scholarly journals Finding the Language to Talk About Death

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidia Schapira
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Future

An important part of an oncologist's job is to help terminal patients assimilate serious information that alters their sense of self and concept of the future. Another is to help them understand the hope that remains.

Rural Communities and Well-Being: A Good Place to Grow Up?

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Glendinning ◽  
Mark Nuttall ◽  
Leo Hendry ◽  
Marion Kloep ◽  
Sheila Wood
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
The Future

This study looks at young people's accounts of life in communities in rural northern Scotland, and considers in what ways affective and social aspects of community are bound up with well-being, over and above young people's concerns for the future, rural youth transitions, and out-migration. Interviews were held with 15–18 year-olds in four study areas (16 groups, N = 60+) and a parallel survey of 11–16 year-olds was conducted in eight study areas (N = 2400+). Themes to emerge from the interviews included: opportunities locally, the future and staying on, as well as local amenities and services; but older teenagers also spoke at length about their social lives, family and social networks, and their community, both as close-knit and caring and as intrusive and controlling. Rural communities were seen as good places in childhood, but not necessarily for young people. In parallel with that, the survey data paints a picture where feelings of support, control, autonomy, and attachment were all associated with emotional well-being. Importantly, links between emotional well-being and practical, material concerns were outweighed by positive identifications of community as close-knit and caring; and equally, by negative identifications as intrusive and constraining, where the latter was felt more strongly by young women. Certainly, beliefs about future employment and educational opportunities were also linked to well-being, but that was over and above, and independently of, affective and social aspects of community life. Additionally, migration intentions were also bound up with sense of self and well-being, and with feelings about community life; and links between thoughts about leaving and community life as controlling and constraining were, yet again, felt more strongly by young women. Thus, gender was a key dimension affecting young people's feelings about their communities with significant implications for well-being, and out-migration. The study illustrates the importance of understanding the experiences young people have of growing up in rural areas, and how they evaluate those experiences: particularly, how life in rural communities matters for young people's well-being; and especially, for young women.

scholarly journals SELF-ESTEEM MEDIATES RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SELF-CONCEPT CLARITY AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE FUTURE

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
Adrian Morawiak ◽  
Błażej Mrozinski ◽  
Joanna Gutral ◽  
Marzena Cypryańska ◽  
John B Nezlek
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Structural Domain ◽  
The Future ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
The Relationship

Aim: The present study was designed to examine relationships between young people’s self-concepts and their perceptions of their futures Methods: High school students (n = 347) completed measures of the two domains of self‑concept, the evaluative domain, self-esteem, and the knowledge or structural domain, self-concept clarity. They also completed two measures of perceptions of their futures, optimism and future time perspective. Results: Both measures of self-concept were positively correlated with both measures of perception of the future. For both measures of perceptions of the future, regression analyses found that when perceptions of the future were regressed onto the two measures of self-concept perceptions of the future were significantly related to only self-esteem. Relationships between perceptions of the future and self-concept clarity were not significant. Analyses of mediation found that self-esteem mediated the relationship between self-concept clarity and both measures of perceptions of the future. Conclusion: Young people with a clearer sense of self and who have higher self-esteem are more optimistic and perceive a longer future than young people with a less clear sense of self and who have lower self-esteem; however, the effects of self-concept clarity disappear after the relationship between clarity and self-esteem are taken into account.

scholarly journals Application of the Analects of Confucius in training scenic dialogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Yadong Yu
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Work Condition ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Logical Organization ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Analects

The author examines four main things taught by Confucius: virtue, speech, political questions, and literature in the context of their use in teaching scenic art. The author claims that speech is extremely importance, as it is not only a criterion for assessing virtue, but also necessary means for participating in political affairs and mastering literature. The article describes asset of guidelines for speech practice, their application in teaching acting techniques, and significance for practicing “dialogue” in scenic speech class. Attention is focused on teaching improvisation dialogue to the actors. Such practical course is intended for logical organization of speech skills of the students. A conclusion is made that Confucius' understanding of speech practices allows teaching improvisation dialogue to the future actors. At the initial stage of teaching improvisation dialogue, it is important to instill  the sense of self-consciousness into students, dispose towards self-education, teach to be in a stable work condition, and only then organize speech based on the suggested circumstances. During this practical course, it is necessary to follow true emotions, mutual trust, sincerity of communication and, and how the student overcomes difficulties if logically structures the line of dialogue. The next step is to teach the future actor a rational attitude towards a situation.

