Identity Integration Research Articles

It’s Just About Having Fun’? Interrogating the lived experiences of newcomers To Canada in introductory winter sport programmes

This study examined the underexplored relationship between winter sport, newcomer participation, integration, and national identity. Winter sports hold a prominent place within Canadian culture and identity; newcomers recognize this and express a willingness to try winter sports to feel ‘more Canadian’. Using a qualitative intrinsic case study design, I interrogated how newcomers to Canada experienced the significance of participating in one introductory winter sport programme – the WinSport Newcomers Programme – for their integration into Canadian society. Study methods included qualitative in-depth interviews and a photo elicitation focus group with WinSport Newcomers Programme participants, as well as participant observations of the programmes. This research was theoretically informed by social constructionist perspectives on race and ethnicity, as well as critical insights on sport-related integration. Using reflexive thematic analysis, I developed two themes focusing on the relationship between winter sport participation and newcomer integration, and considerations about future winter sport participation. Results illustrate that study participants experienced diverse programme outcomes and drew varied meanings from learning prominent Canadian winter sports. Various program shortcomings were also identified, which weakened the WinSport Newcomers Programme's integrative potential. Acknowledging the programme shortcomings, I argue that the role of introductory winter sport programmes for newcomer integration is worthy of future inquiry.

Uniqueness of free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in rotational domains

In this work, we investigate the existence of compact free boundary minimal hypersurfaces immersed in several domains. Using an original integral identity for compact free boundary minimal hypersurfaces that are immersed in a domain whose boundary is a regular level set, we study the case where this domain is a quadric or, more generally, a rotational domain. This existence study is done without topological restrictions. We also obtain a new gap theorem for free boundary hypersurfaces immersed in an Euclidean ball and in a rotational ellipsoid.

Educating for a Palestinian-Israeli identity in the Young Communist League of Israel (Banki): Tensions and challenges

ABSTRACT This article examines the involvement of political parties in education, focusing on these parties’ youth movements. Specifically, the article examines the youth movement of The Young Communist League of Israel (Banki) and analyzes its educational goals and strategies in the context of the Arab Palestinian minority in Israel. In doing so, the article reveals some of the tensions and challenges inherited in Banki’s educational work as it attempts to integrate Arab youth into Israeli society, on the one hand, while strengthening their Palestinian identity, on the other. The overall picture that emerged from the data reflected strong counter-hegemonic political stances and actions via-a-vis the excluding ethnonationalism of the Israeli political regime and, to a lesser ex-tent, the leadership of Maki. Additionally, the article argues that Banki’s work could be considered counter-hegemonic because it challenges the separation between Palestini-an nationalism and Israeli citizenship by educating for an integrative Palestinian-Israeli identity.

Integral Identity and Estimate of the Deviation of Approximate Solutions of a Biharmonic Obstacle Problem

We show that the integral identity obtained by D.E. Apushkinskaya and S.I. Repin (2020) for approximate solutions of the biharmonic obstacle problem that satisfy a pointwise constraint on the second divergence is valid for arbitrary approximate solutions. Using this result, we obtain a new estimate for the deviation of approximate solutions from exact ones in the case when the approximate solutions do not satisfy the pointwise constraint on the second divergence.

Integral Identity and Estimate of the Deviation of Approximate Solutions of a Biharmonic Obstacle Problem

Integral Identity and Estimate of the Deviation of Approximate Solutions of a Biharmonic Obstacle Problem

Object Relations–Informed Psychotherapy: Introduction to Festschrift Honoring Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.

Object Relations–Informed Psychotherapy: Introduction to Festschrift Honoring Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.

Dissociative Identity Disorder: a case of three Selfs

IntroductionThe DSM-5 defines dissociation as “disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior”. The disorders in this group include depersonalization/derealization disorder, dissociative amnesia, and dissociative identity disorder, the last being a controversial entity.Dissociative disorders are associated with elevated levels of disability, impaired quality of life, high economic cost, and a significantly increased risk of suicide attempts.ObjectivesIn this work we present the case of a 21-year-old man that was assisted in the Emergency Room with dissociative symptoms. We intend to do a non-systematic review on the subject of dissociation symptoms, the psychiatric disorders in which they are present, identified risk factors, how to access the psychopathology features and the recommended treatment to best address them.MethodsFor a comprehensive approach of this subject we proceeded to a non-systematic review in PubMed using the following keywords “dissociation”, “dissociative identity disorder” and “dissociative disorders”.ResultsIn this work we present the case of a 21-year-old man assisted in the Emergency Room describing dissociative symptoms that were suggestive of Dissociative identity disorder. He referred out-of-body experiences and a sense that he was not controlling his actions while self-injuring himself and being aggressive towards his family. He described “three Selfs”: the “Normal Self”, the “Suicidal Self” and the “Bad Self”.Symptoms of dissociation are present in a variety of mental disorders namely depression, anxiety disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder and eating disorders.Dissociative disorders appear to be linked to trauma, interpersonal stress, and strongly associated with a history of chronic child abuse. An association with alexithymia, depression and suicidality were also found. Some studies found structural and functional abnormalities, particularly a reduction in grey matter volume in limbic system structures, a dysregulation of prefrontal–limbic circuitry and dysfunction of the hypothalamic–pituitary-adrenal axis.Psychotherapy appears to be the cornerstone of treatment for dissociative disorders, namely Cognitive-Behavior therapy and Eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing.ConclusionsSymptoms of dissociation are not only present in dissociative disorders, but they may be present in almost all mental disorders. The evaluation of possible dissociative symptoms should be a part of every psychopathological assessment. There is a need for further studies to better understand this diagnostic entity and improve the therapeutic intervention.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

