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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Leventhal"”.
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Illness Perceptions of Patients with Late-Stage Cancer and Their Partners
… used the Common-sense Model of Self-regulation (Leventhal, Brissette, & Leventhal, 2003) to understand how patients and their partners manage the demands of this understudied illness context. The Common-sense Model proposes that individuals create mental representations about their illness to …
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Emotion Management Skills of School-Age Children in the Context of Risk: The Role of Parent Socialization Strategies
… can disrupt social and emotional processes (Leventhal & Brooks-Gunn, 2000) and lead to the development of physical and mental health issues across the lifespan (Flouri, 2008). This study sought to better understand the associations between contextual risk, parent socialization of emotion, and …
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The role of motivation, self-efficacy, illness representations and family responsibility in relation to diabetes outcomes: perceptions of adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and their parents.
… (Bandura, 1997), and illness representations (Leventhal, et al. 1984), were examined in relation to dietary self-care, metabolic control (HbA1c levels) and diabetes related distress in adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). To bring the cognitive theories into a social context, …
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An exploration of illness representations in older age
… representation model is used as a framework (Leventhal, Nerenz, & Steele, 1984) for conducting semi-structured interviews. Ten older people with a diagnosis of epilepsy took part in the study. Three super-ordinate and eight subordinate themes emerged from the data. These themes are discussed …
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The meaning of health and the experience of coronary heart disease in Italian-speaking cardiac patients: implications for cardiac rehabilitation programs
… (CSM) of health and illness, proposed by Howard Leventhal and colleagues, provides a dynamic model for the understanding of health and illness behaviours which can contribute to a better understanding of thèse social and cultural factors. Perceptions of health and illness are especially important …
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My Child’s Keeper: Child Vulnerability and Quality of Life on Parental Stress and Grit
… the Child Vulnerability Scale (Forsyth, Horwitz, Leventhal, Burger, & Leaf, 1996), the Short Grit Scale (Duckworth & Quinn, 2009), and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 (Varni, Seid, & Kurtin, 2001). Child vulnerability did not mediate the relationship between parental stress and HRQOL …
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Mood Management in Bipolar Disorder : A Five Stage Process.
… to expand on the Self Regulation Model (SRM; Leventhal et al. , 1984) framework to enhance understanding of mood identification and regulation in BD. The mood management model proposed was tested using three methodologies (namely experience sampling, mood induction and a cross-sectional survey …
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Exploring and Changing Cognitive Representations, Coping and Quality Of Life Outcomes in Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria
… illness representations. The Common-Sense Model (Leventhal, Meyer and Nerenz, 1980) postulates that these guide coping procedures that impact outcomes. The aim of the thesis was to examine whether CU representations (mediated by coping) predicted QoL and whether both representations and QoL in CU …
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Coupling Targeting and Community Land Trusts: A Comprehensive Strategy for Revitalizing the Oretha Castle Haley Corridor and Central City
<p>Since Hurricane Katrina, targeting redevelopment has become the dominant municipal strategy for neighborhood and city-wide revitalization. Since 2009, this strategy has been adopted and is currently being implemented by the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority in several New Orleans …
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Three essays on the cost components of the bid-ask spread
This dissertation consists of three interrelated essays. The first essay focuses on the adverse selection component of the bid-ask spread. A regime switching model applied to the trading process leads to a parsimonious model of the time-series evolution of the bid-ask spread in which market …
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Subjektive Krankheitskonzepte adipöser Kinder : ihre Erfassung und ihr Einfluss auf den kindlichen Regulationsprozess
… Model of Illness Representation (CSM) von Howard Leventhal. Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war es die subjektiven Krankheitskonzepte adipöser Kinder zu erfassen und ihren Einfluss auf den Regulationsprozess zu analysieren. In einer ersten Untersuchung wurde mittels Daten von 168 adipösen Kindern im …
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The role of illness representations in the process of coping and psychosocial adjustment among adults with epilepsy
The self-regulation model (Leventhal, Nerenz and Steele, 1984) emphasises the role of cognitive representations of illness and coping efforts on patients responses to health threats. In this thesis the relationships between illness representations, coping and psychosocial adjustment were …
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Conflict Resolution Strategies in Young Children: Do They Do What They Say?
This study examined the consistency between verbal responses to hypothetical conflict scenarios and the actual conflict resolutions techniques children apply in everyday play. Twenty-one children were interviewed and observed in order to determine their conflict resolution strategies. During the …
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Outcomes of patients transferred to the University of Michigan health system on a short-term ventricular assist device for cardiogenic shock
<p>Short-term ventricular assist devices (VADs) are mechanical pumps that are used to temporarily support a patient who is in cardiogenic shock. These VADs are effective in sustaining a patient’s life until he or she can been transferred to a tertiary cardiac center such as the University of …
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Equilibrium Dialysis Studies of Purine and Pyrimidine Binding to Rabbit Myofibrils
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T20:55:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5805447.pdf: 2201465 bytes, checksum: af98da1dc92c66e90077493b47db502e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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The Literary Past and the Hellenistic Symposium
This thesis explores the presence of canonical texts in the Hellenistic period beyond individual reading habits. It utilises the interpersonal context of the symposium to understand the place and significance of literature as a social phenomenon. Methodologically, it combines art and text, …
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Comparison of DC latchup characterization techniques for CMOS technology
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1984.
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Pharmacokinetics and pulmonary distribution of Draxxin® (tulathromycin) in healthy adult horses
The objective of this study was to determine the pharmacokinetics and tolerance of tulathromycin (Draxxin®; 2.5 mg/kg once) after intramuscular (IM), subcutaneous (SC), and slow intravenous (IV) administration to six adult horses. A three-phase design and 4-week washout period were used. Drug …
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Educational and psychosocial development of adolescents in Specialist Sport Programs in Low SES Areas of Perth, Western Australia
… often have limited access to such programs (Leventhal, Dupéré, Brooks-Gunn, 2009). As such, it is important to find alternate ways for adolescents living in low SES areas to participate in recreational activities. Schools are one of the most influential institutional resources with regards to …
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