Sense Of Self-identity Research Articles

Perspectives of Young People with Neuromuscular Diseases Regarding Their Choice of Educational Programs and Possibilities to Complete Program Requirements

Young people with impaired functioning and/or disability do not receive as much education or as high an education as fully functioning young people, thus limiting their job opportunities. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate perspectives of young people with neuromuscular diseases regarding their choice of educational programs and possibilities to complete program requirements to gain knowledge for use in future counselling and the development of a national questionnaire survey. The design for this study was qualitative using the interpretive description methodology and Anthony Giddens’ theory on modernity and self-identity. Data were generated through two focus group interviews with seven people between 18 and 30 years of age. Beginning and completing an education was influenced by the creation of identity: the importance of experiencing demands and expectations, the meaning of social relations when learning, and the consequences of accessibility for educational opportunities. The participants’ sense of self-identity was built by testing boundaries and developing images through social relations with peers, parents, and teachers. How they acted and behaved in the social arena of school and education influenced their choices and chances of completing educational programs.

The meaning of being conscious during surgery with local or regional anesthesia–A phenomenological hermeneutic study

BackgroundWith increasing prevalence of surgery under local or regional anesthesia, which allows patients to remain conscious during the intraoperative phase, there is a growing need to comprehend the lived experiences associated with this practice. ObjectiveThis study aimed to illuminate the lived experiences of individuals who remained conscious during surgical intervention under local or regional anesthesia. DesignA qualitative design was chosen. Setting(s)Participants in the present study were recruited from three surgical wards located in central Sweden using a purposive sampling strategy. The surgical disciplines included ear, gynecological, hernioplasty, orthopedic, and vessel surgeries. ParticipantsFourteen narrative interviews were conducted with individuals who had undergone elective surgery while conscious. MethodsVerbatim transcribed text was analyzed using a phenomenological-hermeneutic method. ResultsThe lived experience of being conscious during surgery was marked by feelings of hope alongside a sense of losing one's identity and experiencing destabilization. Structural analysis revealed two themes. The first theme, 'being in the hands of others', encompassed subthemes such as 'entering an unfamiliar environment and procedure,' 'losing foothold and a sense of self-identity,' and 'enduring unexpected or anticipated discomfort.' The second theme, 'managing the inevitable for future health concerns,' involved subthemes such as 'pursuing self-acceptance of the situation,' 'entrusting the professionals while seeking signs of a smooth procedure,' and 'Enhancing own resilience through continuous support. ConclusionsBeyond the patient's physical well-being during surgery, the OR team should acknowledge the "person" component and focus on their emotional and social needs in this vulnerable situation. The four meta-paradigms of nursing—person, health, environment, and nursing—significantly influence the conscious patient's experience. Patient or Public ContributionNo patient or public contribution

The experience of occupational therapists and physiotherapists using a prototype, evidence-informed online knowledge translation resource to learn about patient-defined, personally-meaningful chronic pain rehabilitation.

Chronic pain is a complex biopsychosocial experience, and rehabilitation helps people to manage pain, and restore valued life roles. Evidence suggests that more positive outcomes occur when clients perceive their rehabilitation to be meaningful. People with chronic pain describe rehabilitation as personally-meaningful when they develop a genuine connection with a credible therapist who they see as a guiding partner, and when rehabilitation holds personal value, is self-defined, and relevant to their sense of self-identity. This paper presents a qualitative study of therapists' experience using an e-learning package on patient-defined, personally-meaningful rehabilitation. A qualitative descriptive design was used to explore rehabilitation therapists' experience of a prototype evidence-informed, online resource developed on the basis of eLearning and web-design principles. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with a purposive sample of occupational therapists and physiotherapists, and inductive coding and thematic analysis of transcripts was completed. Twenty-four therapists (12 occupational therapists, 12 physiotherapists) participated, representing a mix of gender and experience (early career; experienced; and specialist). Four themes and 12 sub-themes emerged from the analysis. The resource delivered a positive user experience, which added (translational) value to enhance learning, and participants were highly positive about the future potential of the resource to translate chronic pain rehabilitation research for early career, experienced, and specialist rehabilitation therapists. Results suggest that the disparate learning needs of rehabilitation therapists from diverse professional backgrounds and experience, may be addressed through the one resource. Participant feedback provides evidence that the resource fits with current models of learning and behaviour change. This study demonstrates the importance of basing online resources on eLearning and web-design principles to translate complex biopsychosocial chronic pain rehabilitation research for rehabilitation therapists.

