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Bibliographies of Camp-related Research - American Camp Association Significant improvement for females in self-concept scores and on two of the wilderness anxiety scores (fear of sudden attack and fear of venomous and infectious animals). Significant improvement for males in self-concept and wilderness anxiety scores (on all factors except for fear of inclement weather and fear of water). Instruments: Crume/Ellis Wilderness Anxiety Scale (factors include fear of: sudden attack, poisonous plants, venomous and infectious animals, inclement weather, water, being lost or alone) and Willoughby Schedule self-concept scale. www.acacamps.org /research/bib/crume.php

Psychscape What was a little different this year, was the concept of co-morbidities (anxiety with depression, anxiety with pain) and some studies using the atypical antipsychotics for anxiety/panic disorder. Anxiety disorders always attract some attention and a number of SSRI's either have or are seeking indications for the various anxiety disorders. There are always many presentations on depression and since it is the single biggest mental disorder and second only to cardiovascular disease (WHO) there will always be many sessions. radio.weblogs.com /0117471/2003/05/24.html

Self-Esteem Self-esteem is generally considered the evaluative component of the self-concept, a broader representation of the self that includes cognitive and behavioral aspects as well as evaluative or affective ones (Blascovich and Tomaka, 1991). While the construct is most often used to refer to a global sense of self-worth, narrower concepts such as self-confidence or body-esteem are used to imply a sense of self-esteem in more specific domains. Self-esteem is an extremely popular construct within psychology, and has been related to virtually every other psychological concept or domain, including personality (e.g., shyness), behavioral (e.g., task performance), cognitive (e.g., attributional bias), and clinical concepts (e.g., anxiety and depression). www.macses.ucsf.edu /Research/Psychosocial/notebook/selfesteem.html   (2599 words)

Las Vegas Mercury: Books: Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton The tenets of his argument are these: First, that as humans who constitute the culture that we do, our greatest desires are love and recognition; second, how we have come to measure those desires, and their fulfillment, is at the root of our deepest dissatisfaction. Pragmatic assertions granting a moral imperative to an elite graced with status are counterbalanced not only by critical prose, but by the criticisms of art--the unfairness of status-based imbalances outed in the fiction of authors like Austen, Flaubert, Tolstoy and Dickens. After defining status as a concern that has "exceptional capacity" as a social driver, de Botton divides his book into two sections to discuss the concept: causes and solutions. www.lasvegasmercury.com /2004/MERC-Jul-08-Thu-2004/24250241.html   (2599 words)

Mental Factors in Sports They prefer to consider anxiety as a traditional concept and to interpret emotions along with arousal, anxiety, or whatever the state of "physical excitedness" is that exists in particular settings. Lazarus has suggested that negative expectations of goal attainment and coping should lead to negative emotions such as cognitive anxiety, whereas positive goal attainment and coping expectations should prompt the development of more positive emotions, such as challenge, excitement, and self-confidence. They defer to the time-honored and enduring concepts of emotion as proposed by Lazarus [Lazarus, R. Emotion and adaptation. www-rohan.sdsu.edu /dept/coachsci/csa/vol64/burton1.htm   (2599 words)

Faith Without Foundations Richard Bernstein coined the phrase “Cartesian anxiety” to describe the disorienting effect of epistemic groundlessness and the decentering of the autonomous self. [49] Christian theology has often fallen victim to Cartesian anxiety, as witnessed by the numerous prolegomenal attempts by Christian theologians to justify their enterprise, or prove the rationality of faith. Thesis V: Christianity must forge a new post-rationalist epistemology that redefines justification while preserving the crucial concept of objective truth. www.faithmaps.org /faithwoutfoundations.htm   (2599 words)

2001 AAR Abstracts Using Kierkegaard's observation in The Concept of Anxiety that "anxiety is freedom's actuality as the possibility of possibility" (KW VIII 42), I will create three more parallel categories: (1) fear--freedom's actuality as the possibility of actuality, (2) resignation--freedom's actuality as the actuality of actuality, and (3)faith--freedom's actuality as the actuality of possibility. In Japan the conceptual understanding of ghosts--their visual representation, their powers, how they can be pacified--has changed considerably over time, as new cultural anxieties and political problematics have arisen to replace old ones. Richard J. Bernstein has written of a "Cartesian anxiety" -- the demand for foundation -- that pervades modern epistemology. www.aarweb.org /annualmeet/2001/pbook/abstract.asp   (2599 words)

