Browsing by Subjects (CINAHL) "Self Concept"
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Adolescent motherhood: The human agency perspective
The purpose of this study was to develop and test a causal model a priori. The mediating influence of self-esteem in the relationship among the sociocultural variables of race, social status and family relationships, ... -
Adolescent resilience following parental death in childhood and its relationship to parental attachment and coping
Adolescent resilience following loss has been linked with supportive social relationships and coping. Retrospective studies have found that parental death during childhood has been a risk factor for serious mental health ... -
Adolescents' responses to single mothers' chronic physical illness
The purpose of this study was to describe selected concepts of adolescents living with a single, chronically physically ill mother and to examine the self-concept of these adolescents and the relationship of the self-concept ... -
A celebration of family: Family actions supporting task achievement in elementary school-age children with cystic fibrosis
Although society is facing a new challenge of supporting an increasing prevalence of children with chronic illnesses, families always have known the joys and hardships of care. The literature (Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, ... -
Collective self-esteem and attitudes toward collaboration as predictors to collaborative practice behaviors used by registered nurses and physicians in acute care hospitals
Beginning in 2000, the Institute of Medicine clearly established the importance of fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork with regard to improving patient care quality and safety in acute care hospitals. ... -
Creative Thinking Ability of Women in Nursing
A nonexperimental, descriptive, correlational design was used to determine the level of creative thinking ability of 60, randomly selected, baccalaureate junior and senior female nursing students. The relationship between ... -
A description of self-concept following traumatic brain injury
The purpose of the present study was to describe self-concept following a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) at the expected endpoint of maximum recovery of function. According to the literature, this endpoint occurs between ... -
Effect of a drinker identity on smoking-related information processing and behavior
(2016-10-14)Purpose: Drinking and smoking frequently co-occur in undergraduate students. A drinker identity − a valued identity related to alcohol consumption behaviors − predicts high levels of alcohol use and alcohol ... -
Effects of self-esteem, threat appraisal, and coping responses on the somatic components of illness: A test of a proposed causal model with professional women
The study was designed to test a causal model of theoretical relationships among self-esteem, threat appraisal, coping responses, and the somatic components of illness with a population of professional women. The proposed ... -
Health status and psychological well-being in elderly women: The self-system as mediator
The purpose of this research was to explain how elderly women manage to maintain high levels of psychological well-being despite losses associated with aging, especially loss of health, and to examine this process in ... -
The influence of self-esteem and self-silencing on self-efficacy for negotiating safer sex behaviors in urban Bahamian women
The rapidly increasing rate of HIV/AIDS among Bahamian women is daunting for the future of Bahamian society. Despite many concerted efforts, scientists are unable to find a cure for HIV disease and are faced with the ... -
Nurses' perceptions of the image of the profession of nursing
(2017-02-22)The purpose of this study was to understand the evolution of nurses’ perceived image of nursing from the time nurses begin their career and through various phases of nursing experience. The image of nursing as perceived ... -
Perceptions of instructor caring behaviors, self-esteem, and perceived clinical competence: A model of the attitudinal component of professional nurse autonomy in female baccalaureate nursing students
This model testing correlational study was designed to specify a model of predictors of the attitudinal component of professional nurse autonomy and to test three carative factors embedded in Watson's Theory of Transpersonal ... -
Preserving the embodied self: The meaning of technology for people with chronic renal failure
The purpose of this research was to understand the experience and meaning of technology for individuals receiving hemodialysis for the treatment of chronic renal failure. Philosophical hermeneutics provided the framework ... -
Self-concept cognitive perception and adherence to recommended health regimes in adults with heart failure
This study used Roy's Self-concept Mode Theory to examine the relationships between components of self-concept including body sensation, body image, self-consistency, self-ideal, and moral-ethical-spiritual self and adherence ...