Dimensions Of Self Research Articles

The Black (W)hole of Dysphoria

This essay returns to Evelynn Hammonds’s field-changing essay “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality,” with a focus on the labor of knowledge production under fraught institutional conditions, characterized in this essay as languaging. The simultaneous desire for and impossibility of accurate language to describe racialized, gendered, and sexual subjectivity drive Hammonds’s essay as well as a number of other key texts in Black feminist sexuality studies. This essay (re)introduces the diagnostic category of dysphoria to speak to this paradox: here, dysphoria describes the affective and psychic condition of institutional illegibility and fungibility for racialized and gendered people. Using the analytic of dysphoria to characterize and connect the political economy of Black feminist knowledge production and the life narrative of A. Dionne Stallworth, a Black trans woman activist, this essay directs urgent attention to the simultaneously material, spiritual, psychic, and affective dimensions of self-, knowledge-, and world-making.

Enjoying the moment of joy: Culture and self during emotional experience

ABSTRACT Is my joy, your joy? Recent theory suggests the key mechanism of joy as the right relation between self and situation. To investigate joy at the intersection of culture and self, we collected quantitative and qualitative data from White, Asian American, and Asian International participants (N = 257). Based on their own definition of joy, participants recalled a recent joy experience. We found significant cultural differences in three dimensions of self during joy experiences: Asian International participants sampled less from the personal dimension than White participants. They also sampled less from the relational and more from the collective dimensions than both Asian American and White participants. The resulting qualitative themes support the mechanism of right relation across culture – joy is shared, fulfilling, and experienced in the moment – with cultural nuances in composition, source, and timeframe. This research thus reveals how personal identity and cultural milieu are engaged in affective experience and meta-affect.

The Auditory Dimension of the Technologically Mediated Self

Abstract In this article, I aim to clarify some of the ways in which the auditory dimension of the self is constituted through the mediation of technology. I show that by excluding our immediate surroundings with mobile personalized and private auditory technologies, we are increasingly laying down a personal, inner spatial grid of acoustic memories that get integrated into our narrative identity and co-constitutes the space of familiarity and belonging that gives us a sense of who we are. To do so, I first lay out a clear ontological ground. Next, I outline how the auditory dimension of the self is constituted and subsequently mediated technologically. Finally, I bring to bear Erving Goffman’s theatrical framework of performative self-constitution as a useful framework to illustrate how, on one hand, the culturally available repertoire on which the imagination draws to constitute the self has augmented thanks to the contributions of other people in distal spatiotemporal contexts; on the other, the reconfiguration of how we listen to the world and the other people in it entails muting or blocking out of other voices. This can stunt how we conceive of ourselves, producing an epistemic bubble involving a tunnel “vision” or echo-chamber effect. In addition, due to the coupling of bodily and cognitive structures with mobile, privatized auditory technologies that thereby become transparent in experience, others, by listening in on us, acquire the ability to privilege certain types of behavior while suppressing others. Thus, there is a danger that the individual autonomous agency so important to self-constitution can be compromised.

Extending the Life World: Phenomenological Triangulation Along Two Planes

Phenomenology is often mistakenly understood as both introspectionist and anthropocentric and thus as incapable of providing us with objective knowledge. While clearly wrong, such critiques force us to spell out how the life world that is given in human experience is in fact not anthropocentric and not incompatible with science. In this article we address this by adapting a recent proposal to extend the key methodological principle of cognitive semiotics, phenomenological triangulation, along two planes. The first is horizontal and concerns the dimensions of Self, Others and Things, as irreducibly interrelated dimensions of the life world. The second is vertical, and deals with the way phenomena are accessed: from a first-person (philosophical), second-person (empirical in a qualitative sense) and third-person (scientific in a quantitative sense) perspective. With each perspective, the life world becomes correspondingly extended beyond direct experience. It is thus neither static nor confining. We exemplify each step with corresponding research, also providing examples of how non-human animals and not only human beings may serve as Others, thus addressing the critique of anthropocentrism. We conclude by pointing out how, despite some theoretical differences, the focus on subjectivity and the explicit or implicit adoption of the principle of phenomenological triangulation can serve as common ground for cognitive semiotics and biosemiotics.

