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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Personal control"”.
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Personal control of discomfort glare
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Personal control of discomfort glare
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Relationships among spirituality, cognitive processing, and personal control
… the relationships among spirituality and other personal control variables. Using memory recall and recognition tasks, the current study sought to determine whether or not participants would attend more to positive, negative, neutral, or religious words. The results of the current study indicate …
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Spectators' Perceptions of Momentum and Personal Control: Exploring the Antecedents-Consequences Model
… of the model states there are situational and personal variables involved in the perception of momentum. Situational variables may include momentum starters, such as a steal or a dunk in basketball. Momentum starters may lead to feelings and perceptions of greater psychological momentum. In …
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The association between belief in free will, personal control, and life outcomes.
… wellbeing, is due to the perceptions of having control that form the core of lay free will beliefs. We then reason that, as pro deterministic/anti free will messages can undermine free will beliefs these manipulations may also impact perceived control and subsequently indicators of subjective …
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Self-Esteem, Personal Control, Optimism, Extraversion, and the Subjective Well-Being of Midwestern University Faculty
… to address the interaction of self esteem, personal control, optimism, and extraversion when measured together, and how they combine in relation to subjective well-being in a sample of Midwestern university faculty.</p> <p><em> Methodology</em></p> <p><em></em>A total of 233 surveys was …
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The Limits of Perceived Control: Novel Task-Based Measures of Control under Effort and in Anhedonia
… a paradox in relation to the value of exerting personal control such that personal control is generally reinforcing, but its value may also be limited in some individuals and under certain circumstances. Across two studies, this dissertation takes a step towards exploring the limitations of …
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Attitudes and Perceived Behavioral Control of First-Year College Student's Alcohol Use: A Study of an Instructional Software Intervention
… men and women in regard to their attitude and personal control from pre-test to post-test. Greek students had a more favorable attitude toward alcohol and less personal control of alcohol than non-Greeks at pre-test and post-test and poorer intention at post-test. Greek students did not improve …
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African Americans and intentions to seek counseling: A test of two models
… racial identity, attitudes toward counseling, personal attitudes (personal control), subjective norm, and intentions to seek counseling were tested using black students on predominantly white college campuses. These models were developed based on Ajzen and Fishbein's (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980) …
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Mechanisms of Action in Motivational Interviewing
… 3 years of starting. A cross-over randomized controlled trial demonstrated that a theoretically based motivational interviewing- cognitive behavior therapy (MI-CBT) intervention increased DMT re-initiation among relapsing-remitting MS patients compared to a treatment as usual (TAU) condition. …
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Predictors Of Psychosocial Adaptation To Pregnancy Among Urban African-American Primiparas
… experiences and frequency of discrimination, personal control beliefs, social support, planned pregnancy, and model of health care among urban African-American primiparas using life course theory and Lederman's model of psychosocial adaptation to pregnancy as the framework.</p> <p>One hundred …
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The social reference-group theory of job satisfaction : a comparative study of Coloured and White salesmen in South Africa
… subjects' feelings of internal versus external control in life. Separate measures were obtained on the two subscales of personal control and control ideology of Gurin's Internal-External Scale (1969). The subjects were asked to indicate in what class (upper, middle or lower) they regarded …
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Political Participation of Registered Nurses: A Correlational Study
… participation and the variables: self-esteem, personal control, political efficacy and critical thinking. The theoretical framework for designing the questionnaire was based on the Political Participation Model (Verba and Nie, 1972) and the Political Process Participation Questionnaire (Archer, …
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Culture and Time Perception: Implications for Mental Representation and Decisions
… between the use of time metaphor and sense of personal control, this relationship is yet to be established. The findings showed supportive evidence of a frequent use of ego and time-moving metaphors among English and Mandarin-speakers respectively. However, studies examining the relationship …
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Perceived thermal comfort and energy conservation strategies in residential heating
… clothing worn, preferred room temperatures, personal control over the temperatures, and energy consumption. The relationships among these variables were examined for five families participating in a live-in study comparing five residential heating strategies. The strategies tested included …
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Treatment Side Effects & Nonadherence among Women Taking Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy for Breast Cancer: The Role of Psychological Factors
… Results showed that women who reported less personal control over cancer recurrence, more severe consequences from the diagnosis, and lower beliefs in the necessity of taking medication were more likely to be nonadherent. The results also highlighted the significant proportion of women …
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The Illness Intrusiveness Model in Male Veterans with Chronic Heart Failure
… effects by reducing individuals’ sense of personal (internal) control over valued life activities, with personal control serving as a mediator of the relation of illness intrusiveness to psychological wellbeing. Researchers who have examined the illness intrusiveness model have …
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MedRec : patient centered medical records using a distributed permission management system
MedRec is a simple, distributed system for personal control of identity and distribution of personal information. The work is done in the context of a medical information distribution system where patients retain control over who can access their data. We create a network of trusted data …
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The Differential Relations of Perceived Goal Agreement and Actual Goal Agreement With Early Therapeutic Outcome
… agreement concerning the amount of external control over the client's problem, and agreement concerning the degree of focus on stabilization were very important predictors of client rated change. However, more therapist rated improvement was associated with greater focus on stabilization and …
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Hope for today and tomorrow: identity construction power, and persistence of community college women who are first in their families to attend college
… finding was the students’ expressions of personal control over their finances and life choices in general. All four of the students held positive outlooks for their futures regarding gaining more independence, achieving their personal or professional goals, and becoming “smarter.” None of …
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