostering, and counselling psychology practice and training needs are discussed.
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Using psychological type for developmental coaching: the inclusion of intrapersonal type dynamics, effectiveness related to aspects of ego development, and the individual's capacity for development
This thesis explores several themes related to the field of individual development and, in particular, developmental coaching. The exploration begins with a literature review in Chapter One, which considers the nature of coaching, how it has evolved from goal focused performance coaching to …
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Effects of positive metacognitions and meta-emotions on coping, stress perception and emotions
… it with adaptive assets within a positive psychology framework. Thirteen interviewees were recruited by purposive sampling based on their assumed positive metacognitions and adaptive personality assets. A semistructured interview schedule was employed to elicit interviewees' recall of …
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Informing decisions to influence change: the changing role of the in-house practioner in the Ministry of Defence
This Professional Doctorate in Occupational Psychology presents four pieces of research, alongside an explanatory prologue and epilogue, which were conducted to show aspects of the changing role of in-house psychology practitioners. The first two research chapters introduce an in-house psychology …
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Borderline personality disordered clients' experience and understanding of therapeutic boundaries: a Q methodogical study
Aims Therapeutic alliance ruptures, due to boundary problems, and premature dropout, from therapy, are common with clients who have a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, limiting the effectiveness of psychological interventions. Therefore, it is hoped that researching clients' …
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Children's constructions of gender, power, and adult occupation
This thesis argues that children draw on various gender discourses to construct gender in different ways. Using the topic of adult occupation as the context for the investigation, it examines the talk of 145 7 -11 year old children in role plays and interviews, to discover whether children …
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Understanding the relationship between religion and well-being: a mixed methods investigation into religious maturity and psychological well-being
Despite a recent resurgence of interest in the field of religion and well-being, the psychological understanding of the relationship between these 2 phenomena remains limited. A review of relevant literature indicated that focusing on the potential relationship between religious maturity (RM) as …
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Structure and content in children's concepts of emotion
Emotional development is defined as the acquisition of knowledge to serve the regulatory activities of identification of state, behavioural prescription and prediction, and causal understanding. This knowledge is held to be organized into concepts which encode information about the relationship …
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Children's constructions of work
This thesis examines children's constructions of work: their own work at school and at home; possible future occupations; and work in manufacturing industry; and the resources drawn on in these. Such constructions are of interest in the context of concerns about how society reproduces itself and …
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The coloured cube test and the coloured mental rotation test: two new measures of spatial ability and mental rotation
This research introduces two new measures of mental rotation (MR) for 4- to 11-year-old children. Instead of the complex achromatic three-dimensional (3D) cube aggregates used with adults (Shepard & Metzler, 1971), or the flat two-dimensional animals used with children (Quaiser-Pohl, 2003), the new …
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Psychological implications of acquired deafness for adults of employment age
Acquired deafness is relatively common but has been little researched and has received scant attention from writers on disability. A review of personal experiences, professional observations and the few empirical studies which have been reported, provide enough evidence for the hypothesis that …
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The development of semantic memory : a spatial model of animal concepts in schoolchildren, novices and experts
Children’s and adults judgements of semantic relatedness amongst a set of animal terms were compared in order to examine the validity of a spatial model of conceptual development in schoolchildren.
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Communication between mothers and their emergent-language children : a longitudinal study
This thesis focuses its examination on the communication in the mother-child interaction over a year. Interactions between eight mothers and their children from child age eight to eighteen months were video-recorded at five week intervals throughout the year of investigation. The study sought to …
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What lies beneath organisational behaviour : the role of hidden and unconscious processes at work
… of these findings for the occupational psychology community are that psychoanalysis can offer an alternative and critical perspective of organisational behaviour, which has wide explanatory power. Reflective and reflexive statements are offered throughout to highlight some of the …
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Metacognitions of Flow Experience: Towards an Understanding of the Self-Regulation of Optimal Experience
Flow has been described as a state of cognitive efficiency and intrinsic enjoyment, whereby a person feels at one with the activity. The existence of an autotelic personality’, an inter-individual difference dimension characterised by the propensity with which a person experiences flow, has been …
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A grounded theory study on the development of a professional identity in trainee counselling psychologists
This study set out to explore the development of a professional identity in trainee Counselling Psychologists in the United Kingdom. Professional identity development involves the acquisition of attitudes, values, knowledge and skills pertaining to the profession (Page, 2005), as well as the …
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Construing economic behaviour
… psychological factors, and using Kelly's (1955) Psychology of Personal Constructs, to determine how lay people and economics 'experts' construe issues in economic life (All references to 'expert' subjects in the following studies should only be taken to mean - those individuals who work or are …
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