This article presents an instrument and data testing a theory of the Moral Construct of Caring in Nursing as Communicative Action. Pilot testing involved 185 items administered to 82 nurses in 3 countries. The instrument includes 7 subscales addressing the nurse's personal and professional selves, the patient's personal and illness selves, the bidirectional interaction, the moral maturity of bo...

This research examined how and when people engage in upward self-revision to embrace new possible selves in response to social validation. First, the present study (n1⁄4 67) predicted and found that upward self-revision was more likely to occur when validations fully specify the meaning of the positive discrepancy between the desired self and the alternative self into the explicit prospect of t...

The present paper examines the psychological pathways by which accumulating experiences of possible self-revision ultimately lead to revision of the core selves that define a broader personal narrative. In so doing, we expand the notion of naı̈ve ‘self-theories’ by identifying self-serving attributions and possible selves as critical components that extend or undermine the core self-theories of ...

Lost possible selves are a relatively new concept developed within the framework of Pos- sible Selves proposed by H. Markus and P. Nurius. were studied in young adults aged 20 to 42 (N = 59). The purpose was clarify content “Lost Possible Selves”, as well describe forms their representation connection with cognitive strategies for constructing identity. We used method based on methodology K. Ho...

Abstract Students can only benefit from teacher feedback if they recognise its value for learning. However, there is still a lack of research to investigate the factors influencing students’ perceptions in context learning English as foreign language. This study investigated impacts two significant individual (i.e. possible second language (L2) selves and strategies) 687 college learners on the...

This article answers the call for more research on Millennials’ experience of graduate transition to work (GTW). Using an identity perspective, it investigates how Millennials explored and developed their career identities after GTW, with a particular focus traits often associated younger generations such as boundaryless, protean intrinsic motivations. Interviews were conducted 36 Millennial gr...

This book marks the beginning of a new phase in the philosophical investigation of classical and contemporary accounts of the self: canonical boundaries have been crossed and doctrinal justification abandoned in favor of a cosmopolitan ideal of syncretic, theoretically perspicuous, and historically informed systematic reflection. That such reflection bears on so central a concept as the self is...

Abstract This paper engages with the relationship between story ownership – so who owns a story, tellership has right to tell it, and functions of workplace narratives as well broader social practices at work. Drawing upon discourse narrative analyses, investigates specifically how negotiation meaning visible in often incomplete fragmented but naturally-occurring points discursive struggle over...