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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Reference groups"”.
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The Influence of Competitors on Decision Making: Comparative Studies of Reference Groups
… between uncertainty and the choice of reference groups used in decision making, with an emphasis on the influence, role, and composition of reference groups. The three empirical studies collectively investigate the following research questions: Does uncertainty reinforce or attenuate …
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The role of reference groups as credible sources in African women’s natural hair care consumption behaviour
… need for a better understanding of the role of reference groups’ source credibility in Black African women’s natural hair care consumption behaviour. Reference groups’ source credibility has long been studied by consumer researchers and marketing practitioners because credible sources of …
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Roles of Perceptions of Reference Groups, Clothing Symbolism, and Clothing Involvement in Female Adolescents' Clothing Purchase Intentions and Clothing Behavior
… each of three independent variables (i.e., reference groups, clothing symbolism, and clothing involvement) and adolescents' clothing purchase intentions and clothing behavior, and whether the three variables are predictors of adolescents' clothing purchase intentions and clothing behavior. …
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THE PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHERS ON THE PICKET LINE AND IN THE CLASSROOM DURING A TEACHER STRIKE (PHENOMENOLOGY, THREAT-ANXIETY, RELATIONAL, REFERENCE GROUPS, SELF-ADEQUACY).
… relational, communication, shared interests and reference groups were included. An interview schedule of twenty-one items based on the theoretical framework was developed and administered to forty selected school district teachers. The twenty-one questions were derived from the two major sections …
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An Investigation on the Interrelations of Reference Groups, Membership Groups and the Self Image: A Test of the Cooley-Mead Theory of the Self
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A study of the leader behavior of the adult education administration in the District of Columbia public schools as perceived by two reference groups
… could be supported to the effect that both reference groups were essentially in agreement about the adult education administrators' real and ideal behavior; differences of opinions were most apparent when real behavior was compared to ideal behaviors from instructors' descriptions of leader …
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Politics and the American clergy: Sincere shepherds or strategic saints?
… have evaluated the causes of clergy political preferences and behavior for decades. As with party ID in the study of mass behavior, personal ideological preferences have been the relevant clergy literature's dominant behavioral predictor. Yet to the extent that clergy operate in bounded and …
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The Chosen Reference Group, Institution of Employment, and Focus of Professional Work of Early Childhood Teacher Educators and Their Teaching Behaviors
… (TE) in Illinois and three other variables: Reference Group, Institution of Employment, and Focus of Work. The professional reference groups were the research comm
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The Achievement Motive : A Sociological Analysis
… and compared with Theodore Kemper's theory of reference groups in an attempt to determine the relative importance of factors of the immediate social situation versus ingrained personality characteristics in in the development and modification of achievement motivation. In examining the effects …
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The priority status of goals in rural Virginia community colleges as perceived by students, faculty, and administrators
… and (3) What differences exist between the three reference groups between present and preferred perceptions of the priority status of goals? 2. Methods and Procedures. A questionnaire, based upon the Virginia Community College System stated goals, was developed to gather answers pertinent to the …
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Contribution of Reference Agents to Recovery Maintenance: A Social World Analysis of Narcotics Anonymous Affiliation
… To determine how recovering addicts use reference agents, such as reference groups and/or reference others, to achieve and maintain sobriety within the context of the Narcotics Anonymous (NA) support group experience, this study examines how Newcomers learn the norms and values associated …
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An Analysis of Union-Management Ideological Frames of Reference in Labor Negotiations
… of union-management (U-M) ideological frames of reference in labor negotiations. A U-M ideological frame of reference is defined as an organization of beliefs, values, and attitudes which form a relatively permanent perceptual framework serving to shape and influence the general nature of an …
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Income in Timor-Leste
… is given to the selection and importance of reference groups. This study finds that changes in well-being are largely associated with perceived economic standing; not objective relative standing. These results suggest that happiness depends more on perceptions than on objective economic …
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Income in Timor-Leste
… is given to the selection and importance of reference groups. This study finds that changes in well-being are largely associated with perceived economic standing; not objective relative standing. These results suggest that happiness depends more on perceptions than on objective economic …
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Do FinTech Acquisitions Improve the Operating Performance or Risk Profiles of Acquiring Firms?
… a sample of FinTech acquirers to two different reference groups: non-FinTech acquirers and the FinTech acquirer’s industry peers. The performance results are sensitive to performance metric and benchmark, but there is mixed evidence that the performance of FinTech acquirers improves after the …
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Do Perceptions of Inequality Negatively Affect Interpersonal Trust?
… which suggests that individuals have biased reference groups influenced by their area of residence.
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Measuring scientific productivity in co-citation clusters
… productivity among authors in natural scientific reference groups. A broad literature review surveys models of knowledge production, including measures of scientific products at different levels of abstraction. Data is drawn from authors in ten specialty areas, elites identified by co-citation …
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Towards the Affect of Intimacy
… Intelligence Technologies may play the role of reference groups (Shibutani 1987), groups who are real or imaginary and whose standpoints are being used as the frame of reference for the human actor. Given that these technologies have continuously reconfigured identification and profiling …
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