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MacLean, Brian J. "Self-consciousness, self-awareness and pain." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4617.
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Bitter, James Robert. "Self-Care, Self-Awareness, and Social Interest." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5239.
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The paradox of living is that the best way to care for yourself is through positive connections with others, through making a contribution to the whole, and through loving as much as you can from wherever you are at a moment in time. Using mindfulness, personality priorities, and awareness exercises, the workshop focuses on living life more fully.
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Velikonja, Katherine. "Awareness of self-initiated movement." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33855.
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Awareness of movement onset was studied in a series of three experiments. It was defined as the ability to detect computer-generated delays between the movement onset of the subject's hand and a visually displayed hand. This was accomplished by employing a Cyber Glove that rendered a computer-generated image of a hand on a computer screen.In the pilot study, an estimate of the average detection threshold of movement onset delays was obtained in 17 normal control subjects (9 females, 8 males). Peripheral view of the hands was blocked. No significant differences in detection thresholds between men and women, between left and right hands, and across types of movement (all-fingers, index-finger, index-middle-finger extension) were found.
In the second study, data on detection thresholds in the absence of proprioceptive input was gathered from a patient diagnosed with sensory neuropathy of the left hand. No significant differences in detection thresholds between the affected and unaffected hand were recorded. Proprioception does not appear to be critical for awareness of movement onset delays.
In the third study, 33 normal control subjects (31 females and 2 males) performed four experimental movement conditions, two passive and two active. During the passive conditions, a lever device moved the subject's finger while their hand was either visible (PF) or hidden (PH) from view. In the active condition the subject moved their own finger while their hand was either visible (AF) or hidden (AH) from view. Detection thresholds were significantly lower during the active than the passive conditions (p < 0.01). No significant main effect of view was present. It appears that internal feedback loops, as opposed to visual feedback loops, may play a critical role in awareness of movement onset.
Taken together, data from all three studies suggest that the efferent copy plays an important role compared to visual or proprioceptive cues in the detection of movement onset delays.
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Ross, David Francis. "Self-awareness, self-consciousness and the self-control of drunken comportment." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75338.
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The influence of a primarily Public form of self-awareness and of Private and Public Self-Consciousness on drunken physical aggression and complex reaction-time were examined. Two forms of the balanced-placebo design were employed. Results indicated that each form of self-focus played a significant role in the determination of various aspects of drunken comportment. Consumption of alcohol did not eliminate self-aware behavior on the measures employed. Public Self-Consciousness acted to increase drunken impairment. A modified form of the balanced-placebo design proved superior to the standard version for use with moderately high doses (1.32 ml/kg) of alcohol on a measure of subjective intoxication. The implications for the literature on self-focus and drunken comportment are discussed.
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Crispin, Sarah. "Self-awareness in autistic spectrum disorders." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397009.
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Grant, Anthony C. "Self awareness in young deaf adults." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 1987. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20689/.
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Denmark's (1979) functional definition of profound deafness is adopted. Deaf individuals are aware of sound and may detect vibration but they have a limited facility of speech. Conrad (1979) and Rodda (1970) have shown the low level of scholarly achievement of such individuals. Denmark suggests that as young adults, they face the hearing world largely isolated from their parents, their friends and the professionals who advise them. This study is an attempt to explore the social problems brought about by such isolation. The thesis investigates the individual profoundly deaf young adult's self concept in relation to others. A unique form of Repertory Grid interview (Kelly, 1955)using sign language was developed, and was successfully employed with the majority of individuals. However, it became apparent that a substantial minority were lacking, sometimes wholly, in a structured form of language. A pre-interview routine was used to determine the form of investigation appropriate to the individual - an interview using sign language, or one placing heavy dependence on non verbal communication (such as mime and body language). Both forms of investigation enabled an 'existential phenomenological' description of the self-awareness of the individual to be produced. In the larger group, the procedure followed was near to the orthodox analysis of Rep Grids; in the smaller group, analysis involved a greater degree of interpretive intuition. Justification for the judgements made in each case is provided. The findings are reported in the form of case studies: 40based on Rep Grids, 10 on non-verbal interviews. Thematerial provides an advance in the understanding of the experience of the profoundly deaf young adult. Exuberance and vitality feature in the majority group interviewed by Repertory Grid method. Examples of isolation and of intense personal relationships are found in the minority group. The deaf have a special concern with: those whoaccept them and those rejected by them; dependence upondeaf peers rather than hearing adults; the apprehension of success and personal failure. The main finding of this research is that the young adult deaf do possess a self-awareness and this self-awareness is that of the normal individual. Theidiosyncracies of deaf behaviour are especially wellrepresented in the smaller group. This research confirms the suggestion of Denmark that the majority of deaf individuals referred for psychiatric help are not suffering from mental illness. The study also provides research evidence for necessary changes in the early education and upbringing of the deaf.
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Michali, Yvonne E. "Increasing Teacher Awareness of Self-Determination." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1397663105.
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Delvecchio, Matteo. "Apprendimento e self-awareness in robotica." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/7576/.
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Esposizione delle basi teoriche e delle tecniche di apprendimento in robotica, analisi del concetto di self-awareness ed esempi applicativi, concetti derivati quali continous self modelling e self-reflection, e casi di studio esemplificativi.
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Hanssen, Sine Bjerregård. "Self awareness in leadership : a case study on how a leadership development course can contribute to self awareness." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Pedagogisk institutt, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-6798.
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Coetzer, Bernardus Rudolf. "Grief and self-awareness following brain injury." Thesis, Bangor University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391435.
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Grossman, Barry Hale. "Metaphorically-construed self-awareness in reflexive constructions." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8155/.
