Personal Worth Research Articles

Bimbingan Konseling Bimbingan Konseling dalam Meningkatkan Atribusi Belajar Siswa-Siswi SMPN 1 Pleret Bantul Yogyakarta

This study aims to see how school counselors (counselors, BK teachers) improve student learning attribution at SMPN 1 Pleret, Bantul. Attribution which is understood as something that exists in a person formed by students then influences the psychological dimension of hope for success, self-efficacy, and affect. And also affect behavior, namely choice, perseverance, and the level of movement of students' efforts in learning. This research is motivated by the majority of students who are not able and have not been able to find something unique in themselves, so that the need for guidance and counseling as a method of understanding students will be important and their personal worth as a person. This research method uses interviews, observations and classroom actions where the researcher is involved in the counseling guidance activities. Counseling guidance model is done in groups, from the group can switch to individual counseling actions. The results showed that counseling guidance in improving student learning attribution at SMPN 1 Pleret Bantul can be said to be good, by meeting the standards of the process of implementing counseling guidance that has been worked out, so as to achieve the desired target.

Aging and Feeling Valued Versus Expendable During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: a Review and Commentary of Why Mattering Is Fundamental to the Health and Well-Being of Older Adults.

The current commentary and review examines the potentially protective role of feelings of mattering among elderly people during typical times and the current atypical times associated with the COVID-19 global pandemic. Mattering is the feeling of being important to others in ways that give people the sense that they are valued and other people care about them. We contrast this feeling with messages of not mattering and being expendable and disposable due to ageism, gaps in the provision of care, and apparently economically focused positions taken during the pandemic that disrespect the value, worth, and merits of older persons. We provide a comprehensive review of past research on individual differences in mattering among older adults and illustrate the unique role of mattering in potentially protecting older adults from mental health problems. Mattering is also discussed in terms of its links with loneliness and physical health. This article concludes with a discussion of initiatives and interventions that can be modified and enhanced to instill a sense of mattering among older adults. Key directions for future research are also highlighted along with ways to expand the mattering concept to more fully understand and appreciate the relevance of mattering among older adults.

Influence of Performance Appraisal on Performance of Civil Servants in Kenya

This article is part of a doctoral project entitled “Results-Based Management and Performance of Civil Servants in Kenya”. The purpose of the article is to determine the influence of performance appraisal on performance of civil servants. During the last three decades performance appraisal has become a popular instrument in public sector reform agenda under the New Public Management which is results-driven. Its application has since become an important human resource management practice in the public sector performance management systems. The underlying aim is to foster organizational and individual efficiency and effectiveness in the public sector. Applying both descriptive survey and case study designs with a mixed research strategy, the study found that performance appraisal has a significant positive influence on performance of civil servants in Kenya. This means that, when performance appraisal process is effective, civil servants learn about themselves; gaining sense of personal worth, become more knowledgeable about their tasks, and more imperatively they learn about what are mostly valued by the employer. The study recommends for pragmatic use of performance appraisal since has significantly and positively influenced the performance of civil servants in Kenya.

Influence of Performance Appraisal on Performance of Civil Servants in Kenya

This article is part of a doctoral project entitled “Results-Based Management and Performance of Civil Servants in Kenya”. The purpose of the article is to determine the influence of performance appraisal on performance of civil servants. During the last three decades performance appraisal has become a popular instrument in public sector reform agenda under the New Public Management which is results-driven. Its application has since become an important human resource management practice in the public sector performance management systems. The underlying aim is to foster organizational and individual efficiency and effectiveness in the public sector. Applying both descriptive survey and case study designs with a mixed research strategy, the study found that performance appraisal has a significant positive influence on performance of civil servants in Kenya. This means that, when performance appraisal process is effective, civil servants learn about themselves; gaining sense of personal worth, become more knowledgeable about their tasks, and more imperatively they learn about what are mostly valued by the employer. The study recommends for pragmatic use of performance appraisal since has significantly and positively influenced the performance of civil servants in Kenya.

