This study highlighted the implications of the absence of well-delineated criteria for the workplace-effective mobility of employees with disabilities in South Africa for their employment, development and organisational mobility. In response to the dearth of research on workplace-effective mobility, and cognizant of the importance of well-delineated workplace criteria to oppose continuing workplace prejudice and discrimination against employees with disabilities, this two-phase sequential triangulation study aimed to identify and confirm criteria and compile a theoretical model for workplace-effective mobility of employees with disabilities. The study has significance for the achievement of greater workplace equity and redress, which will enhance the strategic human resources management and the productive image of employees with disabilities, as well as reduce welfare costs by enabling more people with disabilities to access paid employment opportunities. To attain the study objectives, the study was done in two phases. The first was a qualitative phase during which focus group interviews with participants with disabilities were conducted. The second phase involved a five-point Likert scale-based Delphi process with industrial and organisational psychologists. Focus group participants were formally employed or self-employed in various organisations and were recruited from four disability categories (people who are blind or deaf, or have a physical or speech impairment) in four provinces in South Africa (the Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape). The industrial and organisational psychologists who participated in the Delphi phase were used as experts with prior experience in the employee recruitment area. The study found that workplace-effective mobility is (a) a multi-dimensional concept comprised of a positive self-concept, self-efficacy, workplace accessibility, a sense of coherence and a positive sense of independence, which form the crux of criteria for workplace-effective mobility; (b) a result of self-efficacy beliefs, enabling organisational practices and workplace accessibility; and (c) at the heart of the pursuit for workplace equity to redress prejudice and discrimination against employees with disabilities in the workplace. The participating experts also reached consensus in their understanding of the term workplace-effective mobility. Within-group differences were identified for a number of categories; and therefore it is recommended that future research should be conducted on distinct categories of disabilities. Using the identified dimensions (positive self-concept, self-efficacy, workplace accessibility, sense of coherence and a positive sense of independence) and outcomes (organisational and personal effectiveness), a theoretical model of workplace-effective mobility was compiled. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011. / Human Resource Management / unrestricted

A descriptive correlational study investigated the possible relationship between family functioning and the self-concept development of adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CF). Twenty-two adolescents ranging from 13 to 19 years of age and members of their families volunteered to participate. The adolescents completed the Offer Self-image Questionnaire (OSIQ) and the Family Assessment Device (FAD). Thirty-four family members completed the FAD. Mean standard scores for the study population were compared to normative values for the OSIQ and the FAD. The Spearman rho correlation procedure was used to investigate relationships between scales of the two measures. Findings for the self-concept measure (OSIQ) revealed that the mean scores for the adolescents with CF were better than normative values with two exceptions; the mean score was lower than normative values on the Sexual Attitudes Scale for males and females ranging from 13 to 15 years of age and on the Body and Self-image Scale for males 13 to 19 years and females 13 to 15 years of age. On the family functioning measure (FAD) the mean scores for adolescents and their family members were lower than suggested healthy cut off scores (Epstein, Baldwin, & Bishop, 1983) with the exception of a higher score on the Roles Scale. However, scores of the sample were similar to FAD scores generated from a random sample considered by the authors of the FAD to be descriptive of the general family population (Miller, Bishop, Epstein, & Keitner, 1985). A positive relationship between well developed adolescent self-concept and positive family functioning was not indicated; most correlations between the OSIQ and FAD scales were negative. Health care for adolescents with CF should include addressing their sexual and body and self-image concerns and promoting healthy family functioning. Further investigation of self-concept and family functioning for adolescents with CF is warranted. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Nursing, School of / Graduate

