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PubMed2006

Service-learning, personal development, and social commitment: a case study of university students in Hong Kong.

Service-learning, which combines academic study with community service, is becoming increasingly popular throughout the world. It is ideally suited to achieving both the personal and academic goals of students and the broader goals of civic responsibility and social justice. This paper describes the design of a local service-learning program the author implemented at a university in Hong Kong. Based on survey data collected from 93 university student participants in the program, it illustrates the impact of service-learning on student outcomes. Results show that the majority of the students benefitted as follows: (1) By developing personal autonomy through real world experiences, students develop a recognition of and faith in their potential. It enhances self-assurance, assumption of new responsibilities, and achievement of individual growth. (2) Students move toward becoming responsible citizens and agents of social change. By learning to care for deprived groups in the community, they are assuming meaningful roles and responding to real issues in ways that have a long-lasting impact on their own lives. Recommendations, based on the shortcomings we have witnessed and the changes we have implemented, are also made.

Achievement↗
PubMed1976

[Interaction of external and internal factors in the manifestations and formation of psychopathies and pathological personality development].

The authors substantiate the concept that the material and pathophysiological substrate of psychopathy is the pathological variant of the highest nervous activity type, on the basis of which psychopathy appears and begins to form. They attempt to answer some questions concerning the correlation between exogenous and endogenous origins of psychopathy. A delineation between psychopathy and normal variants on the one hand and accentuated personalities and pathocharacterological personality development on the other one is made.

Antisocial Personality Disorder↗
PubMed1982

Pilot study: effective health and personal development. An experiment in school education.

This paper describes an experimental school-based health education and personal development programme conducted jointly by the Health Commission and Department of Education in northern Sydney, New South Wales. We evaluated the programme after it had been taught for five school terms, by adopting a control/experimental group design based on multiple choice questionnaires. We recorded large and significant gains in the health status of the secondary students from the experimental schools compared with the control students. Notable successes were in the areas of cigarette smoking (reductions as high as 13%), alcohol consumption (reductions of up to 12%) and exercise (increase of 17.5%). The long-term effectiveness of such programmes may depend on support from the medical profession.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Personality development in the evolutionary perspective.

A relationship between personality processes and evolution can be seen when behaviors associated with sexual maturation, mating, and parenting are examined. This article stipulates the types of proximal cues implicated in the shaping of personality variables that become important in the development of the individual's reproductive behavior.

Biological Evolution↗
PubMed2006

Narrative identity processing of difficult life experiences: pathways of personality development and positive self-transformation in adulthood.

Difficult life experiences in adulthood constitute a challenge to the narrative construction of identity. Individual differences in how adults respond to this challenge were conceptualized in terms of two dimensions of narrative identity processing: exploratory narrative processing and coherent positive resolution. These dimensions, coded from narratives of difficult experiences reported by the women of the Mills Longitudinal Study (Helson, 1967) at age 52, were expected to be related to personality traits and to have implications for pathways of personality development and physical health. First, the exploratory narrative processing of difficult experiences mediated the relationship between the trait of coping openness in young adulthood (age 21) and the outcome of maturity in late midlife (age 61). Second, coherent positive resolution predicted increasing ego-resiliency between young adulthood and midlife (age 52), and this pattern of increasing ego-resiliency, in turn, mediated the relationship between coherent positive resolution and life satisfaction in late midlife. Finally, the integration of exploratory narrative processing and coherent positive resolution predicted positive self-transformation within narratives of difficult experiences. In turn, positive self-transformation uniquely predicted optimal development (composite of maturity and life satisfaction) and physical health.

Adult↗
PubMed1993

Adolescent resilience: the potential impact of personal development in schools.

The challenges and stresses faced by adolescents include entry into secondary school, the development of adolescent sexuality, family conflicts, parental mental illness, socio-cultural factors, substance use and abuse, work and career abuse, social and antisocial behaviour, and the carry-over of problems from childhood. The ways in which programmes through schools can address these issues, enhance resilience and promote adolescent mental health are discussed. The potential of personal development programmes could be utilized to this end, with targeted educational and group initiatives and evaluation of outcomes.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Personality development in traditional Maori society and the impact of modernization.

This paper is an attempt to integrate the available research, clinical data and literary information concerning the developmental experiences of the New Zealand Maori. The Maori developmental pattern in the traditional society is compared with that of the Caucasian, mostly Anglo-Saxon, New Zealander (Pakeha), highlighting the contrasting elements while at the same time accommodating considerable overlap between the two postulated developmental patterns. The Maori personality development is seen as being characterized by an indulgent and permissive infancy, a withdrawal of this succorance during childhood, which is characterized by prominent peer-orientation, and a reintegration into adult society during adolescence with gradual maturation of social roles subsequently. The disruption of this pattern as a result of urbanization and Westernization is discussed, along with its adverse consequences. The recent initiatives by the Maori community to preserve the old traditions take the developmental issues into consideration, and although it is too early to judge their success or otherwise, they look quite promising.

Adolescent↗