The purpose of this paper was to investigate whether or not the use of a biographical inventory would be a feasible and viable adjunctive means of making more accurate predictions of student success in programs of upper-division and graduate study in speech pathology and audiology. During the past years, biographical inventories have been found to be predictive of creativity, performance as a military officer, performance in varied occupations, and academic performance. It was hypothesized that a biographical inventory could be developed which, when used in conjunction with the existing academic predictors of Grade Point Average and Graduate Records Examination scores, would add to the established selection instruments. As a means of identifying and distinguishing among several levels of competency of students, a student evaluation form was constructed and validated. Items cores from a 257 item biographical inventory were correlated with scores obtained from the student evaluation form and a 52 item biographical inventory for speech pathology and audiology students was developed. Admissions criteria data, student evaluation form scores and biographical inventory scores were placed in two step-wise multiple regression equations and analyzed statistically. Results indicate that biographical factors appear to be of importance to undergraduate success in programs of speech and hearing therapy. Student success in the more rigorous programs of graduate study appears to depend much more on academic ability. Disparate results indicate that the use of a biographical inventory as an adjunctive academic predictor should be approached with caution until further studies can be conducted.

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Two female gangsters, locked in a bitter rivalry, battle for control of Sydney’s underworld in the Roaring Twenties while fighting the corrupt police and legal system run by men. Based on the true story of Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine.

The South African businessman, Brand Pretorius, was born in the rural Orange Free State town of Steynsrus in 1953. Pretorius rose to prominence in the motor industry in South Africa and he retired in 2011 as Chairman of McCarthy Motor Holdings Limited the largest motor retailer in South Africa. Pretorius was selected for this psychobiographical study by means of purposive sampling, given his extraordinary business achievements. Pretorius is publicly recognised as one of South Africa’s most successful businessmen and leaders. Psychobiographical research typically takes into consideration the entire life of an individual with the aim of uncovering the story of an individual’s life through the lens of a particular theory. The aim of this study was to explore and describe the leadership development of Brand Pretorius juxtaposed against the model of authentic leadership proposed by Avolio and Luthans (2003). The life history of Brand Pretorius was studied using a qualitative single-case study design. The psychobiographical research method allowed the single-case to be studied spanning his entire career. Data was collected from both primary and secondary sources. Conceptual matrices were used to organise and integrate the findings against the model of authentic leadership. The use of multiple data sources increased the validity and reliability of the research process and findings. To ensure ethical integrity the researcher obtained informed consent from Pretorius. The findings of this research study indicate that Pretorius was able to successfully display the authentic leadership dimensions of self-awareness, internalised moral perspective, balanced processing, relational transparency and positive psychological capacities throughout the course of his career.

