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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"self-transcendence"”.
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The Self-Transcendence of Jesus A Model for the Evangelisation of the Adolescent
… It is a look that has challenged me to ask myself “who Jesus is for young people and why do so many students not engage with him?” It is a look that has motivated me to explore ways in which I can facilitate an environment, where the person of Jesus Christ can speak to and resonate with these …
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In an era of neoliberalism and inequality can self-transcendence foster conscientisation for social change?
… of a paradigm which promotes the ideals of a self-regulating global market and the privatisation of state assets and services. An epoch where humanity’s existence is reduced to mere ‘clients’ and ‘consumers’ of services and products. Whereby the promise of ‘freedom of choice’ means the freedom …
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Loving Lo: The Dialectic of Self-Transcendence and Self-Assertion as Illuminated by the Literary Art of Nabokov's Lolita
<p>This thesis explores the opposition between self-assertive and self-transcending needs within the human condition using Vladimir Nabokov’s novel, Lolita, for illustrative purposes. I argue that the human quest for meaning and fuller humanity hinges on finding a balance between our need for …
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An Investigation into the Prevalence of and Relationships Among Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, Compassion Satisfaction, and Self-Transcendence in Oncology Nurses
… work, known as compassion satisfaction (CS). Self-transcendence (ST) has been found to have protective abilities. This study purpose was to assess the prevalence of CF, BO, and CS among oncology nurses in theUnited States, and the relationships among ST and CF, BO, CS, and demographic …
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On The Relationship Between Meaning And Prejudice: Examining Self-Transcendence And Value-Behavior Consistency In A Sample Of College Students
The present study examined whether the value of self-transcendence and the degree to which individuals report behaving consistently with their values (value-behavior consistency) impact the association of meaning and racial prejudice against White and Black individuals. The study was conducted with …
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How Frontline Managers Implement, and Employees Experience, Commitment HR Practices: The Roles of Individual Attributional Process and Self-Transcendence Values
… Additionally, I tested the influence of the self-transcendence values of FLMs and employees on their attributional processes. In doing so, three models (frontline manager, employee, and multi-level models) were proposed and the hypotheses based on these models were tested. Data collected from …
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Self-transcendence, health status, and selected demographic variables as determinants of the ability to perform activities of daily living in non-institutionalized older adults
… design to determine the relationship of self-transcendence (STS), health status (HS), and selected demographic variables (age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, education, social network, and religious/spiritual beliefs) to the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL) …
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中古诗人对“远意”的追求--以谢灵运、陶渊明为例 = The pursuit of overtone of "Distance" in Wei-Jin Lyric poetry: Exemplified by Xie Lingyun and Tao Yuanming.
… Wei-Jin period. The overtone of ?Distance? means self transcendence in the real world. The main themes about the pursuit of overtone of ?Distance? almost occurs in the periods from Wei to LiuSong. Poets are searching the way of self-transcendence which enables them to have absolute freedom against …
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Profile membership of self-worth contingencies predicts well-being, virtues, and values.
Historically, researchers have conceptualized self-esteem as global self-evaluation; recently, others have suggested that people are selective about what affects their self-worth. Two studies (N = 1,032) used a person-centered approach to examine how six domains of self-worth contingency associate …
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Aging among baby boomers
… documented, conjoint use of P. G. Reed's (1991) Self-Transcendence Scale and J. B. Younger's (1993) Mastery of Stress Inventory, two extant measures often cited independently in the nursing literature. Factors that denote and explain aging readiness arose from factor and correlational analyses. …
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Perceived purpose and sources of meaning as protective factors for substance use amongst emerging adults across South Africa
… items from the source of meaning dimension self-transcendence and life purpose. An association between illicit drug use and life purpose was also established. Conclusively, a correlation was found between alcohol addiction and the source of meaning dimension, ‘Relationship Status,’ alongside …
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Forgetting the self: nondual awareness as a key component of self-transcendent experiences
Self-transcendence (ST) and self-transcendent experiences (STEs) have been described as a positive component of human experience and as predictors of wellbeing across a diverse and multidisciplinary literature. As a trait, self-transcendence (ST) has been conceptualized as a developmental process …
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Voces de Las Madres: Traumatic bereavement after gang-related homicide
… (5) construction of meaning; and (6) emerging self-transcendence. Mothers' bereavement responses were highly reflective of their own cultural contexts. The process of dehumanization was an important reflection of the social stigma the mothers felt about gang-related deaths. The process of …
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Furthering conservation of resources theory: how our values influence out stress response
… influence of personal psychosocial values (e.g., self-transcendence and conservation; Schwartz, 1994) on coping processes, using resource-importance appraisal as a mediating factor. The primary tenets of conservation of resources theory, as conceptualized by Hobfoll (1989), and personal values, as …
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Values And Problem Behaviors In Hong Kong Adolescents
… Sensation Seeking Scale Form-V (SSS-V), Youth Self Report (YSR), Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ), and the Adolescent Health and Development Questionnaire (AHDQ), along with several demographic variables (e.g., age, gender, grade level, employment).</p> <p>Regression analyses were employed …
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Strategies for tailored messages : interaction of personal value orientation and freedom threat for chronic diseases management and behavior changes
… technology-based interventions in order to help self-management of chronic diseases. The overall study is twofold: Study 1 -- systematic review and Study 2 -- experimental study. Conducting Study 1 -- review study -- has shed light on the current status of research on technology-based …
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‘Being-in-the-world’ as a mother - hermeneutic-phenomenological exploration of lived experiences of eight new mothers’ transition to motherhood - within the theoretical frame of ‘four dimensions of existence’
… 5. Spiritual Dimension: Motherhood as Self-transcendence. The findings evidence the existential endeavour and ontological transformation at the heart of the transition to motherhood. Emergent was the potential for more authentic ways of being for new mothers as a result of choosing to …
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Political Sophistication: How Values and Social Capital Contribute to Political Knowledge and Cognition
… that individual value types that emphasize "self-orientation" will positively relate to social capital characteristics that decrease information flows which in turn would correlate to decreased political sophistication. Using post-materialism as a theoretical basis and a survey that measures …
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Christian contemplative prayer: a grounded theory exploration of well-being and embodiment within Christian spirituality
… perspective of well-being, as reflected within a self-reported eudaemonic context. It also suggests an integrated aspect of embodiment within this prayer practice related to: Embodied Self, Embodied in Christian Community, Embodied Space, and Embodied in God. Aspects of Christian spirituality …
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The Effect of Higher Education on Attitudes and Values: Gender and the Academic Environment
… social distance. The value 'conservation' and 'self-transcendence' contributed significantly in the majority of the equations. Theories about attitude and value change, student development, and theories of socialization are reviewed. The results of this study seem to support previous research …
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