Self In Relation Research Articles

Disorientation in Community Service-Learning: A Phenomenological Inquiry

Community service-learning (CSL) is commonly featured in health promotion curriculum. Lauded for its pedagogical richness and transformative potential, CSL is also pedagogically messy and often experienced as a struggle. And yet, the content, contexts and conditions of that which students find disorienting in CSL have garnered little attention in the literature. In this qualitative, phenomenological study, we explore the “disorienting dilemma” as an understated concept in CSL. Our aim is to better understand the disorienting dilemma to “make CSL a smoother experience for everyone.” We draw upon reflections from 39 students enrolled in a full-year undergraduate health promotion CSL course. Using directed content analysis, we read and coded 390 reflections. In mapping the codes ( n = 2104), we found them to cluster around three domains: (i) aspects of the CSL learning experience that were most disorienting, (ii) course aspects that enabled students to navigate their disorientation, and (iii) how students relate their learning to the disorientation. Students often shared their emotional experience of CSL as a pedagogy, and that they struggled with the process of real program planning, and uncertainty with how they related to the community. Often, it was the practical, social, and relational content that students struggled with that morphed into support for students to navigate their disorientation. We found students to relate their disorientation to new self-learning, a changed and more collectivist criteria of success, and an altered sense of self in relation to community. We discuss theoretical and pedagogical implications of the disorienting dilemma.

The Child Protagonist as Agent and Subject inHarriet's DaughterandCrick Crack, Monkey

This paper explores two novellas by Black Caribbean women writers: Crick Crack, Monkey by Trinidadian author Merle Hodge, and Harriet's Daughter by Tobagonian-born M. NourbeSe Philip. In Hodge's work, the protagonist, Tee, must negotiate between two worlds. The first is that of her early home with the rough working-class aunt (Tantie), seemingly chaotic but also full of warmth, humour, and familial love. This is juxtaposed against her new home with her haughty Aunt Beatrice, who advocates colonial values and demands conformity from her niece for Tee to gain acceptance and belonging. In contrast to Hodge's protagonist, Tee, Philip's Margaret keenly desires closer ties to her Caribbean identity. She creates a world of refuge against an environment that seeks to erase blackness and crafts a self in relation to her chosen identity, exercising agency with respect to her notions of selfhood and citizenship.

생태학적 생기력과 포스트휴먼 윤리 비전

This paper aims to reexamine anthropocentric attitudes toward the non-human world and the commodification of nature driven by human self-centeredness. It also seeks to propose an affirmative posthuman ethics in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. This novel illustrates how the castaway Pi undergoes a transformation, acquiring posthuman subjectivity as he escapes the grip of anthropocentrism and moves toward interconnectedness with both humans and non-humans while surviving in the Pacific Ocean with the Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. Pi’s experience of unity with nature signifies his growing understanding of the interdependent realities involving nature, the environment and animals. From the perspective of vitalist materialism, Pi comes to realize that he is an integral part of coexistence and coevolution within his relationship with nature and the non-human world. His subjectivity is oriented toward a sense of belonging to the universe. This novel not only prompts a shift in humanity’s environmental consciousness toward a postanthropocentric perspective but also encourages a harmonious balances between humans and non-humans. It suggests a vitalist posthuman ethics for a sustainable future. The relationality between humans and non-humans does not entail a return to exclusive privilege but rather points toward the interconnected facets of vitalist materialism. Pi’s transformation into a relational self with the non-human world invites readers to participate in the process of ‘becoming’ within generative environments and to pursue coevolution within vitalistic self-organizing assemblages.

تہذیبِ نفس کے متعلقات اور دائرہ کار:تحقیقی و تجزیاتی مطالعہ

Mannerliness is necessary for every human being. It is necessary for every human being to mannerly psycho his self. Determining the relationships and scope of objects in the world is possible only by fully recognizing the objects. It is very important that the psycho relationships of the self and The scope can be defined. Just as Satan is the clear enemy of man and Allah Almighty has warned us about him, so the psycho is also the enemy of man. But it is a secret enemy. The relevant of psycho and orbit there comes a thing that seduces a person. Likewise, those human behaviors and habits that lead to corrupt morals are like a killer poison in the mannerliness of self. In this article, the relationship and scope of self- mannerliness is presented.

