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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Meaning and purpose"”.
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Meaning and purpose in care home (nursing) life
Meaning and purpose in life are important aspects of the life experience of individuals. These aspects of life have often been studied using psychological and quantitative approaches addressing meaning and purpose across the life span. However, there is a dearth of studies of meaning and purpose in …
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The critical voice; A heuristic enquiry into the experience of hearing a critical inner voice to deepen our understanding of its meaning and purpose
The purpose of this thesis is to discover new ways of thinking about and understanding one’s critical inner voice. The critical voice is defined as words that are heard internally, are typically negative towards the self and others and not Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. The research question asks …
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New vs Old: New Architecture of Purpose in Old Settings
… next to the old architecture because cities and human settlements last for generations and as humans and tribal species we invariably congregate and build new buildings to live-in, work-in and entertain in. Thus we create cities from ever increasing smaller settlements. And the city is the …
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The Jesuit Imaginary: Higher Education in a Secular Age
… that corresponds with existential senses of meaning and purpose, fullness is consistently referenced in the publication through dimensions of "contact" with a transcendent reality. The intersections of such contacts are characterized as phenomenal experiences and moral-ethical expressions. In …
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The process by which combat-exposed student veterans achieve a meaningful and purposeful life
Background: Studies investigating risk and resilience among combat-exposed student Veterans emphasize the impact of combat exposure upon negative health-related outcomes (e.g., depression or posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD]). Little is known regarding the risk that combat exposure poses to …
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A wholesale drug house for Norfolk, Virginia
The general purpose of this thesis is twofold: (1) to present and analyze the characteristics of the environment which have evolved through the slowly changing aspects of man's social and communal living patterns; and ( 2) to design a building to be placed within the physical and human limits of …
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‘Undetermined exiles’: a phenomenological exploration of transition out of Army life
… to leave the British Army? Can psychotherapy, and specifically existential psychotherapy, help in the transition process? These have become increasingly important questions since the Strategic Defence and Security Review (2010) set a government target of 7,000 British Army redundancies to be …
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A Case Study of Selected Preservice Teachers Regarding the Origins of Their Perspectives on the Commonplaces of Education and the Impact of Foundations Studies on Those Perspectives
… on the how of instruction (student teaching and methods courses) instead of the why of education (foundations studies), and that preservice teachers’ pre-college perspectives about education are not questionned or challenged. Their programs’ foundations studies have made little or no impact …
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Religion, spirituality & spiritual development of undergraduate students
… a topic of growing interest for college students and scholars and yet personal accounts of spiritual development among college students remains limited. This study investigated the spiritual development of seven traditional-aged, University of the Pacific students in their senior year of course …
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J4CK MERED34TH
… ERGO SUM is an analysis of my writing methods, and it seeks to understand the meaning and purpose behind my novel, J4CK MERED34TH. Through this explorative piece, I create parallels between my own life and my work in order to show a much closer history and context for the novel. In it, I …
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The nurse's spirit: The lived experience of spirituality for nurses who work in palliative care settings
Purpose: To examine the lived experience of spirituality in Hospice Palliative Care Nurses (HPCN) Significance: Contribute to the overall definition of spirituality from nurses' perspectives. Methods: Existential Phenomenology using the approach developed by Thomas & Pollio (2002); six participants …
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Addressing Nursing Retention: A Web-Based Approach Focusing On Joy In Work
… shortage, alarming rates of clinician burnout, and poor patient outcomes; this is expected to produce one million vacant positions within the next five years (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2020). Turnover rates and burnout continue to increase nation-wide while the workforce remains …
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Predictors of Intraindividual Change in Personality and Well -Being
… of intraindividual change in well-being and personality over a 9-year period. Data were from the Australian Quality of Life Panel Study (Headey & Wearing, 1989; 1992). One thousand one-hundred thirty participants (aged 16--70, M = 37.2, SD = 13.3) completed measures of subjective …
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Objects of architecture
Architecture has meaning and purpose when it is seen not as something that firmly must exist, but as the possibilities that a situation creates. I have not yet found that which is concretely architecture, but I can say that which is concretely architecture, but I can say that which could exist as …
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The Mouth of Hell in Medieval Art and Thought
… Anglo-Saxon Britain, it used artistic symbols and representations which were already known to the populace outside of the monastery walls. This led to the establishment of the zoomorphic mouth of hell, in which the entrance to the underworld is pictured as a set of open jaws. This image's …
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Cross-Generational Effects of Workplace Spirituality on Job and Life Satisfaction
… from that of the twentieth century. Distant and online work makes today’s workforce feel more isolated and disconnected from coworkers, while constant access to work technologies such as email, text messaging, and file sharing platforms may also lead workers to feel less connected at home as …
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