Subjective Self Research Articles

Saturday night and Sunday morning: value monism and pluralism in contemporary evangelical musicianship

ABSTRACT Drawing on interviews with, and ethnographic observations of, evangelical Christian musicians with experience of contemporary worship music—as well as secular heavy metal and punk rock—this article analyses the competing value relations underpinning contemporary evangelical musicianship. Developing the work of Joel Robbins on value theory and the anthropology of Christianity and the work of Klisala Harrison on ethnomusicology, this article analyses four examples of different value relations between religious service and expressive individualism: strong monism, stable monism, stable pluralism, unstable pluralism. It is shown through case studies of individual musicians that, whereas strong value monist approaches to evangelical musicianship efface the presence of the subjective self and stable monist approaches suspend its presence, stable pluralism allows both religious and secular vocations to co-exist in separate social spaces, while strong value pluralist approaches to evangelical musicianship emphasise or celebrate the presence of the subjective self and, in so doing, sometimes undermine the ritual aims of congregational worship.

Predicting Student Intention to Wear a Mask to Avoid Contracting COVID-19

With governments having enforced mask mandates and stressing the importance of wearing masks to avoid contracting COVID-19, still many individuals do not properly adhere to recommended guidelines. To investigate factors influencing why individuals engage in wearing masks, 578 participants at a university in the southern United States completed a survey, answering questions related to various behavioral change theories, including the Health Belief Model, the Theory of Planned Behavior, and the Transtheoretical Model. Intention was rated high and was positively correlated with Subjective Norms and Self Efficacy. However perceived benefits of wearing a mask and perceived susceptibility were rated low indicating that benefits and susceptibility did not influence intention. The SEM model showed that benefits actually had a negative relationship with intention, whereas susceptibility had no significant relationship. Integrating constructs from the Health Belief Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior increased variance predicted of Intention to wear a mask to 56%.

Mapping Muslim Behaviors Through Attitudes And Intentions In Choosing Cash Waqf For Economic Independence

Waqf is an Islamic economic instrument that bases its function on the elements of virtue (birr), kindness (ihsan) and fraternity (ukhuwah). This research aims to analyze the factors of Wakif’s motive in choosing cash waqf in Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta. This study was conducted quantitatively and used Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior. Subjective Norms, Government Support, and Self Efficacy on the attitude and intention of the choice to pay cash waqf were the variables in this research. The objects of this study are those who pay the waqf that involves 98 respondents incorporated in Bazwa. The respondents were divided into four districts consist of 35 respondents from Banguntapan, 23 respondents from Bantul City, 11 respondents from Dlingo, and 29 respondents from Kasihan. Data were collected in two types of primary and secondary data. This study used a validity test, reliability test, and path analysis as the data analysis method. The results of this study indicate the factors that influence wakif’s motive in choosing cash waqf are subjective norms, Government Support, and Self Efficacy. Subjective norms had a significant positive effect on the motive through attitude. Self-efficacy is significant for attitude and insignificant for the motive. In contrast, Government support is not significant for attitude and motive, while attitude is significant for the motive

Power law model for subjective mental workload and validation through air traffic control human-in-the-loop simulation

