These three subscales address entertainment - social (ES; 10 items; e.g., «My friends and I like to discuss what my favorite celebrity has done,» α =.83), intense - personal (IP; 9 items; e.g., «I have frequent thoughts about my favorite celebrity, even when I don't want to,» α =.89), and borderline pathological (BP; 4 items; e.g., «I often feel compelled to learn
the personal habits of my favorite celebrity;» α =.72) forms of celebrity worship.
At Oakland Unity High School in Oakland, Calif. we decided it was time to ask a new question: Are the academic and
personal habits of students at the root of performance obstacles in math education?
The men did not alter
their personal habits of eating, smoking, or exercise, yet by using Injectable HGH, they lost an average of 14 % of their body fat, while gaining an average of 8.8 % lean muscle mass.
Peer pressure is pressure from others to conform to the behaviors, attitudes and
personal habits of a group or clique.
Rather, they require economic activity within a free polity, under the rule of law, and through the daily practice of
personal habits of wisdom and self - control.
Not exact matches
In this book, Ramsey coaches readers through the basics
of personal finance, from paying off debt to building an emergency fund, providing «the simplest, most straightforward game plan for completely making over your money
habits,» as Amazon describes it.
As soon as
personal and professional browsing
habits co-mingle on a device that is used at both work and home, «you're more than doubling the risk [
of a security breach], because traditionally what people are browsing on their
personal time is usually more susceptible to infection than work destinations,» says Stroz Friedberg co-founder and executive chairman Eric Friedberg.
As a business leader, I build cybersecurity awareness into the DNA
of our organization with daily
personal habits that help to set the example.
As a licensed insolvency trustee firm, our practice is on the front lines
of Canada's household debt binge and the bad
personal finance
habits that ensnare so many people.
I chatted with verifiable email «
personal trainers,» Marsha Egan, CEO
of InboxDetox.com and author
of Inbox Detox and the
Habit of Email Excellence, and David Allen, author
of Getting Things Done: The Art
of Stress - Free Productivity and engineer
of the GTD Getting Things Done methodology.
Kim's previous turns on the international stage have revealed some
of his curious travel
habits, like his need for a «
personal toilet» to accompany him and his insistence on bringing a special noodle machine on trips.
Get in the
habit of sending a
personal note whenever someone does something nice for you.
She considers Nest Labs» Internet - connected thermostats as being a type
of robot that can sense changes in its environment like rising temperature and then make adjustments based on a person's
personal habits, even though those thermostats don't have arms or heads like people expect robots to have.
Speaking at schools and community centers across America, I was inspired to write this book when I saw an underserved need for a guide that would show aspiring and current entrepreneurs how to leverage their
personal habits and goals to make themselves into the type
of person a successful entrepreneur is.»
She told students to remain in the
habit of reclaiming their
personal time in life, too.
For brands, particularly iconic ones, marketing to Millennials poses a challenge because the group's purchasing, communication and
personal - interaction
habits and prefer - ences differ significantly from those
of earlier generations.
They might consider creating tools that address the unique challenges
of 1099 workers by tracking those workers»
personal spending
habits and work expenses.
Courts have struggled over what qualifies as an injury to pursue a privacy case in lawsuits accusing Facebook and Google
of siphoning users»
personal information from emails and monitoring their web - browsing
habits.
«We have a sense
of (Trump's)
personal eating
habits, but not his view
of food policy.
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After getting up close and
personal with the finances
of hundreds
of different business owners — all with definite money
habits and philosophies — I can safely say that there are 5 different money personalities.
The erosion
of such standards, Lasch worried in 1994, leads us to accept «second - rate workmanship, second - rate
habits of thought, and second - rate standards
of personal conduct.
Hence the need for a third science, the science
of moral ecology, to discern all the institutions and
personal moral
habits essential for the flourishing
of self - governing peoples.
These words reflect a belief many
of us quietly ascribe to: that our
personal porn
habits aren't that harmful.
They suggest, by definition, something to which the individual responds with piety, loyalty and love — attitudes that call forth the
habits of self - restraint, self - control and
personal sacrifice.