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A unique, corpus-based methodology was created to determine reflexive construction metaphoricity. The method was able to retrieve metaphorically-expressed verbs, which were input into the verb slot of the reflexive construction in two online corpora. Results of the analysis show that some verbs have the ability to metaphorically construe different aspect of the self, one of them being perceptual self-awareness. The precise onset of perceptual self-awareness is usually sudden, reflected in the semantics of each of the verbs. This unexpected suddenness is a prime conceptual environment to cradle the construal of Self-Awareness as it emerges in cognition. Even though polysemy seems inherent within the data, corpus analysis shows that each has a unique collocational environment that helps delineate and differentiate collocational distinctions that can be supported by context in the form of the Focus of Awareness (FoA), i.e., the focus of the perceptual experience. Corpus data show that the FoA is a non-adjunctive, mandatory part of the conception. Data retrieval and analysis of collocational environments surrounding these metaphoric constructions are shown to be necessary components of this research methodology as a way to clarify fuzzy and/or borderline construals as they occur in actual language usage.
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Murphy, Maggie M. "Impaired self-awareness following acquired brain injury." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2005. https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/113cb7c4-9ee0-4481-a0a2-65afa5ccafd6/1/.
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Impaired self-awareness of everyday task ability following acquired brain injury (ABI) presents a serious obstacle to progress in rehabilitation. However, there is a lack of consensus about the optimal method of determining awareness level, how best to increase awareness, and even with regard to the very nature of impaired awareness. Awareness level is usually ascertained by comparing self/third party ratings of task performance. A behavioural measure of task performance would circumvent some of the concerns regarding the validity of methods relying solely on verbal report. Three main research questions were identified: 1. Is it possible to measure self-awareness of activity limitation and impairment? 2. Is it possible to increase self-awareness of activity limitation and impairment? 3. What is the nature of impaired awareness of activity limitation and impairment? To address these questions, the research programme had four phases: In phase 1, a cross-sectional design was used, incorporating behavioural observation and quantitative questionnaires, to develop a task battery that could be used as a behavioural measure of self-awareness. The resultant task battery consisted of six everyday tasks. In phase 2, a group comparison design was used to establish the sensitivity of the task battery to impaired self-awareness. Questionnaires were administered to obtain a quantitative measure of awareness - including social skills - in the acquired brain injury (ABI) participants. Eighteen ABI participants, identified as having impaired self-awareness, were compared with three comparison groups. The task battery was found to be sensitive to impaired awareness of everyday task ability. In phase 3, a single-case, experimental design methodology was attempted in two ABI participants to determine the effectiveness of interventions designed to increase awareness. Four ABI participants were followed up longitudinally, as natural history case studies, to ascertain changes in awareness over time, and critical incidents contributing to change. The intervention programmes were not found to be effective. Phase 4 included two qualitative studies to explore the nature of impaired awareness. In study 1, interview scripts from thirty-six clinicians were analysed thematically. In study 2, interview data from phase 3 were re-examined to explore 'objects' of awareness and factors contributing to fluctuations in awareness. Both phase 4 studies indicated that manifestations of impaired self-awareness were very varied in terms of 'objects' of awareness, severity of the awareness impairment, and the number of factors contributing. Impaired self-awareness is complex in nature, necessitating repeated measures, of verbal report and behaviour within variolls functional domains, to determine awareness level. Detailed examination of further single cases could help identify profiles of impaired self-awareness for which specific interventions and explanatory models could be developed. It is argued that intervention to address impaired selfawareness within the social skills domain should be prioritised.
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Burling, John 1956. "UTILIZING THE BEHAVIOR-ATTITUDE RELATIONSHIP TO ENHANCE SELF-ESTEEM (SELF-PERCEPTION, SELF-REWARD, SELF-FOCUS, SELF-AWARENESS)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/275499.
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Friedenheim, Ann. "The effects of Hatha yoga on self-awareness and self-actualization." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1986. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University, 1986.Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2775. Abstract follows appendices. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-125).
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Goh, Jeannine Melanie. "The cultural self : experiments investigating self-awareness and self-disclosure in computer-mediated communication." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-cultural-self-experiments-investigating-selfawareness-and-selfdisclosure-in-computermediated-communication(a63de059-b21e-4014-b880-2bde81c9c26e).html.
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This thesis presents a series of cross-cultural experiments, which investigate the role of self-awareness on self-disclosure in computer-mediated communication (CMC). The thesis is split into two parts, detailing the results of four separate experiments. In Part 1, the two experiments focus specifically on British participants who are considered to be from an individualistic culture. Experiment 1 investigates how private and public self-awareness affects their breadth, depth and accuracy of self-disclosure in CMC. Experiment 2 then attempts to simplify Experiment 1 to try and focus more specifically on personal motivations of self-disclosure. The results of the first two experiments clearly illustrate the importance of both private and public self-awareness in intimate self-disclosure in CMC. More specifically, they indicate that increasing private self-awareness increases depth of self-disclosure, whilst increasing public self-awareness reduces the accuracy of the self-disclosure. In Part 2 of the thesis Experiments 1 and 2 are replicated on Singaporean participants, who are considered to be from a collectivist culture. Members of collectivist cultures are consistently reported to self-disclose less than members of individualistic cultures. It is however found in Experiment 3 that in a typical 'real-time' interaction the Singaporeans report themselves to self-disclose to a greater depth than the British participants. Cultural differences are also found in the participants' reactions to certain manipulations of self-awareness. More specifically, a manipulation that increases public self-awareness greatly reduces the British participants' self-disclosure. Whilst the Singaporeans are more affected by a manipulation that increases their private self-awareness, which greatly increases their depth of self-disclosure. It is concluded that there are cultural differences in the way that people react to manipulations of self-awareness in CMC and this raises philosophical discussion about how culture drives self-disclosure which, in turn, drives the pursuit of self-knowledge, and ultimately the construction of the cultural self. Finally it is concluded that CMC may allow an exploration of the self outside of cultural norms, and that this could potentially change the boundaries of the private and public self in the future.