We provide evidence for a power law relationship between the subjective one-dimensional Instantaneous Self Assessment workload measure (five-level ISA-WL scale) and the radio communication of air traffic controllers (ATCOs) as an objective task load variable. It corresponds to Stevens’ classical psychophysics relationship between physical stimulus and subjective response, with characteristic power law exponent γ of the order of 1. The theoretical model was validated in a human-in-the loop air traffic control simulation experiment with traffic flow as environmental stimulus that correlates positively with ATCOs frequency and duration of radio calls (task load, RC-TL) and their reported ISA-WL. The theoretical predictions together with nonlinear regression-based model parameter estimates expand previously published results that quantified the formal logistic relationship between the subjective ISA measure and simulated air traffic flow (Fürstenau et al. in Theor Issues Ergon Sci 21(6): 684–708, 2020). The present analysis refers to a psychophysics approach to mental workload suggested by (Gopher and Braune in Hum Factors 26(5): 519–532, 1984) that was recently used by (Bachelder and Godfroy-Cooper in Pilot workload esimation: synthesis of spectral requirements analysis and Weber's law, SCL Tech, San Diego, 2019) for pilot workload estimation, with a corresponding power law exponent in the typical range of Stevens’ exponents. Based on the hypothesis of cognitive resource limitation, we derived the power law by combination of the two logistic models for ISA-WL and communication TL characteristics, respectively. Despite large inter-individual variance, the theoretically predicted logistic and power law parameter values exhibit surprisingly close agreement with the regression-based estimates (for averages across participants). Significant differences between logistic ISA-WL and RC-TL scaling parameters and the corresponding Stevens exponents as ratio of these parameters quantify the TL/WL dissociation with regard to traffic flow. The sensitivity with regard to work conditions of the logistic WL-scaling parameter as well as the power law exponent was revealed by traffic scenarios with a non-nominal event: WL sensitivity increased significantly for traffic flow larger than a critical value. Initial analysis of a simultaneously measured new neurophysiological (EEG) load index (dual frequency head maps, DFHM, (Radüntz in Front Physiol 8: 1–15, 2017)) provided evidence for the power law to be applicable to the DFHM load measure as well.

‘I feel like two different teachers’: the split self of teacher subjectivity

ABSTRACT In this paper, I use a debate between Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson about the nature of time as a heuristic tool to understand the nature of teacher subjectivity. This debate outlines notions of time as measurable and time as duration or flow. These two interpretations of reality, one from a physicist and one from a philosopher, are used to examine the bi-Discoursal nature of the teacher identity An ethnographic participatory action research project in a preschool class in England finds that teachers operate as both physicist and philosopher, sometimes simultaneously. At times, the teacher is a physicist, measuring the geometry of child development and comparing it to a fixed point of normative expectations. At other times, the teacher is a philosopher, existing in the moment with children. The simultaneous existence of these two identities is a cause of anguish, forming a conflicted and contested self.

The role of mood states in cyberbullying and cybervictimization behaviors in adolescents

Cyberbullying is an intentional aggressive behavior repeatedly perpetrated by a single person or a group against a peer who can not easily defend, characterized by the use of electronic forms of contact. This phenomenon is a public health concern with serious implications for adolescents’ mental health. We aimed to investigate the role of gender, age, and subjective self perceived mood states in cyberbullying and victimization (being a victim of cyberbullying) behaviors. A total of 554 adolescents (293 males and 261 females, age 15.27; SD = 2.21) completed the Florence Cyber-Bullying Cyber-Victimization Scales (FCBVSs) and the Profile of Mood States (POMS). Older age and male gender were associated to both cyberbullying and victimization.The aggressiveness/anger (A) and confusion/bewilderment (C) factors measured by the POMS were predictors of all types of cyberbulliyng and cybervictimization behaviors; the tension/anxiety (T) factor was a predictor of all cyberbullying behaviors and of the FCBVSs impersonification subscale of cybervictimization. Subjective specific mood states may contribute to both cyberbulliyng and victimization behaviors, suggesting the potential benefit of preventive strategies addressing the recognition and management of mood states in adolescents.

Konsep Diri Remaja Yang Mengalami Kegagalan Hubungan Interpersonal

Self-concept of adolescents who experience failure of interpersonal relationships is characterized by 3 (three) aspects, namely having a low self-concept, difficulty making new relationships with others and often thinking pessimistically. As well as the self-concept of adolescents can also be seen from developmental tasks that are the same age as the subject, which tends to have several developmental tasks that are not in accordance with the current subject's self, so that this can have an impact on negative self-concept So that previous research with current research has a significant difference, namely previous research says the strength of the relationship between self-concept and self-confidence with interpersonal communication skills is only 23.7%. This study aims to see the self-concept of adolescents who experience failure in interpersonal relationships.

