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Showing 1 to 20 of 317 for “"Individual characteristics"”.
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Responses to terrorism scenarios: Event features, individual characteristics, and subjective evaluations
… to terrorism has focused on the effects of individual characteristics on reactions to past terrorism events. This literature has largely omitted two issues: the impact of terrorism event features, and reactions to possible future terrorism events. The first purpose of this dissertation was …
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US store detectives: the relationship between individual characteristics and job performance
… use job performance reviews to gauge the individual efficacy of store detectives. In addition to job training, and job output supervision, research has indicated certain stable characteristics of individuals helps explain actual job performance, making pre-employment selection a critical …
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The Influence of Individual Characteristics on Police Cynicism and Police Job Satisfaction
… well-studied and has been considered at both the individual and occupational level (Caplan, 2003). Similarly, police job satisfaction has been well studied and has been shown to be associated with police cynicism (Johnson, 2012). While both police cynicism and police job satisfaction are well …
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Military Retirement: Exploring the Relationships Between Individual Characteristics and Career Transition Mental Preparedness
The independent variable with significant relationship to the CTI Independence scale was the Family Status characteristic, specifically having a spouse and children. The strongest transition decision-making variations occurred between having children versus not having children. A person's Readiness …
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The Vocal Effects of Delayed Auditory Feedback and Their Relationships Toother Individual Characteristics
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T22:51:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0023373.pdf: 4016043 bytes, checksum: 0f3ada099328eb9e26aae103f9633e71 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1957
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Measurement properties of respondent-defined rating-scales. An investigation of individual characteristics and respondent choices.
… of measurement methods that take respondents¿ individual cognitions into consideration, to reduce measurement error in survey data. Specifically, the aim of the study was to develop and test a measurement instrument capable of having respondents individualise their own rating-scales. A mixed …
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Towards a better understanding of unethical consumer behavior : the influence of individual characteristics, situational circumstances and emotional experiences in consumers' ethical decision-making processes
… by conceiving and testing (1) additional individual characteristics, (2) situational circumstances, and (3) emotional experiences (along with other issue-related influences), and considering the potential mediating and moderating effects within the ethical decision-making processes of …
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The impact of work environment, individual characteristics, training design and motivation on training transfer to the work: the case of Saudi Arabian Public Security Organisation
… was to find out the impact of work environment, individual characteristics, training design and motivation on training transfer to the work in the context of public security. Methodology included a cross sectional questionnaire survey administered to a stratified convenience sample of 500 …
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INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES WHO RECEIVED A WAIVER FOR THE REQUIREMENTS NECESSARY TO EARN A STANDARD DIPLOMA: A STUDY OF ONE SYSTEM
… this study was to investigate the association of individual characteristics to include disability status, age, gender, and race-ethnicity on receiving a waiver from one or more of the requirements for receipt of the standard diploma among students with and without disabilities. Student data was …
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The risks of nonfatal violent victimizations across individual-and structural-level characteristics
… of this study is to examine the impact of individual characteristics and structural conditions on non-fatal violent victimization risks. Using the criminological theories known Routine Activities/The Lifestyle Model and Social Disorganization Theory, each provided explanations how and why …
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Structural equation modeling: Predictors of verbal abuse of registered nurses
… examine the contribution of latent constructs, individual characteristics and organizational characteristics, to the frequency with which registered nurses experience verbal abuse in the workplace. Several observed variables were identified to represent the latent constructs. Year in practice …
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Relationship between family, school, peer, and student characteristics and student scientific literacy in Azerbaijan
… the effects of school, family, peer and student individual characteristics on scientific literacy scores. The study analyzed data from the Program of International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006 data collected from 171 schools and 5,184 students in Azerbaijan. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) …
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Effects of motivation on employee performance”: A case of Mbeya Regional Commissioner’s Office staff
… data. Respondent’s files were scanned for individual OPRAS scores for 2011/12 year. These data were subjected to descriptive statistics as well as regression analysis. In the regression analysis, employee performance was the dependent variable while motivation and the demographic variables …
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Effect of risk perception on travel intention to conflict-ridden destinations
… risk, along with other factors such as individual characteristics, destination image, and prior experience influences the travel intention in conflict-ridden destinations. The main results of the current study confirmed the assumed relationships between perceived risk, individual …
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Information And Voting In Senate Elections
… Special attention in this study is given towards individual characteristics and campaign characteristics. First, individual characteristics, such as social and demographic variables, are expected to have an effect on voting correctly based on previous political behavior studies noting group …
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Voluntary job mobility within the Water Services Corporation : analysing motivating factors across employee groups
… (p ˂ 0.05) across distinct groups based on their individual characteristics. The basis of these individual characteristics includes age, gender, level of education, job tenure, current occupation, and whether employees are responsible for children below the age of 18. The study also intends to …
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Trajectories of victimization across the school years: individual and peer context predictors
… of predictors that are associated with individual characteristics (social behavior) and a contextual factor (peer adversity), from 2nd to 8th grade, spanning the transition to middle school. In Chapter 1, the overall trajectories of victimization were found to decline for both types of …
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Effects of Parental Style and Power on Adolescent's Influence in Family Consumption Decisions
… antecedent variables (i.e., family variables, individual characteristics of children, individual characteristics of parents, and parent-child interdependence) affect both directly and indirectly children's choice of influence strategy and relative influence. Process variables (i.e., family …
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Youth unemployment and the transition from school to work in Cape Town
… does this labour demand picture mesh with their individual, household and community contexts that they bring into the labour market? Through this interrogation, the chapter teases out a few key barriers to youth labour market participation and employment. The operation of these barriers is then …
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