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Social self-preservation theory (SSPT) suggests that when faced with social-evaluative threat, a set of psychological and physiological responses are elicited concurrently (Dickerson, Gruenewald, & Kemeny, 2004; Kemeny, Gruenewald, & Dickerson, 2004). A series of studies examined the applicability of SSPT to the examination of social-evaluative body-related threats. In the first study, interviews were conducted to identify and describe uncomfortable body-related situations, and typical responses to such situations. Findings provided preliminary evidence of the applicability of SSPT to everyday body-related threats of young adult women – the threats, context of those threats, and responses to such threats were consistent with SSPT. The second study examined psychobiological responses to, and recovery from, a social-evaluative body-related threat. Findings from this study showed that the social-evaluative body-related threat elicited a psychobiological response consistent with SSPT; women in the threat group reported higher social physique anxiety and had higher cortisol following the threat. The third study sought to extend the applicability of SSPT to examine the psychobiological responses to, and recovery from, an anticipated social-evaluative body-related threat. In addition, the potential moderating effect of appearance investment on responses to a threat was examined. Findings from this study showed that women in the threat group reported higher shame and social physique anxiety after anticipating a social-evaluative body-related threat than following a quiet rest period for women in the control group. Results also indicated that both groups showed an index of decrease for cortisol, with the control group showing a significantly greater overall decrease than the threat group. Appearance investment did not moderate cortisol responses to a threat. Findings from the third study provide partial support for SSPT’s applicability to the anticipation of a social-evaluative body-related threat. Together findings from all three studies provide converging evidence for the use of SSPT in understanding the psychobiology of body image.

Social self-preservation theory (SSPT) suggests that when faced with social-evaluative threat, a set of psychological and physiological responses are elicited concurrently (Dickerson, Gruenewald, & Kemeny, 2004; Kemeny, Gruenewald, & Dickerson, 2004). A series of studies examined the applicability of SSPT to the examination of social-evaluative body-related threats. In the first study, interviews were conducted to identify and describe uncomfortable body-related situations, and typical responses to such situations. Findings provided preliminary evidence of the applicability of SSPT to everyday body-related threats of young adult women – the threats, context of those threats, and responses to such threats were consistent with SSPT. The second study examined psychobiological responses to, and recovery from, a social-evaluative body-related threat. Findings from this study showed that the social-evaluative body-related threat elicited a psychobiological response consistent with SSPT; women in the threat group reported higher social physique anxiety and had higher cortisol following the threat. The third study sought to extend the applicability of SSPT to examine the psychobiological responses to, and recovery from, an anticipated social-evaluative body-related threat. In addition, the potential moderating effect of appearance investment on responses to a threat was examined. Findings from this study showed that women in the threat group reported higher shame and social physique anxiety after anticipating a social-evaluative body-related threat than following a quiet rest period for women in the control group. Results also indicated that both groups showed an index of decrease for cortisol, with the control group showing a significantly greater overall decrease than the threat group. Appearance investment did not moderate cortisol responses to a threat. Findings from the third study provide partial support for SSPT’s applicability to the anticipation of a social-evaluative body-related threat. Together findings from all three studies provide converging evidence for the use of SSPT in understanding the psychobiology of body image.