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Brenner, Bradley R. "A study of self-awareness, self-efficacy, and sojourner adjustment over time." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/37.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2003.Thesis research directed by: Counseling and Personnel Services. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Andre, Paul. "Social awareness and self-representation in workplace technologies." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.582757.
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Social interactions in the workplace can help improve our mood as well as forge new connections, collab- orations, or friendships. The benefits are not just personal, improving group welfare and connectedness may aid job satisfaction and performance. As social interactions are increasingly performed through mul- tiple channels, often digitally mediated, interactions with eo-workers and the information that underpins them are evolving along with the workplace. The increased amounts of information and the variety of mediums suggests exciting new possibilities for combining and utilising information in different forms, as well as making connections with others. On the other hand, people lead faceted lives, representing them- selves differently depending on audience and social context. With increasingly unified online identities and connected information, boundaries within our lives become blurred, creating potentially awkward or damaging situations if information is shared out of context or self-presentation is impeded. To design for the potential benefits of social awareness in the workplace, while taking into account the complex identity, social, and physical environments we construct, we bring together three strands of work and viewpoints from multiple disciplines, drawing from organisational behavior, HCI and CSCW, and social psychology. We consider tensions in information capture and representation, designing for non- task-focused sociality in the workplace, and sensitivity to sharing information in particular contexts. This thesis explores these issues through three projects. The first two take existing practices: asking 'how are you?', and office decoration, and augment digitally to provide self and group awareness. We undertake user evaluations to understand experience and benefit, and discuss implications for self-presentation, encoding, ambiguity, and agency. The third project explicitly addresses those implications, investigating audience reaction to social media. We find that despite a focus on social awareness, designs were often appropriated in terms of self- presentation issues, or benefits in self-awareness. We propose social awareness applications can be con- sidered in two dimensions (expression and interpretation), and by three actors (self, other, or automatic). We discuss tensions, risks, and benefits of information representation (e.g., encoding versus ambiguity), how the medium of interaction affects use and perception of non-task-focused technologies in a workplace, and the nature of the physical environment when introducing digital technologies. We suggest future work in understanding perception over time, what information is most suitable at what time, and how actor (self, other, automatic) may most beneficially combine with what information representation.
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Evans, G. L. "Bodily awareness and the elusive self : an investigation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598869.
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My dissertation examines two apparently opposing views – the well-established view that the self (is systematically elusive (the “Elusiveness Thesis” or “ET”), and the more recent claim that bodily awareness “from the inside” can amount to perceptual self-awareness. I introduce these distinctions: Broad Self-Consciousness is awareness of the thing one is “as me”; this just means awareness of one’s body in a way immune to error through misidentification. Narrow Self-Consciousness is awareness of the thing one is as a subject. In turn, there are two possible conceptions of “subject” here – oneself as a point of view on the world (Self (PoV)), and oneself as the bearer of psychological properties (I call that Self (Psych)). The main claims I defend are: (1) There seems no principled basis for the Self as subject to be regarded as systematically elusive. On the other hand, recent arguments that bodily awareness amounts to Narrow Self-Consciousness have not been made out either; (2) However bodily awareness does amount to Broad Self-Consciousness. In Chapter 3 I examine and endorse an old argument (resurrected by Shoemaker) that self-consciousness cannot just be a matter of reflexive awareness of an object (and a fortiori this applies to awareness of one’s body). In Chapters 4 and 5 I discuss the grounds upon which one might claim the self as subject to by systematically elusive. In Chapter 6 I consider whether bodily awareness does indeed present the body as an object. In Chapter 7 I consider whether the Bodily Self Thesis is made out in the Broad, “as me” sense. In Chapter 8 I look at what I take to be the best prospect for the Bodily Self Claim in the Narrow, “as subject” sense. The best prospect here is bodily sensation, specifically the claim that in bodily sensation one is presented with oneself as the bodily subject of sensation. I argue that this fails.
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Grossman, Barry [Verfasser]. "Metaphoric self-awareness in reflexive constructions / Barry Grossman." München : GRIN Verlag, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1180739922/34.
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Phillips, Althea Lenore. "Can Nurse-Facilitated Support Groups Foster Self-Awareness?" ScholarWorks, 2015. http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1713.
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Students with learning disabilities (LDs) represent 9% of students attending college, and college administrators must comply with a large number of federal requirements outlining the provision of educational services for students with LDs, including offering support groups. Nurse-facilitated support groups, held within the university setting, could provide effective social support, increasing likelihood of college success among students with LDs. The purpose of this project was to develop a plan for implementing nurse-facilitated support groups for students with LDs within the student health services (SHS) department at a university designed to improve their coping skills on personal, social, and academic levels. Guided by the Logic Model, a plan for implementing nurse-facilitated support groups within the SHS department was developed and presented to university stakeholders. Components of the plan included a support group structure, curriculum, evaluation tools, steps for piloting the program, and a proposed timeline for implementing the program. The stakeholders acknowledged the potential benefits of initiating a program of nurse-facilitated support groups for students with LDs to assist in attaining their academic goals. However, additional analysis of the program and refining and other disabilities to assist in attaining their academic goals; however, additional analysis of the program and refining the proposed student self-evaluation tool were needed before implementing the program. Nurses in a SHS department staff are effective support group facilitators for students with LDs. This study holds the potential for positive social change by enhancing personal, social, and academic coping skills with nurse-facilitated support groups who may help students with LDs reduce their risk of experiencing burnout and enhance the likelihood of academic success.
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Zaffiro, Alessandra, Daniela Tablado, der Ploeg Fenna van, and Failler Roxanne Le. "The role of self-awareness for sustainability practitioners." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-20021.
