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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"Personal Responsibility"”.
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Factors Effecting Personal Responsibility and Pregnancy Prevention
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Exploring Personal Responsibility for Participation in Organizational Processes: Antecedents and Consequences
… the current understanding of the construct “personal responsibility.” Broadly defined, personal responsibility is a state in which an individual feels a sense of obligation to a situation or event (Cummings & Anton, 1990; Dose & Klimoski, 1995). Behaviors performed due to personal …
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Personal Responsibility for Health; Should we Bear the Costs of our Risky Health Affecting Choices?
What role, if any, the concept of personal responsibility for health should play in health policy is a burning question. Human beings have long known that their behaviour can cause ill-health, but it is only in the last century that we have come to understand that our behaviour is causally …
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An analysis of a middle school curriculum: through the lens of personal responsibility, social responsibility, and social justice
… which three of Schwab’s four functions, social responsibility, personal responsibility, and social justice, were embedded and measured within core academic curriculum. The study also examined how teachers perceived students’ behaviors as a result of a social justice mindset. </p> <p>The study …
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The effects of a personal accountability and personal responsibility model on urban elementary student positive social and off-task behaviors
… study provides one intervention model focused on personal accountability and personal responsibility designed to reduce off-task and disruptive behavior in school settings, and designed to increase positive social behaviors among children and youth. A multiple treatment ABAD, ACAD, ADA, control …
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Allocating healthcare resources on the basis of personal responsibility for ill-health: what role (if any) should public opinion play? A socio-ethical analysis
The suggestion that individual responsibility for ill-health, and consequent healthcare need, should be a factor in healthcare priority-setting is increasingly debated. The adoption of such a principle within UK healthcare distribution policy would be both socially and ethically contentious. This …
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Theories of Fate among Present-day Astrologers
… determinism and the individual's surrender of personal responsibility to a larger external force. In contradiction to this is the primary, 'insider' literature which propounds the theory that astrology's appeal is based on its advocacy of personal responsibility, even if within a broader …
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Sustainable urban planning development indicators model for neighbourhoods in Tripoli, Libya
… Libya. The effect of these elements on perceived personal responsibility towards the adoption of the SUPDI model for neighbourhoods in Tripoli, Libya was also investigated. First step of this research was literature on existing sustainability indicators related to neighbourhoods planning reviewed …
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Lung Cancer Stigma: Associated Variables and Coping Strategies
… a quantitative study that describes the rates of Personal Responsibility, Regret, and Medical Stigma and the associations between the above-mentioned constructs and psychosocial outcomes; and b) a qualitative study of coping strategies that lung cancer survivors reported utilizing in response to …
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Development and validation of a safety and health performance model for low cost housing
… The influence of these factors on perceived personal responsibility towards adopting a BSHP model for low-cost housing in Malaysia was also studied. This study was undertaken in two stages. Firstly, literature on existing safety and health practices related to low-cost housing and facilities …
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The narcissistic teammate: effects of narcissistic subtypes on self-serving attributional biases
… is the tendency for individuals to take more personal responsibility for the group's success and less personal responsibility for the group's failure. Much previous research has linked narcissism with self-serving behavior. Narcissism can be broken down into the grandiose subtype, …
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The influence of individual, team and contextual factors on external auditors' whistle-blowing intentions in Barbados. Towards the development of a conceptual model of external auditors' whistle-blowing intentions.
… behavioural control, independence commitment, personal responsibility for reporting, and personal cost of reporting) were significantly related to internal whistle-blowing, but only perceived behavioural control was significantly related to external whistle-blowing. Partial support was found …
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Welfare reform: Politics, policy and the courts
… of welfare reform as directed by Congress in the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996. The thesis entails the following: an analysis of the historical factors that have led to legislative reform of the US welfare policy; an examination of the requirements the Act has placed on the states and the …
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A Comparative Analysis of Theological Anthropologies in Selected Christian Counseling Models
… approaches to anthropology. Their views on personal responsibility and sin shapes their understanding of the spiritual nature. Chapter 3 reveals a distinct form of anthropological dualism between the spiritual and psychological nature in integrationist counseling. The psychological nature is …
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Constructing a Transient Permanence
… opportunity to express their individuality and personal responsibility. No study can conclusively determine that one residence hall type is better than another. Rather, it is a hall's overall gestalt that determines student satisfaction and a positive perception of community. The question of my …
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Teachers and Children of our Elementary Schools Need Speech Education
… and superintendents the recognition of their personal responsibility for setting up a program which would provide adequately for speech development beginning with the child’s first day of school and continuing on through his entire academic career. Third, to establish in my own mind the …
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Saudi students and IEP teachers: converging and diverging perspectives
… and students agreed on the importance of personal responsibility on the part of the students although the teachers seemed to see a certain lack of personal responsibility among Saudi students (particularly male students). These findings present a significant challenge to the professional …
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Social (In)Visibility and Disease Performativity: Qualitative Insights From Two US Case Studies
… issues pertaining to stigma, passing, pain and personal responsibility. Each of these issues is deeply embedded within narratives of how participants conceptualised their experiences of being “seen” and “unseen” in relation to their diseases, and speak to how those feelings are, in turn, …
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