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The philosophical tradition has long understood subjectivity solely in reference to the self's place within the world and the powers of intentional transcendence which open it. Nowhere is this presupposition more apparent than in the thought of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Despite the precise differences among their respective philosophies of transcendence, each understands the self as little else than that which opens the exteriority of a world and is thereby exhausted and determined by it. Against this prevailing assumption that the self is a 'being-in-the-world', I contend that the essence of subjectivity instead consists in the unworldly interiority of life's affective self-revelation. The studies that follow accordingly investigate five related aspects of subjectivity: the irreducibility of the self's individuality to society; the blow of vanity that reveals this inwardness; the resultant life that marshals and in turn deploys it; the power of the work of art to express it; and finally the promise of immortality that sustains it.

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Wai Chi Man Veronica = 歷奇活動對自我效能的影響 : 過程分析 / 韋智敏. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-103). / Text in English; abstracts in English and Chinese. / Wai Chi Man Veronica = Li qi huo dong dui zi wo xiao neng de ying xiang : guo cheng fen xi / Wei Zhimin. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / List of Figures --- p.x / List of Tables --- p.xi / Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- Introduction --- p.1 / Background of the Study --- p.1 / Purpose of the Study --- p.5 / Definition of Terms --- p.6 / Delimitations --- p.6 / Limitations --- p.6 / Significance of the Study --- p.6 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO --- Review of Literature --- p.8 / Diversity of Adventure Programming --- p.8 / Models of Adventure Programming --- p.9 / The Experiential Learning Cycle --- p.9 / The Adventure-based Learning Process Model --- p.11 / The Adventure Experience Paradigm --- p.11 / The Model of Adventure Based Counseling --- p.13 / Application of Adventure Programming --- p.13 / Research in Adventure Programming --- p.15 / Outcome Research --- p.15 / Meta-analyses --- p.17 / Process Research --- p.20 / Research Directions --- p.22 / Self-efficacy --- p.23 / Definition of Self-efficacy --- p.24 / Theoretical Understanding of General Self-efficacy --- p.25 / Importance of Self-efficacy --- p.25 / Adventure Programming and Self-efficacy --- p.27 / Theoretical Connection --- p.27 / Sibthorp (2003)，s Study --- p.28 / Summary --- p.30 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE --- Method --- p.31 / Participants --- p.31 / Instrumentation --- p.31 / Demographics and Psychographics --- p.31 / Measuring Self-efficacy --- p.31 / Measuring the Characteristics of Experience --- p.32 / Measuring Social Desirability --- p.33 / Procedures --- p.33 / Questionnaire Administration --- p.33 / Individual Interviews --- p.34 / Data Analyses --- p.35 / Questionnaire Data --- p.35 / Interview Data --- p.35 / Summary --- p.35 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR --- Results --- p.36 / Questionnaire Analyses --- p.36 / Descriptive Statistics --- p.36 / Reliability of Scales --- p.36 / Self-efficacy Change --- p.37 / Social Desirability Change --- p.38 / Prediction of Post-camp Self-efficacy --- p.39 / Interview Analyses --- p.40 / Outcome Analyses --- p.42 / Process Analyses --- p.50 / Programme Factors --- p.50 / Human Factors --- p.53 / Instructor Analyses - Positive --- p.55 / Instructor Analyses 226}0ؤ Negative --- p.61 / Peer Analyses - Positive --- p.64 / Peer analyses - Negative --- p.66 / Programme Analyses 226}0ؤ Positive --- p.68 / Programme Analyses 一 Negative --- p.70 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE --- Discussion --- p.73 / Self-efficacy Change --- p.73 / The Prediction of Self-efficacy --- p.74 / Perceived Outcomes and Self-efficacy --- p.76 / Process Factors and Sources of Self-efficacy --- p.79 / Enactive Mastery Experience --- p.80 / Vicarious Experience --- p.82 / Verbal Persuasion --- p.83 / Physiological and Affective States --- p.85 / Methodological Issues --- p.87 / Limitations --- p.90 / Chapter CHAPTER SIX --- "Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations" --- p.92 / Summary --- p.92 / Conclusions --- p.93 / Recommendations --- p.93 / APPENDIX A --- p.104 / APPENDIX B --- p.106 / APPENDIX C --- p.107 / APPENDIX D --- p.108 / APPENDIX E --- p.109 / APPENDIX F --- p.110 / APPENDIX G --- p.111 / APPENDIX H --- p.112 / APPENDIX I --- p.114 / APPENDIX J --- p.115 / APPENDIX K --- p.116 / APPENDIX L --- p.118 / APPENDIX M --- p.121 / APPENDIX N --- p.123 / APPENDIX O --- p.125 / APPENDIX P --- p.127

Lam Wai Kit. / Accompanying booklet inserted in pocket at end of book. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-67). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter I. --- Foreword --- p.6 / Chapter II. --- Mirror and Photograph: Beyond its Function as a Carrier --- p.14 / Chapter III. --- The Photographer: Locating the Self in Photographic Portrait --- p.18 / Chapter A. --- Loss and Wholeness --- p.19 / Chapter 1. --- The Fragmentary Body and the Stranger --- p.20 / Chapter 2. --- The Empathy and the Security --- p.23 / Chapter B. --- Demand and Imaginary: Locating the Self in the Mirrored Other --- p.25 / Chapter 1. --- Lacan's 'Mirror Stage' --- p.25 / Chapter 2. --- The Misrecognition of the Self as the Mirrored Other --- p.28 / Chapter 3. --- This is the Self and this is not the Self --- p.29 / Chapter C. --- Desire and Symbolic Order: Photographing the Self with the Mirrored Other --- p.31 / Chapter 1. --- Selection and Fabrication --- p.34 / Chapter 2. --- From Demand to Desire: the Process of Assimilation --- p.38 / Chapter D. --- The Gaze --- p.41 / Chapter 1. --- Eternal Gaze --- p.43 / Chapter 2. --- Desiring to be Seen: The Desire of the Other --- p.44 / Chapter 3. --- """I saw myself seeing myself""" --- p.46 / Chapter E. --- The Endless Desire of Taking Photographic Portrait --- p.51 / Chapter 1. --- The Awareness of Existence --- p.52 / Chapter 2. --- The Limitations under Dominant Symbolic Order: The Impossibility of Authentic Self in Photographic Portrait --- p.54 / Chapter 3. --- The Endless Desire of Searching Authentic Self --- p.56 / Chapter IV. --- The Audience: Locating the Self in Photographic Portrait --- p.58 / Chapter A. --- Empathy --- p.59 / Chapter B. --- Alienation in Exhibits --- p.60 / Chapter V. --- Conclusion --- p.62 / Chapter VI. --- Bibliography --- p.65 / Chapter VII. --- Illustrations --- p.68

