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Showing 1 to 20 of 279 for “"self-identity"”.
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Self-identity insecurity in autistic masking
… report having difficulties with their sense of self, using terms such as identity crisis and imposter syndrome in relation to their autism diagnosis. To build an understanding of challenged self-identity and the role of masking experienced by those with autism we conducted two thematic analyses, …
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The Uncorrected Self: Identity Negotiation in Juvenile Detention
… methods to understand the process of identity negotiation for juvenile detainees in a county detention center in the Midwestern United States. Participants included six male, first-time detainees, ages 12 to 16, their parents, and detention center staff and administrators. Working …
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Who Acts? Self-Identity and Moral Courage in Nursing
… and communication, which were related to self-identity as the basis of ethical decision making
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Being Your Self: Identity, Metaphysics, and the Search for Authenticity
… culture for centuries that one ought to “be oneself,” an imperative often referred to as authenticity. The meaning of authenticity, however, remains contested among philosophers and largely shapeless in most people’s minds. In order to make sense of this compelling idea, one must reconcile …
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“All This Was My Life”: Constructing Textual Self-Identity in Diaries
… in consideration of an audience of the self and others, is part of the diary’s identity-building and meaning-making function. This thesis analyzes the process by which the diaries of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Janet Schaw construct multiple textual identities and conceptualize …
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Leaving journalism: Self-identity during career transition for female former Kentucky reporters
… affected their personal and professional self-identities, what about journalism was meaningful to them and what is meaningful in the work they do now, and what values and beliefs did they hold as reporters, and do they still hold them. </p> <p>Discussion: Thematic data analysis revealed …
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The loss of Asperger Syndrome: An exploration of its effects on self-identity
… of AS has social implications for people who self-identify and derive personal meaning from their diagnosis. The current study explored the opinions of adults with AS regarding the identity terms related to the changing classification of ASD. A qualitative approach was adopted whereby 12 …
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Orchestrating the Self: Identity Construction in Howard Hanson's Seven Symphonies and "Symphony of Freedom"
… spaces for negotiating a complex sense of self. Focusing on his seven numbered symphonies and his Symphony of Freedom (1949), this project analyzes how Hanson constructed and reimagined various forms of identity through his symphonic output. Rather than treating identity as fixed or …
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Smell as Self-identity: Capitalist Ideology and Olfactory Imagination in Das Parfum’s Multimedia Storytelling
… close interrelationships with the politics of identity, an issue elaborated in Patrick Süskind’s novel <em>D</em><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Parfum_%E2%80%93_Die_Geschichte_eines_M%C3%B6rders" title="Das Parfum – Die Geschichte eines Mörders"><em>as Parfum–Die Geschichte Eines …
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The Construction of Self-identity and Positive Behavioural Change in Pregnant and Parenting Young Women
… between the narrative construction of self-identity and positive change in antisocial behaviour in pregnant and parenting young women. It focused on two related aspects of identity development: (1) individuals’ conceptualizations of their personally salient self-values; and (2) …
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Breaking Down Stereotypes: A Look at the Performance of Self-Identity Within the Furry Community
The furry fandom has recently gained considerable exposure in the mass media. Furries are individuals who have an interest in anthropomorphic animals and are occasionally portrayed in the media as a socially or sexually deviant subculture. Through an ethnographic study of a local furry group, I …
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A Girl's Best Friend? Implications of Friendship on Female Self-identity in Young Adult Literature
Understanding one’s self-identity is a key part of adolescence, especially for girls. But what external factors determine one’s self-perception? By examining the works of five mass-market young adult authors, Ann Brashares, Meg Cabot, E. Lockhart, Cynthia Voigt, and Cecily von Ziegesar, evidence …
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Translation and the quest for self-identity in postcolonial Indian Anglophone and Maghrebian Francophone literature
… of the main themesin the novels - the Quest for Self-Identity, as opposed to the quest for national identity (which was the preoccupying concern for newly-freed citizens of the colonies). Aframework based on works by Freud, Kristeva, Bhabha and Khatibi serves as the basis on which to analyze the …
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The quest for self-discovery : the reconstruction of self identity stories in alternative therapy groups
This thesis explores the reconstruction of self identity stories in a defined area of alternative therapy. An initial document analysis of advertisements in directories, described as alternative to promote views and practices on complementary health and environmental issues, suggested that the …
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Death and Self-Identity in the Contemporary Fantasies of Philip Pullman, Garth Nix, and Steven Erikson
… as a determinate ontological state (in that a self can be dead); a physical space with constituent landscape (in that a self can be in death); or an embodied identity (in that a self can be Death). I apply this framework to contemporary fantasy in case studies of Philip Pullman’s His Dark …
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From Ideology to Identity: Deconstructing Disabled Stereotypes in Video Games and Their Effects on Self-Identity
… centre and periphery and the concept of the identity schema. Through semi-structured interviews, this thesis examines five prominent disability stereotypes within selected games. The data collected was analysed using thematic coding and NVivo, revealing that these stereotypes persist and act …
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