Descriptions Of Self Research Articles

Self Regulated Learning Mahasiswa pada Mata Kuliah Akuntansi Manajemen dan Biaya

This research is to see the description of Self regulated learning Students of the Faculty of Islamic Economics and Business UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung in the Management and Cost Accounting courses. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. This study shows that self-regulated learning if it is divided into 3 indicators, namely planning, implementation, and evaluation is good. As many as 61.35% of students have Self regulated learning seen in the questionnaire responses to the choices strongly agree and agree. Meanwhile 38.65% of students have not implemented Self regulated learning in Management and Cost Accounting courses. A total of 67.45% of students do planning (forethought), 62.20% carry out implementation (performance/valitional control), and 48.77% of students evaluate learning in Management and Cost Accounting courses.

Multi-omics studies in interpreting the evolving standard model for immune functions.

A standard model that is able to generalize data on myriad involvement of the immune system in organismal physio-pathology and to provide a unified evolutionary teleology for immune functions in multicellular organisms remains elusive. A number of such 'general theories of immunity' have been proposed based on contemporaneously available data, starting with the usual description of self-nonself discrimination, followed by the 'danger model' and the more recent 'discontinuity theory.' More recent data deluge on involvement of immune mechanisms in a wide variety of clinical contexts, a number of which fail to get readily accommodated into the available teleologic standard models, makes deriving a standard model of immunity more challenging. But technological advances enabling multi-omics investigations into an ongoing immune response, covering genome, epigenome, coding and regulatory transcriptome, proteome, metabolome and tissue-resident microbiome, bring newer opportunities for developing a more integrative insight into immunocellular mechanisms within different clinical contexts. The new ability to map the heterogeneity of composition, trajectory and endpoints of immune responses, in both health and disease, also necessitates incorporation into the potential standard model of immune functions, which again can only be achieved through multi-omics probing of immune responses and integrated analyses of the multi-dimensional data.

Identifying Splitting Through Sentiment Analysis.

In Kernerg's Object Relations Theory model of personality pathology, splitting, the mutual polarization of aspects of experience, is thought to result in a failure of identity integration. The authors sought to identify a clinician-independent, automated measure of splitting by examining 54 subjects' natural speech. Splitting in these individuals, recruited from the community, was investigated and evaluated with a shortened version of the Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO-R). A type of automated sentiment textual analysis called VADER was applied to transcripts from the section of the STIPO-R that probes identity integration. Higher variability in speech valence, more negative minimum valence, and more frequent shifts in valence polarity were associated with more severe identity disturbance. The authors concluded that the degree of splitting elicited during the description of self and others is related to the degree of identity disturbance, and to the degree of negativity and instability of these descriptions of self and others.

Assessing Mental Representation as an Indicator of Self and Interpersonal Functioning in Psychotherapy Patients.

The goal of this study was to test in a clinical sample the interrater reliability and convergent validity of the Differentiation-Relatedness Scale (D-RS), a measure that evaluates mental representations based on open-ended descriptions of self and significant others. The study also investigated the ability of the D-RS to predict personality disorders (PDs) from Section II of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), and the dysfunctional trait domains presented in the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders Criterion B in Section III of the DSM-5. We also evaluated if the D-RS predicts observed Section II PDs over and above Criterion B of the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders. We found that the interrater reliability of the D-RS was good on the basis of the mean scores of 6 independent raters and that it showed moderate convergent validity. Results of dominance analyses indicated that the D-RS is a significant predictor of Section II borderline PD and of the overall number of DSM-5 PDs. When we considered the Section III Criterion B for PDs, the D-RS was not able to predict any of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 domains, suggesting that the D-RS may be more related to personality functioning behind mental representations than to maladaptive personality traits. Finally, results of hierarchical regression analyses suggested that the D-RS produced a significant but modest increase in the prediction of borderline PD traits and the overall number of PDs traits even when the effect of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 domains were controlled for.