Producing Altered States of Consciousness, Reducing Substance Misuse: A Review of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy, Transcendental Meditation and Hypnotherapy

A set of interventions that can produce altered states of consciousness (ASC) have shown utility in the treatment of substance misuse. In this review, we examine addiction-related outcomes associated with three common interventions that produce ASCs: psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PP), Transcendental Meditation (TM) and hypnotherapy (HT). While procedurally distinct, all three interventions are associated with some common phenomenological, psychological, and neurobiological features, indicating some possible convergent mechanisms of action. Along with addiction and mental health outcomes, these common features are reviewed, and their impact on substance misuse is discussed. While our review highlights some mixed findings and methodological issues, results indicate that PP and TM are associated with significant improvements in substance misuse, alongside improvements in emotional, cognitive and social functioning, behavior-change motivation, sense of self-identity, and meaning. In contrast, and despite its broader acceptance, HT has been associated with mixed and minimal results with respect to substance misuse treatment. Authors identify key research gaps in the role of ASC interventions in addiction and outline a set of promising future research directions.

청소년의 진로태도성숙도 및 자아정체감 향상을 위한 현실요법집단미술치료 사례연구

Objectives The purpose of this study is to find out the effect of reality therapy group art therapy using reality ther-apy on improving career attitude maturity and self-identity of general high school students.
 Methods To this end, a group art therapy program using real-life therapy WDEP was conducted once a week for a total of 90 minutes from April to July 2022 for six first and second graders at S-gu High School in Seoul who vol-untarily participated in this program. The results of analyzing changes in group art therapy at each stage of WDEP through qualitative changes based on institutional reports and interview data, session evaluation and observation logs, career attitude maturity and Korean self-identity scales are as follows.
 Results First, career attitude maturity was improved through the process of realizing what the participants really want and connecting them to actions. Second, participants took the lead in setting goals for the future in relation to their careers, improving their sense of self-identity.
 Conclusions Through this study, it was possible to improve career attitude maturity through career-oriented sub-jective activities for each session, and it was confirmed that self-identity is an important factor in career attitude maturity through the process of redefining self-identity. This study is meaningful in that it provided basic clinical data for reality therapy and group art therapy to improve adolescents' career attitude maturity and self-identity. This study is meaningful in that it provided basic clinical data for group art therapy of reality therapy to improve ado-lescents' career attitude maturity and self-identity.

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A person's lack or loss of identity can seriously impact their sense of selfidentity, well-being and sense of belonging. The multiplicity of factors in the identity of children in matters of surrogacy is especially important and it is necessary that all elements associated with establishing the identity of the latter and registering the birth are preserved before and after birth. A child’s right to identity is not only a right in its own right, but is also closely linked to the realization of other rights, such as child development, family cohabitation, etc. To meet these standards, all identification information must be stored accurately and transparently, including agreements on surrogacy. Although surrogacy changes the constituent elements of identity, severing the connection between genetic, gestational and social origins, the fundamental rights of the child remain the same. From the child's point of view, genetics, pregnancy and the exercise of parental responsibility are among the constituent elements of the child's personality. Thus, the right to identity is independent of the circumstances of the child's birth and any subsequent discriminatory practices. Any identity issues that may arise in the short or long term should also be part of the assessment and determination of the best interests of the surrogacy. Given the importance of identity issues, which can be legal, medical and/or psychosocial in nature and have a key impact throughout life, it is equally important to include this consideration in any surrogacy arrangement. Therefore, the article discusses the issues of the child’s right to identity confirmation and birth registration in the context of surrogacy.

A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic non-cancer pain and their families experience and understand their condition, pain services, and treatments.

A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic non-cancer pain and their families experience and understand their condition, pain services, and treatments.

Adaptation to life after sport for retired athletes: A scoping review of existing reviews and programs.

Retirement from sport is a life transition that has significant implications for athletes' physical and mental health, as well as their social and professional development. Although extensive work has been done to review the retirement experiences of athletes, relatively less work has been done to examine and reflect on this expansive body of literature with a pragmatic aim of deciding what needs to happen to better support retiring athletes. This study used scoping review methodology to review current academic reviews, gray literature articles, and support programs on athletic retirement. This review followed the Joanna Briggs Institute reviewer's manual guide on scoping reviews and adhered to the PRISMA-ScR checklist. Academic articles were identified from PubMed, Embase, Web of Science and Scopus. Gray literature articles and support programs were identified using advanced Google searches. This study identified 23 academic reviews, 44 gray literature articles, and 15 support programs. Generally, the results suggest that athletic retirement encompasses a drastic shift in identity, a loss of social networks, a lack of career ambitions, and potential risks to physical and mental health. While there was a gap in the academic literature regarding practical strategies to support retiring athletes, the gray literature suggests many creative ideas. Stepwise programming may be beneficial to help athletes: (a) make sense of their athletic experience and see retirement as an ongoing process; (b) develop a well-rounded sense of self identity and understand how to apply their unique skills and strengths in new ways; (3) gain control over their retirement transition by establishing a clear plan and adjusting to new routines and opportunities; and (4) normalize the transition experience by "living in the next" and building confidence in new life directions. Future research may benefit from developing and evaluating more programming to support athletes through the retirement transition.

