scholarly journals Polski sukces sukcesu w świetle opracowań leksykograficznych i literatury popularnopsychologicznej

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Skowronek
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Neutral Element ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Culture Of Success ◽  
Polish Language

In her article the author discusses “success” – one of most important words defining the contemporary culture and people. She asks about the meaning of the word and compares its use in self-help books with the definition found in dictionaries of the Polish language. How is the contemporary “culture of success” created by those “new” meaning profiles? The first part of the analysis concerns the semantics of “success” in selected historical and modern dictionaries. K. Skowronek points out that the word has undergone the process of amelioration: from a neutral element to a positive one. The second part of the article is a narrative analysis. The author presents the semantics of the word in contemporary self-help books. She highlights its individualistic and self-disciplining character. Nowadays, success is synonymous with happiness and the meaning of life. It predominantly entails an obsessive chase while not necessarily a real achievement.

scholarly journals Exploring the Etiological Pathways of Problematic Pornography Use in NoFap/PornFree Rebooting Communities: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Internet Forum Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitra Chasioti ◽  
James Binnie
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Causal Connections ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Pornography Use ◽  
Online Persona ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Crisis Of Meaning ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Everyday Living

AbstractProblematic pornography use (PPU) has been extensively studied in terms of its negative implications for various life domains. The empirical literature reveals measured outcomes of interpersonal and intrapersonal dysfunction in participants’ everyday living, supporting its classification as a disorder. The increasing number of complaints around PPU opens the door to the creation of online self-help rebooting communities. This qualitative study aimed to provide a better understanding of this behavior by investigating potential etiological pathways contributing to the onset of PPU, as they were expressed by members of the online NoFap/PornFree self-help communities with self-perceived PPU. The critical narrative analysis reveals a complex web of mutually informing causal connections. The dialectical relationship between situational resources, material conditions, and an embodied spectator gives rise to an online persona with motivations of self-exploration, experimentation, and socializing. A sense of vulnerability rendered the use of pornography as a means of escape and validation. Furthermore, commitment to abstinence, framed by the notions of recovery and relapse, was found to be a major factor for maintaining distress. The study highlighted the need for a thorough understanding of the etiological pathways of PPU for a more effective and targeted intervention. Moving beyond biomedical conceptualizations suggests an intervention whereby PPU is placed in a context of a crisis of meaning.

scholarly journals Digital detox: Media resistance and the promise of authenticity

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1269-1283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trine Syvertsen ◽  
Gunn Enli
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Corporate Websites ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Loss Of Contact ◽  
Digital Detox

A fascination for the authentic is pervasive in contemporary culture. This article discusses texts recommending digital detox and how these accentuate dilemmas of what it means to be authentically human in the age of constant connectivity. Digital detox can be defined as a periodic disconnection from social or online media, or strategies to reduce digital media involvement. Digital detox stands in a long tradition of media resistance and resistance to new communication technologies, and non-use of media, but advocates balance and awareness more than permanent disconnection. Drawing on the analysis of 20 texts promoting digital detox: self-help literature, memoirs and corporate websites, the article discusses how problems with digital media are defined and recommended strategies to handle them. The analysis is structured around three dominant themes emerging in the material: descriptions of temporal overload and 24/7 connectivity, experiences of spatial intrusion and loss of contact with ‘real life’ and descriptions of damage to body and mind. A second research topic concerns how arguments for digital detox can be understood within a wider cultural and political context. Here, we argue that digital detox texts illuminate the rise of a self-regulation society, where individuals are expected to take personal responsibility for balancing risks and pressures, as well as representing a form of commodification of authenticity and nostalgia.

scholarly journals La lectura de autoayuda como invención de sentido: lecturas placenteras, creativas y reparadoras

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanina Belén Canavire
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
Reading Activity ◽  
Instrumental Role

