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Automation investment appraisals
Intelligent automation software technology is key to remaining competitive in the current growing digital landscape. Appropriate techniques should be used to appraise such investments and make correct automation investment decisions. After a comprehensive literature review, three limitations on …
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Occupational Bias in Performance Appraisals
… favored than other occupations in performance appraisals in pay pools? While many types of bias in performance appraisals occur, such as gender or race, occupational bias--favoring or showing preference for one occupation over another in performance appraisals and subsequent ratings-- has not …
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The relationship between alienation appraisals and trauma
… Review Research suggests that alienation appraisals, defined as feeling disconnected from the self and others, mediate the relationship between traumatic events and subsequent PTSD symptoms. A systematic search of 6 databases found 463 studies, 9 met full inclusion criteria. Studies were …
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Self-Appraisals, Perfectionism, and Academics in College Undergraduates
… gender, cognitive-affective and academic self-appraisals, and academic performance expectations were studied. The sample consisted of 155 Introductory Psychology students (57 African Americans, 41 Asian Americans, and 57 European Americans; 51.6% women) with a mean age of 19.4 years (SD = 3.6). …
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Danger appraisals as prospective predictors of disgust and avoidance
… study used a prospective design to assess threat appraisals, personality traits, and obsessive compulsive symptoms in an unselected sample of university students and community members (N = 105) several days prior to a contamination behavioural approach task (BAT) in a public washroom. Results of …
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The effects of approach-avoidance behaviors on goal appraisals
Previous research has demonstrated that behaviors associated with approach and avoidance motivation can influence cognitions in line with the particular motivational state (e.g., Friedman & F̈örster, 2008). The present studies examined whether behaviors associated with approach and avoidance …
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Staff nurses' appraisals and coping strategies in a critical incident
Although there was extensive literature pertaining to how nurses reacted to and coped with stressful encounters, there was little information about a specific kind of stress: critical incident stress (CIS). The purpose of this study was to describe how medical/surgical general duty nurses …
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The experience of stress in high school teachers: appraisals of threat
… of high school teachers, with a focus on threat appraisals. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with a volunteer sample of 8 high school teachers (5 men and 3 women). Background information was also recorded based on previous research and theories of teacher stress. The initial …
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Memory appraisals by older people : associated factors and spousal relationship quality
This portfolio thesis has three parts:Part one is a systematic review of the factors associated with awareness of memory function in older people without dementia. Recent research suggests that subjective memory complaints may precede objective cognitive decline in older people, but whilst several …
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APPRAISALS OF AND RESPONSES TO HYPOMANIC STATES IN BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER
… The inter-relation between positive and negative appraisals of energetic, agitated states on one hand and enhancing as well downregulating positive mood strategies on the other hand is also explored. Remitted bipolar participants (N= 30) were compared with healthy controls (N= 27) on measures of …
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Social influence and organizational justice in employee reactions to performance appraisals
Organizational justice research has found that fairness considerations are ubiquitous in organizational life and that if employees are provided with an opportunity to provide input or voice into procedures that lead to outcomes that affect them, their perceptions of fairness are enhanced. Research …
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"Hey, are you busy right now?" stressor appraisals of interruptions to workflow
… domain, and urgency) and their impact on appraisals of threat and changes in perceived energy. Participants (N = 290 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers) read and responded to a series of interruption vignettes, appraising each scenario as a threat to personal resources, and evaluating an …
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Maladaptive appraisals and intrusive thoughts associated with obsessive compulsive disorder: A semiidiographic approach.
This project investigated the metacognitive strategies used to appraise obsessive thoughts employed by individuals with different anxiety symptoms. Two hundred eighty-seven undergraduate students completed two repertory grids and three anxiety scales. The repertory grids respectively examined the …
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Body image and self-disgust as self-appraisals influencing adjustment to limb amputation
… roles of body image and self-disgust, as self-appraisals, in their relationship to psychosocial adjustment and related factors in people with limb amputations. The thesis includes a systematic literature review of body image relating to psychosocial adjustment and a research paper examining the …
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Explicating patient appraisals of chronic pain self-management advice in patient–provider consultations
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Challenge and hinderance stressor appraisals, personal resources, and work engagement among k-12 teachers
… resources that contribute to stressor appraisals as a hindrance. Finally, hindrance stress significantly detracted from engagement while challenge stress did not affect work engagement.
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Explicit and Implicit Gender Bias in Workplace Appraisals: How Automatic Prejudice Affects Decision Making
Explicit gender bias has been found using both experiments and field studies to favor men in hiring, promotion, and career opportunities (Eagly & Carli, 2007), but experimental studies have been criticized for over generalizing results obtained from a "stranger-to-stranger" paradigm (Copus, 2005; …
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Challenge stressors, hindrance stressors, and psychological strain : the role of appraisals and goal orientations /
… stress, I examined whether and how individuals' appraisals of challenge and hindrance stressors and their goal orientations influence the positive relationships between both types of stressors and psychological strain. I surveyed 278 full-time employees from various occupations twice over a …
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