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The complexity of the sustainability challenge calls for participatory processes to support the large-scale collaboration across sectors and disciplines that is needed. Besides tools and methodologies to design these processes, the inner world of sustainability practitioners facilitating them is a key element for their success. This thesis focuses on the role of self- awareness for sustainability practitioners based on their stories of having to adapt their process design, their personal practices and advice they give. Using semi-structured interviews with facilitators who use Theory U and/or Art of Hosting methodologies to facilitate participatory processes for sustainable development, we found that self-awareness supports sustainability practitioners in practical terms on the spot, in their leadership development and in the effectiveness of their work. Moreover, through self-awareness, they recognize the importance of diversity and trust, essential elements for the adaptive capacity of the group. This recognition could contribute to more successful processes and outcomes, making practitioners' work and contribution to addressing the sustainability challenge more effective. The potential analogy between inner worlds and healthy social systems poses an interesting angle for further research. Is there such a thing as an inner dimension of sustainability? How does self-awareness relate to that?
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Bourazeri, Aikaterini. "Collective awareness in self-organising socio-technical systems." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/30771.
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A collective action situation involves a group of people working together for a common good or to resolve a common problem, even if their individual goals may be in conflict with the common goal, and each other's goals. Moreover, it may be difficult for individuals to recognise that they are involved in a collective action situation, or that their (relatively small) individual actions have an impact on the collective. A community energy system for local energy generation and distribution is an example where community members need to collaborate on energy allocation, but may be 'collectively unaware' of incipient problems, such as blackouts, that originate from depletion of the fixed amounts of energy that are available. Even if aware of the incipient problem, they may be equally unaware of how their individual actions contribute to the collective goal of resolving it. In this thesis, we propose that socio-technical systems can be used for computer - supported collective action, and in particular, that collective awareness can be enhanced by appropriate features of the system interface, therefore increasing the opportunities and prospects for successful collective action. Specifically, collective awareness is defined as an attribute of communities that helps them solve collective action problems. In relation to Elinor Ostrom's institutional design principles for self-governing institutions, this definition is translated into requirements for interface design and display which promote collective awareness, including different interface elements, visualisation, social networking, feedback and incentives. To test the hypothesis, we design and implement a serious game for a community energy system, integrating the Imprudence viewer to support an immersive 3D environment, the Presage2 agent-based simulation platform to model different components, and OpenSimulator application server to support real-time interactions. In this game, the participants have to avoid a collective blackout by individually reducing their energy consumption by synchronising and coordinating their actions. We then design and implement an interface to the game with a set of features that meet these interface requirements, and configure the system. Finally, we report the results of the experiments, which show that when visualisation, social networking, feedback and incentives are added to the serious game interface, users become 'collectively aware' of potential energy problems and they successfully coordinate their behaviour to avoid them. These results highlight the significant potential of serious games and gamification in the development of infrastructure support for community energy systems, and also indicate a more beneficial approach to the use of smart meters in such systems: i.e. not just as a monitor for pricing and consumption, but as a key enabler for direct action, feedback and incentivisation. Furthermore, it provides the basis for defining a set of interface design principles for 'smarter' socio-technical systems which promote successful computer-supported collective action.
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Shonkwiler, Curt. "Humor as Epiphanic Awareness and Attempted Self-Transcendence." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:14226070.
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The starting premise of this dissertation is that the formal techniques of comedy make the comic novel a distinct form within the category of the novel, not just in terms of content, the way one novelistic genre is distinct from another, but also in terms of form, similar to the way poetry is distinct from prose. The argument is that the formal structures of comedy, such as set-ups, punchlines, and comic rhythm, combine to constitute a formally rigorous, almost rule-bound art form. These techniques are explored through close readings of various 20th century comic novels, in particular Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Le Sabotage amoureux by Amélie Nothomb, Moskva-Pethushki by Venedikt Erofeev and Catch-22 Joseph Heller.
The further extension of this argument is that these formal structures create certain fundamental characteristics the comic novel, which in turn instantiate spiritual and emotional functions of the comedy on a structural level. The most important of these functions are that comedy serves creates a sudden, epiphanic awareness of reality, a sense of self-transcendence, and an instant bond between people. Finally, the dissertation considers the limitations of these functions. For example, comedy creates awareness of that which was previously latently grasped, but rarely substantively new knowledge. The sense of self-transcendence it is real but momentary, fleeting. And the connection it fosters between people is instant but limited by its own basic impersonality.
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Wu, Zhuoyun. "Anonymity, private self-awareness & online self-disclosure : an examination for blogging activities /." access full-text access abstract and table of contents, 2009. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/thesis.pl?mphil-com-b2374988xf.pdf.
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Thesis (M.Phil.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2009."Submitted to Department of Media and Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-79)
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McDonald, Catherine Anne. "Self awareness and its connection to survival in chaos." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0001/MQ41811.pdf.
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Turini, Nancy. "Self-awareness of secondary age students with learning disabilities /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1203569171&sid=13&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Carroll, Ms Emma. "Identity, psychological adjustment and self-awareness after brain injury." Thesis, Bangor University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528338.
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Swart, Juani. "Self-awareness and collective tacit knowledge : an exploratory approach." Thesis, University of Bath, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341144.
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Remes, Mari Paulina. "Plotinus' philosophy of the self : unity, reason and awareness." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270930.
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Burns, John. "Self awareness and executive functioning following traumatic brain injury." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2009. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/365/.
