The film Our Digital Selves: My Avatar Is Me (Bernhard Drax, director: 74m, 2018, https://youtu.be/GQw02-me0W4) chronicles the experiences and insights of disabled persons in virtual world Second Life. In this article, I focus on making through collaboration between researchers, filmmakers, community. By discussing techniques what term enactment, explore how Selves constitutes paraethnographic ...

Adolescents require meaningful and achievable musical possible selves to imagine a future that includes music. Previous research has investigated how support tertiary music students in their career identity development; however, adolescents make consequential decisions regarding study intentions secondary school. This article reports on the intersections conflicts between adolescent boys’ selve...

The self-discrepancy between one’s actual self and one’s ideal self, which is associated with negative emotional states (e.g., depression) or unhealthy lifestyles (e.g., eating disorders), is mostly caused and intensified by exposure to unrealistic images of others (e.g., celebrities or magazine models). Drawing from regulatory focus theory, the current study examines whether creating self-rese...

The pursuit of personal goals has been linked to general psychological well-being; however, less is known about the association with depression in later adulthood when individuals are contending with age-related changes in health and social relationships. We explored the connection between both health- and social related goals (as measured by possible selves) and depressive symptoms in a sample...

The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated many adjustments to everyday teaching at higher education institutions. While face-to-face lectures were the preferred method of teacher educators prior pandemic, shift online was heightened during pandemic. This paper draws attention shifts we transitioned as and researching via platforms-specifically Zoom—in context study explored how three used co-creative ...