This thesis explores the role of the self-concept on ethical consumption behaviour within the Thai consumer context. Religiosity has an influence on a person’s self and morality as Thai people place high importance on religious values. Ten consumers are studied through in-depth, phenomenological interviews, focusing on ethical consumption experiences and meanings. The self-concept is viewed as an experiencer and a moral entity that is dynamic and contextual between internal and external values. The study has extended knowledge on the self-concept and self-image congruency in the context of ethical consumption. It found the existence of a self-ethics relationship through processes of internalisation and externalisation. Personal value, emotion, moral salience, religious beliefs and social values are internalised into the self-concept. On the other hand, externalisation allows consumers to express personal meanings onto society. Self-monitoring functions in these processes to control ethical behaviour. Ethical consumption helps consumers to construct and enhance moral identity, underpinned by the moral self. This thesis has found self-ethics congruency, where meanings of the self and ethical consumption are symbolised and encouraging ethical consumption. Moreover, the multidimensional self has emerged from the study. This finding offers insights on different aspects of the self-concept through ethical consumption. Consumers intuitively engage in ethical consumption when emotion is involved. The implications of this study suggest “who ethical consumers are” by looking at the consumer’s self. Organisations and marketers can use different selves and moral identity to segment and target potential ethical consumers while creating brand image corresponding to consumer’s self-image.

abstract: Bullying impacts as many as one in three children (or more in some studies). The impact of bullying on children is similar to other forms of abuse like sexual abuse or physical abuse, far-reaching and potentially long term. The impact isn't solely on the child who is being bullied, it also impacts the child who is doing the bullying. It may have short and long term consequences as well. Martial arts has often been suggested to reduce bullying behaviors (and sometimes suggested as increasing bullying behaviors) but there has been limited research on this level of violence between kids and martial arts as an intervention. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of martial arts (in particular the Karate for KidsTM program) on bullying behaviors. 223 children were given a standardized questionnaire (the Olweus Bullying Questionnaire) and their parents/guardians were given a short parent survey to measure bullying behaviors in beginner, intermediate and advanced martial arts students. Results showed significant differences between the groups and indicated a reduction in the incidence of children being bullied and a strong indication in a reduction in the child's tendency to bully others after extended martial arts training. These findings suggest that parents, guardians or other child professionals who are interested in reducing bullying behaviors should consider martial arts classes for children. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction 2012

The objective of this study was to investigate the conditions under which family counseling was terminated and the relationship of the type of termination to children's self-concepts and parents' attitudes. For the purposes of this study, family counseling was terminated by either mutual termination or by family termination. Mutual termination referred to the family and the counselor mutually agreeing that termination from counseling was appropriate. Family termination referred to the family deciding without counselor agreement that termination from counseling was appropriate. For the purposes of this study a family's degree of commitment to the counseling process was indicated by the type of termination the families chose, that is, mutual or family termination.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) evandro_silveira_de_oliveira.pdf: 3657139 bytes, checksum: c42584f30e68c8e424c7de51074af2cc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Justificativa: Considerou-se que o impacto do tratamento odontol?gico na qualidade de vida e na autoestima de pacientes submetidos ? hemodi?lise ainda n?o est? esclarecido, sendo necess?rios novos estudos de base populacional para melhor conhecimento dos efeitos dessa patologia. Objetivo: Verificar se o tratamento odontol?gico minimamente invasivo ? capaz de gerar melhoria na qualidade de vida e na autoestima de pacientes submetidos a hemodi?lise. M?todos: Realizou-se um estudo intervencional com 46 pacientes Submetidos ? hemodi?lise na cidade de Diamantina, Brasil. Os pacientes foram divididos em dois grupos de acordo com a presen?a ou n?o de dentes; dentados e desdentados. Os pacientes desdentados receberam informa??o sobre higiene bucal e realizaram bochechos com gluconato de clorexidina a 0,12%. O grupo dentado recebeu raspagem em sess?o ?nica de 45 minutos e tamb?m realizou o bochecho, caso fosse necess?rio tamb?m eram realizados: resinas anteriores, recontorno de restaura??es, fechamento de cavidades com cimento de ion?mero de vidro e exodontias de emerg?ncia. As informa??es sobre as condi??es de sa?de bucal e fatores socioecon?micos foram obtidas atrav?s de um prontu?rio aplicado por um cirurgi?o dentista. A qualidade de vida foi avaliada atrav?s do instrumento Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Questionnaire (SF-36) e Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP) na sua vers?o 14. J? para a autoestima utilizou-se a Escala de Autoestima de Rosenberg. Os question?rios foram aplicados antes do tratamento e ap?s 45 dias. As an?lises estat?sticas foram efetuadas com o pacote estat?stico SPSS? para Windows? (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences Inc., IBM) na vers?o 22.0. Foram realizadas an?lises descritivas, teste de Wilcoxon, Mann_Whitney e Spearman. O n?vel de signific?ncia adotado foi de 5% (p<0,05). Resultados: A m?dia de idade foi 50,24 anos (?15,60) e o ?ndice CPO-D m?dio foi de 21,83 (?11,12). Houve signific?ncia estat?stica nas dimens?es do SF-36 no grupo ed?ntulo e dentado. O grupo dentado apresentou signific?ncia em quase todas as dimens?es do OHIP-14 e melhora da autoestima. Conclus?es: O tratamento odontol?gico gerou melhora significativa da qualidade de vida e da autoestima dos pacientes submetidos ? hemodi?lise, sendo o impacto maior nos pacientes que possuem dentes. / Disserta??o (Mestrado) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Odontologia, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2015. / Background: The impact of dental treatment on quality of life and self-esteem of patients undergoing hemodialysis is not clear, requiring population-based studies to better understand the effects of this disease. Objective: To verify if the minimally invasive dental treatment is able to improve quality of life and self-esteem of hemodialysis patients. Methods: It was an interventional study with 46 patients subjected to hemodialysis in the city of Diamantina, Brazil. The patients were divided into two groups according to the presence or absence of teeth; toothed and toothless. The edentulous patients received information about oral hygiene and performed mouthwash with 0.12% chlorhexidine gluconate. The dentate group received one session scraping in 45 minutes and also held the mouthwash, if necessary were performed: previous resins, restorations recontouring, closing cavities with glass ionomer cement and emergency extractions. Information on oral health status and socioeconomic factors were obtained through a chart applied by a dentist. Quality of life was assessed using the instrument Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Questionnaire (SF-36) and Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP) in their version 14. As for the self-esteem used the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. The questionnaires were applied before treatment and after 45 days. Statistical analyzes were performed with the statistical package SPSS for Windows (Statistical Package for Social Sciences Inc., IBM) in version 22.0. Descriptive analyzes were carried out, Wilcoxon test and Spearman Mann_Whitney. The significance level was 5% (p <0.05). Results: The mean age was 50.24 years (? 15.60) and the average DMFT index was 21.83 (? 11.12). There was statistical significance in the dimensions of the SF-36 in edentulous and dentate group. The dentate group showed significance in almost all dimensions of OHIP-14 and improved self-esteem. Conclusions: The treatment produced a significant improvement in quality of life and self- esteem of patients undergoing hemodialysis. The largest impact occured on patients who have teeth.

