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Parental Life Goals for Children
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Life goals in elderly women: A phenomenological study
… structure of the lived experience of personal goals in elderly females? Eleven women between the ages of 71 and 83 years were interviewed and constituted a purposive sample. The interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed by the researcher. The descriptions of personal goals were analyzed …
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Do offenders' life goals reflect locus of control and personality traits?
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The Importance of Life Goals in the Treatment of Marijuana Dependence
… research indicate that a person's broader set of life goals may have motivational properties for specific behavior change efforts. The present study examined the types of life goals and ratings of life goal attributes as predictors of marijuana treatment outcomes in a sample of marijuana dependent …
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Major life goals of college students: An investigation of personality traits, vocational interests, and values
Life goals, values, vocational interests, and personality traits are important factors that influence career and everyday life decision-making. This dissertation presents a framework for how personality traits, interests, and values relate to life goals. There were two studies conducted using …
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Cultural themes of northern Thailand: Knowledge and emotion in everyday life and the life goals of college students
… and emotion which individuals use in their life goals and everyday experiences. Empirical evidence from a year-long ethnographic study of the life goals and activities of students attending a college in Chiangmai, a city in Northern Thailand, is presented and analyzed. The construct of …
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The influence of parenting styles and practices on the identification of goals and aspirations of Grade 11 learners in the Western Cape
… are naturally in a stage of pursuing certain life goals and aspirations in the process of completing their schooling careers. Often the circumstances or environment provide the opportunities for individuals to be motivated towards aspiring to their life goals. Parents are key role players in …
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The expectancy-value theory of achievement motivation and the enumeration of possible selves: Evidence for outcomes during emerging adulthood
… apply to emerging adults and more distal life goals. This study examines how one’s hoped-for and feared possible selves are related to values and expectations, and how these constructs influence the achievement of distal life goals. It is hypothesized that one’s hoped-for and feared …
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Empowerment in the Transition to Adulthood: Supporting Career Exploration in College Using Participatory Design
… constructs and outcomes such as definition of life goals and career identity. Additionally, qualitative findings offered insights about the role of mentors and community in relation to empowerment. In its second phase, the research project narrowed the focus to study how the empowerment …
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The effects of approach-avoidance behaviors on goal appraisals
… influence the value associated with one's life goals. In both studies, participants performed a task aimed to elicit approach or avoidance motivational states. After the manipulation, participants completed an idiographic goal ratings task. The results of Study 1 showed that participants in …
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Using phenomenology and action research to assist adults with hearing impairment to achieve positive life outcomes
… to enable them to accomplish more acceptable life outcomes. Descriptive analysis, in the form of dialogic, introspective and retrospective phenomenology, is used to capture a deep understanding of the pertinent life experiences of eight individuals who are hard of hearing. Individual action …
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Towards an evolutionary perspective of bipolar disorders: Is there a genetic link between bipolar disorders and non-pathological (adaptive) hyperactivity?
… excitement and joy, and moving towards core life goals are moments of great importance in life. In this approach, goal and drive achievement demonstrates an adaptive and beneficial side of hyperthymia. It indicates the willingness to set high goals and spend energy pursuing them, which could …
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An IPA exploration of women’s experiences of being undecided about motherhood in their late thirties
… and they have had more freedom to pursue other life-goals, decisions about having children are frequently delayed. Consequently, some women find themselves in their late thirties and undecided about motherhood in the face of the relentless ticking of the biological clock. This research explores …
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From Injustice to Social Justice Education: The Journey of Formerly Incarcerated Women of Color in Community College
… to pursue their postsecondary education and life goals. Recommendations from this research provide guidance of praxis for the higher education system to eradicate oppressive barriers for formerly incarcerated women of color.</p>
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The Social Construction of Deviance, Activism, and Identity in Women's Accounts of Abortion
… popularly identified as pro-choice and pro-life, is reliant upon identifiable narratives of abortion's value to women and society and, alternately, its harms. This dissertation traces more than one hundred years of evolution of popular rhetoric surrounding the practice of elective …
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"It wasn't the end that I was so much interested in, it was the journey": Stories of women who pursued a PhD later in life
… and who graduated between 2010 and 2018. Using a life course perspective framed within a feminist theory and research, political economy standpoint, I examined the socio-cultural, economic and ageing factors that pulled these women back into university. I looked at how their pursuit of a PhD …
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On the Outside Looking In: A Qualitative Study of Southern Appalachian First-Generation Students' Perceptions of Higher Education.
… to attend college. Students talked about their life goals and how a university education has helped them move toward those goals. Ultimately, students commented on the transformational aspects of higher education in their lives and how they have begun a life journey that will transform their …
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Aspiring to Citizenship: African Immigrant Youth and Civic Engagement in Cape Town, South Africa
… how do African immigrant youth experience life and live as ‘citizens 'in Cape Town? African immigrant youth straddle multiple positions, localities and identities: insider, outsider, victim, perpetrator, dependent, independent, child, adult. This dissertation examines the various ways in …
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Capturing the psychological well-being of Chinese workers and understanding its relationship with factory performance.
… the workers, fieldwork set out to discover what life is really like for workers in these factories. A novel research method using workers’ daily digital diaries was developed. A brief pilot in 2017 was followed by a 12-month study across four factories in 2019. Potential well-being interventions …
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Zhang Xiguo’s writing world
… I give a brief introduction to Zhang Xiguo's life and his writing and a brief summary of Zhang Xiguo's humanistic concern: he writes for people. Chapter One discusses that Zhang Xiguo has focused his writing on the physical and spiritual exile of Chinese people. He thinks that Chinese people …
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