Psychological adjustment in adults with cancer: The self as mediator.

2004 ◽  
pp. 81-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Heidrich ◽  
Cynthia A. Forsthoff ◽  
Sandra E. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
The Self

The Structure of the Self-Concept and Its Relation to Psychological Adjustment

2003 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer D. Campbell ◽  
Sunaina Assanand ◽  
Adam Di Paula
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept

Hope, Self-Efficacy, and Optimism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin L. Rand
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Causal Relationships ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Similarities And Differences

This chapter reviews the conceptual similarities and differences among Snyder’s (1994) hope, Carver and Scheier’s optimism, and Bandura’s self-efficacy. Unlike optimism, hope is focused on beliefs about the self. Unlike self-efficacy, hope is a generalized belief and involves the determination to achieve one’s goals. This chapter also reviews the existing empirical literature, which shows that hope, optimism, and self-efficacy are structurally distinct and differentially related to important life outcomes, including psychological adjustment, coping, and goal-directed performance. The chapter concludes with a discussion of further research needed to clarify the causal relationships among hope, optimism, and self-efficacy and to differentiate hope from other positive psychology constructs.

Personality Correlates of Barksdale Self-Esteem Index Scores among Nursing Students: A Validation Study

1981 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Dagenais
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Validation Study ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Anxiety Level ◽  
The Self ◽  
Emotional Maturity ◽  
Personality Correlates

Barksdale Self-esteem Index scores were correlated with scales of the Omnibus Personality Inventory and Seeman's Powerlessness scale for 188 graduating nursing students. The Barksdale Index was positively correlated with Omnibus Personality Inventory scales which measure Personal Integration and Intellectual Disposition Category and negatively correlated with scales which measure Impulse Expression, Anxiety Level, and Practical Outlook. In addition, the self-esteem measure was negatively related to Powerlessness. The pattern of correlations is viewed as validating the Barksdale Index when related to Omnibus Personality Inventory scales and to Inventory factor groupings which indicate emotional maturity, psychological adjustment, and a tendency to behave intellectually.

Psychological adjustment in adults with cancer: The self as mediator.

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 346-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Heidrich ◽  
Cynthia A. Forsthoff ◽  
Sandra E. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
The Self

scholarly journals Self-Efficacy in Students with and Without Physical Impairment

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Narsimulu
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
The Self ◽  
Physical Impairment ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Emotional Symptoms

There has been long term and systematic denial of opportunities to people with disabilities, particularly in fields such as education, employment, housing, transport, cultural life and access to public places and services. The mistreatment and oppression inflicted on individuals who have some form of disability or impairment has been well documented. The present study analyzed associations of general self-efficacy beliefs with psychological adjustment, academic achievement, and attainment of developmental tasks in various hostels and homes with physical impairment and same group peers without physical impairment. In this study the main objective is to compare the self efficacy of physically impaired and without impaired. Between-group differences in levels of self-efficacy beliefs were small. On average, higher self-efficacy beliefs predicted positive change in psychological adjustment (life-satisfaction and emotional symptoms) and academic achievement as well as greater progress in the attainment of developmental tasks of adolescence. However, for emotional symptoms and the discrepancy between desired and present attainment of developmental tasks we found such an effect only for students without physical impairment. This paper also presented by me in National Conference on “Challenges of Contemporary Life – Role of Positive Psychology & 9th Annual Conference of Indian Association of Mental Health from 22nd to 24th January 2015 and not publish myself the same in any journal. We conclude that students with physical impairment may benefit from measures that both promote supportive external conditions for goal attainment and increase the self-management skills needed to translate self-efficacy beliefs into accomplishment of goals and related positive feelings.

scholarly journals Self-Management and Self-Efficacy in Patients With Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: Protocol for a Longitudinal Cohort Study (Preprint)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tijn van Diemen ◽  
Eline WM Scholten ◽  
Ilse JW van Nes ◽  
Jan HB Geertzen ◽  
Marcel WM Post ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Self Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Longitudinal Cohort Study ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Secondary Outcome ◽  
Longitudinal Cohort

