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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"Kindness"”.
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Kindness in Modernist American Poetry
… This thesis poses the question, ‘can we find Kindness in modernist American poetry?’ It is a work comprised primarily of detailed and extended close readings that will track Kindness through selections from the works of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, …
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The Conditions of Kindness In Politics
… focuses on the foundation of civic friendships: kindness. What is kindness's role in civic friendships and how does this relationality influence political discourse? Working from Aristotle's Rhetoric and Nichomachean Ethics, I argue that kindness is a disposition comprised of goodwill (eunoia) …
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Acts of kindness in close relationships reduce depression
… kind acts within close relationships. Practicing kindness has been shown to strengthen relationships and increase social support. It was expected to be particularly relevant for needy people who are driven by a need for closeness and are vulnerable to depression in the face of interpersonal …
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DIFFERENTIATING THE EFFECTS OF BRIEF LOVING-KINDNESS MEDITATION ON PROSOCIAL RESPONSES
Loving-Kindness Meditation (LKM) is a type of meditative practice to cultivate loving-kindness and compassion towards oneself and others. Emerging research has provided encouraging data on the effectiveness of LKM on prosociality. Yet, it remains unclear how and which components of LKM intervention …
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Emotion recogniton in students with social anxiety: loving-kindness as an intervention
… the possible therapeutic effects of loving-kindness meditation for social anxiety disorder. Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) is a specific subtype of mindfulness aimed at enhancing empathic understanding of emotional and situational awareness of self and others and, therefore, shows promise …
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Exploring Loving Kindness Meditation; understanding the practice, and its relationship with wellbeing
… I seek to establish an understanding of Loving Kindness Meditation (LKM), and to identify and evaluate the effects on wellbeing, that are claimed by practitioners and previous research. The context in which the thesis sits is the current focus on finding ways to improve wellbeing in the general …
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The effect of loving kindness meditation and student teachers stress and empathy
… guided mindfulness training practice: loving kindness meditation.
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(Re)Developing Habits of Gratitude and Kindness in an Elementary Classroom Post-Pandemic
… Social Emotional Learning, models for Teaching Kindness and, finally, the Responsive Classroom approach. The researcher conducted qualitative research, through the use of daily gratitude journaling and various lessons in social emotional learning with students from a low income elementary …
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Children's cross-platform media preferences: a sense of kindness and a want for learning?
Cross-platform media practices have moved from being something of an under-considered side show, to a strategic necessity. A development vision that attempts to transcend historic platform delineation is becoming the norm in many areas of media production, yet cross-platform media, as an …
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Evaluation of kindness tourism adopted from Chinese philosophy and its impact on sustainable tourism.
… tourists. The Chinese philosophy-based concept “Kindness Tourism” (KT) is possibly one such solution. Since the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) 60th Anniversary & Conference in 2011, Kindness Tourism has received significant attention from many Chinese researchers. The Chinese philosophy …
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To Kill a Wife with Kindness: Early modern marriage in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
… who purports to know how to “kill a wife with kindness”. The fundamental question is whether the play condones or criticizes his methods. The essay also examines the way in which his wife, Katherine, is treated as a commodity, sold to the first bidder who comes along in what was still a largely …
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The Influence of Loving-Kindness Meditation on Everyday Experiences of Being Angry: An Empirical Phenomenological Study
Loving-Kindness meditation is a Buddhist practice than involves sending and receiving mental wishes of well-being and happiness in order to cultivate positive feeling states and relieve suffering. This qualitative study examines the effects of Loving-Kindness meditation on everyday experiences of …
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Exploring the Dynamics of Participation in a Grassroots Kindness Movement: A case study of the Actively Caring for People Movement
Kindness movements toward a kinder more compassionate world are proliferating worldwide. One of the key challenges facing these movements is attracting and sustaining members. This research identified a range of dispositional, motivational, and contextual factors significantly related to …
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Ontario Adults' Mental Health, Wellbeing, and Prosocial Behaviour During the First 16 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study
… of the same adults’ prosocialness—inclusive of kindness—during the identical timeframe as Article 1 and, given the disparate risks associated with living locales at the time, also explored whether prosocial behaviour differed among those living in urban versus rural settings. To assess the …
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Longing for Beloning
… the therapeutic benefits of random acts of kindness utilizing art in heightening social connectedness and sense of belonging in women. Life satisfaction, happiness, physical well-being and mental health become missing elements resulting in conditions where empathy and compassion are absent. …
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Redeeming Procrastination: Self-Compassion and Creativity
… 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 pre-survey measures that measured trait self-compassion, guilt and shame …
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The Role of Social Support in Counselors' Responses to Client Adverse Events
… seeking support, misplaced support, and acts of kindness. Implications for counselors include honoring both confidentiality and their own humanness, the cultivating co-regulating relationships, and reinforcing acts of kindness. Counselor educators and supervisors can foster counselor resilience …
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Understanding the Other Side: The Traits of Partners of Individuals with Neurotic Traits in Committed Premarital Relationships
… empathic communication, clear sending, flooding, kindness, flexibility, criticism, and contempt and defensiveness. Relationship satisfaction as measured by RELATE was the criterion variable. Results showed little agreement between self and partner perceptions of the specific neurotic traits …
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Administrator, Teacher and Parent Perceptions of Students' Sense of Community in One Elementary School
… in the research literature: respect, trust, and kindness; a sense of belonging; caring; regular contact; shared governance; and order and discipline among the students of the school. The following overall research questions focus this study: 1. How does an elementary school identified as having a …
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