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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Personal Resources"”.
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Migrants becoming mathematics teachers : personal resources and professional capitals
… national pedagogies and local communicative resources. It shows how London can become an ‘escalator region’ (Fielding, 1992:1), as the student teachers achieve a working life that matches their academic qualifications, and also their own aspirations and those of their families, in the UK and …
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Challenge and hinderance stressor appraisals, personal resources, and work engagement among k-12 teachers
… how the perception of the availability of resources influences individual level stressor appraisal, and 3) to test differential outcomes of challenge and hindrance stress. Results indicate that K-12 teachers appraise workload as a hindrance stressor more than as a challenge stressor, which …
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Improving Learner Academic Outcomes in Further Education: The Role of Mental Well-Being and Personal Resources
… current strategies aimed at promoting MWB and personal resources for learners; and (d) design, deliver, and evaluate an intervention strategy aimed at improving learner MWB and personal resources. <br/><br/>Following interviews with learners (n = 85) who had withdrawn from FE over a two-year …
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What Impacts Life Satisfaction Of Aging Adults Following Stressful Life Events?: An Examination Of The Buffering Effect Of Personal Resources
… dissertation demonstrate that the changes in personal resources; social support, autonomy, and financial security; play an important role in changes in life satisfaction. Additionally, Black and White elders are impacted differently by changes in financial security. In general, the results …
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The relative impact of childhood stressor domains on young adult depression and the mediating role of social and personal resources
… damaging impact on the development of social and personal resources---specifically, by affecting a reduction in family support, peer support, self-esteem, and mastery. Further, I expect that the importance of different mediators in explaining the link between stress and depression will vary by …
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Does the Career Adaptation Process Change as a Function of an Employee's Age or Employment Gaps? An Investigation of Relationships Among Personal Resources, Contextual Factors, Coping Behaviors, and Career Success
… research depicts a complex process showing how personal resources (i.e., social and psychological capital) and contextual factors (i.e., organizational support for career management and labor market conditions) relate to career outcomes (e.g., perceived career success) and employment quality …
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Adaptive resources and helpseeking among Black Americans: A stress and coping approach
… the relationship between adaptive coping resources and four patterns of helpseeking in a national sample of 2,107 Black Americans. A stress and coping approach offered a coherent conceptualization of the helpseeking process. Extending a stress and coping model, it was hypothesized that …
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Well-being of educators in selected secondary schools in Namibia
This study focussed on job and personal factors that educators (N = 502) in Namibian secondary schools need for increased work engagement, positive work outcomes and decreased intention to resign. A quantitative approach with a field survey design has been used with a non-random convenience sample …
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Experiences of Residency Program Directors in Their Roles: Exploring Well-Being Through Burnout and Engagement
… embedded in their institutional context and personal lives. Phase 1 participants (n=3) included two PDs and one APD from Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM). Participants in Phase 1 took part in three semi-structured interviews at 6-month intervals, and direct observations in their …
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Strategies of adaptation to age-related losses in everyday activities of independent seniors
… & Baltes, 1990) to the adaptive management of resources in everyday life in old age. The general hypothesis that loss-based selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) use mediated the relationship between personal resource availability and successful aging outcomes was tested by …
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An insight into the experiences of teachers educating children with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Northern Ireland
… aspects. The findings focused on: the teachers’ personal resources; challenges from external systems; the nature of the disorder; the importance of systemic relationships, and practical barriers and facilitators. The study concludes with recommendations that highlighted: additional teacher …
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Experience of World Vision India fieldworkers – role and discretion at the interface of organisation and communities
… of target data reporting and d) use of personal resources. Additionally, this research observed the critical role that values and faith plays in the expression of positive discretion by NGO fieldworkers. Positive discretionary behaviour was observed when the values or particular …
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"Hey, are you busy right now?" stressor appraisals of interruptions to workflow
… appraising each scenario as a threat to personal resources, and evaluating an anticipated impact on their personal energy. Results from a repeated measures ANOVA indicated main effects of each interruption attribute and interactions on appraisals of threat and changes to personal energy. …
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The adaptation and innovation model of organizational resilience
… and the individual and organizational level resources of personal resources, human capital, social capital, and job-related resources as components to a conceptual model of organizational effectiveness coined The Adaptation and Innovation Model of Organizational Resilience, or AIR model. A …
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The Association of Socio-Economic Resources and Perceived Social Support with the Occurence of Physical and Psychological Aggression in Heterosexual Clinical Couples
… the interaction between relative socio-economic resources, such as income and level of education, and level of perceived social support on couples' levels of physical and psychological abuse. It was hypothesized that individuals with fewer resources than their partner would utilize more …
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