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Article: Professors' actions and attitudes: how do they relate to one another?
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- Education
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- March 22, 1994
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According to John Donne, "No man is an island, entire of itself; Every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main" (Cohen & Cohen, 1966, p. 144). According to this notion, each of us are readily touched and/or influenced by those with whom we associate. That this is so has been attested to by the results of numerous studies. Parish and Nunn (1989), for example, found that people's family ratings correlated significantly with how they valued themselves and various other family members. Furthermore, Parish (1988) also reported that college students' self-concepts were significantly correlated with the perceived actions of their parents, i.e., college students' ...