Concept Of Self Research Articles

Konsep diri dalam islam dan implikasinya terhadap komunikasi interpersonal sehari-hari

Understanding the self concept in the Islamic perspective influences the quality of interpersonal communication. Our research aims to relate a comprehensive understanding of self-concept in Islam to individuals' everyday communication practices. This research employs a qualitative approach with a literature review. The findings indicate that a strong understanding of self-concept in Islam positively impacts interpersonal communication quality. This underscores the importance of integrating religious values into everyday communication practices. In conclusion, understanding the concept of self in Islam can enhance interpersonal relationship quality, providing a significant contribution to the development of psychology as a discipline. Therefore, it is crucial to integrate religious values into communication training programs to strengthen interpersonal skills within society.

European Citizenship and the Concept of Digital Self

Postmodern theory can be viewed as a new roadmap for interconnection between European citizenship and digitalization. This paper emphasizes that the concept of the digital self based on the postmodernist idea of ​​identity might serve as a roadmap for the relationship between digitalization and European citizenship. In addition to providing a framework for the study of EU citizenship and digital citizenship, postmodernism can be used to challenge essentialist claims about these two concepts by presenting an anti-foundationalist perspective that takes heterogeneous and fluid identities into account Another roadmap for the interconnection of European citizenship and digitization is the better development of digital human rights in the European context. This paper emphasizes that the main shortcoming of the European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles is that it does not include the concept of human dignity on which the idea of human rights is based and which is emphasized by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and other European legal documents. Nevertheless, it should be remembered that the idea of human rights is dynamic and constantly evolving.

Everyday approaches to platform-mediated personalized learning in secondary schools

ABSTRACT Despite the ubiquity of platforms in schools, few scholars have examined the impact of these platforms on face-to-face classroom practices. Considering the pervasive claim that platforms drive the personalization of learning, our exploratory study analyses how teachers engage platforms in personalized learning settings in Swiss secondary schools. We focus on teachers’ broader pedagogical concepts that inform platform-mediated personalized learning practices. In contrast to techno-enthusiastic claims – and critical scholars’ concerns – that datafication drives learning personalization, teachers in our case studies use platforms in ways that align with their pedagogical values while allowing them to retain control over classroom activities. Thereby, teachers and platforms co-produce ambiguous personalized learning settings involving conflicting conceptions of (self-) governance and autonomy. The findings from this study warn against deducing platform effects from their affordances alone and suggest the need to study the enactment of platforms in situated classroom practices.

THE RELATIONSHIP PATTERN BETWEEN PERSONALITY TRAITS AND LEARNING RESPONSIBILITY

As the interest in the shift from teacher–centred paradigm to student–centred learning pedagogies has increasingly grown in popularity nowadays, it should come as no surprise that scholars and academicians have given their attention to the concept of self–engagement in the learning process. In an attempt to explore the role of personality in self–engagement, this paper aims to assess the relationship pattern between individuals’ personality traits and their learning responsibility. A total of 358 students attending a university were recruited for the study. The Ten–Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) and The Learning Responsibility Scale were administered. The findings revealed that learning responsibility correlates positively with emotional stability, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. However, the associations between extraversion and openness with learning responsibility are negative and not significant. The findings have also demonstrated that although agreeableness does not display a significant predictive power, both emotional stability and conscientiousness have a significant influence on learning responsibility. Keywords: personality traits, learning responsibility, student–centred learning, individual differences, The Big Five

“Alive in Every Fibre”: Chopin and Wharton on Pain, Pleasure, and Private Feeling