BACKGROUND People with recently acquired spinal cord injury (SCI) experience changes in physical, social and psychological aspects of their lives. In the last decades, attention has grown for aspects of self-management and self-efficacy in SCI research. However, we still do not know what the self-management and self-efficacy outcomes of first rehabilitation are and whether utilizing these skills may prevent secondary health conditions (SHCs) and increase participation and psychological adjustment early after SCI. OBJECTIVE To describe the course and determinants of self-management and self-efficacy during and after first SCI rehabilitation; and to determine theory-based associations between self-management and self-efficacy with SHCs, participation and psychological adjustment. METHODS Multicenter prospective longitudinal cohort study. All people with a newly acquired SCI admitted to one of the 8 specialized SCI rehabilitation centers in the Netherlands will be considered for inclusion in this study. Main assessments will take place during the first and last week of admission and 3, 6 and 12 months after discharge. The target sample is 250 participants. The primary outcomes are self-management (knowledge and execution of self-care) and self-efficacy (confidence in the ability to manage the consequences of SCI and of self-care). Secondary outcome measures are SHCs, participation and psychological adjustment to SCI. RESULTS The first results with the complete set of data are expected in June 2019. CONCLUSIONS This protocol describes the SELF-SCI cohort study investigating self-management and self-efficacy of initial inpatient SCI rehabilitation. Second, associations will be investigated with SHCs, participation and psychological adjustment early after onset of SCI, until 1 year after discharge. The results will be used to test theories about motivation to perform health-promoting behaviors and adjustment to SCI.

Problem behavior in autism spectrum disorders: A paradigmatic self-organized perspective of network structures

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucio Tonello ◽  
Luca Giacobbi ◽  
Alberto Pettenon ◽  
Alessandro Scuotto ◽  
Massimo Cocchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
The Self ◽  
Network Structures ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Critical Equilibrium ◽  
Self Organized Criticality ◽  
Acute Agitation ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

AbstractAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) subjects can present temporary behaviors of acute agitation and aggressiveness, named problem behaviors. They have been shown to be consistent with the self-organized criticality (SOC), a model wherein occasionally occurring “catastrophic events” are necessary in order to maintain a self-organized “critical equilibrium.” The SOC can represent the psychopathology network structures and additionally suggests that they can be considered as self-organized systems.

The Nature of Rapidly Extracted Phycocyanin from the Blue-Green Alga Plectonema Boryanum

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 366-367
Author(s):  
M. Kessel ◽  
R. MacColl
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Analytical Ultracentrifugation ◽  
Uranyl Acetate ◽  
The Self ◽  
Major Protein ◽  
Subunit Structure ◽  
Blue Green Alga ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Blue Green Algae ◽  
Cacodylate Buffer

The major protein of the blue-green algae is the biliprotein, C-phycocyanin (Amax = 620 nm), which is presumed to exist in the cell in the form of distinct aggregates called phycobilisomes. The self-assembly of C-phycocyanin from monomer to hexamer has been extensively studied, but the proposed next step in the assembly of a phycobilisome, the formation of 19s subunits, is completely unknown. We have used electron microscopy and analytical ultracentrifugation in combination with a method for rapid and gentle extraction of phycocyanin to study its subunit structure and assembly.To establish the existence of phycobilisomes, cells of P. boryanum in the log phase of growth, growing at a light intensity of 200 foot candles, were fixed in 2% glutaraldehyde in 0.1M cacodylate buffer, pH 7.0, for 3 hours at 4°C. The cells were post-fixed in 1% OsO4 in the same buffer overnight. Material was stained for 1 hour in uranyl acetate (1%), dehydrated and embedded in araldite and examined in thin sections.

Interrelationship of the cellular distribution and secretion of regular structure (RS) protein in Bacillus licheniformis nm 105

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 712-713
Author(s):  
Xiaorong Zhu ◽  
Richard McVeigh ◽  
Bijan K. Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Bacillus Licheniformis ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Culture Supernatant ◽  
Regular Structure ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cellular Distribution ◽  
Structural Protein ◽  
Laboratory Cultures

A mutant of Bacillus licheniformis 749/C, NM 105 exhibits some notable properties, e.g., arrest of alkaline phosphatase secretion and overexpression and hypersecretion of RS protein. Although RS is known to be widely distributed in many microbes, it is rarely found, with a few exceptions, in laboratory cultures of microorganisms. RS protein is a structural protein and has the unusual properties to form aggregate. This characteristic may have been responsible for the self assembly of RS into regular tetragonal structures. Another uncommon characteristic of RS is that enhanced synthesis and secretion which occurs when the cells cease to grow. Assembled RS protein with a tetragonal structure is not seen inside cells at any stage of cell growth including cells in the stationary phase of growth. Gel electrophoresis of the culture supernatant shows a very large amount of RS protein in the stationary culture of the B. licheniformis. It seems, Therefore, that the RS protein is cotranslationally secreted and self assembled on the envelope surface.

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