La question « SDF » est étudiée au sein de deux paradigmes : l’approche critique qui insiste sur les phénomènes de domination sociale et l’approche interactionniste qui souligne les adaptations successives que les individus mettent en oeuvre. Ces adaptations sont étudiées à travers des situations particulières dans lesquelles l’identité de sansdomicilese construit et une carrière se dessine. Cette carrière est abordée soit comme une carrière de désocialisation dont la clochardisation constitue l’horizon, soit comme une carrière de survie dont le maintien de soi forme la perspective quotidienne et biographique. Dans ce cadre, les travaux menés sur les questions de la « sortie » et du « chez soi »ouvrent la voie à une approche renouvelée du maintien de soi au-delà de la gestion de la « face » en situation. C’est dans cette perspective que s’inscrit notre ethnographie des pratiques numériques comme supports pratiques du maintiende soi. L’expérience de l’errance est traversée par un certain nombre d’épreuves rassemblées dans une lutte pour le maintien de soi. Ainsi, le maintien de soi est à la fois une préoccupation quotidienne et une question biographique englobant les temporalités passées, présentes et futures. Il se travaille dans le quotidien de la survie mais aussi dans le travail de mémoire, de présentation, d’expérimentation et de projection de soi. Si la lutte contre la déprise est un travail essentiellement invisible, les pratiques numériques, observées dans l’écologie de l’activité, offrent une entrée pourl’observation et l’analyse. Ainsi, les pratiques numériques supportent, dans le quotidien de la survie, les démarches d’accès aux droits et la négociation de marges d’autonomie. Elles sont également un support des sociabilités familiales etamicales. Les pratiques numériques, à l’interface entre le privé et le public permettent aux personnes à la rue de s’aménager des temps et des espaces pour se soucier d’elles-mêmes. Enfin, notre recherche montre que les pratiques numériques constituent un support ambivalent, tantôt habilitant, tantôt disqualifiant. En effet, le support ne s’actualise pas nécessairement positivement et peut, au contraire, se retouner contre le sujet, alimentant l’émiettement identitaire et renforçant les sentiments de solitude et d’indignité. / Homelessness is studied within two paradigms: the critical approach, which emphasizes the phenomena of social domination and the interactionist approach that underlines the successive adaptations that individuals implement. Those adaptations are studied through particular situations within which the "homeless" identity is built and a career takes shape. That career is looked at either as a un-socialization career or as a survival career in which self-preservation forms a daily and biographical perspective. In this context, working on issues such as "Getting off the streets" and "Home" paves the way for a renewed approach to self-preservation beyond situational facework. In this perspective, our ethnography of digital practices forms a practical support for self-preservation. Our fieldwork within social support structures shows that all the people surveyed, despite their heterogeneity, experience wandering as an intimate and social experience, and as a form of extreme precariousness which is lived between street and assistance, and marked by a self-weakening and an alteration of the capacity to look to the future. This experience is punctuated by many trials, gathered in a struggle for self-preservation. Self-preservation is then both a daily concern and a biographical question encompassing past, present and future temporalities. It is a work in the daily reality of survival but also through a memory work, selfpresentation, self-experimentation and self-projection. If the struggle against disengagement is almost invisible, digital practices offer a new approach for observation and analysis. Digital uses make it possible to access to rights and margins of autonomy. They also support friendship and family links. Between private and public life, digital uses allow homeless people to set up times and spaces to care about themselves. Eventually, our study also shows that digital uses create an ambivalent form of support: sometimes enabling, sometimes disqualifying. Indeed, it can turn against the subject, feeding identity crumbling and strengthening the solitude and unworthiness feelings

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This thesis forms, in the first instance, a critical examination of labor in relation to the notion of self-realization following Hegelian and Marxian philosophy and their theories of action. In the second instance, it is a preliminary study of the concept of fomo (fear of missing out), which will be explored in more detail in the PhD based on the MA. In the first section, a critique of Andreas Reckwitz's and Hartmut Rosa's notions of self-realization is used to present the common view and contemporary engagements with said notion as relevant but insufficient. Both authors act as a proxy for a deficiency that turns out to be an all too great distance from metaphysical and historical-materialist positions and considerations regarding such notion as that of self-realization. Thus, in the main part, not only an attempt is made, by means of a renaissance of Hegelian and Marxian reflections on the concept of self-realization, to plausibilize and remedy this deficiency; moreover, by virtue of a detailed exegesis of their theories of action and examination of their categories, it is pointed out, above all, that Hegelian and Marxian philosophy intends the complete abolition of self-preservation (d. i. alienated and natural labor) and elevation into self-realization, even if both thinkers use the...

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of registered nurses when practicing ubiety. SPECIFIC AIMS: The specific aims of the study were to: Describe the attributes of the nurse, the care environment, and the person-centered processes nurses needed to possess in order to immerse themselves physically, cognitively, and spiritually into caring for one patient at a time in midst of distractions Explore possible patient-related and nurse-related outcomes when caring for one patient at a time in amidst distractions DESIGN: Qualitative descriptive study guided with the Person-Centered Nursing (PCN) Theory by McCormack and McCance, (2006). A purposive sampling technique was used. RESULTS: 13 nurses, who were nominated to receive the Daisy Award were recruited. One overarching theme: Practicing Ubiety—Making the patient the star of that minute, and 5 subthemes emerged: anticipating and managing distractions, putting my whole self in, self-preservation, my nursing identity, favorable practice environment. In addition, patient-related and nurse-related outcomes were identified. CONCLUSION: Ubiety is a concept that is practiced by expert nurses. Results add to existing knowledge about the characteristics of exemplar nurses who practice person-centered nursing care. The importance of anticipating patient needs as a way to deal with distractions and working with nurses to individualize self-preservation strategies are emphasized.

