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Personal Disability Identity Measurement: Self-Worth and Personal Meaning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this study, I examined validity evidence for a new disability identity scale, Personal Disability Identity Scale–Self-Worth and Meaning, in a sample of 525 adults with visual impairment (VI) or blindness.
Zapata, Mercedes
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Personal Identity [PDF]

open access: yes
Our aim in this entry is to articulate the state of the art in the moral psychology of personal identity. We begin by discussing the major philosophical theories of personal identity, including their shortcomings.
Shoemaker, David, Tobia, Kevin P.
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Catholic and charismatic : a study in personality theory within Catholic congregations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study set out to conceptualise and measure Charismatic orientation (openness to charismatic experience) and traditional Catholic orientation (Catholic identity) among a sample of 670 Catholic churchgoers in order to test whether attachment to ...
Francis, Leslie J.   +2 more
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Personal Identity and What Matters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Identity is not what prudentially matters in survival (this is originally and most famously argued in Parfit 1984, 245-280). Consider the case of division. a is one of three identical triplets.
Holtug, Nils
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FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY IN PARADIGM OF THE PERSONAL AUTONOMY

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2013
This article traces the interrelation of a personal autonomy and professional identity. The purpose of research consists in revealing predictors of professional identity as initiation of a personal autonomy of student's youth.
Maikova Eleonora Yurievna
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Transformation without Paternalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Human development is meant to be transformational in that it aims to improve people's lives by enhancing their capabilities. But who does it target: people as they are or the people they will become?
Davis, John B., Wells, Thomas R.
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Strong Evaluations and Personal Identity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Charles Taylor draws a distinction between weak and strong evaluations. They are two kinds of evaluative attitudes persons can have towards a variety of objects of evaluation.
Laitinen, Arto
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Why Are There So Many Digital Identities?

open access: yesLaw, Technology and Humans
This article analyses why people have so many digital identities and offers suggestions to reduce the numbers to more reasonable levels.  Digital identity thinking has been dominated by the objective of general-purpose reusable identity as a response to ...
Mitchell Landrigan   +2 more
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Reclaiming Sacred Space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
I wrote this piece for myself as a hybrid of personal discovery and academic inquiry, and I hope it can guide and empower others like myself. In this piece, I examine the intersections of queer identity with religious and spiritual identity development ...
Long, Patrick Griffin
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Shaftesbury on Persons, Personal Identity, and Character Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Shaftesbury’s major work Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times was one of the most influential English works in the eighteenth century. This paper focuses on his contributions to debates about persons and personal identity and shows that ...
Atherton   +23 more
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