Toward Developing a Conceptual Framework to explain Positive Thinking Based on Islamic View

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Kodayarifard ◽  
Bagher GhobariBonab ◽  
Saeed Akbari ZardKhaneh ◽  
Enayatollah Zamanpour ◽  
Saeid Zandi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Relational Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Thinking Styles ◽  
Positive Thinking ◽  
Future Expectations ◽  
Islamic View

The aim of the present study was to critically review theories and approaches related to positive thinking and to develop a theoretical model based on Islamic view, which is compatible with cultural values in Iran. To fulfill the stated aim, philosophical and historical foundations of positive thinking in different schools of thought including Leibnitz, Sadra, Kant, Freud and James were critically reviewed. In addition, the theoretical constructs associated with positive thinking including hope, positive automatic thoughts and paradigms of Seligman, Scheier and Carver in this regard were critically studied. Finally, based on the attachment theory of Bowlby, positive thinking was established on and its applications were explained for individuals' thinking styles about past events, present interpretations of events and future expectations. Since the attachment theory is a relational theory, positive thinking in this paradigm was discussed in a way that included individuals' relationship with transcendental being, others, nature, and the self.

„Rzymski” Żyd – nieznana twórczość Romana Brandstaettera

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Dariusz Konrad Sikorski
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Role Model ◽  
The Self ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Law

Summary After 1946, ie. after embracing Christianity, Roman Brandstaetter would often point to the Biblical Jonah as a role model for both his life and his artistic endeavour. In the interwar period, when he was a columnist of Nowy Głos, a New York Polish-Jewish periodical, he used the penname Romanus. The ‘Roman’ Jew appears to have treated his columns as a form of an artistic and civic ‘investigation’ into scandalous cases of breaking the law, destruction of cultural values and violation of social norms. Although it his was hardly ‘a new voice’ with the potential to change the course of history, he did become an intransigent defender of free speech. Brought up on the Bible and the best traditions of Polish literature and culture, Brandstaetter, the self-appointed disciple of Adam Mickiewicz, could not but stand up to the challenge of anti-Semitic aggression.

Theological Implications from Attachment Theory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Marandiuc
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Actions ◽  
Perceived Safety ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Self Actualization

The chapter places theological anthropologies that focus on the connectedness of the self in dialogue with key findings and claims advanced by attachment theorists. One of the most amply researched and pragmatically employed frameworks in contemporary neuropsychology, attachment theory contends that human subjectivity is the product of human attachments. Attachment figures provide an environment of perceived safety within which and out of which the self can pursue other activities in freedom; should attachment needs remain unmet, human actions would be inhibited. Self-actualization depends upon secure attachments that home the self. In fact, the term “home” is a key technical concept for attachment theory: secure attachments constitute a secure home for the self.

The Goodness of Home

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Marandiuc
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Middle Term ◽  
Human Love ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Theological Argument

The question of what home means and how it relates to subjectivity has fresh urgency in light of pervasive contemporary migration, which ruptures the human self, and painful relational poverty, which characterizes much of modern life. Yet the Augustinian heritage that situates true home and right attachment outside this world has clouded theological conceptualizations of earthly belonging. This book engages this neglected topic and argues for the goodness of home, which it construes relationally rather than spatially. In dialogue with research in the neuroscience of attachment theory and contemporary constructions of the self, the book advances a theological argument for the function of love attachments as sources of subjectivity and enablers of human freedom. The book shows that paradoxically the depth of human belonging—thus, dependence—is directly proportional to the strength of human agency—hence, independence. Building on Søren Kierkegaard’s imagery alongside other sources, the book depicts human love as interwoven with the infinite streams of divine love, forming a sacramental site for God’s presence, and playing a constitutive role in the making of the self. The book portrays the self both as gifted from God in inchoate form and as engaged in continuous, albeit nonlinear becoming via experiences of human love. The Holy Spirit indwells the attachment space between human beings as a middle term preventing its implosion or dissolution and conferring a stability that befits the concept of home. The interstitial space between loving human persons subsists both anthropologically and pneumatologically and generates the self’s home.