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This thesis is submitted in part fulfilment for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology (ClinPsychD) at the University of Birmingham. It contains both the research component and five clinical practice reports of clinical work that was undertaken during the three years of the course. Volume One of the thesis contains three papers. The literature review examines evidence on interventions for the rehabilitation of executive functioning. It has been written with the intention to submit to the journal: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. The empirical study is the second paper. This examines the impact of verbal and visual/verbal feedback on awareness of errors and performance on a planning task. This has been written with the intention to submit to the journal: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. The third paper is the public domain briefing paper which gives an overview of the literature review and empirical paper. Volume Two contains five clinical practice reports. The first report describes a 31year-old man with depression, formulated from a cognitive and psychodynamic framework. The second report is a small-scale service related project which evaluates the process of setting up a personality disorder service by a local PCT. The third is a single-case experimental design, with a man with severe learning disabilities, displaying agitated behaviour. The fourth is a case study report of a psychological intervention with a woman experiencing loss, adjustment and relationship difficulties. The final report is the abstract from an oral presentation of a small-scale service related project on a community psychology child placement.
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Pratt, Michelle. "Interoceptive awareness and self-objectification in body dysmorphic disorder." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2014. http://digirep.rhul.ac.uk/items/adb95fcc-1ddc-14ff-642c-a8e250a6a127/1/.
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The cognitive model of BDD (Veale, 2004) proposes high levels of self-objectification (viewing and treating oneself as an object) as an important maintaining factor; however, to date this construct has not been empirically measured in this population. In addition, recent models of the self (Damasio, 2010) point towards the central role of interoceptive awareness (IA; the ability to identify bodily signals) in developing a sense of self. Low levels of IA have been associated to body dissatisfaction, eating disorders and depression. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of self-objectification and interoceptive awareness in patients with BDD. Three groups of participants with BDD (n=14), anxiety (n=23), and non-clinical participants (n=23) completed a heartbeat detection task to measure levels of IA under two conditions: blank screen and while facing a mirror in order to also explore the impact of self-focus attention on IA. Levels of self-objectification and self-focussed attention were measured through self-report questionnaires. Statistical comparisons between groups indicated significantly lower levels of IA in the BDD group at blank screen only when compared to the non-clinical group. In the mirror condition the BDD group had significantly lower IA scores than both control groups. Furthermore, the BDD group reported significantly higher self-objectification than the non-clinical group, and there was a trend towards the group scoring at a higher level than the anxiety group. Across groups there was no significant relationship between levels of IA in either condition, and self-reported levels of self-objectification or self-focussed attention. The results support the role of self-objectification in BDD and points towards the potential contribution of somatoperception. The theoretical and clinical implications of these findings, the limitations of the methodology employed, and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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Jaster, Mary Frances. "Storytelling in the transformative process of cultural self-awareness." Scholarly Commons, 2010. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/749.
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The research project asks the question: What role does storytelling have in enhancing cultural self-awareness and achieving perspective transformation in terms of values, attitudes, and assumptions about the world? The study group comprised people who participated between 1995 and 2009 in a year-long Colorado Vincentian Volunteer (CVV) program for young adults. It combined an online survey with 1-hour follow-up interviews by phone with nine individuals. This data is augmented with written stories produced during their volunteer year by the interviewees. The study shows that over 90% of those surveyed agree that regular, structured reflective story-telling sessions helped consolidate their learning and foster perspective transformation as defined by Mezirow (1990). Analysis of interviews plus evidence from written stories supports these claims and also illustrates volunteer development of cultural self-awareness as described by Yoshikawa (1980). I conclude that storytelling can be a significant emotional, psychological, and intellectual support to people involved in voluntary intercultural experiences.
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Brown, Michelle. "Mindfulness Meditation: A Self-Awareness Approach to Weight Management." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4598.
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Obesity is a crucial health care issue that has a global effect on the health care industry. Not only does obesity decrease the patients' quality of life, it also places an astronomical burden on health care delivery systems. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to establish a weight management program derived from evidence-based research. The research question is can the utilization of mindfulness meditations and practices with traditional weight loss methodologies produce sustainable weight loss? Pender's health belief model was the conceptual framework utilized to guide and provides structure for this project. The health belief model has been utilized in numerous health care studies and has provided researchers with tremendous insight on various health care issues. The goal of the project was to provide the inhabitants in a metropolitan city located in the Midwest region of the United States with weight management strategies that would support a declination in the number of patients struggling with obesity in that region. This project developed a turnkey solution to a community health problem consisting of the following strategies: executing mindfulness meditations and practices as part of their daily rituals, reading food labels and making healthier food selections, exercising 30 to 40 minutes a day, and documenting their progression or obstacles in a journal. Since the project consisted of only 20 participants, it is recommended that a larger population and region be utilized for future studies. This project has the potential for societal change by improving the quality of life of and productivity of patients struggling with obesity by decreasing their chances of developing chronic illnesses which can become debilitating.
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Forrest, Rhonda. "Self-awareness of beginning leaders in child care centres." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36684/1/36684_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis reports a phenomenological study of the lived experiences of six female beginning directors of Queensland child care centres. The perspectives of the participants were shared with the researcher over a five-month period through interviews, synergetic focus groups and drawings. Their stories revealed leaders inprocess who, being faced with new contexts, were forced to reconsider values and beliefs about themselves and the meaning of leadership. They described themselves as jugglers of multiple roles and relationships which often seemed overwhelming, particularly within time constraints. Their stories, however, reveal resilient women who variously struggled, coped, coped competently and were transformed through their experiences. Self-awareness is, of essence, an individual self-directed journey. The study presents strategies to provide safe and secure situations for shared and individual exploration of self.
This thesis argues that we need to reconceptualise leadership in terms of time and in dispelling delusions of goodness in leaders and followers. It argues that, for beginning directors to 'find themselves', as one participant described the process, they need safe and secure situations that support the self-awareness journey necessary to navigate their new contexts as leaders. This, in turn, stands to support higher levels of authenticity, self-esteem, motivation, and resilience for the individual, as well as increased trust within the organisation. The study presents a model for supporting beginning leaders toward resilience and authenticity. It is based on the essentialness of self-awareness to becoming a leader. Moreover, the study has implications for the public good as it informs policy and legislation governing early childhood centres in Queensland and early childhood training courses. Implications for the private good involve supporting beginning directors toward a greater understanding of their multiple roles, and, themselves within those roles.
