Self-reflection log and personal growth perspective

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Hong
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Self Reflection

Productive Ambiguity

2017 ◽  
pp. 63-79
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. Shipe
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Pictures And Words ◽  
Culture Education

This chapter presents how a concept termed “productive ambiguity,” or the ability to transform encounters with difference into opportunities for personal growth, relates to nurturing cross-cultural understanding through experiences with art. While reporting on relevant components of her recent dissertation research, the author describes how a small group of fifth graders examined the concept of productive ambiguity while engaging in relational aesthetic experiences and responding to themes through both pictures and words. Research findings reveal specific facilitation strategies that promoted self-reflection and human connection through creating, viewing and dialoguing about visual art. While comparing study findings with additional literature presented in this chapter, the reader is encouraged to critically consider the positive outcomes gained from these interactions, potential facilitation challenges, and other implications for the field of art and visual culture education.

scholarly journals Making Sense of Entertainment

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Bartsch ◽  
Mary Beth Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Affective Processing ◽  
Motivated Cognition ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Cognitive Elaboration ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Relationship Of

This contribution explores the relationship of emotion and cognition in entertainment experience. Drawing on the reflective model of aesthetic experience ( Cupchik, 1995 ) and the concept of appreciation ( Oliver & Bartsch, 2010 ), we propose a multi-level view of affective processing that includes simple affect schemata as well as more elaborate forms of sociomoral reasoning that build on this basic layer of emotional meaning. To better understand how affective factors can stimulate or impede cognitive elaboration processes, we review research on motivated cognition that has dealt with the influence of arousal, valence, and personal relevance on cognitive depth. The role of affect in defensive information processing (i.e., the motivated neglect or denial of information) is also considered. Specifically, we discuss how research on motivated cognition can help explain thought-provoking entertainment experiences, and the potential of such experiences to stimulate self-reflection and personal growth.

scholarly journals Designed to Clash? Reflecting on the Practical, Personal, and Structural Challenges of Collaborative Research in Psychiatry

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Beeker ◽  
Rosa Kato Glück ◽  
Jenny Ziegenhagen ◽  
Lena Göppert ◽  
Patrick Jänchen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds

Background: In the field of mental health research, collaborative and participatory approaches in which mental health service users actively contribute to academic knowledge production are gaining momentum. However, concrete examples in scientific literature that would detail how collaborative research projects are actually organized, and how they deal with the inherent challenges are rare. This paper provides an in-depth description of a three-year collaborative project that took place in the wider context of a mixed-method process evaluation of innovative models of psychiatric care in Germany.Methods: The in-depth description we provide here draws on a vast body of notes and records that originated from numerous meetings and sessions. The research group continuously and systematically reflected on their collaboration itself using the interpretative method of “interactive interviewing,” which included that also the personal memories of the researchers were collectively re-discussed before and during the process of writing. Our concrete experiences as a group were then contextualized with and analyzed in the light of more general challenges that are central to collaborative research in general.Results: Performing collaborative research requires unconventional thinking and improvisation in order to find creative solutions for practical problems and to overcome the structural obstacles inherent to the process of academic knowledge production. An atmosphere of mutual trust and respect within the group is crucial, and continuous self-reflection or supervision can be largely beneficial. Challenges mainly originate from the vast heterogeneity that characterizes the researchers, usually including large differences in economic, cultural, and social capital.Conclusion: Collaborative research in the field of psychiatry is designed to bring together researchers with widely diverse backgrounds. Emerging conflicts are important parts of knowledge production but also exceptional opportunities to negotiate research ethics, and potential vehicles for personal growth and transformation. Success or failure of collaborative research largely depends on how divergences and conflicts are articulated, mediated, and reflected. This also holds true in the light of the power asymmetries within the research team and the structural power inherent to the engines of academic knowledge production.

scholarly journals Psychological Determinants of Relapse Prevention

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-391
Author(s):  
Namood -e-Sahar ◽  
Irum Naqvi
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Relapse Prevention ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Drug Addicts ◽  
Personal Growth Initiative ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Psychological Determinants ◽  
Self Forgiveness ◽  
Growth Initiative ◽  
The Relationship

The present research aimed to study self-reflection, self-importance of moral identity, self-forgiveness, and personal growth initiative as the psychological determinants of relapse prevention among the drug addicts. Study instruments include Self-Reflection and Insight Scale (Grant, Franklin, & Langford, 2002), Self-Importance of Moral Identity Measure (Aquino & Reed, 2002), Two-factor Self-forgiveness Scale (Griffin et al., 2015), Personal Growth Initiative Scale II-Urdu (PGIS-II) (Zaman, 2018), and Advance Warning of Relapse (AWARE) Scale (Miller & Harris, 2000). The whole study is divided into two phases. Phase I underlies translation and validation of the research instrument into Urdu language; such that, translated versions possess significant reliability and possess good construct validity. Phase II studies the relationship between self-reflection, self-importance of moral identity, self-forgiveness, personal growth initiative, and relapse prevention among 240 drug addicts (M = 29.3, SD = 8.2). Sample was approached at different rehabilitation centers of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Results indicated that all translated instruments are valid for the sample. All the study variables are found to explain about 14% variance (R2 = .14) in warning of relapse such that personal growth initiative is the most significant predictor. The values of total, direct, and indirect effects demonstrate existence of mediation; such that, self-importance of moral identity, self-forgiveness, and personal growth initiative act as serial mediators in order as mentioned for the relationship of self-reflection and warning of relapse.

