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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Contextual Model"”.
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Development of a Contextual Model for the Treatment of Infidelity
… and culture are part (Williams, 2011). When contextual factors such as gender and power are not explicitly conceptualized, equality in couple relationships is assumed and responsibility tends to be placed equally on both partners for setting the stage for an affair (e. g., Brown, 2005; …
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Examining student engagement and its influence in a social contextual model of adolescent health behavior change
Current theoretical models of health behavior change frequently serve as the theoretical backdrop to adolescent health promotion programs. Yet, despite that each main theory was developed with adults and for adults, appropriate and necessary changes for adolescents are often neglected. The unique …
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Coping with Customer Sexual Harassment: Examining Retaliation as a Coping Strategy and Testing a Contextual Model
… and reporting). Results supported a five-factor model of coping consisting of internal, avoidance, reporting, social, and retaliation strategies. The second study used confirmatory factor analysis and found additional support for the five-factor measurement model. Study 2 proposed a model in …
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Explaining the Job-Related and Psychological Consequences of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Contextual Model
… the literature by proposing and testing a path model of the relationship between sexual harassment and outcomes. The model was tested via path analyses on 109 female employees of a large Western agribusiness. Results indicated that the intensity of sexual harassment (i.e., degree of threat, …
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Coping with Intergenerational Conflict Among Chinese Canadian Emerging Adults: Testing a Cultural and Contextual Model with a Mixed-Methods Approach
… a more nuanced view of the coping process, with contextual influences being spontaneously mentioned by most participants. Furthermore, parents’ reactions appear to play a role in participants’ choice of coping strategies. Similarly, participants’ acceptance or rejection of traditional Chinese …
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Sexual Self-Concept and Sexual Self-Disclosure: Examining the Role of Individual Factors within a Contextual Model of Sexual Self-Disclosure
… people. This dissertation study extends current contextual understanding of sexual self-disclosure processes by examining individual and disclosure-level factors and their impact on the sexual self-disclosure process. Using a sample of 582 emerging adults, this study examined the relationship …
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How a Museum Exhibit Functions as a Literacy Event for Viewers
… & Ivanic, 2000; Gee, 2000; Street, 1995). This model of literacy considers three factors of literacy: the literacy practice, the literacy event and the text (Barton & Hamilton, 2000). The literacy practice for this dissertation was museum visiting. The literacy event was viewing one museum …
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Contextual Relationship Model Across Four Cultures
… with different data has shown validity for a contextual model of relationships whereby a person's background characteristics affects or predicts her/his interpersonal style, which then affects or predicts her/his relationship satisfaction. This study tests if this relationship model is …
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Boundary Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Military Family Reintegration
… This study examined the applicability of the Contextual Model of Family Stress (Boss, 2002) to a reintegrating military family sample (N = 228) by assessing the effects of external, military-related contextual factors (i.e., rank, component, combat exposure, length of time home …
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Developmental changes in the female adolescent body image
… occur during adolescence within a developmental-contextual model. This study does not purport to demonstrate bidirectional interactions and does not allow for a definitive interpretation of the results with respect to developmental patterns; however, the developmental-contextual model is …
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Southern Baptist Convention Missions in Canada: An Indigenous Missiology for a Convention in a Near-Culture Country
… the progression of thought on indigenous and contextualized missiologies. Chapter 4 examines the literature related specifically to indigenous missiology beginning with Rufus Anderson and Henry Venn. Chapter 5 examines the development of contextualization. While most contextualization models …
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An Assessment of Marital Satisfaction in Stepfamilies Toward an Integration of Three Conceptual Models of Relationship Satisfaction
… satisfaction in stepfamilies in light of the contextual, problem-solving, and investment models of relationship satisfaction. A questionnaire developed to assess marital satisfaction in stepfamilies using variables from the three conceptual models with the Kansas Marital Scale as a global …
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Cognition, emotion, and interaction in distressed and nondistressed marriages
… issues, which derive from a recently proposed contextual model that expands upon the behavioral approach to marital interaction, are examined in the present study. Forty-seven couples were instructed to discuss a major difficulty in their marriage and those discussions were later coded for the …
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Syrian Refugee Fathers Perceptions of Identity and Family Dynamics in the U.S. after Displacement
… and family interactions. In addition, the contextual model of family stress is used to customize fathers� experience of displacement. The inferences from this study provide guidance for marriage and family therapists, mental health practitioners, and organizations working with refugee …
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From Placebo to self-help: Investigating retention, outcome and mechanisms in self-directed gratitude interventions
… outcome and retention. Placebo theory and the contextual model of psychotherapy provide useful insight into the factors that affect outcome and retention in self-help therapy.
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Integrating source-language context into log-linear models of statistical machine translation
… statistical machine translation (SMT) model dependencies between the source and target phrases, but not among the phrases in the source language themselves. A swathe of research has demonstrated that integrating source context modelling directly into log-linear phrase-based SMT (PB-SMT) …
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Seeking Christian enculturation among Vietnamese Evangelicals
… ancestral worship practice. Schreiter’s contextual model, through cultural listening, attempts to create overt inculturation keys amenable to the Christian message, but such models have not been an aid to the problems surrounding ancestral veneration rites, which have existed in East Asia …
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Investigating default mode network activation during external task switches and movie watching
… DMN’s role in representing and updating a mental model through its recruitment during various transitions in naturalistic stimuli, such as movies. The findings indicate that DMN subnetworks are sensitive to objective transitions in stimuli and subjective event boundaries, supporting the DMN’s role …
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Diversity Aware Visualization
… to its similarities or differences. Our contextual model not only considers the transformation of objects as entities but also adapts to various visualization contexts. These contexts are space, list, timeline, and network. We design a multiview visualization framework that allows …
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