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Pang, Lai-kei. "Passive resistance to hegemonic control in China and Myanmar." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19047897.
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Pang, Lai-kei, and 彭麗姬. "Passive resistance to hegemonic control in China and Myanmar." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951478.
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Simitopol, Anca Eliza. "Ideas of Community in the Thought of Pierre Leroux and of Feodor Dostoevsky: Agape, Philia and Eros." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23280.
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In this thesis I compare Pierre Leroux, a French utopian socialist (1797 – 1871), with Feodor Dostoevsky, the well-known Orthodox Russian novelist (1821 – 1881). I argue that both authors reacted against what they considered to be the dissolution of the social order, brought about by the increasing nineteenth-century bourgeois individualism. On the other hand, they reacted as well against the opposite phenomenon, the idea of a universal socialist state, which was, in fact, according to them, the outcome of bourgeois individualism. My purpose is to bring close and to compare Leroux’s republican socialism with Dostoevsky’s Christian socialism, and to explore to what extent the two authors give similar answers to a common problem. In order to better explain their thought, I divide my thesis into three chapters. The first analyzes and compares Leroux’s and Dostoevsky’s critiques of individualism. If Leroux reaches the conclusion that the ultimate expression of individualism is Malthusianism, Dostoevsky argues that individualism ends in nihilism. The second chapter analyzes the type of socialism against which Leroux and Dostoevsky reacted, as well as the critiques of the two authors. I argue here that Saint-Simonian socialism – the main object of Leroux’s critique – and the socialism of the Grand Inquisitor – a Dostoevskyan character – are the expression of a certain utopian thought which considers the requirement for freedom incompatible with the requirement for unity. In the last chapter, I analyze the ideas of community of Leroux and of Dostoevsky, which are centered on philia, in the case of the former, and on agape, in the case of the latter. Philia and respectively agape are the expression of organic social relations, through which the two requirements, of freedom and unity, are made compatible, and which create unity in multiplicity. Their ideas of community appear as active utopias, grounded on the life of relation in a spontaneous, organic community.
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Miller, Anthony James. "Man Thinking in the Great Community." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1414.
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This thesis is a reading of the role of the individual in the social philosophies of Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Dewey. It seeks to reconstruct both philosophers as putting forth a philosophy of social individualism by putting the two in conversation with one another through the method of Hegelian dialectic. The line of influence from Emerson to Dewey is touched upon, and some time is spent comparing the two scholars in terms of how their philosophies are unique reactions to their experience of America and as Americans. A large part of the thesis is spent in defense of Emerson from contemporary readings that are found to not fully address the complexity of the philosopher, especially how he was reacting to his particular cultural situation.
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Andriopoulos, Harry. "Individualism and Community for Voluntary Simplifiers." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16871.
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Voluntary simplicity is a cultural movement constructed around overt expressions of individualism in response to the excesses of ‘consumer society’. As the term also suggests, its general public recognition as a critical force against over-consumption appeals to a ‘moral good’. This has turned voluntary simplicity into a socially reflective movement which often appeals to ‘community’ and the social norms of collective action. This thesis explores historical developments in the theories of individualism and communitarianism which have influenced understandings of what constitutes a ‘voluntary simplifier’. The author contends that Ronald Inglehart’s (1977) theory of ‘postmaterialism’, the seminal theory underpinning voluntary simplicity, was quickly transformed into a concept which connoted various individual and social ‘goods’. This became a source of criticism for communitarian critics of consumerism, who associated this development with self-interest, further moral decline and a growing “culture of narcissism”. This is at odds with more recent theorists who view individualism in more pragmatic ways. Paul Lichterman’s (1996) notion of a “culture of personalism” and Clive Hamilton’s (2008) appeal to a kind of philosophical individualism have proven to be more compelling to both voluntary simplifiers and ‘self-help’ authors. This has not been a universally positive development, however. An examination of the “Simple Living Forums” within the thesis reveals a strong sense of modesty and commitment to pluralism amongst voluntary simplifiers, which reflects both an affirmation and a denial of self. Voluntary simplicity continues to lack adequate framing processes which are essential for maintaining a social movement. The thesis therefore concludes that voluntary simplicity is, ironically, associated with the excesses of consumer society and alienation from democratic processes. Because elements of consumer society have become part of the processes of late-capitalism, voluntary simplicity remains trapped between its critical centre and a culture of self-interest and insignificance.
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Kissel, Eric Scott. "MARX ON INDIVIDUALITY AND COMMUNITY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin976026836.
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Sharp, Matthew S. "Of orcs and men : a study of individualism and community in World of warcraft." CardinalScholar 1.0, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1427395.
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World of Warcraft (WoW) is the most successful massively multi-player role-playing game (MMO). It currently consists of over ten million players world-wide. This study focuses on how American players use the game to play with the meanings of individuality and community. This tension between individualism and community is one of the key elements of American culture. Too much individualism leads to a loss of community. The same occurs in WoW. Player-run guilds, which operate as a community of memory, begin to suffer from players who operate on individualistic terms. Ultimately, players play WoW because they get the chance to experience what a strong community commitment can be like.Department of Anthropology
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Galletta, Luciano N. "A community of individuality-- or the individuality of a community: an artists' housing for Mission Hill." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53214.
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A community of individuality allows each person an opportunity to grow and to see himself in his environment, both physically and spiritually. The individuality of a community is realized in a collective identity, shared qualities and physical boundaries which.Master of Architecture
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WALLS, STEPHANIE M. "THE IMPACT OF INDIVIDUALISM ON POLITICAL AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1204053177.
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Yin, Zhiguang. "The politics of art : Creation Society and the making of Chinese Marxist individuality." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609835.
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Scheperle, Stephen Joseph. "Distinguishing saints from sinners, shepherds from sheep, and supervisors from servants : differentiating the community in sixteenth-century Geneva." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4746.
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With its slogan "the priesthood of all believers" and with efforts to place vernacular Bibles in the hands of the literate public, it has been long assumed that the Protestant Reformation aided the development of Western individualism. This dissertation reassesses this common and pervasive claim by examining dynamics in Geneva during the lifetime of its most famous minister, John Calvin. To lend new and illuminating lenses to this study, this dissertation not only examines Calvin's theology with enough complexity to note how his proto-individualistic notions were embedded within a larger context of authority and hierarchy, but it also gives consideration to the practical rhythms of daily religious life in Geneva as well as the responses which Genevans gave to his initiatives. This blend of thorough intellectual history and social history offers are more comprehensive image of the subtleties of the Genevan context and permit a more nuanced analysis into the topic.