Attributional and attentional patterns in the perception of ambiguous harmful encounters involving peer and authority figures.

Self-construal influences the way people ascribe blame to victims, but it is not clear whether the same applies to harm doers, especially those in a position of authority. We examined (N = 122, men n = 60) participants' ascriptions of both blame and intentionality to harm doers (authority figure versus peer) while priming self-construal (relational versus individual self). Using eye-tracking, we explored whether priming relational self, compared to individual self, affects the allocation of attention to faces versus objects. Although no effects of priming were found, the type of harm doer influenced the way people interpreted harmful social encounters. Participants attributed both greater intentionality and blame to peer than authority perpetrators. Also, in the case of peer perpetrators, blame ascription was higher than judgements of intentionality, which was the opposite pattern for authority perpetrators, where judgements of intentionality were greater than ascribed blame. In regard to encoding, participants independently of the type of harm doer looked significantly longer at faces than at objects in violent scenes. Our results suggest the status of perpetrator influences judgements of harm independently of intrapersonal factors, such as primed self-construal. Moreover, people perceived as authority figures are not blamed for the hurtful action, despite attributed intentionality.

‘Not Just Living in the Moment’: Constructing the ‘Enterprising’ and Future-Oriented Self Through the Consumption of No-and-Low-Alcohol Drinks

In contemporary, neoliberal contexts, individuals are compelled to display competent and ‘enterprising’ selves, to get ahead in ‘hustle culture’ and to prioritise their personal health/wellbeing and futures. Dominant drinking cultures that normalise binge drinking and ‘living in the moment’ sit at odds with such values, yet these tensions can be navigated through ‘responsible’ consumption, whereby consumers can continue to buy into dominant drinking cultures yet show restraint by drinking in moderation and/or participating in periods of abstinence. In recent years, an expanding market of ‘no-and low-alcohol’ (NoLo) drinks also presents increasing opportunities to negotiate new kinds of moderate drinking identities, take breaks from consumption or reconfigure relationships with alcohol entirely. Drawing on data from 15 interviews with regular NoLo drinkers, this article highlights the ways in which NoLo consumption is entangled with notions of the enterprising self in relation to health, choice/responsibility, productivity and the future. Using the consumption of NoLo drinks as a case study, the article contributes more widely to our understandings of how identities are negotiated and displayed through particular (non)consumption practices that take place in the present – but also construct the future self – in the face of neoliberal imperatives to be healthy and productive.

Le détachement paradoxal en la Présence de l’Infini

The Presence of the Infinite in human existence may be considered as mystery. If so, then believers endorse three a priori. Firstly, human person, as finite, has the intuition of the Infinite that opens the way to an existential positioning in front of the Infinite. Secondly, the intuition of the Infinite gives birth to an idea of the Infinite, and eventually to the desire of the Infinite (the desire to be United with such Infinite). Thirdly, the idea of the Infinite allows believers to develop a fragmentary understanding of the ultimate ground for being and existence. The Infinite is thus unknowable by human (finite) beings. Being in the Presence of the Infinite then becomes a paradox that requires detachment. Being detached is being absolutely centered on God rather than any other existential concern. It requires two basic modes of detachment : the detachment from language and conceptual knowledge, on one hand, and the detachment of the self in relation with the Infinite, on the other hand. Being attached is considering God as a being who is alongside innumerable beings. Detachment rather allows believers to avoid the interpretative trap of the objectification of God.

