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Showing 1 to 20 of 294 for “"Preoccupation"”.
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An Examination of a Potential Moderator of the Relationship Between Thought Suppression and Preoccupation with Previously Suppressed Thoughts
… types of distracters lead to different levels of preoccupation. The current investigation examined whether the use of minor worries as distracters would lead to greater levels of preoccupation than the use of positive thoughts (Study 1). Eighty-one female undergraduates were assigned to one of …
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African American/Latina High School Girls’ Preoccupation with Concepts of Personal Beauty: The Impact on Self-Worth and Academic Performance
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine African American and Latina high school girls’ understanding of how their self-worth and academic performance may be impacted by the amount of time used to achieve a desired physical appearance. This descriptive, qualitative study used a Participatory …
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Food Insecurity And Eating Behaviors Of Collegiate Male Athletes
… 6.3%). HSFSS was significantly correlated with preoccupation with food in college (taub= 0.276, P=.001), but not with binge eating in college (taub= -.034, P=0.712). OMFSS was significantly correlated with preoccupation with food in college (taub=.336, P<.001) and keep/hiding food in lockers …
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Abnormal eating patterns and the relationship to dissociative experiences
… exist between bulimia nervosa and food preoccupation symptomatologies. This study used a non-clinical non-diagnosed population of university students (n=100) to determine results. The participants were given two self-report scales, the Eating Attitudes Test and the Scale of Dissociative …
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The Role of Disgust in Eating Disorders
… disgust and bulimia and symptoms of food preoccupation as well as behaviors concerning self-control around food-related stimuli (i.e., oral control). More importantly, disgust sensitivity was significant in predicting oral control and significantly accounted for 4.7% of the unique variance …
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Rituel du retour dans l'oeuvre de Gabrielle Roy
… and of particular interest to readers is her preoccupation with the past. The text of Mircea Eliade is important to the theoretical framework of the following thesis. His postulating that human beings constantly repeat their past to find meaning to their lives is capital to my analysis of …
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Camden Plaza: a mixed-use megastructure
… Metabolists' is developed, but with less of a preoccupation with "high-tech" imagery. This system is manipulated to produce plazas and public spaces at many levels throughout the complex. The complex 's relationship to the 1855 Camden Station is also a major issue.
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An architectural investigation of Marinid Wattasid Fes Medina (674-961/1276-1554) in terms of gender, legend and law
Early and medieval Muslim culture exhibits a preoccupation with boundaries. Called "wall thought" in the dissertation, this preoccupation takes exemplary architectural form in the high-sided, labyrinthine structure of Fes' walled city, or medina. In Islamic law, it takes the form of The Book of …
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Impact of HIV and AIDS on intergenerational knowledge formation, retention and transfer and its implication for both sectoral and summative, governances in Namibia.
In this thesis, I argue for a move from the preoccupation with the obvious (crude and quantifiable impacts), towards critically examining the subtle (less than obvious impacts), which will allow us to deal with adversities (the likes of HIV and AIDS) in the most effective ways. The thesis adopts …
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Refusing White Privacy
… in by allegedly non-racial smart technologies (a preoccupation in WDSS) is underwritten by racializing technologies from the Antebellum era to the present.</p>
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The poiesis of 'human nature' : an exploration of the concept of an ethical self
… sweep that this study covers finds the preoccupation with defining who we are and what we are capable of inextricably linked with the focus, at most of the pivotal moments examined, on a dominant impulse to conceive human beings as moral creatures.
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Technology and social space beyond the modern episteme
… distribution of agency rather than the modern preoccupation with identity and the Kantian separation of time and space.
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Women's beauty in the history of Tanzania
Beauty, in particular, women's beauty, has been a preoccupation of human societies throughout history. Encompassing not only physical appearance, but also aspects of dress and adornment and, in some contexts, more abstract notions like morality and spirituality. notions of beauty are shaped by …
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Assessing mental health as a measure of work potential
… (WPP) in assessing depression, anxiety, and preoccupation with health as part of a measure of work potential. The main purpose of this study was to establish convergent validity for the WPP by correlating selected WPP profile scores with the MMPI-2 scales of depression (Scale 1), …
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No Greater Weight
… and later revised. Taken together, they reflect preoccupation with the weight and heft of a thinking life in many different manifestations: internal, domestic, aesthetic, political. The writing of them has created for me quiet places for both close looking and expansive thinking, and into these …
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Hacia Una Poetica Afro-Colombiana Y Ecuatoriana: El Caso Del Pacifico
… differences, as well as a simultaneous aesthetic preoccupation with the local and the universal. These authors use local elements from the landscape as well as their socio-cultural environment to (re)construct universal beliefs. This dissertation should serve is a first history of the …
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Gustav Mahler and psychasthenia : a musical and psychological investigation of the Kinder-Totenlieder
An in-depth study of Gustav Mahler's preoccupation with death was the foundational purpose for this dissertation. The song cycle Kinder-Totenlieder was the main composition examined, however, other works were mentioned to provide further proof of his obsession.The content of Chapter One presents …
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"Zoom dysmorphia": an exploration of women's experiences of the videoconferencing process
… themes (GETs) emerged from the analysis: preoccupation with and negative evaluation of appearance, navigating appearance pressures in a digital realm, and the new self post-videoconferencing. Conclusions: The participants in this non-clinical sample described experiences and behaviours …
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The Shape of a Thought: A Made Up Game
… ways can contemporary performance address our preoccupations with narrative?" It reframes what are frequently discussed in screenwriting handbooks as "the rules of storytelling" as "narrative conventions," then asks what central cognitive preoccupations lie behind these conventions. This …
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