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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Attitudinal variables"”.
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Interracial Aggression: Behavioral and Attitudinal Variables.
… of the study was to explore behavioral and attitudinal variables of interracial aggression. Forty black and forty white female undergraduates were used as subjects. Subject race, target race, and anonymity served as the independent variables. Shock intensity, shock duration, and anticipated …
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Psychological, social and attitudinal variables associated with infantry combat effectiveness and their relation to women.
… and found that several individual and group variables (body dimensions, personality, activity level, and social cohesion) were related to adequate combat performance. The results of the literature search suggest that women may not be as well suited to combat as are men. In addition, 55 …
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An examination of the relationship of structural and attitudinal variables to occupational and organizational commitment
… and age. The second argument, labeled the "attitudinal'' approach, claims that various subjective characteristics of workers best account for commitment. Such attitudes include, for example, employees' perceptions of their satisfaction and role conflict within their jobs. Variables …
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The Straw that Breaks the Camel's Back: Do Shocks Moderate the Relationship between Attitudinal Variables and Turnover?
The current study was designed to test the relatively new conceptualization provided by Lee and Mitchell (1994)’s unfolding model of voluntary turnover. The unfolding model introduces a novel construct to the turnover literature known as a “shock to the system”. Shocks are theorized to be …
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The use of attitudinal variables to reduce potential prediction bais [i.e. bias] of ACT mathematics test scores for non traditional-age students
… to investigate the extent to which academic and attitudinal variables, in conjunction with ACT Math scores, a) lessen or eliminate the age-related bias, and b) enhance the prediction of course grades and posttest scores in freshman level mathematics courses. ACT Mathematics test scores were used …
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Understanding public perceptions of global warming
… warming. Specially, I examine how contextual variables, primarily represented by local weather and climate, attitudinal variables, and socio-demographic characteristics affect public opinion towards global warming, personal voluntary actions and willingness to address global warming. The …
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The effects of managers' cultural distance, ethnocentrism, and quality-of-life (QOL) orientation on program standardization
… in international marketing. Three attitudinal variables have been identified as potential predictors of program standardization decisions: managers’ cultural distance, ethnocentrism, and quality-of-life (QOL) orientation. This dissertation empirically examines the effects of these …
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THE LONG-TERM EFFECTIVENESS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION AT JAPANESE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
… on both English language skills and affective variables. The participants were 145 public junior high school students in Grades 7 and 8; 72 participants received English language instruction once a week in the local public elementary schools in tokku (special educational district), while the …
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Dimensions of commitment: an examination of worker-organization linkages in a large bureaucracy
… importance of sociodemographic, structural, and attitudinal variables in accounting for organizational commitment. A block-recursive model is used to conceptualize the relationship between the independent variables and organizational commitment. The sample for the study is drawn from payroll …
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An Analysis of Tolerance Variation Among Adherents to Feminist, Environmentalist and Gay Rights Principles
… 1993 General Social Survey data, independent attitudinal variables were constructed from indexed items measuring opinions about ideas embraced by three "new" social movements: the women's, environmental and gay rights' movements. Socio-structural and attitudinal variables were regressed on …
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Be Still My Heart: Determinants of Support for Capital Punishment Attitudes
… are included in the initial stage of the model. Attitudinal variables such as party identification, ideology, and religiosity are added, one-by-one, in the second stage of the model to determine their own individual effect on death penalty attitudes, and their effect on the preceding demographic …
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Study of the Attitudes Concerning Church Standards Expressed by Seventh-day Adventists in Relation to Selected Personality Traits
… among Seventh-day Adventists, predicting attitudinal tendencies of either strict or lenient adherence toward traditional church standards.</p> <p>Methodology. This study utilized the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Form C for measuring personality variables, and a Likert-type …
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Do You Have A Friend?: The Impact Of Personal Knowledge Of Someone With Aids On Attitudes Towards Aids
… knowledge about the AIDS virus and other attitudinal variables on four dimensions of social and behavioral concern for those with AIDS in American society. Sociodemographic variables, which prior studies have demonstrated as important predictors of attitudes toward AIDS, are included as …
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Television, mass media, and environmental cultivation: a study of private forest landowners in Delaware
… media, as well as demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal variables. Seven hundred and eighty-seven non-industrial private forest landowners – owners of at least one acre of forestland as determined by geographic information systems (GIS) analysis – completed questionnaires measuring media use, …
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AIDS education: A social constructionist approach (Immune deficiency).
… a function of their knowledge and a variety of attitudinal variables. While this research provided valuable findings, an understanding of adolescent unsafe behaviour remained fragmentary. The present study utilized a social constructionist approach to investigate this problem. Open-ended …
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Factors associated with membership and non-membership status in FFA of black Americans from selected NFA states
… the effect of selected socio-demographic variables and attitudinal variables on membership vs. non-membership in the FFA. The groups under investigation were 602 black tenth grade vocational students from 66 high schools in five former NFA states. Criteria for selection of high schools …
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Hybrid thermoelectric-ejector refrigeration system /
… a relatively stronger predictive power of attitudinal variables on WTP than socio-demographic variables. The findings provided evidence of heterogeneity in individual preferences for different ecosystem services provided by forested watersheds. Increase water quality and improvement in …
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The Impact of a Video Game Intervention on the Cognitive Functioning, Self-Efficacy, Self-Esteem, and Video Game Attitudes of Older Adults
… scores (and in the case of cognitive outcome variables, a separate cognitive screener) served as covariates indicated significant group differences with regards to brief arithmetic and syllable count assessments, and marginally significant differences on the basis of the Stroop Interference …
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A framework for employee development : a quantitative and qualitative study of individual differences and development outcomes
… (such as locus of control, learning styles or attitudinal variables) require further study we first need better methods for defining and measuring development motivation and development outcomes; an initially qualitative approach may be more conducive to further our understanding.
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Cognitive And Attitudinal Predictors Related To Graphing Achievement Among Pre-Service Elementary Teachers
… determine the extent to which six cognitive and attitudinal variables predicted pre-service elementary teachers' performance on line graphing. Predictors included Illinois teacher education basic skills sub-component scores in reading comprehension and mathematics, logical thinking performance …
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