In this essay, novels by Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton serve to elucidate more widely resonant value-laden distinctions between publicly embodied and quietly internalized responses to pain and pleasure. This fictional archive denigrates the demonstrativeness it associates with people marginalized by ascriptive identities of race and class while endorsing the uncommonly vibrant inner lives of particular elite white subjects. Pain and pleasure are valued for arousing hidden depths of feeling that distinguish a singular subject’s affective life from purportedly commonplace and conformist incarnations. Conceptions of selfhood and otherness hinge on distinctions between a subject afforded a purportedly uncommon, deeply vibrant affect molded by an equally uncommon responsiveness to hedonic stimuli and a person or set of persons whose discernable, often simulated or conventional hedonic feelings are represented as typifying a comparatively depreciated racialized, classed, or gendered norm, or some combination of the three. This high-cultural literary investment in a nonnormative, nonreproducible affective interiority strengthened amid debates about privacy rights, an increasing cultural preference for performative self-presentations, and efforts to standardize the US population into types. Drawing on this context along with both affect theory and affective science, the essay demonstrates these novels’ importance to understanding how an unexpressed inner vitality emerged as distinction’s volitionally unattainable vital sign.

Construction of the Concept of Future Self as an Element of Protection

Construction of the Concept of Future Self as an Element of Protection

Reconsidering Self and Identity According to Mullah Sadr

The current study is based on a hypothesisThe Islamic philosopher Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi (1572-1641 AD), known as Mulla Sadr, reconsidered all previous Islamic philosophical discussion related to the concepts of self and identity. SoThe focus has been placed throughout the paragraphs of this articleA study on presenting Mulla Sadra’s views related to the self and identity, as well as his theory of knowledge and his vision about the formation of human identity through the accumulation of experience and the cognitive unity between the subject and the object, which he presented on the basis of the approach with the philosophical vision of the relationship between matter and image, which is philosophically traditional and known since Aristotle, and which was common and prevalent among people. Muslim philosophers in general. The beginning came in this studyWith fast and intense presentation. The legacy of the School of Transcendent Wisdom includes the most important stages of Mulla Sadra’s spiritual and intellectual development and all the historical, social, and political circumstances that accompanied the emergence of his star as a philosopher, then moving on to present his most important philosophical ideas about the human self, knowledge, and reason, and his own arguments about the immateriality of the soul. This study also addressed his most important ideas about the theory of knowledge and the independence of human cognitive abilities, as well as the influence of experience and its role in forming an identity for the mind, a variable and unstable identity that is formed gradually through accumulation and ultimately contributes to defining a special qualitative identity that emerges clearly through disparate patterns of thinking, which represents... The culmination of Mulla Sadra's reconsideration, which distinguished him from all the Muslim philosophers before him, including Ibn Sina and his theses about the self and self-awareness.

Aesthetic selves as objects of interpersonal understanding

ABSTRACT This paper raises puzzles concerning our grasp of others’ aesthetic selves. I first articulate a conception of an aesthetic self, understood as an autonomously adopted orientation to objects of aesthetic value, encompassing the embrace of aesthetic reasons and the qualitative appreciative states that follow. This articulation is motivated by the commonplace observation that people’s aesthetic identities are important to them. Given this importance, we might think it salutary to grasp other people’s aesthetic selves, under the general auspices of ‘interpersonal understanding’. Given the conception of aesthetic selves, we might think that empathy is an appropriate way to do so. But, second, I argue that you can’t find out about another’s aesthetic self via empathy. We might instead think that aesthetic conversation is the way to grasp aesthetic selves. However, third, I argue that the aim of finding out about others’ aesthetic selves is at odds with the ostensible aims of aesthetic conversation, which are to do with effacing individuality and creating commonality. So aesthetic selves seem hard to grasp. I finally briefly canvass some ways of solving this problem, without settling on a firm answer, and consider how the thoughts might extend to practical identities more generally.