Yes / This research article analyzed the self-preserving behaviour of wall-wake region of a circular pipe mounted horizontally over a flat rigid sand bed in a shallow flow in terms of mean velocity, RSS, and turbulence intensities. The study aims to investigate self-preservation using appropriate length and velocity scales.in addition to that wall-normal distributions of the third-order correlations along the streamwise direction in the wake region are analyzed. An ADV probe was used to record the three-dimensional instantaneous velocities for four different hydraulic and physical conditions corresponding to four cylinder Reynolds numbers. The results revealed that the streamwise velocity deficits, RSS deficits, and turbulence intensities deficits distributions displayed good collapse on a narrow band when they were non-dimensionalized by their respective maximum deficits. The wall-normal distance was non-dimensionalized by the half velocity profile width for velocity distributions, while the half RSS profile width was used in the case of the RSS deficits and turbulence intensities deficits distributions. The results indicate the self-preserving nature of streamwise velocity, RSS, and turbulence intensities in the wall-wake region of the pipe. The third-order correlations distributions indicate that sweep is the dominant bursting event in the near-bed zone. At the same time, ejection is the dominant bursting event in the region above the cylinder height.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-07-02Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:53:14Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 lima_of_me_mar.pdf: 846690 bytes, checksum: ed40e178108a6ffad7e27c7594d500fb (MD5) / Neste trabalho nos propomos a analisar a consciência a partir da perspectiva neurobiológica de Antonio Damásio. Para isso, sugerimos um percurso investigativo que se inicia com uma abordagem histórico-filosófica. Destacamos neste contexto, a noção cartesiana do dualismo substancial, caracterizada por se conceber mente e corpo como realmente distintos. Contrariamente a essa concepção, apresentamos o monismo naturalista de Espinosa, que procurou compreender a mente e o corpo como partes integrantes da natureza. Em seguida, procuramos apresentar uma possível aproximação entre o monismo naturalista de Espinosa e a abordagem neurobiológica de Damásio. Para Damásio (1996, 2000, 2004), a consciência emerge em uma rede neural integrada, a partir das interações entre cérebro, corpo e ambiente. Apesar de possuir suas bases biológicas, a consciência não se reduz a elas. Formas inovadoras e complexas vão surgindo, na medida em que os processos de interação com o ambiente se ampliam. Procuramos mostrar que a consciência, seja ela elementar (proto-self) ou complexa (consciência ampliada) tem por finalidade contribuir para a manutenção e preservação da vida. / In this work I analyze consciousness from the neurobiological perspective of Antonio Damásio. The investigation begins with a historical review of philosophical approaches to the mind-body problem. I focus on the Cartesian notion of substantial dualism, characterized for conceiving mind and body as really different and separated entities. Contrary to this conception, the naturalistic monism of Espinosa understands mind and body as parts of nature. After this review, I look for a possible approximation between the naturalistic monism of Espinosa and the neurobiological approach of Damásio. For Damásio (1996, 2000, 2004), consciousness emerges, in an integrated neural net, from the interaction of brain, body and environment. Although possessing a biological basis, consciousness cannot be reduced to biology. Innovative and complex forms appear in the processes of interaction of the brain with the body and environment. In my discussion of Damásio I suggest that consciousness, either elementary (proto-self) or complex (extended conscience), has the purpose of contributing to the maintenance and preservation of life.

Theodor W. Adorno is both known and criticized for his philosophy of the subject. While his focus on subjectivity by many is deemed an outdated approach, Adorno himself claims that subjectivity must be challenged through the subject itself. What this implies, and how the role of the subject in its transformation can be envisioned, is what I aim to discuss in this paper. My study adresses the subject’s challenge from different angles. The first is an analysis of the subject in relation to its object-part, where I show how the subject can come close to its object, not only through bodily impulses but also, and importantly, through subjectivity itself by self-reflection on its mediation. The second is an investigation of how Adorno uses Freud’s drive theory, and how the drive for self-preservation can be dangerous or utopian depending on the subject’s interaction with it. The third is a comparison of the position of Adorno to those of Jürgen Habermas and Giorgio Agamben, each in their own way sharing Adorno’s diagnosis of subjectivities challenge, but choosing entirely different paths to address it. This comparison shows how Adorno, by insisting on the subject’s role in its own challenge, makes the subject aware of its actual location in the false world, without giving up the idea of its redemption. Habermas and Agamben each try to leave subjectivity behind in ways that for Adorno would not only be false but also dangerous. In doing so, they miss the point that we cannot be anything but subjects, and that the challenge therefore must be addressed from within. My aim with this paper is to show how Adorno’s philosophy of the subject can open critical theory for a bolder utopian thinking than what Habermas’ heritage has accomplished, while at the same time preserving the subject’s power to accomplish change which postmodernists like Agamben seem to have given up upon.