Decomposition of the skin-friction coefficient of compressible boundary layers

We derive an integral formula for the skin-friction coefficient of compressible boundary layers by extending the formula of Elnahhas and Johnson [“On the enhancement of boundary layer skin friction by turbulence: An angular momentum approach,” J. Fluid Mech. 940, A36 (2022)] for incompressible boundary layers. The skin-friction coefficient is decomposed into the sum of the contributions of the laminar coefficient, the change of the dynamic viscosity with the temperature, the Favre–Reynolds stresses, and the mean flow. This decomposition is applied to numerical data for laminar and turbulent boundary layers, and the role of each term on the wall-shear stress is quantified. We also show that the threefold integration identity of Gomez et al. [“Contribution of Reynolds stress distribution to the skin friction in compressible turbulent channel flows,” Phys. Rev. E 79(3), 035301 (2009)] and the twofold integration identities of Wenzel et al. [“About the influences of compressibility, heat transfer and pressure gradients in compressible turbulent boundary layers,” J. Fluid Mech. 930, A1 (2022)] and Xu et al. [“Skin-friction and heat-transfer decompositions in hypersonic transitional and turbulent boundary layers,” J. Fluid Mech. 941, A4 (2022)] for turbulent boundary layers all simplify to the compressible von Kármán momentum integral equation when the upper limit of integration is asymptotically large. The dependence of these identities on the upper integration bound is studied. By using asymptotic methods, we prove that the multiple-integration identity of Wenzel et al. [“About the influences of compressibility, heat transfer and pressure gradients in compressible turbulent boundary layers,” J. Fluid Mech. 930, A1 (2022)] degenerates to the definition of the skin-friction coefficient when the number of integrations is asymptotically large.

Parental attitudes and intensification of borderline personality traits: the mediational role of self-control and identity integration.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between parental attitudes, selfcontrol, identity integration, and traits of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in a non-clinical sample of adults. Additionally, it will examine the role of self-control and identity integration as direct predictors of BPD, and as potential mediators of the association between parental attitudes and BPD traits. The study involved a group of 162 adults drawn from the general population. The study participants were asked to complete the Questionnaire of Retrospective Assessment of Parental Attitudes (KPR-Roc) by Plopa, one subscale of the Lifestyle Questionnaire 05/SK by Trzebińska, subscale Identity Integration of the Multidimensional Self-Esteem Inventory (MSEI) by O'Brien and Epstein in a Polish adaptation by Fecenec, and the Self-Control Scale (SCS) by Tangney et al. in the adaptation by Kwapis and Bartczuk. The results demonstrated a significant correlation of self-control and identity integration with parental attitudes (except from an excessively protective attitude presented by the mother and father), as well as negative correlations of both identity integration and self-control with BPD traits. Structural modeling analysis revealed that the mother's inconsequent attitude and identity integration have a direct impact on BPD traits, whereas the mother's excessively demanding attitude and self-control influence BPD traits only indirectly. An inconsequent father's attitude influences BPD traits in both direct and indirect ways. Self-control and identity integration are the mediators of the relationship between a mother's excessively demanding attitude and a father's inconsequent attitude with BPD traits. The impact of self - control on BPD traits is mediated by identity integration. Parental attitudes of both the mother and father are associated with selfcontrol, identity integration and BPD traits. Self-control and identity integration mediate the influence of the selected parental attitudes on BPD traits.

Fractional Weighted Midpoint-Type Inequalities for s-Convex Functions

In the present paper, we first prove a new integral identity. Using that identity, we establish some fractional weighted midpoint-type inequalities for functions whose first derivatives are extended s-convex. Some special cases are discussed. Finally, to prove the effectiveness of our main results, we provide some applications to numerical integration as well as special means.

