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I felt I could go beyond those limitations and create a much-needed instrument that would measure social expectations, self-concepts, interests, and stress behavior in a single test.
How I Invented A New Kind Of Personality Test Roger Birkman 2010
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The more I know and develop the habit of experiencing my self as an unknowable thinker, a point of consciousness in the present moment, the more my limiting self-concepts fall away.
Bob Lingvall: The Gift Of Not Finding Yourself Bob Lingvall 2011
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For example, a study of children who participated in Boys and Girls Clubs of America, as compared to a similar uninvolved group, had stronger self-concepts, increased social skills, received more reinforcement for positive behaviors, engaged in fewer problem behaviors, and were less vulnerable to unhealthy influences.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Four Surefire Ways to Send Messages to Your Children Dr. Jim Taylor 2011
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The more I know and develop the habit of experiencing my self as an unknowable thinker, a point of consciousness in the present moment, the more my limiting self-concepts fall away.
Bob Lingvall: The Gift Of Not Finding Yourself Bob Lingvall 2011
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I felt I could go beyond those limitations and create a much-needed instrument that would measure social expectations, self-concepts, interests, and stress behavior in a single test.
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These studies show that people who experience an identity threat are motivated to make subsequent product choices that bolster their shaken self-images in order to restore important self-concepts.
When a gift threatens your identity Jennifer LaRue Huget 2010
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"Today's sense of reality," he writes, "is characterized by immediacy, illusionary expectations, inflated self-concepts, a demand for a perfect image, and loss of privacy and access to our inner world."
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In several studies conducted between 2005 and 2007, University of Florida professor Timothy Judge found that people with high core self evaluations, or positive self-concepts, had increased levels of job satisfaction, better job performance, higher income, higher work motivation and reduced stress and burnout.
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In several studies conducted between 2005 and 2007, University of Florida professor Timothy Judge found that people with high core self evaluations, or positive self-concepts, had increased levels of job satisfaction, better job performance, higher income, higher work motivation and reduced stress and burnout.
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In several studies conducted between 2005 and 2007, University of Florida professor Timothy Judge found that people with high core self evaluations, or positive self-concepts, had increased levels of job satisfaction, better job performance, higher income, higher work motivation and reduced stress and burnout.
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