This study examined achievement goal orientation patterns and their impact on student motivation in physical education running programs. Participants included 533 fifth graders. They completed questionnaires assessing their achievement goal orientations, expectancy beliefs, task values, and intentions for future participation in running. They also completed a timed, 1-mile run. Data revealed 4 ...

The relations of Ego control (EC), Ego resiliency (ER), and the Five-Factor Model of Personality (FFM) with behavioral and emotional problems were explored among 116 clinic-referred children. Within the EC-ER model, Ego undercontrol was most important in predicting externalizing problems, and both Ego brittleness (the relative absence of ER) and Ego undercontrol made equal contributions to pred...

This essay is about a special kind of social networks called ego networks. Like other networks, they are made up of social units persons, groups or organizations and social relations like marriage or friendship that Iink pairs of units into some sort of overall patterned structure. Ego networks, however, are special in that they are built around a particular social unit designated a!, ego. To u...

The objective of the present study was to investigate whether ego-dystonic and ego-syntonic suicidal ideation occurred at different frequencies during antidepressant therapy. A blind evaluation has been performed on records of 100 suicides with a primary severe depression and 100 matched controls, admitted to the Department of Psychiatry, Lund, Sweden. Ego-dystonic suicidal ideation was more co...

intelligence, spirituality and, consequently, spiritual intelligence (sq) have different definitions. intelligence means the abilities of the individual, which, based on the value system, is used for problem solving and adaptation to the environment. spirituality follows transcendental rules, to improve the infra-ego to the level of ego and improving the ego to the level of ultra-ego, as well a...

background: this study aimed to examine the impact of ego-resilience and family function on quality of life in childhood leukemia survivors. methods: this study targeted 100 pediatric leukemia survivors, who visited the pediatric hemato-oncology center in south korea from aug to dec 2011. a structured questionnaire of ego-resilience, family function and quality of life used to collect data thro...

1 EGO-1, a putative RNA-directed RNA polymerase, promotes germline proliferation in parallel with GLP-1/Notch signaling and regulates the spatial organization of nuclear pore complexes and germline P granules in C. elegans ego-1 and germline proliferation 2 ego-1 and germline proliferation ego-1 and germline proliferation 3 ABSTRACT C. elegans EGO-1, a putative cellular RNA-directed RNA polymer...

The terms ego constriction, ego inhibition, and ego restriction have not been clearly differentiated in their usage in the literature. In this paper a rationale for "ego constriction" as an entity distinct from both ego inhibition and ego restriction is given, despite its clear similarities to each. In a person with an ego inhibition, the ego inhibits a part of its own functioning because a par...

This study considers the contribution of two ego functions--intelligence and defense mechanisms--to ego developmental level. Two independent assessments of ego level were related to IQ and defense mechanism use in a sample of 89 young adults. Whereas IQ and defense were themselves found to be unrelated, both variables predicted ego level: The relation with IQ was linear, whereas the relation wi...