scholarly journals The Refined Image of the Oriental in Browning’s Two Victorian Plays: A Psychoanalytic Reading

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Self Esteem ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Robert Browning ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Suicidal Thoughts ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this paper is to examine the way in which Robert Browning dissociates himself from the predominant Orientalist mode that viewed the Orient as a zone for exoticism. Despite his misconception of the Orient, there are bright aspects in his plays which can be described as a kind of reverence and respect. The study is a psychoanalytic reading of the oppressed Oriental who tries to assimilate, yet he fails. Consequently, psychological problems such as alienation that results from racial prejudice, a damaged self-esteem, and suicidal thoughts develop. At the same time, the study examines betrayal. In other words, the characters surrounding the central character allow Browning to construe the loyalty of the protagonist and the reversal involved in betrayal as stoically accepted. Luria: A Tragedy (1846) and The Return of the Druses (1843) are two Victorian plays to be explored in this study drawing on Frantz Fanon’s psychoanalytic criticism.

Incarcerated Adolescents' Distress and Suicidality in Relation to Parental Bonding Styles

Crisis ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 164-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth L McGarvey ◽  
Ludmila A Kryzhanovskaya ◽  
Cheryl Koopman ◽  
Dennis Waite ◽  
Randolph J Canterbury
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Parental Bonding ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Suicidal Thoughts ◽  
Parental Bonding Instrument ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Incarcerated Adolescents

This study examines the relationships between the bonding style of an incarcerated adolescent with parents and his/her current feelings of self-esteem, hopelessness, and suicidal thoughts and attempts. It also investigates differences between bonding to mother and bonding to father. Some 296 incarcerated adolescents were interviewed using the Parental Bonding Instrument. Significant relationships were found between youths' self-esteem, hopelessness, and suicidal behavior and their bonding style. Youths whose parent(s) had a parental bonding style of affectionless control reported the greatest distress, and youths whose parent(s) had an optimal bonding style reported the least distress. Differences were found between bonding styles with the mother and with the father. Attachment theory may be useful in targeting incarcerated youths who have affectionless control bonding with parent(s) for special interventions since these youths are most at risk for psychosocial problems.

“I really like the way you ….” Training parents to shape the behaviour of A-D/HD children: is it effective?

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
Anne Waugh ◽  
Chris Forlin
Keyword(s):  
Parent Training ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Parent Stress ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Behaviour Management ◽  
Modal Approach ◽  
Parent Training Programs ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
The Way

Parent training programs are an important component of a multi-modal approach to behaviour management of A-D/HD children. The efficacy of parent training programs in the management of behaviours exhibited by A-D/HD children is reviewed. Positive outcomes for parent self-esteem, understanding of A-D/HD, anD lower parent stress levels are reported, along with increased compliance by, and improved self-esteem of, A-D/HD children.

scholarly journals Psychological Problems and Challenge In EFL Speaking Classroom

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Win Listyaningrum Arifin
Keyword(s):  
Public Speaking ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Speech Anxiety ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Learning Attitudes ◽  
Poor Understanding ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
English Speaking

Psychological aspect regarding to learning attitudes plays in determining learning achievement. Psychological problems also involve not only to the students but also teacher. Less-confidence, speech anxiety, and low self-esteem are almost common problem in classroom, and occur on both teachers and students. Students who have low of self-confidence are often hardly able to control themselves for public speaking in the classroom, like, Governing his/ her behavior on that his/her peers think, lose belief on self, thinking that his/her friends dis-appraising, afraid of getting mistakes, etc. However, teachers which are low self-esteem and confidence also lose their performance and ability to manage their classroom optimally. Low self-esteem may caused by teacher’s poor understanding on subject matter. Both of psychological problems impact on dis-effectiveness of classroom activities. This paper takes accounts of some psychological problems of students and teachers in English speaking classroom, and some guidelines to overcome. At the last discus, this paper also provides some keys of how to make good classroom atmosphere.   

scholarly journals Falling, Looking, Caring: Red Road as Melodrama

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 548-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Central Character ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The Way ◽  
Woman's Film

This article examines Red Road as a melodrama and woman's film. It argues that the film is traductively real and melodramatic, and that conceiving the film in melodramatic terms is contrary to the way in which it has been defined in public discourses and academic analysis. Red Road is film melodrama in a number of related ways, via: tropes of narrative and character; a tendency to look back, work through and act out in a melancholy and melodramatic fashion; an emphasis on familialism and redemption; and the nomination of its central character as a woman and mother. Red Road is a maternal text in familiar and complex ways – for example, in the way in which CCTV is inscribed with guardianship and care, and also via Jackie's presentation as a sexual and narrative riddle and other-worldly figure. Jackie's sphinx-like status, the paper argues, connects with Red Road's multiple and twilight qualities, and this is supported by the film's affective elements, including its treatment of the Red Road flats. This treatment helps to engender Red Road's qualities not only of redemption and rebirth, but also of memory and revision.

