The aforementioned factors included: the occurrence of stressful life events, perceptions of social support within the school environment, academic self-esteem, and the extent to which parents are involved in or monitor the lives of the teenagers. ... The researchers began with the assumptions that academic self-esteem would have a positive correlation with the future expectations. ... The students also reported above-average results in academic self-esteem, social support from the school, and parental involvement/monitoring. Just as the researchers assumed, academic self-esteem was positively...

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In the empirical article, "Stigma as Ego Depletion: How Being the Target of Prejudice Affects Self-Control," writers Michael Inzlicht, Linda McKay, and Joshua Aronson researched the correlation between stigma and self-regulation. ... If the task takes longer after a stigma becomes salient and depletes self-regulation capabilities, than a causal relationship between stigma and less self-control can be inferred. ... A future study should examine if there is a positive correlation between stigma-induced self-image (or self-esteem) and self-regulation capabilities. The same methods used in the f...

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The primary need is for survival which includes food, water and shelter but may also include higher needs such as self-esteem and belonging. ... Their income enables them to purchase life's essentials and their place in an organisational hierarchy enables them to attain certain goals which may further develop their self esteem. ...

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Additional cross-cultural research (Taylor and Oskay, 1995) investigated the relationship between personal autonomy, identity status and self-esteem in Turkish and American adolescents. ... The authors of this study have suggested that this may have affected the Turkish adolescents' foreclosure scores and that more research is needed to understand the factors affecting Turkish adolescents' self-evaluation. ...

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It is not a useful process of learning without reference to theories and problems in a choice of one's major and I mean destructive in that Liberal education does not affirm intellectual growth nor provide the personal profit or self worship. ... Thus, the hope for true specialization and faculty of self-worship grows less and less as the forces of liberal education sets in throughout our higher education systems. ... The stagnant level of "general knowledge" in response to every type of person and situation that is meant to egalitize people, turns out to mainstream students into a ...

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Portfolio Communication Synthesis Paper Communication can be defined by some as the act of giving, especially information. To be a communicative is to be free with information. Both of these definitions describe how information is transferred from one person to another, from culture to culture,...

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This type of focus can bring about what is known as a "Change of State", whereby the meditator can shift from one mental, and subsequently, physical state to another, providing a kind of mental holiday or break, which could be a vital first-aid response in times of great anxiety, panic, stress, pain or discomfort, and which is a useful skill for general self-management. The second type is called 'Prajna', which is a broadening of focus, whereby the meditator provides themselves with a space and opportunity for self-reflective investigation, and through which they can esta...

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Social categorisation was seen as a fixed and stable cognitive tool which not only regulates the individual's social world but also offers a means for self reference through which individuals create and define their place in society. ... Individuals identify with their in group to bolster their self esteem and attempt to achieve a positive self-concept as this identification can positive or negative dependent on the evaluations of one's own group along specific value-laden attributes. ... They created intergroup behaviour without competition for scarce resources or any social inter...

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Evidently to the theory, self identity as well as behaviors of individuals can be influenced by the terms used to describe them. Therefore as Christina is constantly being tormented by her peers, it will slowly lower her self esteem resulting from continuously being stereotyped, as being "stinky" and "ugly". ...

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Games activity allows the involvement of pupils to partake and develop team as well as individual proficiencies, alongside enhancing self-confidence, body and spatial awareness, communication and core motor skill efficiency. ... However, factors such as gender or body compositional issues act as constraints, whereby pupils are less willing to partake due to self-esteem issues or feeling inferior to other peers. ...

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In contrast, the self-selecting and transient nature of cyber communities affords its citizens virtually unlimited freedom to log-off or block communication with other citizens. ... A person who has had difficulty integrating into real life communities for various reasons including prejudice, social, or personal reasons could find it an easier issue to combat in cyber space by simply creating an identity, or several, that is socially acceptable or even popular and reap the benefits of a welcome and accepted member of their chosen community, such as heightened self esteem and confidence and the...

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John Locke, esteemed philosophical essayist and one of the most influential people of the 17th century, states in his work Concerning Human Understanding of Ideas that an "idea is the object of thinking," and that such thoughts originate from "experience," "reflection," and "sensation" (Locke). ...

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These five elements and its components are; Physiological needs which is the necessity to eat, drink, work, sleep and reproduce, Safety needs which is the need for shelter and the reassurance to being safe, social needs which is the need to feel a part of a group and feel welcomed, self esteem needs which is the necessity to feel happy about themselves and to be recognised for their achievements and lastly self realisation needs which is the need for personal fulfilment along with the need to grow and develop. ...

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