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Title: Testing the theory of dominant institutionalized policy narratives using Florida’s “stand your ground” discourse.
Creator: Gillespie, Amanda, Miller, Hugh T., Florida Atlantic University, College of Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
Abstract/Description: Narratives are a very important part of public policy negotiations and deliberations. Public policy research has shown that policy narratives are manipulated to fit the motives of the creators and enforcers of that narrative (Stone, 2002). The creators and enforcers of these narratives use symbols, language, and other techniques to ensure that the narrative survives and dominates the political and social environment by becoming the favored policy prescription (Stone, 2002; Miller, 2012; Jones...
Show moreNarratives are a very important part of public policy negotiations and deliberations. Public policy research has shown that policy narratives are manipulated to fit the motives of the creators and enforcers of that narrative (Stone, 2002). The creators and enforcers of these narratives use symbols, language, and other techniques to ensure that the narrative survives and dominates the political and social environment by becoming the favored policy prescription (Stone, 2002; Miller, 2012; Jones & McBeth, 2010; Schneider & Ingram, 1993). This study employs a qualitative content analysis to trace the genealogy of the following narratives that make up the “Stand Your Ground” discourse from 2005-2013: (1) Prosecutorial Discretion Narrative, (2) Vigilante Justice Narrative, (3) Race Narrative, and (4) Law-abiding Citizen Narrative. The “Stand Your Ground” discourse is used to test what this dissertation terms the “institutionalized policy narrative” thesis which states, Policymakers and policy advocates use policy narratives which consist of powerful symbols, politically motivated language, and ideographs to both shape and respond to public opinions by appealing to both the heart and intellect of the public. Once a winning narrative becomes institutionalized it is nearly impossible to replace that winning narrative even in the wake of a powerful new emerging narrative.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004113
Subject Headings: Self-defense (Law) -- Florida., Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Florida., Criminal justice, Administration of -- Government policy -- Florida.
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Title: The hurricane notebooks.
Creator: Hogan, Mary Ann., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The Hurricane Notebooks is a manuscript-length memoir of the narrator's quest to piece together the enigmatic character of her late father. She does this through her discovery of his private notebooks as well as her unearthing of four generations of family turmoil.
Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3360803
Subject Headings: Parent and child, Parents and children, Family relationships, Fathers and daughters, Family relationships, Self-perception, Identity (Psychology)
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Title: 'Persistent heterogeneity' v. 'state dependence': A cross-sectional test of Gottfredson and Hirschi's low self-control stability hypothesis.
Creator: Medlicott, Sandra, Florida Atlantic University, Arneklev, Bruce J.
Abstract/Description: In A General Theory Of Crime Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990) suggest that "low self-control" is an enduring individual characteristic that is the product of inadequate child-rearing. Sampson and Laub's (1993) Crime In the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life somewhat supports this contention. However, the latter authors also suggest that later life experiences might change the direction of the life path (and self-control). This thesis examines whether adequate child-rearing is the...
Show moreIn A General Theory Of Crime Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990) suggest that "low self-control" is an enduring individual characteristic that is the product of inadequate child-rearing. Sampson and Laub's (1993) Crime In the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life somewhat supports this contention. However, the latter authors also suggest that later life experiences might change the direction of the life path (and self-control). This thesis examines whether adequate child-rearing is the key causal determinant of low self-control in later life. It further tests whether later life-course transitions might alter and/or impact low self-control. The results suggest that the impact of early child-hood experiences continue to have an influence on self-control in later life. However, they also suggest that later life-course events (or transitions) can alter the proposed stability of such control. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13363
Subject Headings: Self-control in children, Child rearing, Deviant behavior, Juvenile delinquency--Cross-cultural studies, Criminal behavior, Prediction of
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Title: Interpretation of forced and unforced choice behavior.