Behavior in a Mixed Motive Game as a Function of Induced Self-Esteem

1970 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 511-517
Author(s):  
Richard G. Graf ◽  
Louise Hearne
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Trial Block ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Other ◽  
Competitive Behavior ◽  
The Way

High, neutral, and low self-esteem were induced in college students who then took part in a mixed motive game. It was hypothesized that induced low self-esteem would result in highly competitive behavior. This prediction was confirmed for the first trial block of 10 trials but no difference in competitive behavior among the 3 groups was observed during the second through fifth trial blocks. The results were discussed in terms of the success of the induction of level of self-esteem, the perceived strategy of the other player, and the way in which the perceived strategy might interact with chronic and induced levels of self-esteem.

Browning's Knowledge of Music

PMLA ◽  
1947 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 1095-1099
Author(s):  
Herbert Eveleth Greene
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Robert Browning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Casual Reader ◽  
First Time ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Way

That Robert Browning, the poet, possessed wide and multifarious learning is evident to a casual reader of his poems. The careful reader is impressed by the range and extent of his learning which includes much of what is called hole-in-the-corner knowledge, a familiarity with out-of-the-way topics and incidents that few readers possess. The scholarship of the past two decades has begun to give us a good deal of knowledge upon the nature of Browning's learning, and we are in a fair position now to estimate how much of the poet's knowledge was systematic and well-ordered, and how much of it was haphazard and based upon a following-up of this or that temporary interest. The letter which is the heart of this paper and which is published for the first time below will shed light upon this problem in an area in which Browning's training was probably most systematic.

Can We Change the Culture to Promote Psychological Health?

Mood Prep 101 ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 255-266
Author(s):  
Carol Landau
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Young People ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
College Application ◽  
Individual Achievement ◽  
The Way

All of the issues in this book take place in the context of a competitive, overly individualistic environment. Many educators and journalists have suggested that this is stressful to students. A study of stress in in the United States confirms that students view college application stress as detrimental to their mental health. This chapter suggests that it is incumbent upon parents and educators to lead the way in reducing the pressure, to focus more on collaboration and less on competition and individual achievement. At the same time, we need to reduce the stigma of psychological problems in order to be more humane and to encourage young people to get help when they need it.

Effects of Parenting Styles on Psychological Problems by Self Esteem and Gender Differences

2020 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2095844
Author(s):  
Erica Szkody ◽  
Ellen H. Steele ◽  
Cliff McKinney
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Female Self ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

Current research supports the lasting effects of parenting styles on children and adolescents’ self-esteem, and internalizing and externalizing problems. Few studies have examined parenting style, self-esteem, and psychological problems together while considering gender. The current study explored the indirect effect of parenting style though self-esteem on emerging adult psychological problems as moderated by gender among 381 emerging adults. The most notable finding suggested that maternal authoritative parenting was related to higher levels of female self-esteem, which in turn related to lower levels of female psychological problems. Results indicated a relationship between higher levels of self-esteem and lower psychological problems. Findings from the current study contribute to research emphasizing the long-lasting effects of parenting style on emerging adult self-esteem and mental health, particularly among females.

scholarly journals Correlation between fatigue and self-esteem in patients with multiple sclerosis

2009 ◽  
Vol 67 (3b) ◽  
pp. 818-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yára Dadalti Fragoso ◽  
Érika Oliveira da Silva ◽  
Alessandro Finkelsztejn
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Socioeconomic Level ◽  
Mild Depression ◽  
Degree Of Disability ◽  
Severe Anxiety ◽  
The Way

OBJECTIVE: To assess the possible association of fatigue with self-esteem in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. METHOD: Thirty patients were prospectively assessed. None of them presented moderate or severe depression or anxiety and their degree of disability was low (EDSS<3.5). They had been clinically stable for at least three months and had been receiving the same medication for at least six months. Socioeconomic level was assessed. Severity of fatigue and self-esteem were evaluated using specific, validated scales. Patients with moderate to severe anxiety and/or depression were excluded. RESULTS: Low self-esteem correlated with fatigue (p=0.01), but not with any other variables, such as age, gender, EDSS, MS duration, number of relapses, mild depression and/or anxiety. CONCLUSION: Greater severity of fatigue in MS correlates with low self-esteem, thus suggesting that this chronic complaint that affects so many patients can interfere with the way in which they see and value themselves.

Associations Between Mother–Child Communication Apprehension, and Young Adult Resilience, Depressive Symptoms, and Self-Esteem

2020 ◽  
pp. 003329412092135
Author(s):  
Timothy Curran ◽  
John Seiter ◽  
Mengfei Guan ◽  
Taylor White
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Social Skill ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Skill Training ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Social Skill Training ◽  
Adult Resilience

This study tested associations between mother–child communication apprehension, adult child communication apprehension, and adult child resilience, self-esteem, and depressive symptoms. Data were collected from 154 mother–child dyads ( N =  308) who completed measures of communication apprehension, depressive symptoms, resilience, and self-esteem. Results showed that mother communication apprehension positively predicted adult child communication apprehension. Moreover, adult child communication apprehension predicted lower levels of resilience and self-esteem, and higher levels of depressive symptoms. Mother communication apprehension indirectly predicted all three psychological outcomes for adult children through adult children’s communication apprehension. We discuss the potential implications for communication apprehension and social skill training that could help families improve psychological problems.

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