Neural correlates of daily function: A pilot study of the white matter retrogenesis hypothesis and three separate performance-based functional assessments.

Increasing evidence points to mild alterations in everyday functioning early in the course of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), despite prior research suggesting functional declines occur primarily in later stages. However, daily function assessment is typically accomplished with subjective self- or informant-report, which can be prone to error due to various factors. Performance-based functional assessments (PBFAs) allow for objective evaluation of daily function abilities, but little is known on their sensitivity to the earliest ADRD-related brain alterations. We aimed to determine the neural correlates of three different PBFAs in a pilot study. A total of 40 older participants (age = 70.9 ± 6.5 years; education = 17.0 ± 2.6 years; 51.5% female; 10.0% non-White; 67.5% cognitively normal) completed standardized PBFAs related to medication management (MM), finances (FIN), and communication abilities (COM). Participants underwent diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) scans, from which mean fractional anisotropy (FA) composite scores of late- (LMF) and early myelinated (EMF) fibers were calculated. Linear regression analyses controlling for age and global cognition were used to assess the relationship of PBFAs with FA. Better performance on MM was associated with higher mean FA on LMF composite (t38 = 2.231, p = .032), while FIN and COM were not (ps > .05). PBFAs were not associated with EMF (p > .05). Our preliminary findings demonstrate better performance on a PBFA of medication management is associated with higher FA in late-myelinated white matter tracts. Despite a small sample size, these results are consistent with growing evidence that performance-based functional assessments may be a useful tool in identifying early changes related to ADRD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Collaborative-cooperative Learning Model to Improve Theology Students’ Characters: Is It Effective?

Abstract: The Collaborative-Cooperative Learning Model (CCL) helps improve students’ characters. This study is aimed at finding out the effectiveness of the CCL instructional model in improving the characters of the theology students in the subject matter class Self Development. This study used a quasi-experimental research design. The research sample consisted of 58 students of the Surabaya Excelsius Institute of Theology. Data were collected through a pre-test and post-test for the experiment and control groups and analyzed using an independent sample t-test on the SPSS software program of Amos 25. The results show that (1) the CCL model was found to be able to improve students’ characters. Experts’ reviews concluded that the CCL syntax could be categorized as having innovative aspects based on the rationality model on the score of 3.29; (2) The CCL model was found to be effective in improving students’ characters by the Mann-Whitney test (sig. = .012) and the paired sample t-tes (sig. = .000) showed a significant difference in the mean scores; (3) the CCL model could improve the characters of self-discipline, social discipline, and religious discipline in the theology students in the subject matter class Self Development and could be used for subject matter classes with the same characteristics, be followed-up by research in wider subject-matter contexts, and be integrated with research from other academic fields.

Философско-педагогический смысл михайловской концепции «обращений»

The article discusses the philosophical and educational meaning of F.T. Mikhailov's concept of ‘appeal’. The appeal from within human subjectivity to the subjectivity of others (and thereby to oneself) in search of compassion, co-thinking and co-action is understood by the philosopher as a generative relation of an individual and his/her way of being, as all subjective qualities of a person. Thus, the emphasis is transferred from the externally determining factors to the subjective self, to its self-movement as causa sui. If appeal is a generative relation for the individual, then in the educational process, where individuals are elevated to the image of man, it is it that should dominate, and not the translation of knowledge, skills and abilities. Everything that is introduced into the context of communication between students should in one way or another appear in the form of appeals to living people, to students in the first place, and only then is it a culture proper. Culture in this eidos becomes the ‘third subject’ of the normal educational process which promotes the integral development of personality.

