Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 189 for “"Self- worth"”.
-
Narcissism, self-esteem, self-worth as predictors of aggression
… and aggression, and between narcissism and self-esteem. Indeed, aspects of narcissism predict both adjusted and maladjusted forms of functioning. Therefore, narcissism appears to be both adaptive and maladaptive. In the present study, maladjusted narcissism was directly correlated with …
-
Understanding Student Perception of Failure to Promote Self Worth
… or reward structures to help give students self-worth. The research method involved the collection of data through surveys, a guided research project about the failures of famous people and an accompanying study guide for students to fill out, researcher facilitated discussions, and …
-
Measuring self-worth and certainty of punishment in prison populations
… to establish a link between the variables of self-worth and certainty of punishment. The focus of this work centers around the administration of a questionnaire to inmates of four penal institutions (n = 219). The sites visited were the Stewart-Mojave Detention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada; the …
-
Profile membership of self-worth contingencies predicts well-being, virtues, and values.
Historically, researchers have conceptualized self-esteem as global self-evaluation; recently, others have suggested that people are selective about what affects their self-worth. Two studies (N = 1,032) used a person-centered approach to examine how six domains of self-worth contingency associate …
-
The Role of Cultural Models of Self-Worth in Vicarious Experiences of Wrongdoing
… We predicted that in face cultures, where self-worth is defined by one's reputation, ingroup transgressions would elicit vicarious shame and withdrawal tendencies, especially in public; in dignity cultures, however, where self-worth does not depend on reputation and justice is a focal …
-
The Effects of Art Therapy on the Self-Worth of Inner City Youth
… to look at the effects of 32^t therapy on the self-worth of children living m an inner city population. Ten children, male and female,</p> <p>eight to twelve were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Five were assigned to the experimental group and five to the control group. The children in …
-
Self-worth, body cathexis, and satisfaction with available selection for those who wear different-size maternity clothing
… part in establishing and maintaining one's self worth. Maternity clothing is especially important: to the pregnant woman in maintaining her self-worth and in preparing for the new role as a mother. The maternity wear apparel industry caters to the average-size customer. very often it is …
-
The Influence of Trauma, Locus of Control, And Health-Related Quality Of Life on a Child’s Self-Worth
… outcomes that can span into adulthood (e.g., low self-worth, poor physical health, and increased likelihood of co-morbid psychological symptoms). However, a gap remains in the existing literature regarding early interventions that may target complicated outcomes (i.e., self-esteem and self-worth) …
-
Is self-worth related to affective social competence with positive emotions in children diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
Self-worth is a global self-evaluation of one's value as a person (Harter & Whitsell, 2003). Self-worth in children may be influenced by affective social competence (ASC), which involves abilities to effectively express, identify, and manage emotions when interacting with others (Halberstadt, …
-
"I’m a good person! I’m not good enough!" : self-worth contingent on morality and approval across time.
People want to believe that they are worthy and valuable, and bottom-up approaches to self-esteem posit that people typically determine their worth by weighing their successes versus failures in domains of life that are especially important to them. Two domains, in particular, are relevant for …
-
African American/Latina High School Girls’ Preoccupation with Concepts of Personal Beauty: The Impact on Self-Worth and Academic Performance
… 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 Action Research (PAR) methodology. The researcher conducted discussions …
-
The Role of Self-Worth, Social Support, and Family Religious Environment in Children and Adolescents' Religious Coping following Residential Fires
… effects of internal resources including global self-worth, as well as external resources including social support received from parents, teachers, and friends, and the family religious environment. Consistent with the general coping literature, these resources were expected to beneficially …
-
Investigating Qualities of Teachers' Feedback Conversations for Fostering Reasoning and Feeling of Self-Worth in Learners: A tool called Feedback Mapping
… between these qualities and student sense of self-worth were examined. Finding showed that feedback conversations tended to be short, rarely contained evidence of constructivist learning or reasoning, and teachers rarely expressed a critical position. It was also found that feedback …
-
An investigation into the influence of mindset, resiliency, contingencies of self-worth, social value of effort and gender on Scottish secondary school pupils.
… of mindset, resiliency, contingencies of self-worth and social value of effort. The research is composed of two key studies with the second study being further developed by two follow up studies. The first major study (Chapter 4) involved using an intervention with 33 secondary school …
-
Social competence, peer victimization, and depression in young adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders
… between recalled relational peer victimization, self-perceived social competence, global self-worth, and symptoms of depression in individuals with HFASD compared to normal controls. Depression is one of the most prevalent comorbid conditions in the HFASD population. Individuals with autism are …
-
Competency, importance, and social support, of learning disabled children in an inclusion program: a test of a model
… support, in1portance, and competency on global self-worth for a group of learning disabled (LO) children who participated in an inclusion program. Inclusion programs are one method of educating ill children. These LD children spend the entire- school day, including all academic classes, in a …
-
From self-stigma to self-worth: understanding self-stigma through developing, implementing and evaluating a selfstigma intervention among people living with HIV and AIDS “Change your thoughts and you change the world”
… deformities, much less is understood about self-stigma. HIV-related self-stigma is the result of complex interactions between social, contextual, and self factors. Self-stigma can have serious negative effects, including feelings of isolation, lower quality of life and mental health status, …
-
Peer Victimization and Internalizing Symptoms in Middle School Children
… relationships among peer victimization, global self-worth, social support, and internalizing behaviors (e.g., anxiety, social anxiety, and depression). Of particular interest were the potential mediating and moderating roles of global self-worth and social support in the anticipated …
-
Anxiety and depression: The moderating roles of self-perception and race
… 1998). Furthermore, it has been shown that high self-worth may serve as a protective factor against developing both anxiety and depressive symptoms (e.g. Costello et al., 2008). The primary focus of the current research was to evaluate the moderating role that self-worth played in the predictive …
Page 1 of 10