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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"self-theory"”.
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Self-Theory and Effective Functioning
A person who conceptualizes self-attributes as relatively fixed (an "entity theorist") has been shown to exhibit maladaptive responses to failure. In contrast, a person who conceptualizes self-attributes as malleable (an "incremental theorist") has been shown to demonstrate adaptive response …
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Emotion, Conflict, Sociality: A Critique of George Herbert Mead's Social Self Theory from the Perspectives of William James and Karen Horney.
<p>George Herbert Mead constructed a brilliant theory of the self as a social phenomenon emerging from the interplay of linguistic symbols. While the persuasiveness Mead's theory remains, he provides an inadequate account of the significance of emotions and conflict for the development of the self. …
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A Longitudinal Study of Self-Concept in Late Adolescents
<p>Since knowledge of self-stability is important to self-theory, a study as briefly outlined above seemed valuable. The four chief parts of the study to emerge are given below: 1. To investigate the stability of the self-concept of adolescents over one and two-year intervals. 2. To investigate the …
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Parents, children and primary school mathematics: Experiences, identity and activity
… an approach informed by the sociocultural theory, this project aimed to investigate parental involvement in children’s school mathematical learning through a focus upon experiences, identity and activity. Twenty-four parent-child pairs took part in the study. The children were all aged …
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Acculturation Experiences and Identity Negotiations in Saudi Arabian International Students in the UK: From An Acculturation Perspective to A Dialogical Self Perspective
… and perceived consequences on their sense of self and identities by combining the original acculturation framework from Berry (1997, 2011) with the Dialogical Self Theory of Hermans (2001). The aim of Study One was to examine transitions when moving to and studying in the UK for Saudi Arabian …
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A Study of the Self-esteem and Life Satisfaction of Twenty-six Institutionalized Elderly in Rural, North Central United States
<p>This study explores the self-esteem and life satisfaction of, selected institutionalized elderly persons. The research questions were: 1) What is the extent of self-esteem of selected institutionalized 'elderly persons as measured by the Tennessee Self Concept Scale? 2) What is the extent of …
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The reservation adolescents' self-concept
The self-concept of 271 reservation Indian and white adolescents was measured by a ten-item seIf-esteem scaIe developed by Rosenberg in 1965, and compared with respect to age, sex, grade, ordinal position, number of children in the family, family communication and socio-economic status of the …
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The effects of hearing on the development and expression of the self
Proponents of Meadian self theory maintain that language is the critical mechanism that allows the self to emerge processually through symbolic interaction. Because of the role of hearing in language development, one who is deaf and cannot hear the spoken language is not able to stimulate himself …
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Health and the Spiritual Self: Development and Application of a Theory and Measure of the Process of Healthy Change
… to investigate the nature of the healthy human self and the process of achieving health. This was undertaken by reviewing established self-theory and presenting a summary of each theory and its position with regard to self-composition, self-agency and the nature of the healthy self. An inclusive …
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The effect of implicit self-theories of intelligence on task persistence and performance in an adult sample: test of a structural model
Implicit self-theories have been studied extensively in children as part of a social cognitive approach to behavior and performance and have been found to increase persistence in the face of challenge or failure, leading to increased performance on difficult tasks. Recently there has been some …
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A Study on Environmental Dynamism, Entrepreneur Cognitive Styles, Learning from Failure and Attitude Towards Risk in Emerging Economy. A Case Study of Nigeria Entrepreneurs
… mediating variable in the cognitive experiential self-theory to develop the conceptual framework for the study. Using a survey, data was collected from entrepreneurs in Nigeria, reached through the chambers of commerce. 677 responses, representing a response rate of 84%. A set of hypotheses were …
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Cardiac Rehabilitation Attendance and Women: A Straussian Grounded Theory
… Using a feminist informed Straussian grounded theory research approach, 25 post myocardial infarction women were interviewed about their cardiac rehabilitation programme.<br/><br/>Analysis of the data suggests that for the women who took part in this study having a myocardial infarction …
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The relationship between fear of compassion, attitudes towards emotional expression and subjective well-being among a community adult sample
… different aspects of the Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory (CEST; Epstein, 2003), with FoC proposed to map onto the emotional-cognitive experiential system and AEE suggested to map onto the cognitive rational system. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed; for example, the utility …
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Looking Glass Self in Eating Disorders: Breakdown of Self in Women
… from the perspective of symbolic interactionist "self" theory, and a model is developed suggesting components in the process of the breakdown of the looking glass self. The process is based in characteristic views toward the self and others. These views include the primacy of appearance in …
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The Life Stories of Teachers in Post Compulsory Education: A Narrative Exploration of Teacher Identity
… Education with the aim of exploring how the ‘self’ is constructed within discursive environments. The study adopts a dialogical approach to narrative identity formation as an ongoing process of becoming within the life course. Grounded in social construction theory (Gergen 2009), the study …
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Identity Theory and Women’s Choice of Medical Specialty
… was to answer the research question: Does a self theory of social action account for female physicians’ perceptions of past choice of specialty? Perceptions of self changed as she prepared herself to become a physician. During her medical training, a medical student gains a better sense of …
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Ethnic identity negotiation through dialogical self: the case of Anywaa and Nuer evangelicals in Gambella, Ethiopia
… Gambella region, Ethiopia, using the Dialogical Self Theory. The two ethnic groups are living in conflict due to different reasons such as historical narratives and cultural differences. Though they have differences on multiple issues, they are converts from their respective traditional religion …
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Exploring novice teacher responses to the challenges they encounter through guided reflective inquiry
… of dialogism (Bakhtin, 1981) and dialogical self theory (Hermans and Hermans-Konopka, 2010) provided a lens through which meanings were created from the generated data. This study focused on six novice teachers within their first three years of full-time teaching and implemented elements of …
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Assessment of the impact of ARVs on physical development of the orphaned and vulnerable children living with HIV/AIDS’ A case study of PASADA,
… Theories used in this study include personality theory, trait theory, humanistic theory, psychodynamic theory and self theory all explaining the state of orphaned and vulnerable children in relation to ARVs consumption. Data analysis and presentation was in chapter four whereby tables, pie charts …
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Leading without greed: A Vedantic lens on wholeness toward cultivating spiritual intelligence in leadership
… as arising from a material ‘incomplete self' predicament of constant want. Vedānta posits such never-ending desiring to be consequential of a lack of spiritual intelligence. Systematic reviews into workplace spirituality studies identified a need for qualitative leadership research, …
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