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- 1From:Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs his congregation sang praises to the Lord, Bertrand Lucious let his body go and prepared his hands for the power of healing. But it did not come. By the time he and his wife had walked the thirteen blocks to their...
- 2From:School Arts (Vol. 95, Issue 1)What does a trusted friend appreciate about you? This was the question I posed to a group of high school art students as we embarked on a drawing assignment exploring the concept of self. I suggested that each student...
- 3From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGARDNER GATELEY [*] ONE CONTEMPORARY VIEW of our relationships with ourselves holds that we require self-esteem. Advocates of this perspective believe that lack of this trait underlies just about every category of...
- 4From:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Vol. 17, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Dealing with suffering, grief, and death on a daily basis, together with the particular working conditions, may produce high levels of burnout in nurses, and hinder their well-being. The purpose of this...
- 5From:Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association (Vol. 4, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedSelf-Acceptance Stop for a moment and consider the words: "I am okay just the way I am." Now watch for your next thought. Chances are you are telling yourself, in some way, that you are not okay. When we give...
- 6From:Flutist Quarterly (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe all know that having bad days in the practice room is normal. Yet the knowledge that failures and setbacks are inevitable does little to ease the frustration of being stuck on a plateau--or even regressing--with no...
- 7From:Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe aimed to determine how charitable behavior affects life satisfaction through the multiple mediating roles of self-acceptance and positive affect. We recruited 4,048 adults in China who voluntarily completed a survey...
- 8From:Learning Disability Quarterly (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe research described here is part of a 20-year longitudinal project tracing the lives of a group of 41 individuals with learning disabilities. The article enumerates a small piece of the qualitative findings obtained...
- 9From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay illustrates how questions from animal and animality studies can be productively explored in relation to literary and cultural texts, with a particular focus on Mark Doty's recent bestselling memoir Dog Years....
- 10From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 18, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAccepting ourselves as fallible human beings may be better for our mental health than judging our worth against external factors like actions and achievements. Affirming self-esteem (SE) to feel worthy has become a...
- 11From:Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin (Vol. 23, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPast research has shown that those low in self-esteem tend to persist less after initial failure than do those high in self-esteem. It is not clear, however, whether this motivational vulnerability is attributable to low...
- 12From:North American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe influences of self-forgiveness on the relationship between procrastination and positive affect were assessed. A total of 317 Turkish students (198 female; 119 male) completed procrastination, self-forgiveness, and...
- 13From:Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn this paper I argue for the claim that self-love is a precondition for self-knowledge. This claim is relevant to the contemporary philosophical debate on self-knowledge, but mainly because it draws attention to the...
- 14From:Journal of Psychology and Theology (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the burgeoning literature of forgiveness, self-forgiveness is an aspect that has not received as much attention as other areas of research on forgiveness. Self-forgiveness is important in dealing with negative...
- 15From:Journal of Sociology (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed********** Our age is often characterized as being preoccupied with self-referential systems (Giddens, 1992; Weeks, 1995) and in particular with the examination and reformation of the self which may take the form of...
- 16From:American Music Teacher (Vol. 66, Issue 1)I am no expert on self-compassion. For most of my life, I have denied myself the very things that I have given so freely to my students and colleagues: validation, encouragement and compassion. More often, I am overly...
- 17From:Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Tabasum. Malla, Ifshana. Rather, Nusrat. Yousuf Introduction: The impact of orphanhood on the mental health of adolescents is an inevitable phenomenon. This impact is raised when an adolescent loses both of...
- 18From:Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research (Vol. 82, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe purpose of this exploratory research was to understand the experiences and learnings of dietetic and nutrition students following a 3-week intensive summer course designed to enhance students' understandings of...
- 19From:Journal of Markets & Morality (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHow should we interpret what Adam Smith said about self-love in book 1, chapter 2 of The Wealth of Nations (WN 1776)? Smith's explanation of the role of self-love in motivating parties to exchange has been widely...
- 20From:Harvard Review (Issue 46)THERE WERE TWO entrances to M--'s home in Westwood Village. There was the front entrance, a pale green door that opened into the living room, and there was the side entrance. The latter was at the top of a set of...