Religious experience

it consisted of roughly 10 men and women, most members of my Southern Baptist church who meet weekly to suss through the week’s sermon together. Interestingly enough, most of us had been raised in some semblance of a Christian home, though our experience within that “Christian” community varied. Some of us had testimonies of more stable lives, others of cultural Christian influences, and finally, those of us who had been in spiritual abusive situations at one point or another. As a whole, most…

an incentive to continue using opiates. This can create a vicious cycle that can detrimentally affect people not only psychologically but socially as well. Personality traits found in the Big Five Inventory (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness) are thought to be a good indication for addiction to opiates. Specifically in males, agreeableness is thought to be connected with opiate use. Between 2002 and 2003, a therapy based study was done to see…

viewpoint of Albert Bandura, self-efficacy denotes one’s belief in one’s capabilities to organize, manage and control situations in life with the aim of managing circumstances (11). As for the origins of self-efficacy, Bandura believes that the initial experiences of self-efficacy concentrate in one’s family (11). In previous research, the relationships of self-efficacy to emotional participation with children (12), the system of family functioning (13-16), perceived social support on the part…

For this project, I chose to talk about ‘My Five Key Foundations’ and in doing so I conducted a self evaluation regarding my strengths developed through some of my life experiences. As a response to the question, I came to the realization that coming up with these traits allowed me to determine areas of my personality that I could work on more, in addition to the areas that I feel content or strong with. For example, my positive and optimistic personality is a strong foundation to have, but in…

their finest clothes in hope that they will be selected for a leadership program, internship, or even a full-time job. The career fair can be stressful for some, while for others it can open doors and experiences that were previously unknown. Personally, I find the career fair to be an excellent experience, because it gives you the opportunity to practice communicating with recruiters from companies…

Zwahr-Castro, J., & Dicke-Bohmann, A. K. (2014). Who can be friends? Characteristics of those who remain friends after dissolution of a romantic relationship. Individual Differences Research, 12(4-A), 142-152. In this article, the author used an optimal size of 522 college students that included the friends and family of the same college students. This study seeks the participation in a self-assessment study on whether or not a former couple remained friends after a dissolution of a romantic…

Expressing your creativity (art or dancing), and mostly feeling that you’re growing as an individual. 3. OWN EXPERIENCE OF HOW MY COMMUNICATION WAS INFLUENCED BY EACH LEVEL OF MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS. 1) PHYSIOLOGICAL/SURVIVAL NEEDS a) We need proper food for instance breakfast so that we can have energy to make it easier for you to communicate with people.…

theories is the five factor model of personality, which is a set of five traits with multiple facets that seeks to explain an individual’s personality. These five traits are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience (Costa & McCrae, 1992). Using only a small set of trait dimensions, the five factor model was developed to represent as much personalities as possible from an individual. These traits are also not completely absent or present in any…

The Freeman-Gravitas Prescriptive Executive Coaching Multi-Rater Assessment (FG-PEC; Gavita, et al., 2012). FG-PEC is a multi-rater measure (self-rating, subordinate, superior, colleague and client rating) of managerial skills relevant for the prescriptive executive coaching process, based on the cognitive behavioral approach to coaching. It has 50 items based on five domains relevant to managerial competencies: behavior, emotion, thoughts, situations, and socio-cultural context. The instrument…

1. Despite the broadening of psychodynamic theorizations, there are five major propositions that psychodynamic psychotherapists generally follow. The most central of these five is the unconscious; a postulation that is more developed and specific than any other postulation that can be found in current cognitive or social psychology (Westen, 1998; Bargh & Morsella, 2008). Primarily pursued by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and then Johann Freidrich Herbart (1776-1841), the theory of…