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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Multiple-informants"”.
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Selective mutism: Unwilling to speak or scared silent?
… age 4--10 years and relied on information from multiple informants. Each participant was assessed by the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Children for DSM-IV, Child Behavior Checklist, Teacher Report Form, Behavioral Style Questionnaire, and the Family Environment Scale. Results indicate …
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Socio-Cultural Influences on Adolescent Smoking in Mainland China: The Mediating Role of Smoking-Related Cognitions
… smoking behaviors involves the interplay among multiple systems at the cultural, familial, and personal levels, but few investigations have explored the effects of multiple environments on adolescent smoking behaviors. Survey data were collected from 658 parent-child dyads of Chinese adolescents …
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Use of Multi-Informants in Predicting Adolescent Treatment Dropout
… The present study examined archival data from multiple informants who enrolled in a 16-week intensive outpatient treatment program for self-harming youth. The purpose of this study was to assess potential predictors of treatment dropout. Preliminary analysis indicated that adolescents who …
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An examination of the relationship between the positive illusory bias and the subtypes of aggression across time: a multi-method perspective
… (n = 120) across three time points using multiple informants. In addition, a methodological question was explored by using difference and residual scores of the bias to examine its relationship with proactive and reactive aggression. While difference scores have traditionally been …
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Strategic Decision-making Process in the Qatari Public Sector. Relationship between the Decision-Making Process, Implementation, and Outcome
… Modelling (PLS-SEM) and tested using data from multiple informants on 170 strategic decisions in 38 Qatari public organisations. The study finds that procedural rationality, constructive politics, participations, and the implementation Success of SD plays a significant and positive role on SDMP …
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Cultivating social competence in young children: teachers' beliefs about and practices involving the development of children's social competence
… this study, which was triangulated by the use of multiple cases, multiple informants, and multiple ways of gathering data. First, to understand teachers’ beliefs and practices at a cultural level, I conducted a survey of 120 early childhood education teachers. Then, to better understand their …
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The Lived Experience of Counselor Education Doctoral Students in the Cohort Model at Duquesne University
… strategies used for this inquiry were based on multiple informants and data sources, which included individual and dyad interviews, and focus group discussions. A semi-structured protocol was used to gather phenomenological data from a purposive sample of twenty-six informants, who were …
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Exploring the extent & impact of ICT use on Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Countries: The case of urban women enterprises in Kampala, Uganda
… commercial bank executive, policymaker, and multiple informants in four local nongovernment organisations that implement ICT training and development programs catering specifically to women entrepreneurs at grassroot level. The data was analysed using Grounded Theory. The results indicated …
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The role of parents' control and autonomy support in the United States and China: beyond children's reports
Recent research on the effects of parents’ control (i.e., intruding into children’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior) on children’s psychological functioning in the United States and China has almost exclusively relied on children’s reports. Such reports may lead to inaccurate conclusions if they …
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Evaluating a Positive Parenting Curriculum Package: An Analysis of the Acquisition of Key Skills
… have been well established. However, there are multiple facets encompassing quality of life, including general mental health, lifestyles and health behaviors, and academic and cognitive functioning. The relationship between neurocognitive and psychosocial functioning has yet to be thoroughly …
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The psychosocial functioning in pediatric cancer survivors: The role of neurocognitive abilities.
… have been well established. However, there are multiple facets encompassing quality of life, including general mental health, lifestyles and health behaviors, and academic and cognitive functioning. The relationship between neurocognitive and psychosocial functioning has yet to be thoroughly …
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The enculturation of a hearing family with a deaf child: we are all learning to sign
… Sign Language (ASL) with their young deaf child. Multiple informants, including family members and professional participants, and multiple methods of data collection and analysis provided accounts of experiences that were examined within the frameworks of family ecology (Bronfenbrenner, 1986) and …
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An exploratory study of social innovation in for-profit social entrepreneurial ventures in India
… collected from semi-structured interviews with multiple informants in three for-profit SEVs in India. The empirical evidence showed that social innovations are distinct in that they develop under resource constraints. In particular, access to financial and human capital was found to be lacking. …
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Pragmatics, Prosody, and Social Skills of School-Age Children with Language-Learning Differences
… emotions in speech and narrative tasks. Multiple informants (i.e., parents, teachers, speech-language pathologist, and peers) evaluated social skills from different perspectives. A multi-interactional approach explained children’s social-emotional development from three theoretical …