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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Fatalism"”.
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General Fatalism and Diabetes Fatalism as Predictors of Diabetes Treatment Adherence
<p>Greater conceptual distinction between fatalism as a cultural value orientation (general fatalism) and disease-specific fatalism is necessary to evaluate fatalism as a predictor of health behaviors such as diabetes treatment adherence. We tested an integrated, theory-driven structural model of …
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Diabetes Fatalism, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Management Among Arab Americans
… sociodemographic and clinical factors, diabetes fatalism, self-efficacy, and diabetes self-management among Arab Americans. Guided by the Health Belief Model, the aims were to: describe participant characteristics and study variables in a community health setting; examine relationships among …
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Freedom and fatalism in Wittgenstein's “Lectures on Freedom of the Will”
This thesis seeks to demonstrate the continuing relevance of Wittgenstein’s approach to the problem of freedom of the will, primarily as expounded in his “Lectures on Freedom of the Will” (LFW). My overall aim is to show how Wittgenstein works to reconfigure the debates about freedom of the will so …
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Time, Future Contingents, and Fatalism: A Comparison of Aristotle With Some Contemporary Philosophers
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Fatalism, Religious Attendance, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Engagement in Health Behaviors Among Hispanic Americans low in Acculturation and Income: Testing the Reserve Capacity Model
… as postulated in the Reserve Capacity Model. Fatalism is one such cultural value, and previous results have been mixed regarding its relationship with health outcomes in Hispanics. In White populations, studies tend to find a negative association between fatalism and health outcomes. To …
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Fatalistic Cultural Beliefs in Achievement Aspiration in the U.S. and Chile
… The results were as follows: 1) Higher levels of fatalism did negatively influence achievement aspiration, in Chile and the U.S., 2) Students in Chile and the U.S. had similar levels of cultural beliefs, 3) SES groups had significant differences in fatalism levels among mainstream and minority …
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Epipathogenesis of caries: Analyses of family structure, fear, and fatalism upon World Health Organization decayed, missing, and filled teeth severity in Appalachia West Virginia and Pennsylvania
… and family structure, dental fear, and fatalism in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.;Method: Using a cross-sectional study design, 2002-2009 Center for Oral Health Research in Appalachia data were analyzed utilizing the World Health Organization definitions for caries experience, …
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Breast Health and Mammography Screening in Older Women
… a lack of breast cancer knowledge and cancer fatalism, as independent predictors of mammography participation among older women. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the effects of a breast health awareness program on older women's knowledge of and fatalistic attitudes …
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Future Contingents, Freedom, And Foreknowledge
… trend and old tradition of analyzing theological fatalism in light of its relationship to logical fatalism. All results pertain to branching temporal systems that use the A-theory and assume presentism. The project focuses on two kinds of views about branching time. One position is true futurism, …
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Psychosocial Predictors of Breast Awareness Behaviors
… (e.g., anxiety, body dissatisfaction, cancer fatalism; religious beliefs and participation) and breast awareness behaviors (BSE frequency and proficiency, frequency of checking for lumps, and frequency of examining breasts in the shower) within the framework of personal factors (e.g., age, …
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Registered nurses who do and who do not pursue the baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN)
… and Internal Locus-of-Control (Social-System and Fatalism) were correlated with group membership of RNs pursuing a BSN. External Locus-of-Control Fatalism and age were correlated with group membership of RNs not pursuing a BSN. Recommendations included further research and a RN-BSN program to …
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JAZZ TEMPORALITY AND NARRATIVE: A READING OF RALPH ELLISON'S INVISIBLE MAN
… to protest the universalizing temporal modes of fatalism, determinism, and reversion.
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Coping strategies among Mexican American women living with HIV
… under their control which could be related to fatalism (fatalism).
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Cultural and Psychological Influences on Diabetic Adherence
… on culturally relevant value orientations (fatalism and mastery), disease/treatment related beliefs (Harris, Linn, Skyler, & Sandifer’s Diabetes Health Beliefs Scale[1985]), attributions regarding disease controllability (Revised Causal Dimension Scale; McAuley, Duncan, & Russell [1992]) and …
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The long-term effects of the loss of a spouse or an adult child in later life
… and hopefulness for the future (i.e., fatalism, vulnerability and ability to plan). Two-factor (Bereavement X Gender) ANOVAs covarying age, race, income, education and number of children revealed fewer differences between the groups than expected; however, the bereaved adults were less …
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Integrating new values into Mongolian public management
… favoring rule-bounded behavior and collectivism, fatalism accepting an authority as inevitable and uncontrollable, and individualism wishing to have control over own actions are the types of culture common in Mongolian public sector organizations. Accordingly, Mongolian public sector employees …
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Temporality in addiction and counselling psychology practice
… in particular past-‐negative, present-‐fatalism and present-‐ hedonistic time orientations and depression and anxiety. Significant negative relationships were also found between mental health and past-‐positive and future time perspectives. Distinct changes were reported in temporality …
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Free will and logic
… supposes that this form of Determinism entails Fatalism and so must be inconsistent with free will and moral responsibility. Next I examine some fashionable interpretations of the logical status of 'Every event has a cause. I claim that it is a genuine factual, but empirically unfalsifiable, …
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