Peeking under the Asian Iron Curtain: Socialist, Persianate and anti-colonial modes of friendship between Pakistani and Tajik poets

ABSTRACT While Cold War historiography often foregrounds severed or frayed political ties, this article ethnographically explores unexpected friendships forming across apparent Cold War divides between Soviet Central Asian and Pakistani intellectuals – most notably, Muhammad Iqbal, Mirsaid Mirshakar, Mirzo Tursunzoda and Faiz Ahmad Faiz. These exchanges were initially made possible by Soviet agendas to build anti-colonial relations abroad by sending Soviet Central Asian intellectuals to international, anti-colonial conferences. Progressive communists like the Pakistani poet Faiz attended these forums too and formed rich friendships with Soviet Central Asian writers like Tursunzoda. I show however, that while Soviet agendas facilitated these friendships forming on shared socialist and anti-colonial grounds, their depth must also be attributed to a shared Persianate heritage. At least three modes of friendship were therefore formed between the same sets of people (socialist, Persianate and anti-colonial), which were made possible by the multiple subjectivities these figures inhabited as simultaneously socialist, Persianate and anti-colonial selves. Through this intersubjective affective relation, high-profile intellectuals found ways of connecting across and beyond Cold War divisions. I thus conceptualize friendship as multiple and generative, whereby two people can form more than one mode of friendship, each premised on markedly different social values and conceptions of self and Other. Despite their differences, these multiple, overlapping subjectivities and affective relations were not incompatible, allowing these intellectuals to connect in other-than-socialist ways at the height of the Cold War.

Naturalistic use of psychedelics does not modulate processing of self-related stimuli (but it might modulate attentional mechanisms): An event-related potentials study.

Classic psychedelics are able to profoundly alter the state of consciousness and lead to acute experiences of ego dissolution - the blurring of the distinction between representations of self and the external world. However, whether repeated use of psychedelics is associated with more prolonged and permanent modifications to the concept of self remains to be investigated. Therefore, we conducted a preregistered, cross-sectional study in which experienced psychedelics users (15 or more lifetime experiences with psychedelics; N = 56) were compared to nonusers (N = 57) in terms of neural reactivity to a Self-name (i.e., each participant's own name) stimulus, which is known to robustly activate a representation of self. Two control stimuli were additionally used: an Other-name stimulus, as a passive control condition in which no reaction was required, and a Target-name stimulus, to which participants provided a manual response and which thus constituted an active control condition. Analysis of the amplitude of the P300 ERP component evoked by the Self- or Target-names revealed no difference between the psychedelics users and nonusers. However, psychedelic users exhibited increased P300 amplitude during perception of Other-names. In addition, in comparison to nonusers, psychedelics users exhibited a smaller increase in P300 amplitude when processing the task-relevant Target-names (in relation to both Self- and Other-names). Therefore, our data suggests that regular naturalistic use of psychedelics may not be related to long-term changes in the representation of self, but it might potentially affect the allocation of attentional resources to task-relevant stimuli.

Organizational Overview of Maslow and Management Research

Maslow's theory of motivation or hierarchy of needs; has been the subject of much research on a global scale in the physiological, psychological, and sociological framework. This situation, especially in terms of organizations (public or private), concerns both the employees and the management mechanism. Maslow and management generally reveal the theoretical and relational results in the policies applied in organizations. In the literature, studies in which studies carried out in Maslow and management research are systematically expressed quite limited. The research was carried out using the R program and bibliometric analysis applications with the help of the WoS database on Maslow and management research. As a result of the research analysis, the most emphasized keywords by the authors; motivation, Maslow, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, needs hierarchy, needs, management, self-actualization, leadership, psychology, innovation, sustainability, job satisfaction, China, satisfaction, commitment, human psychology, human needs, Covid-19, management theory, personality division, hierarchy, Maslow's theory, performance, spirituality, sustainable development, theory, Abraham Maslow, creativity, productivity, quality life, rural, safety, culture, values, need, human resource management, well-being, workplace, academic libraries cold war, behavior, cognition, demand, and development. As a result of the analysis, it was understood that the concepts of management, performance, work, job satisfaction, personality, self, attitudes, environment, healthcare, perceptions, participation, antecedents, and science have strong relationships together. The results obtained in Maslow and management research have revealed that organizational activities are also effective in addition to the needs and psychological aspects of individuals.

