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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Individual variables"”.
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Family and Individual Variables Associated With Disordered Eating
… was used to examine the hypothesis that family variables are internalized by a woman, which in turn predict anorexic, bulimic, and binge eating symptoms among college women. The model tested in this research hypothesized that perceived family control toward eating and weight, family …
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Individual Variables in Context: A Longitudinal Study of Child and Adolescent English Language Learners
… density, which may also moderate the effects of individual variables such as age and exposure to the L2. Despite its substantial impact on the amount and quality of adult learners’ exposure to the L2, the variable of L1 density has received little attention in child and adolescent populations, …
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Intra-individual and Extra-individual predictors of text anxiety in Indian children: A cross-cultural perspective
… the present study investigated the role of intra-individual variables (fear, anxiety, depression, and somatization) and extra-individual variables (activities schedule, consequences of failure, perceived parental expectations and involvement and parental expectations and involvement) in predicting …
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Application of Transformations for Orthogonality
… analysis is widely used to form orthogonal variables. Realizing the difficulties of interpreting the principal components, Garthwaite et al. (2012) proposed two transformations, each of which yield surrogates of the original variables. Recently, Garthwaite and Koch (2016) proposed a …
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Soil Heterogeneity Changes During Forest Succession: Test of a Model Using Univariate and Geostatistics
… C) and forest floor litter at scales relevant to individual plants was quantified using univariate and geostatistical procedures. Global variation (using both coefficient of variation and standard deviation), patch size and proportion of spatially structured variation were examined for individual …
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Student engagement and student characteristics as predictors of student academic achievement at Illinois community colleges
… study was to discover which student engagement variables and student characteristics predict student academic achievement. The research utilized the standardized national Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) to examine data from 19,516 students from 13 Illinois community …
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A model of consumer preference for interpersonal information search
… information search. A model offering individual and situational predictors of consumer preference was tested using structural equation modeling. The individual variables included people's susceptibility to social influence, their need for cognition, and their self-confidence. The …
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Predictors of school exiting status and post-school outcomes for students identified as severely emotionally disturbed
… age from 18 to 27. It examined the capability of individual variables and two school variables (i.e., vocational education and counseling) to predict whether or not a youth graduated or dropped out of high school. The study also explored the impact individual variables and the school variables of …
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The Influence of Early Childhood Program Participation on Academic Achievement at the Elementary Level
… as measured by the NJ ASK 3 when controlling for individual variables. For each of the individual variables, regressions were run for language arts literacy and mathematics. The purpose was to see how the primary variable, early childhood program participation, interacted with the other variables. …
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Individual, family, social support and stress factors affecting university students' generalised self-efficacy beliefs
… Previous studies compared these beliefs to individual variables derived from self-concept, family, stress, and self-support research. An holistic approach in this present study was used with data collected from 168 first-year students, to investigate the relationship between generalised …
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Having Your Day in Court: The Psychological Impact of Sexual Harassment Litigation
… and objectively severe harassment), as well as individual differences (e.g., affect and employment at the firm while engaged in litigation) in vulnerability and resilience that are the main influences on complainant outcomes. Further, it appears that at least for PTSD symptomology, litigation …
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A response surface for the complex modulus of composite materials
… . To determine the long term influence of the individual contributions of time, temperature, and humidity on composite materials would require extensive numbers of specimens an:f tests. In order to isolate significant variables experiments have been designed for maximum utilization of …
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Predicting Staff Sexual Misconduct In Female Housing Units: Individual Versus Social Climate Factors
… staff sexual misconduct scores on a range of individual and social climate variables. Social climate variables were found to be more influential in regard to inmate perceptions of staff sexual misconduct than were individual variables. Implications of the findings are discussed. </p>
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Development of a Model for Determining Factors Affecting Safety Performance in the Saudi Arabian Construction Industry Using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)
… and administered to a small (n = 276) sample of individuals who currently work in the industry, this study aimed to contribute to empirical understandings of hazards, sources of risk, and perceptions of safety in this unique context. A multivariate safety performance model was developed based on …
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Not So Great Expectations: An Analysis of Expectation Determinants and the Predictability of Expectation Errors
… expectations hypothesis (REH). For each of these variables, I examine the determinants of expectations as well as the predictability of expectation errors. Overall, my results indicate that prior personal experience, prior variable performance, and demographic characteristics can predict errors in …
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Effective verbal behaviors during cognitive collaboration by older adult partners
… interactive behaviors in older adults (N = 80 individuals). The main goal of the current study was to examine the process of collaboration and how the interactive process related to the collaborative outcome. Three research questions were addressed. First, did partners exhibit similar levels of …
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Our Father Who Art in Heaven: an Exploration of Prayer Using Grounded Theory
… from conservative, Baptist denominations. The individual variables of age and gender were also examined in relation to prayer use. A total of 24 individuals participated in the study. Results revealed five major communicative functions of prayer: 1) prayer as a transactional communication …
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An exploratory study of the diffusion of instructional computing innovation among social work faculty
… (1983) Diffusion Theory was used to identify variables hypothesized to be correlated with the innovational adoption process. The findings suggested that the innovational attributes of trialability (r =.459, $p<.001$) and observability (r =.363, $p<.001$) surfaced as moderate predictors of …
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The factors that influence career choice
… that influence career choices such as the individual, situational and environmental variables. The study was conducted in the motor retail industry whereby 223 respondents participated in the study by completing the questionnaire. Participants indicated that parents’ or relatives’ advice, …
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The factors associated with under-five mortality in Zambia
… analytical framework. The construction of variables and analytical techniques are aimed at producing comparable results. As in the previous study, the inclusion of behavioural and proximate variables fails to explain the impact of socio-economic and cultural factors on neonatal mortality …
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