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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Guilt and Shame"”.
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Hans-Ulrich Treichel's Der Verlorene: Trans-Generational Trauma, Guilt And Shame
The public and private discourse about Germany's past under Hitler has recently undergone a significant shift. Instead of focusing on Germans as perpetrators, the last two decades have been dominated by discussions about Germans as innocent civilians victimized by the victorious Allies during the …
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Moral Guilt and Shame: An Investigation of Their Associations With Personality, Values, Spirituality and Religiosity
… that females report significantly higher levels and guilt and shame than males. Guilt and shame triggered by different transgressions were found to be differentially associated with personality traits and values, suggesting that individuals experience more guilt and shame from transgressions that …
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Guilt and Shame as They Relate to Combat Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): An Analysis of Trauma Content And Resulting Symptomatology
This study began testing the Sewell and Williams (in press) model that differing trauma types yield differing presentations in social versus event processing domains. Other hypotheses explored trauma type with levels of guilt, and shame-proneness with anxiety. Volunteers were 44 male combat …
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Family carers and mental health : the role of self-compassion
The self-conscious emotions of guilt and shame are often experienced by family members who care for a relative with a mental health difficulty. This may drive certain behaviours, characterised as emotional overinvolvement (EOI). EOI is consistently associated with poorer outcomes among people …
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Risk and Protective Factors for Psychological Distress Following a Morally Injurious Event in Combat Veterans
… likelihood of experiencing anxiety, depressive, and posttraumatic stress symptoms of combat veterans. Research has found that guilt and shame are associated with higher levels of symptomology following morally injurious events. Similarly, individuals who are high in trait proneness to guilt and …
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Guilt-proneness and shame-proneness in homeless children
… of literature on the adaptive functions of guilt- and shame-proneness. As the conceptualization and measurement of these self-conscious emotions has improved, there has been a growing consensus that guilt-proneness serves an adaptive role within interpersonal domains whereas shame-proneness …
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Moral Reasoning and Moral Emotions Linking Hoarding and Scrupulosity
Hoarding and scrupulous OCD are part of the Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, which are characterized by obsessional preoccupation and ritualistic behavior. Prior research has found a statistical relationship between hoarding and scrupulosity after controlling for these common factors, …
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Unreliability in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Narration, Masculinities, and the Affects of Trauma, Guilt and Shame in Damian McNicholl's "A Son Called Gabriel" and John Boyne's "A History of Loneliness" and "The Heart’s Invisible Furies"
… dissertation looks at unreliable narration and its application to contemporary literature from the Republic and the North of Ireland. Three novels, Damian McNicholl’s A Son Called Gabriel, and John Boyne’s A History of Loneliness and The Heart’s Invisible Furies, have been selected to …
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Unconscious death-thoughts as a mediator between death awareness and self-forgiveness
… might buffer self-esteem reductions secondary to guilt and shame. Indeed, accumulated research supports people strive for self-forgiveness to cope with the detrimental effects guilt and shame have on wellbeing through a dual-process of interpersonal (i.e., perceived forgiveness, conciliatory …
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Redeeming Procrastination: Self-Compassion and Creativity
… in April 2018. Over 400 participants were randomized according to the 2x2 factorial design into four groups: a self-kindness intervention group, a common humanity intervention group, a combined self-kindness and common humanity group, and a control group. Participants first completed …
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Hurting to Helping: Regret as a Potential Motivator of Helping Behavior
… Even negatively-valenced emotions, like sadness, guilt, and shame, have been shown to motivate prosocial behaviors. Exploratory analyses of a previous study indicated that regret may also motivate increased prosocial intentions, but no research has been published to experimentally test whether …
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Soteriological Apprehension in Modern Religious Thought: From John Hick to Contemporary Cognitive and Affective Approaches
… but from historically conditioned cognitive and affective frameworks through which human experience is structured and evaluated. Taking the pluralistic philosophy of religion developed by John Hick as its point of departure, the study seeks to refine this approach by integrating insights from …
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A Mother's Spiritual Journey with Her Disabled Son: An Autoethnography
… of the crib accident that resulted in physical and cognitive disabilities that profoundly change the course of both mother and son’s life, this research chronicles the search for meaning, community, and healing as they negotiate the realms of medicine, education, career, family, and …
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An Empirical Investigation of Moral Injury in Combat Veterans
… moral injury construct was proposed to identify and describe the deleterious impact of engaging in acts that transgress accepted boundaries of behavior during combat and that challenge one’s sense of self as a good person. These acts, labeled “transgressive acts,” are proposed to lead to a guilt …
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The Jalopy Hymnal
… Hymnal is a collection of poems that explore and confront what it means to be human and navigate life. In their exploration, these poems find comfort in the broken, honest, and vulnerable spaces we encounter every day — the drive to drink, broken relationships, economic struggle, the …
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The Social Construction of Sexuality: Personal Meanings, Perceptions of Sexual Experience, and Females' Sexuality in Puerto Rico
… in which sexual meanings are created, changed, and modified as the nature of social discourse and personal experience changes. The two theoretical frameworks that guided the methodology and analysis of the data were social constructionism and feminism. I assumed that sexuality is socially …
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Diabetes and obesity in primary health care - a condition beyond physiological factors
… of this thesis are to illustrate how obese and normal-weight individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) experience their health status and health care interactions and to highlight the diabetes team (doctor, nurse, dietician, physiotherapist) approach to treating obese individuals with T2DM. …
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Emotions surrounding restrained eating in young adult students
… in young adult students, to develop our understanding of emotions surrounding dieting, diet violation and diet abandonment, thought to precede issues with weight management and disordered eating behaviours. Method: Using the participant selection model variant of the sequential explanatory mixed …
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Self-Appraisals, Perfectionism, and Academics in College Undergraduates
The influences on perfectionism and procrastination of race, gender, cognitive-affective and academic self-appraisals, and academic performance expectations were studied. The sample consisted of 155 Introductory Psychology students (57 African Americans, 41 Asian Americans, and 57 European …
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Transforming Whiteness: Exploring Transformation at Stellenbosch University
… tackle these realities through various policies and initiatives aimed at establishing (amongst others) diverse enrolment and racial inclusivity. Nevertheless, SU has consistently found itself embroiled in campus controversies over the past few years. More often than not, these controversies are …
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