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by Lee Wai-man. / Title also in Chinese. / Thesis (M.A.Ed.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1988. / Bibliography: leaves [331]-[357]

Tam Wing-sai Jessica. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-234). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstracts --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Prelude --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter1 --- Literature Review / Chapter 1.1 --- Literature Review on Cyber Researches --- p.5 / Chapter 1.11 --- Cyberspace and Self --- p.7 / Chapter 1.111 --- Goffmanian Dramaturgy: Presentation of Self in Cyberspace --- p.9 / Chapter 1.112 --- The Postmodern View: Fragmented and Multiple Cyberselves --- p.13 / Chapter 1.12 --- Later Foucault on Ethics --- p.19 / Chapter 1.121 --- Self-Writing as Self-Technology --- p.24 / Chapter 1.13 --- Conceptual Framework: Practice of Ethics in Cyberspace --- p.25 / Chapter 1.2 --- Summary --- p.32 / Chapter Chapter2 --- Research Design / Chapter 2.1 --- Research Site --- p.34 / Chapter 2.2 --- Research Method --- p.38 / Chapter 2.21 --- Textual Analysis --- p.38 / Chapter 2.22 --- Online Participatory Observation --- p.36 / Chapter 2.23 --- Online Interview / Chatting --- p.43 / Chapter 2.3 --- Summary --- p.45 / Chapter Chapter3 --- Approaching the Cyber Context: On the Threshold of Cyberspace / Chapter 3.1 --- Intrinsic Nexuses of Cyberspace --- p.47 / Chapter 3.11 --- Nexus of Space and Place --- p.47 / Chapter 3.111 --- Invisibility /Anonymity --- p.50 / Chapter 3.112 --- Sociality --- p.52 / Chapter 3.12 --- Nexus of Nearness and Remoteness --- p.60 / Chapter 3.121 --- Strangeness --- p.61 / Chapter 3.2 --- People on the Net: a Classification of Cyber-individuals --- p.63 / Chapter 3.21 --- Instrumental net user --- p.68 / Chapter 3.22 --- Cybernaut --- p.70 / Chapter 3.23 --- Netizen --- p.71 / Chapter 3.24 --- Net-addict --- p.75 / Chapter 3.3 --- Summary: Crossing the Threshold of Cyberspace --- p.79 / Chapter Chapter4 --- Caring the Cyberself: Self-awareness and Mind-caring / Chapter 4.1 --- Problematization of Virtuality and Virtual self --- p.82 / Chapter 4.11 --- Relationship with Virtual Reality: Materiality Vs Virtuality --- p.83 / Chapter 4.12 --- Relationship with Selves: Authentic self? Unauthentic self? --- p.91 / Chapter 4.13 --- Self-caring: Forgetting the body? Caring the mind --- p.97 / Chapter 4.131 --- Ethical Substance: Free and Reflective Subject --- p.109 / Chapter 4.2 --- Summary: Cyberself as an Ethical Subject --- p.114 / Chapter Chapter5 --- Creating the Cyber Flesh: Self-fashioning as a Virtual Self-technology / Chapter 5.1 --- Nickname --- p.117 / Chapter 5.2 --- Personal Details --- p.124 / Chapter 5.21 --- Net-hupomnemata --- p.126 / Chapter 5.22 --- Net Self-narration --- p.134 / Chapter 5.3 --- Summary: Self-fashioning as Virtual Self-technology --- p.137 / Chapter Chapter6 --- Playing the Cyberself: Self-experiment as a Virtual Self-technology / Chapter 6.1 --- Forms of Cyberself --- p.140 / Chapter 6.11 --- Disembodied --- p.140 / Chapter 6.12 --- Plastic --- p.141 / Chapter 6.13 --- Multiple and interchangeable --- p.142 / Chapter 6.2 --- Virtual Self-experiment --- p.143 / Chapter 6.21 --- Multiplicity: Self as a Masquer --- p.143 / Chapter 6.22 --- Plasticity : Self as a Creator --- p.151 / Chapter 6.221 --- Gender Swapping --- p.153 / Chapter 6.3 --- Summary: Self-Experiment as Virtual Self-Technology --- p.158 / Chapter Chapter7 --- Narrating the Cyberself: Self-Narration as a Virtual Self-Technology / Chapter 7.1 --- Net-Narration --- p.161 / Chapter 7.11 --- Net-diary --- p.162 / Chapter 7.12 --- Net-Correspondence --- p.166 / Chapter 7.2 --- Summary: Self-Narration as Virtual Self-technology --- p.176 / Epilogue-Game of Power in Cyberspace / Part I: Cyber-nature and Cyber-individuals --- p.179 / Part II： Self-awareness --- p.182 / Part III: Self-technologies --- p.185 / Reflection --- p.191 / Notes --- p.195 / Appendices --- p.207 / Bibliography --- p.226

My dissertation is based on the premise that possessions are an extension of the self. Beyond simple functional benefits that possessions provide us, I question whether possessions affect our self-perception and behavior. Specifically, I focus on two aspects of possessions: Ownership (Essay 1) and Sharing (Essay 2). In Essay 1, I find that feeling a sense of product ownership has downstream consequences in one’s representation of who s/he is. Here I reveal that salient feelings of product ownership activate a product-related self in one’s mind, but more importantly deactivate product-unrelated self. By identifying simultaneous identity activation and deactivation, I show that an individual can only hold a limited number of salient selves, and activating one’s self aspect requires a trade-off. This finding updates the prior assumption in the literature that an individual can hold an unlimited number of selves, and further suggests that there is still a finite limit to what can be salient at a given time. My interest in ownership extends to Essay 2, where I examine another behavioral aspect of consumers: sharing. Sharing behavior has received much attention lately due to the rise of sharing economy platforms, which provide new opportunities for consumers to share personal belongings with others. In Essay 2, I mine people’s latent motivation behind sharing by using a transaction dataset from one of the largest sharing economy platforms, Airbnb. Here I find that people are driven by not only monetary, but also non-monetary reasons, such as desires to meet others and share the beauty of their homes. Then I explore how each motivation affects people’s engagement on the sharing economy platform and their continued effort to share. This second essay highlights individuals’ new role as micro-entrepreneurs in this new era of the 21st century.