Narcissism and Paranoia: The Moderating Role of Self-esteem among Young Indian Adults

Narcissism has gained substantive engagement in the field of personality and social psychology. Due to globalisation and the advent of the internet, narcissism has become the most frequently investigated trait. It bridges certain dimensions of self, which include paranoia and self-esteem. The purpose of the current study is to understand the correlation between paranoia and narcissism. Additionally, the study aims to examine the moderating role of self-esteem on the relationship between narcissism and paranoia among young Indian adults. Furthermore, the study also aims to find out gender differences in paranoia, narcissism, and self-esteem. 162 young adults from the Indian population are recruited, and they administer the narcissism, paranoia, and self-esteem inventories. The results show that the participants had high levels of narcissism, above-average paranoia, and moderate levels of self-esteem. Narcissism is positively correlated with paranoia. Individuals with high levels of self-esteem show decreased levels of paranoia and increased levels of narcissism. There are main effects between narcissism and paranoia as well as between self-esteem and paranoia. Self-esteem does not moderate the relationship between narcissism and paranoia. These results suggest that self-esteem does not weaken or strengthen the relationship between narcissism and paranoia. Males score higher than females in self-esteem, whereas there are no significant gender differences in paranoia and narcissism. This study leads to a better understanding of these traits in the subclinical population. Culturally sensitive interventions can be developed for individuals with higher levels of these traits.

An Evolving Structure of Nature Immersion: Roots in Nightingale's Vital Power.

Background: In Florence Nightingale's view, vital power resides in both earthy materials and human nature and is an essential element of health. Vital power is defined as a health force that manifests in states of being while doing in nature to generate well-being, but little is known about the generative process of vital force. Purpose: This secondary study explored the vital power of children who experienced well-being while doing in nature. Methods: Using a framework of the Nature Immersion Model, directed content analysis of parental reflections on their children's vital power experiences sought to explore patterns of being while doing in nature observed in association with parental reports of: (a) change in their children's well-being and (b) qualities of vital power evident in parental descriptions of those changes in well-being. Conclusions: The essence of vital power encompassed feelings of a life-spark, natural energy that prompted a healing shift. Implications for Practice: Linkage between a middle-range Theory of Nature Immersion and Nightingale's perspective adds a new avenue for integrating the spiritual-physical-mental dimension of self during creative nursing praxis.

Creating critical palliative hypnotic adjustments: temporality, hope, and meaning

ABSTRACT When cure is not possible, suffering often takes form as pain and distressing symptoms, death anxiety, existential distress, and meaninglessness. This paper describes important elements connecting palliative care principles with hypnotic approaches designed to provide support, palliate symptoms, foster hope, and address existential and spiritual distress. We offer a developmental process for and examples of hypnotic suggestions customized to simultaneously ameliorate physical symptoms and address profound distress arising from physical, social, psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges commonly encountered in terminal illness. This process necessarily requires use of the patient’s vernacular to hypnotically deepen inwardly focused attention in order to explore and access internal resources, reframe negative automatic thoughts, and create positive meanings for experiences that disinvite suffering. Effective delivery utilizes cognitive tools such as clinical and scientific principles, artistic forms such as poetry and haiku, and a thorough assessment of needs. This approach strategically addresses an overarching dimension of temporality through suggestions that sequentially address multiple sources of suffering that are layered throughout the various dimensions of self. This requires focus and presence in the present moment; it ultimately fosters a therapeutic relationship that can safely hold past painful experience as helpful new meanings emerge that build resiliency for that experience. This work benefits from inwardly focused concentration and a holding environment to identify and access helpful inner resources, which include an increasingly malleable relationship with temporal memories.

Putting Oneself Ahead of the Group: The Liability of Narcissistic Leadership.