Studiens övergripande syfte är "Att ur ett livsloppsperspektiv beskriva och analysera äldre personers erfarenheter av och berättelser om psykisk ohälsa och hur de upplever att den påverkar åldrandet". De ursprungliga frågeställningarna var: "Hur upplever äldre personer att åldras med psykisk ohälsa?" och "Hur kan psykisk ohälsa bland äldre förstås ur ett livsloppsperspektiv?". Under studiens gång utkristalliserades en tredje frågeställning som ett analytiskt resultat av datamaterialet. Den lyder: "Vilka livsstrategier använder dessa personer för att hantera sina liv med psykisk ohälsa?" Sex personer mellan 65 och 85 år intervjuades om sin subjektiva erfarenhet av att leva med psykisk ohälsa. Intervjuerna var semistrukturerade och livsloppsorienterade för att fånga livets sammansatta dynamik och upplevelsen av att leva ett långt liv med psykisk ohälsa. De viktigaste resultaten pekade på en mycket stark identifikation mellan sjukdom och person som också format intervjupersonernas berättelser om och upplevelser av det levda livet. Det blev också tydligt att ett långt liv med psykisk ohälsa påverkar livets helhet. / The aim of this study is: "From a course of life perspective describe and analyse elderly’s experiences and tales about psychological ill-health and how that is influencing the aging". The original question formulations were: "How does elderly people experience aging with psychological ill-health?" and "How can psychological ill-health among elders be understood trough a live course perspective?". During the study a third question arose as an analytical result from the study material. "Which strategies does these people use to cope with their lives with psychological ill-health?". Six persons between the age of 65 to 85 where interviewed about their subjective experience about living with psychological ill-health. The interviews where semi-structured and course of live oriented to catch life’s compound dynamics and the experience to live a long live with psychological ill-health. The most important result in the study shows that there is a very strong identification between illness and the person that formed the interviewee’s story about their experience of the life lived. It also became clear that a life with psychological ill-health has a life embracing meaning.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2015-12-15T11:05:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 taisdemedeirosmarcato.pdf: 1124375 bytes, checksum: 34870ae17b67e8a9f57330aeea3e35d7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2015-12-15T11:18:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 taisdemedeirosmarcato.pdf: 1124375 bytes, checksum: 34870ae17b67e8a9f57330aeea3e35d7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-15T11:18:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 taisdemedeirosmarcato.pdf: 1124375 bytes, checksum: 34870ae17b67e8a9f57330aeea3e35d7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-22 / No campo teórico da produção cinematográfica, a observação de construções biográficas ganha mais evidência com as constantes experiências da representação do eu e do outro que o cinema estimula. Documentários biográficos e autobiográficos tornam-se práticas frequentes pós-retomada do Cinema Brasileiro. Nessa lógica, cresce a necessidade de criação de procedimentos que possibilitam a identificação de diferentes manifestações de relatar a (própria) vida no cinema documentário contemporâneo. Em sintonia com a proposta do espaço biográfico (Arfuch) e de categorias encontradas tanto na escrita biográfica literária (Vilas Boas) quanto na narrativa cinematográfica (Puccini), nossa pesquisa centrou-se em proceder à análise e à delimitação dos procedimentos de relatos biográficos e autobiográficos relacionados ao documentário Santiago (2007), filme de João Moreira Salles. Procurando debruçar-nos sobre as possibilidades da construção biográfica presentes no desenvolvimento da narrativa fílmica, distinguiremos cinco modalidades da abordagem biográfica que possibilitam uma melhor compreensão da feitura do relato em Santiago: (1) Santiago como personagem biografada do filme que o diretor tentou montar em 1992; (2) Santiago como biógrafo, uma vez que incorpora interpretações pessoais à escrita sobre as personagens da nobreza; (3) Santiago como escritor de uma escrita de caráter íntimo e confessional, que tem como centro a expressão de sua intimidade e que pode ser lida como um diário; (4) João Moreira Salles como diretor biógrafo, durante o momento da construção da trajetória de Santiago e (5) João Moreira Salles como personagem autobiografada, ao pontuar suas lembranças de infância através do relato autobiográfico em primeira pessoa. / In theoretical field on filmmaking, the observation of biographical constructions get more evidence with the constant experience of representation of self and other which cinema stimulates. Biographical and autobiographical documentaries become common practice in the post-resumption of Brazilian cinema. Following this logic, grows the need to establish procedures that enable the identification of different manifestations to report on (own) life in contemporary documentary cinema. In line with the proposal of biographical space (Arfuch) and categories found in both literary biographical writing (Vilas Boas) as in film narrative (Puccini), our research focused on carrying out the analysis and the definition of the procedures of biographical and autobiographical accounts related to the documentary Santiago (2007), a João Moreira Salles film. Seeking to examine the possibilities of biographical construction present in the development of film narrative, we distinguish five modes of biographical approach that enables a better understanding of the making of the story in Santiago: (1) Santiago as biographee character in the film that the director tried to mount in 1992; (2) Santiago as biographer, as he incorporates personal interpretations to writing about the characters of the nobility; (3) Santiago as a writer of a confessional writing, which has at its center an expression of intimacy and that can be read like a diary; (4) João Moreira Salles as biographer director during the time of construction of Santiago´s path and (5) João Moreira Salles as autobiographee character, by pointing out his childhood memories through the autobiographical first-person account.

This paper explores the individual meanings behind the patterns of residential mobility of former asylum seekers in Sweden. While there are numerous studies of residential segregation and migration patterns amongst natives and immigrants alike, fewer have asked the actual patternmakers what driving forces lie behind their decisions to resettle. This study aims to put light on former asylum seekers’ specific experiences of their resettlements and whether the asylum process in itself affect later migration patterns during the life-course. Through in-depth interviews seven respondents told their life stories with focus on how and why they resettled during their time inSweden. The study showed how the structural factors that initiated their general migration patterns of frequent resettlements gave way over time to less frequent moves where life-course events were the main factors. The results indicate that the asylum process may indeed affect subsequent resettlements in so far that the first own accommodation type of area seem to be important to future residential area choices throughout the life-course. The findings should be of interest for further studies on a greater scale and to policy makers trying to counteract segregation in the metropolitan areas of Sweden in a time of increased refugee flows.

In her introduction to a special issue of the South Central Review on literary biography published in 2006, Linda Leavell writes, "Many would trace the disdain for literary biography—in both senses of the word “literary”—back through Roland Barthes’s “death of the author” to the New Critics’ division of text from context all the way to T. S. Eliot’s theory of impersonality. Critical theory of the past century has generally deemed an author’s life, personality, and intentions irrelevant to the text" (1). Leavell’s explanation of how critical theory of the twentieth century came to shape the current scholarly attitude towards literary biography establishes the genre’s status in an era of literary theory that is commonly characterized by the diminishment of the author as the source of meaning in a text, an era in which we remain. This characterization, however, overlooks the different ways that the theorists of the era displaced the author as the dominant figure in literary studies. This paper demonstrates how these different ways, despite whatever damage they might have done to the status of literary biography, actually benefit the study of the genre. Additionally, this paper argues that they not only comprise one side of Vladimir Nabokov’s contradictory views on his own authorship, which makes him an ideal subject for the study of authority over biographical representation, but also gave rise to new methodologies of literary biography, which are the methodologies of Nabokov’s biographers themselves. As a result, this paper concludes, “an author’s life, personality, and intentions” in turn have assumed new relevancy in literary studies. / text