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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Crocker"”.
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Dorothy Brin Crocker: Her contributions to the field of music therapy
… determine how the contributions of Dorothy Brin Crocker may have impacted the field of music therapy. Interviews were conducted with the subject, family members, and colleagues. Information was also gathered through examination of Crocker's writings during the years 1950–1970 about music therapy. …
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Understanding the Consequences of Interpersonal Confrontation: The Role of Goal Pursuit in Men's Responses to Being Confronted as Sexist
… general and imagined threats lead to self-focus (Crocker, 2008), a respect goal was uniquely accessible when men imagined gender-neutral confrontation. In Study 2, men were primed with either an other-oriented liking goal or a self-oriented respect goal. I then observed men's self-promoting or …
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Social identity shifts across nationality and race in response to socio-political events
… private American, and private racial (Luhtanen & Crocker, 1992). Findings showed that only Black Americans were able to shift between their national and racial identities in response to American shame, such that the relative valuation of their private racial identity over their private American …
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Confirmatory factor analysis of the collective self esteem scale
… focus on individual self-esteem, Luhtanen and Crocker (1992) developed a measure of Collective self-esteem (CSE) with the following subscales: membership self-esteem, private collective self-esteem, public collective self-esteem and importance to identity. The aim of this study was to determine …
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Estimating the Dynamic Sensitive Cross Section of an FPGA Design through Fault injection
… testing. A radiation test was conducted at Crocker Nuclear Laboratory using a proton accelerator in order to determine the actual dynamic sensitive cross section for specific FPGA designs. The results of this radiation testing were then analyzed and compared with similar fault injection …
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Social identity versus personal identity : an investigation into the interaction of group and personal status with collective and with personal self-esteem on ingroup favouritism
… (Rosenberg,1965) and collective self-esteem (Crocker & Luhtanen,1990) on the evaluations of products by (a) the ingroup in comparison with the outgroup, (b) self in comparison with the ingroup and (c) the difference between these self and ingroup favouritism measures. It was found that …
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Internalised shame and racialised identity in South Africa, with specific reference to 'coloured' identity : a quantitative study at two Western Cape universities
… Collective Self-Esteem Scale (Luhtanen and Crocker, 1992) that had been supplemented by 8 items from Bornman's (1988) racial identification scale. The dependent variable was shame and the Internalized Shame Scale (Cook, 2001) was used as a measure of this. A demographic questionnaire was …
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The Relationship Between Religiosity and Tobacco Use in a Mexican Spanish Speaking Sample in the United States
… Scale as a measure of religiosity (RBS; Blaine & Crocker, 1995), and answered questions regarding their current tobacco use characteristics including completing the Heaviness of Smoking Index (HSI; Heatherton et al., 1991). Results showed that tobacco users who identified as religious had higher …
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Gender and personality differences in coping in sport
… (e.g., Bebetsos & Antoniou, 2003; Kowalski, Crocker, Hoar & Niefer, 2005). Also, as suggested by the mainstream psychology literature, personality has been considered to be a moderator factor that could influence each aspect of the stress-coping process. However, little is known about this …
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Hiram W. Johnson and California Politics 1910-1914
… Four—Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins. The political machine which they built up controlled every sphere of the government, executive, Judicial, and legislative, and left the people in a state of complete indifference as far as political affairs were …
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Exploring stigma, identity gaps, and consumption
… perceive them, if their stigma is discovered (Crocker, Major, and Steele 1998). Individuals may face stigmatization of physical, mental, behavioral, or social characteristics. Common stigmatized attributes include race, class, gender, religion, and consumption decisions (e.g., being a Goth). …
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Seismic anisotropy and microseismicity: from crustal formation to subduction termination
… belt running down the north-west coast (the Crocker Range), which formed during the termination of subduction of the proto-South China Sea. Conversely, in south-west Sabah my observations suggest extension has played an important role in the subsequent tectonic evolution of northern Borneo …
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Examining emotional intelligence in sport
… Matthews, & Roberts, 2004) and health (Pau & Crocker, 2003). Such findings have prompted researchers to explore the potential utility of emotional intelligence in sport (Meyer & Fletcher, 2007; Meyer & Zizzi, 2007). The present MPhil thesis has a two-pronged approach of examining emotional …
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The Relationship between Professional Identity and Collective Self- esteem in School Counselors
… that one places on one's membership (Luhtanen & Crocker, 1992). The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between collective self-esteem and professional identity. The findings of this study indicated that collective self-esteem was relatively stable and remained moderately high …
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Coping with interpersonal sport stress in female adolescent soccer players: the role of perceived social support, cognitive appraisal, and trait social anxiety
… cope (Coping Functions Questionnaire; Kowalski & Crocker, 2001). . The initial findings indicated that challenge appraisals were moderately correlated with both emotion-focused (r = .41) and problem-focused coping (r = .51), whereas threat had a weak association with avoidance coping (r = .19). …
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The role of executive control in garden path reinterpretation
… 1992; Sturt, 1995; Sturt, Pickering, & Crocker, 1999). Some sentences appear to be hard (e.g., The horse raced past the barn fell, cf. the horse that was raced past the barn fell) (Bever, 1970) while others are relatively easy to reinterpret (e.g., John saw the girl was cheating, …
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Exclusion from gender counter-stereotypic activities: Proximal and distal effects
… 4). We tested opposing hypotheses. Work by Crocker and Major suggests that exclusion from counter-stereotypic activities may not be particularly threatening, as one can attribute the experience to the external cause of others' prejudice. However work by Branscombe and colleagues suggests …
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Gender Identity, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Esteem in Latino Adolescent Males
… are at-risk for low-self esteem (Twenge & Crocker, 2000) and self-esteem is a protective factor in adolescents (Hosogi, Okada, Fujii, Noguchi, & Watanabe, 2012), it is important to pinpoint variables that are related to high self-esteem.</p> <p>The purpose of this study is to explore the …
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A study of the hygiene and safety of foods sold by street food vendors operating within the Warwick triangle of Durban
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management Sciences: Hospitality and Tourism Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2020.
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Compost as a Growth Substrate for Woody Ornamental Nursery Production
Peat is an expensive, environmentally nonrenewable component of media used to grow woody ornamental trees. Leaf compost from the city of Bowling Green is an inexpensive renewable resource that was substituted for peat in soil-less container media. Seeds of three commercially important tree species, …
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