Creator: Vail, Brian., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: The current study investigated the interpretation of an agent's actions under the influence of external forces. Participants viewed a series of videos of an agent making a varying series of decisions and forced behaviors and were asked to predict future behavior. Firstly, we found evidence that suggests that perceivers make inferences about an agent that once they have shown a preference toward an object, they will persist with those initial desires, despite, external forces leading them to a...
Show moreThe current study investigated the interpretation of an agent's actions under the influence of external forces. Participants viewed a series of videos of an agent making a varying series of decisions and forced behaviors and were asked to predict future behavior. Firstly, we found evidence that suggests that perceivers make inferences about an agent that once they have shown a preference toward an object, they will persist with those initial desires, despite, external forces leading them to a different object. Secondly, we found evidence that suggests that submitting to a coerced choice will be perceived as reflecting a conflicting combination of pragmatic behavioral choice (due to concession to external forces) and maintenance of original desires, or, simply put, perceivers infer multiple underlying intentions in others.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/3352877
Subject Headings: Free will and determination, Identity (Psychology), Self (Philosophy), Intentionality (Philosophy), Decision making, Psychological aspects, Philosophy of mind
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Title: I’d rather be a sage than a cyborg: re-theorizing posthumanism through religious wisdom literature.
Creator: Shaw, Amy, Mason, Julia, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The topics of identity and subjectivity are well-trodden paths in posthuman thought, and the trend has been to reduce the self to its material, social, and technoscientific components. Yet the posthuman model of subjectivity—influenced by the tenets of postmodernism—tends to be disabling because it does not focus on the subject’s agency or the possibility of liberation from social tyranny. In this thesis, I use a sampling of what I call “religious wisdom literature”—specifically, the wisdom...
Show moreThe topics of identity and subjectivity are well-trodden paths in posthuman thought, and the trend has been to reduce the self to its material, social, and technoscientific components. Yet the posthuman model of subjectivity—influenced by the tenets of postmodernism—tends to be disabling because it does not focus on the subject’s agency or the possibility of liberation from social tyranny. In this thesis, I use a sampling of what I call “religious wisdom literature”—specifically, the wisdom books of the Old Testament and contemporary Buddhist writings—to challenge the assumption that the self is indistinguishable from the ideologies that produce it. I provide models from religious texts that instead, emphasize critical agency, flexibility, and resistive power. I also suggest that focusing on these qualities may ultimately be useful in the composition classroom, where we can use “self-centered” expressivist techniques (reflective assignments, emotional awareness) to meet the social-epistemic goal of ideological critique. Ultimately, posthumanism, with its emphasis on the construction of subjectivity, is better suited to question strict materialism and inquire into the inspiring possibilities of ancient wisdom.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004060
Subject Headings: Complexity (Philosophy), Order (Philosophy) in literature, Self in literature, Spiritual life (Buddhism), Spiritual life (Judaism), Wisdom literature -- Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Sports and its effects on gender typing.
Creator: Frias, Arian., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Sports and its effects on children have been researched for the benefits that it may bring. The purpose of this study is to see if sports competency, assessed by both peer reports and self-reports, benefits both boys and girls and whether it protects children who generally are gender-atypical from adjustment difficulties and also to see if there are any interactive influences of cross-gender typing and sports competency on self-esteem, depression, and other adjustment indexes. Our results...
Show moreSports and its effects on children have been researched for the benefits that it may bring. The purpose of this study is to see if sports competency, assessed by both peer reports and self-reports, benefits both boys and girls and whether it protects children who generally are gender-atypical from adjustment difficulties and also to see if there are any interactive influences of cross-gender typing and sports competency on self-esteem, depression, and other adjustment indexes. Our results found that there was a significant interaction between sports competence and cross-gender typing when looking at popularity and also a significant interaction between sports self-efficacy and cross-gender typing when looking at self-esteem. Our data did not provide sufficient support for our buffering hypothesis, but it allowed for us to conclude that self-esteem of low-cross-gender-typed children profit more from high sports self-efficacy and suffer more from low sports self-efficacy than the self-esteem of high-cross-gender-typed children.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3175020
Subject Headings: Physical education and training, Psychological aspects, Sports, Psychological aspects, Gender identity, Sex discrimination in sports, Self-esteem
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Title: In Their Own Words: Older Adults' Perceptions of Effective and Ineffective Learning Experiences.
