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What’s In a Name? Name Giving, Identity, and Script Formation

Pages 217-227
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article deals with the significance of a person’s name in relation to his or her life script and is focused specifically on Polish culture and context. A survey of 90 university students ages 21-23 revealed that most of them believe that their names were chosen in a purposeful manner, and they have a positive attitude toward those names. The findings also indicated that when survey participants were addressed by their parents, mothers used diminutives more often than fathers. In choosing their child’s first name, most parents wanted it to sound nice and be original, whereas the second name was often the same as that of an important family member. Interviews conducted with several students confirmed the existence of a link between names and various aspects of life script.

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Dorota Gębuś

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Jarosław Jagieła is an associate professor at Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa and the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, a social pedagogue, and a psychotherapist. He is the author or editor of 12 books and more than 100 articles, most of which are devoted to transactional analysis. He can be reached at the Research Team of Educational Transactional Analysis, ul. Waszyngtona 4/8, 42-200 Częstochowa, Poland; email: ; website: http://www.eat.ajd.czest.pl.
Dorota Gębuś, PhD, is a reader in the Faculty of Pedagogy at Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, a pedagogue, and a sociologist. She is a graduate of postgraduate studies in behavioral therapy pathology and neurolinguistic programming therapy and completed training and workshops on effective communication, negotiation, resolving conflicts, and working with groups. Her research interests include art education, the techniques of intellectual work, interpersonal communication, the problems of the modern family, and educational transactional analysis. She can be reached at the Research Team of Educational Transactional Analysis, ul. Waszyngtona 4/8, 42-200 Częstochowa, Poland; email: .