Spirende professionelle

Society's complexity and constant movement place great demands on education programs to train competent, reflexive, robust and committed students who can think, act and act in a qualified and professional manner. In this article, we will examine the students' experience of professional identity formation during practicum. Educating into a profession and developing a professional identity is a transition that contains many complex facets in the form of developing expert knowledge, skills, behavior, attitudes, and professionalism (Wilson et al., 2013). Barnet (2012) describes this transition as a dynamic journey without a specific destination, which is influenced by both the individual's personal characteristics and the professional practice that the individual participates in. The starting point is impact in practice courses on the Social Education and the Medical Education, where social identities is articulated and the formation of professional identity is the focal point (Rothuizen, 2015; Van den Broek et al., 2020; Rothuizen & Togsverd, 2020a). Based on an analysis of field studies and focus group interviews with students, an argument is made for understanding the concept as social identity based on the general picture drawn from the data. The understanding of social identity contains adjustment of the self in relation to the profession and the exercise thereof (action). Knowledge that is essential in the debate about how professions are trained for a complex and changing world.

Resounding/Resonating Sounds of Home, Heritage, and Heart: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Re/Membering the Self Through Storying Family

Initially, this collaborative autoethnography brought together five authors to explore the trope of sound through re/membering the self and storying family. But it very quickly became an exploration of the inter-reliability and inner relatability of sounds of home, heritage, and the heart across diverse human lived experiences of grief, mourning, recovery, and intergenerational legacies of hope. The essay explores the relational practice between self in relation to culture that always informs autoethnography as qualitative inquiry, which is intentionally exploited and magnified in this collaborative autoethnography.

Technopreneurship Education, Occupational Counselling, and Sustainable Development in Nigeria

Innovation and creativity are basic necessities for any functional education like entrepreneurship education which is skill-based. The method of instructional delivery should be technologically inclined where the scientific knowledge will be inculcated in it. Technopreneurship is a process of acquiring knowledge, skills, and competencies for venture creation through technological knowhow. Technology is what makes life easier to live. It is the scientific knowledge used in practical ways to meet and satisfy human needs. Occupational counselling is the guidance and information necessary for all individuals in the world of works for better understanding of self, personality type and acquisition of relevant qualification in relation to entrepreneurship skills, job productivity, satisfaction and overall wellbeing on the work performance. This paper, therefore, focuses on how technology entrepreneurship and occupational counselling can bring sustainable development to entrepreneurs in their business operations in the global market. The paper looked at the concept of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs, technopreneurship, development of entrepreneurship, acquisition of occupational information relevant for building entrepreneurship skills in Nigeria, significance of technology in the operations of modern entrepreneur, roles of technology-based entrepreneurship in economic development, teaching entrepreneurship education using project-based learning method and development of all related psychological characteristics the individual needs for sustainable development. The paper concluded that technopreneur, in order to succeed, needs to be taught technology-based entrepreneurship that encourages creativity and Innovation, the importance of understanding self in relation to job satisfaction and productivity that bring about commercialization and industrialization towards global marketing. The paper recommended, among others, that technology-based entrepreneurship education and occupational counselling should be entrenched into the curriculum right from Basic Schools to Tertiary institutions. It further stated that supports should be given to Tertiary institutions for curriculum overhauling and development of lecturers in form of training and retraining for sustainability.

Approaching the self: alternative perspectives of selfwork in education

In this paper we respond to this special issue’s critical focus on mental health in education by considering the medicalised and homogenising approaches to the mental health of young people and the severely negative consequences for young people. Our argument is underpinned by the need to destabilise the hegemony of the current dominant discourses and practices of mental health used in education. The problem with these discourses and practices, informed by particular forms of psychiatry and psychology, is precisely their dominance and their popularised proxy take-up of these. We firstly outline this problem, explore the emergence and saturation of a ‘damaged self’ in education and consider the impact on young people. We offer counter-narratives that involve a reframing of the self in relation to ethics, politics, capability and the arts and can assist in countering the psy-dominance in education. The paper concludes with some reflections on how teachers might work against the damaging effects of the psy-disciplines and instead support young people in finding their counter-narrative selves.