Certain proto-individualistic notions existed in Calvin's theology. Yet, these proto-individualistic notions were heavily circumscribed by other commitments to ministerial authority and hierarchy. For example, though he placed intense emphasis on the renovation of the individual's interior space in the process of developing piety, he feared individual and private tampering with personal interiority and instead mandated and policed Genevan attendance at public services where trained and authoritative ministers could give oversight to the shaping of Genevans' hearts and minds. Similarly, the rigid and invasive nature of Calvin's church disciplinary system was able to give surveillance to nearly every aspect of Genevans' lives, and they sensed that their development of piety was not their own affair.
Though Calvin's reforms did not encourage Genevans to feel an emerging sense of religious individualism, it established and reinforced various differentiations within the community. At times, Genevans felt differentiated from the rest of the community as unique individuals, but in more cases, they perceived that differentiations were being enforced at a less individualistic level. Such dynamics distinguished pastors from the laity, sinners from the faithful, the honorable from the dishonorable, natives from foreigners, masters from servants, men from women, and so forth.
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Rybaczuk, Rachel. "The Search for Self-Fulfillment: How Individualism Undermines Community Organizing." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/278/.
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Rueger, Matthew. "Individualism in the Christology of Helmut Thielicke's sermons : analysis and response." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3713/.
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The overall purpose of this thesis is to explore the difficulty of an individualised Christology in the postmodern world and to offer possible avenues for the Church in addressing it. Throughout the thesis we use the example of Helmut Thielicke to demonstrate the nature of an individualistic christology. His sermons are particularly singled out because they serve as the main vehicle through which his Christology reached the people. Thielieke is important to our goals for several reasons. For one, he represents a christological approach that is highly individualistic. Secondly, Thielicke is representative of a shift in the christological paradigm within Lutheranism. Discovering whether that shift is helpful or harmful directly affects how Lutheranism relates in the postmodern world. The thesis will progress through three stages to accomplish our goals. The first three chapters form the first stage. Their purpose is to establish concrete examples of the way Thielicke's individualised christology affects specific key doctrines in classic Lutheranism, as well as how it impacts the more general areas of Lutheran ecclesiology and sacramental tlieology. The second stage involves chapters four and five. The purpose here is to search for additional roots of Thielicke's individualism. Chapter four looks to the influences of both philosophy and secular social thought on Thielicke's Christology. Chapter five seeks to find Thielicke's place within the overall development of the individual. Chapters six and seven form the final stage and represent our response to the kind of individualised christology Thielicke represents. We begin in chapter six by proposing a Theology of Presence as part of the solution to individualism. We conclude in chapter seven offering practical ways this theology can be applied in the postmodern context. Our conclusions will lead us toward the importance of establishing a new metanarrative based on a more corporate form of christology.
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Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence Anne. "Class, community and individualism in English politics and society, 1969-2000." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708279.
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Geraghty, Lincoln. "Living with Star Trek : utopia, community, self-improvement and the Star Trek universe." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10982/.
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Living with Star Trek investigates the connections between Star Trek fandom and the Star Trek text. This study identifies and examines the American themes of utopia, community and self-improvement inherent within the fictional text which also form the thematic framework for letters written by fans to express their affection for the series. These letters represent a `network of support', whereby a community of fans is able to communicate with each other through written correspondence sent to producers, edited collections, and fan magazines. In talking about the series, fans confess and share intimate stories, often based around trauma or bereavement, and at the same time describe how Star Trek has played an important and inspirational part in their daily lives; Star Trek's utopian vision and communal spirit has given them the impetus to enact positive change. Drawing together the themes identified in the text and fan letters, the first half of the thesis examines Star Trek's use of history, narrative and myth to tell its futuristic stories. In particular, I examine how Star Trek has used the distinctive literary tradition of the Puritan American Jeremiad to create a didactic narrative that emphasises the attainment of utopia through communal effort and personal change. The second half of the thesis continues this inquiry by examining a range of letters that describe how fans are able to tap into the open nature of the Star Trek text and use it to fulfil needs and desires in their own daily lives. In particular, I stress how the letters are not just examples of fan affection but also represent a reciprocal relationship where fans can criticise and engage with the programme as well as use it as a form of motivation.
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McCreery, Guy. "Redefined selves : individuality and community in post-bubble Japan." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1998. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28801/.
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The research was conducted between August 1993 - June 1996 in Tokyo The research tests the ubiquity of an emerging individualism in Japan in the aftermath of the speculative Bubble collapse. The thesis seeks to demonstrate that an individualism is emerging in Japan and being legitimated in two complementary dynamic processes. One is a 'top-down' process whereby individuality is being engendered, legitimated and institutionalized through planned company organisational restructuring. The other is a 'bottom-up' process where increasing unemployment and a burgeoning flexible economy requires individuals to show initiative and independence. Both these processes can be seen to be occurring against a general trend of 'individuation' (Dore 1992) which has gathered momentum since the oil crises of 1973 and 1974 (Sengoku 1991). In both cases, the emergence of this individualism is plotted by focusing primarily on the economically driven changes between those ethics and practices generally regarded as typical of 'the group model of Japanese society', as described by Nakane (1970) and critiqued by Befu (1980a, 1980b, 1990), and those ethics and practices emerging to characterize what I term a 'new individualism'. Through an ethnographic analysis of two case studies: one a software company, to study the 'top-down' process, the other among people who attend Techno music parties, to study the 'bottom- up' process, it emerged that a primary ethic of 'group models of Japanese society' (Befu 1980b, 1990) is that the individual self should 'suppress itself or 'deny itself, and conform to uniform standards of thought and behaviour set at the collective level. This was in marked contrast to the ethics and practice of the two case studies, where the individual self is expected to 'express itself. This 'redefinition' of the individual self engenders and is engendered by a complementary redefinition of ethics and practice at the collective level, where the requirement to conform to particular uniform sets of standards for thought and action associated with group models of Japanese society, are absent. In order to apprehend changes to the self at the individual and collective level, the little understood concepts of seken and sekentei were used. The research demonstrates that sekeii is the moral framework of 'the group model of Japanese society', while sekentei is the 'public self of this model of society, and that, as individuality emerges and becomes legitimated within society as a whole, seken and sekentei, and associated situational ethics and 'multiple' senses of the individual self associated with these concepts, lose their moral and social legitimacy, giving way to a unified sense of self within a single, nuanced, universal public domain. The research also demonstrates that this new individualism is not primarily a colonization by Western individualism, but is an identifiably Japanese individualism grounded in well- documented aspects of the Japanese self and Japanese society, and best understood as a departure from, and redefinition of these aspects of the Japanese self and of Japanese society.