Facilitating knowledge creation and team performance through behavioral integration and skill-based identity

Building on social identity theory, the paper sheds new light on knowledge creation and performance within teams by enhancing our understanding of the role played by shared skill-based identity on knowledge creation and team performance. Besides addressing team coordination issues, this study helps bridge the gap between shared skill-based knowledge and knowledge creation as well as team performance. Based on two field studies, the authors found that (1) a shared skill-based identity leads to higher behavioral integration; (2) having skill-based knowledge enhances shared skill-based identity; (3) behavioral integration mediates the shared skill-based identity–team performance relationship. Overall, our findings demonstrate that shared skill-based identity plays a crucial role in team performance and knowledge creation by enhancing behavioral integration. However, although shared skill-based knowledge positively impacts shared skill-based identity, it has no direct effect on knowledge creation and team performance. The authors hence demonstrate that the factors influencing team performance are complex and individuals need to feel integrated in teams to create knowledge. Furthermore, the study provides empirical evidence that may advance the study of team performance and inform managers on how to form effective teams. For instance, the authors suggest that, when forming teams, managers should consider how each potential member defines their identity.

Managing the unexpected: Bicultural identity integration during the COVID-19 emergency

Unexpected and sudden emergency situations such as COVID-19 may render ethnic minorities particularly vulnerable to experiencing negative outcomes. Yet, we put forward that Bicultural Identity Integration (BII) – the degree to which bicultural individuals perceive their cultural identities as compatible and overlapping – may represent a resource in times of emergencies, since it may positively influence, through enhancement of psychological well-being, how bicultural individuals respond in terms of distress and coping strategies. Based on this assumption, the present study aimed at examining the relationship between BII and responses to COVID-19. N = 370 bicultural individuals (mean age = 26.83, SD = 8.74) from different cultural backgrounds were recruited online and completed measures of BII, psychological well-being, COVID-19 distress and coping strategies (positive attitudes, avoidance, social support seeking) during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. We tested a model in which BII was the predictor, psychological well-being was the mediator and reactions to the COVID-19 emergency (distress, use of coping) were the outcomes. This model was tested against two alternative models. The proposed model showed a better fit to the data compared to the alternative models. In this model, psychological well-being mediated the relationship between BII (harmony) and coping strategies, except social support seeking. These findings highlight the important role played by BII in emergency situations, as it may indirectly, through enhancement of psychological well-being, contribute to enhance biculturals’ adaptive reactions in terms of distress as well as affect coping strategies during highly stressful events.

Multicultural Identity Integration versus Compartmentalization as Predictors of Subjective Well-Being for Third Culture Kids: The Mediational Role of Self-Concept Consistency and Self-Efficacy

Globalization has resulted in an exponential increase in the number of Third Culture Kids (TCKs), defined as being raised in a culture other than that of their parents (or the passport country) and meaningfully interacting with different cultures. Inconsistencies regarding the effect of multicultural and transient experiences on well-being exist in the psychological literature. We aimed to reveal associations between multicultural identity configurations (integration, categorization, compartmentalization) and well-being with the mediating role of self-concept consistency and self-efficacy. Participants (n = 399, M = 21.2 years) were students at an international university in the United Arab Emirates. We used the Multicultural Identity Integration Scale, the Berne Questionnaire of Subjective Well-Being, the General Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Self-Consistency Subscale from the Self-Construal Scale. The findings suggest that not merely exposure to diversity but also internal integration versus identity compartmentalization moderate the well-being of TCKs. We explained such mechanisms via partial mediation of self-consistency and self-efficacy. Our study contributed to a better understanding of the TCKs' identity paradigm and pointed to multicultural identity integration as vital to TCKs' well-being via its effect on self-consistency and self-efficacy. Conversely, identity compartmentalization decreased well-being via a reduction in the sense of self-consistency.

STUDENT MOTIVES TO WATCH SPORTS NEWS PROGRAM "GALERI SEPAK BOLA INDONESIA" ON TRANS7

This study aims to determine students' motives for watching the sports news program “Galeri Sepak Bola Indonesia” on Trans7. This research employs the theories of uses and gratification, as well as individual differences. In this study the dimensions used include information motives, personal identity motives, integrity and social interaction motives, and entertainment motives. This study uses a quantitative approach, with research methods through surveys, the population of respondents is Stikom Interstudi students majoring in broadcasting class of 2016-2018, totaling 141 people. Using a technique of purposive sampling, we asked respondents whether they had watched the program "Galeri Sepak Bola Indonesia" on Trans7 at least twice in the previous month before they were allowed to complete out our questionnaire, thus we obtained 80 students as respondents. The results showed that the motive for watching the “Galeri Sepak Bola Indonesia” program for Stikom Interstudi students was mostly information motives, from the 4 dimensions of the existing research results.

