Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"self-improvement"”.
-
The Value of Learning and Self-Improvement in Twentieth Century African-American Autobiography
"This study chronicled and examined the educational patterns of African-American professionals, entertainers, political leaders/activists and athletes born in the twentieth century in order to determine the familia, social and cultural contexts of African-American educational values and beliefs. …
-
Queen Victoria's Library: The Place of Reading and Writing in Victoria's Political Education, Self-Improvement and Self-Curation
… and was a tool she expertly wielded in her self-curation. By centring reading in the study of Queen Victoria, examining both what she read and how she read, this thesis elucidates its role in her agency, relationships, self-improvement, interaction with the world through literature, the …
-
Examining Body-Focused Self-Improvement and Self-Evaluation Social Comparisons on Exercise in Young Adult Women Using Ecological Momentary Assessment
… can be driven by two different motivations, self-evaluation and self-improvement. However, the occurrence of these two different types of motivations in everyday life and how they may be associated with different levels of body dissatisfaction and exercise behaviors have yet to be examined in …
-
Self-Improvement and Teen Magazines: A Matter of Fashion and Beauty: A Content Analysis of Sassy, Seventeen and YM--Teen Magazines for Adolescent Females
… targeting a young, female audience still promote self-improvement through fashion and physical beautification. The data was collected from ten issues each of Seventeen, Sassy and YM. lssues selected for Seventeen and YM were published during the time period from June 1996 through July 1997. The …
-
Implications of Chinese and American mothers’ goals for children’s emotional distress: Investigation of a cultural transmission model
… study spanning a year. Mothers reported on their self-improvement (i.e., children striving to improve) and self-worth (i.e., children feeling worthy) goals, as well as their responses to children’s performance. Children reported on their emotional distress (e.g., anxiety and depression). Chinese …
-
Living with ourselves, together
… on individual agency, normativity and the self; while the second half explores aspects of our normative lives as social agents. More specifically, the first half contains papers on underdetermination by value, self-improvement, and the problem of self-creation; while the second half …
-
Encouraging A Positive Self-Image
… workshop to teach a method of encouraging better self-images in students. A series of self-improvement imagery exercises are outlined. Steps include choosing goals; writing them in behavioral terms and specific measurable outcomes; and using self-recording, self-reward and self-punishment. By …
-
Treadmill: A Novel
… and the unusual, ramifications of her journey of self-improvement on several local crime families. The novel is darkly comic and centers around a hazy morality which each character tries to bring into focus, with varying degrees of success, ultimately questioning the binary of altruism and …
-
The Effects of Appearance-Based Reality Shows on Body Image
… cosmetic surgery shows and fashion, style, and self-improvement makeover shows, a small positive relationship was found between viewership of fashion, style, self-improvement shows and thin ideal internalization. However, no relationships were found for either type of reality show and body …
-
Investigating the use of synthetic media and real-time virtual camera filters for supporting communication and creativity
… communication tools. Motivated by a desire for self-improvement in an age of online digital communication, this thesis aims to investigate how synthetic media and real-time camera filters can be used to influence performance in target tasks, particularly in the realm of communication and …
-
The impact of political ideology on conssumer behavior
… of political ideology on one’s preference for self-improvement products. In Essay 2, I investigate the impact of political ideology on one’s preference for volunteering behaviors.
-
The benefits of GED graduation : a study of Indiana GED graduates
… The tangible benefits were further education, self-improvement, occupational advancement, and GED participation of others. The intangible benefits were empowerment, improved self-image, higher aspirations, and personal satisfaction. Although the findings of this study confirmed many of the …
-
Application of Self-Monitoring for Situational Awareness
<p>Self-monitoring devices and services are used for physical wellness, personal tracking and self-improvement. These individual devices and services can only provide information based on what they can measure directly or historically without an intermediate system. This paper proposes a …
-
Improving problem-solving capabilities of language model: data, architecture and algorithms
… terms of algorithmic advancements, I developed a self-improvement reinforcement learning algorithm designed to incentivize models to produce enhanced responses by iteratively learning from their prior outputs. Central to this algorithm is the modeling of the reward gap between different responses, …
-
The Crisis of Chad: Men’s Rights Movements and Contemporary Anti-feminism
… reversal of women’s rights, to seeking advice on self-improvement forums that offer advice to young men seeking to improve their physique through diet and exercise. By analyzing the digital history of incels, the thesis will also describe the incel movement's shift from group building to hotbed of …
-
A case study of employees' motivation to participate in a workplace language and literacy program
… by three main categories of goals (i.e., 'Self-improvement through language and literacy development', 'Work', 'Outside work'). Of these goals, all of the employees reported 'Self-improvement through language and literacy development' as the underlying reason why they participated in one of …
-
Do Self-Help Groups Work on Achieving Economic Goals? New Evidence from a Field Experiment in Medellin, Colombia
… three cities of the United States. It promotes self-improvement through setting goals, incentive schemes, and self-help groups (SHGs). The results suggest that the FII model can be successfully implemented as a poverty alleviation policy in a developing country. The model does have a positive …
-
Exploring Selfhood in an Era of Computational Optimization
This thesis critiques “the self-optimization ideal,” which describes the social and cultural ideal of relentless self-improvement. The self-optimization ideal encompasses predominant beauty, bodily and lifestyle ideals that individuals, under neoliberal governmentality, are incentivized to strive …
-
A Comparison Between Differences of Body-Image and Self-Concept for Pre- and Post-treatment Orthodontic Patients
… produce changes in his or her body-image and self-concept?</p> </li> <li> <p>In which areas of the body does the patient experience changes in body image after orthodontic treatment?</p> </li> <li> <p>What significance or value does the patient place on orthodontic treatment relative to …
-
Community college transfer student identity, development and engagement: a constructivist grounded theory approach
… institutions, leading to the desire for self-improvement over time. The results of this study are presented in two articles. Connections to the current literature, implications for policy, practice, and research, and the study's limitations are discussed throughout both articles.</p>
Page 1 of 4