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De, La Espriella Mithzay. "The Toolbox System (TS): Thesis on the potential to foster self–awareness and other-awareness using semiotics." Thesis, De La Espriella, Mithzay (2012) The Toolbox System (TS): Thesis on the potential to foster self–awareness and other-awareness using semiotics. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2012. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/16562/.
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Based on the increasing demand for resources to enhance self--‐esteem, the Toolbox System (TS) is a framework of tools devised to foster the development of self--‐awareness and other--‐awareness in its users. This thesis presents my research on and conceptualisation of the TS. It proposes the use of Semiotics and recursion as tools to manage concepts of awareness. The use of Semiotics involves, but is not limited to, the analysis of texts such as photos, videos, artworks, and the like. This creates a context that allows the users to engage in inductive, deductive, and abductive reasoning. The aim is for users to gain clarity about their values and convictions, using tools to evaluate worldviews and establish meaning. This triggers a process of cultivation, which can potentially lead to self--‐actualisation and the development of empathy. The process of cultivation refers to Simmel’s thoughts on culture. For the purposes of the thesis, cultivation is considered key in the development of the individual’s sense of identity and purpose, thus impacting culture. The tools that could be included in the TS are not limited. While the TS uses semiotic concepts and techniques, the toolbox may contain other tools from various disciplines. The thesis refers to tool samples drawn from theories and research on individual needs, values and motivation, and self--‐perception among others. Although referring to various disciplines, the TS is designed to introduce the use of Semiotics in the area of self--‐development, making a significant contribution to both fields.
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Garcia, Joseph Julio Carandang. "How private self-awareness can influence the effectiveness self-reportusing the Big-five among Chinese adolescent." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4516924X.
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Cubeta, Esther Harmos. "Art education to develop student self awareness : a curricular model." FIU Digital Commons, 1991. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2679.
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Human dysfunctionality evidenced in society contributes to egodystonic self-definition in young adults and vice-versa. It is proposed that by fostering self awareness and self knowledge in students, curriculae can be preventive agents in stemming human dysfunctionality. This is a normative, prescriptive model for such an high school art curriculum.
Aspects of individuation and approaches to personality reintegration are extrapolated from psychological theories.
Applications are suggested for a student-centered art class. Teaching for self-discovery includes excercising sensory, affective, intuitive and cognitive functions and tapping the self as the main source for art images. Procedures aim at increasing self knowledge, self esteem, reintegration of dysfunctionality and building ego syntonic connections between awareness, personal life experiences, art and expression.
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Jenkinson, Paul Mark. "Self-awareness of action : a cognitive neuropsychological study of anosognosia." Thesis, Keele University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489025.
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This thesis presents experiments investigating the cognitive neuropsychological mechanisms underlying anosognosia for motor deficit, i. e. lack of awareness or underestimation of a deficit in motor functioning following brain injury. Two contemporary explanations of anosognosia were considered. First, an account based on the Somatic Marker Hypothesis (SMH; Damasio, 1994), which suggests that anosognosia might be explained by emotional disturbance leading to irrational reports regarding motor deficits, via an impairment in somatic feedback to the brain. The second account, proposed by Frith, Blakemore and Wolpert (2000a), provides a cognitive neuropsychological explanation of anosognosia. This -model proposes that motor awareness depends on predicting the expected sensory consequences of intended movements, and comparing these predictions with the actual sensory consequences of movement. Three research predictions regarding anosognosia arose from Frith et al. (2000a): (i) preservation of internal representations of movement involving the impaired limb, (ii) failure to register discrepancies between intended (predicted) and actual movement, and (iii) absent contrary information regarding the actual state of the motor system. Experiments investigating these contemporary accounts of anosognosia are presented. An initial, psychophysiological pilot study concerning the SMH failed to replicate effects alleged to occur in healthy individuals; therefore, subsequent inspection of the SMH in a patient cohort was not pursued. Subsequent cognitive neuropsychological investigations focussed on the three predictions arising from Frith et al. (2000a) in patients with anosognosia for motor deficit, control patients without anosognosia, and age-matched healthy individuals. The main results of these studies showed (i) distorted internal representations of movement, (ii) impaired monitoring of movements, and (iii) increased levels of unilateral neglect (i.e. ignoring one half of space) in anosognosia. Findings inform current accounts of anosognosia and are discussed in the context of a normal model of action control and awareness.
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Dale, Lucinda M. "The development of self-awareness in graduate occupational therapy students." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1203648.
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe accurately the methods used by occupational therapy graduate students to develop self-awareness, a necessary foundation for the development of professional behaviors. Self-awareness, defined as a deep understanding of one's emotions, strengths, weaknesses, needs, and drives (Goleman, 1995), was identified in the literature as a component of or a prerequisite for the development of skills in leadership, multicultural competency, clinical reasoning, and continuing competence.Purposive sampling was used to identify student participants from a private university in the mid-west. Eleven participants completed the study. Evidence was gathered through semi-structured interviews; observations of classroom activities, professional meetings, and clinical settings; and examination of documents which included journal entries, class assignments, and professional development plans.Findings suggest that students' development of self-awareness is facilitated by a hierarchical sequence of activities which provide them with opportunities to describe features of their contexts, to recognize and define personal values and beliefs and those values and beliefs of others, and to define relationships. Reflection stimulated consideration of students' reactions in particular contexts and development of a new perspective. Students who appraised themselves realistically anticipated their responses in future events and made plans to alter undesired behaviors. Although the literature supported feedback as one way in which to facilitate self-awareness, students were reluctant to give candid feedback to peers and rarely sought feedback, unless required, for their own performance. Evaluations of behaviors, relationships, and belief systems were activities located at higher levels in the hierarchy requiring students to gain skills in recognition and description first in order to proceed to these levels.The findings point to the importance of self-awareness for personal and professional growth, and the need for educators to utilize a variety of strategies by which to facilitate self-awareness development. A revision of Fidler's checklist may provide a foundation for the development of a tool which could be a useful way in which to target behaviors necessary for development of self-awareness.Department of Educational Leadership
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Risberg, Lauren E. "Does Fertility Awareness Increase Self-Esteem in College-Aged Women?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/526.