Hubungan antara Kepercayaan Diri dengan Komunikasi Interpersonal Siswa

<p>The aims of this research are: Describe the level of self-confidence, interpersonal communication skills and analyze the relationship of self- confidence with the interpersonal communication of second grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Karanganyar. This research is quantitative research with correlational methods. The population is second grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Karanganyar with a total population of 431 people. The sampling technique is simple random sampling. Sampling was carried out using the Slovin formula which was then obtained from a research sample of 207 people with details of 17-18 people per class. The research instruments are self-confidence scale and interpersonal communication skills scale. The answer choices use the likert scale with 4 answer choices and analyzed using Product Moment Correlation in SPSS. The results of study obtained that students with low communication skills were 17%, medium at 63%, and high at 20%. While the coefficient value of 0.397 with a sig value of 0.000, which means if it is 0.000 < 0.05 then the confidence variable and the interpersonal communication variable have a relationship. The two have a positive relationship, it means when the level of self-confidence is high, the student's interpersonal communication are also high.</p>

Psychoanalytic Interpretation of W. B. Yeats' Dialogue of Self and Soul in relation to Id, Ego, and Super Ego

The present paper is an attempt to explore a beautiful blend of psychological conflict of Yeats platonic belief with experiences of real life. The dialogue of self and soul written by William Butler Yeats gives the Anti-self-theory. To put in the context of Freud psychological frame of id, ego and super ego, this dialogue is a revolutionary attempt towards own deceptive existence. Through the character of Self and Soul Yeats tells, how the unconscious mind has a power to direct the conscious mind. Similarly Id is sometimes shown as a devil sitting on the shoulder of a person. As this devil stays there, he informs the ego to decide what to do based on how it will affect the self, especially how it will make the self-happy. The ego is a person with a devil (id) on one shoulder and an angel (super ego) on the other. The superego is sometimes symbolized by an angel seated on somebody's shoulder, informing the ego to base their actions on how they will affect society.

Empowerment and Transformation: Correlating John of the Cross and Judith Herman for Trauma Healing

Abstract The Christian spiritual practice of John of the Cross and the trauma recovery practice of Judith Herman both employ relational theories of healing change. This is a constructive claim that aims to facilitate greater communication between religious and secular approaches to trauma. It is demonstrated through emphases on two dynamics that can increase knowledge and love of self and others, namely empowerment and a three-fold, open-ended process of transformation. Correlating John’s collected works and Herman’s classic Trauma and Recovery, this essay gathers wisdom for healing vulnerable relational selves.

More Lessons for Health Professionals From a Transgender Patient.

Over the past decade, ways of defining self in relation to gender identity and forms of expression have widely expanded. Along with this expansion of identifying language, there has been an increase in medical professionals and clinics specializing in providing gender care. Yet many barriers to providing this care still exist for clinicians-including their comfort with and knowledge about collecting and retaining a patient's demographic information, respecting the name and pronouns a patient goes by, and providing overall ethical care. This article shares one transgender person's numerous health care encounters over 20 years as both a patient and a professional.

“An Elegy of Place”: Affective Mapping in June Jordan’s Civil Wars

Most people know June Jordan the poet, the activist, the political essayist, and perhaps even the fiction writer. Fewer perhaps know her as an architect, urban planner, Black ecofeminist, and spatial theorist. This essay uses Jordan’s theories of place as a framework for her autobiographical writing, turning primarily to Civil Wars: Observations from the Front Lines of America (1981), a compilation of essays, letters, lectures, scenarios, diary entries, and reportage. An interdisciplinary approach that incorporates Black feminist autobiography scholarship, trauma and affect theory, and queer theory uncovers Civil Wars as both an autobiography of feeling and an archive of intellectual development. Jordan’s theory of place in Civil Wars functions as an architectural aesthetic that facilitates affective mapping—the movement of feeling between the self and the collective. Affective mapping allows Jordan to narrate a relational self by drawing on Black feelings that emerge within the intimacy of place and in the frequencies of Black sound.

