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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Causal Beliefs"”.
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The Relationship Between Causal Beliefs and Stigma of Mental Illness
… colleagues (2004) examining the relation between causality of mental illness and desire for social distance, as well as, the relationship between type of mental disorder and desires for social distance. Students read an information sheet describing mental illness as either biological or …
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Perceptions of mental illness in south-eastern Nigeria: causal beliefs, attitudes, help-seeking pathways and perceived barriers to help-seeking
… Nigeria on four dimensions of mental illness: causal beliefs, attitudes towards sufferers, preferred treatment pathways and perceived barriers to accessing formal psychiatric care. Mixed sampling methods were used to select participants who completed quantitative questionnaires. The number of …
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Autism in Vietnam: A Three-Part Study to Enhance Understanding of Vietnamese Parents’ Perceptions and Etiological Beliefs about their Children’s Autism Spectrum Disorder
… validated to measure parents’ perceptions and causal beliefs about their child’s autism. However, the validation sample was composed of parents living in high-income countries in North America (HICs; the United States and Canada) with individualistic cultural values. Perceptions and …
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The Political Economy of Internal Adjustment in the Baltic States: Explaining Responses to the Crisis /
… currencies), continuity in economic policy, causal beliefs, and non-economic functions of fixed exchange rates. The implementation of a very large fiscal consolidation package was possible due to weak trade unions, a high degree of centralization, causal beliefs about appropriate economic …
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Depression is a brain disease: An examination of the impact of biological explanations of mental illness
… with greater depression familiarity and various causal beliefs, and to examine the impact of personality and the message on the willingness to seek treatment. 182 undergraduates completed personality measures and stigma measures before viewing a message, and affect and stigma measures again …
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Depression is a brain disease: An examination of the impact of biological explanations of mental illness
… with greater depression familiarity and various causal beliefs, and to examine the impact of personality and the message on the willingness to seek treatment. 182 undergraduates completed personality measures and stigma measures before viewing a message, and affect and stigma measures again …
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Causality and Sense of Agency: A Social-Cognitive Approach with Temporal and Spatial Binding
… becomes contracted when we believe there is a causal connection between them. The present thesis investigated how such measures of implicit causal beliefs translate to meaningful, social contexts, inspired by research from the areas of sense of agency and immanent justice reasoning. …
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Lifestyle self-management experiences of South Asians post myocardial infarction
… and conforming to the religious and health (causal) beliefs. Discussion: By providing a unique insight that choosing and prioritising lifestyle style changes is not an individual act, but a shared act, a case for ‘shared efficacy’ is made. The concept of ‘shared efficacy’ as an essential …
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Parental attributions concerning the causes and controllability of adolescent depression
… within the home by breaking down attributional beliefs into two dimensions: the etiology of the disorder and the controllability of the symptoms. This study included 154 parents of adolescents who filled out an online survey. Participants were predominantly female and identified themselves as …
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The HR Consulting Entrepreneur: Firm-Builder, Market-Maker and Diffuser of HR Management Knowledge in an Emergent Business System
… that are responsible both for the formation of causal beliefs about the role of HR practices and for the build up of new market institutions that diffuses them into the broader environment. Third, the analysis illuminates the formation of preferences for new (or previously unknown) management …
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Effects of engaging in success for all on children's causal attributions
… of success. The present study investigated the causal attributions of students in a Success for All (SFA) school versus a traditional reading curriculum. A total of 197 children, 89 from the SFA experimental school, and 108 control children participated in this study. Data were collected through …
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Learning and restructuring causal concepts
… this approach is that concepts are built on causal-explanatory knowledge, and hence, models of causal induction may help to clarify the mechanisms of the restructuring process. A new paradigm is presented to study the learning and revising of causal networks. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that …
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Ethnic differences in illness representations, coping and adjustment in people with coronary heart disease
… illness representations and in particular causal beliefs. Only one coping strategy was significantly different between the two groups and there were no differences on perceived health status measures or in anxiety levels. However, the Punjabi group were significantly more depressed. Within …
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Explanations and communicative constraints in naturally occurring discourse
… previously. Chapter three further pursues causal expressions as cases of explanations by asking what a causal statement is. The chapter opens with a discussion of how causes relate to reasons concluding that reasons are a species of cause. I then go on to use data from earlier work to study …