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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Contextual Influences"”.
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Situational Affordances and Psychopathy: Examining Contextual Influences on Exploitative Behavior in Economic Games
… a nuanced understanding of psychopathy as a contextually adaptive strategy. Furthermore, this dissertation highlights the importance of integrating personality and situation factors in the prediction and understanding of behavior.
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Ethnic Identity Among Arab Americans: An Examination Of Contextual Influences And Psychological Well-Being
… was to examine the association between multiple contextual factors (such as students' perceptions of their parents' style of parenting, family ethnic socialization, perceived discrimination, and generational status) and ethnic identity or its' two components (ethnic identity exploration and …
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Contextual Influences on Peer Acceptance and the Social Behavior of Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities
Much attention has been paid to the social behavior of individuals with Intellectual Disability (IDs) due in part to its relevance to quality of life. Deficiencies in social skills are comamong persons with IDs and may include problem behaviors such as withdrawal, aggression, and difficulty …
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Older Adults' Self-Assessments of Health: Personal and Contextual Influences Throughout the Life Course
… guide this mixed method study, I identified the contextual factors that influence older adults' health perceptions and behaviors. Through self-report questionnaires from 111 individuals (M age = 74 yrs., S.D. = 5.64) and in-depth interviews with 30 of the older adults from the larger sample (11 …
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Childhood aggression in schools: The impact of behavioral patterns and contextual influences on teachers' cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses
… present study was designed to examine possible contextual influences on the course and treatment of aggression in schools, in an effort to inform future intervention development. The aim of the present study was to examine possible influences on teachers' response to reactive and proactive …
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Contextual influences on HRM homogeneity and heterogeneity in SMEs : a case study of high value-added and low value-added sectors
… and informality; characterised by institutional contextual (i.e. homogeneous) and situational contextual (i.e. heterogeneous) practices. It is suggested that a situational contextual perspective is simplistic in that although it acknowledges the interplay between HRM formality and informality, it …
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Social Contextual Influences on Consumer Behavior: The Impact of Group Composition and Coviewing Context on Recall of and Attitude toward Placed Brands
Though research has shown that social context influences behavior, research on product placement is yet to incorporate such effects. This is a very significant research gap since product placements are often consumed as part of a shared viewing experience. To address this gap, this dissertation …
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Understanding the physical and social environmental determinants of road traffic injury in South Africa
… and middle-income countries (LMICs). The unique contextual influences on RTIs in LMICs are, however, not well understood. Conceptual frameworks applied mostly to HICs also do not provide adequate recognition of the unique contextual influences of LMICs. Accordingly, the research in this thesis …
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Stepfamily assessment and intervention
… a summary of the structural characteristics, contextual influences, cognitive processes, behavioural practices; and developmental factors shown by previous research to be associated with adjustment within stepfamily relationship systems. This thesis also presents research that firstly, …
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Fossil Peonies and Birds Master of Arts in Studio Art Thesis.
<p>Because of influences of Chinese flower-and-bird paintings, I created a series of fossil peonies and birds paintings. This paper describes the concept of this series, materials, creative process, cultural and contextual influences, and the artists who inspired my works. Several problems I …
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Supervisors' perspectives on their supervisory relationships: a qualitative analysis
… highlighted regarding the quality of the SR's contextual influences, the flow of supervision and core relational factors. Contextual influences, which influenced the development of the SR included the team or service context, the training course and individual factors the supervisor and trainee …
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Exploring transracial and transethnic international adoption
… which were influenced by sociocultural norms and contextual influences. Implications for practice, research limitations and suggestions for future research are provided.
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Assessment of student learning in a business internship
… is complex, informal, and subject to the contextual influences of the particular workplace. Such complexities are heightened in some disciplines, like business, where the work occurs in diverse workplace settings, with the work requirements being unique to each student. Not surprisingly, …
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A case study of curriculum controversy: the Virginia Standards of Learning for history and the social sciences
… document. Further, this study showed two contextual influences on the Virginia social studies standards. The first was the Reagan rhetoric on academic crisis and educational reform through the establishment of tougher academic standards based on the traditional curriculum. The second was …
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Exploration of Zulu mothers' choice of food for their children
… of nutrient and energy rich food. However, contextual influences on the mothers' food choices for their children had not been reported. The purpose of this study was to explore and understand, from the perspective of NKZN mothers, the influences on their choices of food for their children …
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Dynamic person, context, and event determinants of individual motivation in teams
… the unique and joint role of individual and contextual influences on team member motivation over time and experience.
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Diamond to coal: an educational leadership doctoral program's evolution and devolution
… explanatory mixed-method study provides contextual depth by looking at the evolution (and devolution) of an on-campus doctoral-level ELPP model. This study examined contextual influences and programmatic effectiveness over time, as well as its uniqueness, integrity and import, from …
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Analysis and design as bricolage
… evaluation and selection, namely: Epistemology, Contextual Influences and Social Action. These factors are shown to operate in dialectic process that if engaged with can provide insight into what an appropriate method can be.
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