Identity is built in the context of an individual’s professed values, moral principles, and often, religiosity. Adolescence emerging early adulthood are times intensive identity construction changes religious attitudes. Therefore, aim this study was to characterise people across these three developmental periods terms level their religiosity, examine whether particular styles allow for predicti...

Although humor is a universal feature of human communication, people vary widely in how they create and use humor. Guided by broader model creative self-beliefs, we developed the Humor Efficacy Identity Short Scales (HEISS), pair 4-item scales measuring self-efficacy (“I can” beliefs reflecting confidence about one's ability to be funny) identity am” centrality self-concept). Using large sample...

Style is a word that people think they understand. Most people recognize artifacts like buildings and clothes as being exemplars of particular styles, and they know words like Rococo and Art Deco as names for styles. They can recognize stylistic similarities not only in one sort of artifact but also across wide ranges of different things, such as buildings, furniture, artworks, clothes, music, ...

To examine how gender functions in the narrative construction of dual career styles, and these styles impact (dis)continuation a pathway. Longitudinal qualitative study. Life story interviews with 18 talented Finnish athletes (10 cis women, 8 men) at four points time – when they averaged 16, 17, 19, 20 years age followed by an integrative narrative-discursive analysis. (a) contrapuntal style wa...

The psychology of everyday life has been studied for a long time and accumulated lot new data, in contrast to its specificity the context digital society as life. Objective is theoretically analyze difficulties that arise empirically explore trends development information identity perception. first study was devoted leading way perceiving processing relationship with level awareness style two a...

based on how formal a conversation is, how much familiar the speaker and the listeners are with each other and how distant is the speaker's social status from the listener's one, the speaker uses certain forms of language known as styles of language. linguistic styles are different from language varieties. selection of the styles depends on definite social situations and the kind of r...

The current study examines the speech of a Gullah Geechee personality who exhibits conscious shifts between sociolinguistic “styles” when speaking for an outsider audience. Her use this style shifting indexes specific identities, some extracommunity consumption and demarcation community membership. This ability to shift lectal levels indicates high degree metadiscursive awareness, which is ofte...