Toward a Philosophy of Media: full text This caveat does not, however, invalidate Taylor's point, that the concept of 'the self' is a rupture with tradition. The moment at which we can most clearly identify this discontinuity is the birth of the Cartesian Cogito with its rise and reification (if not deification) of the subject-object dichotomy. To sum up, the hermeneutic, or dialogical, self locates us within vital cultural frameworks out of which we can never step as if we were Cartesian disembodied mental points outside of space, if not of time. www.metafoundation.org /theses/mass_media.php   (2599 words)

Welcome to Philos - Psychoanalysis Section Sullivan, following Freud, felt that the symptoms of schizophrenia were meaningful, but only appear meaningless when taken out of the context of their development in the interpersonal field between self and other, a concept again worked out in greater detail by the English Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing). Central to Sullivan's theory of interpersonal psychiatry is his understanding of the emotion of anxiety, which, for Sullivan, has a specific connotation. Sullivan found that anxiety was born in the very first interaction an infant had with his mother and this meant that anxiety could never be overcome for if the anxiety were born of the relationship with the "anxiety reducer" herself, from whence would the reduction come? www.candleinthedark.com /sullivan.html   (4361 words)

Manual for the Occupational Self-Efficacy Scale, Betz & Hackett Anxiety is viewed by Bandura as a "coeffect" of self-efficacy expectations in that the level of anxiety is seen to covary inversely with the level and strength of self-efficacy expectations; as self-efficacy expectations are increased, anxiety should decrease and vice versa. One of the most theoretically, heuristically, and practically useful concepts formulated in modern psychology has been Albert Bandura's (1977) concept of self-efficacy expectations. The concept of self-efficacy expectations is now widely studied and used (see, for example, Bandura, 1982, 1986), but it was first applied to career psychology and counseling by Hackett and Betz (1981). seamonkey.ed.asu.edu /~gail/occse1.htm   (2397 words)

Teaching Mathematics self-concept and mathematics anxiety of undergraduate majors in education. This study investigated the relation between mathematics self-concept and mathematics anxiety of a sample of undergraduate majors in education. Scores of 68 students (10 men and 58 women) on mathematics self-concept were positively correlated (.83) with... www.accelerated-learning-online.com /research/CTG-Teaching-31.asp   (744 words)

The Mavens' Word of the Day Angst became a key concept of existentialist philosophy, where it refers to human dread and anxiety brought about by free will, the doctrine that we are responsible for our actions, decisions, and choices. The founder of existentialism, the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, wrote Begrebet Angest in 1844; it was translated into German and into English ("The Concept of Dread"). Greatly influenced by Kierkegaard, the 20th-century German philosopher Martin Heidegger used the concept of Angst to mean "the fear of metaphysical insecurity." www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=20000801   (466 words)

ScienceDaily -- Browse Topics: Health/Reproductive_Health/Sexual_Dysf... Sex -- Sex refers to the male and female duality of biology and reproduction. The concept is confined to organisms that reproduce... General anxiety disorder -- General anxiety disorder or generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by excessive and uncontrollable worry about everyday things. www.sciencedaily.com /directory/Health/Reproductive_Health/Sexual_Dysf...   (816 words)

#8 S.E. Freud's contradictory presentation may be explained from the fact that it is very difficult for him to give up his concept of anxiety as castration anxiety or to bring it into harmony with the theory of birth anxiety. S.E. Whereas in hysteria it is the loss of the love object that conditions the anxiety, in the obsessional neurosis it is fear of the superego [ Will Therapy, "and the observation that the infant experiences fear at a time when there can be no question of outer threats of any kind, have made the sexual origin of fear, and its derivation from the outside, untenable" (1929-31, p. www.ottorank.com /anxweb.htm   (816 words)