The register of the artist

ABSTRACT Central to art was once its relationship to the imaginative interior of the artist. The legacy of romanticism and the sublime has been systematically eroded throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Although for some not entirely lost. Contemporary discourses around the posthuman have played their part in the erasure of the artist, through the breakdown of the centrality of our bodily self in the world, and correspondingly, our imaginative interior as previously conceived has been jettisoned. Through the rise of the anthropocene, attention is now paid to the more or other-than-human, and even for those who take the person as part of this schema, the body is no longer closed, its interior bracketed off from the world, but part of a wider nexus, where fundamentally for the posthuman, the body-mind of the artist is not necessarily the originating source for creativity. This paper seeks to consider the material embodiments of these developments through exploring the working practice of artist Katie Paterson. Multidisciplinary and cross-medium, her work is concerned with immensity and particularity; her material is the stuff of the world, through which she tells the story of nature’s elusive phenomena. The artist is quelled and transformed in Paterson’s work through a re-articulation of the structures and processes normally hidden from us. In this way the register of the artist shifts and the subjective self is dispersed and reconstructed through alternative frames of reference, most notably geological time and the space of the cosmos. Heir to the romantic sublime, her work offers a reappraisal of the place of artistic subjectivity in the era of the posthuman. In so doing her work reveals the potential for a new posthuman sublime.

Being a child in the family: young children describe themselves and their parents

ABSTRACT This study explores how children describe their experiences of family interaction with parents who had taken part in parenting training. 11 children between five and nine years participated in semi-structured interviews which were analysed using a qualitative content analysis method. The children described themselves as active participants in family life, identifying strategies that they used to safeguard their subjective selves on one hand and to enhance communication with their parents on the other. The analysis displayed three main approaches in everyday life: withholding thoughts and hiding, extending limits for personal agency, and putting trust in their parents to guide and protect them in their stride. While handling these processes the children showed a willingness to take part in democratic family decisions by compromises and compliance. Towards their parents they expressed understanding and forbearance with adult shortcomings such as absentmindedness. Their reasoning involved issues of integrity and relational closeness. Conclusively, the children balanced their own selves with an undemanding respect for parental care and adult competence. The study contributes to awareness of and respect for how children position themselves as relational agents in a generational order. The results suggest that future research should further explore children’s perspectives on family life in a parenting training context. Children’s views should be drawn on to inform future developments in parenting training.

An Analysis of the Impact of Workload towards the Risk of Fatigue Level on PT KCI Machinists

The operation of railway transportation especially the electric train (KRL) on PT KCI still uses GOA 0 (grade of automation). This means that this facility is manually controlled by the machinist. This kind of condition will affect the fatigue caused by the received workloads. The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is an influence of workload on the risk of fatigue and its level on PT KCI machinists, to minimize the risks from the workload by using the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) method to measure workload. The measurement of work fatigue uses the Subjective Self Rating Test (SSRT). Based on the 101 respondents' proceeded data, there is an influence of variable X (workload) on variable Y (work fatigue) with a value of 13.8% while the rest is influenced by other variables not under research. The value was obtained from a simple linear regression analysis process using the coefficient of determination test.

Self-regulation and the subjective Self: Practice to cultivate awareness

In this article, I offer a somatic process to non-movers at home during the COVID-19 lockdown. These participants also offer reflections on their individual experience post-moving. As a facilitator, I invite you to take part in this process, whether you are a dancer or non-mover (whatever your age or ability). The process focuses on self-regulation and interoceptive awareness, allowing the time and space to connect with Self. Self-regulation and interoceptive awareness are two of the most important aspects of somatic movement in supporting free-flowing movement and balancing the nervous system. Self-regulation in turn can produce a sense of agency – meaning a sense of autonomy and release within the body can occur. In line with cultural pressures experienced within society, somatic processes can ease the anxieties of everyday life. Inviting Self into a practical, felt process is sometimes what we need in order to re-evaluate our positioning and perceptions within the world. As human beings we often find ourselves in stressful and challenging situations that ultimately affect the body’s nervous state and our relationship with Self. We currently find ourselves in the middle of a global pandemic, and opportunities to connect with Self in creative, communal ways are hindered. I am offering this article as a way of communicating my appreciation and passion for somatic work during this pandemic. As a Ph.D. student studying somatic movement dance education and therapy, I deeply recognize it is important to be connected with community and others, as well as my own inner sphere. Connection produces a sense of optimism during this time. This article offers a simplistically detailed, yet effective process that locates and contacts Self within our feeling, sensing organism. As we begin to re-connect with our energy and interoceptive awareness, a physiological shift can be experienced. When we drop our awareness within the vitality of the moving body, a change in consciousness can occur. Using breath awareness as an inroad to sensing internal processes, I offer this practical process to you, inviting you to cultivate an inner essence of gravity, breath, ground and body.