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Deliyska, Yana. "Can I Depend on You? : A methodology for working together in + Changing the world." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97123.
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This independent thesis project has been the development of a methodology of working which is anchored in dependence on one another and collectivist ideals within art and design work. I have taken my community, the Design + Change BA program student body, as a stakeholder throughout this process. The methods are actions and practices which I have been gathering with fellow classmates in conversation. I am using the medium of a conversation which I define not as an exact moment in time but rather a continuous long-term dwelling-with, while also iterating on appropriate tools in facilitating this conversation, in order to take the idea of living and working as a dependent collective and run it through with people, addressing their concerns (and mine) along the way. The methods are simple, yet their simplicity depends on a mindset which many are fearful of, the group mindset. To learn, live and work as a group with the belief that a group is as strong as its weakest link, points to a certain letting go. It directly touches on one of the biggest individualistic insecurities, that of having to depend on anything but yourself. I see an orientation toward dependence necessary for a + Change-oriented collectivist mindset. However, the task that I have set for myself with this project is not to convince that this is the new, better story we should believe, I am working with our ability to temporarily adopt this mindset, to shift between paradigms. There is one thing that unites us when we first arrive in the + Change classroom, and that is the faith that a society of fairness is possible. We soon understand that together we are stronger than individually, yet, we find it hard to work with someone who does not share our vision, our utopia, our mindset. So, we drift toward those who do, unintentionally creating a space of division (and oppression), the very thing we are trying to + Change globally. This is the gap that I want this project to bridge, through the assumption that the biggest influence in our + Change system is the individualist paradigm.
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Orlando, Theresa Eileen. "The meaning of falling for elderly community-dwelling individuals." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27729.
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Falls in the elderly Canadian population pose a serious health problem; they are the leading cause of accidental death in persons aged 65 and older. The most common serious injuries associated with falling are hip fractures; more than 19,000 Canadians sustain a hip fracture yearly as a result of a fall.
A review of the literature reveals that most of the studies on falling have been conducted in institutional settings. Community-based studies have identified the risk factors associated with falling to assist in case-finding and fall prevention. However, qualitative studies of falling for elderly community-dwelling individuals are non-existent.
The purpose of this study is to describe the meaning of falling for elderly community-dwelling individuals. The phenomenological approach to qualitative methodology was used for this study. This approach seeks to describe human experience as it is lived. Individuals 65 years of age or older were contacted through a Long Term Care Unit. Eight women became informants,
participating in repeated interviews guided by open-ended questions.
From the content analysis of the data, three major categories of data that were common to the participants were identified and developed. The three categories represent levels of perception in relation to falling, which together represent the entire meaning of falling. At the first level, participants interpreted the various aspects of their falls. The second level describes the reactions to falling. The third level describes how participants coped with falling in the context of coping with aging.
These findings revealed that falling was viewed as a symbol of aging and therefore, the emotional reaction to falling occurred in the context of growing old. Furthermore, it was found that coping with falling occurred in the broader context of coping with aging. The implications for nursing practise,
education, and research were identified in light of the research findings.Applied Science, Faculty of
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Markose, Judith O. "Individualism and community, a study of teachers in a Canadian Jewish day school." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ33926.pdf.
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Goss, Janet. "Honouring individuality, creating community : mindfulness-based emotional development and wellbeing." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658575.
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With reference to the turn to the self in contemporary Western societies, this study assesses the significance of emotional competence as a means of improving subjective wellbeing. It delineates the key components of the subjective turn and specifies the main outcome as emotional competence, achieved through increased self-reflection and self-awareness. The efficacy of mindfulness practice as a method for improving emotional competence is examined and a programme of mindfulness-based emotional development (MBED) devised, informed by a substantial body of empirical research. Prior to working with thirty-five participants in six discrete groups from a range of work-related contexts, extensive participant observation was undertaken through attendance in a broad range of mindfulness retreats, training, courses and conferences. The resultant one-day course was used to assess the outcomes of participation for the co-researchers. The therapeutic effects are reported quantitatively in terms of psychological wellbeing, physical health and productivity at work, and qualitatively using data from the co-researcher 'diary' accounts. In addition, an autoethnographical account of the researcher's longitudinal experience is elucidated as a method of assessing the significance of the practice for emotional management using a three-fold typology of the sacred, the mundane and the profane. The thesis culminates in a four-phase model of personal development that examines the application of MBED as a means of facilitating eudaemonic wellbeing, through improved intrapersonal and interpersonal communication.
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Campanaro, Candice S. "Transitions how individuals in the transgender community use impression management." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4863.
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There exists an extensive body of literature focusing on impression management, with numerous studies addressing the effects of gender performance on members of the GLBT community. Despite a growing body of literature that centers on the differences between the genders, there exists a lack of research regarding the transgender community's ability to use impression management. This exploratory study addresses subjective experiences regarding transgender identity, and concentrates on self-definition and impression management in everyday life. It was found through interviews that "transition" is a temporary state that relies heavily on "passing" through impression management to create a new gender status. Once the new gender status is achieved, passing is no longer an issue and impression management is once again implemented in a more routine way similar to that of those who are not transgender.ID: 030422740; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references.
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Dinnie, Elizabeth. "Managing individuality : an ethnographic study of the Findhorn Foundation community, Scotland." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2003. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU494342.
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This thesis is an ethnographic study of the history and social organization of the Findhorn Foundation community in Scotland, UK. The community’s belief system locates authority for what to believe with each individual follower, rather than in an external authoritative source such as a deity or text. Belief systems that encourage individual autonomy face difficulty in creating and maintaining strict social organizations; their emphasis on personal freedom conflicts with the commitment needed to ensure survival. The Findhorn Community was founded in 1962 and has undergone substantial changes in size, purpose and structure during the course of its history. Present arrangements mean that its 500 residents are organized into a core/periphery structure of over 30 groups and businesses. The largest organization is the Foundation, a charitable educational trust, which runs a year-round programme of holistic workshops and annually attracts over 2,000 residential visitors. Individuals, businesses and groups outside the Foundation are integrated through a community association and an ecovillage project. Organizational arrangements mean that the Foundation is strict; work, decision-making and entry requirements contribute to commitment by encouraging continuity, cohesion and control. The wider community is not strictly regulated; involvement depends on personal choice and there is considerable variation. The change in purpose, from creating an alternative way of life to providing opportunities for education and personal transformation, raises questions about individuality and social change. The flexibility of beliefs in guiding new organizational arrangements as circumstances changed directs attention to the relationship between beliefs and behaviour. Present organizational arrangements address issues of social order, authority and individual autonomy.