Improve Your Self Esteem and Self Help for Adults E., Norton, L. W., and Leary, M. Cognitive components of social anxiety: an investigation of the integration of self-presentation theory and self-efficacy theory. Franzoi, S. Self concept differences as a function of private self-consciousness and social anxiety. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Santa Monica, California. www.my-self-esteem.com /shy.htm   (816 words)

Defence mechanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anna Freud describes in her book Ego and mechanisms of defense (1936) the concept of signal anxiety; she states that it is ‘not directly a conflicted instinctual tension but a signal occurring in the ego of an anticipated instinctual tension’. The signalling function of anxiety is thus seen as a crucial one and biologically adapted to warn the organism of danger or a threat to its equilibrium. Freud, A. The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Defense_mechanism   (1196 words)

D. Anthony Storm's Commentary On Kierkegaard - The Sickness Unto Death The Sickness Unto Death is a companion piece to the Concept of Anxiety, which is also a "psychological" work, and moves beyond the earlier preliminary psychological considerations of anxiety in the face of freedom or anxiety derived from and leading to sin. A: DESPAIR IS THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH: DESPAIR IS A SICKNESS OF THE SPIRIT, OF THE SELF, AND ACCORDINGLY CAN TAKE THREE FORMS: IN DESPAIR NOT TO BE CONSCIOUS OF HAVING A SELF (NOT DESPAIR IN THE STRICT SENSE); IN DESPAIR NOT TO WILL TO BE ONESELF; IN DESPAIR TO WILL TO BE ONESELF I will use the chapter and section headings that Kierkegaard uses because his categories are complex and idiosyncratic. www.sorenkierkegaard.org /kw19.htm   (1196 words)

Anxiety Drugs, Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents, Anxiety Drug side effects Buspar, Buspirone If the waveform of the extracellular signals was found to be close to the waveform of the first derivative of a typical intracellular signal, the waveform of these bipolar signals can be estimated with the second derivative of the intracellular signal. In fact, it can be concluded that the waveform of the extracellular signals differ from the one of the intracellular, which is related in part to the fact that the depolarization wave in the living tissues is not static. Equation [1.1] indicates that the extracellular potential would repeat the waveshape of the intracellular one only if the cell is considered isolated from the outside world. www.usahealthstore.com /stomach.html   (1196 words)

attract.htm The Roots of Interpersonal Attraction IV Social Anxiety Social anxiety is a feeling of discomfort that arises when a person expects negative outcomes from social contact and interpersonal relationships There are emotions that stand in the way of forming close relationships users.ipfw.edu /bordens/social/attract.htm   (1058 words)

Understanding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A psychiatrist understands another person if he knows his anxieties and their causes and can give him useful advice on how to minimise the anxiety. A person understands the weather if he/she is able to predict and to give an explanation of some of its features. Whatever definition is proposed, we can still ask how it is that we understand the thing that is featured in the definition: we can never satisfactorily define a concept, still less use it to explain understanding. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Understanding   (1058 words)

San Francisco Cognitive Behavioral Psychologist Anxiety Depression Addiction However, esteeming oneself involves choices among alternatives: you choose to act, you choose to evaluate your actions, you choose to extend the evaluation of your actions to an evaluation of your total self, you choose the standard by which your total self will be evaluated. When the self-esteem concept is criticized, its proponents can defend it by explaining that the reason self-esteem didn’t seem to work in a particular case is not that the very concept is flawed, but rather that the wrong "x" was chosen. They often seem to assume that if you perform well according to their chosen x, this will automatically cause you to esteem yourself highly. www.threeminutetherapy.com /self-esteem.html   (1058 words)

Fourth International Conference on Bipolar Disorder Cycloid psychosis could affect different aspects of psychic life 1) the one that displays paranoid anxiety alternating with mystic delusional ecstatic states, is called Anxiety-Happiness psychosis. The goal of this paper is to present a project on the validation of the concept of Cycloid Psychosis looking forward to improve phenotypes definition for clinical research and to stress the possibility that some of the called mixed states of Bipolar Disorders could be separated as Cycloid States. In the acute phase of cycloid psychoses, patients fulfill DSMIV criteria for Schizophreniphrom Disorder, Bipolar Disorder or Bipolar Mixed States. www.wpic.pitt.edu /STANLEY/4thbipconf/Abstracts/posters2.htm   (7381 words)

