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Two minds greater than one: an intersubjective approach to research
Published in Anthony Korner, Communicative Exchange, Psychotherapy and the Resonant Self, 2020
This session is from a late stage of therapy. This segment comes at the narrative highpoint of a session where the patient has conveyed a strong sense of agency. Her language has changed gradually over preceding months – away from the language of self-doubt and indecision. While recognizing that “storms” will still occur, there is the sense that they can now be managed. The patient is able to bring in associations found to be personally meaningful. She conveys a sense of resolve and direction. The therapist joins in by making an association, referring to a song that had come up months earlier in the therapeutic conversation. Quiet moments can be sustained in the conversation without anxiety, as indicated by a silence of about 90 seconds. The therapy ended within a few months. Occasional further contact supported the sense that the patient continued to function well, with a robust sense of self and progress in her career and relational world.
Introduction
Published in Hilary McClafferty, Mind–Body Medicine in Clinical Practice, 2018
Another important benefit is their flexibility, for example, they can be used in a range of clinical settings, from outpatient clinic to critical care unit, impacting an array of physical and mental measures. Their role in facilitating increased self-efficacy, self-regulation, and sense of agency in patients facing medical challenges is a further, and often underappreciated, strength.
Pain, voluntary action, and the sense of agency
Published in Jennifer Corns, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain, 2017
The studies described here suggest that the sense of being in control can reduce perceived pain levels, beyond any effects of voluntary movement or motor preparation on pain processing. One outstanding question is whether painful outcomes, as opposed to non-painful outcomes, affect the sense of being in control over the action that caused the pain. This feeling of control over one’s own actions and their outcomes is known as the sense of agency.
Agency and Authenticity
Published in AJOB Neuroscience, 2021
Subjectively, our phenomenal sense of agency is said to be the feeling we experience in our active capacity to engage in effectual behavior. That experience, that feeling, is what we can say counts as verification of a causally appropriate cognitive disposition in relation to the activity – i.e., the sense that the effects are indeed the result of our agentive engagement when accompanied by mental representations that make appropriate sense of the effects experienced as being the results of my will to act. For instance, I believe that my fountain pen has run out of ink, so I pick it up with the intention to change the cartridge, and do so. The experienced effects of my action have resulted in a phenomenal (seeming) confirmation that my beliefs and intentions are what caused my will to be effectual via the act of picking up and changing the cartridge. To be clear, the general approach to agency that posits appropriate relations of cause and effect as verifiable (at least subjectively) between mental representations and events is what we might consider the standard theory of agency.
Critical Consciousness-Based HIV Prevention Interventions for Black Gay and Bisexual Male Youth
Published in American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2019
Gary W. Harper, Laura Jadwin-Cakmak, Emily Cherenak, Patrick Wilson
Some aspects of psychological empowerment are closely linked to the Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986) constructs of self-control of behavior and self-efficacy. Sense of agency and control, have been identified as key constructs in the process of adolescents and young adults moving toward improved critical consciousness in prior interventions (Dunlap et al., 2017; Watts et al., 2002; Wallerstein & Sanchez-Merki, 1994). These key constructs, in combination with critical reflection and empowerment, are understood as mediating mechanisms between intervention exposure and engagement in health promotion behaviors (Super, Wagemakers, Picavet, Verkooijen, & Koelen, 2015). Intervention activities that are grounded in Social Cognitive Theory typically aim to increase participants’ behavioral capability by promoting mastery learning through skills training, thus improving participants’ perceived self-control. Such activities typically facilitate improved self-efficacy by increasing participants’ confidence that they will be able to perform protective behaviors and remove barriers to performing health promoting activities.
Acute psychosocial stress weakens the sense of agency in healthy adults
Published in Stress, 2023
Yayun Chu, Guanhua Huang, Yunyun Li, Qin Chen, Jiajia Liu, Ke Zhao, Xiaolan Fu
Another issue should be mentioned. The sense of agency in our study differs from the concept of the locus of control. The locus of control was considered a personality trait. There are two types of the locus of control: internal and external. The first is characterized by the participant’s belief that the things happening to him or her are a consequence of his or her actions, and the second is because the subject belief that things occurring are due to external factors (de Dios-Duarte et al., 2022). The important aspect of sense of agency is the experience of how one’s action affects the external environment. Further studies are needed to testify whether there is a difference of SoA between two types of the locus of control.