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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Lay beliefs."”.
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Lay Beliefs About Sexual Satisfaction And Attributions For Low Desire In Relationships
Sexuality plays a key role in shaping overall relationship happiness and stability, yet sexual desire tends to decline over time in relationships, which is a key reason for relationship dissolution. Theories of implicit (lay) beliefs about the maintenance of sexual satisfaction (i.e., sexual growth …
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Lay beliefs of anxiety etiology as a cause of perceived anxiety controllability : an experimental evaluation.
… little is known about the origins of these beliefs. Extant findings indicate that the perceived controllability of other mental health concerns can be caused by exposure to etiological explanations. Specifically, exposure to biological and genetic explanations causes lower perceived symptom …
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Lay beliefs of anxiety etiology as a cause of perceived anxiety controllability : an experimental evaluation.
… little is known about the origins of these beliefs. Extant findings indicate that the perceived controllability of other mental health concerns can be caused by exposure to etiological explanations. Specifically, exposure to biological and genetic explanations causes lower perceived symptom …
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Awareness of cervical cancer risk factors and symptoms and lay beliefs amongst women recently diagnosed with cervical cancer in South Africa and Zimbabwe
… cancer symptoms and risk factors as well as lay beliefs amongst women recently diagnosed with cervical cancer from SA and Zimbabwe. Methods: This is a secondary analysis of data from a descriptive cross-sectional study of women recently diagnosed with cervical cancer in SA and Zimbabwe. …
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Knowledge, Perceptions, Beliefs and Behaviors Related to the Prevention of Hypertension Among Black Seventh-day Adventists Living in London
… London. A questionnaire assessed knowledge and lay-beliefs about HTN and perceptions towards HTN using the health belief model (HBM) constructs of susceptibility, severity, benefits, barriers, and self-efficacy. Cohen’s Perceived Stress Scale was incorporated into the questionnaire. Blood …
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Comparing women's unprompted and prompted knowledge of breast and cervical cancer risk factors and symptoms in Sub- Saharan Africa
… questioning identified additional risk lay beliefs such as, ‘itching of the breast’. Combined use of unprompted and prompted questions provides more insight on breast and cervical cancer knowledge patterns in SSA. The low unprompted knowledge scores reported here demonstrate the need for …
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The influence of brand personalities on consumers:exploring the moderating role of implicit self-theories.
… To do so, we introduce implicit self-theories--lay beliefs that consumers hold about personalities--as an important factor that moderates how consumers use brand personalities to self enhance. We draw upon this theory to identify the ways that consumers might use brand personalities to …
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Examination of the explanatory role of self-evaluation motives when studying feedback-seeking behavior in organizations
… be influenced by changing the feedback-seeker’s lay beliefs. An experiment showed that people sought more feedback about important dimensions as opposed to unimportant dimensions and sought more feedback about non-modifiable dimensions as opposed to modifiable dimensions. In the third chapter, I …