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Earle, Wendy. "Factors that influence heart failure self-management of community dwelling individuals." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27195.
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Heart failure (HF) affects 350,000 Canadians, and is the third most common primary diagnosis for a hospitalization in Canada. People with HF experience periods of stability interspersed with exacerbations requiring hospitalization. During the fiscal year 2000-01, 85,679 patients were admitted to hospitals in Canada accruing a cost of over $1 billion per year for inpatient hospital services alone. These statistics indicate that in addition to the considerable influence on the lives of many Canadians, the burden of the problem is significant on the current and future health care system.
This thesis examines factors that influence HF self-management as well as the profile characteristics of community dwelling individuals. The results of a systematic review and findings of a study that combines a mixed method approach including a quantitative secondary analysis, and a set of qualitative telephone interviews are presented. The qualitative data focuses on one factor, perception of social support, and how it relates to HF self-management. Finally, an integration of the information is presented. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Elsworth, Charlotte. "Community mobility and physical activity participation in individuals with mulitple sclerosis." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1518/.
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This thesis incorporates five studies investigating physical activity and community mobility in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). 1. Pedometer step count accuracy was investigated whilst examining activity levels in individuals with neurological disease (n=43). The pedometers significantly under-estimated counts in this group. 2. The test-retest reliability of the Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE) was examined. People with MS (n=20) were found to have low activity levels with a test-retest reliability coefficient total PASE score of 0.934 (95% CI=0.62-0.97). 3. An observational study examined physical activity levels in individuals with MS using the PASE. Participants appeared to be less active than healthy individuals (69.6±50.11, 154.3±80.4 respectively). 4. A questionnaire (n=80) and focus group discussions (n=24) were used to gather user opinions regarding physical activity participation. Emerging themes were the desire to be active and the barriers and facilitators to participation. 5. A phase II RCT investigated the feasibility of a physical activity provision support system in people with MS (n=18). The approach successfully resulted in attendance at fitness centres and increased activity levels (but did not reach statistical significance). The 5 studies each present new data in the field. The implications are discussed with suggestions for further research.
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Williams, Jessica K. "Consultee-centered consultation within community-based residences for individuals with disabilities." Thesis, Alfred University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3737729.
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Managing the behavioral needs of individuals with developmental disabilities has been a long-standing concern for group home managers and direct care staff. Consultee-centered consultation has a history of documented benefits for children in schools and was theorized to be beneficial to adults with developmental disabilities residing in group homes. Adults with disabilities continue to experience behavioral difficulties while staff lack the training to maintain quality support services. Caplan’s consultee-centered consultation (1993) bridges the gap between client centered behavioral consultation and consultee effectiveness in addressing client behavioral concerns. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of consultee-centered consultation on client behavior and the group home environment. Three community-based group homes were chosen to participate in this study using matched assignment. Participants included ten clients with challenging behaviors, two consultees (managers of group-homes), three data collectors and direct-care staff working with clients. This study showed encouraging support of a decrease in the frequency of challenging behaviors exhibited by clients residing in two group homes that received consultee-centered consultation for twelve and six weeks. The level of job satisfaction for employees participating in this study did not demonstrate change over the course of the 15-week study. Despite a lack of support for a change in employee satisfaction, both consultees receiving consultee-centered consultation reported that consultation helped them to address staff concerns and improvements in their level of confidence and skills.
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Hayes, Mark K. "Using the Myers-Briggs type indicator to enhance Christian community." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
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Sand, Harald. "Gemenskap, individualism och andlighet : Tro och församlingsliv bland unga vuxna i den samtida svenska pingströrelsen." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-36419.
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This thesis studies how young adults in today's Swedish Pentecostal congregations describe their beliefs and their congregational life. The thesis applies a theoretic frame of Rational Choice Theory and compares the results with previous research/adjacent studies close to the field. The relevance of this thesis lies in that research on young adults in the Swedish Pentecostal movement is a comparatively unexplored area. The reason to write about young adults in the Swedish Pentecostal movement is rooted in the prospect that this thesis could be a starting point for further studies on young adults in the Swedish Pentecostal movement. The thesis was a qualitative and quantitative multi-method study. The thesis is based on interviews and a questionnaire survey in order to present how young adults in today's Swedish Pentecostal churches describe their beliefs and their congregational life. The thesis identifies some issues that can be raised and investigated in further research on thistopic. Summary of the results The young adults describe that their faith becomes stronger by being part of a Pentecostal congregation. The community of the congregation, both in the smaller and the broader context, confirms the faith which makes their belief stronger. They perceive God as a protector and caretaker, and that God listens to their prayers and cares about them. The subjective part of the faith (the personal relationship with God) they experience as necessary, but they feel that the subjective relationship with God both can be experienced in the church community and solitude. Most of the young adults say they would consider switching the congregation (leave the congregation) if they would not thrive in the congregation or if it would not meet their expectations and needs. The interviews show that the respondents indicate certain preferences that they want to get satisfied and they want to belong to a congregation that can fulfil this. Getting their preferences and needs met is the key to the congregations if they want young adults to stay. The young adults are investing and giving time and commitment to their congregations and want this to generate something back. Most of them thrive in their congregations, but there is room for improvement. Their faith is strong. They are willing to invest in God and then consequently also in their congregations.Godkännandedatum 2019-06-05
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Ricco, Massimo di. "Reclaiming the community public sphere: communal individuals, communities and the lebanese system." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/8622.