The role of critical experiences, positioning, and agency in the dynamic, emergent construction of heritage speaker selves

Previous research has proposed a crucial role for critical experiences in language learning to better understand how learners understand and discursively construct their self-concept (Mercer, 2011, 2016; Serafini, 2020a; Thompson, 2020). However, studies have mainly explored critical experiences in the narratives of foreign language learners of English with little attention to how heritage speakers of languages other than English (LOTE) draw on critical experiences in discursive constructions of self. To address this gap, this study aims to explore the impact of critical experiences in university heritage Spanish speakers’ self-narratives. Twenty heritage Spanish students completed a background questionnaire and peer-facilitated, video-recorded interview. Emergent, recurring themes were identified in transcribed interview data following tenets of grounded theory (Charmaz, 2006; Glaser & Strauss, 1967). Findings underscore the key role of positioning (Davies & Harré, 1990) in dynamic conceptions of self, particularly how heritage speakers (re)imagine and discursively construct past, current, and future self-states. Positioning was also linked to agency (Ahearn, 2001) in relation to students’ critical reflections on experiences of racialization and resistance to, or reproduction of, dominant language ideologies. Overall, the study provides valuable insights for (heritage) language educators seeking to enact critical pedagogical principles in their classroom and curriculum.

LIHAAF (THE QUILT) A STUDY FROM SHORT STORY TO CINEMATIC APPROPRIATION: OBSCURING THE FEMALE RELATIONSHIP

The concept of homosexuality has generated considerable debate over the years, but it has failed to establish itself as a rigid identity. Until recently, the voices of homosexuals remained unheard. More specifically, Ismat Chughtai was the first female author to explore lesbianism. The society hesitated to accept them and disguised their identity by tormenting them with traditions or feelings. Adhering to the theme of representing the subaltern, this paper attempts to read between the lines of Ismat Chughtai's short story Lihaaf (The Quilt) in order to discern a woman's blossoming same-sex relationship. Through the protagonist Begum Jaan, Chughtai focuses on life's essential elements: society and the individual. As the tale unfolds, she uncovers two significant aspects of her life: her husband's interest in men and her own interest in women. Frequently, societal pressure prevents an individual from embracing his or her sexuality. The paper addresses the concept of self through the lens of a wife and lesbian who celebrates her identity despite living in a traditional patriarchal society. Ultimately, it mediates the concept of self-reconstruction and condemns the stereotypical identity imposed by society. The study raises concerns about a society that plays an essential role in the subjugation of women and homosexuals by denying them fundamental rights. The fact that Lihaaf was adapted from a seminal work of feminist literature from the subcontinent lends the novel some merit. This paper also examines how the short story-to-screen adaptation rewrites Lihaf to conceive a different queer female desire possibility. I shall discuss how the film disturbs the voyeuristic, heteronormative position of the masculine viewer. It also interprets the film as an intervention in the homosexual representational norms of mainstream Hindi film.

Investigating refugees’ negotiation of professional possible selves

AbstractMany barriers threaten refugees’ professional and social integration in their resettlement countries. Through semi‐structured interviews and based on the concept of possible selves, we aimed to understand how 22 refugees aged from 18 to 35 and coming from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iran, Somalia, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, and Yemen constructed and negotiated their career plans considering contextual factors. Results show that forced migration impacted the participants in three different ways: some were still striving for the ideal, pursuing their ideal career plans, while others were revising them either by revisiting the ideal or letting go of the ideal. They used different strategies of reducing expectations, exploring new possibilities, delaying, or abandoning their ideal plans for more probable ones, considering their current situation and barriers (i.e., lack of language proficiency, refugee permits, recognized diplomas, or childcare solutions). We discuss concrete implications for practice and provide future research insights.