This is a study at the interface of self, craft, and sustainability. It is a small part of a wider personal and social conjecture on the subject of ‘change ’ involving these three domains.This research develops the proposal that the success of a profound social change, which in our time pertains to the change towards sustainable societies, lies in the likeliness of self-transformation in individuals. Here the craft perspective is taken in order to link it to a large body of research in response to environmental and ethical concerns. However, unlike other object-oriented approaches with a similar purpose, the purpose of this research is to seek a greater contribution from craft practice when it is viewed as a transformation of the craftsperson. By referring to this human capacity, it argues, not only is crafting an inducement to self-transformation but also self-transformation can be regarded as a craft. To support this argument, material is drawn from the literature on craft, sustainability, philosophy of the self and social and developmental psychology. The historical and developmental formations of the key areas of the research are explored and psychological factors that motivate desirable ‘changes’ are identified. This exploration is then supported by interviews, personal narratives and the active participation of the researcher in the actual practice of craft. The research suggests that the state of self-actualization, where humanity reaches its fullness, is the destination to which the self needs to transform. It then traces elements involved in such a transformation back to their origin. This includes meanings and values leading to transformation, knowledge leading to meanings, experience leading to knowledge and the embodied connection between the self and the environment leading to experience. At the deepest level, it proposes a particular mode of relationship which is best described as craftsmanship or ‘the craft way of being.’ This process is also traced in the personal experience of the researcher.This thesis concludes with an explanation of the concept of ‘deep craft’. It proposes that the outcome of a deeper understanding of craft, which in effect widens the territory of craft activities, becomes manifest in the world in the form of ‘care taking’, essential for the ‘change’ towards more sustainable societies.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Human Ecology-Personal Financial Planning / Sonya Britt / The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of self-regulation on positive financial behaviors and bankruptcy filings of high net worth individuals. The implications are directed toward various groups and factions of high net worth individuals as populations of interest. The basic premise of self-regulation of behavior theory is that human action is driven by attainment of goals and the degrees and forms of behavior expressed by an individual can be quantified by specific personality characteristics which affect both the response to, and velocity toward, those goals (Carver & Scheier, 1998). A survey administered to high net worth individuals (i.e., net worth of $1 million or greater) with a oversampling of high net worth individuals who have filed bankruptcy focused on self-reporting personality measures key to the self-regulation of behavior theory, such as optimism-pessimism and appetitive motives. By utilizing data gathered from high net worth individuals, a t test was used to examine mean differences in the personality characteristics of high net worth individuals who have filed bankruptcy and high net worth individuals who have not filed bankruptcy. The debt-to-income and debt-to-assets ratios were utilized as the dependent variables in an OLS regression analysis to analyze if any of the variables of interest significantly influenced the debt-to-income ratio, or DTI, or debt-to-assets ratio, or debt-ratio. This was followed by a logistic regression analysis predicting the odds of a bankruptcy filing based on the variables of interest. Potential differences in personality and behavior may explain wealth management issues that exist between high net worth individuals who have filed bankruptcy and high net worth individuals who have not filed bankruptcy.

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The purpose of this study was to expand on the definition of the means efficacy construct and its relationship to task-specific self-efficacy. The current research has three studies: assesssing quality means efficacy from a self-report method, study two assessing quality means efficacy from a self-report method, and study three comparing quality and quantity means efficacy to determine which would be a better predictor of confidence in various tasks.

Sexual assault has consistently been found to be associated with depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology. Research shows that self-blaming attributions are directly linked to distress (Walsh, & Foshee, 1998; Walsh & Bruce, 2011). More specifically, the type of self-blame (i.e., behavioral and characterological) an individual associates with their experienced sexual assault, may influence their perceptions of avoidability of future assault and post-assault recovery. However, the role of self-efficacy in the relationship between behavioral and characterological self-blame in PTSD sexual assault survivors has been unexamined. The purpose of the proposed study is to assess the influence of self-efficacy in the association between variants of self-blame and post-assault distress. The proposed study considers the critical relationship between self-efficacy and self-blame, and aims to evaluate how these factors can ultimately influence posttraumatic adjustment in sexual assault survivors. Results revealed positive associations between behavioral self-blame and depression (r = .28, p < .05). Positive associations were also found between characterological self-blame, PTSD (r =. 42, p < .001) and depression (r =. 50, p p < .001) and self-efficacy was positively related to PTSD and depression symptom severity (r = -.27, p < .05; r = -.54, p < .001). Mediation was found between characterological self-blame, self-efficacy and depression, b = .11; CI: .04 - .21. Findings for this study can help with implication for postassault interventions by creating opportunities for therapist to custom-tailor patient treatments to match the self-blame they most associate with. This may lead to treatments that are more effective.