Article: Your best self.

Article: Self-concept and self-esteem: a clarification of ...
Journal of School Health;  February 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... in classrooms, research pertaining to children's self-concept and self-esteem often has been conducted in these settings. Several studies found children's self-concept and self-esteem associated with academic ...

Article: SELF-FOCUS, GENDER, AND HABITUAL SELF-HANDICAPPING: ...
Social Behavior and Personality;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... This experiment examined the effects of public self-focus on individuals' behavioral self-handicapping tendencies. When faced with a threatening evaluation, a person may choose to self-handicap behaviorally. Men, more than women ...

Article: Self-discrepancy in adolescence: Own and parental ...
Merrill - Palmer Quarterly;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... capacity to represent multiple perspectives on the self. The capacity to represent multiple perspectives may increase the risk of detecting self-discrepancies. Results confirmed that self-discrepancy, independent of actual-self ...

Article: Self-injury affects 1 percent of U.S. population
Naperville Sun, The (IL);  March 26, 2003 ;     669 words ...Self-injury is also termed self-mutilation, self-harm or self-abuse, and is defined as the deliberate, repetitive, impulsive, nonlethal harming of one's self. Cutting, scratching, picking scabs, burning skin or objects, breaking ...

Article: Self-concept and body image of Turkish high school male ...
Adolescence;  December 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION Self-concept is one of the psychological constructs ... role in human behavior, with positive self-image central to the adaptive functioning ... several identifiable personality traits - self-confidence, consistency, assertiveness ...

Article: Self-Assessment in Pharmacy Education
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Keywords: self-assessment The new standards for the doctor ... for an increased emphasis on students' self-directed learning. For example, guideline ... development of personal learning plans, and self-assessment of their acquisition of knowledge ...

Article: Self-Mutilation
Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence;      700+ words ...Self-mutilation Definition Self-mutilation, also called self-harm, self-injury or cutting, is the intentional destruction of tissue or alteration of the body done without the conscious wish to commit suicide , usually in an attempt to ...