Integrating insights from interdependence theory with the narcissistic admiration and rivalry concept, we propose that a pivotal obstacle for narcissistic leaders is their inability to sustain benevolent perceptions over time. As people strive to interpret social behavior in terms of self- or other-interest, the narcissistic tendency of prioritizing self-interests over the collective may become apparent and eventually taint their reputation as a leader. We examined how interpersonal motive perceptions-based on attributions of self- and other-interest-would clarify the leadership paradox of narcissism. We tracked 472 participants in 119 teams across four time-points. Narcissistic rivalry (but not admiration) corresponded to increasingly negative leader effectiveness ratings. The extent to which individuals were perceived as self-maximizing and lacking concern for other interests was tightly connected to declines in leader effectiveness across time. Altogether, these results offer insight into how perceived interpersonal motives may explain the downfall of narcissistic leadership.

Blueprints for well-being: Modeling the way through Human-Centered Leadership and Pathway to Excellence.

Blueprints for well-being: Modeling the way through Human-Centered Leadership and Pathway to Excellence.

Resting-state connectivity and neural response to emotional images in patients with severe health anxiety: An fMRI study

BackgroundSevere health anxiety is a disorder characterized by a persistent preoccupation with one's health. In behavioral studies, biases in the processing of health-related stimuli (e.g., pictures, words) are consistently associated with health anxiety symptoms. The neural correlates of the observed behavioral abnormalities remain however poorly understood. MethodsIn this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, 22 treatment-seeking patients with severe health anxiety and 22 control participants performed a resting-state and a picture matching task. Immediately after the resting-state, participants completed a questionnaire quantifying their thoughts and feelings during rest along several dimensions. The picture task included images of health-related and neutral scenes and of disgusted and neutral faces. ResultsCompared to controls, patients with health anxiety showed increased functional connectivity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex within the left fronto-parietal resting-state network, which correlated positively with the self-reported thought dimensions of Self, Health Concern, and Thought Suppression. In the picture matching task, no significant group differences were found in the hypothesised regions (amygdala and insula) or at a whole-brain level in response to either health-related versus neural scenes or disgust versus neutral faces contrasts. LimitationsA relatively small sample size and that no information about patients declining to participate was obtained. ConclusionsOur findings suggest that behavioral biases in health anxiety may be related to aberrant left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex functional connectivity at rest. In contrast, the health anxiety patients did not show significant hyperactivations of amygdala and insula during processing of emotional stimuli, contrasting findings in other anxiety disorders.

Which dimensions of forgiveness mediate and moderate childhood trauma and depression? Insights to prevent suicide risk among university students

BackgroundCollege students who are depressed as a direct or indirect effect of childhood trauma are at risk of suicide. Although for-giveness buffers mental health problems, there are inconsistencies in the results according to the object of forgiveness. This study aimed to examine the role of forgiveness, both as a mediator and as a moderator, for the association between childhood trauma and depression among university students.Participants and procedureThe sample comprised 398 students from a university in Semarang, Indonesia (M = 18.60, SD = 0.60, male = 26.1%) ob-tained through cluster random sampling. Measurements used were the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) question-naire, Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) and the Forgiveness Scale which contained the dimensions of self, others, and situations.ResultsThe path analysis and the investigation of CI result showed that forgiveness mediated the relationship between ACEs and depression. Forgiveness of self and situations were also mediating, but not forgiveness of others. On the other hand, the moderating effect only applied to the forgiveness of others, the effect of which increased positively when the level was high.ConclusionsThe result of this study indicates how the addition of ACEs affects lower level of forgiveness, thus explaining the higher level of depression among college students. Only forgiveness of others among the dimensions of forgiveness is not deter-mined by the number of ACEs, but its increase determines the addition of depression level when there are more ACEs. The discussions highlight the mechanism of each dimension, contribution of collectivistic culture, different types of ACEs and limited incidence of ACEs among the general college student population.

"Making Room": A Thematic Analysis Study of the Process of Postpartum Maternal Adjustment.