Recognizing Personal Challenges to Emerge as a Stronger Teacher

Recognizing Personal Challenges to Emerge as a Stronger Teacher

"This is How We Refugee": Neoliberalism from Haiti to Palestine and the Economics of Refugee Form

"This is How We Refugee":Neoliberalism from Haiti to Palestine and the Economics of Refugee Form Christopher Ian Foster (bio) "The bourgeoisie . . . has resolved personal worth into exchange value . . . has set up that single, unconscionable freedom ––Free Trade . . . and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation." (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848) "The March on Washington starts from Occupied Jerusalem / This is how we refugee." (Jehan Bseiso, "Refugee Status Determination," Mediterranean, 2018) "Refugees are Expensive" In 1986 leftist punk rock band Dead Kennedys release a song titled "The Great Wall" on their fourth studio album Bedtime for Democracy. The album as a whole loudly criticizes a wide range of conservative Reaganera politics, from trickle down economic policies, American imperialism abroad and right-wing culture wars at home, to the hypocrisy of the Christian 'moral majority' and toxic masculinity. On "The Great Wall," lead singer Jello Biafra connects U.S. imperialism to the policing of migration domestically and the concomitant production of refugees globally. One verse and chorus read: [End Page 348] There's too many people in your worldAnd refugees are expensiveWhen they trickled down onto our soilWe hunt them and arrest themClassify them insaneAnd put them back on the next planeTo the waiting armsOf the same death squads they fled We've built a Great Wall around our powerEconomic Great Wall around our powerWorldwide Great Wall around our power Teenage punk rockers in the Trump-era may be surprised to learn that this song was written not last year but over three decades ago given its surprising relevance today (see the recent right-wing slogans "build the wall" and "send her home" for example). Biafra uses the terms "hunt" and "arrest" to describe the policy of targeting immigrants and refugees, while illustrating the United States' ideological demonization of those deemed foreign in the line "classify them insane."1 But he also shows, correctly, that the United States polices the catastrophic effects of its own policies abroad when it "hunts" and deports refugees and migrants at home. The forcefully displaced today often flee the very forces of displacement that Western powers create, such as U.S.-created or backed counter-revolutionary forces called "death squads" (Grandin 14–15). As Biafra sings, we then "put them back on the next plane / To the waiting arms / Of the same death squads they've fled."2 Here, Biafra describes the practice of Refoulement. Refoulment has been internationally recognized as illegal since the post-World War II era, yet it often happens across the Global North because 1) the legal categorization of who counts as a refugee is strategically narrow and difficult to attain, as I assess below, and 2) the recent unabashed resurgence of xenophobia creates states of exception that disregard international law and precedent. Beyond the practice of repatriating migrants with legitimate claims to asylum, Biafra also refers to the United States' policy of installing pro-capitalist dictators in Latin America and the Caribbean (1985's Iran-Contra scandal would have been fresh in Biafra's mind during the [End Page 349] writing of Bedtime for Democracy). Finally, and with seemingly great foresight, the song critiques the xenophobic and nationalist obsession with a border wall separating the U.S. and Mexico, repeating in the chorus "We've built a Great Wall around our power / Economic Great Wall around our power / Worldwide Great Wall around our power." "The Great Wall" describes a world where the United States has, to a measurable extent, made the world unlivable, and then built a fortress around its borders to keep out the victims of their global violence. From racial capitalism and the trans-Atlantic slave trade, imperialism, to neoliberal globalization and now the monstrous resurgence of xenophobic nationalism, countries in the Global North continue to devastate and destabilize the Global South, while terrorizing populations at home. They have indeed helped make the conditions in the South unlivable, yet the North un-enterable. Jenna Loyd uses the term "global apartheid" to describe this "condition in which the wealthiest regions of the world erect physical and bureaucratic barriers against the movement of people from...

He is smarter when he looks smart in front of many versus a few others: Impact of audience size on target appraisals in a cross-cultural context.

Will a person be seen as more superior if he or she receives an award in front of a large audience in comparison with a small audience? We predicted that this would hold true for East Asians, whose cultural logic of face asserts that a person's worth can only be conferred by collective others, but would not hold true for European Americans, whose cultural logic of dignity promotes the judgement of a person's worth based on their own perspective. This study found an audience-size effect for East Asians, in which participants gave higher appraisals to a target when they imagined the target's high performance to have been seen by 10 other people (vs. one other person) even when the target's performance level remained constant. In contrast, Westerners were not affected by the size of the audience witnessing the target's performance. In addition, perceived social reputation was found to mediate the audience-size effect; the participants imagining the target performing well in front of 10 others (vs. one other) perceived others as thinking more highly of the target; this in turn led participants to give higher appraisals to the target. As expected, this mediation effect was only found for East Asians.