The Experience of International Students: Biographical Narratives and Identities

This article presents the findings of a qualitative and comparative study on the cultural experience of international students in North and South Europe. I employ a narrative approach and the focus of the research revolves around the autoethnographies of 25 international students in Helsinki and 25 in Florence. The narratives were prompted by in-depth interviews following a template divided into the three phases of travel conceived as a rite of passage: departure–preliminal, transition–liminal, arrival–postliminal. To explore the meaning of geographical mobility in the lives of these young people, I sketched a series of self-identity types connected to mobility experiences: the Fated, whose biographical premises are all pushing-pulling toward the status of international student; the Academic, who is fascinated by the idea of becoming a worldly intellectual and sees the PhD as a natural step; the Globetrotter, whose mobility is an end in itself: the goal is the next city-country; the Explorer, who is abroad looking for new cultural challenges, with a genuine desire to discover and understand specific places and people; the Runaway, who feels like a stranger at home and is escaping abroad for political or existential reasons. I believe that the interpretation of international students’ sense of self-identity can be fruitfully achieved through the narrative path I have constructed (or a similar one).

Magic Carpet Ride: A Narrative Exploration of Disability and Adaptive Physical Activity

Using a narrative approach framed by social constructionism, we partnered with an adaptive physical activity (PA) program to explore the underlying meanings constructed around disability and the adaptive PA experience for individuals with a broad array of disabilities, including cognitive/intellectual, neurological, and developmental and physical. In doing so, we were able to gain new and more inclusive perspectives on the pathways between adaptive PA and health. Our results showed that the partnering adaptive PA program and its volunteers adhered primarily to a quest narrative, which was often taken up and reproduced by the adaptive PA participants and their families. The quest narrative allowed for the individuals with disabilities to reframe their sense of self-identity, revise meanings around their disability, and connect on a deeper level to the world around them, all of which led to increased feelings of joy, freedom, transformation, hope, and overall improved health-related quality of life.

Collective self-identification of British ICS officers in the interwar period.

The article is devoted to the collective self-identification of the officers of the Indian Civil Service, using content analysis and a comparative method. This article aims to reveal the issue of collective self-identification of British ISC officers, their ideology, daily life, and how they saw themselves and others. Under British Rule of India, the role of the connection between the people and the rulers, the symbol of visible power on the ground, was entrusted to the officers of the Indian Civil Service (ICS). Therefore, the article considers the questions of the features of the British character and their sense of self-identification. Moreover, since the officers underwent a serious selection (age limit (from 20 to 24 years old), passing an open exam, two years of training in Britain), only the best of the best could be accepted into the service, which influenced the sense of collective self-identification of officers, their self-awareness elite among elites and their attitude towards the local population. Key words: British Empire, district districts, administration, Indian Civil Service officers, self-identification.

Review of “The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program”

Pallavi Banerjee’s The Opportunity Trap offers a fascinating window into the intimate relationship between migration visas and the work/family lives of skilled migrants and their spousal dependents. The Opportunity Trap demonstrates the far reach of migration policy into the material and social realities of migrant families as they navigate marriage, parenting, employment, and their sense of self. Banerjee questions the seeming gender and racial neutrality of visa laws by showing how these policies drive deeply gendered and racialized outcomes at home and work. The book brings a nuanced intersectional analysis across race, gender, class, and legal status and offers an important contribution to the literature on women-led skilled migration in the United States. With insightful critiques of how the U.S. visa system fails immigrant families, The Opportunity Trap will be of interest to scholars of migration, gender, work, family, and policy/the state. The book's central argument is that migrant visas form a gendered and racialized immigration system that controls the quotidian experiences of migrants. Banerjee forwards the concept of the “visa regime” as a mechanism of state power that surveils and controls immigrants and their families. Her rich analysis shows how the racialized and gendered logics underlying visas influence migrant labor conditions at work and gendered negotiations with spouses in the household. She paints a vivid portrait of housework and parenting in a context in which migrants’ positions are undermined by their legal, gender, and racial status in the United States. Furthermore, Banerjee shows how visa status shapes migrants' sense of self identity and autonomy within the legally ascribed category of “dependent.” The findings illustrate how migration policy can function as a destabilizing force that puts stress on marriages, finances, and migrants’ emotional wellbeing, demonstrating the need for reform for seemingly “family-friendly” policies framed around family unification.