Mothers are especially vulnerable to the onset or recurrence of psychological symptoms during the postpartum period. However, protective psychosocial factors may provide a stress buffering effect and promote a positive adjustment trajectory. Previous research has demonstrated the importance of positive maternal adjustment for maternal mental health and child outcome. However, research is needed that explores (1) the psychosocial components of maternal adjustment, (2) the process of maternal adjustment as subjectively experienced by mothers, and (3) clinical targets that can help postpartum healthcare teams to facilitate positive adjustment during the perinatal period. This qualitative study utilized thematic analysis in order to understand the dimensions and properties of themes related to maternal adjustment. Through narrative interviews, this study investigated processes associated with maternal adjustment in a sample of n = 23 mothers receiving obstetric care. Thematic analysis uncovered three key developmental processes: (1) "Stretching Identity; Transitioning Roles", (2) "Navigating Stressors; Approaching Self-Efficacy", and (3) "Changing Relationships; Strengthening Support." Negative maternal self-attributions emerged as a key target for supportive intervention. Each process is complex and susceptible to both downward and upward spirals, consistent with the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotion. Negative maternal attributions of self are discussed as a key target precipitating postpartum adjustment trajectories. Given this, parenting interventions that teach cognitive reappraisal or mindfulness strategies may be especially beneficial for mothers in the perinatal period.

Adopted Adolescents Talk about the Mental States: a Qualitative Exploratory Study

Adolescence represents a developmental phase characterized by several changes during which social and cognitive advances lead adolescents to the progressive improvement of mental states talk (MST), namely as a specific kind of language marked by semantic terms describing internal mental states related to both self and others. The use of MST within individual narratives has been associated with the capability to reflect on cognitive and emotional experiences, thus promoting a meaning-making process of self and others understanding. In light of that and considering the additional challenges characterizing the adolescent transition for adoption, this qualitative exploratory contribution aims to explore adopted adolescents’ use of MST from their narratives deepening the meaning-making process of the psychological and relational dimension of self and others. The Friends and Family Interview was administered to 13 adopted adolescents after eight years from their first placement. The transcripts were analyzed through the use of thematic content analysis. The findings highlight the extensive employment of MST among adopted adolescents with broader use of the Self than the Other-oriented once. Self MST co-occurs with other categories related to significant relational contexts. This brings additional insights within adoption research providing valuable resources for working with adopted adolescents and their families.

Doctoral Students Living, Leading, and Learning During a Pandemic

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of COVID-19 on doctoral students’ personal, professional, and academic roles and factors contributing to their persistence during the pandemic.Research Methods: The researchers engaged in qualitative research at a California State University CPED-inspired Ed.D. program, using semi-structured interviews, document analysis and a focus group. Data were analyzed through the CPED mentoring and advising framework, transformative learning theory, and self-authorship theory.Results: Three themes emerged: a convergence of roles within home and virtual spaces, leading in a complex and uncertain time, and caring relationships encourage persistence.Implications: Participants experienced increased self-awareness and development of cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal dimensions of self. Relationships between cohort members and with faculty were integral to student persistence during a time of significant change and uncertainty. Recommendations for practice within Ed.D. programs and for future research are offered.

Disclosing and discussing the role of spirituality in the transition theory of Afaf Meleis.

Spirituality is as an individual, dynamic, and a complex concept. Meleis's theory includes spirituality in many aspects, and looking at this dimension within this specific theory may help in understanding spirituality as a critical dimension in transitions, as processes, but also as a dimension of self-transition as individual development and growing. Therefore, spirituality is an inherent and integral element of the several foundations of this theory, especially in nursing therapeutics, patterns of responses and transition conditions (facilitators and inhibitors).

PEMAKNAAN PASANGAN USIA MUDA TERHADAP PROGRAM KELUARGA BERENCANA UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KUALITAS KELUARGA DI KOTA PALEMBANG

The advancement of Palembang City family planning programs was not followed by community participation in this program, particularly by young spouses. This is a fascinating topic of discussion as the government's failure in identifying the causes of the decrease in the participation rate in family planning would have consequences for choosing alternative policies and the policy targets are not eventually reached. Therefore, this study aims to provide alternative viewpoints in looking at options for not participating the family planning program, through the meaning of young spouses to the program. This study used a qualitative design by interviewing five young spouses. By using the theory of symbolic interactionalism, this research found that from the dimension of mind, children are an investment that can strengthen their relationship with God while lightening their lives in their pension time. While from the dimension of self, a spouse does not show spontaneity, impulsive, and creative as an individual, but shows themselves as a husband and wife where the decision is in a joint decision. Lastly, from the dimension of society, the informants tend to be closed in making decisions. In more detail, they decide based on the information they know. This indicates the ineffectiveness of information dissemination from government, religious leaders and the mass media. The practical implications of this research are meaning of the individual intersects with the community, so the government must improve the dissemination of information, more holistically, so that messages do not reach only the individuals concerned but the community at large. The results could be the key to enhancement of quality family in Palembang.

