sense of self
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandself
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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self
noun
uk/self/us/self/
the set of someone's characteristics, such as personality and ability, that are not physical and make that person different from ...
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(Definition ofsenseandselffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The face is an interlocutor between the self and the world, and it is central in thesenseofself.
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The multiple roles that people hold within their family, community, work, and society as a whole work to define theirsenseofself.
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In physical health problems there may be a desire to identify a disease entity that can be diagnosed and separated from thesenseofself.
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This developingsenseofselfincreasingly helps the child to mount an organized response to stimuli, especially challenging stimuli.
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Engaging in successful self-help may promote asenseofself-efficacy among people with depression and anxiety.
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Is oursenseofself-coherence merely an illusion?
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Theirsenseofself-and often their very lives-have been imperiled; they describe themselves as survivors of a "shipwreck" (p. 73).
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Dignified defiance is mostly fueled by dignity as a virtue, a strongsenseofself-worth, courage, wisdom, temperance, and justice.
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Until now, theirsenseofselfwas entangled with that of their families and even their small communities.
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Linguistic competence is necessary for most cognitive consistency and attribution processes, and thesenseofself, as well as for abstract moral judgments.
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One refers to movement and social relations stretched across multiple borders, and the other to asenseofselfand group identity that differentiates communities.
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It can be argued that having the desire, and knowing how to manage the ailing body, helped provide asenseofself-worth, identity and empowerment.
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He locates identity in lack, the constantly frustrated desire to achieve a unifiedsenseofselfthrough the other.
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We have to invent tradition by freely ornamenting our recollections to gain not only somesenseofselfbut also the acceptance of others.
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She sustains asenseofselfin the breach between youth and old age through an artifact that both girl and woman have touched.
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The findings are that domestic spaces have a significant influence on the scope that older people have to retain asenseofself-determination.
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Hall suggests that the fully realisedsenseofselfis only a momentary, contingent settlement.
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They thus develop deficits in emotional understanding,senseofself, reflective function, and understanding of social causality.
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