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Showing 1 to 20 of 188 for “"New measure"”.
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Development of a new measure of helping at work
… and organizations, I developed six scales that measure helping using a multi-stage item-development procedure. Based on a theoretical model distinguishing emotional- and instrumental helping, a multidimensional measure could not be developed. In this study, however, empirical support was found …
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Constructing a new measure of poverty for the UK
… thesis will present a theoretical case for a new indicator of poverty, and construct a specific version of this indicator for the UK. It will calculate the actual poverty line, analyse its components, and discuss its implications.<br/><br/>The thesis will begin by demonstrating that the …
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Parenting Practices in Emerging Adulthood: Development of a New Measure
… and outcomes. As such, there is a need for a measure of parenting that is appropriate for use in emerging adulthood. The current study attempted to develop a measure that identifies and assesses behaviors that reflect various styles of parenting during emerging adulthood including …
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Evaluating a New Measure of Adult Attachment: The Tripartite Attachment Battery
The Tripartite Attachment Battery (TAB) is a new set of self-report scales of individual differences in adult attachment characteristics. It measures: (a) attachment security (Secure Attachment Scale), (b) attachment anxiety and avoidance, as well as their corresponding secondary attachment …
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Beliefs about Toddler and Care: A New Measure for Infant Toddler Teachers
… practices urgently need attention and call for a new approach of assessing the predictors of child care quality for this growing population. Using the theory of planned behavior as the theoretical framework, the purpose of this study was to develop a valid measure of infant toddler teacher beliefs …
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A new measure of math shame and a synthesized theory of math anxiety
… math anxiety through a formal validation of the newly developed Math Shame Scale (MSS). Data were collected from 489 volunteers at a regional university in the inland northwestern United States. Online questionnaires completed by the participants were used to assess the validity and reliability …
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Assessment of resting middle ear muscle tone by a new measure of energy reflectance.
Assessment of resting middle ear muscle tone by a new measure of energy reflectance.
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An improved self organizing map using jaccard new measure for textual bugs data clustering
… bugs’ data by using two different distance measure which are Euclidean distance and Jaccard New Measure. The research results suggested that SOM has a limitation of poor performance on sparse data set. Thus, the research introduced the improved SOM algorithm by using a Jaccard NM (SOM-JNM). …
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Towards a New Measure of Playfulness: The Capacity to Fully and Freely Engage in Play
… involved the development and validation of a new measure of playfulness, the Project Joy Playfulness Scale (PJPS). The PJPS was designed specifically as a brief teacher-report measure for use in the preschool classroom. Playfulness was hypothesized to include four dimensions: Active …
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Cognitive Interviewing to Assess a New Measure of Attitudes and Beliefs Held by Candidates for Bariatric Surgery
… to bariatric patients post-surgery. However, no measures to identify such attitudes and beliefs exist. This qualitative study utilized Cognitive Interviewing to assess sources of response error in two new measures designed to identify attitudes and beliefs of candidates for bariatric surgery. Our …
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The development and validation of a new measure of implicit motives and a first application in consumer research
… hoofdstuk, ‘A Pictorial Attitude IAT as a Measure of Implicit Motives’ heeft als doel de eigenschappen van de IAT te optimaliseren om impliciete motieven te meten. Hiervoor zijn we nagegaan of een IAT waarbij associaties moeten gemaakt worden tussen motief gerelateerde foto’s (vb. een …
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Perceptions of Other Internet Users in Delusional Beliefs: Development and Validation of a New Measure of Online Social Cognition
… This is due, in part, to an absence of measures that target beliefs or behaviors of individuals with psychosis-spectrum disorders in an online context. The aim of the current study was to develop and establish psychometric properties of a questionnaire examining impressions of other …
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Building Careers That Bounce Back: A New Measure of Career Resilience (SYCRA Scale/Systems-Based Career Resilience Assessment) for Working Adults in U.S.
… (2) the development and initial validation of a new systems-based measure of career resilience grounded in the Systems Theory Framework (STF; McMahon & Patton, 1995). The first study is a scoping review of empirical research examining antecedents, predictors, and barriers of career resilience …
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Do punitive ostracism experiences add to our understanding of obsessive compulsive beliefs and their relationship to obsessive compulsive symptoms?: an exploratory study and pilot of a new measure
… was operationalized using existing and adapted measures and a new intent attributions measure which was constructed for the purposes of this study. The constituent variables of POE were hypothesised to contribute to the variance of obsessive beliefs factors and to explain some of the …
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Risk, Returns to Scale and Monopoly Power in Horizontal Mergers: Theory and Evidence
… variables to capital market variables. A new measure, combining the theoretical factors, is derived from simple accounting and financial management ratios. The empirical results indicate that changes in the new measure can be used to explain changes in the capital market variables. In …
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CONSTRUCTING A NEW MORAL IDENTITY CENTRALITY MEASURE
… studies described in this paper was to create a new measure of moral identity centrality (MIC), and to begin testing its psychometric properties. MIC refers to the extent to which moral concerns are central (i.e., important) to a person's self-concept, and it was important to create a new measure …
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The development and initial validation of the Glassboro Inventory for Twelve-Step (GIFTS)
… which was then used to inform the creation of a new measure of twelve-step engagement. Focus groups were conducted, consisting of twelve-step members, to ascertain an insider perspective on the twelve-step experience. Results showed that "successful recovery" was considered more than just time …
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The Parenting Styles Self-Test: Reliability and construct validity.
… reliability, and the construct validity of this new measure. Participants were also asked for their thoughts and feelings about the research and the new measure. Eighty-nine mothers and eleven fathers completed the questionnaire once. A subset of the sample (71 mothers and 9 fathers) completed …
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An Alternative Estimate of Preferred Direction for Circular Data
… circular mean, and sample circular median. A newly proposed circular analog of the Hodges-Lehmann estimator is proposed, as an alternative estimate of preferred direction. The new measure of preferred direction is a robust compromise between circular mean and circular median. Theoretical …
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