language |'laNGgwij| noun: The system of communication used by a community to negotiate shared meaning and build group coherence and understanding around ideas, behaviors, and actions.
It assumes that we can act responsibly without having reasons for why we act, or that we can act coherently without understanding the theoretical coherence behind our actions.
The illness coherence subscale measures the degree to which patients feel they have a coherent understanding or model of their condition.
It is coherence of explanation, understanding things that are well-knit together; the broader the framework of knitting the things together, the more we are able to believe it.
Unlike, for example, the lexical Big Five tradition of personality research, social-cognitive theories are concerned fundamentally with mental structures and dynamics that causally contribute to personality functioning and coherence, and with understanding how these cognitive and affective systems develop and function in interaction with the social environment.
In addition to these, the dimensions of coherence (illness understanding) and emotional representation (emotions associated with the illness, such as concern and fear) are also part of the model (Leventhal et al, 1980; Moss-Moris et al., 2002).
Illness coherence (patients' understanding of RA) (P = 0.041, Mann Whitney) was lower in the South Asians, indicating that South Asians were more likely to have a poor understanding of RA (Table 2).
He wrote that he "love[d] the idea of Adam" but was having a hard time understanding the coherence of his application to the main plot.
Integrating gene expression profiles and metabolic pathways under different experimental conditions is essential for understanding the coherence of these two layers of cellular organization.
We focused on the first of their constructs, coherence, to examine what understanding participating GPs and primary care colleagues had of Prism before they started to use the innovation.
Ziporyn argues for understanding li as coherence.