San Francisco Cognitive Behavioral Psychologist Anxiety Depression Addiction However, esteeming oneself involves choices among alternatives: you choose to act, you choose to evaluate your actions, you choose to extend the evaluation of your actions to an evaluation of your total self, you choose the standard by which your total self will be evaluated. When the self-esteem concept is criticized, its proponents can defend it by explaining that the reason self-esteem didn’t seem to work in a particular case is not that the very concept is flawed, but rather that the wrong "x" was chosen. If we fail at some endeavor, or a whole series of endeavors, we are not fated to think the worse of ourselves. www.threeminutetherapy.com /self-esteem.html   (3880 words)

Eugene Webb - “Eros and The Psychology of World Views” And his treatment of the death theme is actually quite the opposite of that of Freud, whose concept of Thanatos Becker saw as an attempt to mask our real anxiety about death by interpreting death as a positive motive parallel to the sex drive rather than as an object of aversion. Freud's Thanatos was a counterforce opposing Eros; Becker's death-anxiety is simply the reverse face of Eros itself: the same force that makes us reach toward fullness of life also makes us fear any threat to life. Freud's psychology and Jung's were both psychologies of the unconscious. faculty.washington.edu /ewebb/Eranos.html   (3880 words)

Stuttering The anxiety and fear accompanying their stuttering cause changes in self- concept and personality. The parent's of a child who stutters do not want their child to stutter and are sometimes unaware that the child is not stuttering on purpose. For people who stutter (PWS), each dysfluency is a fearful, anxiety-filled experience. www.d.umn.edu /~cspiller/stutteringpage/julie.htm   (917 words)

4LectureNotes.doc For example, if anxiety were measured on an interval scale, then a difference between a score of 10 and a score of 11 would represent the same difference in anxiety as would a difference between a score of 50 and a score of 51. However, operational definitions rarely capture completely all the dimensions of sophisticated concepts When many observable characteristics are included in an operational definition, you, as a researcher, must decide which ones are more essential than others for defining the abstract concept. A variable measured at the nominal level must be classifiable into at least two different categories The categories must be mutually exclusive The categories must be equivalent so we don't compare apples and oranges The categories must be exhaustive Background variables are often measured at the nominal level e.g. www.uky.edu /CommInfoStudies/JAT/ISC/chike/isc321/4LectureNotes.doc   (917 words)

Soren Kierkegaard [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] The central notions explored in The Sickness Unto Death are "despair" and "the self." In this respect it is a Christian repetition of the central themes of The Concept of Anxiety, with "despair" supplanting "anxiety." Both explore the task of becoming a self from the points of view of psychology and Christian faith. The idea that the eternal, infinite, transcendent God could simultaneously be incarnated as a finite human being, in time, to die on the cross is an offense to reason. This issues in the extensive discussion of inwardness and subjectivity, which is usually taken as the basis for the accusation that Kierkegaard is an "irrationalist." Climacus, but not Kierkegaard, proclaims that "truth is subjectivity" (as well as "subjectivity is untruth"). www.iep.utm.edu /k/kierkega.htm   (917 words)

"The Shyness Reading List" Franzoi, S. Self concept differences as a function of private self-consciousness and social anxiety. Arkin, R. M., Appelman, A. J., and Burger, J. Social anxiety, self-presentation, and the self-serving bias in causal attribution. In L. Hartman, and K. Blankstein (Eds.), Perception of self in emotional disorder and psychotherapy (pp. www.shyness.com /shyness-reading-list.html   (2959 words)

RESEARCH ON COGNITIVE BIASES In mood and anxiety disorders concentration difficulties and distractibility are two of the most frequent complains that these patients show, and they appear in the DSM-IV criteria as symptoms for the diagnoses of major depression, dysthymic disorder and some anxiety disorders. Beck�s cognitive model (1967, 1976, 1987), articulated around the concept of schema, has been the starting point for most of these studies. Current cognitive theories on emotional disorders are not only addressed to the content of cognitions, but also intend to study the information processing strategies and structures that could be playing a role in the explanation and description of these disorders. www.eita.uji.es /english/research/sesgos/attention.htm   (2959 words)

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