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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Personal construct theory"”.
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Problem structuring: a personal construct theory perspective
… as a cognitive process, and George Kelly's personal construct psychology is adopted as the theoretical basis to develop a problem structuring method. The method developed uses Kelly's repertory grid technique in a particular form that is modified for the specific needs of problem structuring …
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An application of personal construct theory to a study of retail sales person effectiveness
… of economic, organisation and behavioural theory. However, despite this frequent use, there is very little agreement amongst the users, both academic and business, as to what exactly 'effectiveness' means. The dictionary definition of 'effective' is 'capable of producing the desired …
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Expert system shells in chemistry: CHIRULE, a chiral chromatographic column selection system using similarity searching and personal construct theory
… to aid in developing chiral separations. CHIRULE constructs an n-dimensional information space from a large number of known chiral separations by fragmenting the molecules at their chiral center, producing four molecular fragments. Molecular properties are calculated for each of these fragments. …
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Personal Construct Theory, Political Perception, and Mass Communication: The Judgmental Dimensions Employed in The Evaluation of Political Figures Based on Mass Media Messages
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Personal Constructs in Dementia Caregiving: The Family Caregiving Experience of People Living with Dementia in Saudi Arabia
… caregiving narratives, this research maps the personal and social construing of the family caregiver role of older adults with dementia in Saudi Arabia. This doctoral research is guided by the theoretical framework and philosophical understanding of personal construct theory and employs an …
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Sourcing of public sector building surveying and engineering professional services : a framework for progression
… and original contribution to knowledge, theory, the English local government, and other sectors. A robust examination of four outsourcing projects provides an important contribution to knowledge. The use of personal construct theory during the case study phase provides an original …
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The role of emotions in game experience: linking emotions, game experience and return intentions
… and O’Shaughnessy, 2003). However, a unitary theory of consumption behaviour is undesirable because this restricts the way in which consumption behaviour can be studied (Foxall, 1990). As such, researchers need to use alternative theories in order to widen the scope of knowledge on consumer …
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Assessing Young Children's Personal Constructs Of `Nature' Using A Modified Repertory Grid Test: A Case Study
This paper presents a method for assessing the personal construct systems of young children (ages 4 to 6) regarding the notion of 'nature,' conducted at a Montessori Casa in Toronto, Ontario. Images from the participants' drawings of 'nature' were used in a card sorting exercise and as elements in …
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Transparent Templates Of Principals
This exploration of the personal constructs of principals was intended to reveal the transparent templates they create and attempt to fit over the realities of their world. This study sought to go beyond externally imposed descriptions of the leadership behavior of principals by exploring their …
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The person inside the nurse : the professional socialization of baccalaureate nursing students
… volunteered as participants. G. Kelly's (1955) Personal Construct Theory provided the framework to determine awareness and constructed meanings. A reflective tool, called LifeMapping, was adapted and utilized to relate student experiences within education that have attributed to nurse role …
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Chronic illness and the personal construction of self: the case of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
… findings are discussed with reference to both Personal Construct Theory and, as a post hoc explanatory tool, Social Identity Theory.
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Architecture and space for thought
… space, using methods developed from Kelly's Personal Construct Theory Repertory Grids. 2) A partially developed spatial analytic language, my personal response to 1) above, which is to be seen as the start of a new research programme that may last many years (the future of which is outlined). …
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The impact of hospital downsizing on registered nurses displaced from full-time employment
… available to displaced nurses while Kelly's personal construct theory was the lens used to view the process of making choices and reconstruing their professional identity.
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Fathers as co-parents: how non-resident fathers construe family situations after divorce or separation
A model of the co-parental role based on personal construct theory is described, with inter-parental conflict explained in terms of the constructivist concept of hostility. Four unstructured group interviews, on the theme of the experience of separated parenthood, were conducted with separated …
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Exploring the experiences and needs of asylum-seeking and refugee individuals through qualitative and Personal Construct methods
… value of using a method based on George Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory (PCT) as a ‘working tool’ to elicit constructs that guide meaning-making and understanding in asylum-seeking and refugee individuals in European countries. An inherent goal throughout the research was to give voice to …
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Dimensions of embodiment: Towards a conversational science of human action
George Kelly's Personal Construct Theory, especially as subsumed within the “conversational science" paradigm developed by Thomas and Harri-Augstein, is fundamentally a framework for a geometry of personal meaning in which all of the dimensions of distinction within a person’s experience are like …
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Undergraduates' personal constructs : Classroom teaching and the role of the teacher.
This in-depth study shows how Personal Construct Theory (PCT) can be used to investigate the bipolar constructs of teaching and the role of the teacher held by five university undergraduates from a range of subject disciplines. The approach adopted was developed from that devised by George Kelly …
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Application of repertory grid technique to explore perceptions of expertise held by those working within the profession of conductive education
… working in the UK. CE, underpinned by both constructivist and constructionist methodologies (Grundtvig, 2012), fits well with Personal Construct Theory (PCT), the chosen methodology for this study. This study is undertaken in two main phases. In the first, Repertory Grid Technique (RGT), as …
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A study of the consumer decision process for hospitality services
… model of the consumer decision process was constructed, drawing on the characteristics of hospitality services and the differing perspectives of the consumer and the producer. In order to generate a grounded theory which would help to explain the consumer decision process, data was collected …
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BELONGING, CRIME AND RADICALISATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE SECOND-GENERATION IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE.
… psychological evaluation method known as the Personal Construct Theory, this study offers a comparative qualitative analysis of the SoB of young British and French people sharing similar ethnic backgrounds and who fit the criterion of being a 2G with a criminal record. The findings reveal two …
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