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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Self-representations"”.
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The Other Self : representations of Afghans in Iranian cinema
… motivated Iranian filmmakers. Furthermore the representations in those two films and others—such as Djomeh (2000), Delbaran (2001), and Baran (2001)—of the Afghan “Other” as an integral, productive member of a multicultural society reflect what Stuart Hall refers to as a new “regime of …
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Roman Catholic women religious in Ireland, 1849-1907: self representations and public perceptions
… in Ireland, very little has examined representations of women religious in the Irish public sphere. This thesis investigates how the public engaged with Roman Catholic women religious in Ireland: what role they were understood to have and how they presented themselves to the wider …
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SELF-REPRESENTATIONS IN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS AND SURVIVORS: BODY IMAGE, INJURED SELF, AND AVAILABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS
In recent years, research on the Self has burgeoned in the psychological field; however, knowledge gaps still exist because most studies have failed to acknowledge the multidimensional nature of self-representations in breast cancer patients and survivors. My Ph.D. thesis focuses on the impact of …
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Core beliefs assessment procedure : the development of a cognitive-behavioural case formulation method
… distinguished between core and peripheral self-knowledge. Interviewer ratings showed that core self-representations had significantly higher levels of affect, metaphor, and redundancy (i.e., process markers) than peripheral self-representations. Participant ratings showed that core …
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Meaning and process in early adolescent friendship conversations
… and; second, to investigate the nature of self-representations (descriptions of the self) made by the participants. The processes (cognitive, affective, and behavioural) and meaning (goals) of friendship jointly expressed within the conversations were identified. As well, …
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The affordances of masculinities: An investigation of the construction and communication of digital masculinities through UK-based life(style) Influencers
… on qualitative research, I explore the digital self-representations of UK-based personal life(style) bloggers to investigate the construction and communication of masculinities and their interplay with imagined affordances. My study aims to address the gaps existing within scholarly research in …
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Rripangu Yirdaki: Negotiating musical identities in a northeast Arnhem Land tourism business
… Gurruwiwi family are identified, and sometimes self-identify, with common perceptions of Aboriginal enterprises as being “authentic,” “indigenous,” and “ecological.” These perceptions and self-identifications are important parts of the Gurruwiwis’ musical identity, which like all identities is …
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Making Sense of Pre-Symbolic Trauma: A Qualitative Study on the Lived Experiences of Adults Who Were Born Extremely Prematurely
… showed that dysregulation and the propensity to self-contain on both somatic and affective levels were common themes across cases, supporting current research connecting the ongoing impacts of prematurity to the context of overstimulation and fundamental absence in the first months of life in the …
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Behind Indian Teeth' : the use of humour in contemporary Native American film
… on the importance of these types of positive self-representations in counteracting the legacy of stereotyping and appropriation surrounding the image of the Native American, particularly the concept of the stoic, humourless, 'vanished American.' The nature of comedy as a genre rooted in …
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Scenes of Reading: Forgotten Antebellum Readers, Self-Representation, and the Transatlantic Reprint Industry
"Scenes of Reading: Forgotten Antebellum Readers, Self-Representation, and the Transatlantic Reprint Industry" argues that African-American and white working-class people participated in transatlantic antebellum literary culture in a far more central and sophisticated manner than has been assumed. …
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Assimilation and Accommodation in Self-Conception: Towards a Dynamic Theory of Self-Representation
How information about the self is organized and whether information about the self is stable or not are basic issues that have generated considerable controversy. This dissertation provided a conceptual integration of discrepant finding in the literature that concern the stability of information …
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Reconstructing social futures: digital voices in first-year writing
… their actions on these platforms. I taught a self-designed FYC course focusing on critically producing, and consuming, self-representations on the social networking sites Facebook and Instagram. Through a grounded theory approach, I completed an analysis of 17 students' assigned blog posts and …
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Can You Hear Me? Reflexive Feminist Methodologies and Diasporic Self-Representation in the Digital Age
… scientists to showcase and critically engage self-representations of diasporic individuals, who often lack visibility and legibility within the dominant cultural archive. Filmmaking as a social research practice can provide rich audiovisual data, physical and social access to materials for …
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Self-Representation of Black Queer Athletes in the WNBA: Resistance to Misogynoir and Heteronormativity in Women's Basketball
… a critical discourse analysis of the media (mis)representations and self-representations of Black queer women athletes in the WNBA. WNBA players have found paths of resistance and self-representation through social media and their relationships with individual journalists in response to …
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Imagery and the self in social phobia
… 1997) emphasise the importance of negative self-images in the maintenance of social phobia. Although evidence suggests that in social phobia these images influence some cognitive, affective and behavioural responses in social situations, it is unclear how they exert their effect. The …
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Mapping the River in Black and White: Trajectories of Race in the Niger Bend, Northern Mali
… racial discourses became central to indigenous self-representations, contributing to important social changes in the ways that local people interacted with each other. The French implemented policies that they believed were consistent with local practice and which privileged their local …
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Performing Bantu: Narrative Constructions of Identity in Diaspora
… the refugee trajectory are foundational to the self-representations emerging in diaspora. Using autoethnographic and portraiture methodologies, the author analyzes the subjects' discursive practices associated with cultural sustainability, as well as deployment of social media in rejecting and …
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Toward a definition of Christian identity: Using the interpretive lens of creation, fall, and redemption in Christian counseling
… is divided into two parts: (1) a discussion of self-representations (the me-self) and (2) a discussion of Christian identity formation. Chapter 7 focuses on the Christian counselor's role in helping Christian clients understand and change their identity. Six strategies are presented to …
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Visualising 'The Waste Land': Discovering a Praxis of Adaptation
… visual processes that arise in the production of self-representations derived from literary texts. The construction of a series of photographic and video installations drawing upon T. S Eliot’s poem 'The Waste Land' (1922) allowed for the exploration and analysis of how literature functions as a …
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