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Application of Imagery Communication Psychotherapy in Projective Test
Yuan Yuan,
Cao Mengyao,
Liu Yang
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, June 2018
Pages:
38-44
Received:
11 June 2018
Accepted:
17 July 2018
Published:
22 August 2018
Abstract: The Imagery Projective Test is an innovative psychological projective test from China, which introduces Imagery Communication Psychology into the projective test. Based on nearly 30 years of theoretical researches and clinical cases, the questionnaire was prepared by using the psychological symbolic meaning of the collective unconscious imagery of human beings, and imagery is defined as the imaginative figure which does not exist in reality. The images selected by subjects reflect their mental content and mental health status at different levels, but the test aims to present deeper mental content of the subjects instead of diagnosis. In order to explore the theoretical significance and practical value of Imagery Projective Test, this paper attempted to demonstrate an application of Imagery Communication Psychotherapy in projective test. By support of theoretical discussions and practical analyses, this research systematically explains the origin, development, principle, application, innovation, and research prospects of Imagery Projective Test. It is concluded that Imagery Projective Test could provide a new technical route to the development of projective test, which has academic prospect and deserves to be used in cross-cultural researches. The Imagery Projective Test is being tested for reliability and validity one by one, where the completed data shows that they have preferable reliability and validity.
Abstract: The Imagery Projective Test is an innovative psychological projective test from China, which introduces Imagery Communication Psychology into the projective test. Based on nearly 30 years of theoretical researches and clinical cases, the questionnaire was prepared by using the psychological symbolic meaning of the collective unconscious imagery of ...
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Healthcare-Seeking Behavior and Out-of-Pocket Payments in Rural Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Muhammad Shahadat Hossain Siddiquee,
Amin Masud Ali
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, June 2018
Pages:
45-55
Received:
25 July 2018
Accepted:
28 August 2018
Published:
28 September 2018
Abstract: This study investigates the determinants of patient’s choice of treatment (i.e., modern vs. alternative healthcare) using Bangladesh’s Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) dataset for exploring their healthcare-seeking behavior and the extent of out-of-pocket (OOP) payment due to illnesses. It explores this issues using the descriptive statistics, bivariate analysis like analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Chi-square test as well as econometric modeling (probit regression model on modern healthcare utilization for the full sample as well as for each quintile). All these help to identify the determinants of healthcare-seeking behavior in rural Bangladesh and how these vary across the quintiles of expenditure on food consumption. This study finds that higher percentage of healthcare-seeking patients receives alternative healthcare because of the lower cost and easier access compared to modern healthcare. The marginal effects of the predisposing factors like patient’s age, parent’s literacy, mother’s age, house with separate dining room, access to electricity and mobile are significantly positive, which means these are more likely to influence modern healthcare utilization. In contrast, the marginal effects of the enabling factors like income, landholdings, access to social benefit are positive, but insignificant. Therefore, predisposing factors rather than enabling factors play crucial role in determining choice of modern treatment in rural Bangladesh. In addition, variations in the marginal effects exist across different groups based on regression by quintile. Finally, sickness prevalence as well as modern healthcare utilization also varies across geographic regions. The average OOP payment is higher for modern healthcare compared to alternative one and it remains true after disaggregation of OOP expenditure. Disease-specific OOP using first-difference method is also positive for all diseases (i.e., OOP expenditure for modern healthcare> OOP expenditure for alternative healthcare) and most of the first-difference estimates are statistically significant. Similar tendencies are also observed in case of applying distributional analysis using quintiles. All these are important for formulating a national health policy for the rural people in Bangladesh. At last, a special attention to expanding utilization of modern healthcare is required for young mothers, elderly household head and the patients belong to minority group in rural Bangladesh.
Abstract: This study investigates the determinants of patient’s choice of treatment (i.e., modern vs. alternative healthcare) using Bangladesh’s Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) dataset for exploring their healthcare-seeking behavior and the extent of out-of-pocket (OOP) payment due to illnesses. It explores this issues using the descriptive st...