Creator: Duay, Deborah L., Bryan, Valerie, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The percentage of older adults in the American population is expected to increase from about 12% now to 22% by the year 2030 (Eisen, 2005). Educators can play an important role in managing the effec.,ts of this demographic shift by designing learning opportunities that increase older adults' motivation to participate and their ability to learn. Because older adults themselves can otTer important insights on what helps and hinders their learning, the purpose of this study was to explore the...
Show moreThe percentage of older adults in the American population is expected to increase from about 12% now to 22% by the year 2030 (Eisen, 2005). Educators can play an important role in managing the effec.,ts of this demographic shift by designing learning opportunities that increase older adults' motivation to participate and their ability to learn. Because older adults themselves can otTer important insights on what helps and hinders their learning, the purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of adults over age 64 residing in a large metropolitan area in the southeastern United States on effective and ineffective learning experiences. Utilizing a qualitative design, the researcher interviewed 36 older adults involved in learning experiences at three distinct sites. Data were also collected through observations and document analysis. Five research questions were answered with the following four findings: 1) effective learning experiences are involving, 2) the instructor is a key component in the classroom, 3) familiar or relevant topics are interesting, and 4) the computer and the Internet are both loved and hated. The participants in this study value learning experiences that involve them in the classroom and keep them involved in the world. They enjoy asking questions, discussing ideas, and learning with friends and family members in environments free from the pressures of mandatory assignments and tests. They seek instructors who are knowledgeable about the subject, clear and understandable in their presentation, respectful of their experience, and effective at grabbing their attention through enthusiasm, humor, and relevant stories. When they discover effective instructors, they tend to take classes with them over and over again. However. when instructors' abilities are unknown, they look for learning experiences that will either expand their knowledge abcut something familiar or teach them something that will have some relevance in their lives. Finally, these seniors enjoy the convenience of accessing a wealth of information using computers and the Internet. Yet, they also experience considerable frustration in learning computer tasks and dealing with computer problems. Reommendations are provided for designing, marketing, and delivering quality learning experiences for senior adults.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000663
Subject Headings: Continuing education, Learning, Psychology of, Adult learning, Experiential learning, Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age--United States
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Title: Paradise Revealed.
Creator: Ditusa, Michael, Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: South Florida is a collective of eclectic personalities who often transplant themselves from all across the country. They are often seeking a new opportunity, or running away from the baggage of their past. This collection of fiction stories seeks to explore the lives of the people who populate the area and serve the rest of the world who descend on the area annually seeking their own personal one to two week paradise. The collection sees those often living lives of quite desperation, while...
Show moreSouth Florida is a collective of eclectic personalities who often transplant themselves from all across the country. They are often seeking a new opportunity, or running away from the baggage of their past. This collection of fiction stories seeks to explore the lives of the people who populate the area and serve the rest of the world who descend on the area annually seeking their own personal one to two week paradise. The collection sees those often living lives of quite desperation, while at the same time returning to their jobs in the service industry night after night smiling. Juxtaposing the faith-based life against the backdrop of the night life, the characters are all on a journey to discover their own paradise the area offers. Sometimes they find it in small moments they experience. Sometimes they find it on the open road leaving.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000910
Subject Headings: Florida--Social life and customs--Fiction., Symbolism in literature., Self-realization., Short stories, American.
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Title: Patterns of Stable Early Adolescent Friendships and Their Associations with Individual Adjustment.