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The Lebanese confessional system, besides the continuous reshapes assisted since its establishment, finds its peculiarity in the institutional recognition of various confessional communities and in its structure based on the idea of the power-sharing. Each recognized Lebanese community enjoys of political quotas in the national Parliament, and the system provides them with prerogatives in managing the personal status law of their own members, making the community autonomous from state interference on such issues. Such prerogatives sanction the Lebanese communities as political entities. This research assumes that first the confessional system, as a consequence of such prerogatives, institutionally sanctions the role of the community as a necessary and fundamental intermediary between the individual and the state. The community, and its informal clusters, represents the structure of the Lebanese system. Therefore, I suggest here the creation of multiple publics, that for the span of this study have they to be identified with the various Lebanese confessional communities, although it is not excluded the presence of other publics that are not strictly related with the communities, but here not taken into consideration. Lebanese individuals are indeed recognized as citizens through a compulsory communal affiliation, and such condition makes extremely important the role they play within the community sphere.Due to these reasons the focus is moving here from the analysis of the national sphere to the almost neglected communal one, and specifically to the analysis of the internal dynamics of public sphere within three chosen communities: Druze, Shiite and Greek-Orthodox. Such communities have been analyzed through various variables extrapolated from the literature on public sphere and the peculiar Lebanese case.This exploratory thesis aims to show that the community public sphere is an important sphere which functioning relies almost on the role played by what I called "communal individuals", briefly described as those figures that work, or "have a say", within the community sphere. It is possible to define these individuals as "activist", the term in its widest meaning, of the community sphere. The role of the "communal individuals" highlights for its importance as actors of the community public sphere, also in consideration of the fact that on many issues the state is left out from mingling within such sphere.Therefore, the community public sphere remains still neglected and it represents a sphere where critical attitude and autonomy are difficultly shown. Such considerations bring to promote a culture of "activism" that attempts to extend and develop a community public sphere that still lacks of "control" and where self-proclaimed authorities can easily appear.This thesis is grounded on the idea of the importance of the community publics dynamics in order, on one side, to understand the general functioning of the Lebanese public sphere and, on the other side, as a way to understand the role played by the communal individuals in extending and developing it. The active role played by the "communal individuals" results to be the base for what is possible to define as an "extended citizenship", a form of control of a sphere out of the hands of the state and that makes individuals oscillating between the national and the communal sphere. Such extended feature becomes more and more urgent especially in time of strong sectarianism, as occurred in the years this study was carried out, when communities developed the tendency to withdraw on themselves.Reivindicando la Esfera Publica Comunitaria: Individuos Comunitarios, Comunidades y el Sistema Libanés.El sistema confesional libanés, no obstante los continuos remodelamientos en que incurrió desde su establecimiento, mantiene su mayor peculiaridad en el reconocimiento institucional de varias comunidades confesionales y en su estructura de power-sharing. Cada reconocida comunidad libanesa disfruta de unas cuotas políticas en el parlamento nacional, y el sistema les provee prerrogativas en la administración de las leyes de estatuto personal de sus propios miembros, lo que supone la autonomía de la comunidad respecto al Estado sobre estos asuntos. Dichas prerrogativas sancionan las comunidades libaneses como entidades políticas. Este estudio asume que el sistema confesional, como consecuencia de estas prerrogativas, sanciona institucionalmente el rol de la comunidad como intermediario necesario entre el individuo y el estado. La comunidad va a representar la verdadera base del sistema político libanés. Sugiero así en este estudio la creación de múltiples públicos que hay que identificar con las varias comunidades, que de todas formas no excluyen la presencia de otros públicos que aquí no han sido tomados en consideración. Los individuos libaneses son de hecho reconocidos como ciudadanos a través de una afiliación obligatoria comunitaria, lo que supone que el rol que ellos juegan dentro de la esfera comunitaria resulte de extrema importancia.El enfoque de la tesis se mueve desde el análisis de la esfera nacional hacia la casi invisible esfera comunitaria, específicamente a través del análisis de las dinámicas internas de esfera pública entre tres comunidades elegidas: drusa, chiíta y griego ortodoxa. Estas comunidades han sido analizadas a través de algunas variables sacadas de la literatura sobre la esfera pública y el específico y peculiar caso libanés. Esta investigación exploratoria pretende demostrar la importancia de la esfera publica comunitaria, y como el funcionamiento de dicha esfera depende en gran parte del rol ejercitado por parte de los "individuos comunitarios", que es posible aquí definir como unas figuras que trabajan dentro de la comunidad o asumen una posición pública sobre los acontecimientos que conciernen la comunidad. Es posible configurar estos individuos como "activistas", en sentido ancho, de la esfera comunitaria. El rol de los "individuos comunitarios" destaca por su importancia como actores principales de la esfera pública comunitaria, también en consideración del hecho que varios asuntos están fuera del alcance directo del Estado, que se exime de interferencias en la esfera comunitaria.Sin embargo la esfera pública comunitaria disfruta de muy poca visibilidad y representa una esfera pública donde la actitud crítica y autonomía de visión, difícilmente se hacen visibles. Estas consideraciones llevan a la necesidad de una cultura de "activismo" que tenga como intento lo de extender una esfera pública comunitaria que todavía sigue fuera de control, negligente y donde autoridades informales pueden fácilmente aparecer.Esta tesis tiene come base la idea de la importancia de las dinámicas públicas comunitarias, por un lado para entender el funcionamiento de la esfera pública libanesa y, por otro lado, como modo de entender el papel jugado por parte del individuo comunitario en extender y desarrollar la misma. El rol activo jugado por los "individuos comunitarios" resulta ser la base para lo que es posible definir como una "ciudadanía extensa", una forma de control de una esfera que está fuera del alcance del Estado, y que los pone fluctuando entre la esfera nacional y la comunitaria. Esta función extensa coge más visibilidad en especial modo en tiempos de fuerte sectarismo, como ocurrió en los años en que la investigación tuvo lugar.
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Bird, Victoria Jane. "Supporting the recovery of black individuals who use community mental health services." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2015. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/supporting-the-recovery-of-black-individuals-who-use-community-mental-health-services(bf52050a-9911-4a9e-8c53-ac22f5ebca4d).html.