Representation of Anti-racism and Reconstruction of Black Identity in Black Panther

The black superhero film is an important research object for anti-racism development. Under the White supremacy framework, Black people and culture have been devalued and neglected for a long time. The all-Black lead Marvel film Black Panther, directed by Ryan Coogler in 2018, employs a well-defined system to present the appeals on anti-racist and reconstruct the filmic Black identity. This study explicitly analyses the approach through which the images of Black people and Black culture are represented, and it attempts to understand how this film reconstructs Black people’s sense of self-identity. This study focuses on the physical appearance of Black superheroes and material culture, the spatial narrative of Black Panther’s fictional spatial world Wakanda, and the Black spirit depicted in the film. Cultural identity, cinematic representation theory, and social identity theory are used to interpret how Black Panther reconstructs Black identity and represents Black culture. This study discovers that Black superheroes are portrayed as powerful, justice, and wise as White people, and Wakanda provides a utopia for a non-racist world. Meanwhile, Black culture is depicted elegantly and proudly to reconstruct Black people’s recognition of cultural and social identity.

Awareness of Narrative Identity and Selected Aspects of Narrative Activity and Meaning-Making. Preliminary Results

Narrative identity allows various experiences to be integrated and incorporated into the concept of the self. Recent studies indicate that being aware of developing the story about the self that brings cohesion and meaning may be adaptive. This paper presents preliminary findings across three studies (two quantitative methods and one mixed) aimed at exploring the phenomenon of awareness of narrative identity in terms of its relations to other aspects of narrative identity and meaning-making (meaning in life, self-esteem, and post-traumatic growth). The total number of participants in all studies was 840 (N1 = 254, N2 = 424, N3 = 162). The results indicate that stronger awareness of narrative identity is related to higher self-narrative inclination and reflexivity and may be adaptive in terms of meaning-making and coping with traumatic events. People who were more aware of a narrative identity produced more elaborated and coherent self-narratives about an important past relationship. Additionally, they had a stronger tendency to integrate these past experiences with a sense of self-identity. Surprisingly, awareness of narrative identity was not related to self-esteem. These findings are discussed in terms of narrative identity literature. Moreover, possible directions for further studies to expand our understanding of awareness of narrative identity are proposed.

Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Combined with Music Relaxation Therapy on the Self-Identity of College Students.

This paper analyzes various effects of acceptance and commitment therapy combined with music relaxation therapy on the self-identity of the college students. Through open recruitment and following the principle of voluntary and confidential, 80 college students were selected from our school, and then they were divided into two groups: the control group (40 cases) and the observation group (40 cases). The observation group received acceptance and commitment therapy combined with music relaxation therapy. For the control group, conventional mental health interventions were administered. Two months after intervention, psychological status, mental resilience, and quality of life scores were compared between the two groups. Before intervention, there was no significant difference in SAS and SDS scores between the two groups (P > 0.05). After intervention, SAS and SDS scores were significantly higher than those in the control group, and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P < 0.05). Before intervention, there was no significant difference in the scores of toughness, strength, and optimism between the two groups (P > 0.05). After intervention, the scores of toughness, strength, and optimism in the two groups were all improved, and the scores of mental resilience in the observation group were higher than those in the control group, with statistical significance (P < 0.05). Before intervention, there was no significant difference in the quality of life scores between the observation group and the control group (P > 0.05). After intervention, the quality of life score of the observation group was higher than that of the control group, and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P < 0.05). The combined application of acceptance and commitment therapy and music relaxation therapy can help college students to improve their mental state, improve their mental resilience, enhance their evaluation of life quality, improve their sense of self-identity, and reduce the probability of the occurrence of unhealthy emotions such as depression.

