Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. / Open access. Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-38).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 272-291).

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Theologische Fakultät Paderborn, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [373-395]) and index.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-87).

M.Phil. / People are continuously engaged in a striving towards meaning and purpose. This endeavor is one towards personal leadership and answering questions like "Who am I" and "Who can I become". The drive towards self-actualisation runs parallel with the striving to belong and to form close attachments with others. This essay will focus on the interpersonal dimension of personal leadership. The emphasis is on how being able to create effective relationships is important in order to move towards a life of purpose and fulfillment. During the course of the essayoit becomes clear that developing and maintaining caring and committed relationships is the most important aspect of life. It is primarily through the quality of relationships that people form with others that meaning is to be found. The essay provides insights into the type of relationships people should strive for and determines that close and open relationships are where most personal growth and fulfillment is experienced. People have the freedom of choice to decide on the quality of the relationships that they want to create. Implicit in this is that the ability to create meaningful interactions with others rests within each individual. People often define success in society through the accumulation of material wealth and status. The importance of relationships is often taken for granted. This essay explores how relationships contribute towards personal growth, quality of life and career success. Many people, in their striving towards meaning, develop the self in isolation to the development of their relationships. This leads to a self-focused, narcissistic existence with unfulfilling relationships. Conversely, people may form attachments with others without fully developing their own identity and sense of self. They then have less of their own potential to contribute towards their relationship. This essay sheds light on how individuals, through developing the self and enhancing their own potential, can bring their relationships to full potential. The emphasis is on how personal leadership and growth starts from the inside out. The essay aims to provide guidance on the personal leadership characteristics needed by the individual in order to experience relationships that enhance the development of both the self and others. People have the potential to create their own quality relationships. This is achieved through the endowments of selfawareness, imagination, independent will and integrity.

The purposes of this study were to examine the occupational goals of women in banking, manufacturing, and education; to examine women's awareness of their own potential; to compare the attitudes of working women toward themselves; to compare the attitudes, self-concepts, and career achievement between females aged twenty-five to thirty-five and females aged forty to fifty; and to compare the attitudes, self-concepts, and career achievement of females in banking, manufacturing, and education.

M.Ed. / The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of conditioning on the realization of a person's full potential from a personal leadership perspective. As humans our perception of ourselves and our capabilities are subject to many conditioning influences, for example family, education, society, culture and the media. Conditioning influences can lead to the formation of habits in the way people think and act. A problem arises because many of these conditioning influences have a negative impact on the way in which a person perceives himself and his potential, by focussing mainly on possible limitations and by overemphasizing conformation. A field of study that focuses on the overcoming of self-imposed boundaries and that strives to promote personal growth and the realization of a person's unique potential, is personal leadership. Personal leadership was defined in the study as an ongoing process of introspection and self-examination and a commitment to self-improvement, change and personal growth on the way to realizing one's unique potential. The general aim of the study was to investigate the nature of the concept 'conditioning' and the influence it has on a person's perception of himself and his potential, as well as to search for ways in which the negative influence of conditioning on personal growth can be identified and overcome, all within a personal leadership framework. The research methodology used in the study included hermeneutic and descriptive strategies. The research methods that were used included a word and concept analysis of the concept 'conditioning' as well as a literature study in order to identify and describe ways in which conditioning affects personal growth and how negative conditioning influences can be eliminated. The following are the most important findings of the study: • Both classical and operant conditioning are learning processes that play a role in establishing habits of thoughts and actions, by means of the formation of stimulus-response associations. • Conditioning can be a powerful inhibiting factor in personal growth, because it can lead to the formation of a poor self-image and limiting beliefs regarding personal potential. • Conditioning influences like family, education, peer groups, culture and the media can condition a person to believe that he has limited potential. • Conditioning influences can inhibit a person's ability to adapt to change and may also cause a person to become satisfied with the average and loose his motivation to actualize his full potential. • Through personal leadership a person can overcome the negative influence of conditioning by becoming aware of conditioning influences in his life and by realizing that conditioned habits are formed by his own free will and that it can be overcome by equipping himself with knowledge of how to successfully implement the desired change. • By overcoming the negative influence of conditioning in his life, a person can progressively realize personal goals that will lead to realizing of his unique potential and personal fulfillment.

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This thesis consists of two parts – a creative work, Memory and Memorialisation, and an exegesis, Writing Women’s Lives: Women’s Autobiographies,that documents the writing process and the theoretical perspectives informing it at various stages. It is the result of a twelve year investigation into the writing process; the nature of memory, death and desire in objects and places; and their role in personal representation. The exegesis highlights the difficulties encountered in simultaneously writing and critiquing one’s own autobiographical works. As autobiography is also written ‘in relation to’ significant others, the emotional, ethical and legal issues inherent in the writing and publication of autobiographical works are explored. The creative work is not a unitary text and comprises a collection of fragmented yet connected autobiographical stories that experiment with form using archival collections – a blending of memory with family and local history – the results of excavating the past to make meaning in the present. Images are used singly and in collages to signify the temporality and intertextuality of these auto/biographical acts. Restriction: View part thesis only. Contact UWS Library for terms of full-access. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)