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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Future Selves"”.
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DON’T FALL BY THE WAYSIDE: HELPING ADOLESCENT AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES VALUE EDUCATION THROUGH MENTORING IN A THREATENING ERA
… their academic-self competency and possible future-selves. This study 1) examined the quality of 6th grade African American young males experience in a school-based mentoring program, 2) examined the impact of the program in terms of participants’ racial-ethnic identities in their grade point …
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A study exploring the perceived experiences of women who dropped out of GED preparation programs
… of dropping out of GED programs. Possible selves theory and McClusky’s theory of margin provided the theoretical framework for this research. Possible selves theory examined how women’s past, present, and future selves were considered in their experience of the phenomenon, while theory of …
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"Beyond those gates" : how the process of earning a college degree in prison shapes a person's hoped-for self.
… in the prison context shaped the hoped-for selves of 23 formerly incarcerated individuals. My research focus was twofold: First, I wanted to understand how the content of participants' hoped-for selves changed as a result of earning a college degree in prison; then, I wanted to understand …
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Essays on informal banking
… to create optimal investment incentives for future selves. Chapter 3 evaluates and compares the welfare outcomes for time-inconsistent agents under several banking environments.
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Financial Saving Behavior: The Relationship Between Incremental Theory, Perceptions of Future Self, Financial Literacy, and Saving Behavior Change
… to an incremental financial saving orientation, future financial-self, and basic financial literacy training have on the transtheoretical level of saving behavior and intent to save. The study was exclusively completed online by employees of fifteen companies. The incremental saving intervention …
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Future thinking and medicine adherence: a study of typically developing and chronically ill adolescents
Future thinking is thought to play a fundamental role in guiding adaptive, futureoriented behaviour across the life span (Michaelian, Klein, & Szpunar, 2016; Schacter, Benoit, & Szpunar, 2017; Seligman, Railton, Baumeister, & Sripada, 2013; Taylor, Pham, Rivkin, & Armor, 1998), and is considered to …
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Young people, identity and the media: a study of conceptions of self identity among youth in Southern England.
… on the understandingsheld by young people themselves. The relationship between media and identity is explored through an examination of previous work on ethnic minority representation in the media, and considered in relation to how representations impact upon audience members' formulations of …
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Writing Therapy Benefits May Be Dosage Dependent
… specifically writing about one's best possible future self. The primary hypothesis was that writing about one's best possible future self twenty minutes per day for four days (high dosage) would result in more positive change in moods than would writing about one's plans for the day twenty …
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Widening participation in higher education: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the aspirations of young people living in low participation neighbourhoods.
… reflections on their current life and possible future selves. Through the creation of three super-ordinate themes: ‘Empowerment’; ‘Familiarity’; and ‘Broadening Horizons’, the study found that the participants do not lack aspiration, indeed they all have some form of aspiration towards higher …
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Educational decision-making in an era of AIDS
… want they want to be. They construct positive ‘future selves’ that entail the aspiration for a long and successful life, in the course of which they maintain some control in the face of the chaos, hardship and mortality around them. Investing in education is an important marker of this …
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'Figuring and becoming': developing identities among beginning nursing students
… to developing identities that will shape their future practice and continued professional development. Unlike much of the existing nursing literature, the study adopts a post-modern perspective towards the nature of identity. Here it is conceived as a relational concept, dynamic and continuously …
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Passing through the ages : later-life housing decision-making
… and the impact of stigma on current and future selves; thus uncovering the hidden complexities, contradictions, and psychological negotiations that inform pathways. Following a systematic literature review with meta-ethnographic synthesis, 54 semi-structured, active interviews were …
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Supporting positive interactions within dementia relationships of care
… out of the home and in to the community; and old selves, new selves, future selves – looking to the present to support communication. The second stage involves an experience-centred design inquiry that responds to the ethnographic study by using a simple photo-based narrative tool, Digital Story …
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Does capability measurement enable aspiration during emergent adulthood? Examining 'Poverty Stoplight' as a poverty measurement and capability building instrument for youth in South Africa
… of youth entering emerging adulthood find themselves in a protracted struggle to access further education, training or to secure their first decent job. The purpose of this multi-case study is to deepen the understanding of how capability measurement approaches and tools can empower …
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Women’s embodied experiences of exercise (sub)cultures: communities of practice in the CrossFit box
… us unique access to their (past, present and future) selves and identities, thus offering fresh insights into the representation of women in sports coaching.
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The role of place in perceived identity continuity
… be characterised by connections with past and future selves, and a sense of fit between place and self, but that they can also vary according to strength of place identification and social context. Chapter Six reports the results of Study 2, a large student survey study leading to the …
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Heritage speaker educational identity as a complex dynamic system: A grounded theory
… their past experiences and their imagined/future selves. To that end, 131 hours of qualitative data were collected from a pool of 103 pre-pubescent (i.e., 8-11) and late-adolescent (i.e., 18 – 24) heritage speakers of Spanish living in the US Southwest by means of ethnographic classroom …
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Essays in behavioral economics
… seek out activities in which they can prove themselves when they are not ('self-image enhancement'), even if these choices are otherwise poor. These motives lead to a whole host of effects on behavior that other models have trouble explaining in a unified framework. The model can also make …
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Sofa-Surfing: The Cartographies of Young People Utilising Host-Dependent Shelter.
… theorised the motivational capacity of imagined futures (termed more-than-homeless future identities) to assist an exit from homelessness. Young people (n=41) who had sofa-surfed for three days or more in the last two years were contacted via gatekeepers and interviewed at homeless charities or …