Caring Science Conscious Dying

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Rosa ◽  
Tarron Estes ◽  
Jean Watson
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Sacred Place ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Group Settings ◽  
Caring Science ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Human Caring

Caring science is an extant theory of human relationship, guiding the profession of nursing with the understanding and application of a moral-ethical praxis that promotes, protects, and provides human dignity throughout the life continuum. Over the past 30 or more years, caring science has transformed nursing by calling for a heightened ethical perspective of human dignity in how nurses practice, educate, research, and evolve the profession. Conscious dying is a framework rooted in a human caring ontology, which strives to deepen the nurse healer’s awareness in tending to a patient’s dying and death, returning death to its sacred place in the cycle of life. Reflective inventories are self-reflection tools that have been used to encourage nurses’ personal growth and development and may be utilized in individual or group settings. The purpose herein is to introduce an emerging metaparadigm that links self to system, interweaving and integrating the teachings of caring science and conscious dying through the use of reflective inventories for both the individual nurse and collective of nursing.

Outcomes: Promoting Reflective Practice Using Performance Indicator Questionnaires

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Pat McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Education ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Clinical Practicum ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Traditional Performance ◽  
The University

This article details the process of self-reflection applied to the use of traditional performance indicator questionnaires. The study followed eight speech-language pathology graduate students enrolled in clinical practicum in the university, school, and healthcare settings over a period of two semesters. Results indicated when reflection was focused on students' own clinical skills, modifications to practice were implemented. Results further concluded self-assessment using performance indicators paired with written reflections can be a viable form of instruction in clinical education.

Bidirectional Associations Between Self-Perceptions of Aging and Processing Speed Across 3 Years

GeroPsych ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna L. Seidler ◽  
Julia K. Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Processing Speed ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Chi Squared ◽  
Perceptions Of Aging ◽  
Bidirectional Associations

Abstract. Background: Previous studies point to a potential relationship between self-perceptions of aging (SPA) and cognitive performance. However, most of these studies are limited by their experimental design. Previous longitudinal studies looked solely at memory as an outcome variable without examining the directionality of effects. The present study examines the direction of effects between two domains of SPA (personal growth and physical losses) and processing speed (PS). Methods: The sample consists of 8,198 participants of the German Ageing Survey (DEAS), aged between 40 and 93 years. A cross-lagged path model was estimated to examine directions of relationships across 3 years via chi-squared difference tests for each domain of SPA. Results: In the unconstrained models, the effect of SPA domain personal growth in 2008 on PS in 2011 and vice versa were marginally significant. For SPA domain physical losses, the effect of SPA on PS was significant, whereas the other direction of the effect did not reach significance. However, the cross-lagged paths of both domains of SPA on PS and vice versa could be set equal without a significant loss of model fit. The resulting associations indicate a significant bidirectional relationship between both domains of SPA and PS. Discussion and conclusion: This study provides initial evidence that SPA can influence trajectories of cognitive decline and vice versa. The results emphasize the detrimental and beneficial effects that stereotypes can have on individuals and add further evidence to the theory of stereotype embodiment.

Persönliche Reifung (Personal Growth) durch Belastungen und Traumata:

Diagnostica ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Maercker ◽  
Robert Langner
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Soziale Unterstützung ◽  
Soziale Erwünschtheit

Zusammenfassung. Die deutschsprachigen Versionen der Selbstbeurteilungsfragebögen “Persönliche Reifung nach Belastungen“ (PRB) und “Posttraumatische Persönliche Reifung“ (PPR) werden vorgestellt und teststatistisch überprüft. Der PRB-Fragebogen ist eindimensional, während der PPR-Fragebogen fünf Subskalen umfaßt: Neue Möglichkeiten, Beziehungen zu Anderen, Persönliche Stärken, Wertschätzung des Lebens und Religiöse Veränderungen. Die untersuchte Stichprobe (N = 141; MAlter = 37.5 Jahre, SD = 17.8, Altersbereich 19-78 Jahre; 63.8% weiblich) setzt sich aus Teilstichproben älterer Studenten mit schweren Lebensereignissen sowie Patienten aus internistischen Kliniken zusammen. Es werden Angaben zur Reliabilität, faktoriellen und diskriminanten Validität der beiden Fragebögenversionen gemacht, die die Faktorenstruktur der englischsprachigen Originalversionen weitgehend bestätigen. Beide Fragebögen korrelieren sehr hoch miteinander. Zur externen Validierung der Fragebögen wurden Bewältigungsstrategien, wahrgenommene soziale Unterstützung, Symptome der Posttraumatischen Belastungsreaktion sowie die soziale Erwünschtheit untersucht. Aufgrund von theoretischen und faktorstrukturellen Gesichtspunkten wird die Verwendung des fünf Dimensionen erfassenden PPR-Fragebogens empfohlen. Offene Probleme der Validierung werden abschließend diskutiert.

Review of Personality and personal growth.

1976 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 900-900
Author(s):  
BRENDAN A. MAHER
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth
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