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Despite a recovery orientation being mental health policy within England, the perceptions of recovery and the effectiveness of recovery-focused interventions for black individuals are under-researched. This thesis describes the development and evaluation of an intervention to support the recovery of black individuals who use community mental health services. The Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for designing and evaluating complex interventions was the guiding scientific framework, with an embedded experimental mixed method design adopted. A systematic review and narrative synthesis identified the evidence base regarding the meaning of recovery for mental health service users. The Conceptual Framework of Recovery was developed from the review. Only one study included in the review focused on the perceptions of recovery for black individuals. Four focus groups with 26 participants and 14 semi-structured interviews were conducted with service users who self-ascribed their ethnicity as black. The results were used to develop the Framework of Recovery Support, in which identity - (re)gaining a positive sense of self, was central to recovery. The Conceptual Framework of Recovery and Framework of Recovery Support were used to develop a component of the REFOCUS pro-recovery intervention called Working Practice 1: Understanding Values and Treatment Preferences. The effectiveness of the REFOCUS intervention for black individuals was assessed in a pre-planned subgroup analysis of a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT). One hundred and ten service users participated in the RCT, with 81 (74%) followed up after 12 months. The two primary outcomes were personal recovery (Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery) and service satisfaction (Client-Satisfaction Questionnaire - 8 item version). Secondary outcomes included hope, empowerment, wellbeing, quality of life, symptom levels and clinical need. Multilevel mixed-effects regression modelling, which controlled for clustering at the team level, was conducted for the analysis of treatment effect. A process evaluation embedded within the trial included interviews with eight individuals who had received the intervention. Results indicated that the intervention had no effect on either recovery (p=0.693) or service satisfaction (p=0.77). However, the intervention significantly improved service user-rated level of met need. Overall the intervention was well-received and associated with positive experiences, however the process evaluation highlighted issues with routine implementation.
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Cannon, Ammie. "Controversial Politics, Conservative Genre: Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe Duo and Detective Fiction's Conventional Form." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/469.
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Rex Stout maintained his popular readership despite the often controversial and radical political content expressed in his detective fiction. His political ideals often made him many enemies. Stances such as his ardent opposition to censorship, racism, Nazism, Germany, Fascism, Communism, McCarthyism, and the unfettered FBI were potentially offensive to colleagues and readers from various political backgrounds. Yet Stout attempted to present radical messages via the content of his detective fiction with subtlety. As a literary traditionalist, he resisted using his fiction as a platform for an often extreme political agenda. Where political messages are apparent in his work, Stout employs various techniques to mute potentially offensive messages. First, his hugely successful bantering Archie Goodwin-Nero Wolfe detective duo—a combination of both the lippy American and the tidy, sanitary British detective schools—fosters exploration, contradiction, and conflict between political viewpoints. Archie often rejects or criticizes Wolfe's extreme political viewpoints. Second, Stout utilizes the contradictions between values that occur when the form of detective fiction counters his radical political messages. This suggests that the form of detective fiction (in this case the conventional patterns and attitudes reinforced by the genre) is as important as the content (in this case the muted political message or the lack of overt politics) in reinforcing or shaping political, economic, moral, and social viewpoints. An analysis of the novels The Black Mountain (1954) and The Doorbell Rang (1965) and the novellas "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap" (1944) from Stout's Nero Wolfe series demonstrates his use of detective fiction for both the expression of political viewpoints and the muting of those political messages.
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Arnett, Alicia A. "CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS OF INDIVIDUALS IN PUBLIC HOUSING." UKnowledge, 2011. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/foodsci_etds/27.
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A majority of low-income individuals living in public housing today are working or receiving some kind of assistance, but still struggle to make ends meet. Previous studies show that cost and availability are barriers to healthy eating for low-income individuals. The purpose of this study was to determine relationships among nutrition habits, health status, sources of income, and food and living resources for low-income residents in public housing. The study utilizes data collected over five years on the impact of the revitalization of the families. The sample was randomly selected from residents of the housing property in a Kentucky city. Results showed that low income is connected to limited access to healthy food options and individuals are more likely to be at risk for chronic health conditions such as diabetes or hypertension. When income and employment were low, families reported a greater rate of skipped meals, less consumption of daily meals, and more purchasing of high fat and sodium meals from convenience stores.
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Kelley, Walter P. "Pueblo individuals who are D/deaf acceptance in the home community, the dominant society, and the deaf community /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3035959.
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Collins, Loleta B. "A Coming Home: Neo-Paganism and the Search for Community." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1020253276.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Comparative Religion, 2002.Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains 74 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-74).
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Sereni, Paul. "Individualité et communauté dans la pensée de Marx : transparence collective et créativité singulière." Paris 10, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA100034.
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A partir de la mise au centre de la transparence sociale dans les representations du communisme chez marx, l'auteur tente de definir les conceptions marxistes d'une reconciliation integrale du libre developpement des facultes individuelles et de la transparence communautaire. Cette preoccupation, qui apparait comme un fil directeur de la pensee de marx, eclaire les conceptions de l'individualite comme force productive, ainsi que l'etude des societes precapitalistes et l'etude des formes de cooperation dans la production capitaliste.
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Wolf, Mary Montgomery Filene Peter G. "We accept you, one of us? punk rock, community, and individualism in an uncertain era, 1974-1985 /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1527.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History." Discipline: History; Department/School: History.
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Ecker, John. "A Mixed Methods Analysis of Community Integration Among Vulnerably Housed and Homeless Individuals." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32953.
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This thesis presents four distinct studies of psychological and social integration of homeless and vulnerably housed individuals. The first study presents a predictive model of psychological integration, defined as a sense of belonging and membership to one’s community. The second study presents a predictive model of social integration, defined as how an individual engages with others in the community. The third study presents a mixed methods comparative analysis of homeless and vulnerably housed individuals with “high” and “low” levels of psychological and social integration. The fourth study presents a reflexive analysis of conducting interviews with homeless and vulnerably housed individuals.
Data for this research comes from a two-year longitudinal study conducted in Ottawa, Ontario. Participants were men and women, over the age of 18 (Baseline: N = 397; Follow-up 1: N = 341; Follow-up 2: N = 320) who were either homeless or vulnerably housed at the study’s outset. Quantitative data analyses occurred at Follow-up 1 and 2 and utilized hierarchical multiple regression. Qualitative data analyses used a general inductive approach utilizing a First Cycle and Second Cycle coding method (Saldana, 2009).
Social support was a significant predictor of both psychological integration and social integration. Individuals with high levels of social support had high levels of psychological and social integration. Social support proved to be the only predictor to be significantly associated with social integration at both Follow-up 1 and 2. Psychological integration was positively associated with several variables at Follow-up 1 and 2: increased age, living in high quality housing, and residing in a neighbourhood that is perceived as having a positive impact. The mixed methods analysis uncovered several salient themes that affected psychological and social integration, including substance use in one’s housing and neighbourhood, neighbourhood safety and location, and housing quality. The reflexive component of the thesis highlighted the importance of location when conducting interviews and the power dynamics of the interview process. The results are discussed in terms of implications for service delivery and policy.
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Vahlberg, Birgit. "Physical Functioning, Body Composition and Exercise in Elderly Community-living Individuals with Stroke." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för neurovetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-236899.
