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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Psychological response"”.
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Patterns of psychological response to the demands of computer-supported work.
The central aim of the thesis is to examine and resolve some of the fundamental theoretical and methodological problems in stress research. Two interdependent means of realising this aim are adopted. The first involves a critical analysis of research practices, the building of a theoretical …
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The Psychological Response to Concussion Compared With Musculoskeletal Injuries In Collegiate Athletes
<p>This study considered the difference in psychological response to concussion compared with that of musculoskeletal injuries over time. The psychological response to musculoskeletal injuries has been well documented, however, research on the psychological response to concussion is lacking. The …
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A phenomenological approach to understanding the psychological response to chronic low back pain
… back pain (CLBP) is a complex health problem of psychological manifestations not fully understood. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis, 11 semi-structured interviews were conducted to help understand the meaning of the lived experience of CLBP; focusing on the psychological response to …
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The Psychological Response of Trainees During a 16 Week Regional Policy Academy: A Needs Assessment
… This project focused on assessing the psychological response of police trainees as they completed basic police education in a 16-week regional police academy. The results serve to inform future education supporting coping and resilience. Background: Choosing a career in law enforcement …
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Factors associated with the psychological response of nurses’ victims of inpatients violence in a psychiatric facility for adults with intellectual disability In Cape Town
… and violence behaviour, nurses‟ therapeutic responses, and the impacts on the quality of care. Studies on workplace violence in a psychiatric facility for adults with intellectual disability in the country are limited. Secondly, it appeared from the preliminary literature review that similar …
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“Searching for an answer to make it all better”. A grounded theory study exploring parental drive for diagnosis; is it really autism, or a misinterpretation of behaviour?
… is symptomatic of autism due to an unconscious psychological response against ideas, that they may in some way be responsible for their child’s challenging behaviour. This unconscious psychological response is sustained through confirmation bias, enabling the parent to regard their child’s …
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Human Olfactory Perception: A Literature Review
… physiological, cognitive and affective responses to olfactory stimuli even when the stimuli were perceived unconsciously. The mechanism by which humans perceive these signals is unclear; there is much debate as to whether the vomeronasal organ is functional in humans. Regardless of the …
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The relationship between stress and Autism Spectrum Disorders
… were most stressful for them and their psychological response to them. Paper 2 aimed to systematically explore which aspects of the environment are most stressful for people with HFA (N=91) (e.g. social interaction), and which stressor characteristics (e.g. chronicity, severity, …
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The relationship between stress and Autism Spectrum Disorders
… were most stressful for them and their psychological response to them. Paper 2 aimed to systematically explore which aspects of the environment are most stressful for people with HFA (N=91) (e.g. social interaction), and which stressor characteristics (e.g. chronicity, severity, …
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Individual Differences In Pyschological Evaluations Of Electoral Risk: Furthering The Explanation Of The Gender Gap In Candidate Emergence
… been no studies of gender-based differences in psychological response to electoral risk, differences in risk assessment have been documented between the genders in a host of other domains. The theoretical framework developed in this study suggests that these differences are rooted, in part, in …
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A Change of Perspective: The Pre-Graduate Expectations versus Post-College Experiences of Theatre Arts Majors
… Transition Theory model as it relates to a psychological response that occurs within an individual when they encounter a discrepancy between what they thought would happen after college and what actually occurred post-college. A micro-transition is the psychological “change of perspective” …
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The influence of cognitive biases on psychophysiological vulnerability to stress
… negative manner (interpretive bias) report more psychological ill-effects of stress than those with balanced or positively-skewed inclinations. Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) techniques improve maladaptive biases through implicitly-based association learning, with induced positive biases …
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The coping patterns of the unemployed on the Cape Flats
… entire informal economy. But, firstly, this is a psychological study, and so it could be argued that a recognition criterion is appropriate. That is, psychologically speaking, if an individual perceives him or herself to be unemployed, but does not meet all the economic criteria to be defined as …
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Post-Injury Anxiety and PTSD Symptoms in Canadian University Athletes following a Substantial Injury: Looking to Compare Musculoskeletal Injuries and Concussions
… receives much less attention. Research on the psychological impacts of injury in athletes is a very underrepresented field, with few studies focusing on it specifically. Hutchinson et al. (2009) found there was a difference in psychological responses between those diagnosed with concussions and …
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The influence of social capital on community participation in the energy transition
… Drawing on Devine-Wright’s stages of place-based psychological response, the research reframes energy retrofitting as not only a technical process but also a transformative act of community identity formation. The third paper addresses the intersection of innovation and rural development. It …
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Western Historical Gardens and Chinese Influences--From Great Britain to Picturesque Royal garden in Piedmont
… which constituted the first concerted Italian response to the giardino paesaggistico. In the same period, Piedmont erected the first picturesque garden in the Park of Castle of Racconigi, influenced by its French Princess Giuseppina. Finally, through comparing the similarities and differences …