Creator: Mooney, Karen Sara, Florida Atlantic University, Laursen, Brett, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Strong evidence links positive and negative features of adolescent friendship to adjustment outcomes. However, the majority of these studies adopt a variable-oriented approach, which can obscure differences between subgroups. This study used a person-oriented approach to examine the patterns of friendship quality and their association with adolescent adjustment outcomes. To this end , both members of 88 stable friendships reported on the quality of their relationship and target adolescents...
Show moreStrong evidence links positive and negative features of adolescent friendship to adjustment outcomes. However, the majority of these studies adopt a variable-oriented approach, which can obscure differences between subgroups. This study used a person-oriented approach to examine the patterns of friendship quality and their association with adolescent adjustment outcomes. To this end , both members of 88 stable friendships reported on the quality of their relationship and target adolescents reported on their adjustment (behavior problems, friendship competence, scholastic competence, behavioral conduct, global self-worth, and school grades) at both Grade 6 and Grade 7. K-means cluster analyses identified three distinct patterns in friendship quality at both Grade 6 and Grade 7: /ow positivity, high negativity, and high quality. These groups exhibited structural stability. The high negativity group and the high quality group both exhibited interindividual stability. Person-oriented analyses indicated adolescents in the high quality group tended to have the best adjustment outcomes, whereas adolescents in the high negativity group tended to have the worst adjustment outcomes. Additionally, person-oriented analyses indicated that adolescents whose friendships increased in quality also tended to report increased friendship competence. Adolescents whose friendships decreased in quality tended to report decreased global self-worth . Supplemental variable-oriented analyses generally complemented the findings of the person-oriented analyses. Overall, these findings suggest that many adolescents have enduring friendships that are less than ideal. Moreover, different low quality friendships have different associations with adjustment. These findings also suggest that friendships may not have pervasive influence on adjustment outcomes. Specifically, friendship quality appears to be strongly associated with behavior problems, friendship competence, and self-esteem.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000871
Subject Headings: Friendship in youth, Teenagers--Social networks, Self-esteem in adolescence, Interpersonal relations in adolescence, Adjustment (Psychology)
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Title: Tennessee Williams's Guilt Inspired 'Savior' Doubles.
Creator: Colegrove, Isaac H., Low, Jennifer A., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: This thesis documents Thomas Lanier (Tennessee) Williams's treatment of brother/sister relationships in literary works written between 1939 and 1950. Though Williams began by exploiting his troubled relationship with his sister Rose in "The Long Goodbye" and "The Purification," two one-act plays, he revised his treatment of siblings in The Glass Menagerie and the short story "The Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin." These works do not merely reveal the writer's transparent guilt...
Show moreThis thesis documents Thomas Lanier (Tennessee) Williams's treatment of brother/sister relationships in literary works written between 1939 and 1950. Though Williams began by exploiting his troubled relationship with his sister Rose in "The Long Goodbye" and "The Purification," two one-act plays, he revised his treatment of siblings in The Glass Menagerie and the short story "The Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin." These works do not merely reveal the writer's transparent guilt and shame at having neglected his sister at moments when he could have helped her, nor do they serve simply to over-write his torrid depictions of similar relationships in the earlier plays. I contend that Williams's intense guilt inspired the creation of literary doubles in both The Glass Menagerie and "The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin," not only to undo in symbolic terms the ways he had previously characterized Rose and her relationship with him and, more importantly, to express his wish that he had done more to help Rose avert her tragic fate.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000906
Subject Headings: Williams, Tennessee,--1911-1983--Criticism and interpretation., Brothers and sisters in literature., Doubles in literature., Split self in literature.
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Title: The relationship between basic conditioning factors and the self-care practice of meditation in HIV-seropositive persons.