The purpose of this descriptive study was to determine the existence of a relationship between perceptions of global self-esteem and stress incontinence episodes in a group of older women participating in a bladder retraining protocol. A convenience sample of fifteen older women was obtained. The participants constituted a group of well older women who ranged in age from 63 years to 82 years. All participants were living in the community and experiencing urinary incontinence. The University of British Columbia Model for Nursing was the conceptual framework which guided the focus of the study. The model views the individual as a behavioural system composed of nine interrelated and interdependent subsystems. This study focused on the interrelationship of the excretory and ego-valuative subsystems. The theory of self-efficacy, as outlined by Bandura provided the method by which this study was operationalized. Self-efficacy is the product of personal efficacy—an individual's judgement of the effectiveness of an executed course of action in achieving a desired outcome. The enactive, persuasive, and emotive modes of influence were utilized to provide efficacy information. Data were collected on three occasions using four instruments. The first instrument involved collection of selected demographic variables and was completed during the initial interview. A continence assessment and the Rosenberg self-esteem scale were completed during the initial and final interviews. An interview guide was used during a telephone contact. The telephone contact occurred four days following the first interview; the final interview occurred fourteen days after the first. The data were summarized, compared and described using measures of central tendency and frequency distributions. Paired t-tests were performed on selected variables to determine if there was a difference between pre and post intervention interview score. These tests demonstrated no significant differences in scores. Study findings indicated that at the end of the two week trial 53% of the women were able to identify a change in their voiding habits. Four of the participants (26.7%) stated that they were completely continent at the completion of the two week trial and four other participants (26.7%) indicated that $ some type of positive change had occurred. Three women (20%) identified a negative change in their continence status. Global self-esteem scores, as measured by the Rosenberg self-esteem scale, remained relatively stable during the two week trial period. Scores appeared to be unaffected by a change in continence status. This may be due to the many successful normalizing strategies subjects had developed to hide the evidence of the symptom of urinary incontinence. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Nursing, School of / Graduate

In recent years, second-hand products have received more attention and the demand for secondhand products has increased. In line with the demand for second-hand products, ethical consumption has also increased. There have been earlier studies done on ethical consumption and the drivers of its consumers. Meanwhile, there is a lack in the research regarding what it is that drives and motivates consumers to purchase second-hand products. The purpose of this study was to explore what drives and motivates consumers to shop second-hand products. The study used a qualitative method. The data was collected through interviews with employees and volunteers at second-hand stores, and through a focus group with second-hand customers. The empirical findings show that there are various drivers and motivations for second-hand consumption. However, there are some drivers and motivations which are more common than others. The conclusion is that consumers are motivated and driven by various factors. They are motivated by consumer responsibility, decrease of impulse purchases and reference groups. They are driven by dissonance, self-fulfillment, thrill of the hunt and finding unique products.

Orientadores: Maria Inês Rubo de Souza Nobre, Rita de Cássia Ietto Montilha / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T09:31:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Crepaldi_GiulianaJorge_M.pdf: 9604477 bytes, checksum: d292978ba7f93e6b29ac4c10275330d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: A ausência da visão é um fenômeno complexo e diverso, podendo interferir no cotidiano do indivíduo ao gerar limitações nos diversos aspectos de sua vida, incluindo o modo como ele se percebe e avalia sua qualidade de vida. Este estudo tem como objetivo verificar o autoconceito de pessoas com baixa visão ou com cegueira e identificar como avaliam sua qualidade de vida. Buscou-se também verificar como seus familiares as percebem. Trata-se de um levantamento descritivo realizado com onze pessoas com baixa visão, seis pessoas com cegueira e seus respectivos familiares. Para a coleta de dados foram utilizados uma ficha de identificação, a Escala Fatorial de Autoconceito (EFA) e o questionário de avaliação de Qualidade de Vida SF-36. Os dados foram coletados em um Centro de Estudos e Pesquisa em Reabilitação, individualmente e com o consentimento prévio dos participantes. A EFA e o SF-36 foram aplicados aos participantes com deficiência visual. Já os familiares destes participantes apenas responderam a EFA. Os instrumentos foram aplicados em forma de entrevista. Os dados coletados foram tabulados, codificados e analisados estatisticamente. Os participantes com cegueira e os com baixa visão apresentaram autoconceito positivo e semelhante. Com relação à qualidade de vida, o domínio melhor avaliado foi capacidade funcional. As avaliações realizadas pelos familiares e o autoconceito mantido pelas pessoas com deficiência visual foram próximos, sendo que a diferença entre as avaliações não foi estatisticamente significativa. Os domínios vitalidade e saúde mental foram os que mais apresentaram relação estatisticamente significativa com os fatores de autoconceito / Abstract: The lack of vision is a complex and diverse phenomenon, and it can interfere in individual¿s daily life producing limitations in several aspects of his life. It includes how he perceives and evaluates the quality of his life. This study aims to determine the self-concept of people with low vision or with blindness. It also identifies how they evaluate their quality of life and how they are noticed by their relatives. It is a descriptive survey which was carried out with 11 people with low vision, 6 people with blindness and their relatives. To the data collection it was used an identification form, the Escala Fatorial de Autoconceito - EFA (Factorial Self-Concept Scale), and the assessment tool, Quality of Life - SF-36. Data was collected at a Center of Studies and Research in Rehabilitation. It was carried individually, with the prior consent of the participants. EFA and SF-36 were used with the participants who have any visual impairment. Their relatives were only exposed to EFA¿s. The resources were explored through interviews. The collected data was tabulated, coded and analyzed statistically. Both, blind and low vision people, showed a positive and similar self-concept. Regarding quality of life, functional capacity was the dominant one. Assessments carried out by their family and the self-ratings maintained by people with visual impairment were similar, and the differences among their evaluations were not statistically significant. Vitality and mental health were the domains that had more statistically significance relation with the factors of self-concept / Mestrado / Interdisciplinaridade e Reabilitação / Mestra em Saúde, Interdisciplinaridade e Reabilitação