This diploma thesis deals with self-concept of a maturing individual in dancing. We look into the way of self-perception of a dancer during their commitment to dancing as a leisure time activity in their process of growing up. In the theoretical part, the thesis deals with defining the terms related to movement, dancing and its various psychological and pedagogical aspects, especially expression and expressivity. The theoretical part also focuses on particular components of self-concept. The practical part contains case studies based on qualitative research, which stem from data achieved by in-depth interviews and introspection and retrospection done by the author of the thesis.

Marketers have long observed, or at least assumed, that people buy certain products or brands as a means of expressing themselves. Marketing researchers have studied this phenomenon from the perspective of "self-congruity," assuming that a fit between the consumer's understanding of self (i.e., self-image) and the brand's image (or "brand personality") should drive the consumer's purchase behavior. This stream of research has vigorously explored the relations between the fit (i.e., "self-brand image congruity" or "self-congruity") and various behavioral outcomes. Nonetheless, this research stream has not succeeded in finding clear and strong evidence of the assumed effects on such a vital outcome as emotional brand attachment. Moreover, little research has directly explored the relations between self-congruity and emotional brand attachment. In this context, the main purpose of this dissertation is to shed light on this little understood relationship. Specifically, this research proposes that consumers' brand experience and self-congruity jointly create the strong driving force that directs consumers to an emotional attachment to the brands. Here, brand experience is conceptualized as the positive impact of brand-related stimuli or the "magnitude" of consumer responses to the stimuli that reflects a consumer's past interactions with brands or brand-related information. On the other hand, self-congruity can be understood as the "direction" that indicates which brand image a consumer wants to go with. The existing research has focused exclusively on the "direction." Taking the "magnitude" into account, this research aims to develop the theory that explains the assumed effects of self-congruity on emotional brand attachment as well as clearly demonstrate the effects, by proposing the interaction effects between self-congruity and brand experience. By synthesizing multiple research streams that have been recently growing, a comprehensive explanation was developed to explicate how consumers' perception of self-brand image fit and their past interactions with brands affect the formation of emotional brand attachment. In order to test the hypotheses that were derived from the theory, data were collected from 397 U.S. consumers using an online survey. The proposed interaction effects were clearly detected, along with the direct effects of self-congruity on emotional brand attachment, which the previous study had not been able to identify. The research revealed that brand experience boosts the positive effects of self-congruity on emotional brand attachment.