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Negative cultural attitudes towards the menstrual cycle have psychological consequences for women. The menstrual cycle in our society is devalued in public discourse and public regard, in which it is viewed as an uncontrollable, painful, and mysterious curse upon womankind. Internalization of these messages may negatively impact women’s self-esteem because of menstruation’s quintessential association with womanhood. Women’s lack of accurate, practical knowledge about the menstrual cycle may be a large contributor to these negative attitudes. The purpose of this proposed research is to investigate whether performing fertility awareness, a daily practice of observing fertility signs to determine the phases in a woman’s menstrual cycle, can increase self-esteem in college-aged women. The study measures perceived control, self-efficacy, and self-esteem in women before and after learning and practicing fertility awareness, as well as comparing those scores to a control group. It is proposed that practicing fertility awareness increases women’s self-esteem and self-efficacy by providing them with perceived control over their reproductive health. Implications for educational imperatives and future research are discussed.
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Hogarth, Harriet. "Exploring sexual self-awareness amongst young people in the UK." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443057.
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Kraus, Paul D. "Increasing critical self-awareness a revised model for pastoral care." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2009. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p075-0078.
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Grainger, Catherine Sarah. "Self-awareness in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder." Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/51629/.
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The primary aim of this thesis was to investigate aspects of self-awareness in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Given widely accepted assumptions that “the self” is not a unitary construct, but is instead multifaceted, this thesis explored the extent to which impairments in self-awareness may be “domain-specific”. The nine experimental tasks reported in this thesis explored several aspects of self-awareness in children and adults with ASD, including awareness of the physical self, conceptual self, and mental self. Overall, the results of these studies suggest that individuals with ASD demonstrate selective impairments in only some aspects of self-awareness. It is suggested that the pattern of results reported in this thesis best support the suggestion that physical self-awareness is intact in individuals with ASD, whilst psychological self-awareness is impaired. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings for our current understanding of self-awareness in autism spectrum disorder, and self-awareness in typical development, are discussed.
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Kramer, David [Verfasser]. "Self-Awareness in Heterogeneous, Adaptive Many-Core Architectures enabling Proactive, Self-Optimizing Systems / David Kramer." Aachen : Shaker, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1066197997/34.
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Solano, López Ana Laura. "THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG BODY AWARENESS, SELF-REGULATION,SELF-MANAGEMENT, AND BLOOD PRESSUREIN ADULTS WITH HYPERTENSION." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1450797361.
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Hall, Mary Canty. "The effects of self-awareness, self-consciousness, and standards of propriety on interpersonal physical pleasuring /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487260531954828.
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Fowler, Elizabeth Amy. "Self-monitoring in stroke patients and healthy individuals : predictive factors and methodological challenges." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25740.
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The phenomenon whereby people suffering from an illness or disability seem to be unaware of their symptoms was termed anosognosia, by Joseph Babinksi in 1914 (Langer & Levine, 2014). Originally described as a specific inability to recognise or acknowledge left-sided hemiplegia after lesions to the right hemisphere of the brain, the term now incorporates unawareness of a range of post-stroke impairments, such as hemianopia (Bisiach, Vallar, Perani, Papagno & Berti, 1986), hemianaesthesia (Pia et al., 2014), aphasia (Cocchini, Gregg, Beschin, Dean & Della Sala, 2010) and unilateral neglect (Jehkonen, Ahonen, Dastidar, Laippala & Vilkki, 2000). Anosognosia has also been observed in association with several other disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease (Agnew & Morris, 1998) and traumatic brain injury (Prigatano, 2010a). While advances have been made in understanding anosognosia, there are still many contradictory findings in relation to the nature and expression of impaired self-awareness (Prigatano, 2010a), which are partly attributable to diverse methodological approaches. Furthermore, research into anosognosia frequently rests on the assumption that neurologically intact individuals have accurate insight into their own abilities, particularly in regard to motor skill. The experiments reported in this thesis highlight that this may be a false assumption. Through a series of interrelated studies, I demonstrate that the type of questions typically asked of anosognosic patients may be inappropriate to elicit the manifestations of chronic stage unawareness after a stroke, that underestimation may be just as prevalent as overestimation, and that healthy individuals are not always able to monitor whether their executed movements match their intended movements. Moreover, those with poorer motor skills are less able to judge movement successes and failures than their more skilled counterparts, suggesting a mechanism analogous to the anosognosia observed in clinical populations. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the main neuropsychological models that have been proposed to account for anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP); unawareness in the context of other impairments is discussed in the introductions to individual chapters. Chapter 2 presents some background research investigating stroke clinicians’ knowledge of the lateralization of right hemisphere cognitive symptoms, and their judgements of the impact of selected symptoms on the lives of patients and caregivers. While the clinicians were equally able to identify cognitive symptoms associated with left or right brain damage, they were far more likely to misattribute symptoms to right brain damage, suggesting a lack of confidence in their knowledge of the cognitive functions of the right hemisphere. They also regarded anosognosia as having relatively low impact on the lives of patients and caregivers, in stark contrast with the highly negative impact reported in the literature (Jehkonen, Laihosalo & Kettunen, 2006a). Chapters 3 and 4 present two experimental studies investigating different facets of awareness in two groups of stroke patients. Chapter 3 reports the development and testing of a tool designed to measure chronic unawareness of functional difficulties, the Visual Analogue Test of Anosognosia for impairments in Activities of Daily Living (VATA-ADL), with preliminary data from a group of chronic stroke patients. Approximately one third of the patients exhibited mild or moderate