scholarly journals Uncertainty Avoidance as a Moderating Factor to the Self-Congruity Concept: The Development of a Conceptual Framework

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402110018
Author(s):  
Shaohua Yang ◽  
Salmi Mohd Isa ◽  
T. Ramayah
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
The Self ◽  
Destination Marketing ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Revisit Intention ◽  
Conceptual Paper

The aim of this article was to propose a framework based on the theory of self-congruity and on Hofstede’s uncertainty avoidance. The framework was to combine destination personality, self-congruity, uncertainty avoidance, and tourists’ revisit intention. The present conceptual paper proposed an integrated model of self-congruity which incorporates the effect of uncertainty avoidance. More importantly, the uncertainty avoidance was introduced as a moderator between self-congruity and revisit intention. Based on the theoretical framework proposed in this article, the estimated results affirmed the applicability of the theory of self-congruity for tourism research. Moreover, by extending the theoretical model through the incorporation of a variable of uncertainty avoidance in the context of tourism, this article offers a significant contribution to the tourism literature. It is important to understand how the theory of self-congruity applies across a broad cultural spectrum. This article also offers several implications for destination marketing organizations from a practical perspective.

Cultural spaces of popularized psychological knowledge: Attachment parenting in Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-357
Author(s):  
Anna Sieben ◽  
Ayşe Yıldırır
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
John Bowlby ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Attachment Parenting ◽  
The Us ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Psychological Knowledge

The psychological concept of attachment is constantly evolving. Approximately 70 years after attachment theory was first introduced by John Bowlby in the late 1940s, the notion of attachment is still in flux with continually changing ideas of what it means to be a good parent. One path along which attachment as a concept is moving from academia to everyday life is the philosophy of attachment parenting which was first established in the US by William and Martha Sears. Ideas about attachment theory and attachment parenting are frequently accompanied by critical comments on “Western” cultures. This critical perspective on modernity, individualism, and autonomy is portrayed in the first part of this article. The second part traces attachment as a concept transferred to Turkey. Rather than studying academic work on attachment in Turkey, this article focuses on popularized versions of attachment theory which gain ground as part of the parenting philosophy of attachment parenting. This article analyzes parents’ blogs, websites, self-help books, fieldwork protocols, and interviews with parenting trainers and parents themselves. It focuses on how popular scientific use of attachment parenting in Turkey is accompanied by discussions of cultural identity, cultural values, and belonging. The article shows that attachment theory and parenting are used in quite diverse ways to comment on Turkish (parenting) culture, ranging from anglophile readings to more conservative appropriations of attachment theory as Anatolian education. These forms of popularizing attachment theory challenge the sociological concept of psychologization.

A micromechanistic model of the combustion synthesis process: Part II. Numerical simulation

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 2605-2619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yangsheng Zhang ◽  
Gregory C. Stangle
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Combustion Synthesis ◽  
Quantitative Description ◽  
Computer Experiments ◽  
The Self ◽  
Synthesis Process ◽  
Energy Redistribution ◽  
Precise Control ◽  
Physical And Chemical ◽  
Proper Balance

A series of computer experiments was conducted for the self-propagating combustion synthesis process in the Nb-C system, based on the general theoretical model that was developed previously.1 A detailed and quantitative description was given for the various physical and chemical processes that take place during the combustion synthesis process. The results are presented at various length scales in order to provide an insight into understanding the mechanisms that are responsible for the self-propagating behavior. It was shown that a fundamental understanding and precise control of the process require a strong emphasis on the joint contributions of the rates of the various mass and energy redistribution processes that occur during the combustion synthesis process. A proper balance of each of the elementary process rates must be achieved to give rise to self-propagating behavior. This paper illustrates some of the capabilities of the general theoretical model in quantitatively describing the self-propagating combustion synthesis process.