Teniendo en cuenta que construir un público es una de las operaciones más complicadas de la cultura contemporánea, existe algo que diferencia a la literatura de autoayuda de otros productos de consumo masivo, cuestión que se refleja en la posición privilegiada que ésta ostenta en el mercado editorial actual. A partir de ello, en este artículo, reflexionamos a propósito de las representaciones que los propios lectores realizan sobre la lectura de autoayuda, atendiendo a la disposición personal y física que los individuos invierten en esta práctica, los escenarios de lectura, y las circunstancias biográficas en que se desarrolla la actividad lectora. Concluimos en que, asignarle a la lectura de autoayuda una función instrumental por excelencia, no deja ver el valor simbólico que esta práctica adquiere en la vida cotidiana: se trata de una lectura que también construye, llena vacíos, repara.  La lectura de autoayuda como invención de sentido: lecturas placenteras, creativas y reparadoras Resumen: Teniendo en cuenta que construir un público es una de las operaciones más complicadas de la cultura contemporánea, existe algo que diferencia a la literatura de autoayuda de otros productos de consumo masivo, cuestión que se refleja en la posición privilegiada que ésta ostenta en el mercado editorial actual. A partir de ello, en este artículo, reflexionamos a propósito de las representaciones que los propios lectores realizan sobre la lectura de autoayuda, atendiendo a la disposición personal y física que los individuos invierten en esta práctica, los escenarios de lectura, y las circunstancias biográficas en que se desarrolla la actividad lectora. Concluimos en que, asignarle a la lectura de autoayuda una función instrumental por excelencia, no deja ver el valor simbólico que esta práctica adquiere en la vida cotidiana: se trata de una lectura que también construye, llena vacíos, repara. Palabras clave: Lectura; Autoayuda; Representaciones sociales; Placer; Subjetividad.  The reading of self-help as an invention of sense: pleasant, creative and reparative readings Abstract: Given that build an audience is one of the most complicated operations of contemporary culture, there is something that differentiates self-help literature of other consumer products, an issue that is reflected in the privileged position it holds in the publishing market current. From this, in this article we reflect about the representations that readers make about reading self-help, attending to personal and physical disposition that individuals invest in this practice, scenarios reading, and biographical circumstances where the reading activity develops. We conclude that, assign reading self-help an instrumental role par excellence, obscures the symbolic value that this practice takes in everyday life: it is a reading that also builds, fills gaps, repairs. Key words: Reading; Self-help; Social representations; Pleasure; Subjectivity.

scholarly journals The Amazing Bounce-Backable Woman: Resilience and the Psychological Turn in Neoliberalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 477-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalind Gill ◽  
Shani Orgad
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Positive Thinking ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Vast Range

This article examines the growing prominence accorded to the idea of ‘resilience’ as a regulatory ideal, locating it in the context of a ‘turn to character’ in contemporary culture which we see as part of a wider psychological turn within neoliberalism. Building from discussions of ‘resilience’ as a quality demanded and promoted by public policy in the context of austerity and worsening inequality, we argue that resilience has also emerged as a central term in popular culture in genres such as self-help literature, lifestyle magazines, and reality television, as well as in a burgeoning social media culture focussed on positive thinking, affirmations, and gratitude. It calls on people to be adaptable and positive, bouncing back from adversity and embracing a mind-set in which negative experiences can–and must–be reframed in upbeat terms. The article examines three case studies–women’s magazines, self-help books, and smartphone apps–to explore how resilience is constituted, how it operates, and how it materialises across different sites. We extend existing work by highlighting the classed and gendered dimensions of injunctions to resilience, pointing to the ways that middle-class women are hailed as emblematic ‘bounce-backable’ subjects. We explore how notions of elasticity, inspiration, and affirmation are deployed in ways that systematically outlaw critique or any need for social transformation while inciting a vast range of physical, social and, above all, psychological labours on the part of ‘resilient’ subjects.

scholarly journals „Libri amici, libri magistri”. O oczekiwaniach czytelniczych młodzieży licealnej

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (330) ◽  
pp. 338-349
Author(s):  
Agata Kucharska-Babula
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Opinion Poll ◽  
Polish Language

The author of the text begins with presenting the results of opinion poll, she had carried out in 2016–2017 in five music high schools. It follows that teenagers who attend to artistic schools want to read more books during Polish language lessons. They want to get to know books, with contain the meaning of life. Moreover these novels should be close to the author’s life experiance. Books for teenagers should have also conteined literary work about artists. In the further part of this text, an author was discussed about a novel „Cudzoziemka” written by Maria Kuncewicz. It shows a perfect example where the word connects with the sound, she concluded. The article shows the musicality of a reading and connecting with music talented teenagers expectations. 

scholarly journals Exploring the Utility and Personal Relevance of Co-Produced Multiplicity Resources with Young People

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Parry ◽  
Zarah Eve ◽  
Gemma Myers
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
The Body ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Personal Relevance ◽  
Inclusive Language ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Many

