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M H Rajabally

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Florence Nightingale's personality: a psychoanalytical profile.

This study was to examine and analyze Florence Nightingale's early years as a child and their influence on her adult behaviour. The findings indicate that (a) Nightingale, contrary to how she portrayed herself, was an artful manipulator of people, and (b) although her achievements were many and only reached at high cost, some were highly exaggerated.

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Instruction in developmental psychology and its influence on self-concept.

This study was designed to explore the influence of a unit of instruction in developmental psychology upon the self-concept and academic achievement of 13-year-old adolescents. Participants were 82 junior high school students in British Columbia. Forty-three students received ten 45-minute instructional sessions dealing with the principles of adolescent development; 39 students served as a control group. It was concluded that the unit of instruction did not significantly improve self-concept. The short duration of treatment was identified as the most probable factor in the failure to achieve change. A positive relationship was established between the achievement scores on the knowledge test of developmental psychology and self-concept.

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