Essays on Self-Image

Perception and Consumer Behavior

Perception is the process of knowing features of stimuli with the use of vision, hearing, taste, smell and touch (Scott, 1994). The visual perception i.e. size/shape in the L’Oreal Men Expert Vita Lift 5 ad is rectangle with the focus on more than one dimension to enable consumers to downsize their order by enlarging the product along all dimensions. On the other hand, the shape of the Aveeno Absolutely Ageless ad is portrait. The size of the ad is adjusted through focus on multiple dimensions to perceive the product easily. Lettering is another factor affects the perception of ...

Introduction

We all know how difficult it can be to express you and ensure that we are understood by those, who surround us in our professional environment. Business environment demands respect and high level of tolerance from all of us, outlined by the corporate rules, strategies, culture and the expectations, which are we as peers and our superiors have in this situation. Such expectations make communication process in a way, more structured and easier to adjust to the existing norms and formal rules, set out by organizational hierarchy and cognitive and emotional behavior regulations. Politics and diplomatic tone in our ...

Serenity Daniels is a 28-year-old single woman with a long history of sexual and emotional abuse since her childhood. She has inflicted deliberate self-harm (DSH) on her body on numerous occasions. During these DSH episodes, Serenity usually cuts her wrists and uses alcohol as a way of numbing the pain. Besides, Serenity has problems with her self-image as she sees herself as “fat and ugly” and unloved. She also has frequent arguments with her co-workers and managers. As such, she does not hold job positions for long. This instability in moods, functioning, and self-image coupled with unstable relationships and ...

Executive Summary 3

Introduction 4 Theoretical Background 4 Brand Love Scales 4 Definition of Love 5 Personality of Brand 5 Image of the Brand 5 Brand Love’s Elements 6 Brand Romance 7 Brand Attitude 7 Brand Loyalty 7 Fashion Brands Love 8 Brand Love in Cell Phone Industry 8 Brand Love Creation by the Companies 8 Apple/Samsung/Huawei 8 PepsiCo 9 Benetton 9 Conclusion 9

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Executive Summary Brand love is a relatively new phenomenon actively discussed by the scholars and marketing professionals. Brand love is necessary for the modern companies to successfully attract and retain their customers. Moreover, it helps to convince ...

How absentee fathers affect teen pregnancy in daughters

Introduction The family is the basic unit of society. From this structure, individuals learn the tenets of how to integrate into society and cope with other members. Most mammal species live in the family unit, be it nuclear or extended. Within the family, members learn to bond, share and assist each other with difficulties. The human species shows the most sophisticated form of human organization. When children get born, they only get taught how to survive as adults, but there are certain values that parents must pass on to their children. Each family and society have different values and ...

Compare and Contrast 2 Countries Using Hofstede’s 6 dimensions

Abstract There are an increasing number of expatriates in the work force of many companies across the globe. Companies have started becoming more glocal ( global + local). It is easy to find a Japanese company like Suzuki having off shore operations in India or an Indian company like Tata’s acquiring an international brand like Jaguar. This leads to a cross-cultural workforce. Understanding cultural nuances become imperative as it affects the functioning of any organization. Most of the cross cultural training that are imparted costs a lot, but may not result in the learning’s of such trainings becoming a ...

Introduction

Brands have existed since ancient times, as evidenced by the fact that individuals have always used unique marks to distinguish their products from those produced by other individuals. However, the main reason for branding in ancient times was to prevent the theft of property. Despite the origins of branding, its main purpose shifted to enhancing the visibility of products as humans engaged in increased commercial activity with each other (Hampf and Lindberg-Repo, 2011, p. 1). Consequently, the concept of brand development arose. Brand development refers to the efforts taken to increase the success of a brand in the market ...

Culture and Adaptation: Anthropology is the study of human culture and language of different groups of people over a period of time. This helps us to identify how human culture adapted to changing needs and environmental changes. While culture refers to the sum of belief, practices, tradition, worldview, language, religion, food, clothing and social practices; adaptation refers to the gradual changes incorporated into the culture, so as to help survival in a changing environment. Certain cultural traits are universal to all humans and these traits help to differentiate humans from members of other related species like humans. For example, ...