The Narrative of Trauma in Art spiegelman’s Maus

This article explores how Art Spiegelman’s Maus (1986-1991) challenges the humanist concept of the unified self, proposing instead that the post-war self is fragmented and split. This fragmentation is particularly examined through the lens of Holocaust survivors in Maus, showcasing how extreme experiences during and after the Second World War cause the self to fracture and even disintegrate. The article argues that storytelling and narration serve as a crucial tool for the trauma survivors to navigate and reconcile the fractured aspects of their self. Through storytelling, the protagonist finds a means of survival, by finding a language to articulate his otherwise inexpressible and ineffable experiences and memories. It highlights the fragmentation of the human psyche as a direct consequence of Holocaust trauma and similar traumatic experiences, examining how narrative acts as a medium for the protagonist to deal with his traumas. The novel offers insights into the complexities of the new post-war self, the enduring scars of trauma and the potential of narrative in coping with trauma, providing a deeper understanding of the fragmented self in the context of Holocaust trauma.

Brain Organoids, the Path Forward?

Brain Organoids, the Path Forward?

Embodied interreligious engagement: Female gendered bodies, reconciliation, and sport in Djibouti

Foreign Christian women in Muslim-majority countries may experience gendered culture shock and various forms of insidious trauma. This is rarely addressed by organizations or individuals yet has a significant impact on women, their communities, and their work by causing a rupture in their concept of self, community, and God. This article argues that participation in sports as intentional embodied interreligious engagement offers potential for Christian and Muslim women to mutually discover valuable resources for reconciling what trauma ruptures, namely their relationship with their own bodies and their communities. The article first establishes the experience of gendered culture shock, sexual harassment, and insidious trauma, and reasons Christians may downplay their impact. It then develops the concept of an incarnational ministry of reconciliation. This is followed by looking at how intentional interreligious engagement must begin on neutral ground and identifies sports as one possibility for embodiment in interreligious engagement. The article concludes with suggestions for further research and ideas for further embodied interaction, moving toward deeper and more intentional interreligious engagement.

The Integration of Character Structure and Personality Organization

Theories of both Personality Organization (PO) and Bioenergetic Character Analysis (BA) are born from Psychoanalysis. Due to the influence of a medical model of understanding and treating mental health disorders PO and BA have been taught and developed separately. This article explains PO to the Bioenergetic audience, via the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, Second Edition (PDM-2), and proposes a circumplex model for how to integrate the two theories. A psychoanalytic understanding of how people can organize their sense of self in a borderline or psychotic way is described, in contrast to a medical model of viewing borderline and psychotic experiences as discreet disorders. A concept of the self is defined and provides the basis for the integration of theories. Dynamics and traits for borderline and psychotic organization are described and contrasted so that a clinician can identify the difference between the two. A case study is presented to demonstrate how the integration of the two theories looks in practice.

Reprint: In a Different Voice: Women's Conceptions of Self and of Morality

As theories of developmental psychology continue to define educational goals and practice, it has become imperative for educators and researchers to scrutinize not only the underlying assumptions of such theories but also the model of adulthood toward which they point. Carol Gilligan examines the limitations of several theories, most notably Kohlberg's stage theory of moral development, and concludes that developmental theory has not given adequate expression to the concerns and experience of women. Through a review of psychological and literary sources, she illustrates the feminine construction of reality. From her own research data, interviews with women contemplating abortion, she then derives an alternative sequence for the development of women's moral judgments. Finally, she argues for an expanded conception of adulthood that would result from the integration of the “feminine voice” into developmental theory.

Paperwork Selves and Arab Refugee Girls’ Experiences of Resettlement in Tennessee

Abstract For refugees, the experience of displacement does not always end with resettlement. Multidisciplinary research with educators and refugee students at a Tennessee high school demonstrates how some school personnel prioritized the alienating concept of so-called paperwork selves when talking about their refugee students, highlighting exotic stereotypes of innocence, ignorance, and a lack of educational history. I focus here on educators’ perceptions of Arabic-speaking refugee girl students, and contrast these with the girls’ own words about their experiences and self-understanding. The girls’ narratives demonstrate their keen sense of identity as young women connected to real places, remembered histories, and imaginaries of a future as transnational young women with global possibilities.