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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"self-discrepancy"”.
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Actual and Ideal Self Discrepancy and Body Satisfaction
… a potential influence on muscle dysmorphia is self-concept. Self-concept may interact with muscle dysmorphia through the changes that people want to make about themselves. Within self-concept people may want to change a great deal about themselves and the way that they are currently (actual …
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ADHD and Self-Discrepancy: The Social Construction of ADHD in Adulthood
Once thought only to affect children, ADD/ADHD is increasingly being diagnosed in adults. This qualitative study utilizes grounded theory to describe the process of ADD/ADHD identity construction in a sample of 19 adults diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. An additional 30 unsolicited internet Internet …
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Counselors' self-discrepancy and its impact on their burnout and wellness
… reflected selves as well as between counselors’ self-discrepancies and their burnout and wellness. Moreover, an investigation on the impacts of counselors’ self-discrepancies on their burnout and wellness as a professional was conducted. The use of self has been emphasized in order for counselors …
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CONSUMPTION OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT INTERNET MATERIAL AND WELLBEING: A SELF-DISCREPANCY APPROACH
… wellbeing by assessing an ideal-actual sexual discrepancy in the context of intimate relationships. I drew on perspectives from self-discrepancy theory to explore whether SEIM consumption generates disparities between ideal and actual sexual experiences, which then may influence consumers’ …
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Deviant leisure in the collegiate undergraduate population: predicting participation and affect using self-discrepancy theory
… elements of society. The present study utilized Self-Discrepancy Theory to determine if this framework was predictive of college students' deviant leisure participation, a desire to make changes to the amount of time spent in deviant leisure, and the affective results of engaging in deviant …
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Attentional Bias to Threat Following Acquired Brain Injury: The Role of Self-Discrepancy and Executive Functioning
… a visual dot-probe task, alongside measures of self-discrepancy, affective distress and executive functioning. Results: Whilst the pattern of results is indicative of this threat detection hypothesis, the difference between threat and neutral trials was found to be non-significant (p = .053). …
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Positive Body Image and Cognitive Processing Style
… schema activation and appearance-related self-discrepancy were examined as two social-cognitive processes in which self-protective tendencies may emerge. Fitspiration exposure predicted appearance schema activation but not appearance-related self-discrepancy. </p>
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Demystifying the Link Between Loneliness and Materialism: Mediating Roles of Emotion Regulation, Self-Enhancement, and Escapism
… materialism, this study views loneliness as a self-discrepancy and examines its influence on materialism through three mediators (emotion regulation, self-enhancement, escapism) within the perspective of compensatory consumer behavior. Results from this study contribute to the growing body of …
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Clothing Fit and Self: An Empirical Examination of Fit Factors and Self Evaluation Related to the Confident Clothing Decision and Psychological Well-Being
… performance and body comfort. This study uses self-discrepancy theory to examine how fit characteristics (fit preference and performance) affect consumers’ self-evaluations (self-schema, body satisfaction, and self-esteem) and psychological responses (confident clothing decisions and …
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Effects of Social Context on State Anxiety, Submissive Behavior, and Perceived Social Task Performance in Females with Social Anxiety
Self-discrepancy in one’s gender role traits may elicit anxiety and lower self-confidence in various social contexts for women. Females (n = 52) with elevated social anxiety engaged in both an opinion speech and a semi-structured conversation, with either two separate male or two separate female …
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Do Individual Differences in Authenticity Influence the Magnitude and Affective Consequences of Self-Discrepancies?
<p>Theories of self-regulation address the continuous process in which individuals compare their behavior to salient goals or standards. Two well-known theories of self-regulation, self-discrepancy theory (SDT) and regulatory focus theory (RFT), each make distinctions regarding the types of …
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Identity Discrepancy, Male Role Norms, and Mental and Physical Health
<p>Male gender role norms were considered from a self-discrepancy perspective. The male gender role was divided into 4 perspective domain combinations based on the participant's perceptions: self-ideal/ought, other-ideal/ought, self-actual, other-actual. These categories were assessed using an …
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The Effects of Self-Monitoring and Religious Self-Discrepancies on Negative Affect
According to Higgins's (1987) self-discrepancy theory, an individual's selfesteem is based upon fulfilling one's self-expectations or the expectations of significant others (e.g., spouse or parent). Failure to live up to these expectations results in greater levels of depression, anxiety, and lower …
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Journalist or influencer? Exploring young public media journalists' perceptions of individual branding on Twitter
… about journalistic branding, how it manifests itself on Twitter, and where it belongs among the other traditional practices of journalism. The following research study explores how young public media journalists perceive individual journalistic branding and what motivates their own methods for …
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Testing an integrated body image media model : focusing on a cross-cultural comparison between US and Korean college women
… / emotional outcomes (appearance importance, self-discrepancies, and self-esteem) and behavioral outcomes (self-efficacy and perfectionism). Thin ideal media exposure predicted cognitive outcomes for U.S. women, body image disturbance and behavioral intentions for both U.S. and Korean women. …
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Investigating the relationship between negative symptoms, autobiographical memory and concept of self in people recovering from first episode psychosis
… in PTSD, the association between a discrepant self-concept and a tendency to recall more trauma-related memories, is also seen in psychosis, and whether this is related to the level of negative symptoms a person experiences. The study recruited 51 individuals from across East Anglia, England, …
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Sexuality in the media and emotional well-being among lesbian, gay, & bisexual adolescents
… most popular with LGB teens as determined by self-reports of media consumption in a survey of media use. A total of 96 media vehicles composed the content analysis sample, including 48 television programs, 22 films, 25 musical artists, and 6 magazines. Using a coding scheme that was adapted …
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Nursing Leadership Characteristics: Effect On Nursing Job Satisfactio
… Conflict, Cohort, Servant-Leadership, and Self-Discrepancy theories were utilized to identify the relationships of generations to each other and to the leadership characteristics existing in their organizations. Two Central Florida healthcare organizations were utilized to obtain data …
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The Influence of Acculturative Discrepancies on Negative Affect, Drinking to Cope, and Drinking Behavior in Latinas
… used in this study to capture discrepancies in self-perception that may arise as a result of the acculturation process, were predictive of drinking behavior in Latinas. In line with self-discrepancy theory (SDT), two categories of acculturative discrepancies are of interest: 1) acculturative …
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Identity, intentions, and consumer behaviour in Ironman triathlon: an enhanced Theory of Planned Behaviour framework
… the motivations, social influences, and self-perceptions that shape long-term commitment to endurance sports. <br/><br/>Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) (Ajzen, 1991) as a structural framework and Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) (Arnould & Thompson, 2005) as a contextual …
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