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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"mattering"”.
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You Matter To Me; Mattering, Materialising and Unmattering.
… Barthes’ death of authority and materiality. Mattering is the state being, living and evolving, through a new materialist lens. Validated by Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘becomings’ and Barthes’ death of the authority, agency becomes an attribute not only applicable to the human condition. …
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Mattering: The African American Experience in Historically White Fraternities
… to qualitatively explore the issues of race and mattering in relation to African American participation within historically White fraternities. Participant perspectives were obtained through six interviews with African American males at four collegial institutions within the Southeastern Region …
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Mattering and marginality: students with disabilities at Rowan University
… were collected using a modified version of the Mattering Scales for Adult Students in Higher Education, which consisted of 45 Likert scale statements meant to gain insight into students with disabilities perceptions toward mattering in five subscales. Data analysis reported that participants …
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Development and validation of a work mattering scale (WMS)
… psychometrically sound scale that measures work mattering with two dimensions, societal mattering and interpersonal mattering. This study reports the development and validation of the Work Mattering Scale. Phase I utilized a review of the scholarly literature, in-depth interviews, and expert …
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Mattering and marginality among African American students at Rowan University
… study were consistent with previous research on mattering and marginality of African American students. Overall, African American students perceived that they matter at Rowan University. There were areas where student perceptions of mattering and marginality were mixed. Students felt they …
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The concept of mattering as critical to nursing-student recovery
… identified to support the student's recommitment/mattering. In the case of this study, mobilization of family and social resources were critical. The study also identified issues related to the perception of nursing-faculty impact on student success and failure, including role relationships and …
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An evaluation of graduate students' perceptions of mattering at Rowan University
… were collected using a revised version of the Mattering Scales for Adult Students in Higher Education, which consists of 45 Likert scale statements meant to gain insight into how students felt about their graduate school experience, and how they felt their needs were being met by the university …
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Student affairs programs at Rowan University and their impact on students' sense of mattering
… of the Rowan After Hours’ program on mattering. The subjects of this study were 400 Rowan University student participants of the Rowan After Hours program. Data were collected using a variation of the College Mattering Inventory (Tovar et al., 2009) which contains a 37 Likert scale …
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The mattering of African contemporary art: value and valuation from the studio to the collection
This interdisciplinary research bridging geography and fine art (‘geo-aesthetics’) follows contemporary artwork journeys from the studio into the public domain to discover how notions of value shift as the artwork travels. It seeks transfigurative nodes and their catalysts to explore how art …
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Developing resilience and enhancing appraisals of mattering among elementary level, non-core subject teachers: Project DREAM
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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The Lopez Effect Remixed: The Significance of Mattering Through a Hip-Hop Lens in Education and Beyond
… is to examine the theoretical frameworks of mattering (Rosenberg & McCullough, 1981; Schlossberg, 1989; Love, 2018) in traditional and non-traditional spaces through a Hip-hop lens. When mattering is applied to marginalized groups, it centers them to a certain extent. In my dissertation, I …
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Why feeling like we matter matters : mattering as a social resource for health, resilience, and emotional well-being.
… implications for well-being, the concept of "mattering" has received fairly little attention in contemporary sociological research. After a review of the theoretical roots of mattering and the state of the current literature on the topic, this text dives into an exploration of how mattering …
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Social Engagement Gaps Between Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) F-1 Visa International Students and American Students in US Universities
… frames the international students’ sense of mattering and marginality and overall college experience. The study focused only on F-1 visa international students’ perceptions and utilized the marginality and mattering theory (MMT) (Schlossberg, 1989) as a theoretical framework. The social …
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A Conceptual Model on the Impact of Mattering, Sense of Belonging, Engagement/Involvement, and Socio-Academic Integrative Experiences on Community College Students’ Intent to Persist
… such as institutional commitment to students, mattering, sense of belonging, interactions with diverse peers, perceptions of the campus climate, engagement/involvement, socio-academic integrative experiences, and goal commitment collectively affected community college students’ intent to …
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Inter/intrapersonal variables and readiness for change on achieving recovery
… inter/intrapersonal variables, such as sense of mattering, sense of community, and perceived stigma influence recovery from mental illness among consumers who participate in psychiatric rehabilitation programs, known as clubhouses. In addition, readiness for change was examined to determine if …
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The Youngberg Manifest Anxiety Scale
… muddle over what it is to write and read. Their mattering is inextricable from their sound and sense, but in trying to tease them apart, I hope I can show some small part of what that mattering looks like.
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The Psychological Vest: Trauma, Resiliency, and Posttraumatic Growth Among Police Officers
… psychological (i.e., facets of mattering, grit, socially prescribed perfectionism, self-compassion, posttraumatic cognitions) and social (i.e., workplace stress, job satisfaction, childhood adversity, social support, perceived public benevolence) factors were examined in their …
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PATHWAYS TO EARLY PREGNANCY BY RACE/ETHNIC AND CLASS LOCATIONS: ADOLESCENT GIRLS' SELF-CONCEPTS AND AMBIVALENCE TOWARDS PREGNANCY
… including self-efficacy, perceived mattering, self-esteem and possible selves, on two primary outcomes--feelings of ambivalence towards pregnancy and the transition to first sexual intercourse--and how these relationships vary by race/ethnicity and social class. Statistical methods …
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Women veterans in higher education: transitions and transformative learning experiences
… Theory, and Schlossberg's Transition Theory and Mattering Study to uncover various themes related to military experiences. A mixed-methods research design was used to understand transition and transformative learning experiences. A random sample of nine women veteran students was obtained from an …
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Lawyers of Egypt: class, precarity and politics
… of their precarity thus produces a politics of mattering that enables and structures diverse and often contradictory political possibilities. Lawyers’ complex class situation and logics of mattering enable them to broker street- and courtroom politics and mediate the relationship of the …
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