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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"social self"”.
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Effects of Social Support on the Social Self-Concepts of Gifted Adolescents
… study investigates the relationship between social support and the social self-concepts of gifted adolescents. Participants include 245 gifted students who had completed the fifth through the tenth grade during the previous academic year. Social self-concept was measured using the …
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Beyond the Pages: The Significance of the Social Self Proposed in Jane Austen's Persuasion
… and how she rejects the Romantic notion of the self defined by individualism, which leads to the breakdown of society. Instead of the Romantic self, with its emphasis on self-examination, retrospection, and emotion, Austen advocates for an older notion of the self, a view based in …
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Social self-evaluation and social problem-solving skills in learning and non-learning disabled males
The questions investigated concerned the social problem solving skills of 41 learning disabled (LD) students compared to 41 typical students in grades 10, 11, and 12. Since (a) LD students are generally described as impulsive, lacking in social judgment, and unaware of consequences; since (b) these …
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Adult attachment and relationship satisfaction : potential mediating effects of relational conflict and social self-efficacy
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Development and initial validation of the Ethnic Minority Social Self-Efficacy Scale—Asian American version
… This study further explored Asian Americans' social experiences and aimed to operationalize Asian American self-efficacy during social interactions with White individuals. The Ethnic Minority Social Self-Efficacy—Asian American Version (EMSSE-AA) was developed to assess Asian Americans' …
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EXPLORING EMPATHY AND SOCIAL SELF-EFFICACY IN ADOLESCENTS WITH A SIBLING WITH AN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
… pilot study investigated levels of empathy, social-self efficacy, and psychological well-being in adolescents whose siblings have been diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. The purpose of the study was to determine whether there is a difference in the amount of empathy and social …
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Building Social Self-Efficacy: Investigating How Refugee Adolescents Cultivate School Readiness Through a Summer Youth Readiness Program
… and are challenged with having to navigate new social settings while integrating into American schools. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to investigate to what extent participation in a summer youth readiness program would increase levels of social self-efficacy in refugee adolescents …
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The Influence of Situational Organization, Age Gender, and Peer Group Interaction on the Emergence of the Early Social Self
… learning environments on the frequency of prosocial behaviors. The analyses were conducted according to gender, age, and whether the activity was child-chosen or teacher-imposed. The behaviors for analysis included responding prosocially to verbal massages from other children, engaging in …
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Academic, Research, and Social Self-Efficacy among African American Pre-McNair Scholar Participants and African American Post-McNair Scholar Participants
… development of students' academic, research and social self-efficacy. To date, however little research has been conducted to see if the McNair Scholars Program has an effect on African American students' levels of self-efficacy. The purpose of this study was to compare levels of academic, …
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Exploring Factors Influencing First Generation Undergraduate College Students’ Perceived Social-Self Efficacy (PSSE) And Ability To Socially Integrate With Academic Advisors
… impact on a college student’s academic and social development, persistence to degree completion, and retention rates at the institution, many undergraduate college students are unable to socially integrate with academic advisors, primarily during a student’s sophomore year of college. A …
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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.
… 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. After …
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Concentrate-on-one: an alternative approach to increasing academic and social self-esteem in at-risk students in a high school
… study was to examine how student academic and social self-esteem was affected by a special program for high school students in a rural school district in North Carolina. Concentrate-on-one was exactly as its name suggests--a program that allowed students to focus on one academic course at a …
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Perceptions of Academic and Social Self-Efficacy among Adolescents Diagnosed with Cancer and their Relations with Dispositional Optimism, Perceived Vulnerability, and Treatment Modality
… maintaining and strengthening academic and social self-efficacy is especially salient in terms of promoting positive adaptation on key developmental indices. Based on prior research citing their potential roles among adolescents adapting to cancer, treatment modality, dispositional optimism, …
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One character, one bullet : an investigation of the death of character in contemporary South African television drama and the multiplicity of social self as possible means of character revival
… of a concept called ‘the multiplicity of social self’, which finds its roots in the discipline of social psychology. This written explication and its accompanying experimental television film, Zindzi, are twin sites from which to consider the death and possible revival of contemporary …
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Moral Rights in Copyright Law: Personality, the Self, & the Author-Work Relation
… perceptions of the author’s empirical or “social self” as externalized in the work – what I call her externalized social self. In contrast to an abstract or ideal notion of the self typically propounded by moral rights advocates, the social self is built up by interaction between the …
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The relationship between participation in a first-year seminar and student self-efficacy
… students to academic expectations, build social connections, develop self-management skills, and support students’ academic success. This dissertation investigates the relationship between participating in a first-year seminar and student self-efficacy. Drawing from Bandura’s Social …
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Self-Concept of Eating-Restrained Women: A Study of Personal Constructs
… were used in measures of components of self-concept: real self, ideal self, social self, and ideal social self. It was hypothesized that in comparison to the other two groups, the eating-restrained women would exhibit a distinct pattern among the components of self-concept: Real and …
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Female adolescents identified with emotional disturbance and adjudicated female adolescents: A comparison of self-concepts.
This study addresses the academic, social, and self-image self-concepts of females ages 13-17 who are labeled emotionally and behaviorally disordered by their public school systems and are in residential treatment, and females ages 13-17 who are adjudicated, or labeled “juvenile offenders” and are …
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Self-esteem levels of adolescents with learning disabilities or mental retardation in inclusive or non-inclusive educational settings
… investigation compared the global, personal, and social self-esteem levels of adolescents with learning disabilities or mild-to-moderate mental retardation. The purpose was to determine differences between the adolescents based on their disability, educational setting of inclusion or …
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