Sex Differences in the Association of Family and Personal Income and Wealth with Fertility in the United States.

Evolutionary theory predicts that social status and fertility will be positively related. It also predicts that the relationship between status and fertility will differ for men and women. This is particularly likely in modern societies given evidence that females face greater trade-offs between status and resource acquisition and fertility than males. This paper tests these hypotheses using newly released data from the 2014 wave of the Survey of Income and Program Participation by the US Census, which has the first complete measures of fertility and number of childbearing partners for a large, representative, national probability sample of men and women and also contains comprehensive measures of economic status as measured by personal and family resources, including income from all sources and all assets. Multivariate analyses show that personal income is positively associated with total fertility and number of childbearing unions for men only. For men, personal net worth is positively associated with number of childbearing unions; it is also positively associated with fertility for married men with a spouse present. These findings support evolutionary predictions of a positive relationship between status, access to mates, and reproductive success for males. Whereas personal income and personal net worth are negatively associated with total fertility and number of childbearing unions for women, family income (net of personal income) is positively associated with total fertility for women. For married men living with a spouse, family income (net of personal income) is negatively associated with total fertility. These findings are consistent with evolutionary theory given the existence of greater trade-offs between production and reproduction for women in an advanced industrial society. For women and men, family net worth (net of personal net worth) is negatively associated with number of childbearing unions and fertility. Implications are discussed.

Bernard Shaw's Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect: Shaw, Freud, Simmel

Bernard Shaw's Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect: Shaw, Freud, Simmel

Estrategias autoprotectoras y autoestima en una muestra de estudiantes universitarios

La alta exigencia académica que caracteriza a la etapa universitaria aboca a algunos estudiantes a priorizar la protección de sus propias creencias de valía personal ante la amenaza de un bajo rendimiento. Con este objetivo autoprotector, estrategias como el self-handicapping o el pesimismo defensivo destacan por su relativamente elevada prevalencia en entornos universitarios. Sin embargo, la investigación precedente arroja resultados controvertidos respecto a la relación (positiva o negativa) entre estas estrategias y la autoestima de los estudiantes. El objetivo del presente estudio es analizar si existen diferencias en el nivel de autoestima en función del grado (bajo, medio o alto) de utilización de las estrategias de self-handicapping (conductual y alegado) y pesimismo defensivo. Participaron en la investigación 691 estudiantes de la Universidade da Coruña (Medad = 21.35; DT = 3.75), de los cuales 594 (86%) eran mujeres. Los tres niveles (bajo, medio y alto) de self-handicapping (conductual y alegado) y de pesimismo defensivo se determinaron con base en los percentiles 33 y 66. Las diferencias entre los tres niveles (variables independientes asignadas) en la variable autoestima (variable dependiente) se analizaron mediante un ANOVA de tres factores. Se estimó también el tamaño del efecto mediante el estadístico d de Cohen. Los resultados evidenciaron que, en las tres estrategias consideradas, el grupo de nivel medio mostraba unos niveles significativamente más elevados de autoestima que los estudiantes del grupo bajo y del grupo alto. Estos resultados sugieren que el self-handicapping y el pesimismo defensivo logran su objetivo de proteger la autoestima cuando su utilización es moderada, pero resultaría menos eficaz cuando la utilización de estas estrategias es más elevada. Se discuten las implicaciones psicoeducativas de estos resultados, prestando especial atención hacia aquellos factores del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje universitario que pueden incrementar la vulnerabilidad de algunos estudiantes a las estrategias de autoprotección.

Discount of Person, Meaning, and Motive

There are three types of Social Level discounting that can interfere with bonding and intimacy during relationship building - the Discount of Person, Meaning, and Motive. These can be a block in any friendship, family, romantic or business partnerships. They discount in others the OK potential of who they are, of what they say, and why they say it - and what they could be. The same discounts of personal worth, potential and hope will also apply internally in the transactional relationship with oneself at the psychological level.

Associations between Profiles of Self-Esteem and Achievement Goals and the Protection of Self-Worth in University Students.

