Collocations withself
These are words often used in combination withself.
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aspect of self
Identity is here defined as that aspect of self and personality which expresses the overall unity and purpose of the individual's life.
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authentic self
Perhaps greater equality in the family may offer girls some protection, by offering more opportunity for authentic self-development free from conflicts about appropriate gender-role behavior.
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core self
Such an approach offers the potential to support both the ' core self ' and foster a benign social environment.
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creative self
In short, the alterity of the migrant others in this production had to take precedence over the staging of the ethically aware creative self.
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ecological self
The initial indication of blind infants' awareness of their ecological self is their reaching for objects on external cues.
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empirical self
The impossibility of satisfying desire, of filling the lack, of having the ideal beloved, is the fatality to which the empirical self is doomed.
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enlightened self interest
Chapter 4 turns to a justification for giving based on enlightened self-interest.
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false self
The least false self-behavior is reported in relationships with close friends (10-15%).
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future self
The adoption of the rule affects the preferences of the future self.
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ideal self
In particular, my ideal self will differ from one time to another and from one world to another.
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individual self
And, aside from creating problems for accessing employment, low literacy compromises the reform agenda, which rests so heavily on individual self-improvement.
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inner self
Resilient self-esteem over a 10-year period was associated with reference to inner self-beliefs and values and particularly to personal relationships outside the family.
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normal self
Further research identified many of the antigens that induced tumour rejection as normal self-proteins.
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notion of self
The resulting notion of self-concordance is defined as follows.
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old self
The offering of the self means death and deconstruction of the old self.
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perception of self
The second subscale measures children's perception of self in the context of relationships.
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presentation of self
In so doing, the caregiver denied the dementia sufferer's own presentation of self in their interactions.
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rational self
Such action presupposes the presence of a rational self, and neither young children nor adults with dementia fit this category.
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sense of self
The face is an interlocutor between the self and the world, and it is central in the sense of self.
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separate self
She argues for the integration of form and meaning in the same activity and for a role for separate self-study of formal linguistic features.
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subjective self
Relationship between subjective self-report of cognitive dysfunction and objective information-processing performance in a group of hospitalized schizophrenic patients.
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true self
Here he hopes to see the world and to find the path to his true self.
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usual self
These symptoms were unquestionably a marked deviation from his usual self.
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