"Self-as-story" tendencies are associated with reduced wellbeing, particularly if self-conceptualizations are negative.
The more frail people reported lower self-esteem and lower sense of control, which support assertions of the global importance of frailty and function on peoples' self-conceptualization [ 38].
The powerful influence of social prescriptions about the gendered nature of caregiving may be cause for concern regarding child well-being if children internalize negative self-conceptualizations because of living in the "wrong kind" of family (Parreñas, 2010).
Additionally, the children may already have internalized some of the negative self-conceptualizations from the wider social community (Parreñas, 2010) and future research should consider how best to incorporate dimensions of community characteristics to capture cultural and social norms that may influence child well-being.
There is a difference between self-conscious conceptualization of experience and the application of concepts without awareness of applying them.
On treating the conceptualization of self, Ansari explains the Kantian construction of self as all knowing and based on essential goodness of self "The self, says Kant, does not derive its laws from but prescribe them to nature for it possesses an order which is fixed and immutable in all of us" (Ansari 2004: 5).
Cultures vary as for the conceptualization of self, which may lead to culture-specific interpretations of situations particularly relevant to self-conscious emotions such as pride and shame [ 9].
We have proposed the patient activation intervention PATCH Patient AcTivated Caree at Home Model) for this study based on components of Lorig's chronic disease self-management model, Hibbard's patient activation theory, Bandura's conceptualization of self-efficacy, and Long and Weinert's rural nursing theory.
These include the development of emotional and psychological independence that ends with a stable identity formation or conceptualization of self.
"Northern" conceptualizations of self, human origins, risks and potential benefits have shaped approaches to consent, specimen collection, ownership and information sharing — approaches that may be at odds with local meaning-making and therefore of limited value in determining what constitutes ethical practice in these communities [ 13].