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Introduction

The goal of therapies addressing weight loss is to decrease the risks for chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, but also to ultimately increase positive feelings of well-being from physical improvements. Significant weight loss is accompanied by both positive and negative emotions and if the decrease in body mass is accompanying by negative feelings, maintenance is difficult. Therefore, psychological aspects to weight loss programs are an important consideration when determining the success of the therapy. Previous research concerning the psychological aspects of significant weight loss has made ...

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The emergence of social media has created a significant impact on internet-users, most especially the youth. The dominance of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, among others, has taken over the lives of millions of teens as they derive much satisfaction, as well as disappointments from using such sites. Interactions are encouraged between account holders hence personal and cyber relationships ...

Human personality is formed mainly through relations with other people, the community and society. The process of forming human individuality continues for the whole life. The most intensively the personality is up to the age of 18, as it is the most suitable stage of life for absorbing the knowledge and rules of behavior in the society. Human personality is a concept that expresses the social essence of the person, the complex characterizing human features, properties, relations, moral and spiritual world, formed in the course of self-development, cooperation with social communities and separate individuals. Teenagers belong to the most ...

Face and facework are closely connected with the self-image of people being displayed when communicating with other people. The theory itself was first proposed to understand the way different cultures react to some conflict situation. It is important to mention that the term face is used here more in the metaphorical sense than in its direct meaning. Thus, it relates to the image people usually display in public. The term facework stands for communicative behaviors. According to the theory, the difference in the ways people react to conflict depends on the conflict issue itself, relations between people and their ...

INTRODUCTION

One of the technological platforms regularly visited by college students each and every day is social media. There are many youths who participate in all social media, like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, as if it is an important factor of their lives, something that is essential and necessary. Social media places youths in place where there every posted action and opinion is free to agreeable responses, positive accolades and “likes,” but they are also facing negative comments, hurtful insults and, in some case, even threats. E.A. Vogel, as well as other authors, in the 2014 article for Psychology of ...

Fairy tales lure children with their simple and easy to understand style and magic in the story.

The common character in any fairy tale is an imaginary being with magical powers. For Example, in “the Cinderella” story, the protagonist, Cinderella gets gold dress and jewelry out of the blue from the fairy godmother in one version or the tree near her mother’s grave in another version of the story. These supernatural powers do not represent the real world. Inculcating this false view of the world through fictional fantasy in children, who are very impressionable in the young ages, causes insidious harm to them. Instead of fostering spirit of scientific thinking, they are doing the exact ...

Introduction

Experiential learning is one of the most important methods that people from the academe, most especially educators apply to help students develop his/her emotional, cognitive, and social values. Experiential learning is basically learning through first-hand experience, action, discovery, and exploration. It is important for observational learners which needs actual application of concepts to understand it (Brock et al., 2012). Immersing oneself in an unfamiliar territory is an important way to teach people, especially students, on what it is really like to be part of a certain community, and it is also one way for them to understand why people ...

Identifying the causes of aggression and pointing out ways to reduce or eliminate them can help to reduce aggression in both people and society. Understanding the importance of addressing aggressive behavior is important in limiting unwanted outcomes such as harassment, violence, and death. There are five major categories of aggression that should be assessed. These include gun legislation, reduction of media violence, understanding the social context of terrorism, reduction of self-harm, and values and regulations for activities such as bullying. Through analysis of these factors, a more informed perspective on how to reduce aggressive behaviors can be achieved. In ...

The Arabs Portrayal in American Cinema

Introduction The problem in the development of misconceptions about the Arabs can be traced largely on how they were portrayed in western movies. As people do not generally meet Arabs in their everyday lives, the films play an important role in providing conceptions about them. Unfortunately, stereotypes and other factors proved to have shaped the way that the Arab images are depicted in cinemas. According to Michalack, it is the American popular culture that offered the lushest and most comprehensive perception of American stereotype about the Arabs, and this started as early as the 20th century until today (Michalak, ...

Foundation Course-

Evaluation Of The Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Current Theories In Explaining Revenge Pornography And The Implications That These Have For Policy And Practice In The UK In the recent past, there have been numerous cases of revenge pornography. Revenge pornography arises when an individual takes photographs of someone else without consent or knowledge. Then distribute the information either through the social media or any media channel (Cowen p.511, 2015).Revenge pornography takes many forms; for instance, through hidden recordings of sexual activity, taking photos of one when he/she is naked, recording of sexual assaults within the environment of ...

