scholarly journals Empowerment and incapacitation - on institutional framing of a technical stadardised understanding of healthiness and its role for the narrative subjectivization

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-518
Author(s):  
Klaus Wiegerling
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Conception Of Man ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Physical Capacities

With the help of the discourse on healthiness in times of a demographic change it is shown how subjectivization in the institutions of biopolitics like healthcare takes place. In the light of new technical capacities, in which biotechnology and information technology converge, the role of processes of standardization and the experience of suffering for subjectivization is exposed. Subjectivization appears not in the manner of a philosophical struggle for concepts, but in a narrative articulation of an experience of difference. The human being is - to say it with Wilhelm Schapp - entangled in stories which run contrary to general and typological concepts. These stories are articulations of deviation and the contrary. The singularity of the own existence and its dignity becomes clear in understanding the difference between the common conception of man and the self-concept. The discussion is developed in four questions: 1) How we can define healthiness in times of transformation the historically mediated and in the first-person-view given human ?Leib? to a body, which is given in a third-person-view? 2) How we can catch the change of our understanding of healthiness in the light of new technical possibilities which enhance our physical capacities? 3) Which metaphysics - as an unarticulated presupposition -manifests behind this change? 4) Which role plays this metaphysics in the institutions of biopolitics?

scholarly journals From Awe to Ecological Behavior: The Mediating Role of Connectedness to Nature

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Yang ◽  
Jing Hu ◽  
Fengjie Jing ◽  
Bang Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Connectedness To Nature ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Nature Study ◽  
Ecological Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

Awe is a self-transcendent emotion that can diminish one’s focus on the self and serves as an important motivator of commitment to social collectives. However, the influence of awe on ecological behavior is not clear. This study examines the relationships between people’s feeling of awe, their connectedness to nature, and ecological behavior. Three experiments tested the effect of awe on ecological behaviors including mediation tests. Compared with participants in the control condition, participants in the awe condition were more inclined to behave ecologically (Study 1 and 2) and reported a higher feeling of connectedness to nature (Study 2). Moreover, the relationship between awe and ecological behavior was mediated by connectedness to nature (Study 3). These findings indicate that awe helps broaden the self-concept by including nature and increase connectedness to nature, which in turn lead to ecological behavior. They also highlight the significance of connectedness in explaining why awe increases ecological behavior.

Some Implications of the Self-Concept for Christian Education

1973 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-75
Author(s):  
F. Franklyn Wise
Keyword(s):  
Christian Education ◽  
Leadership Training ◽  
Life Style ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Value System ◽  
Biblical Principles

Factors involved in the development of the self-concept and some pertinent questions concerning the agreement between the secular and Christian profile of the self-concept are discussed. The problems which an impaired self-concept poses for teaching certain theological concepts are raised. Areas of needed research, educational methodological possibilities, leadership training, challenges, and the role of conversion are discussed. Christian education is perceived as the confrontation of growing persons with Jesus Christ's demands to effect intentionally, through conversion, consistency between their value system and His — i.e., to develop a Christian life style through nurture and growth in Biblical principles of living and witnessing.

scholarly journals Role of Self-Concept and Emotional Maturity in Excessive Internet Usage

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arati Visala J. ◽  
Ms. Vaishali Rawat
Keyword(s):  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Emotional Maturity ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
External Variables ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Analyze Data

The present study focuses on determining the difference among the levels of emotional maturity and self- concept of low, moderate and high users of internet. Two dimensions of emotional maturity have been studied in the research viz-a-viz Emotional Instability and Personality Disintegration. For the purpose of the study, a sample of 100 participants were selected which consisted primarily of students between the age group of 17-24, considering the fact that an individual’s personality has been shaped and the self-concept of individuals in this age group may/may-not be affected due to external variables. After the data collection, the results showed that low internet users will have lower emotional instability, lower chances of personality disintegration and lower self-concept. Moderate users were seen to be having a positive correlation between Emotional instability and Personality Disintegration and negative correlation with respect to self- concept and High users of Internet were seen to be having Higher Emotional Instability, Lower personality Disintegration and Low self-concept. Mean, Standard deviation and Pearson Product movement correlation was used to analyze data and bar graphs and line graphs were used to interpret data.

scholarly journals PENGARUH KONSEP DIRI TERHADAP PERILAKU BULLYING PADA MAHASISWA DI UNIVERSITAS X

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
FELLIANTI MUZDALIFAH ◽  
HAFIZ BIMO AFRIYANTO
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
College Student ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Hypothesis Test ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Bullying Behavior ◽  
Research Show

This research aims to find out the influence of self-concepts towards bullying behavior among college student in “X” University. The dependent variable in this study was bullying and independent variable in this study was the self concept.This research uses quantitative methods, data were obtained by using a questionnaire. William h. Fitts (1965), whereas the scale of bullying refers to the theory of Participant Questionnaire (PRQ) Role of Salmivalli (1996). Data processing using Rasch modeling with the help of winstep version 3.73 and hypothesis test using the SPSS version 16.0. The participants of this research were 71 college students in “X” University. This research using a nonprobability sampling. The results of this research show that there was negative influences between self-concept toward bulying behavior of 23% and the remaining 77% influenced by other factors.

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