AbstractMultiplicity, the experience of more than one self in the body, is an under-researched area of young people’s mental health. The aim of this study was to explore the perspectives of experts-by-experience within a community sample regarding two specific resources: a co-produced self-help guide about multiplicity for adolescents, and a set of guidelines for supporting someone who identifies as ‘multiple’. 34 participants (Mage= 22.06, 2.26 SD; 15F, 1M, 18NBG) completed an online survey consisting of open-ended and Likert scale questions to assess the language, utility, transferability and therapeutic impact of the materials. Descriptive statistics and a Foucauldian-informed Narrative Analysis were employed to analyse responses, producing a summary of utility and two narrative chapters. The emergent chapters, ‘Breaking the Stigma’ and ‘Recognising the Many’, highlight the need for greater understanding and awareness of multiplicity, with psychoeducation materials viewed as helpful. Inclusive language can reduce stigma and normalise multiplicity as a response to trauma. With greater understanding, practitioners and researchers can collaborate with young people through trauma wise care, providing multiplicity sensitive language and support. Overall, the term ‘parts’ was viewed as problematic by the participants as it could imply the plural system is not coexisting as a whole. Additionally, opinions varied as to how much diagnostic language could and should be used to describe multiplicity; linguistically and conceptually. Importantly, compassion was seen as particularly essential for younger selves within the system; older in their years and presence, but often more vulnerable within the societies in which the system resides.

Group Experiences and Individual Differences in Stuttering

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 4335-4350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth E. Tichenor ◽  
J. Scott Yaruss
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Group Experiences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Adults Who Stutter

Purpose This study explored group experiences and individual differences in the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings perceived by adults who stutter. Respondents' goals when speaking and prior participation in self-help/support groups were used to predict individual differences in reported behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. Method In this study, 502 adults who stutter completed a survey examining their behaviors, thoughts, and feelings in and around moments of stuttering. Data were analyzed to determine distributions of group and individual experiences. Results Speakers reported experiencing a wide range of both overt behaviors (e.g., repetitions) and covert behaviors (e.g., remaining silent, choosing not to speak). Having the goal of not stuttering when speaking was significantly associated with more covert behaviors and more negative cognitive and affective states, whereas a history of self-help/support group participation was significantly associated with a decreased probability of these behaviors and states. Conclusion Data from this survey suggest that participating in self-help/support groups and having a goal of communicating freely (as opposed to trying not to stutter) are associated with less negative life outcomes due to stuttering. Results further indicate that the behaviors, thoughts, and experiences most commonly reported by speakers may not be those that are most readily observed by listeners.

Introduction to the Forum on Cluttering: Rays of Hope Shine Around the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1566-1567
Author(s):  
Isabella Reichel
Keyword(s):  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Feedback Training ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
Evidence Based Treatments ◽  
Attention Performance ◽  
Self Help Groups

Purpose In the 10 years since the International Cluttering Association (ICA) was created, this organization has been growing in the scope of its initiatives, and in the variety of resources it makes available for people with cluttering (PWC). However, the awareness of this disorder and of the methods for its intervention remain limited in countries around the world. A celebration of the multinational and multicultural engagements of the ICA's Committee of the International Representatives is a common thread running through all the articles in this forum. The first article is a joint effort among international representatives from five continents and 15 countries, exploring various themes related to cluttering, such as awareness, research, professional preparation, intervention, and self-help groups. The second article, by Elizabeth Gosselin and David Ward, investigates attention performance in PWC. In the third article, Yvonne van Zaalen and Isabella Reichel explain how audiovisual feedback training can improve the monitoring skills of PWC, with both quantitative and qualitative benefits in cognitive, emotional, and social domains of communication. In the final article, Hilda Sønsterud examines whether the working alliance between the client and clinician may predict a successful cluttering therapy outcome. Conclusions Authors of this forum exchanged their expertise, creativity, and passion with the goal of solving the mystery of the disconcerting cluttering disorder with the hope that all PWC around the globe will have access to the most effective evidence-based treatments leading to blissful and successful communication.

Stuttering-Related Podcasts: Audio-Based Self-Help for People Who Stutter

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1131-1138
Author(s):  
Lauren E. Dignazio ◽  
Megan M. Kenny ◽  
Erik X. Raj ◽  
Kyle D. Pelkey
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Group Leaders ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Group Members

Purpose It is known that people who stutter (PWS) benefit from self-help experiences, such as attending support groups or conferences. However, limited research has been done to explore the listening of stuttering-related podcasts as a form of self-help for PWS. This study seeks to understand the reasons why PWS listen to stuttering-related podcasts and provide descriptions of their listening experiences. Method Thirty-three PWS who have listened to stuttering-related podcasts were recruited to participate in an online survey that included multiple-choice and open-ended questions. Responses were analyzed and grouped into descriptive themes. Results Participants reported listening to stuttering-related podcasts as a way to gain information and perspective. They also reported experiences that fit themes of empowerment and camaraderie, as a result of listening. Conclusions Stuttering-related podcasts seem to be a positive self-help tool for PWS. Stuttering support group leaders and/or speech-language pathologists may consider introducing their group members or clients who stutter to this type of audio-based self-help experience.

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