Adolescent Girls and the Media

Adolescence marks a time of rapid and intense emotional and physical changes, especially for females. There is an increased value placed on peer acceptance and approval, and a heightened attention to external influences and social messages about cultural norms. Body image and related self-concepts emerge as significant factors associated with health and well-being during this developmental phase, as youths begin to focus more on their physical appearance. How adolescents formulate and define their body image ideals and subsequent self-comparisons is strongly influenced by personal, familial, and cultural factors. However, crucial to the formation of teenage girls’ body image ideals ...

Carl Rodgers was a great psychologist who studied humans and gave his assessment of how they need to behave for them to grow. Rodgers client-centered therapy aimed at understanding the client’s feeling and meanings as he experienced them and then communicating them to him/her (Rogers 22). He pointed out that they need a surrounding that provides them with genuineness or openness, acceptance and being heard and understood. Carl believed that a person is capable of attaining his goals and desires if a number of factors are to be satisfied. Self-Actualization – Is the desire to fulfill one's potential and ...

Section I – Theory Information

Chosen theory (Person-Centered Therapy) Person-Centered Therapy aims at offering an individual a chance to create a sense of self, whereby one can realize how his/her emotion, perspective and conduct are negatively impacted (Cepeda & Davenport, 2006). Cooper, Watson, & Hölldampf (2010) insist that despite criticism from various behaviorists, this technique is widely used, and it's an efficient personal therapy. Evidently, most people still rely on this theory for mental and emotional healing. A key idea of this therapy is that in a certain psychological setting, the attainment of individual potential entails being sociable, the desire to be close to people ...

No matter what newspaper, magazine or online advertising that is being reviewed it is likely that they will see ads featuring female models representing any number of products. Some advertising is directed towards the male demographic, this includes everything from auto parts to cologne. Other advertising is directed at women, encouraging them to purchase the products that will make them look like the women in the ads. Either way, there are beautiful, young women peddling products. However, both, men and women are being misled by advertising; it is women who are more often than not objectified, over sexualized and ...

Sources of My Own Money Scripts

My greatest money script comes from my self-belief that if I get more money, all of my problems will melt away. Earning more money will keep me and my family happy. Comparatively, my family members believe that money is evil as only selfish and greedy people earn lots of money. I also believe that earning more money makes a person selfish, as impregnated into my mind by peers. Despite this, I believe that I and my family deserve a better living standard as I grew up in a poverty stricken family. In all, my money scripts have two sources ...

There are many books that leave us puzzled after reading them and “The Bhagavad-Gita” is the one. You have to be aware of all the terminology that being used in the book. Otherwise, the hidden meaning of it will remain hidden. The book talks about the understanding of life in Hindi culture. The beginning of the story about Bhagavad Gita may appear scary in light of the usage of great amount of terms that leave Dhritarashtra and Sanjaya that will be new to readers who are not knowledgeable in Hinduism. In any case, the new peruser ought to see ...

Introduction

Communities can be enriched by maintaining the diverse cultural identities by individuals. Multiculturalism is not a tool for promoting one cultural identity as being above other cultures. Instead, it gives us the opportunity to value our heritage at the same time respect other people’s beliefs thus celebrating diversity. Cultural diversity has an intrinsic section of cultural respect. Some individuals are ignorant and lack the correct information, which makes them lack respect. If an individual fails to understand the values and beliefs of others, it is easier for such an individual to belittle other people. Therefore, the individual will be ...

Liberty University

Abstract Intimacy issues in marriages have been in the forefront of many psycho-social-spiritual circles recently. In addition, intimacy issues and barriers have just started to be analyzed psychologically, sociologically, physically, and spiritually in the psychoanalytic literature. Qualitative and longitudinal studies are giving way to new theories and thoughts on why the 21st century marriage has so many barriers to intimacy and how these barriers become ingrained in an individual’s psyche. These studies show that from birth to death, the human capacity to remember definitive moments that will forever change the outcome of an individual’s life, whether ...