The high demands of academia and the fear of failure lead some university students to prioritize defending their personal worth through the use of complex strategies such as self-handicapping or defensive pessimism. Adopting a person-centered approach, this study established two objectives: First, to analyze the conformation of different motivational profiles based on the combination of self-esteem and achievement goals (learning, performance approach, and performance avoidance); and second, to determine if the identified profiles differ from one another in the use of self-handicapping and defensive pessimism. A total of 1028 university students participated in the research. Four motivational profiles were obtained: (a) High self-esteem, low learning goals, high performance approach goals, and high performance avoidance goals; (b) high self-esteem, high learning goals, low performance approach goals, and low performance avoidance goals; (c) low self-esteem, low learning goals, high performance approach goals, and high performance avoidance goals; and (d) low self-esteem, high learning goals, high performance approach goals, and medium performance avoidance goals. Profiles (c) and (d) were significantly related to self-handicapping and defensive pessimism, respectively. These results suggest that students with low self-esteem are more vulnerable to self-protection strategies. Additionally, under self-handicapping and defensive pessimism, the achievement goals are slightly different.

Is the information of customer types and preferences to personal selling worth the investment in innovative technology? A modeling approach

Personal selling by a salesclerk on a shop floor is an important marketing communication activity in retail business; however, some customers regard face-to-face sales pitch as unnecessary and discouraging. Assuming a certain group of customers that are supersaturated with a high level of service quality, we analyzed how the retailer can improve business profitability by knowing a customer type and the optimal level of service quality. We then proposed managerial implications regarding whether the value of information of hidden customer behavior is worth implementing an expensive RFID system, or a simple service poka-yoke is enough.

The primacy of trust within romantic relationships: Evidence from conjoint analysis of HEXACO-derived personality profiles

Mate preference research often focuses on traits that indicate a romantic partner's personal worth (e.g., their physical attractiveness, resource potential) rather than their tendency to leverage that worth for mutual vs. zero-sum benefit (i.e., their trustworthiness). No one has assessed the contribution of trustworthiness to perceived mate value relative to other personality dimensions. Here we examined the desirability of a partner's trustworthiness relative to five other personality indicators of mate quality during initial partner selection. Participants ( n = 918) ranked multivariate partner profiles constructed from the HEXACO model of personality (i.e., honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) and provided partner ratings for each trait. Using conjoint analysis, we found that honesty-humility influenced participants' ranking decisions substantially more than each other characteristic (all Cohen's d s > 0.62). This was true for both long- (i.e., committed) and short-term (i.e., purely sexual) partner evaluations, though honesty-humility was relatively more important for long- vs. short-term contexts. There were no sex differences. A different pattern, including sex differences, emerged for partner ratings. Based on these findings, we hypothesize that the challenge of avoiding romantic interpersonal predation may have been a relatively stronger selection pressure during the evolution of human mate preference than has the challenge of identifying other valuable partner traits.

󰡔가장 푸른 눈󰡕: 불안과 장애 그리고 욕망 이야기

This novel is full of images of beauty icons for the whiteness, physical and psychological violences, desire to be a whole person as a black, and so on. With Pecola's pursuing her own dream, this paper aims to examine the meaning of her phantom self through the soul-destroying process based on her black surroundings. She is destined to lead a life of humiliation due to her blackness, so she is constantly victimized and humiliated in the family and the community. It means that the caste hierarchy of the black society can be atrocious because it stems from the White standard that makes the blacks invisible and urges them to such extremes. As the whiteness functions as the yardstick of personal worth in the work, it pushes Pecola into not only anxiety and disorder, but also distorted desire. For the reason, she is psychologically deserted by her parents and the community, and further her earnest desire for the blue eye makes her insane after all. However, while showing these severe processes in the racist society, the study consequently emphasizes Toni Morrison's messages of understanding and love that make readers look into our severe society.

