The centrality of the self-concept in maintaining physical and psychosocial well-being is widely recognized in nursing. Despite its importance, progress in the development of an empirically-supported and clinically-relevant theoretical framework has been limited by difficulties in defining and measuring the construct. The schema model of the self-concept is presented as a theoretical framework ...

This paper describes several means for sharing between related concepts to improve learning in the same domain. The sharing comes in the form of substructures or possibly entire structures of previous concepts which may aid in learning other concepts. These substructures highlight useful information in the domain. Using two domains, we evaluate the e ectiveness of concept sharing with respect t...

Given a Brouwerian complete lattice (L,≤) and two referential sets K and E, and using a fuzzy relation R ∈ L which is reflexive and symmetric, certain fuzzy relations Ĥ ∈ L are characterized as solutions of X C R = X. These solutions Ĥ can be determinated by means of the L-fuzzy concepts associated with the K-labeled L-fuzzy context (L,K,E,E,R).

LaTaT is a Language and Text Analysis Toolset. This paper gives a brief description of the components comprising LaTaT, including a Minimalist parser and language and concept learning programs.

The 'self' is increasingly used as a variable in cognitive experiments and correlated with activity in particular areas in the brain. At first glance, this seems to transform the self from an ephemeral theoretical entity to something concrete and measurable. However, the transformation is by no means unproblematic. We trace the development of two important experimental paradigms in the study of...

This study investigated longitudinal predictors of proactive goals and activity participation at age 80 among members of the Terman Study of the Gifted. The participants were 242 individuals between the ages of 75 and 84 (M = 79.53) who responded to questionnaires in 1992, 1972, and 1950. Proactive goals included goals for involvement and achievement. Activity participation included intellectua...

The relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement of Chicano(a) and/or Mexican American students at Colorado State University was investigated in this study. The participants included 114 undergraduate, full-time students who self-identify as Chicano(a) and/or Mexican American. The quantitative instrument utilized to measure academic self-concept was developed by Reynolds,...