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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Sense of Agency"”.
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Influencing the sense of agency
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Causality and Sense of Agency: A Social-Cognitive Approach with Temporal and Spatial Binding
Over a decade of research evidences that the perceived time and space between two events becomes contracted when we believe there is a causal connection between them. The present thesis investigated how such measures of implicit causal beliefs translate to meaningful, social contexts, inspired by …
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PARENTAL "SENSE OF AGENCY": A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF PARENTS EXPERIENCES ASSISTING THEIR CHILDREN IN OUTPATIENT COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT.
Parental “Sense of Agency”: A Qualitative Study of Parents Experiences Assisting their Children in Outpatient Community Mental Health Treatment. ABSTRACT In the United States, there are approximately 17 million children under the age of 17 that have commonly diagnosed mental health disorders which …
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Probing the Boundaries of Human Agency
… dissertation, I aim to advance our understanding of human agency and how it is computed. First, I probe the limits of what behavior we can and cannot produce agentically. Secondly, I explore microdosing with psychedelic drugs as a method of perturbing and studying changes to the sense of agency. …
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Exploring Critical Hope and Agency Through Photovoice
… action research to students’ hope and sense of agency. There is also a lack of existing studies that assess young students’ critical awareness of how social power operates in our culture and in their lives (Christens, Byrd, Peterson, & Lardier, 2018).</p> <p>Photovoice methodology …
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Making Sense of Parenthood
Research into parents’ experiences of becoming parents is widespread. However research regarding therapy for parents, and how that may impact on the meanings parents give to parenthood is rare. In response to this lack of knowledge, this study explores parents’ experiences of counselling at …
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Experiences following a suicide attempt
… attempt is associated with an increased risk of subsequent attempt or suicide, suggesting that understanding more about experiences following a suicide attempt may have implications for prevention. Yet, despite calls for more qualitative research in the field, there have been few studies …
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The Evolution Of One Male Advocate: An Autoethnography Of Rape On Campus
… with focus on the social phenomenon of rape against women. The author explores the topic of rape through the incorporation of contemporary feminist thought, current philosophy on male development, and a review of relevant literature on rape. The author's own experiences with the topic …
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Study of Brief Single Session Medical Family Therapy with Low-Income Patients
… Thus, this pilot study investigated the results of a brief single session of MedFT over a one-week period with low-income primary care patients. Effectiveness in this study was defined as increasing a sense agency and communion and decreasing psychological distress. Results suggested that over …
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Sexual Well-Being in Single, Sexually Active College Females: A Matter of Agency and Openness
This study explored multiple predictors of sexual well-being in a sample of 253 single, sexually active undergraduate females at a public Mid-Atlantic university. Several factors were identified from past research that might impact sexual well-being: casual sex, sexual agency, sexual attitudes, and …
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Hopeful feelings : inducing the feelings of hope and examining its social and cognitive effects
The experience of hope predicts a host of positive outcomes. However, to date, the psychology of hope has paid little attention to hope as an emotion, focusing instead on hope as a sense of agency and effective goal pursuit, thus limiting our knowledge of the cognitive and social implications of …
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Enabling a Trading Community: A Re-imagination of Trade in Lusaka, Zambia
… into Lusaka's urban fabric lies a network of informal traders. The everyday life in the Zambian city is tightly woven with permanent and impermanent trading practices. Traders experience challenges such as long-distance daily commutes, seasonal flash flooding and city cleanups which disrupt …
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Youth of Promise: Academic Success and Future STEM Aspirations at an Alternative Education Program
… to Black and Latinx youth who have dropped out of their traditional schools is a significant issue for three reasons: (a) it can provide a pathway to a quality employment opportunity, (b) success in science classes can support success in academics, and (c) development of youth who have an …
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Reimagining Parent and Family Engagement for African American Children and their Families
… about extensively and still persist. Closure of these gaps have moved at a glacial pace. These disparities have significant implications for one's sense of agency. Black family voice has remained underutilized. Because of this untapped potential, it may be, that the pathway for more equitable …
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Optative Regret in George Eliot's Middlemarch
… in realist fiction, there exists the concept of optative regret,which is when a character becomes aware of and yearns for alternate versions of him orherself that may have become realized if different choices had been made in his or herpast. George Eliot's Middlemarch constantly confronts the …
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The forgotten emotion: an interpretative phenomenological analysis into the lived experience of anger in young men
This dissertation explores the lived experience of problematic anger in young men. Qualitative phenomenological research was conducted using semi-structured interviews with a sample of six male participants between the ages of 20-25 years. The accounts were analysed using Interpretative …
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PERFORMANCE FOR ETHNOGRAPHY, DIALOGUE, AND INTERVENTION : USING ACTIVATING THEATRE TO EXPLORE THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ISSUES FACING KENYAN ADOLESCENT GIRLS
This thesis explores the utility of using performance, specifically activating theatre, both as a reproductive health intervention and as an ethnographic tool for exploring the reproductive health worldview of 17 adolescent girls, all peer counselors at a state-run all-girl boarding school in Rift …
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Austen and Woolf Revisited: Muddy Petticoats, Sally's Kiss, and the Neoliberal Now
This project examines the implications of mythologizing women writers, specifically Woolf and Austen, and transforming them into their own famous characters. Using various writings that theorize women's voices, sense of agency, and political autonomy in relationship with the public/private …
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Can (S)He Close the Deal? The influence of Purchase Intention Through Gender-Assigned Artificial Intelligence
… has become an increasingly integrated aspect of daily life. Particularly, businesses have been incorporating AI into many of their features from customer support to product personalization. While there has been a body of research exploring the interpersonal impacts of AI and human …
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United We Stand: Social Justice for All: A Study of Social Justice and Power Through a Bona Fide Group Perspective
… develop a more sophisticated understanding of diversity and social group interaction, more critically evaluate oppressive social patterns and institutions, and work more democratically with diverse others to create just and inclusive practices and social structures." The importance of social …
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