Creator: Ludlow, Michael Dale., Florida Atlantic University, Freeman, Edward, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description: This study was a secondary analysis of data collected by Freeman, E., Ruppenthal, B., and Flinders, R. entitled "Meditation on a Passage and Repetition of a Mantram to Enhance Self-Care of Persons with HIV Infection" (1992). Selected data were re-analyzed in light of the Self-Care Deficit Theory (Orem, 1995). Self-care consisted of daily repetition of an inspirational passage and mantram, which served as the interventions for the primary study. The primary researchers noted that ASCAS scores...
Show moreThis study was a secondary analysis of data collected by Freeman, E., Ruppenthal, B., and Flinders, R. entitled "Meditation on a Passage and Repetition of a Mantram to Enhance Self-Care of Persons with HIV Infection" (1992). Selected data were re-analyzed in light of the Self-Care Deficit Theory (Orem, 1995). Self-care consisted of daily repetition of an inspirational passage and mantram, which served as the interventions for the primary study. The primary researchers noted that ASCAS scores rose significantly after the intervention. Thus, secondary analysis focused on the relationships of the basic conditioning factors (BCFs) to the total scores on the Adult Self-Care Agency Scale (ASCAS) before and after the self-care intervention. Secondary analysis revealed that diet alone, from among the BCFs, differentiated the sample of HIV-infected or family members of infected persons according to ASCAS scores at study entry and exit.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15439
Subject Headings: Self-care, Health, HIV-positive persons--Care, Meditation, HIV infections--Nursing, Quality of life
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Title: A fox in faux-Joyce: The functions of autobiography in James Joyce's "Ulysses".
Creator: King, John., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: In the "Scylla and Charybdis" chapter of Ulysses, the novel appears to make a problem out of its autobiographical suppositions. Stephen Dedalus argues that the works of Shakespeare have a biographical basis, and previously in Ulysses Stephen has imagined himself as a Shakespearean character. Stephen is also the protagonist of Joyce's earlier work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In the "Scylla and Charybdis" episode, the association between Joyce and Stephen seems confirmed when the...
Show moreIn the "Scylla and Charybdis" chapter of Ulysses, the novel appears to make a problem out of its autobiographical suppositions. Stephen Dedalus argues that the works of Shakespeare have a biographical basis, and previously in Ulysses Stephen has imagined himself as a Shakespearean character. Stephen is also the protagonist of Joyce's earlier work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In the "Scylla and Charybdis" episode, the association between Joyce and Stephen seems confirmed when the narrator's voice, sometimes conflated with Stephen's, reports thoughts particularly appropriate for James Joyce. This chapter, however, lures one into an autobiographical reading of Stephen that does not remain tenable throughout the novel. Apparent autobiography in Ulysses becomes a problem (rather than an easy option for interpretation) when one finds autobiographical references significantly changed in the "Circe" chapter--changed so that the essential ambiguity of Joyce's autobiographical references becomes clear.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15338
Subject Headings: Joyce, James,--1882-1941--Ulysses, Joyce, James,--1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation, Autobiography in literature, Self in literature
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Title: The effects of a self-evaluation intervention on the instructional behavior of special education interns.
Creator: Keller, Cassandra L., Florida Atlantic University, Taylor, Ronald L.
Abstract/Description: This study investigated the effects of an audiotaped self evaluation intervention on the instructional behavior of interns in classrooms for students with disabilities. Three interns teaching in elementary school settings in Southeast Florida participated in the study. The dependent variable was frequency of specific social praise statements. The independent variable was the self evaluation intervention which consisted of an individual training session that required each intern to listen to...
