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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Self-actualisation"”.
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The self-actualisation of the black Natal Parks Board employee
… For the purpose of the empirical investigation a self-structured questionnaire was utilised. The respondents were selected at random from rural areas throughout KZN, from the learners from seven classes who have graduated from the basic Zulu, advanced Zulu and basic English classes and from people …
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Family-functioning, sex-role ideology, psychological androgyny and self-actualisation in dual-career and traditional families
… to masculine and feminine stereotypes; and (4) self-actualisation, as theoretically the dual-career family offers opportunities for increased personal fulfilment. The scales used were: Smilkstein's Family APGAR (1978), Smith et. al.'s FEM-scale (1975), Bern's Sex-Role Inventory (1974) and …
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A szervezeti keretek között történő egyéni önmegvalósítás, illetve annak támogató és gátló tényezői = Self-actualisation in Organisational Context and its Promoting and Impeding Factors
Az önmegvalósítás fogalma a humanisztikus pszichológia irányzathoz (Maslow, Rogers, Berne, Csíkszentmihályi, Fromm) köthető, itt került először meghatározásra az önmegvalósítás, illetve annak gátló tényezői. A szerző ezen gátlótényezőket csoportosítja aszerint, hogy az egyénből vagy a tágabb …
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An Investigation into the Phenomenon and Discourse of Working Out Loud.
… business and a discourse of personal development/self-actualisation. By conflating different meanings of the word help across the two discourses, the primary subject position created in the discourse effectively aligns individuals’ personal development/self-actualisation with the realisation of …
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Premarital cohabitation as a pathway into marriage. An investigation into how premarital cohabitation is transforming the institution of marriage in Ireland. Athlone as a case study.
… Being ‗ready‘ to marry often coincided with self-actualisation through other life goals, but emotional satisfaction within the relationship is crucial. Emotional satisfaction is now on an equal footing with self-actualisation. Marriage as a social institution is valued in a different way. …
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Accepting the Unacceptable: Trinity Western University, Religious Freedom, and the Meaning of Liberal Constitutionalism
… of 1) tolerance and 2) respect for individual self-actualisation, which together form the core of liberal constitutionalism. This thesis argues that only access to public mandates may be made contingent on conformity with liberal values.
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Regret as Autobiographical Memory
… and parenting), education, work, character and self-actualisation. These findings were interpreted with reference to life scripts. Studies 3 and 4 assessed the contribution of the life script to the temporal distribution of imagined future regrets. Young adults imagined and dated experiences …
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Spirit of change : a quest for the heart of quality
… that, for some people at least, work is used for self-fulfilment, and in the quest for 'real' quality, aspirations for self-fulfilment within the workplace must be addressed. By using the metaphor of 'work as part of the heroic quest' for self-fulfilment, links are made between Maslow's concept of …
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Down the rabbit hole: An Exhibition – and – Alice in Wonderland engaging with the reflexive project of the self: An exegesis
… seeing the story as a “reflexive project of the self” (Giddens, 1991, p. 5). I began this research having already created two exhibitions based on Alice in Wonderland and with a desire to understand the text in more depth. As I became immersed in the subject, I discovered the importance of …
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An Art-Based Heuristic Study: How a Male Student with Asperger’s Syndrome Completed an Art Therapy Master’s Program
… and that the data reflect motivation for self-actualisation and transcendence. Two observations on the methodology of the study were outlined. Several Recommendations were proposed. Overall, the study demonstrated that a process of artmaking and visual journaling had a positive influence …
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The representation of the concept of personal growth by counselling psychologists: a longitudinal Foucauldian discourse analytic study
… and in particular Carl Rogers' conceptions of self-actualisation emanating from his person centred approach (Rogers, 1957; Gillon, 2007). In this research a novel longitudinal methodology was applied to Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, with participants taking part in semi-structured interviews …
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The natural family and residential care : a study of the psychosocial impact on statutory child removals on the natural parents
… that such a trauma leads to a severe blow to the Self of the Parent, resulting in either fragmentation, enfeeblement, or self-depletion. Characteristic affects will be strong feelings of shame and humiliation related to the placement. This blow to the sense of Self will be associated with a rage …
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Alice Walker’s Womanist Fiction: Tensions and Reconciliations
… African American women’s rights, identities, and self-actualisation, and points towards its more overarching concerns with human relations and sexual freedom, as expressed in each of Walker’s seven novels. The seven novels discussed in the thesis are The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), …
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"From Thanatos to Eros": A Phenomenological Case Study of Post-Graduate Drama Students
… suggest that the participants are searching for self-actualisation through personal integrity and a creative purpose. The research proposes that face-to-face relationships, reflexive and sensitive pedagogy, a permissive, non-judgemental "safe space" and the disciplined development of the …
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Understanding the relationship between religion and well-being: a mixed methods investigation into religious maturity and psychological well-being
… RM predicted PWB and the mediating impact of self-actualisation, meaning in life and self-esteem and a qualitative strand (Study-2) exploring the hypothesized relationship and possible intennediary mechanisms and processes in a more open-ended manner. A sample of 138 adult UK residents from a …
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A Virtual ethnography of the Black Flag Cafe: a forum for people who travel to dangerous places.
… to travel to a dangerous place: a search for selfactualisation through “it” or peak experiences; a desire to improve self-image and to obtain status from travelling to dangerous places; a search for an “authentic” travel experience; and finally their awareness and perception of danger and …
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Reimagining Education for Peace in the Context of Montessori Education: Learnings from two ethnographically informed case studies
… for each peace level emerges: (A) inner peace as self-actualisation, (B) inter-personal peace as forming relationships, and (C) ecological peace as the ability to recognise the interconnectedness of all. This research proposes that within ME, teaching about (content), for (skills) and through …
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Translanguaging Space in the Academic English Reading Classroom: Chinese MA Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes
… learning with their personal aspirations for self-actualisation. These findings suggest that the translanguaging space caters to students’ linguistic, cognitive, and emotional needs, regardless of their proficiency levels. Despite limitations in sample size and timeframe, the study makes four …
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A psychotherapeutic perspective of the lived experience of leaders during a period of transition
… of personality cult leadership and egocentric self-referentiality. The need for individual proactive self-actualisation, development at an emotional-transferential level and the undoing of identity following demotion/transfer was indicated by the arising themes. The Training Manual, focusing on …
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A study of the national curriculum for physical education (2005-2013): socialisation and the value orientations of male and female students and teachers, and male physical education teachers’ curricular interpretation and lesson delivery
… were disciplinary mastery, the learning process, self-actualisation, ecological integration and social responsibility. Interpretative coding and categorisation (Saldaña, 2015) of value orientations within National Curriculum Aims, NCPE statutory guidance and the value orientations with which …
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