Self- Induced Medical Abortion: An Emerging Issue of Safety and Access

Introduction: Access to safe abortion services has been the need of the current era. Medical abortion (MA) is a simple, safe and effective method of induced abortion. MA drugs have been approved by Government of Nepal for termination of pregnancy up to 63 days of gestation in safe abortion service sites. But registered as well as unregistered MA drugs have been widely and easily available without prescription even in rural settings. This has led to a tremendous increase in self-induced medical abortions and its adverse consequences. Aim of our study was to find out incidence of abortion related admissions and description of self- induced MA presented to our institution.
 Methods: Descriptive study was conducted in Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of KIST Medical College Teaching Hospital (KISTMCTH) from January 2015 to December 2016. Cases of complications of self-induced medical abortions were studied in detail which included age, parity, gestational age, address, type of complications and management.
 Results: Total number of Gynecology related admission over the period was 308. Among these, abortion related admission were 95 (30.84%). 44(46.3%) were spontaneous abortion and 51(53.7%) were induced abortion. 22(43.1%) were admitted due to complications of self- induced MA like incomplete abortion, bleeding, shock, sepsis and renal failure. Most of the patients were of age group 20-25 years and were multigravida and had done MA in first or second trimester.
 Conclusion: Self-induced medical abortion is still practiced even in urban area, landing to tertiary care hospital with complications. Thus MA should be provided by registered medical practitioner.

Levels of relatedness and self-definition in young adults: Associations with psychopathology and interpersonal functioning.

The Differentiation-Relatedness Scale (DRS) is a reliable and valid 10-level scale designed to rate levels of personality functioning on narrative descriptions of self and significant others. However, to date, most studies of the DRS have been done in clinical samples. Little is known about its psychometric properties in nonclinical samples. This study examined linear and potential categorical relationships of DRS with demographic features and with indices of intrapersonal and interpersonal functioning (i.e., depressive and dissociative symptoms, dependent and self-critical personality features, and warmth, conflict, and depth of intimate relationships), in a nonclinical sample of young adults (N = 333). It also investigated the unidimensionality of the DRS in the relationships between the level of self-representation (DR-S) and representation of the mother (DR-M) and father (DR-F), and the relationship of DR-S with disruptions in the balance between differentiation and relatedness assumed to underlie low levels of DR-S. Results showed little evidence for dimensional relationships between levels of DRS and indices of intrapersonal and interpersonal functioning. By contrast, a cut-off of DRS level 6 clearly differentiated young adults at risk for psychopathology from those with more adaptive levels of functioning. Moreover, the DRS seems not to be a unidimensional scale. The implications of these findings for future research and the clinical use of the DRS are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)

Characterological formulations of persons in neighbourhood complaint sequences

ABSTRACTThis article shows how speakers mobilise characterological formulations of people and, particularly, ‘types’ of persons, in social action. We extend previous work in discursive psychology, in which notions of self or others’ identity have been well-studied as categorial practices, by focusing specifically on the occasioned use of ‘[descriptor] person’ formulations which index the characteristics of people. Drawing on a British corpus of 315 telephone calls about neighbour problems (e.g., noise, verbal abuse) to environmental health and mediation services, we show that callers build in-situ descriptions of self and neighbour for the practical activity of complaining or defending against accusations – as types of people that are, for instance, reasonable (e.g., ‘I’m an extremely tolerant person’), in contrast to their neighbours’ shortcomings (e.g., ‘he’s a rather obnoxious person’). Our findings demonstrate that psychological predicates of self and other, indexed through characterological formulations, are recipient designed (i.e., formulated to display an orientation to co-present others) in ways that shape the institutional relevance for service provision. We conclude that, like many other aspects of the psychological thesaurus, ‘character types’ are not just the preserve of psychologists but also a routine resource for ordinary social interaction.

Teoria do posicionamento e terapia familiar: criando novas posições discursivas na relação entre mãe e filho

Seguindo a premissa Construcionista Social de que o indivíduo se constitui nas relações através da linguagem e partindo de um contexto prático do atendimento com uma família, o objetivo deste artigo é dar visibilidade ao processo de construção de novas posições discursivas para a relação de uma mãe e um filho, a partir do foco no processo de comunicação e do uso de uma metáfora. Teoricamente, nos apoiamos na compreensão do self em sua dimensão relacional. Metodologicamente, utilizamos a teoria do posicionamento como um recurso para dar visibilidade para o processo discursivo em terapia familiar, no qual uma mãe e um filho negociam posições alternativas para seu relacionamento. Concluímos, pela utilidade da teoria do posicionamento na experiência clínica, por permitir colocar em ação a ampliação da noção de identidade, substituindo o enfoque na unicidade pela possibilidade de múltiplas descrições de self.

