(n.) The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality.
(n.) Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.
(n.) Personification; embodiment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(2) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(3) Results show diet, self-control and parts of insulin-therapy to be problematic treatment components.
(4) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(5) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(6) When compared with self-reported exposures, the sensitivity of both job-exposure matrices was low (on average, below 0.51), while the specificity was generally high (on average, above 0.90).
(7) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(8) Electron self-exchange has been measured by an NMR technique for horse-heart myoglobin.
(9) In self-opinions on own appearance the children mentioned teeth as a feature which they would like to change as first.
(10) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(11) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(12) Subjects who reported incidents of childhood sexual exploitation had lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of depression than the comparison group.
(13) Right hemisphere inactivation caused a decrease in the frequency of lateral hypothalamus self-stimulation, whereas with left hemisphere inactivation it increased, which testifies to right hemisphere dominance in self-stimulation reaction.
(14) Poly (8NH2G) does not interact with poly(C) in neutral solution because of the high stability of the hemiprotonated G-G self-structure.
(15) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
(16) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(17) A study was conducted to determine the usefulness of self-screening of blood pressure in families as part of a school health care programme, and to study the relationship between BP and sodium excretion in school children.
(18) However, self-efficacy (defined as confidence in being able to resist the urge to drink heavily) assessed at intake of treatment, was strongly associated with the level of consumption on drinking occasions at follow-up.
(19) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(20) In a family with hereditary elliptocytosis and an abnormality in spectrin self-association, the membranes had decreased deformability and stability.
Selfhood
Definition:
(n.) Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality.
Example Sentences:
(1) That impossible selfhood is particularly in evidence in 2011's The Wrong Ferrari , a "screwball tradgedy [sic]" and "ketamine-inspired movie shot entirely on iPhone" starring, among others, fellow lost boys Macaulay Culkin and Pete Doherty .
(2) Since body image is an important concept, perhaps movement can be made to other areas of self-concept, such as family, social, identity, and personal conceptions of selfhood.
(3) The romantic vision sees man as essentially striving for full selfhood, and mental suffering is the result of the thwarting influence of the environment.
(4) The vulnerability to paranoid phenomena may be seen to be a result of past experiences of subversion of "selfhood."
(5) It speaks, in the vernacular of the black church, with clarity and conviction to African Americans' historical plight and looks forward to a time when that plight will be eliminated ("We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating 'for whites only'.
(6) He even painted a portrait of a philosopher: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, makes explicit the problems of memory, history, and selfhood that haunt every Rembrandt portrait.
(7) His selfhood is cherished and sustained as best it can be.
(8) This combination of sweet and monstrous attributes in her father's nature, and again in the contrasting temperaments of the parental couple, must have been impossible to integrate for the small Virginia, who already was desperately engaged in the struggle for selfhood.
(9) In terms of ideology, the pursuit of fitness is promoted as an opportunity for individuals to avert several of the risks to selfhood thought to be present in modern social organization.
(10) Lacan's insight into the role of acquisition of language helps us to understand the formation of the subject in pursuit of a virtual selfhood, as Sartre described, but embedded within an intersubjective matrix.
(11) It is important to study in which contexts in nursing personhood and selfhood are enhanced and when they are diminished.
(12) The authors under review here all take as their topic current problems in selfhood and how they affect our relations to others.
(13) Your 'eating personality' Where once was just one personality ripe for the decoding, there are now many, and in this multiverse of selfhood falls the "eating personality".
(14) The emerging feeling of selfhood appears to be the precipitate of finely tuned interactive regulations involving mother and child.
(15) Williams, 25, is downbeat, intelligent, unimpressed by anything (least of all himself), and a writer of rare lyrical power, whether discussing sex, selfhood or BBC4's historical documentaries.
(16) Given these understandings of the relationship between paranoid phenomena and pathological narcissism, treatment will focus on reducing the threats to selfhood, refinding the self, and reestablishing ties to internal sources of affection, initiative and aspiration.
(17) The psychotherapy of a 10-year-old boy is used to demonstrate the usefulness of idealizing and mirroring transferences to help patients move from a state of lack of selfhood and self-differentiation to the development of self-structures that provide strength and self-esteem.
(18) Among the positive changes, the majority emphasized their greater autonomy, freedom, and sense of selfhood.
(19) I know that it’s quite a demanding listen, the album, so I’m amazed how well it’s done.” She says the album’s key theme, “constructing a selfhood that you can be proud of”, also informs Hold Your Own: “acknowledging all the selves that you’ve been and want to become.
(20) How can personhood and selfhood be enhanced or even restored in our hospitals, clinics, classrooms, and academic institutions?