Does the Buddhist doctrine of non-self denies the concept of subject?

The object of this research is the Buddhist doctrine of non-self; while the subject is the content of this doctrine and its evolution with the course of time. Special attention is given to demonstration of the fact that initially the Anatta doctrine did not imply the denial of existence of the subject (self) as such. The author examines such aspects of the topic as the doctrine of non-self in the early Buddhism (Pāli Canon) and the problem of interpretation of the phenomenon of self in modern Buddhism, including by such cultural and philosophical figures as Ngawang Lobsang Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama). The novelty of the conducted research consists in carrying out the first in Russia comprehensive study of Buddhist doctrine of non-self and outlining a new perspective on the problem. The author’s special contribution is lies in translations of the passages from Sutta dedicated to Anatmavada, which allowed formulating the fundamentally new conclusions. The following conclusions were made: 1) throughout history, Anatmavada underwent a difficult path from solely soteriological teaching that did not imply denial of self or subject to the open denial of subject in Buddhism of later period (the author sees recent interpretation of Anatmavada as incorrect); 2) two concepts of Anatta in early Buddhism can be determined: more common Anatmavada-2 and more “marginal” Anatmavada-1, which tends to denial of Anatta; 3) Anatmavada has evolved over the course of history from Anatmavada-2 to more nominalistic interpretations observed in the Buddhism of later period in form of the denial of self as such; 4) early Buddhism is not interested in ontological discourse on the existence of self; 5) Skandha in early Buddhism should be viewed from soteriological perspective – as a subject for meditation on the emergence, existence and elimination of certain moments of experience.

Juan Larrea en México: el fin anunciado del yo subjetivo en <em>Diario del Nuevo Mundo</em>

El presente artículo demuestra que el anhelo por el más allá que había expresado Juan Larrea en su poesía llega a su culminación en Diario del Nuevo Mundo. La experiencia vivida en el exilio mexicano le impulsa a abandonar el yo subjetivo y dejarse absorber por una conciencia objetiva que viene a constituir el epicentro de su proyecto filosófico. De esta manera, Larrea funda en Diario del Nuevo Mundo los principios constitutivos de una filosofía transcendental a la vez que describe la situación personal en la que se encuentra. Además, el artículo mantiene que Larrea es de los más radicales entre los pensadores exiliados en su crítica de la racionalidad tecno-científica y que el proyecto de Larrea solo es posible porque se apoya en disciplinas tradicionalmente marginalizadas dentro de la filosofía como son la psicología, la religión y la poesía.

REFLEXIVIDADE ENTRE A CONSCIÊNCIA DE SI E AS RELAÇÕES INTERSUBJETIVAS COMO EIXO CENTRAL PARA A COMPREENSÃO DO SER HUMANO

Procura-se evidenciar a ligação existente entre a consciência de si e as relações intersubjetivas como principal elemento definidor do caráter humano em seus principais contornos. Com apoio na Dialética do Reconhecimento de Hegel, são buscados subsídios para indicar o fenômeno da aquisição da consciência de si como fruto de um impulso que se concretiza no encontro relacional entre sujeitos, numa dinâmica que se origina na busca de reconhecimento pelo sujeito individual (eu). As consequências obtidas pelo processo relacional vão criar, por meio da linguagem, as condições para um enorme desenvolvimento cognitivo do ser-humano, fruto do desenvolvimento de novas percepções e pensamentos. Característica singular que é fundamental para a compreensão das ações e comportamentos dos seres-humanos ao longo da sua existência, tanto individual quanto coletivamente.