Description of Self and Emotional Quotient Students in Semarang

Self-esteem is a picture of a person towards himself, an individual's assessment of himself as a response to others towards appreciation and, acceptance, respect and attention that shows that he is valuable. While emotional quotient (EQ) is the ability to motivate yourself owned by someone. The purpose of this study is to describe the self-esteem and emotional quotient (EQ) of Sultan Agung 3 Semarang Islamic High School students. This quantitative research uses descriptive analytic method with 71 samples taken by proportional random sampling and cross sectional approach. There were 54 (76.1%) respondents with low self-esteem, 19 respondents had low emotional quotient and 35 respondents had high emotional quotient. While 17 (23.9%) respondents with high self-esteem, 16 respondents had high emotional quotient and 1 respondent had low emotional quotient. Using the chi square test obtained p value = 0.019 (p <0.05) Which means there is a relationship between self-esteem and emotional quotient (EQ) in Sultan Agung 3 Semarang Islamic High School students.

Is it me or the injury: Students’ perspectives on adjusting to life after traumatic brain injury through participation in study

ABSTRACT Following traumatic brain injury (TBI), participating in education often provides a pathway for returning to a student's pre-injury life. In this paper, we explore themes related to adjustment and identity that emerged from students’ reflections about their study journey. The data for this project are drawn from a longitudinal, predominantly qualitative investigation. Twelve students (aged: 17–32 years) completed up to three in-depth interviews over a period of 4–15 months, capturing a total of 30 time points. Data were analysed using grounded theory methods. A significant theme of “Is it Me or is it the Injury?” emerged from the context of students’ descriptions of self, “Me” and thoughts about their injury, “The Injury.” This emergent theme was indicative of the complex processes involved in adjusting and reshaping identity that arose from students’ participation in education. The concepts identified in this research suggest that clinicians and educators must adopt a comprehensive, holistic and flexible approach to supporting students that can be adapted to reflect the individual and dynamic processes involved.

Description of Self-efficacy and Initial Cognitive Abilities on the Students’ Physics Learning of the Direct Current Electrical Circuits

This study aims to determine description of self –efficacy and initial cognitive abilities on the students of MAN 1 Bandung (senior high school) in learning physics on the subject of electrical circuits Direct Current (DC) before they get academy ask assigned in the classroom. From the results of this research can be used as a reference to provide appropriate measures for the advancement of student learning. The theory used in this research is the theory of Bandura. The design in this study using case study and data collection is done by tests and questionnaires, sampling techniques used by random sampling, the study was conducted on 10th grade students of MAN 1 Bandung by the amount of students 35 participants. The results of data analysis showed that the percentage of students who have moderate self-efficacy amounted to 67.05 %, and cognitive ability 50 %, this shows that the process of learning that takes place in school before that junior high school is not much scientific implement processes that provide students the opportunity to discover new things, then learning approaches of right is Problem Based Learning (PBL).

Islamist narratives in ISIS recruitment propaganda

ABSTRACTThe group known as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has demonstrated remarkable appeal and ability to recruit Muslims from around the world, including the West. ISIS has effectively used Islamist narratives and selectively appropriated aspects of Islam to recruit to its cause in pursuit of its political goals, which raises important questions concerning the role of Islamism among Muslim extremists and in the process of radicalisation. This article examines the core narratives that characterise ISIS propaganda disseminated through its media productions. ISIS recruitment propaganda not only reflects the group’s selective manipulation and extreme interpretations of Islam as well as the war-ravaged social, economic and political conditions from which it emerges but also that it is a contemporary manifestation of the Islamist political ideology (referred to in this article as Islamism). These factors resonate in ISIS’s selective use of Islamist narratives, images and sounds in its media content and in its descriptions of self and others. Understanding how ISIS is able to exploit the prevalence of Islamism among Muslims is critical for developing an effective counter to its appeal and influence.

Difficulties experienced by young people with Tourette syndrome in secondary school: a mixed methods description of self, parent and staff perspectives.

BackgroundTourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by motor and vocal tics. These involuntary movements and vocalizations can have a negative impact in the school environment. The paper presents a mixed methods description of the difficulties experienced by UK students with TS in secondary school, drawing on multiple perspectives.MethodsThirty-five young people with TS (11 to 18 years), their parents (n = 35) and key members of school staff (n = 54) took part in semi-structured interviews about TS-related difficulties in secondary school. Theme analysis was used to identify school difficulties reported by the young people, before moving on to analysis of the parents’ and staff members’ transcripts. The most frequently occurring themes from the young people’s accounts were then quantified in order to examine the level of agreement between informants and the association with clinical symptom severity.ResultsA range of TS-related difficulties with academic work, and social and emotional well-being in school were reported by young people, parents and staff. Three superordinate themes are described: 1) TS makes school work more difficult, 2) Negative response to TS from staff and fellow students and 3) TS makes it more difficult to manage emotions in school. The three difficulties most frequently reported by the young people were problems concentrating in class, unhelpful responses by school staff to tics and difficulties with other students such as name-calling and mimicking tics. Additional difficulties reported by more than a quarter of young people related to homework, examinations, writing, anxiety and managing anger in school. Having more severe motor tics was associated with reporting difficulties with homework and handwriting, whereas having more severe phonic tics was associated with reporting unhelpful responses from staff. Young people and parents agreed more strongly with each other than they did with staff regarding school difficulties faced by individuals, and staff generally reported fewer TS-related difficulties.ConclusionsTS can present a barrier to learning in several ways and can also affect interactions with others and emotional experiences in secondary school. Implications for supporting secondary school-aged students with TS are considered.

Relationship between Self-conception and truthfulness among students' Payamenur of Birjand 1393

Self-concept has a psychological nature and involves emotions, assessments, attitudes as well as their description of self. On the one hand, self-concept is determined by personality traits and behavioral disorders externally, and on the other hand determined through the sense of themselves and in relation to others. Truthfulness and honesty, as one of moral values, superego's teenager has been inherited of parents and has been institutioned in connection with environment. External representation is personality and behavioral characteristics. One of the aspects of mental health is oneness of appearance and core, that has been manifested in truthfulness and honesty. This paper is a descriptive study and explains  relation between self-concept and truthfulness and honesty. Population of this research are total students' Payamenur of Birjand that number of them is 8000. Of the 8000 persons, 126 persons were selected by random sampling. Results suggest that there is a meaningful relation (0.016) between self-concept and truthfulness. In fact responses of each questionnaire have explanatory power by 5% of other variables, that this predictive value of self-concept or honesty and truthfulness can be increased by adding other variables. Keywords: self-concept, truthfulness and honesty, personality characteristics, psychological health, students' payamenur university.

Representations of Self and Parents, and Relationship Themes, in Adolescents with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Negative perceptions of self and others have lately become one of the criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among adults and adolescents. Drawing from theories of mental representations in psychopathology, this study examined self-reported negative cognitions, self and parental representations, and relationship themes among adolescents with and without PTSD. Thirty one adolescents with PTSD (11 boys, mean age=14.06, SD=2.24) were matched with 29 adolescents who had no psychiatric diagnosis (11 boys, mean age=14.96, SD=1.78). Adolescents completed self-report measures, wrote a description of self, mother and father, and were interviewed about positive and negative relationship episodes with mother, father, and peers. Adolescents with PTSD reported more self-criticism and performance evaluation than did controls. Their self-representation exhibited a lower sense of agency, which was related to structural variables (i.e., less integrative description). Although parental representations of adolescents with PTSD were not generally less benevolent or more punitive than those of controls, their relationship themes revealed a higher proportion of the wish to be distant from others. Adolescents with PTSD exhibited more passive responses and perceived more dominant or controlling responses from their parents. Findings point out to a serious impairment in representations of self and relationship patterns in adolescent PTSD.

Exploring EWB-USA Members' Descriptions of Self, Engineers, and their Fellow Members

Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA), an organization with over 13,800 members involved in engineering service projects around the world, presents a large population for research on an engineering service activity. Although anecdotal evidence claims that EWB-USA may be helping to change the conversation about the engineering field, additional research is needed. This exploratory study asked EWB-USA members to describe themselves, engineers, and fellow members at regional EWB-USA conferences around the country and analyzed the results (n = 505) using qualitative coding techniques to compare thematic overlap among the responses and to consider gendered differences. Findings showed that engineering and EWB-USA are nearly equivalent components of members’ self-descriptions, and that females showed more overlap with EWB-USA than males. These results can inform future studies on the organizations’ role in impacting changed perceptions of the engineering field and broadening participation.