A literatura enquanto práxis educativa emancipatória e as possibilidades formativas dos Bildungsroman

O texto discute o modo de compreensão dos Bildungsroman, da arte e da formação humana nos formatos da Bildung alemã. Levanta questões, em primeiro lugar, sobre os caminhos que a racionalidade moderna foi tomando, com prejuízo da arte e da filosofia como maneiras do conhecer realizar-se. Em segundo lugar, e tendo presente o que foi dito relativamente às necessidades de produção de sentido para além do que é racional, detecta-se que a literatura pode exercer um papel fundamental para a formação humana. Ainda que pensemos que, em última instância, toda a literatura é formativa, debruçamo-nos sobre um caso emblemático: os romances de formação, dimensões literárias da formação do eu. Como caso exemplar de literatura que descreve, retrata a formação do sujeito, ainda na segunda parte do texto, trazemos uma abordagem sobre os Bildungsroman como oportunidade de resgate entre o que se perdeu na modernidade em termos de uma subjetividade que aflorara, apesar do progresso das ciências e do avanço da técnica. O texto traz como conclusão a necessária ênfase nos processos formativos que promovam os interesses integrais da multiplicidade das possibilidades humanas, entre eles, a emancipação dos sujeitos.

We Three: My Brain, My Homunculus, and Me

An unconscious sense of the body in all higher mammals is located in somatosensory and motor cortices, colloquially referred to as the Homunculus (H). The time has arrived to consider how H might engage in the dimensions of selfhood that go beyond embodiment. Surely, the neural network modules that process various dimensions of selfhood must at least access and interact with the H or a stored memory of it. In this review, I suggest that our traditional understanding of H is much too simplistic. This review specifies a set of experimental approaches that should enlarge our understanding of the brain mechanisms of selfhood.

Looking at the Attributes of Self from the Perspective of Self-reference Effect

Through analyzing and generalizing a large number of studies on self-reference effect, the paper summarizes four attributes of self: the development and relativity of the concept of time and space of the self, the consciousness and plasticity of the mutual complement and interaction between the self and the external world. The definition of these four attributes provides a way for us to analyze the self-reference effect dialectically.

Emotional Intelligence Level and its Relationship with Managerial Creativity among Ta'if City School Principals: مستوى الذكاء الانفعالي وعلاقته بالإبداع الإداري لدى مديري المدارس في مدينة الطائف

The study aimed to identify the degree of emotional intelligence among the principals of schools in Al- Taif, and to identify the degree of administrative creativity from the point of view of their teachers, and to reveal the extent of existence of a correlation between the level of emotional intelligence and administrative creativity.The researcher used the descriptive approach, and used the Wakeman questionnaire for emotional intelligence, and a questionnaire to measure the administrative creativity designed and ensured (validity andreliability) by the researcher. The study sample consisted of (40) principals and (400) teachers.The results of the study showed that the positive percentages of emotional intelligence for school principals ranged from 100% to 52.5% and negative percentages ranged from 15% to 82.5%. And the mean of the total score of the non- cognitive self- management dimension was (3.10) and the mean of the total score of the dimension of social prowess was (3.90). The results of the study showed that the overall mean for estimating the degree of practicing administrative creativity was (3.51) to a large degree, with a standard deviation (0.74).The Pearson correlation coefficient between the dimension of non- cognitive self- management on the emotional intelligence scale of principals and the total average grade of teachers' appreciation for administrative creativity of managers was (0.84) with a statistically significant value at the significance level (0.01) as well as the correlation coefficient of the dimension of social prowess and total administrative creativity (0.81), and it is a statistically significant at significance level (0.01). In light of the results, the researcher recommended the importance of training school administrators on the skills of administrative creativity and creative leadership through enhancing the skills of fluency and sensitivity to problems, flexibility and originality because of the correlation revealed by the study by the indicators and manifestations of emotional intelligence through the dimensions of self- management non- cognitive and social prowess.