Show moreThis study investigated the effects of an audiotaped self evaluation intervention on the instructional behavior of interns in classrooms for students with disabilities. Three interns teaching in elementary school settings in Southeast Florida participated in the study. The dependent variable was frequency of specific social praise statements. The independent variable was the self evaluation intervention which consisted of an individual training session that required each intern to listen to five minute audiotaped samples of their instruction and then graph the frequency of specific social praise. A multiple baseline design was used to measure the effects of the intervention. Generalization probes were administered to determine the effects of the intervention in other content areas and maintenance probes were evaluated to determine the effects of the intervention over time. A qualitative design employing an open ended interview was used to enhance and amplify the quantitative portion of the study and to find out what value the interns placed on the intervention. Results indicated that the intervention had a positive effect on all three interns' use of specific social praise. Generalization probes indicated that two of the three interns increased their use of specific social praise during non-targeted content areas. The maintenance probes indicated that all three interns' average use of specific social praise was well above their baseline averages, although two of the three interns had a decreasing trend. The findings from the qualitative data supported the results from the quantitative analyses and revealed that interns valued the self evaluation intervention because it allowed them to reflect, evaluate, and then change their behavior. Recommendations for future research were made.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12044
Subject Headings: Interns (Education), Teachers--Self-rating of, Students with disabilities--Education, Teachers of children with disabilities--Training of
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Title: A comparison between Florida State University System's female administrators and female faculty in their personal attributes and self-efficacy beliefs.
Creator: Berzok, Rosanna Star, Florida Atlantic University, MacKenzie, Donald G.
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether significant differences existed between female administrators and female faculty in public higher education in their perceptions of personal self-efficacy and their personal attributes. This was achieved by examining the relationship between the criterion variable, position held by females in higher education and the predictor variables, which included male and female characteristics, general self-efficacy beliefs, and social self-efficacy...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to determine whether significant differences existed between female administrators and female faculty in public higher education in their perceptions of personal self-efficacy and their personal attributes. This was achieved by examining the relationship between the criterion variable, position held by females in higher education and the predictor variables, which included male and female characteristics, general self-efficacy beliefs, and social self-efficacy beliefs. A survey package including a demographics section, Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ) and Self-Efficacy Scale for Adults (SES) was mailed to 200 female administrators and 200 female faculty employed by Florida's State University System. A stratified random selection was employed to obtain the 200 female faculty in order to ensure discipline diversity. The 200 female administrators were selected from the most current data available from the 10 universities' 1995-1996 graduate school catalogs and the 1995-1996 Directory of Women in Educational Leadership in Florida, published jointly from the Office of Postsecondary Education in Florida and Florida State University's Hardee Center for Women in Higher Education. Each scale and subscale was analyzed utilizing the analysis of variance (ANOVA) procedure. Three null hypotheses were tested at the.05 confidence level and then adjusted to the.0125 confidence level by employing the Bonferroni procedure. The employment of the Bonferroni statistical procedure eliminates the rejection of discrepant test outcomes due to Type I errors. Results of the ANOVA test applied to the General Self-Efficacy subscale were statistically significant at the .01 confidence level. Outcomes of this study proved to be significant to the growing body of women's research in that it denoted statistically significant results indicating that female administrators had a higher perception of general self-efficacy than female faculty. General self-efficacy is based on the premise that if an individual has a history of successful outcomes, than that individual will expect more successful outcomes than failures. General self-efficacy (identified as an internal barrier) may in fact be what is hindering more women from seeking administrative positions in higher education.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12518
Subject Headings: Self-efficacy
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Title: Le moi et l'autre dans Robinson Crusoe de Daniel Defoe et Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique de Michel Tournier.
Creator: Peric, Milica., Florida Atlantic University, Munson, Marcella L.
Abstract/Description: Daniel Defoe's seminal novel Robinson Crusoe reflects major philosophical currents of the Enlightenment and brings them to bear on diverse issues: scientific advances, new economic models, British colonialization, the relation of the Other to the self. But if Robinson Crusoe presents Friday as Other who fulfills a crucial role by helping Robinson as narrating subject successfully complete the journey of self-knowledge, Michel Tournier's postmodern revision, Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique...