Making High Committed Workplaces by Strong Organizational Values

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-137
Author(s):  
Zoltán Krajcsák
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Organizational Values ◽  
The Self ◽  
Motivational Strategies ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Value System ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
High Level

Organizational values determine the behaviour and norms expected in the organization. The more similar the attitude, the way of thinking and the value system among organizational members the stronger the culture is. The characteristics of personality can be well modelled with the concept of self-evaluation. The purpose of this article is to create a theoretical framework that reveals the relationships between self-evaluation dimensions, organizational values and employees’ commitment dimensions. Based on the results, affective commitment is supported by a high level of self-esteem and self-efficacy through the organizational values such as collaboration, trust, affiliation, achievement, autonomy, competition and growth. In contrast, professional commitment is supported by a high level of locus of control and emotional stability, through the organizational values such as routinization, attention to details, formalization, support, communication and consistency. The conclusions of the theoretical model can be used to determine effective motivational strategies for groups and organizations with strong cultures, as the results show that motivational tools used at group level can be successful as well, depending on the self-evaluation profiles.

Desire and distance in Kaija Saariaho's Lonh

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Sivuoja-Gunaratnam
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
The Self ◽  
Environmental Sounds ◽  
Feminine Subjectivity ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
Language And Music ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Narrative Convention ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship of desire and distance in Kaija Saariaho's Lonh (1996) for soprano and electronics. The subject matter of Lonh is desire and romantic pleasures, anchored to feminine subjectivity, represented on stage by a soprano singer. Electronics provide the environmental sounds and amplify the singer's voice. Through Lonh looms a medieval song in the Occitan language, ‘Lanquan li jorn son lonc en mai’ by Jaufré Rudel, a famous troubadour in twelfth-century Provence. Saariaho reverses the narrative convention of love stories by presenting the most intimate encounter at the very beginning. In their succeeding encounters, the lovers move further away from each other. Similarly, in the course of Lonh the distance to Jaufré's song also increases. Luce Irigaray's concepts of love are used for an analysis of the relationship of the loving pair. By the end of Lonh the borderlines of speaking, singing, electronics, language and music collapse in Barthesian jouissance (bliss). The electronic technology in Lonh enables the re-investiture of cultural values, and the construction of flexible identities, crossing boundaries between the self and the other.

The Impact of Depressive Illness on Spouses of Depressed Patients

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Dudek ◽  
Andrzej Zieba ◽  
Miroslawa Jawor ◽  
Maria Szymaczek ◽  
Janusz Opila ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rating Scale ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Marital Relationships ◽  
Dyadic Adjustment ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Thinking Styles ◽  
Depressed Patients ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Female Spouses

This study examines the impact of major depressive illness on spouses of depressed patients. The aim of the study was to attempt to conceptualize the gender differences in the manner in which spouses experience their partnera’s disorder. Forty-eight spouses of depressed patients (22 females and 26 males) and 48 married couples with no mental health diagnosis were selected to participate in this study. The occurrence of depressive symptoms was assessed through the use of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Thinking styles were assessed using the Rosenberg Scale (RS), Hopelessness Scale (HS), and the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (ATQ). Perception of the marital relationships was evaluated with the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) Results indicate more depressive symptomatology and distorted thinking patterns with the female spouses of depressed patients. The perceived quality of marital relationships by female spouses was rated to be poorer than that of male counterparts and controls. The results suggest that there exist clear differences in thinking style and perception of marital relationships between female and male spouses who are married to depressed partners.

Content, Origins, and Consequences of Dysfunctional Beliefs in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myra J. Cooper ◽  
Gillian Todd ◽  
Adrian Wells
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
The Self ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Dysfunctional Beliefs ◽  
Childhood All ◽  
Cognitive Theories ◽  
History Information

A semi-structured interview was used to investigate negative self beliefs in female patients with eating disorders and women without an eating disorder history. Information about possible developmental influences on these beliefs was also collected. Beliefs linking eating behavior with weight and shape and beliefs about the self were identified, but only by the patients. Self-beliefs were invariably negative and unconditional. Beliefs about eating, weight and shape were usually in the form of conditional assumptions. Most patients identified specific origins for their negative self-beliefs: usually trauma or abuse in childhood. All patients believed that dieting was a way of counteracting the negative implications associated with their self-beliefs. Bingeing seemed to provide an initial distraction in some cases from negative automatic thoughts, images, negative self-beliefs and negative emotional states. However, after bingeing, these intensified. Implications for cognitive theories of eating disorders and for clinical practice are discussed.

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