The primary aim of this study is to examine changes an individual’s self-concept before and after exposure to an integrated yoga self-psychology model, delivered through an eight- session curriculum, based upon the chakra system. The study explores relationships between elements of self-concept including psychological strengths (self-compassion, mindfulness, interoceptive awareness, psychological flexibility, and emotion regulation) and psychopathology (anxiety, depression, PTSD, and borderline symptoms.) An open trial was conducted in a university-based wellness center with 102 non-clinically-referred participants, 28 of whom attended four or fewer classes (Non-Completion group) and 74 of who attended five or more classes, completing the study (Completion group). From pretest to posttest, participants in the Completion group showed significant gains in mindfulness, self-compassion, psychological flexibility, emotional regulation, and interoceptive awareness and a significant decrease in PTSD. Psychopathology in the Completion group also decreased significantly from pretest to posttest for participants who were symptomatic at baseline for depression (N=12), PTSD (N=27), anxiety (N=18), and borderline symptoms (N=19). For symptomatic participants, these decreases were sustained at 3-month follow-up for PTSD and borderline symptoms, but they were not sustained for anxiety and depression. Overall, changes in psychological strengths were significantly negatively correlated with changes in psychopathology. Path analysis indicated that increases in psychological flexibility from pretest to posttest had a mediating effect at a trend level on reduction in PTSD and borderline symptoms from pretest to follow-up. Qualitative analysis revealed that 94.59% of participants in the Completion Group applied the lessons of the yoga curriculum to their lives outside of class. The study then explored the clinical implications of an integrated yoga self-psychology model as a low-cost alternative or supplement to traditional psychotherapy and psychopharmacology for individuals who respond poorly to standard treatment or cannot afford it. The study also posited that an integrated yoga self-psychology model may strengthen psychological flexibility, which may in turn lead to a reduction in certain types of psychopathology, notability symptoms of borderline personality disorder and PTSD.

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This study explores the nature of the self-concept in old age. Specifically, the relationship between the self-concept and social relationships and self-concept and living situation (residence in a long term care or residence in one’s own home) are examined. The self-concept was measured by the Tennessee Self Concept Scale (TSCS) developed by William Fitts in 1965. Data was collected at two stages (over a two to three year period) from a study sample which consisted of twelve individuals who became institutionalized and twelve individuals who remained in their own homes. Both quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods were used. Analysis indicated that the study sample groups of institutionalized and community residing groups were similar in the amount and kind of social contacts they had with friends, family and relatives. Examination of the self-concept scores revealed that there were virtually no difference between the self-concept scores of the two samples. This study concludes with a discussion of the need to further longitudinal research into the nature of the self-concept in old age and issues in methods of data collection and analysis.

As I have worked with teenagers in regular and alternative schools, I have often wondered why some children seem to be more prone to displaying behavioral problems. One popular explanation points to the home environment as the place where appropriate behaviors are learned, and strength, discipline and positive self-image are developed to resist negative pressures of the child's peer culture. Bronfenbrenner (1986) very eloquently describes the importance of an enriched home life for the development of a well-adjusted child. Likewise, the Rochester Schools Project (Connell, Deci, Ryan, and Grolnick, 1989) speaks to the need for teachers and staff to "connect" with students, and thus through their interactions help them work through difficult times and make decisions regarding their choices of actions.

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This thesis examines how the reification of the concept of ' self - esteem ' has been achieved discursively. It investigates how the concept of self - esteem has been developed over time and how it operates as an explanatory construct across a rage of areas and disciplines. The analyses in this thesis examine texts coming from psychiatry, self - help publications and public policy. These disciplines have taken up, utilized and, consequently re - constructed the concept of self - esteem according to their own specific needs and their particular discursive organizations. The thesis adopts the assumption that abstract psychological constructs are linguistically achieved and thus can be most effectively studied through focusing on the ' workings of language ', rather than on ' discovering ' some inner phenomena. Informed by Wittgenstein, critical psychology, and critical linguistics, the analyses undertake grammatical investigations into the concept of self - esteem. These investigations, based on the analysis of patterns in the lexico - grammar, examine ' meanings ' accumulated in the concept of self - esteem. These examinations extend to the level of social, cultural, and political contexts which have influenced our understandings of the concept of self - esteem. The investigations of ' meanings ' embedded in the notion of self - esteem make possible an exploration of the values, assumptions and connotations carried by this concept. The analyses demonstrate that self - esteem has been constructed over time as an increasingly more tangible, internalized and cognitive phenomenon. This intensified reification produced a ' self - esteem ' that is not only a consistent and measurable ' feature ' of the human psyche, but is an agentive force shaping human lives. Moreover, these constructions of self - esteem promote particular ethical principles and ultraconservative values. Paradoxically, while discourses of self - esteem have become a part of neo - liberal philosophies emphasizing personal liberty and freedom of choice, they serve to limit the choices of many social groups. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Medical School, 2005.