Self-Identity and Meaning in Life as Enablers for Older Adults to Self-Manage Depression

Depression is the most common mental illness in older adults and is a leading cause of global disability. Generally, those who have a stronger sense of self-identity and find meaning in their lives tend to manage the symptoms of depression better than those who do not. Little is known about the association between self-identity, meaning in life and self-management of depression in older adults. The aim of this grounded theory study was to explicate how older adults with depression attempted to reclaim self-identity in ways that facilitated self-management. Data collection and analysis were informed by Corbin and Strauss’ approach to grounded theory. Thirty-two older adults with a formal diagnosis of moderate depression participated in in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The core problem for participants related to their sense that they were not treated as individuals as they sought to receive and adapt to a depression diagnosis. This challenge was conceptualised as Struggling to maintain personal identity as an older adult with depression. By empowering themselves and striving for a meaningful existence, participants strived to master their current circumstances in ways that strengthened their sense of personal identity. This, in turn, supported their efforts to effectively manage their symptoms of depression and employ adaptive coping strategies that optimise well-being. Our findings identify the need for recovery-oriented models of interdisciplinary practice that enhance self-identity and meaning in life in older adults, in ways that support self-management of depression.

Parenting style effects on the mental health of college students: Their mediation by proactive personality and self-identity

We examined the mediating role of proactive personality and self-identity on the relationship between mental health and parenting style among college students. Participants were 406 Chinese college students (female = 61.80%, mean age = 19.56 years, SD = 1.38 years). The students completed the following measures: Short-Egna Minnen av Barndoms Uppfostran, Proactive Personality Scale, Self-identity Status Scale, and General Health Questionnaire. Path analyses results show proactive personality to lower the risk for mental health with parental rejection, and to enhance mental health with parental warmth. A high sense of self-identity predicted good mental health among the college students, although the effect was greater for proactive personality. Moreover, proactive personality and self-identity had a significant mediating effect, enhancing mental health. Improving the mental health of college students may depend on their personality assets and the quality of parenting style they experienced.

Mentalization-based therapy for a patient suffering from panic disorder: a systematic single case study

This single-case study describes the mentalization-based therapy (MBT) for a woman diagnosed with severe panic disorder with agoraphobia. The aim of the study is to illustrate how MBT contributes to reducing anxiety symptoms and to strengthening the capacity for reflecting in relation to both self and others as part of developing a more coherent sense of self-identity. The findings indicate a significant therapeutic progress including reduction in anxiety symptoms and a higher function in the patient’s everyday life after MBT. Based on the results of this systematic single-case study, we hypothesize that MBT is a promising therapeutic approach for patients suffering from panic disorder who have not responded to previous treatment. We trace the efficacy of MBT to the therapy’s focus on attachment relationships, affect recognition and management, and working with the patient’s mentalizing capacity.

These Shoes were Made for Talking: Documenting Identity through the Lens of Footwear

This article discusses the development of a research project Shoe and Tell which is grounded in the principles of visual ethnography. The project was conceived to capture and document the experience of identity for British based teenagers. The teenage years are a significant transitionary period through the human lifecycle, a key time for identity experimentation and formation. In an increasing digital world, perpetuated by social media, this generation have become known for being image conscious, anxious and lonely. This places undue pressure on their sense of self and identity negotiation, and has created assumptions of them being a narcissistic, self-focused demographic. In response to these societal challenges the intention of Shoe and Tell was to bring an insider perspective to teenage identity by documenting, through visual ethnography, the images, real life narratives and experiences of identity from the perspectives of teenagers. While identity has often been examined through the relationship between clothing and individuals this research takes a different, innovative approach by exploring the subject through the lens of footwear. As a worn and ubiquitous object, the shoe has an embodied relationship with its wearer asserting its meaningfulness as a visible expression of self-identity. This article discusses the development of a methodological approach to examine teenage identity. Photography as a form of ethnographic research is used to document and stimulate the narration of experiences and feelings surrounding a young person’s sense of self-identity as discussed through the shoes they are wearing. How individuals present themselves and discuss their experience of identity is captured through footwear. What emerges from this study is the value of this innovative visual methodological approach to documenting and understanding identity as it is experienced through a specific transitional life stage.

Mental-Health and A.I. -A Paradigm of Human Mechanisation

This paper analyses the reconfiguration of the relationship between technological apparatus and our mental lifeworld. Technological network apparatus, particularly algorithmic networks are absorbing large domains of our life into themselves. In the process, our sense of self-identity has become fragile. We keep feeling disoriented by the overload of technological acceleration in our life in form of messages, notifications, and new methods of algorithmic monitoring of our life. Our sensory perception of reality has been hegemonised by intelligent machines. In response, the mental-health discourse identifies new mental-illnesses and their treatment procedures. However, the mental-health discourse functions on certain underlying philosophical assumptions which limit its ability to understand the contemporary real mental-problems faced by human beings. It gets trapped in its own logic. While claiming to bring the patient back into normality, it only traps humans further in the processes of human mechanisation. This paper highlights some of these issues and introspects new ways of understanding the current problem by going beyond the mental-health discourse.