Show moreDaniel Defoe's seminal novel Robinson Crusoe reflects major philosophical currents of the Enlightenment and brings them to bear on diverse issues: scientific advances, new economic models, British colonialization, the relation of the Other to the self. But if Robinson Crusoe presents Friday as Other who fulfills a crucial role by helping Robinson as narrating subject successfully complete the journey of self-knowledge, Michel Tournier's postmodern revision, Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique , has a quite different teleological aim. Through constantly shifting narrative and theoretical perspectives Vendredi undertakes a forceful critique of key aspects of the Western tradition which Robinson Crusoe confidently hailed: Lockean and Cartesian reasoning, traditional framing dichotomies central to the Western tradition (Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel), modern conceptions of the thinking subject. Vendredi ultimately suggests the inability of the postmodern subject to know itself while simultaneously critiquing those Western traditions whose perspectives are founded on hegemonic globalization.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13097
Subject Headings: Defoe, Daniel,--1661?-1731--Robinson Crusoe, Tournier, Michel--Vendredi, ou, Les limbes du Pacifique, Self (Philosophy) in literature
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Title: The quest for selfhood in Ursula Le Guin's "The Wizard of Earthsea" and "The Farthest Shore".
Creator: Durbeej, Jerry K., Florida Atlantic University, Collins, Robert A.
Abstract/Description: In A Wizard of Earthsea and The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin presents the theme of selfhood, of maturity, and of identity through the character heroes of Ged and Arren. Of these two, Ged experiences the quest for selfhood on two levels: first, from boy to manhood, and then from manhood to the awareness of death. Both novels deal with the struggle to create, which is primarily a struggle with self, with one's own powers, and with the need to control these powers and their consequences. I...
Show moreIn A Wizard of Earthsea and The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin presents the theme of selfhood, of maturity, and of identity through the character heroes of Ged and Arren. Of these two, Ged experiences the quest for selfhood on two levels: first, from boy to manhood, and then from manhood to the awareness of death. Both novels deal with the struggle to create, which is primarily a struggle with self, with one's own powers, and with the need to control these powers and their consequences. I have examined WOE through the perspective of Ged's coming of age, his initiation and apprenticeship, and his relationship with the "shadow." I have discussed the shadow as a metaphor for darkness in relation to modern man's age of despair and loss of hope. In this area I have referenced ideas by Carl G. Jung. In TFS I have explored Ged's second cycle of selfhood through his encounter with death and how this encounter is seen as an abyss providing the ultimate confrontation which can guide the spirit toward creation, regeneration, and redemption. From this perspective I have explored the abyss through some discussion by Martin Heidegger. Arren's quest for selfhood is also examined, on a secondary level, through his relationship with Ged and his destiny for kingship.
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12713
Subject Headings: Le Guin, Ursula K,--1929---Wizard of Earthsea, Le Guin, Ursula K,--1929---Farthest shore, Self in literature
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Title: The Impact of High School Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Support Services on the Attitudes of College Students in Their First Two Years.
Creator: Tamayo, Marlene, Townsend, Tony, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible long-term effect of belonging to a high school Gay-Straight Alliance or similar support group. Specific focus was placed on college student attitudes in terms of personal, social, and academic functions. Secondarily, participant demographic and academic characteristics were examined for a possible moderating effect on their attitudes with regard to the same functions. To assess the perceived maturity of each participant, each student...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to investigate the possible long-term effect of belonging to a high school Gay-Straight Alliance or similar support group. Specific focus was placed on college student attitudes in terms of personal, social, and academic functions. Secondarily, participant demographic and academic characteristics were examined for a possible moderating effect on their attitudes with regard to the same functions. To assess the perceived maturity of each participant, each student was given Russell Cassel 's Ego Development Scale (EDS), a 60-item questionnaire used to ascertain the degree to which individuals function in personal, social, and academic settings. The focus of this research was to test the following condensed hypotheses: With regard to personal, social, or academic issues, there is no relationship between belonging to a high school Gay-Straight Alliance or similar support group and the self-perception of maturity or ego development. In order to test the hypotheses, a test comparing the means achieved by the two groups (involved versus not-involved) on each of the subtests (personal, social, and academic) was conducted. Additionally, a general linear model was used to discover ifthe demographic or academic characteristics of participants played a moderating effect on the outcome oftheir scores on the subtests of the EDS. The findings indicated a connection between high school support participation and a high social subscore, or high social maturity. While the mean score achieved by the involved group was higher than the mean score achieved by the not-involved group in both the personal and educational subtests as well, those connections were not found to be statistically significant. Secondarily, while many of the demographic variables tested did not prove to have a significant effect on the personal, social, or educational subscores, some interesting themes emerged. These include a noted disordinal interaction between year in school and the differences found in mean subscores between participants versus non-participants. Recommendations for future research are offered, including providing the participants a more personal forum for sharing their views with regard to how high school support changes student attitudes.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000712
Subject Headings: Self-help groups--United States, Gay high school students--Societies, etc, Sexual minority students--Societies, etc
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Title: Using a middle range nursing theory to individualize CKD education.