Why do we resolve marital conflicts the way we do? Self‐construals, marital conflict resolution strategies, and marital satisfaction in Japan and South Korea

In this article, the research targeted middle‐aged wives who had been reported to be most dissatisfied with their marriage lives in the entire sex/generation groups in Japan and South Korea. As an exploratory study, the relationships between self‐construals (subjective, objective, and autonomous selves) and marital conflict resolution strategies (avoiding, dominating, yielding, and integrating) and those between the strategies and marital satisfaction were investigated. The model across the variables (taking the obliging and dominating strategies only) was constructed as well. Several important findings were revealed. First, subjective self and autonomous self were strongly and positively correlated and stronger in South Korea. Second, the Japanese had out‐of‐speculation relationships between self‐construals and marital resolution strategies. Third, the positive associations of integrating/obliging and marital satisfaction and the negative association of avoiding and marital satisfaction were validated in Japan and South Korea.

COLLABORATIVE-COOPERATIVE LEARNING MODEL TO IMPROVE THEOLOGY STUDENTS’ CHARACTERS: IS IT EFECTIVE?

The Collaborative-Cooperative Learning Model (CCL) helps improve students’ characters. This study is aimed at finding out the effectiveness of the CCL instructional model in improving the characters of the theology students in the subject matter class Self Development. The study used the quasi-experimental research design. The research sample consisted of 58 students of the Surabaya Excelsius Institute of Theology. Data were collected by way of a test in a pre-test and posttest for the experiment and control groups and analyzed by way of an independent sample t-test on the SPSS software program of Amos 25. Results show that (1) the CCL model is found to be able to improve students’ characters. Experts’ reviews conclude that the CCL syntax can be categorized as having innovative aspects based on the rationality model on the score of 3.29; (2) The CCL model is found to be effective in improving students’ characters by the Mann-Whitney test (sig. = 0,012) and the paired sample t-tes (sig. = 0.000) showing a significant difference in the mean scores; (3) the CCL model can improve the characters of self-discipline, social discipline, and religious discipline in the theology students in the subject matter class Self Development and can be used for subject matter classes with the same characteristics, be followed-up by research in wider subject-matter contexts, and be integrated with research from other academic fields.

Usulan Perbaikan Kerja Kuli Panggul Beras Menggunakan Cocorometer dan Subjective Self Rating Scale (SSRT) Serta Hubungan Parameter Stres dan Kelelahan Pada Perusahaan X Di Kota Bandung

It was noted that from 2011 to 2017 rice production in Indonesia had increased by 23.77%. Perusahaan X is a rice supplier company in Bandung city with the transfer of rice carried out by porters (kuli panggul) manually without tools. Porters do the lifting process with a duration of 9 hours and the load carried weights from 10 kg to 50 kg. Repetitive and monotonous task can increase stress levels and fatigue at work. Improvement of work condition is needed through the measurement of stress and fatigue level on the porters of rice in Perusahaan X using cocorometer and The Subjective Self Rating Test (SSRT) questionnaire to increase productivity in the company. Ten men as respondent with ages ranging from 20-41 years with work experience of 1-6 years were tested. The result shows that respondents before work (α/2table< α/2calculated< α/2tableor 0.025 < 0.544 < 0.975) and after work (α/2table< α/2calculated< α/2tableor 0.025 < 0.413 < 0.975) experienced increased stress and fatigue level. The correlation between stress and fatigue level before work (degree of freedom = -0.219) and after work (degree of freedom = -0.292) shows low correlation. Stress level is not only influenced by fatigue level but also influenced by the age and work experience of respondents during work. Perusaahaan X should do several things to reduce the increased in stress and fatigue by creating a pleasant atmosphere at work; requiring the workers to do stretching at rest break; providing bonus; and providing drinking water so that respondents are not dehydrated. Keywords: Stress, fatigue, cocorometer, SSRT