BACKGROUND Discussions on intimate partner violence (IPV) often focus on physical abuse, ignoring psychological and sexual abuse and controlling behaviors. The damage of varied forms of IPV on mental well-being in its broader form have been far less explored, especially among low-income women. Our aim was to improve our understanding of self-perceptions of mental well-being among low-income wom...

as a result of the epiphany of giant multinational media conglomerates, transnational trade networks and the politics of globalization, it is tempting to believe that individual and national identities have morphed. this article argues that such homogenization in relation to individuation is tedious to accept. it draws from theories of symbolic interactionism, social psychology, foucauldian, an...

background and objective: different personality aspects including identity styles, self-efficacy, and cognitive abilities can play a certain role in successful learning result in high educational success. we assessed the value of identity styles, self-efficacy and metacognition beliefs for predicting the level of educational success in female high-school students. methods: in a cross-sectional ...

Interactive art questions relationships between creator and audience in a direct and provocative manner. Our goal was to explore how interactive art either promotes or constrains audiences’ sense of creative involvement, and satisfaction. We provide a brief background on interactive art before describing an interactive music installation, Terpsichore, designed to test two hypotheses in an exper...

Kyoto is a miniature of Japan; through centuries of experience and persistence, it has maintained the symbols of the country’s civil and cultural identity. The city has demonstrated a collection of Japan’s noble identity and characteristics through its material and spiritual heritage. Kyoto’s rich history and its position have gathered a collection of religion-based works, artistic innovations,...

Negotiation Protocol The model of negotiation used is similar to the model of Alternative OOerss17]. Commitment If an agreement is reached, then the agents honor it. The commitment is not long term; that is, the agent cannot commit itself to any future encounters. Identity The agents can accurately identify each other. We further assume that there are time steps, during which each agent puts fo...

Self-organization and self-synchronization represent key capabilities for Edge organizations. However, roughly a century of organizations research indicates that self-organization leads often to a lack of complementary action, or even chaos, and that coherent self-synchronization is extremely difficult to achieve in organizations of the scale and complexity envisioned for Edge operations. Indee...

theories of identity1 and to describe how various social contexts and cognitive motives influence the process of identity change. Although many strands of literature describe identity dynamics, two are considered primary: identity theory (Stryker 1980; Stryker and Serpe 1982) and social identity theory (Tajfel 1981; Tajfel and Turner 1986; Turner et al. 1987). Recent literature has tried to com...

This study examined narrative identity in 2 groups of participants who were younger (ages ranging from late adolescence through young adulthood) and older (over the age of 65 years). Participants completed an extensive interview in which they reported three self-defining memories. Interviews were coded for several characteristics of autobiographical reasoning: self-event connections representin...

The Advanced Identity Representation (AIR) Project is a new interdisciplinary approach to the problem of designing identity technologies to enable imaginative selfrepresentations for users by implementing dynamic social identity models grounded in computing and cognitive science. AIR Project research develops models of social computational identity (e.g., characters, avatars, and social network...