Creator: Hain, Debra J.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3183654
Subject Headings: Renal Replacement Therapy, Nursing Theory, Nursing, Education, Nursing, Renal Insufficiency, Chronic, Self Administration, Kidney Diseases, Kidney Diseases --Therapy, Kidney Diseases --Education, Patient Education
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Title: Components of self.
Creator: Major, Christina Maya., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description: My thesis exhibition is comprised of approximately eleven large-scale portrait paintings done primarily in oil paint on canvas. This body of work investigates the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait and evolved from my desire to combine portrait painting with writing as well as to develop methods of using paint to express a merging of myself with the individual depicted in the portrait. My creative research has focused on the traditional form of the portrait...
Show moreMy thesis exhibition is comprised of approximately eleven large-scale portrait paintings done primarily in oil paint on canvas. This body of work investigates the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait and evolved from my desire to combine portrait painting with writing as well as to develop methods of using paint to express a merging of myself with the individual depicted in the portrait. My creative research has focused on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition and the many variables that portraiture deals with. I expanded on the traditional portrait painting by cataloguing my memories and thoughts along with the thoughts of the subject by painting under, into and over the subject in my own handwriting. My "hand" is visible both in the brushstroke and in the cursive writing, preserving my identity in a "readable" way both literally and through graphology, or handwriting analysis.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2100583
Subject Headings: Self (Philosophy) in art, Subjectivity in art, Visual communication in art, Visual perception in art
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Title: Fattitude The Movie: Theory and Praxis of Creating a Documentary that Examines Fat Representation and Fat Social Justice.
Creator: Averill, Lindsey, Caputi, Jane, Hagood, Taylor, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Abstract/Description: This dissertation explores the making of and research for the film, Fattitude, a social justice based documentary that looks to awaken viewers to the reality of weight bias in media representation. This dissertation reviews the filmmaking process and then engages with the nature of stereotypes about fat bodies. Deeply tied to feminist and fat studies theory, the work here seeks to categorize and shape the understanding of weight bias in the media by linking fat tropes to clearly understood...
Show moreThis dissertation explores the making of and research for the film, Fattitude, a social justice based documentary that looks to awaken viewers to the reality of weight bias in media representation. This dissertation reviews the filmmaking process and then engages with the nature of stereotypes about fat bodies. Deeply tied to feminist and fat studies theory, the work here seeks to categorize and shape the understanding of weight bias in the media by linking fat tropes to clearly understood images of oppression, for example the monstrous, the fool, they hypersexual and the asexual. The work also seeks to present theory on the nature of creating media representations of fatness that are not oppressive – making note of current media created by grassroots movements for body acceptance and fat positivity.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004900, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004900
Subject Headings: Fattitude., Body image--Social aspects., Discrimination against overweight persons., Feminine beauty (Aesthetics), Obesity., Body image in women., Self-esteem in women., Physical-appearance-based bias.
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