Both the documents: “The Laws of Manu” and “Ban Zhao’s Admonitions for Women” talked about the role, duties and status of women in different times and places. The Laws of Manu were edited in 1913. This paper thus draws comparison between the two texts and talks about how the different times; places and religions had a huge role to play in determining how women are treated. While the Hindu version, derived from scared Hindu books, clearly shows how subservient the status of women is in Ancient India and how the only purpose of her life is to ensure that ...

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Have you ever asked yourself the question “What am I?” or “Who am I?”. These two questions are very simple questions yet, range of the answers to these questions is very wide and very subjective. The answers pertain to the need to know you and the concept of yourself. Google provided a definition of self as a “person's essential being that distinguishes them from others, esp. considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action”. (Google.com, 2013) This may be as simple as this, but the word “self” is far more complicated than the things that make an individual different from ...

Discovering the self

In order to discover about the self, people might find themselves attempting to answer some the following questions: what am I actually like? Am I kind of person who is introverted or extraverted? Am I optimistic or pessimistic? Am I impulsive or organized? How would I define myself whenever I am called upon to describe myself to others? What are the obvious characteristics about me that I would first mention when describing myself? In most cases people would use personality characteristics to describe themselves. This includes traits such as shyness, introversion, extraversion or impulsive. The underlying thing is that ...

I am proud to say that I have been involved in many causes and have contributed to my community on numerous occasions, such as presenting Restorative Justice Skits to girl youth programs at church and leading demonstrations in Sparring exercises with girls aged 6 and older in Taekwondo, in which I currently hold a red/black belt. I have always possessed strong belief in studying and working hard and have been a devout follower of sexual abstinence. All these traits have inspired me to found and coordinate a girls’ group entitled Brilliant Girls Group (BGG), where my desire to help others would continue to ...

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESMENT

Mental Status and orientation: Mr. BR knows his name; when and where he was born, time of the day and could read a clock. He even recalls his parents,’ children and grand children birth days. Politics did not interest him, but he quoted scripture in support of his personal philosophy.

Changes in self image due to aging and retirement: Mr. BR displays an interesting self image claiming that he is as old as God and young as the Holy Spirit. As such, he did not contemplate on age since it was simply a parenthesis of life itself. He said that he ...

Explanation of theory

The self image congruence theory suggests that consumers will choose those products which match their own perceived personal attributes. In the making of this choice, a perception of the self is divided into two; the ideal self and the actual self. The ideal self is used by consumers for self comparison when purchasing highly expressive products such as high end cars. The actual self is used as a means of comparison when making purchases for functional everyday products (D’Astous & Bitz 2003). The second theory is the Freud’s theory of personality. It is based on the Freudian argument ...

Borderline Personality Disorder: Case Study

Karen’s Case

Karen was admitted in the intensive care unit of West Raymond medical Center after she knowingly took an overdose of sedatives in addition to alcohol in a suicide attempt following a disagreement with her man.

Consequently, the 32-year old single, unemployed woman lost consciousness which meant that she had to inevitably spend three days in the hospital. While still in the hospital the doctors never wanted to discharge her until when they were convinced that she was under the care of a psychotherapist. Karen’s psychotherapist was, however, reluctant to respond to Karen’s calls concerning her discharge citing ...

Abstract

In advertising throughout the past few centuries, women have placed in one of several limiting roles. One is the extremely thin fashion model, a sex symbol for the typical man whose main role is to be pretty and attract men. The other is the domestic partner, the woman who takes care of the house to the exclusion of all personal desires and responsibilities. There is also the incompetent, the dullard; the weak-willed woman who simply cannot handle the limited and finite duties that are burdened upon her. In this paper, the effects of negative advertising on women will be explored, ...

Introduction

Aggression is hostile behavior aimed at causing physical or psychological harm. Aggression can be indirect or direct, verbal or physical and active or passive. There are several social factors that cause aggression. These factors include media violence, Stereotype and social identity, threat Collective narcissism, Status, competition and mating motives personal characteristics, cultural factors direct provocation and frustration among others.

When an individual watches media, observational learning takes place. This brings the indication that excessive exposure to media violence increases probability of any individual to behave aggressively. (Barbara etal, 2010). Metaanalysis and reviews have indicated that this effect is ...