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 ...

Pablo Montoya inventa un alter ego de autor que puede leerse como metáfora del “escritor deseado”, “yo auto(r)ficcional” con libre movimiento entre los libros lo incorporan. Este escritor se quisiera ser” entrega en cada recorrido poético una faceta nueva quien escribe, narra y es narrado, así serie reflexiones sobre el suceso mismo la escritura. Seguir ruta narrativa armar pieza por “totalidad...

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...

‘Brushy Bill’ Roberts gained notoriety in 1950 for identifying himself as the presumably deceased outlaw ‘Billy Kid.’ We hypothesized that his case reflected extreme celebrity worship, which involves psychological absorption with a target and potential fantasy-reality breakdowns. A blinded expert panel mapped Roberts’ claims, activities, circumstances against three phases of worship their known...

El presente trabajo se propone analizar la novela Oculto sendero de Elena Fortún desde perspectiva lo que conoce como aprendizaje (Bildungsroman) y más específicamente artista (Künstlerroman). Tras detallar las características nos permiten identificarla tal, detendremos a estudiar el proceso individualización o desarrollo subjetividad del personaje femenino María Luisa Arroyo (alter ego propia ...

The paper presents a novel approach to collaborative design of educational software with students, one that asks the participants for the formation and use of fictional characters – design alter egos – as a means towards eliciting requirements and design ideas. In order to evaluate the suggested approach, we conducted 12 collaborative design sessions with the participation of 54 undergraduate u...