Stochastic thermodynamics of active Brownian particles

Examples of self-propulsion in strongly fluctuating environments are abundant in nature, e.g., molecular motors and pumps operating in living cells. Starting from the Langevin equation of motion, we develop a stochastic thermodynamic description of noninteracting self-propelled particles using simple models of velocity-dependent forces. We derive fluctuation theorems for entropy production and a modified fluctuation-dissipation relation, characterizing the linear response in nonequilibrium steady states. We study these notions in a simple model of molecular motors, and in the Rayleigh-Helmholtz and energy-depot models of self-propelled particles.

Levels of Personality Functioning and Their Association With Clinical Features and Interpersonal Functioning in Patients With Personality Disorders

Recently, the DSM-5 Personality and Personality Disorders Work Group has proposed a multiple level approach toward the classification and diagnosis of personality disorders (PDs), with the first level entailing a rating of impairments in levels of personality functioning. Although a number of measures that assess levels of personality functioning have been validated, given its prominent status in the DSM-5 proposal and contemporary theories of personality pathology, the Work Group has called for more research in this area (e.g., Bender, Morey, & Skodol, 2011). In response to this call, this study investigates the relationship between two major, well-validated dimensional measures of levels of personality functioning, that is, the Differentiation-Relatedness Scale (DR-S; Diamond, Blatt, Stayner, & Kaslow, 1991), as scored on the Object Relations Inventory (ORI; Blatt, Wein, Chevron, & Quinlan, 1979), and the Inventory of Personality Organization (IPO; Lenzenweger, Clarkin, Kernberg, & Foelsch, 2001), a self-report instrument, and their relationship with different measures of clinical and interpersonal functioning in 70 patients with a PD. First, results showed that higher levels of differentiation and relatedness of descriptions of self and significant others, and of the self in particular, were negatively related to indices of personality functioning as assessed by the IPO. Lower levels of personality functioning, as measured with both the DR-S and the IPO, were positively related to severity of depression, symptomatic distress, self-harm, and interpersonal problems. Finally, results showed that the DR-S and the IPO independently predicted clinical features and interpersonal functioning. Hence, this study lends further support for the concurrent and predictive validity of the DR-S and the IPO in assessing levels of personality functioning. However, more research concerning the validity of these measures in assessing levels of personality functioning is needed. Suggestions for further research are formulated.

A Functional Description of self in American Sign Language

Past studies have identified the function of self as a canonical reflexive pronoun in American Sign Language (ASL). This study examines the use of self with fifteen hours of naturalistic ASL discourse framed by the cognitive-functionalist approach. The analysis reveals that the category of self is expressed in three phonological forms and exhibits a number of other functions beside the canonical reflexive. In contradiction to previous analyses, this study finds that the use of self as a canonical reflexive is minimal whereas the distribution shows 80 percent of self tokens as an emphatic. Genres appear to play a role in the SELF usage where the study reports that self is frequently expressed in vlogs compared to narratives and two-person conversations. self is not best analyzed as a reflexive pronoun as previously claimed but instead can be viewed as a morpheme marking emphatic functions.

The disoriented self. Layers and dynamics of self-experience in dementia and schizophrenia

This paper explores the question concerning the relationship between basic and higher layers of experience and self-experience. The latter distinction implicitly presupposes the idea of a univocal foundation. After explaining the formal ontological law of foundation, an attempt is made to clarify how the idea of foundation may be suitable to understand the relationship among moments, or layers, of self-experience. To this aim, the phenomenological descriptions of self- and world-experience in dementia and schizophrenia are compared. The comparison between these two, in many ways radically different, pathologies allows us to highlight both the potentialities and the limits of resorting to the foundational relationship for the description of lived experience. Taking the challenges coming from the description of dementia and schizophrenia into serious consideration, the meaning of the “stratified” account of self-experience will be eventually reassessed, and a way to complement the idea of foundation among layers will be proposed.