Some New Fractal Milne-Type Integral Inequalities via Generalized Convexity with Applications

This study aims to construct some new Milne-type integral inequalities for functions whose modulus of the local fractional derivatives is convex on the fractal set. To that end, we develop a novel generalized integral identity involving first-order generalized derivatives. Finally, as applications, some error estimates for the Milne-type quadrature formula and new inequalities for the generalized arithmetic and p-Logarithmic means are derived. This paper’s findings represent a significant improvement over previously published results. The paper’s ideas and formidable tools may inspire and motivate further research in this worthy and fascinating field.

Chiral dualities for SQCD3 with D-type superpotential

We study dualities for 3d U(Nc)kchiral SQCD with Dn+2-type superpotential, with n odd. We give a complete classification of such dualities in terms of the number of fundamentals and anti-fundamentals and the Chern-Simons level. The classification is obtained by real mass and Higgs flows from non-chiral dualities and we check the consistency of the new non-chiral dualities at the level of the partition function. We also check that the complex phases appearing in the integral identities between the partition functions are consistent with the contact terms computed as quantum corrections to the effective Chern-Simons level. The SU(Nc)k cases are recovered by gauging the topological symmetry from the U(Nc) dualities. Finally, we consider the case of USp(2Nc)2k with two antisymmetric tensors and Dn+2-type superpotential.

“It’s not you, it’s me”: identity disturbance as the main contributor to interpersonal problems in pathological narcissism

BackgroundCore impairments in self and other functioning typify individuals with personality disorder. While interpersonal dysfunction is a known element of narcissistic disorders, empirical research investigating intrapersonal elements is lacking. The aim of this study was to investigate the internal representations of individuals with grandiose and vulnerable features, as manifested through their attachment styles, and the specific role of identity disturbance in explaining the relationship between pathological narcissism and maladaptive interpersonal functioning.MethodsA sample of 270 university students completed the Brief Pathological Narcissism Inventory (B-PNI), the Severity Indices of Personality Problems (SIPP), the Relationship Questionnaire (RQ), and the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP-32).ResultsBoth vulnerable and grandiose narcissism were positively associated with both fearful and preoccupied attachment, and negatively associated with secure attachment, whilst grandiose narcissism was also positively associated with dismissive attachment. Furthermore, unstable representations of self, poor self-reflective functioning, and low sense of purpose fully mediated the relationship between interpersonal problems and grandiose narcissism while partially mediating the relationship between interpersonal problems and vulnerable narcissism.ConclusionsOverall, our findings suggest that for individuals presenting with narcissistic features, capacity for adaptive interpersonal functioning is grounded by deficits in identity integration. Implications of these findings are discussed.

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.

Queer in the Latter Days: An Integrated Model of Sexual and Religious Identity Development Among Former Mormon Sexual Minority Adults

ABSTRACT Sexual minority individuals often have complicated relationships with conservative religion, including conflicts between their sexual and religious identities. Sexual minority members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (CJCLDS) experience unique struggles, given the policies and doctrine of the CJCLDS and its commitment to heteronormative family structures and gender roles. A better understanding of the identity development trajectory for sexual minority individuals formerly involved in the church can deepens our understanding of sexual identity development in constrained contexts and help promote successful identity integration within this subpopulation. Transcripts from semi-structured interviews with thirty-four sexual minority individuals who identified as former members of the CJCLDS were analyzed using an inductive thematic approach, followed by a deductive theory-building process in which Cass’s Homosexual Identity Formation Model and Genia’s Religious Identity Development Model were overlaid on themes. We present a model that captures the trajectory of sexual and religious identity development that captures the experiences of sexual minority adults within the constraints of the CJCLDS, a non-affirming religious denomination.

An Integrated Developmental Approach to Personality Disorders in Adolescence: Expanding Kernberg's Object Relations Theory.

This article is a tribute to Dr. Otto F. Kernberg and his contribution to the theoretical understanding of personality pathology in adolescence. In his object relations theory of the structure of personality, an integrated identity is considered central to healthy personality functioning and is contrasted with identity diffusion, which is posited to underlie the maladaptive interpersonal functioning of patients with severe personality disorders. His work provided an early theoretical foundation for the understanding and treatment of personality disorders in adults, but a need remained for a deeper understanding of the development and treatment of personality disorders during adolescence. During the past 10 years, Kernberg has led a group of clinicians and developmental researchers focusing on childhood and adolescence to elaborate an understanding of the development, assessment, and treatment of personality disorders among adolescents. He proposed that in the context of typical development, adolescence is important to the expansion of identity, because it represents the period when sexual and aggressive impulses are integrated and earlier representations of the self and others are revised and become more realistic and nuanced. Furthermore, adolescence entails a reorganization of the moral system and enrichment of the ego ideal. This article presents two methods for assessing personality disorders in adolescence that are based on Kernberg's theory and demonstrates the use of transference-focused psychotherapy for adolescents with personality disorders.