Ein Kreuzlied? Walthers von der Vogelweide Palästinalied

Modern readers generally consider Walther von der Vogelweide’s Palastinalied as crusading propaganda. In support of this understanding, scholars have pointed to the song’s melody: they argue that Walther deliberately borrowed the melody of Jaufre Rudel’s Lanquan li jorn for his song (contrafacture) because of the shared concern for the distant Holy Land that is expressed in the two texts. Following the work of Elmar Willemsen and Michael Stolz, the present article reconsiders the presentation of the Palastinalied in two of its medieval sources: the Codex Buranus (D-Mbs Clm 4660/a) and the Hausbuch of Michael de Leone (D-Mu 2° Cod. ms. 731). The study of the Palastinalied in the context of its written transmission shows that contemporary readers (in the Codex Buranus) and those who continued to value it in Wurzburg about a century later (in the Hausbuch) did not place Walther’s song alongside other crusading songs. Instead, these manuscripts suggest that their scribes/readers/patrons read the Palastinalied as the expression of new-found personal worth (‘werdekeit’) that may result from spiritual metanoia (conversion of life). If the song can indeed be understood in such a soteriological context, Ursula Aarburg’s erstwhile suggestion that Walther may have modelled his melody on the Marian antiphon Ave regina celorum deserves fresh consideration.

Tarnished work: dignity and labour in Iran

ABSTRACT Constituting a growing portion of Iran’s labour force, the working poor shoulder the burden of Iran’s recent economic predicaments. However, little work has examined how working poor men and women employed in stigmatized service jobs cope with the status degradation associated with their work. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 12 service workers, this article examines how working in socially tarnished jobs contributes to these individuals’ moral understandings of themselves and others. By equating personal worth with hard work and responsibility, service workers draw distinctions among themselves, those who do not work, and the ‘ungenerous’ elite. These conceptual boundaries create and legitimate microsystems of ethical worth among them that facilitates workers’ claims to dignity, while simultaneously reproducing cycles of inequality. Hard work becomes a form of symbolic capital that the working poor use to legitimate their entry into middle-class society. As such, this study differs from earlier research by demonstrating that a life lived in economic precarity does not always result in attraction to alternative subcultures, but rather conformism to mainstream ideals and norms in an effort to maintain dignity.

Being a C-student is the new normal: a literature review on grades, self-worth, and mental wellbeing

The competitive application process for manyCanadian engineering schools can lead to enrollingcohorts of students where nearly everyone is accustomed to having above average grades. Anecdotally, instructors frequently observe a difficult transition to earning average or below average grades. This may be due to students strongly basing their sense of personal worth on academic performance. Declines or variability in selfworth or self-esteem can impact mental wellbeing.Given the widely reported prevalence of mentalhealth concerns and counselling usage at Canadianuniversities, we chose to explore the connections between receiving lower than expected grades, self-worth and mental wellbeing as well as possible interventions that instructors could employ to help students manage this transition.

The hippocampus underlies the association between self-esteem and physical health

Self-esteem refers to the extent to which we feel positive or negative about ourselves, and reflects an individual’s subjective evaluation of personal worth and attitudes about the self. As one kind of positive psychosocial resources, high self-esteem has been found to buffer the effects of stress on physical health. However, little is known about the possible neural basis underlying the association between physical health and self-esteem. In the present study, we investigated whether the hippocampus served as a neuroanatomical basis for the association between self-esteem and physical health in a large population of healthy young adults. We examined self-esteem and self-reported physical health with the Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (RSES) and the Chinese Constitution Questionnaire (CCQ) respectively, and gray matter volume of the hippocampus was measured using magnetic resonance imaging. As expected, we found that individuals with higher levels of self-esteem had better self-reported physical health. Importantly, the mediation analysis showed that the gray matter volume of the hippocampus mediated the link between self-esteem and physical health, suggesting its critical role in the neural circuitry through which self-esteem is related to physical health.

Improving Self-Esteem With Motivational Quotes: Opportunities for Digital Health Technologies for People With Chronic Disorders.

Living with a chronic medical condition is often accompanied by low self-esteem, a diminished sense of personal worth, and lower self-efficacy, a diminished sense of one's ability to influence behavioral outcomes. This can significantly affect health-related quality of life and wellbeing, with low self-esteem and self-efficacy contributing to poor coping, helplessness, a decrease in positive health behaviors, and increased risk of comorbidities. Thus, it becomes important to promote self-esteem and empowerment over one's condition. Digital health technologies (also known as mobile health, mHealth, digital medicine, or digital therapeutics) have received increased recognition among chronically-ill patients and healthcare professionals as non-pharmacological treatment strategies for providing disease-specific, self-management content while also improving patient engagement. Since motivational quotes are increasingly used in various media and therapeutic programs to promote positive thinking and self-esteem, this article explores their medical applications and integration into digital health, with particular emphasis on tailoring different categories of motivational quotes to address specific causes of low self-esteem in chronically-ill adult populations.