I'm looking to eventually teach theology, but in between my
personal studies, an obsessive reading
habit, and spending far too much money on coffee, I started a blog called New Ways Forward as an outlet for some
of my random thoughts and a way to interact with others who share a passion for theology, Biblical studies, and social justice.
Lest this should be taken as a wholesale rejection
of Hadith, Sir Sayyid advocates closer scrutiny
of the Hadith relating to the
personal habits and social circumstances
of the Holy Prophet, as well as the Hadith bearing on political and administrative matters.
He sets between himself and the world a rigid religious dogma, a rigid system
of philosophy, a rigid political belief and commitment to a group, and a rigid wall
of personal values and
habits.
In this experience I find my
habits of thought and even my
personal crises challenged and confronted by a whole new order which we have called God's redemptive story.
In another realm one
of the problems in
personal counseling which I most dislike to face is a youth, mastered by a bad
habit, who has no resource except trying hard.
It is a thick description
of the kinds
of habits of speech and
personal conduct, motivations and intentions, political and social views that emerge from uncontrolled individualism.
What are some
of the conditions and
habits of life which engender
personal wholeness?
These guys have a bad
habit of making major, kingdom - wide decisions based on
personal offense and whims, and should not be crossed.
Personal likes, dislikes,
habits, attitudes, and ways
of thinking and valuing will be different.
If the preacher has acquired a thorough understanding
of personality development and habitually sees people as individuals with distinctly
personal histories, if he accepts their present
habits and characteristics in the light
of their earlier conditioning experience, he can develop a manner and method in preaching that give people the feeling they are understood....
I guess in my
personal experience people who were religious enough to say «bless you» (outside
of the sneeze ordeal which I even say bless you out
of childish
habit) did it as some kind
of display
of their awesome religiousness vs other people's sinner ways.
Yet out
of those
habits emerged a more troubling one: Tweeting about deeply
personal, intimate moments.
His evidences show that, as against Weiss, Whitehead's work can yield a fruitful concept
of personal identity based on behavioral
habits, a sense
of moral responsibility, and a legitimate notion
of guilt.
But I think it is also evident that no hope exists
of pinpointing the precise number
of changes
of habit that are necessary and sufficient for a significant shift in
personal identity, just as it is impossible to say how few hairs on a man's head constitutes baldness.
This, then, brings us to the point
of recognizing that, and how, for Whitehead,
habits may be constitutive
of personal identity.
does not mean that baldness does not differ from non-baldness, and such «boundary disputes» are equally unprofitable in, trying to fix an exact number or percentage
of habit changes necessary for a substantial change
of personal identity.
In mass society the person stands alone without a network
of associations to protect
personal meaning, to enlarge
personal power, or to learn the
habits of democracy.
I have then used these explicated evidences to show that, as against Weiss, Whitehead's work can yield a fruitful concept
of personal identity based on behavioral
habits, a sense
of moral responsibility, and a legitimate notion
of guilt.
From this point
of view, we can see how
personal identity consists primarily
of habitual patterns
of behavior and, tightly related to this, self - knowledge is concerned with both perceptual, behavioral spontaneity as well as bodily
habits.
Now anyone who seeks to understand
personal identity in terms
of behavioral
habits quickly encounters two well - known objections.
The second objection to conceptualizating
personal identity in terms
of behavioral
habits is but an ethical application
of the first.
But when a massive change
of behavioral
habit has taken place, and this is sufficient to constitute a change
of personal identity — as, for example, in the case
of insanity — then on the view here proposed, there is no responsibility and guilt in the usual senses
of those words.
Civic leaders emphasize the same
habit of personal giving for the betterment
of civil society, and as a necessary precondition
of the common good.
Marriage and motherhood are not the only way to biblical womanhood, as we see in so many
of our spiritual mamas, despite our collective evangelical
habit of treating single women and men as our
personal match - making mission field.
In my own
personal «Brexit» I seem to be making a
habit of leaving America for July 4th.