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This research study was designed to investigate the relationships of stress, anxiety, self concept, social support and illness in children and to examine the potential of specific cognitive mediating variables, self concept and anxiety, and an external mediating variable, social support and an interaction between self concept and social support, to significantly increase the efficiency of stress as a predictor of children's illness. The purposes of this study were (1) to determine if stressful life events, anxiety, self concept, social support, sex and illness are related in children, (2) to determine if stressful life events are an adequate predictor of illness in children, (3) to determine if a combination of anxiety, self concept and social support will increase the predictive efficiency concerning illness in children, (4) to provide information that may help develop a theoretical base concerning stressful life events and illness in children, and (5) to provide information that may be beneficial with regard to future research involving stress, anxiety, self concept, social support, sex and illness in children.

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The purpose of this exploratory and descriptive study was to determine the association (if any) between the self-concept awareness and emotion- focused coping of children with ADHD. Theories informing this study were Barkley’s conceptualisation of ADHD, Bandura’s social cognitive theory as a means of understanding self-concept awareness and Gonzales and Seller’s theory of emotion- focused coping. The study was conducted by means of an intervention research design. I purposively selected two children with ADHD and their respective parents, educators and therapists to participate in the study. Ebersöhn’s intrapersonal regulation intervention was implemented with the child participants at different intervals. Both child participant’s self-concept awareness and emotion- focused coping strategies were assessed pre- and post intervention, through the use of formal interviews and observations. The data was analysed and interpreted through thematic analysis. The following themes emerged; self-concept awareness, adaptive emotion-focused- coping strategies and maladaptive emotion- focused coping strategies. Findings of the study confirmed that prior to the intervention, the two child participants were predisposed towards emotion- focused coping, especially maladaptive emotion- focused coping strategies. Post- intervention findings suggested that increased self-concept awareness resulted in the use of two adaptive emotion- focused coping strategies (namely relaxation methods and re-appraisal) with maladaptive emotion- focused coping (namely direct- active physical aggression and direct-passive aggression) remaining. Thus, an association exists between self-concept awareness and emotion- focused coping in children with ADHD. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Educational Psychology / unrestricted

The purpose of this study was to shed light on the effects that ADHD symptoms can have on the way individuals assess themselves on six different domains: physical, moral, personal, family, social and academic/work and on their overall self-concept. A total of 136 participants were assessed using two self-ratings questionnaires: Tennessee Self Concept Scale (TSCS-2) and the ADHD screening questionnaire (ADHD-SQ). Mean scores showed positive self-concepts in each individual subscale. A total of 17% of individuals met the diagnostic criteria for ADHD and they were separated into three subgroups: 7,4% Inattentive group, 5,9% Hyperactive/Impulsive group and 3,7% Combined group. Correlational analyses showed significant negative correlation between overall self-concept and both Inattention and Hyperactivity. Independent T-test samples found that participants with high prevalence of ADHD symptoms had significantly lower self-concept scores compared with participants with low prevalence of ADHD symptoms. / Studiens syfte var att belysa effekterna som ADHD-symtom kan ha på hur individer bedömer sig inom sex olika domäner: fysiska, moraliska, personliga, familj, sociala och utbildning/arbete, och på deras övergripande självuppfattning. Totalt 136 deltagare utvärderades med hjälp av två instrument: Tennessee Self Concept Scale: andra upplagan (TSCS-2) och ADHD screeningformuläret (ADHD-SQ). Medelpoängen visade positiva självkoncept i varje enskild underskala. Totalt 17% av deltagarna uppfyllde de diagnostiska kriterierna för ADHD och de delades in i tre undergrupper: 7,4% Ouppmärksam grupp, 5,9% Hyperaktiv / impulsiv grupp och 3,7% kombinerad grupp. Korrelationsanalyser visade signifikanta negativa samband mellan övergripande självuppfattning och både ouppmärksamhet och hyperaktivitet. Oberoende t-test fann att deltagare med hög prevalens av ADHD-symtom hade signifikant lägre självuppfattning jämfört med deltagare med låg prevalens av ADHD-symtom.