levels of overestimation of their ability to carry out day-to-day activities. This contrasts with previous reports that anosognosia is rare in the chronic stages, a discrepancy that may be explained in part by the inappropriateness of the measures typically used to measure it. Overestimation was observed in both right-brain-damaged and left-brain-damaged patients, and was not associated with higher levels of cognitive impairment. The study reported in Chapter 4 examined whether acute stage stroke patients who under- or overestimated their motor skills, similarly under- or overestimated performance on cognitive tasks in the domains of language, memory and attention and executive function. Contrary to the many dissociations between unawareness of different impairment reported in the neuropsychological literature, this study found that patients classed as overestimators of motor ability were also overly optimistic about their cognitive abilities. Overestimators were more likely to have right hemisphere lesions, higher levels of general cognitive impairments, and specific deficits in attention and executive function. Furthermore, by including patients with a range of functional ability, this study revealed that participants were just as likely to underestimate as overestimate their abilities. This unique finding presents a challenge to anosognosia research, suggesting that there may be factors other than neurological damage that predispose stroke patients to over- or under-estimate their abilities and that a baseline of accurate self-insight among control populations cannot be assumed. Chapter 5 reports three different experiments conducted with younger and older, neurologically healthy adults. Using a target-directed reaching task, these experiments investigated whether the participants’ ability to monitor the success of their movements, on a trial by trial basis, depended upon their motor skill level, and whether participants with lower skill were inclined to overestimate their ability, in line with a famous observation from cognitive psychology that people who perform worst in a given task tend to be unaware of how poorly they are performing (Kruger and Dunning, 1999). Overall, the results demonstrated an association between higher accuracy levels and faster movement times, and better ability to monitor success and failure. To my knowledge, this represents that first evidence of a relationship between motor performance ability and self-monitoring ability in healthy individuals, highlighting that some of the mechanisms underpinning anosognosia may also be evident in neurologically intact populations. However, contrary to the findings from cognitive psychology, poor performance was not associated with a specific bias toward overestimation. A similar relationship between task performance and self-monitoring ability was also observed for a visual memory task. Chapter 6 discusses the implications of the results of the clinical and self-monitoring studies for neuropsychological models of anosognosia, particularly those based on motor planning and control, and considers potential ways forward for research in this field.
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Wei, Shuqin. "CUSTOMERS' EMOTIONAL AND COPING RESPONSES TO SERVICE FAILURES: THE ROLE OF SELF-CONGRUENCE." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/877.
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Because service failures are inevitable, marketing researchers have devoted considerable attention to the negative consequences of service failure and corresponding service recovery strategies. Previous research has overwhelmingly focused on customers' cognitive, coping, and behavioral reactions to failures. However, more recently, researchers have suggested that emotions may underlie the effects of customers' cognitive responses on their coping and behavioral responses. Despite the increased attention paid to the emotional dimension of customers' responses, the literature has not differentiated between different types of negative emotions. However, the appropriateness of service recovery strategies may rely on differentiating between similarly valenced emotions, because distinct emotions may require different recovery strategies. From a perspective of self-congruence theory, this dissertation contributes to the extant literature by investigating why customers experience distinct negative emotions - basic emotions (e.g., anger) and self-conscious emotions (e.g., shame) - in the context of service failure. Since emotions may influence coping and behavioral responses, distinct sets of coping responses (problem-solving vs. vindictive complaining and support-seeking vs. vindictive negative word of mouth) and behavioral intentions are also explored. Through two experiments, this dissertation provides support for the proposition that different forms of self-congruence evoke different sets of emotional and coping responses. Furthermore, drawing on self-awareness theory, this dissertation provides evidence for the proposition that the mechanisms underlying these observed patterns are distinct. Specifically, when service failures are involved, actual self-congruence and ideal self-congruence differentially trigger public self-awareness and private self-awareness and the different forms of self-awareness mediate the effect of self-congruence on customers' emotions.
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Hung, I.-Ching Grace. "The mediating effect of self-awareness in the relations of self-compassion and training variables to therapist self-efficacy." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3642568.
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Therapist self-awareness is widely regarded by educators and clinicians as an essential factor that allows psychotherapists to treat clients effectively (Ridley, Mollen, & Kelly, 2011b). Accordingly, a central goal of therapist training is to increase self-awareness, which is believed to lead to important training outcomes, such as stronger trainee self-efficacy in clinical abilities (e.g., Barnes, 2004; Daniel, Roysircar, Abeles, & Boyd, 2004). Despite this common belief, there is a scarcity of theory and research on the role of self-awareness in affecting therapist training outcomes (Pieterse, Lee, Ritmeester, & Collins, 2013). Using a Social Cognitive Model of Counselor Training (SCMCT; Larson, 1998) as a guiding theoretical framework, the present study examined therapist trainees' self-awareness as a mediator in the relations of trainees' person variable (self-compassion) and training variables (clinical experience and supervisory rapport) to trainees' counseling self-efficacy (CSE).
Path analysis was conducted to analyze data from a sample of 466 graduate-level therapist trainees. Results showed that self-awareness partially mediated the relations of clinical experience and self-compassion to CSE. The mediation effect was not significant for supervisory rapport, although supervisory rapport did directly predict CSE. Post-hoc moderation analyses suggested that self-awareness might play a more significant mediational role for trainees with more clinical experience compared to trainees with less experience, and for trainees with more supervisory rapport versus trainees with less supervisory rapport. These findings provide valuable empirical support for self-awareness as a crucial factor in facilitating desirable training outcomes in therapist trainees. The importance of advancing theory and research in this area is highlighted.
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Denison, Stephanie Susan. "The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1998. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1745/.