What Happens if Work Goes Away?

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Al Gini
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Living Things ◽  
The Future ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Factory Of The Future

Abstract:Jeremy Rifkin argues that as we push further into the Information Age fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce our goods and services. Rifkin predicts that the era of near workerless factories and virtual corporations looms on the horizon. As one wag commentator put it: “The factory of the future will be staffed by only two living things, a man and a dog. The man’s job will be to feed the dog. The dog’s job will be to keep the man from touching any of the machines!” In a world that is phasing out mass employment, asks Rifkin, how do we find alternate ways for individuals to earn a living, find meaningful and creative outlets for expressions and establish their own sense of self-worth and identity? In other words, in the absence of work, how will we come to define ourselves? What will we do with ourselves? How will we stay sane?

A Lens for an Eye: Proust and Photography

2012 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dora Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Future ◽  
As If

Returning to a famous scene in A la recherche du temps perdu when the narrator sees his grandmother as if his eye were a lens, this paper takes seriously the objectivity attributed to photographic vision in order to trace its consequences for our sense of self. I argue that objective sight is traumatic not because it reveals the future nonexistence of things, but because it reveals the continued existence of things in our absence, signaling thereby the contingency of the perceiving subject.

scholarly journals The Awareness and Attitude of Contracted Service Among General Medical Practitioners in Community Health Service Centers in Urban China: A Cross-Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Yin ◽  
Delu Yin ◽  
Huijing He ◽  
Xiaoguo Zheng ◽  
Ruili Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Community Health Service ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Family Doctors ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
The Future

This study aims to explore the attitude, willingness, and satisfaction with contracted service (CS) among staff in community health service (CHS) centers in urban China and to explore the associated factors of satisfaction with CS. From August 2016 to July 2017, five CHS centers in three provinces of China were selected. Setting-level information was collected by official document review; and personal information on demographic characteristics, awareness, willingness, and attitude of CS among staff was collected by questionnaire survey. Univariate and multivariable logistic regression models were fitted to explore the associated factors of satisfaction with CS. Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) was used to visually demonstrate the correlations among category data related with satisfaction with CS. The CS signing rates were 30.78, 12.72, 22.20, 14.32, and 21.19% in the five CHS centers. A total of 286 staff included family doctors (40.91%), nurses (31.12%), and others (27.97%) completed the survey. For the sense of self-worth, 86.01% (246/286) participants hold a positive attitude. The predominant barrier of CS signing was caused by the work pressure due to CS performance assessment (48.60%, 139/286). About 30% of family doctors and nurses reported a heavy work pressure, and more than 30% of doctors had great feeling of fatigue. Notably, 51.69% family doctors would like to change their job in the future. Compared with other staff, family doctors were more likely to be unsatisfied with CS (OR: 2.793, 95% CI: 1.155–6.754, p = 0.022). Participants in Sichuan province have lower satisfaction than other places. The MCA yielded similar factors consistent with multivariable results of clustering with different levels of CS satisfaction. Our study revealed that the CS coverage and satisfaction among staff from the primary healthcare system varied geographically and are associated with professional field, workload, and pressure. Measures that aim to promote the stability of primary care human resource should be considered in the future.

The meaning of hope for individuals with spinal cord injury in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 526-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Amorim Zuchetto ◽  
Soraia Dornelles Schoeller ◽  
Adriana Dutra Tholl ◽  
Daniella Karine Souza Lima ◽  
Luciana Neves da Silva Bampi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Cord Injury ◽  
The Future

Aim: To understand the meaning of hope among individuals with spinal cord injury. Design: A qualitative study employing the ethnographic method was used, with 18 individuals. Method: Participant observation was chosen to understand individuals with spinal cord injury and interviews were used to elicit information about the hope experience. The data were analysed using Ernst Bloch's theory of hope. Findings: Participants constructed their own personality and sense of self, including their hopes for their future, based on their life before their injury. Life after experiencing spinal cord injury highlighted the limitations and potentialities of their hopes. Using a sense of hope to establish goals for the future helped participants overcome obstacles. Conclusion: Hope in people with spinal cord injury helped them cope with the fundamental changes to their daily lives. Hope played an important role in articulating coping strategies and setting and achieving goals. These findings may help nurses understand the limits and potentialities of hope as an instigator of goals in the daily life of individuals with spinal cord injury.

