The Effects of a Student-Centered Self-Development Course on Self-Actualization as Measured by The Personal Orientation Inventory

114 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1972.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD

The measurement of oscillator strengths in the presence of resonance self-broadening

NOTE: Text or symbols not renderable in plain ASCII are indicated by [...]. Abstract is included in .pdf document. The absolute oscillator strengths for the silver resonance lines, Ag I [...] 3281 and 3383, and the cadmium intersystem line, Cd I [...] 3261, were measured from the total absorption for both weak lins and strong lines. For strong lines, cross sections for selfbroadening were measured for the resonance lines of silver, lead, thallium, cadmium, and zinc. In the limit of large oscillator strengths, good agreement has been obtained with theory, while for small oscillator strengths, only qualitative agreement has been found

Beneficial Effects of Self-Affirmation on Heart Rate Variability, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, and Emotion

Affirmation of personal values and characteristics (e.g., relations with friends and family, romantic values, sense of humor) has been shown to have positive effects, including but not limited to buffering against stress, coping with threatening situations, and promoting healthy behaviors. However, the immediate emotional and cardiovascular responses impacted by self (or value) affirmation have not been fully explored. Therefore, the present study aims to provide more insight into the immediate effects of self-affirmation on emotion and cardiovascular reactivity. One hundred and twenty-five UWM students completed this study (MAge = 22.90, SDAge = 6.09). The researchers used a within-subject design, in which each participant went through both the control and self-affirmation conditions (order of presentation was counterbalanced). In the self-affirmation condition, participants were asked to write about their top-ranked personal value, whereas a writing exercise unrelated to personal values was used in the control condition. After each writing exercise, the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) was used to induce positive and negative affect. Cardiovascular measures and self-reported emotional responses were collected throughout the experiment. Results showed that compared to their state during the control task, when self-affirmed, participants showed greater high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), F(1, 123) = 34.80, p .001, and higher levels of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), F(1, 122) = 14.82, p .001, reflecting more parasympathetic activity. After self-affirmation, participants reported more positive affect, F(1, 123) = 11.67, p = .001, and higher levels of self-worth, F(1, 124) = 14.04, p .001. These findings suggest that the act of focusing on a core personal value has beneficial effects on physiological and psychological well-being. These results may provide more insight into the role of cardiovascular reactivity in self-affirmation and emotion