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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Cultural consensus"”.
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Cultural Consensus Model of Depression Beliefs Among Afghan Refugees
… distress levels were also collected. The Cultural Consensus Model was used to estimate the culturally correct answer for each question, and to assess the proportion of shared beliefs within and between groups. Results from consensus analysis indicated a homogenous response pattern present …
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Explaining Variance in Affect Control Theory: Cultural Consensus, Deflection, and Redefinition
… the theory's potential</p><p>to explain cultural differences and behavior patterns, many researchers aim to test and</p><p>apply ACT's insights to within- and across-culture analysis. The growth of the theory's</p><p>popularity necessitates a review and exposition of the theory's …
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Daimonic Imagery and the Formation of Cultural Consensus in the Neo-Assyrian period (ca. 1000-609 BCE)
… research to reconstruct its political and socio-cultural history has mainly focused on the royal family, the operations of state institutions, and the accumulation of cuneiform scholarship. Less examined is the influence of personal religion on the consistency of material practices and cultural …
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Statistical modelling of congruence and association between perceptual and complete networks
… is to find a common network which reflects the ""cultural"" consensus. Then, upon deriving the cultural consensus network, differences between the individual perceptions and the common network are evaluated and systematic patterns in the perceptual bias are explained. These consensus approaches to …
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Shaping Justice : Defining the disability benefit category in Swedish social policy
… and based on defined normative premises and cultural interpretations. The thesis presents which principles and criteria are used to distinguish worthiness to a category of disability and illustrate how these categorising rely on certain understandings of the welfare politics for persons with …
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The Relationship Between Historical Trauma, Ethnic Identity, and Well-Being in Sikh Emerging Adults
… explored whether Sikh emerging adults come to a consensus on activities and experiences through which they express their ethnic identity. Using Cultural Consensus Theory (CCT), participants demonstrated moderate to strong agreement around key indicators of ethnic identity. Items with the highest …
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Living with Sugar: Socioeconomic Status and Cultural Beliefs About Type 2 Diabetes Among Afro-Caribbean Women
… to investigate if Afro-Caribbean women share a cultural belief model about type 2 diabetes and how this belief model, along with structural barriers to health care, influence disease risk and management. A sample of 40 women, primarily Jamaican and Trinidadian, 35 to 90 years of age previously …
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Schrödinger's Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics
… aren’t made true by personal preference or cultural consensus. Moral antirealism is the claim that there are no stance-independent moral facts. Research on folk metaethics studies whether ordinary people (i.e., nonphilosophers) endorse realism or antirealism, or speak and think in ways that …
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Leisure Meanings in a Rural Community of Costa Rica
… rural community of Costa Rica was explored using cultural consensus and phenomenological methods of analyses. The denotative and connotative meanings of leisure were studied as they pertained to twelve research participants characterized as adults, adolescents, males, and females (i.e., the …
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Choosing God, Choosing Schools: a Study of the Relationship between Parental Religiosity and School Choice
… doctrinal commitment and general religiosity, a cultural domain had to first be established. Following the methodology as laid out in cultural consensus theory, free-listing and rank-ordering tasks were given to two separate, geographically representative samples from across the continental …