Afrikaans text / As sielkundige in privaat praktyk neem die navorser waar dat 'n negatiewe selfkonsep onderliggend is tot verskeie aanmeldingsprobleme, asook die kind se onvermoe om te aktualiseer, ten einde sy volle potensiaal te bereik. Opvoedkundige sielkundiges het 'n behoefte geidentifiseer aan hulpverleningsingrepe om die probleem aan te spreek. Dit het gelei tot die daarstel van 'n model: "Model vir psigoterapeutiese vaardigheidsopleiding aan die kind met die oog op selfkonsepverbetering". Hierdie model het die opheffing van selfkonsepgebreke, deur middel van psigoterapeutiese vaardigheidsopleiding, ten doel. Die model is saamgestel vanuit die navorser se praktykervaring en 'n literatuurstudie wat gelei bet tot die samestelling van konseptuele raamwerke vir selfkonsep en psigoterapeutiese vaardigheidsopleiding. Seltkonsepgebreke is in hierdie studie in verband gebring met vaardigheidstekorte. Dit bet daartoe gelei dat selfkonsepgebreke aangespreek kon word deur gebruik te maak van vaardigheidsopleiding. Die slotsom waartoe gekom is, is dat daar 'n verbetering in die selfkonsep van kinders in die middelkinderjare plaasgevind bet met die toepassing van die model. Volgens opvoedkundige sielkundiges in privaatpraktyk le die waarde van die model en die riglyne vir die operasionalisering daarvan, daarin dat dit praktiese toepassingswaarde bet in die proses van hulpverlening. / As a psychologist in private practice, the researcher notices that a negative self-concept is underlying to several initial reported problems, as well as the child's inability to actualize in order to reach his full potential. Educational psychologists identified the necessity for supportive intervention to address this problem. This has led to the establishing of a model: "Model for psychotherapeutic skills training for the child with the purpose of improving self-concept". This model aims to relinquish self-concept shortcomings by means of psychotherapeutic skills training. This model has been constructed from the researcher's experience in her practice as well as a literature study, which led to the compilation of conceptual frameworks for self-concept and psychotherapeutic skills training. In this study, self-concept shortcomings have been linked to the lack of skills. This has resulted in self-concept shortcomings to be addressed by skills training. The conclusion which has been reached is that there is an improvement in the self-concept of children in mid-childhood years with the implementation of the model. According to educational psychologists in private practice, the value of the model and the guidelines for the implementation thereof, lie in the the fact that the model has practical applicational worth in the process of rendering support. / Psychology of Education / D. Ed. (Psychology of Education)

The purpose of this study was to investigate and describe the long-term effects of play therapy on social contacts, self-esteem, school-related behavior patterns, level of academic functioning, attitude toward school, and family relations. There were no significant differences between the group out of play therapy one to six years and the group out of play therapy six to ten years on social contact, self-esteem, school-related behavior patterns, or level of academic functioning. Statistically significant differences occurred at the .05 level of significance concerning the effects of time on home and family relations, with subjects in the six- to ten-year group perceiving more independence while parents in the one to six years group perceived more recreational activity occurring in the family. There were no significant differences between play therapy and non-play therapy children on social contact, self-esteem, school-related behavior patterns, or level of academic functioning. There were statistically significant differences at the .05 level of significance on home and family relations, with subjects one to six years out of play therapy perceiving more organization in their homes than their evaluation-only counterparts, while parents of the group one to six years out of play therapy perceived significantly more cohesion than did parents in the evaluation-only comparison group. In the opposite direction, parents of the group one to six years since evaluation valued more goal-oriented behavior than did their play therapy counterparts. There were also statistically significant differences in the six- to ten-year category on home and family relations. Subjects in the category six to ten years out of play therapy perceived more independence in their homes, while their non-play therapy counterparts perceived more family recreational activity occurring. Between-group differences occurred on cohesion, expressiveness, and moral-religious emphasis, with non-play therapy subjects and parents disagreeing on these values significantly more than their play therapy counterparts.

Specific learning disabilities and social aspects are the key terms characterizing this diploma thesis. They are also the main theme of research. This issue is greatly widespread nowadays. These defects (disorders) represent a significant social problem all over the world. A psychological burden has influence not only on those children themselves, but also on parents as well as teachers. Except the negative influence on a child´s school success, specific learning disabilities have a secondary impact. They influence pupils´ self-assessment and their life among peers. The aim of the diploma thesis is to determine a severe impact of specific learning disabilities on a child´s self-assessment and its position among classmates. The thesis consists of two parts: theoretical and practical. The theoretical part is focused on the interpretation of knowledge about the theme. There is briefly mentioned a historical overview of specific learning disabilities and it describes the origin, demonstration or occurrence of the most widespread specific learning disability - dyslexia - especially its social aspects. The practical part acquaints readers with research. There is a sample of tested children with their casuistries, tests and results with tables and charts.

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