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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"self-schema"”.
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The Utility of the Implicit Association Test in the Measurement of Pain and Self-schema Enmeshment in Fibromyalgia Patients
… experience personal losses and changes in their self-schemas or the way in which they view themselves as a result. This study was particularly focused on identifying the enmeshment of self-schemas and pain-schemas, and the extent to which women with fibromyalgia experience pain and self-schema …
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Social recovery following first-episode psychosis: the role of negative symptoms and motivation
… theory; Eccles and Wigfield 2002) describe how self-efficacy beliefs, appraisals of task value, and self-schema may influence behaviour, but minimal research has applied these models to the understanding of negative symptoms and functional outcomes in first-episode psychosis. This was the aim of …
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Exerciser self-image and indices of health-related physical fitness
<p>Self-belief about exercise strongly influences people's exercise behavior. This relationship may have significant impact on health-related physical fitness and help to address the exercise behavior deficit in the US. However, it is not known if self-belief about exercise significantly impacts …
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Women's Sexual Self Schemas: A Cognitive Approach to Women's Sexuality
Research on the self suggests that one's self views are powerful regulators of both cognitive processing and behavioral responding. Sexual self schemas have been defined as cognitive generalizations about the sexual aspects of the self, that are derived from past experience, manifest in current …
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Condom Use Among U.S. Young Adult Black Women: An Integrated Cognitive Approach
… examines how cognitive influences such as sexual self-schema, HIV-related stigma, perception of HIV risk and condom sexual self-efficacy influence condom use at last sex among young adult Black women. An integrated theoretical framework consisting of The Health Belief Model, Social Cognitive …
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It's Not Me It's You: Examining the Link Between Partner-Schema Organization, Relationship Functioning, and Depressive Symptoms
… the presence of a highly consolidated negative self representation or “self-schema”, no studies have examined whether depression is also associated with a highly organized negative “partner-schema”, and whether this represents a risk factor for relationship distress. Given the high degree 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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False memory production: effects of self-consistent false information and motivated cognition
… received intense public scrutiny. Based upon self-schema (Markus, 1977) and self-verification (Swann, 1987) theories, two studies were conducted to investigate the hypothesis that a self-schema guides cognitive processing of self-relevant information and thereby influences the construction of …
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Improving the Definition of Exercise Maintenance: Evaluation of Concepts Related to Adherence
… than were the generic newsletters. Exerciser self-schema was related to stages of change, but those relationships differed from baseline to six-month follow-up, indicating development of exerciser self-schema during the study period. Implications of this are discussed. Other concepts discussed …
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The Psychological Study of Gender: Moving Beyond the Binary
… explores the validity of two measures of gender self-schema gender salience and schematic breadth to demonstrate how such methods can be both more inclusive and lead to a more nuanced understanding of gender. Schematic breadth was explored separately between three types role, …
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Self-relevant cognition in depression: An examination of problematic cognitive content and process
… cognitive content of the depressive self-concept (by demonstrating that a subjective sense of inadequacy is associated with depression), and on (b) the basis of depressives' distinctive cognitive products (by competitively testing three models which provide divergent accounts of …
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Multiplicity in contemporary Naga society: a study on professional women in multiple lifeworlds
Multiplicity or the multiple self can be understood as an abstract idea or an empirical phenomenon. As such, it can be conceptualized as a psychological concept, a philosophical idea, or a social phenomenon. Broadly speaking, it is understood within a spectrum, from pathological to normal, …
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Sex and gender differences in job attribute preferences: Exploring the role of gender self-schemas
… to differentiate applicants. Using gender self-schema theory, this study incorporates gender self identification as an additional operationalisation for sex. Gender self-identification is used to determine firstly, whether an individual's biological sex and gender self-identification align …
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Individual differences in psychological adjustment to perceived abnormalities of appearance
… and negative appraisal of situations and the self. The negative self view was more salient to the poor adjusters. The second analysis of the interview data was a hypothesis testing content analysis, designed to eliminate competing candidate hypotheses generated from the general psychology …