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Showing 1 to 20 of 197 for “"Entitlement"”.
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An analysis of university student academic self-entitlement: Levels of entitlement, academic year, and gender
<p>Academic self-entitlement is a rapidly increasing phenomenon that is becoming a problem in universities today. Self-entitled students expect high grades for minimal effort and tend to be highly demanding; they exhibit strong emotions when outcomes fail to meet their expectations. This type of …
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Authoritarian entitlement and constraint: Women's representation in Chinese local congresses
My original dataset about the composition of provincial and prefectural congresses in China shows a puzzling contrast between ethnic majority women and ethnic minority women, which cannot be explained by socioeconomic factors. I use a mixed-method approach to examining the puzzle. I conducted …
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Academic Entitlement and Incivility: Differences in Faculty and Students' Perceptions
… for classroom incivilities and academic entitlement (AE). Nine behaviors commonly defined as incivility were measured and include: 1) sleeping in class, 2) inappropriate use of technology, 3) talking to other students during lecture, 4) leaving lecture without permission, 5) answering the …
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Imagining a right to health: HIV/AIDS, subjectivities and notions of entitlement
… ultimately influences their conceptualization of entitlements and rights. It achieves this by analyzing the broader historical and modern contexts in which the Kenyan PLWHA’s sense of self is constructed, including the norms on which attitudes about AIDS and those who suffer from it are grounded. …
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Ostracism and Antisocial Behavior: The Role of Perceived Justice, Entitlement, and Anger
… experience is mediated by increased feelings of entitlement (Poon, Chen, & DeWall, 2013) and anger (Chow, Tiedens, & Govan, 2008). However, this prior research has failed to determine whether ostracism in general leads to antisocial behavior, or only ostracism that is perceived of as unfair or …
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Advancing TOD in Boston's suburbs : advantages and obstacles in the entitlement process
… within existing suburbs. I have focused on the entitlement phase of projects, during which land is rezoned, permits are granted and development agreements are struck. Municipalities and developers must work together during this process, and I sought to understand the issues from both sides. For …
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Increased rape victims scale attitudes after relational rejection: The roles of entitlement and shame
… it was hypothesized that participants’ level of entitlement would mediate the results. It was additionally hypothesized that endorsement of victim blaming beliefs would correlate with both just world beliefs and traditional masculinity. Participants were administered a number of additional …
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Investigating the Role of Obligation and Entitlement in the Prosocial Disposition and Citizenship Performance
… in beliefs about personal obligation and entitlement are important aspects of individual differences in other orientation. Obligation and entitlement are hypothesized as predictors of the prosocial disposition and citizenship performance. Obligation and entitlement are defined and an …
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Entitlement advantage : the balance of local knowledge and capital access in real estate entitlements
… Generally considered the most risky, the entitlement phase is process by which the development entity gains the legal right to parcel land and develop a prescribed structure. This process sits at the confluence of all development factors: local politics, due diligence, financial support, …
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The Nature of Customer Entitlement in Fine-Dining Restaurants: A Qualitative Study of Waitstaff Perspectives
… this study was to explore the nature of customer entitlement from the perspective of fine-dining waitstaff in South Africa. A power imbalance between customers and waitstaff is especially likely in restaurant environments because of the expectations of customer acquiescence and the notion that …
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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE POST 9/11 GI BILL TRANSFER ENTITLEMENT ON NAVY ENLISTED RETENTION RATES
… to their spouses or children. The Transfer Entitlement was added to the PGIB to mitigate the expected loss of retention caused by the generous benefits in the PGIB program. This thesis focuses on the impact that the Transfer Entitlement has on retention and the current and long-term cost of …
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The Relationship Between Academic Entitlement, Academic Performance And Satisfaction With Life In A College Student Population
Although academic entitlement (AE) has become a popular topic of discussion in the media, it has received very little scholarly focus in the higher education literature to date. AE has been defined as a belief held by students that they deserve high grades in school despite a lack of effort put …
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Psychological Entitlement as a Predictor of Unethical Decision Making: An Investigation of Moral Disengagement as a Mediator
… another aspect. I argue that psychological entitlement (i.e., the belief that you deserve more simply because of who you are) is an antecedent of moral disengagement. Past research on entitlement has found it to be related to unethical behavior and unethical decision making in the workplace …
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Choosing the right way : a comparative analysis of entitlement methods for private large-scale developments in Boston
… conform to the underlying zoning constraints, entitlements can be obtained via zoning variances & special permits, creation of a Planned Development Area, a map amendment changing the zoning designation of their site, or use of a Chapter 121A agreement. Each of these methods can be used under …
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Towards a housing policy that accommodates children : a study of entitlements and entitlement failures in the National Housing Subsidy Scheme
This research is about a targeted response to poverty. The poverty alleviation programme in question is the South African National Housing Subsidy Scheme, and the thesis aims to bring together issues of child poverty and housing policy. In doing so, it addresses a number of gaps in the child …
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MAKING THE POLITICAL PERSONAL: INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEMINIST BELIEFS AND SEXUAL ASSERTIVENESS
… relationship: self-objectification, empowered entitlement, and self-silencing. Cross-sectional survey data were collected via online survey from 188 women. Results from correlational analyses indicated that active commitment to feminist beliefs was significantly related to lower levels of …
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The New Welfare Queen: A Narrative Analysis of Mitt Romney's 47% Speech
… queen, a longstanding social narrative about entitlement spending. By using Walter Fisher's (1984) Narrative Paradigm as a lens of critical analysis, I argue that Romney's appeal to a particular narrative was a persuasive decision based on his limited audience. By appealing to the welfare …
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Navigating The Manosphere: An Examination Of The Incel Movements’ Attitudes Of Sexual Aggression And Violence Against Women
… encompassing hegemonic masculinity, aggrieved entitlement, and patriarchy to better understand the prevalence and types of violence promoted by “incels”. Emerging themes revealed the pervasiveness of rape culture, pro-attitudes of violence against women, male victimization and oppression, …
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Distributive justice and patient selection
… according to the strength of a person's entitlement to a resource. In order to determine a person's entitlement, one must determine what context-relevant rights the person has and the strength of his or her claim to the resource, which is determined by a weighing up of context-relevant …
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