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Love and Art Creation: Rodin and Camille Claudel
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, June 2018
Pages:
56-61
Received:
15 August 2018
Accepted:
10 September 2018
Published:
9 October 2018
Abstract: Rodin and Camille Claudel’s loves were passionate and tumultuous, a short blaze between 1885 and 1892, only seven years of their life! Their works reveal their loving passion. Each one has his own talent. Rodin and Camille Claudel have influenced each other and their works answer to one another. Rodin finds in Camille an elder sister who understands him, with whom he can share his passion for sculpture. Both of them have been fascinated by modeling clay. Camille will find in Rodin a father who encouraged her talent for sculpture and a beloved brother with whom she had great complicity. The Kiss of Rodin suggests the beginning of their love and Camille’s Sakountala is the answer and proof of it. Camille’s Middle Age and Rodin’s Fugit Amor reveal the end. Love inspires creators. Freud says that sexual drives are sublimated in creative surges. Consciously or not, the creators express their love passion and sexual desires in their creations. André Green says that you can’t split the creator’s life from his creations. The creator’s unconscious can reveal a lot from their love affairs and secrets. This is the case for Camille and Rodin. Of course we don’t have the real proof that they had two children together, except for Jessie’s testimony and the photo of Camille sculpting Sakountala. We can read in creators’ works like in dreams and I am convinced that creations are also a royal path, like dreams, leading to the unconscious of their creators.
Abstract: Rodin and Camille Claudel’s loves were passionate and tumultuous, a short blaze between 1885 and 1892, only seven years of their life! Their works reveal their loving passion. Each one has his own talent. Rodin and Camille Claudel have influenced each other and their works answer to one another. Rodin finds in Camille an elder sister who understand...
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A Study on the Life World of Chinese Elders with Assisted Caring by Institutions: From the Perspective of Ethnographic Psychology
Tangsheng Wang,
Siyu Qian,
Yabei Zeng
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, June 2018
Pages:
62-68
Received:
7 August 2018
Accepted:
4 September 2018
Published:
11 October 2018
Abstract: The global society is gradually paying more and more attention to the elders with the rapidly ageing population in the world, and Chinese researchers pay more attention to how to care for the elders. The current study focuses on the elders living in a nursing home and living at home with community assistance. Employing ethnographic methods to study aging psychology, researchers interviewed 21 elders to analyze the focus in their life world during two year of participatory observation, meanwhile the physical and social environments definite sample attributes of elders with assisted caring by institutions. The result shows that although the backgrounds and personalities of these group members were different, they talked about common topics such as age, health, family relationships, neighborhood relationships, incomes, life feelings, and life strategies. The common theme was how to live a good life, including that Living in Nursing Home to Adapt to Frailty in Body, the Life in the Nursing Home is a continuous form of the Life at Home, Keeping positive to live a Good Life and believing that Longevity Is a Blessing. Either silent behaviors or voiced conversations are showing the obvious meaning of life. In a modern society with advanced technology causing elders to be isolated, this is thought-provoking.
Abstract: The global society is gradually paying more and more attention to the elders with the rapidly ageing population in the world, and Chinese researchers pay more attention to how to care for the elders. The current study focuses on the elders living in a nursing home and living at home with community assistance. Employing ethnographic methods to study...
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The Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Achievement Motivation in Adolescents: A Moderated Mediating Model of Self-Identity and Hope
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 3, June 2018
Pages:
69-76
Received:
12 August 2018
Accepted:
29 August 2018
Published:
13 October 2018
Abstract: Background: Adolescents were the critical period of physical and mental development, in terms of positive psychology, some internal psychological factors may accelerate the development, given the importance of achievement motivation--the essence of development for adolescents in school and span of life, it may be the key variables to change the trace of the growth, combined with other factors, such as self-efficacy, self-identity, many researchers had explored the association each other, but few authors tested the interaction mechanism of them, especially, hope, the core factor of positive psychology, may be the another variable to affect the mentioned relationship. It was urged to find the interaction mechanism. Objective: The study examined the relation of self-efficacy and achievement motivation, more precisely, the current research estimated mediated effect of self-identity and the moderated effect of hope in the relationship between self-efficacy and achievement motivation. Methods: To fulfil the goal, 473 adolescents participated in the investigation by completing multiple scales in China and diverse analysis methods were used to deal the data. Results: The results showed that self-efficacy significantly linked with achievement motivation, and the self-identity partially mediated the relation between self-efficacy and achievement motivation in adolescents, and the hope moderated the mediating paths. Conclusion: From what mention above, the self-identity and hope, the mediating role and moderator, respectively, were the underlying mechanism of the relationship between self-efficacy and achievement motivation. The strengths and weaknesses based on the study were discussed.
Abstract: Background: Adolescents were the critical period of physical and mental development, in terms of positive psychology, some internal psychological factors may accelerate the development, given the importance of achievement motivation--the essence of development for adolescents in school and span of life, it may be the key variables to change the tra...
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