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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"state of mind"”.
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Virgin State of Mind
Virgin State of Mind is a literary young adult thriller about a 17-year-old named Charlie who struggles to maintain normalcy in his life in the months following a devastating sexual assault, and how an unexpected reunion with his assaulter one snowy December night sets Charlie on a path toward …
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State of Mind Ireland: the design and evaluation of a positive mental health intervention among higher education students
… as a vulnerable age group who carry the burden of mental health problems worldwide. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) observe that many students are experiencing mental health issues. HEIs, however, are also in a critical position to reach the young adult population group and promote positive …
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Attachment and Trauma: A Historical and Empirical Study of the Meaning of Unresolved Loss and Abuse in the Adult Attachment Interview
This thesis comprises three studies of the meaning of adults’ unresolved states of mind with respect to attachment (U/d) in the Adult Attachment Interview. The first study is a historical analysis of the conceptualisation of “trauma” in the unresolved state of mind classification, drawing on …
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The interpersonal and mental health implications of the coherence of coming out narratives for a sample of gay men in committed romantic relationships
… traumatic when coming out results in the rupture of salient relationships with parents, siblings, and/or close friends. To date, the minority stress model (Meyer, 1995; 2003) has been utilized as an organizing framework for how to empirically examine external stressors and mental health …
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PARENTS´ EXPERIENCES AND REACTIONS WHEN AN UNEXPECTED FINDING IN THEIR FOETUS IS REVEALED AT A ROUTINE ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION
The overall aim of this thesis was to describe parent’s experiences, reactions and needs in connection with a routine ultrasound examination during pregnancy when the foetus was found to have an abnormal ultrasound finding. The data collection began in February 2005 and the one year cohort study …
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Parents' expectations, experiences and reactions to a routine ultrasound examination during pregnancy
The overall aim of this thesis was to describe parents’ expectations, experiences and reactions to a routine ultrasound examination during the second trimester of pregnancy and to develop, test and use a questionnaire. The aim was also to conceptualize the parents’ experiences and ways of handling …
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Attachment Relationships Across Siblings and their Common Mother: Patterns and Predictors
… attachment theory suggests that because maternal state of mind regarding attachment is generally stable by adulthood, mothers should interact similarly with their children and, consequently, should share a similar quality of attachment with each. Early empirical work, however, suggests that the …
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Architecture: as a matter of fact
… to the idea: We conclude that creativity is a state of mind; measured by what is made. It is only when extended beyond oneself that an idea can become real to more than one. We Extend thru our talents and skills. The significance of that made is its Presence measured in time
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The Effects of an Induced Negative Mood State on Ground- Based Learning in Student Pilots
<p>The United States Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration's <em>Aviation Instructors Handbook </em>(D.O.T.) (1999) emphasizes that aviation students must maintain a healthy and positive state of mind in order to succeed at learning. Factors such as worry, lack of …
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In Meditation Space: Lighting and Materials
Meditation is known as a practice of bringing oneself to a peaceful state of mind. It will become more interesting to more people if they can find its meaning in many more things around them. In this study, the roles which repetition plays in meditation will be used in architecture in many ways. …
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The Heidegger Collection
The dissertation consists of two parts: (1) the essay and (2) the composition. The essay elucidates the composer's creative process of the orchestral works, The Heidegger Collection. The Heidegger Collection has five movements. The titles of each movement are derived from the key philosophical …
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"Love is Lak de Sea": Figurative Language in Zora Neale Hurston's <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em>.
<p>The principal objective of this paper is to investigate the use of Hurston’s figurative language in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Metaphors, symbolism, and personification have always been present in the African American language. Hurston uses the richness of figurative language to …
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A Decision Support Tool for Problem Detection and Resolution in Healthy Newborns: An Exploratory Study to Understand Parental Acceptance and Perception of Usefulness
… experience with so much to learn, in an often exhausted state of mind. Still, it is critical for parents to be able to identify potential health problems in their babies, as soon as possible. This work takes the first steps in determining the feasibility of an app, to be used by new …
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O lugar do espaço em ser e tempo
The present dissertation aims to outline the role of space in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time. Taking as point of departure a discussion of the worldhood of the world, space is presented in terms of referentiality and involvement. It is characterized as constitutive of the structure of Dasein, …
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The role of reflective functioning in predicting parenting and coparenting quality
This investigation examined the validity of parental reflective functioning (RF; Fonagy, Target, Steele, & Steele, 1998) which is a measure designed to assess understanding of emotions and other mental states. RF was coded based on the prebirth Adult Attachment Interviews (AAI; George, Kaplan, & …
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Employee Engagement: Understanding the ‘Personal’ Dimension of Engagement
… in its meaning away from being an individual state of mind (Truss et al., 2013). This study explores Kahn's (1990) original framing of engagement as a deeply personal experience, considering what PE is and how it is understood and experienced by individual employees. This considers engagement …
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Différences entre les types pensée et sentiment du Myers-Briggs Type Indicator selon l'humeur négative et positive et le stress
… aux construits cognitifs moins fonctionnels (State of Mind Model ), en tenant compte ou non du degré de stress, comparativement aux sujets de type P. Quatre-vingt-douze étudiant(e)s au niveau du baccalauréat au Centre universitaire de Moncton ont complété les versions françaises du …
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From the Edge
… and drawings are the physical representations of my dialogue with the world around me. Art is how I connect to what is too large, or too vague, or too personally meaningful to express in any other way. Space and its transformation by light and color have always been central to this dialogue. I …
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Spellbound...?: A hermeneutic response to disillusionment in the contemporary university
… the world’s economies, and the idea and purpose of the university is a question that has historically received considerable attention. In recent years, a state of disillusionment among UK academics has been observed, and attributed in part to a belief that the economic mandate of the contemporary …
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