scholarly journals Media Use as a Function of Identity: The Role of the Self Concept in Media Usage 361

Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Yang ◽  
Jing Hu ◽  
Fengjie Jing ◽  
Bang Nguyen

Awe is a self-transcendent emotion that can diminish one’s focus on the self and serves as an important motivator of commitment to social collectives. However, the influence of awe on ecological behavior is not clear. This study examines the relationships between people’s feeling of awe, their connectedness to nature, and ecological behavior. Three experiments tested the effect of awe on ecological behaviors including mediation tests. Compared with participants in the control condition, participants in the awe condition were more inclined to behave ecologically (Study 1 and 2) and reported a higher feeling of connectedness to nature (Study 2). Moreover, the relationship between awe and ecological behavior was mediated by connectedness to nature (Study 3). These findings indicate that awe helps broaden the self-concept by including nature and increase connectedness to nature, which in turn lead to ecological behavior. They also highlight the significance of connectedness in explaining why awe increases ecological behavior.


Author(s):  
Benjamin K. Johnson ◽  
Michael D. Slater ◽  
Nathaniel A. Silver ◽  
David R. Ewoldsen

Temporarily expanded boundaries of the self (TEBOTS) proposes underlying motivations for engaging with stories. TEBOTS points out that fundamental human drives for agency, autonomy, and connectedness are imperfectly attainable. As a result, human beings turn to transcendent experiences that offer self-expansion, especially engagement with mediated worlds and the stories and characters they provide. TEBOTS provides unique hypotheses about how the self-concept relates to the selection, processing, and effects of media entertainment. Confirmatory evidence for TEBOTS shows that threats to the self can increase responsiveness to narratives, and that effects are attributable to a boundary expansion mechanism. Recent studies demonstrate that boundary expansion during media use can facilitate positive outgroup perceptions and attitude change. The TEBOTS framework also provides testable propositions regarding the influence of life stressors such as finance, health, and relationships on narrative engagement and enjoyment, carrying potential implications for narrative influence on stressed populations.


1973 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-75
Author(s):  
F. Franklyn Wise

Factors involved in the development of the self-concept and some pertinent questions concerning the agreement between the secular and Christian profile of the self-concept are discussed. The problems which an impaired self-concept poses for teaching certain theological concepts are raised. Areas of needed research, educational methodological possibilities, leadership training, challenges, and the role of conversion are discussed. Christian education is perceived as the confrontation of growing persons with Jesus Christ's demands to effect intentionally, through conversion, consistency between their value system and His — i.e., to develop a Christian life style through nurture and growth in Biblical principles of living and witnessing.


2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
FELLIANTI MUZDALIFAH ◽  
HAFIZ BIMO AFRIYANTO

This research aims to find out the influence of self-concepts towards bullying behavior among college student in “X” University. The dependent variable in this study was bullying and independent variable in this study was the self concept.This research uses quantitative methods, data were obtained by using a questionnaire. William h. Fitts (1965), whereas the scale of bullying refers to the theory of Participant Questionnaire (PRQ) Role of Salmivalli (1996). Data processing using Rasch modeling with the help of winstep version 3.73 and hypothesis test using the SPSS version 16.0. The participants of this research were 71 college students in “X” University. This research using a nonprobability sampling. The results of this research show that there was negative influences between self-concept toward bulying behavior of 23% and the remaining 77% influenced by other factors.


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