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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Individual-level Factors"”.
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Essays on Product Placement: An Analysis of Key Executional and Individual Level Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Product Placements.
… is a collection of three essays that investigate factors affecting the effectiveness of product placements. The first essay focuses on two measures of product placement effectiveness - audience recall and attitudes toward the placement. Extant empirical studies that address the antecedents of …
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Pup provisioning and artificial pack formation in African wild dog Lycaon pictus in South Africa
… packs, few studies have addressed the group or individual level factors that influence helping in wild dogs. In this study we use data collected as part of a long-term project in the Kruger National Park (KNP) to provide the first detailed analysis on the relative contribution to pup rearing of …
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Picture Perfect: Predicting the Model Ex-Offender
… job readiness program, to examine the effect individual-level factors have on an offender's likelihood to successfully reintegrate. By using logistical regression, this analysis attempts to determine which factors are most likely to predict a person will remain in the community and out of …
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SCVI: Bridging Social and Cyber Dimensions for Comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment
… Index (SCVI), a novel framework that integrates individual-level factors (e.g., awareness, behavioral traits, psychological attributes) with attack-level characteristics (e.g., frequency, impact, sophistication) for a comprehensive socio-cyber vulnerability assessment. Validated using survey data …
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Essays on Individual Judgment, Stakeholders and Firm Performance: Microfinance, Firm Reputation and Industry Competition
… is comprised of three essays centered around how individual factors such as stakeholders’ perception and decision making may have performance impact at the firm level. In the first essay, I explore how individual characteristics of microfinance recipients such as their personal strategy in …
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Social determinants of comorbid depression among patients living with diabetes and/or HIV at primary healthcare settings in Western Cape Province of South Africa
… is largely shaped by the differences between individuals, communities, and provinces. Previous research highlights the influence of socioeconomic factors on the relationship between diabetes, HIV, and depression, although the focus has mainly been on the variability in health outcomes …
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The disclosure process of an invisible stigmatized identity
… included characteristics of the specific stigma, individual level factors, environmental factors, and perceived consequences of disclosure. Four invisible stigmatized identity types were selected: mental health problems, learning disability, low social class background, and lesbian, gay, or …
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Examining Community Integration Among Persons With Serious Mental Illnesses Residing In Supported Housing Via the Capabilities Approach
… SMI persons should target both environmental and individual-level factors.
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White Opinions Of United States Immigration: Testing Rival Hypotheses, 2004
… numbers of Hispanic immigrants, as well as the individual-level factors of economic insecurity, political knowledge, national identity, group pride, and racism. Using data from the 2004 American National Election Study, the thesis provides a critical test of the competing hypotheses using …
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Class Matters: School Affluence and Other Predictors of Attainment for Wealthy and Poor Students
… quintiles. It further finds that several school-level and individual-level factors predicting attainment operate differently for students from the highest and lowest socioeconomic backgrounds. This research concludes that the differential effects of school affluence and other factors related to …
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Factors influencing low-income working mother's child care arrangements under different neighborhood and state policy contexts
… studies have concentrated on examining mothers’ individual level factors’ effects on their child care arrangements. The effects of mothers’ neighborhood features, as well as state welfare policies, have not been well examined. As suggested by ecological model, contextual factors, such as …
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Interactive contribution of peer stress and executive function deficits in predicting adolescent depression
… depression, it is important to examine individual-level factors that may increase the likelihood of experiencing future negative outcomes. This research investigated the interactive contribution of peer stress and executive function (EF) deficits in predicting depressive symptoms across …
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POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND POLITICAL ENGAGMENT: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION PROSECUTIONS ON VOTING AND GOVERNMENT TRUST IN THE UNITED STATES
… has confirmed the importance of structural and individual-level factors in predicting voter turnout and citizen trust in the government. In international research particularly, political corruption has been shown to negatively affect citizen trust, though the effect of corruption on voter …
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Contextual Dynamics of Immigration Attitudes: Regional Differences in Southern Europe
… towards immigration are correlated with a set of individual level factors (e.g. perceptions of personal and collective threat, as well as measures of political socialization), which are shaped and determined by the contextual characteristics (e.g. economic conditions and demographic …
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Social-ecological factors associated with bullying and sexual harassment perpetration among middle school students
… at school and school social support) factors are associated with bullying and sexual harassment perpetration, above and beyond individual-level characteristics. Participants included 359 students (68% African American, 32% White; 52% girls, 48% boys) from 5 middle schools in Illinois. …
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Motivations and Drivers of Unionization Among General Surgery Residents
… system. Defining the interaction of macro- and individual-level factors residents experience is necessary to understand the trainee unionization phenomenon and delineate systemic adaptations that may be warranted.
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An exploratory study of the effects of cultural capital on the successful completion of a two-year honors program
… I examine how institutional, family, and individual level factors affect the successful completion of an honors program by students attending a two-year junior college. It is the objective of this research to arrive at a better understanding of two primary questions: first, what are the …
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Lost in transition: welfare to work in Louisiana
… Louisiana Welfare Panel Survey to determine the factors that place recipients into one of four groups based on welfare and work status: work only, welfare only, work and welfare, no work or welfare. Next I use this same data to analyze how placement into each of the four groups impacts two …
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Assessing Socio-stigmatizing Factors Affecting College Students' STI Testing Decisions
… providers’ judgment, and shame; however, these factors have not been measured congruently (Cunningham, Kerrigan, Jennings & Ellen, 2009). Thus, by studying the diverse population of college students and their sexual behaviors, this study sought to gain a better understanding of these dynamics …
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The complexity of disadvantage : examining the effects of moral ecology on adolescent educational outcomes.
… attainment such as access and affordability, or individual barriers that highlight a lack of character traits such as grit and resilience among traditionally disadvantaged students. I argue that these approaches are insufficient in that they ignore the interactive relationship between a student's …
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