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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Canadian sample"”.
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Consistency in choice and form of main entry, 1982 and 1989: A comparison of Library of Congress monograph cataloging with that of the British Library and the national libraries of Australia and Canada
… name headings under certain circumstances (1989 Canadian sample); a greater tendency by NLC to elaborate personal name headings (both Canadian samples); an NLA policy artificially lengthening short titles proper (1989 Australian sample); and the withdrawal of an LC policy providing guidance in …
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Examining the Factor Structure of the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS) in Emerging Adults: An Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling Approach
… the optimal SURPS factor structure in a large Canadian sample, tested measurement invariance across sex and alcohol use differences, and assessed the predictive validity of SURPS subscales for alcohol use motives and problems. A sample of 6,397 emerging adults completed surveys. ESEM had …
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Lender identity, lender equity and project finance debt mandates
… announcements from mine developers listed on the Canadian and Australian equity markets. The thesis documents a significant mean (median) 3-day abnormal return of 5.0% (3.8%) for Australian sample and 4.2% (2.4%) for Canadian sample, consistent with screening benefits and information transfer from …
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Perceptions of police use of force: the role of context-specific factors, police legitimacy, and belief in a just world
… police use of force is perceived to be among a Canadian sample. Four text-based vignettes depicting a police use of force encounter were used in the current study. The vignettes manipulated two factors that were hypothesized to influence perceptions of police use of force: (1) civilian …
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Scams and Aging: Factors Impacting Effective Decision Making
… 3 examined the most promising factors again in a Canadian sample. The results here suggest that older adults in China who experience more socioemotional disturbance due to isolation may be at higher risk of victimization compared to their peers and compared to those in Canada. To better understand …
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A Three-Factor Model of Personality Predicts Changes in Depression and Subjective Well-Being Following Positive Psychology Interventions
… to determine the structure of personality in a Canadian sample (N = 4375 at baseline) and to investigate how these personality factors predict depression, satisfaction with life, and affect following positive psychology interventions. Participants were recruited online and randomly assigned to …
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Preliminary psychometric characteristics of the critical thinking self-assessment scale
… item CTSAS was tested through two developmental samples; one of 887 undergraduate nursing students from five Colleges of Nursing from Mahatma Gandhi University of Kerala State, India, and the second 144 undergraduate students from the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. The …
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The criminal career profile : a measure of criminal careers
The term criminal career is used to describe the course or progress of criminal activity: its onset, duration, termination, severity, and change in severity. Such a term has important implications, given that significant criminal justice, social, and health policies such as crime control, parole, …