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A comprehensive view of physical function, body composition and exercise post-stroke that is based on clinical examination is lacking. The effects of a progressive resistance and balance (PRB) exercise program have not been fully evaluated in community-living individuals after stroke. The overall aim of this thesis was to explore and describe physical function, physical activity, body composition, nutritional status and psychological factors. Another aim was to evaluate both the short-term and long-term effects of a PRB exercise program. Physical function, physical activity, body composition, nutritional status and psychological factors were assessed in community-living individuals (65-85 years) approximately 1 year after stroke. Paper I-II (n=195, n=134) had a cross-sectional design and the main outcome was mobility and physical activity. In paper III-IV, (n=67, n=43) individuals were randomly assigned to either a PRB exercise program group or a control group. The main outcomes were balance, mobility, fat-free mass (FFM) and fat-mass (FM). In paper I, mobility was reduced and physical activity level was low compared to age-matched healthy controls. Factors explaining the variance in mobility were age, physical activity, fall-related self-efficacy and EQ-5D. In paper II, >20% had a BMI ≥30 kg/m2 and had an altered body composition that was mainly characterised by a high fat-mass index (FMI). Neither fat-free nor FM were associated with mobility in this cohort. The factors associated with low mobility were low physical activity Odds ratio (OR) (CI 95%) 8.2 (2.8-24.2), risk for malnutrition, OR 5.8 (1.6-21.1), and each 10-year period, OR 2.8 (1.24-6.24). Individuals participating in the PRB exercise program (paper III, n=67) revealed significantly higher balance, walking capacity and comfortable walking speed compared to the control group at 3 months. The faster walking speed persisted at 6 and 15 months. In paper IV (n=43), at 3 months, the PRB exercise group had a significant reduction in FM percentage and a decrease in IGF-1 compared with the control group. Further, changes in FMI were associated with improved walking capacity. Many individuals perceived partly modifiable disabilities 1 year after stroke. Exercising in groups for 3 months improved physical function and decreased fat-mass percentage and IGF-1.
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Pitt, Jennifer. "Quality of life of HIV-infected individuals in a community-based antiretroviral programme." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10994.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-82)).This study examined HRQoL among HIV positive individuals initiating HAART at the Hannan Crusaid Treatment Centre in Gugulethu, Cape Town and explored the impact of HAART-related drug toxicities and adherence to HAART on HRQol.
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Cable, Tanya L., and Cynthia R. Chambers. "Vanderbilt Consortium Lend: Making Professional Students into Community Providers for Individuals with Disabilities." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3857.
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Brady, Emily, Joseph Barnet, Valerie Hoots, and Andrea Clements. "Views of addiction etiology predict religious individuals’ willingness to help." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/587.
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Views of addiction etiology predict religious individuals’ willingness to help.
Emily Brady, Valerie Hoots, Joseph Barnet, and Andrea Clements, Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University.
Addiction to drugs and alcohol is an accrescent societal problem. Individuals with substance addiction face stigma in their daily lives, specifically from religious individuals as explored in this study. The stigma these religious individuals might portray could be related to their ideas on addiction etiology. The purpose of this project is to evaluate if different views of addiction etiology predict religious individuals’ willingness to help individuals with substance addition. Our hypothesis for this sample consists of two parts. (1) Religious individuals who hold the belief of a moral etiology of addiction will be less willing to help individuals with substance addiction. (2) Religious individuals who hold the ideology of a physical etiology of addiction will be less willing to help individuals with substance addiction. A survey, which contained the Addiction Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (AABS) and the Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription medication, and other Substance use Tool (TAPS), was administered to a sample of 215 individuals recruited through social media advertising via Facebook and Reddit platforms, email, and East Tennessee State University’s SONA research portal. Results showed significance in beliefs of moral etiology and willingness to help across religious individuals. One limitation for this project is a lack of generalizability due to the majority of participants being female (73.6%) and white (92.1%). Another limitation is that the measure is based on self-report, and given the sensitivity on the topic, individuals may not be willing to report accurately.
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Chachine, Isaias Ezekiel. "Community, Justice, and Freedom : Liberalism, Communitarianism, and African Contributions to Political Ethics." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Studies in Faith and Ideologies, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8735.
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This study deals with theories of community, justice, and freedom within liberalism, communitarianism, African philosophy and theology. The study maintains that there are different latitudes on how to formulate and articulate theories of community, justice and freedom informed by particualr moral experiences with bearing on different views of human. People differ and their claims on moral matters are influenced by contexts in which they find themselves, which means that cultural diversity has bearing on different interpretations of what it means to be a human being. Given the importance of this diversity, of particular significance in this study is the relationship between various theories of justice and freedom and different understandings of the relationship between the individual and the community. The study endorses that any contemporary discourse on community, justice, and freedom to be adequate should take notice on the political, economic, and cultural aspirations of the people it seeks to address itself. It argues that there might be alternative theories of community, justice, and freedom which may give a fuller appreciation to the fact that there are different understandings of what community implies as well as what justice and freedom means. One such alternative is the African view of human, that of "ubuntu", which maintains that "to be" is "to belong". In this view a person is because of others, and by inference one's humanity, including one's sense of personhood, is affirmed by affirming the humanity and personhood of others. The first aim of the study is to examine how we should understand different theories of justice and freedom within Western political philosophy, and African political theory and theology. The second aim is to analyse how different theories of justice and freedom are related to different conceptions of the relationship between the individual and the community. The third and final aim is to propose an adequate theory of community, justice, and freedom from an African perspective.
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Pavi, Elpida. "The dental health needs of individuals living in areas of multiple deprivation in Glasgow." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387919.
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Terry, Rachel Elizabeth. "The Influence of Sense of Community on the Relationship Between Community Participation and Recovery for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3679.
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The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 launched the deinstitutionalization movement, whereby individuals with serious mental illnesses were released from psychiatric hospitals and began living and receiving mental health care in the community (Carling, 1995). However, these actions have not necessarily integrated those individuals into all aspects of community life (Dewees, Pulice, & McCormick, 1996). This is unfortunate because people with serious mental illnesses frequently report that community integration is not only important to them, but that it also aids in reducing symptoms and promoting recovery (Townley, 2015). Although past research suggests that receiving mental health care in the community has a positive impact on symptom management, the influence of other community factors (e.g., sense of community, community participation) has yet to be fully explored (Segal, Silverman, & Temkin, 2010). Furthermore, there is lack of understanding as to how these community factors influence other aspects of recovery, such as mental and physical health. As such, the goal of the current study is to better understand the association between community participation and recovery by investigating sense of community as a potential mediating factor between community participation, psychological distress, mental health, and physical health. Data were collected from 300 adults with serious mental illnesses utilizing community mental health services in the United States. Results indicated that sense of community partially mediated the association between community participation and mental health, as well as psychological distress, and fully mediated the association between community participation and physical health. Implications include contributing to the current knowledge base about the role of community factors in recovery and informing future interventions aimed at promoting community integration of adults with serious mental illnesses.