“I Must Change My Life”

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Robert H. Abzug
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Individual Growth ◽  
American Life ◽  
The Future ◽  
Religious Crisis

The chapter recounts the intimate and public missionary life of May in Greece from 1930 to 1933. He finds the experience daunting, thrust from small town American life both to the scenes of classical antiquity and contemporary conflict between Greece and Turkey. He teaches refugee kids and realizes they have seen more and experienced worse moments than he ever has. All of this leads to a religious crisis in which May commits to a personalist vision of Christianity in opposition to a typical missionary attitude of simply counting saved souls without guiding their individual growth in grace. His crisis is also an exercise in rebellion against what he sees as his father’s superficial Christianity. In all, early 1932 is a turning point in his sense of self and his vision of the future borne of both the challenge and discomfort of Europe and Salonika in particular

PROFESSIONAL MOTIVATION AS AN INTERNAL FACTOR OF THE PROFESSIONALISM DEVELOPMENT OF THE FUTURE MANAGER

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
M. Kupchak ◽  
A. Samilo
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Professional Characteristics ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. Introduction. Motivation is considered one of the most important units in the structure of professional activity of a specialist manager. It is the motivational component that has the greatest impact on the professional activities and behaviour of staff. Personal satisfaction from a job well done gives employees a sense of self-confidence, stimulates them to self-realization. If in the management process such an opportunity is given to employees, their work is effective, the motives of professional activity - high, and motivational management - the most effective. Purpose.The purpose of the work is to theoretically substantiate the problems of professional motivation and motivational management and to test their impact on the development of professionalism of the future manager. Methods.In order to clarify the peculiarities of the development of professionalism of the future manager in the work used the following research methods: theoretical - the study of psychological and pedagogical literature on the research problem; systematic and analytical methods for determining the leading definitions and their theoretical justifi-cation, as well as for analysing the problem of professional success of the individual in connection with personal and professional characteristics; empirical - observation, survey, questionnaire, testing, forecasting in order to study the theory of the influence of motives to achieve a choice in the profession.Results.The article substantiates the concept of "motives of professional activity" and clarifies the impact of var-ious psychological, personal and professional characteristics on the effectiveness and efficiency of training a specialist and the implementation of professional activities. The peculiarities of effective motivational management in the structure of professional activity of a person-specialist, as well as the system of motivation in professional training are determined. The motivational sphere of professional activity of future specialists of higher education institutions is investigated. Pe-culiarities of motivational choice of professional activity of a specialist are studied. An analysis of the problem of profes-sional success of the individual in connection with personal and professional characteristics. Conclusion.Professional motivation is considered as an internal driving factor in the development of profession-alism of the future manager, as well as an important management mechanism of motivational management, which is an indisputable means of effective functioning of the organization. Motivation serves as an internal condition for further improvement of personality, ensures the sustainability of its professional views, acts as a stimulator not only of values, but also intellectual, emotional and volitional processes, affects the overall results of professional activity.

Six Postschool Case Studies of Mildly Learning Handicapped Young Adults

1989 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 405-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea G. Zetlin ◽  
Ashraf Hosseini
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
The Future ◽  
Adult Roles

Participant observation was conducted for 1 year with six mildly learning handicapped young adults following their graduation from high school Close attention was paid to the ways in which they managed the transition out of school and into more adult roles. During this year, all six floundered from job to job, class to class, and school to school. They expressed discontent and frustration with their present situation. They were at a loss to plan for the future and maintained an unrealistic appraisal of their skills. Their sense of self waxed and waned in keeping with their prospects, and the patience and frustration of family members vacillated as well.

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