Unconventional luxury: The reappropriation of time and substance

This study addresses the transformational role time and substance play in an unconventional luxury experience. Adopting a giving, as opposed to having, perspective of unconventional luxury, in-depth interviews were carried out with tourists in a luxury Ecocamp in Kenya. We demonstrate how the reappropriation of time is central to the transformational effects of unconventional luxury experiences. Time and substance are interlinked whereby an emphasis on substance promotes a reconsideration of time and vice versa. Time is reappropriated through a process of appreciation, learning and (re)discovery resulting in inner (self), outward (self in relation to others) and onward (non-related distant others) transformations. We present the bidirectional relationship of giving experiences and a blending of inner and outward transformations resulting in an unintended ‘matcher’ experience. We reposition unconventional luxury as grounded in ethicality and its associated positive impacts on one’s wellbeing, reflecting higher levels of personal meaning and relevance in the consumption experience.

“A Little Thanks Changes My World”: When and why dirty work employees feel meaningfulness at work

Past research suggests that due to work dirtiness, employees performing dirty work derive their work meaningfulness from the social identity process, through which they enact stigma- or taint-countering tactics at the collective or individual level. However, identity research suggests that relational identity achieved through positive responses from specific and significant others at the interpersonal level outside of occupations can be important in enriching the meaning of work for employees. Through this theoretical lens, we argue and find in two multisource and multiwave field studies that dirty work employees’ perceived work dirtiness renders their work less meaningful through a decreased sense of social worth. However, positive responses such as clients’ gratitude can attenuate the negative effects of perceived work dirtiness. This study extends research on dirty work by revealing that relational self can also be an important source for dirty work employees’ meaningfulness at work via their social worth perception.

Loneliness is associated with a greater self-reference effect in episodic memory when compared against a close friend.

Loneliness describes a negative experience associated with perceived social disconnection. Despite the clear links between loneliness and mental and physical health, relatively little is known about how loneliness affects cognition. In this study, we tested the effect of loneliness on cognitive distance between the self and others, using a task in which participants completed a surprise memory task for adjectives implicitly encoded in relation to the self, a close friend or a celebrity. We assessed item memory sensitivity, metacognitive sensitivity, metacognitive efficiency and source memory for positive and negative words. In addition, participants reported their trait loneliness and depression. Results revealed an overall self-referential advantage compared with both friend and celebrity encoded items. Likewise, a friend-referential advantage was identified compared to celebrity-encoded items. Individuals who experienced more loneliness showed a greater self-referential bias in comparison to words encoded in relation to a close friend, and a smaller friend-referential bias in comparison to words encoded in relation to celebrity. These findings suggest that loneliness is reflected in a greater cognitive distance between the self and close friends in relation to memory biases. The results have important implications for understanding the social contextual effects on memory and the cognitive ramifications of loneliness.

Between Cultural Appreciation and Cultural Appropriation: Self-Authorizing the Consumption of Cultural Difference

Abstract Countervailing discourses of cultural appreciation versus cultural appropriation are fueling a tension between the ethnic consumer subject, who views the consumption of cultural difference as a valorized identity project, and the responsibilized consumer subject, who is tasked with considering the societal impacts of such consumption. Drawing on an extended qualitative investigation of international K-pop consumers, this study illustrates that this tension spurs consumers to pursue self-authorization—the reflexive reconfiguration of the self in relation to the social world—through which consumers grant themselves permission to continue consuming cultural difference. Four consumer self-authorization strategies are identified: reforming, restraining, recontextualizing, and rationalizing. Each strategy relies upon an amalgam of countervailing moral interpretations about acts of consuming difference, informing ideologies about the power relationships between cultures, and emergent subject positions that situate the consuming self in relation to others whose differences are packaged for consumption. Findings show notable conditions under which each self-authorization strategy is deployed, alongside consumers’ capacity to adjust and recombine different strategies as they navigate changing sociocultural and idiographic conditions. Overall, this study advances understanding of how consumers navigate the resurgent politics of marketized cultural diversity in an era of woke capitalism.