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Hill, Patricia. "Spiritual Well-Being of Black LGBT Individuals When Faced With Religious Homonegativity." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/544.
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Spiritual Well-Being of Black LGBT Individuals When Faced With Religious Homonegativity
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Patricia A. Hill
MA, Loyola University-Chicago, 2004
BS, Chicago State University, 2000
Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
Psychology
Walden University
May 2015
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Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) individuals in the United States often face homophobic sermons and messages within their traditional religious settings. This phenomelogical research study was designed to document and understand the lived experiences of Black LGBT individuals' spiritual well-being in the face of homonegativity, and to identify the ways in which they cope with these experiences. The qualitative interview data from 9 participants were interpreted through the lens of feminist theory and Pargament's theory of the psychology of religion and coping. Recurring themes were coded from the participants' interviews using the QSR Nvivo 10 software program. Interview themes included change in faith community, experiencing familial acceptance or discord/rejection due to sexual orientation, feelings of abandonment by God/religion, negative experiences in a religious setting due to sexual orientation, emotional reactions, maladaptive coping, adaptive coping, and religious and/or spiritual reconciliation. The results of this study provide insight into the challenges that Black LGBT individual experience with religious homonegativity and they ways in which they cope with these stresses and challenges. This study promotes positive social change by providing a better understanding of the impact of Christian religion on the mental and spiritual well-being of the Black LGBT individual. These findings can be used to inform therapists and psychologists who are seeking treatment strategies for their Black LGBT clients. The findings suggest there is an educational component that also could benefit family, friends, and religious leaders who want to be present and accepting of the Black LGBT community.
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Boyd, Jonathan. "Individuals practising community : the central place of interaction in the educational philosophy of Limmud." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14561/.
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In light of growing evidence of exogamy among Jews and diminishing levels of community engagement, the question of how to sustain and cultivate Jewish identity has become a major preoccupation in the Jewish world since the early 1990s. Among the numerous organisations, programmes and initiatives that have been established and studied in response, Limmud, a week-long annual festival of Jewish life and learning in the UK that attracts an estimated 2,500 people per annum and has been replicated throughout the world, remains decidedly under-researched. This study is designed to understand its educational philosophy. Based upon qualitative interviews with twenty Limmud leaders, and focus group sessions with Limmud participants, it seeks to explore the purposes of the event, its content, its social and educational processes, and contextual environment. It further explores the importance of relationships in Limmud's philosophy, and the place of social capital in its practice. The study demonstrates that Limmud's educational philosophy is heavily grounded in the interaction of competing tensions, or polarities, on multiple levels. Major categorical distinctions drawn in educational philosophy and practice, and Jewish and general sociology, are both maintained and allowed to interact. This interaction takes place in a "hospitable and charged" environment – one that is simultaneously safe, respectful and comfortable, whilst also edgy, powerful and challenging - that allows the individual freedom to explore and navigate the contours of Jewish community, and the Jewish community opportunity to envelope and nurture the experience of the individual. The study suggests that the interaction of these competing forces, in the context of an intensive Jewish experience, may be an important feature of Jewish educational initiatives attempting to respond to the identity challenges described above. More generally, in detailing a contemporary educational model that sustains religious/ethnic identity whilst emphasising critical thought and openness to competing claims and ideas, it presents an approach that may be applicable in other religious and ethnic communities.
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Sanders, Gillian. "Therapeutic interventions in the management of hypertension : clinical studies in individuals and the community." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329166.
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Johnson, Matthew Louis. "Investigating potential risk factors for nursing home admission associated with individuals enrolled in Georgia's Community Care Services Program." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04232007-115345/.
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Thesis (M.P.H.)--Georgia State University, 2007.Title from file title page. Russ Toal, committee chair; Frank Whittington, Derek Shendell, committee members. Electronic text (83 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Jan 15, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-83).
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Bourne, Lesley Thelma. "A liquid consumption survey of individuals in greater Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26569.
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There is no published data for the per capita consumption of water of individuals in South Africa. A daily rounded volume of 2 litres per person is usually taken as a working estimate from world wide data. As part of ongoing epidemiological studies into potential health effects of changes in the water supply to greater Town, water consumption patterns were ascertained. As health effects are often spatially ascribed to the place of residence of a person, it was necessary to ascertain how much water was drunk at home as well as away from home. Water consumed was divided into three classes: (i) water consumed from the tap, (ii) commercial beverages and (iii) water bound in food. A review of methods of conducting dietary surveys indicated that a 24-hour recall would be the most appropriate method. Two surveys on total dietary intake utilizing a 24-hour recall were carried out (n = 2 000 persons for each survey), one in winter and the ether in summer. The design of the survey involved a cluster sample of households that were representative of the socio-economic and demographic structure of greater Cape Town. Three pretested types questionnaires were administered by trained interviewers: (i) a placement questionnaire to describe the household composition, (ii) a recall questionnaire for individual adults and children and (iii) a recall questionnaire for babies. Particular attention was paid to the accurate ascertainment of the volumes of food and drink consumed as well as their preparation to facilitate accurate analysis. The water content of each food item was calculated by a computer program that utilized computerized food composition tables. The water consumption data was analyzed by sex, age, population group, income and the season of the year. Detailed graphs and tables are provided. Results were also standardized to the population of greater Cape Town. It was found that the difference in consumption between the White and "Coloured" population groups was greater than the difference between those people of high and low-income groups. The mean total water intake for Whites was 2.19 litres per day, while for "Coloureds" it was 1.26 litres per day. There is no obvious bias to account for this difference. The figures for protein consumed by the two groups, which was used as a control, are consistent with values reported in the literature. Summer consumption was higher than that during winter. The ratio of tap water consumed at home to total liquid consumed was approximately 0.5.
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Lienau, Amanda Marie. "The role of community and culture in spiritual growth for individuals who are converts to Buddhism." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1171895805.
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Nolan, Terence Louis. "Virtuality, community and individuality : developing new insights into learning and knowledge in the small business." Thesis, University of Salford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272940.
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