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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Repertory grid"”.
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A repertory grid study of anorexia nervosa in females
… treatment, on elicited and assigned construct repertory grids, where the latter grid's construction reflected aspects of central interest to the syndrome. The two repertory grids for each subject were processed using Slater's (1972) "INGRID 72 PROGRAM : the principal components analysis for the …
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A Study of Teacher Education Students' Personal Constructs About Children (Repertory Grid)
The research problem in this study concerned the impact of an early participant/observation field experience on the thinking of freshmen students enrolled in teacher education. The first year of the teacher education program required students to work in an elementary school classroom over a …
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A repertory grid analysis of the effect of language on schizophrenic thought disorder.
… ten control subjects were assessed by the use of repertory grid and clinical indices of thought disorder in both their home language and a second language. Performance of schizophrenics was on the whole poorer in the home language, while control subjects did not perform significantly differently …
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Generation Z employees' construal of workplace leadership: an application of the repertory grid technique
… construe organisational leadership. The Repertory Grid Technique (RGT) was used as a part of structured interviews with sixteen Gen Z employees (N = 16). In addition to thematic analysis, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is utilised to explore nuanced patterns in the data, going beyond …
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Assessing Young Children's Personal Constructs Of `Nature' Using A Modified Repertory Grid Test: A Case Study
… sorting exercise and as elements in a modified repertory grid test. Member checking was conducted through recorded conversations with the children throughout the process to minimize the influence of my own construct system. I conducted content analyses of the initial drawings, and made …
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Conversational uses of the repertory grid for personal learning and the management of change in special educational needs
An action research design, incorporating the repertory grid as a framework for Learning Conversations, is used to examine the management of change for a group of teachers and their schools. The study sets out to analyse how individual, teachers, from twelve primary and middle schools, in three …
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An investigation into the validity and clinical usefulness of the five-element rank order repertory grid with children
… validity of the five-element rank order repertory grid (REP 5). This has been attempted at various levels of analysis with 48 nocturnal enuretic boys, aged 8 to 14, undergoing highly standardized hypnotherapy. REP 5, with neutral elements (photographs) and supplied constructs, was …
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A Repertory Grid Assessment of Traitedness and Its Relation to the Validity of the NEO PI-R Conscientiousness Scale
… version of Kelly's (1955) Role Construct Repertory Test (Reptest) was administered to 72 undergraduate students to assess both the organization and meaningfulness of the trait of conscientiousness within their personal construct systems. Participants also completed the NEO PI-R and some …
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Application of repertory grid technique to explore perceptions of expertise held by those working within the profession of conductive education
… is undertaken in two main phases. In the first, Repertory Grid Technique (RGT), as a research method associated with PCT (Hagans, Neimeyer, Goodholm, 2000), is used to interview 20 Conductors working in the UK. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is used to construct a quantitative analysis of …
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Schizophrenia and the family : an application of Laing's theory to a descriptive study of four Coloured schizophrenic males, using Kelly's repertory grid
… father, mother and son in each family. Kelly's repertory grid was the main structured technique used.
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Understanding the risk in South African construction projects - a case of the Western Cape
… the Western Cape from a perspective, using the Repertory Grid Analysis Technique (RGT) methodology. The results of the RGT were then analysed against the preceding literature to draw inferences and conclusions. Findings: This study has provided insight to the risks that hinder the realisation of …
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Teaching competence : A personal construct view
… in teacher training completed a SPACed-FOCUSed repertory grid and their personal constructs of teaching competence at the end of a four year B.Ed course were elicited. A further reiterative process of review reflection and structures of meaning exercises resulted in the production of an initial …
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The psychological implications of surviving testicular cancer : impact on body image, sexuality and masculinity
… men at four different stages post-illness. Repertory grid technique was utilised for data collection purposes, which combined qualitative and quantitative methods. Semi-structured interviews (n = 10) were analysed using content analysis, which formed the basis of a generic repertory grid. …
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An investigation of adolescent constructs of stress and academic achievement /
… utilised a modified version of George Kelly's Repertory Grid Technique to provide direct insight into adolescent stress and academic achievement. The premise of the study was that only students who exhibited extreme cases of stress and academic achievement levels would be examined. The …
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Defining and understanding the role of cofaqs in teacher education : a multiphase sequential exploratory mixed methods hermeneutic study
… analyzed using grounded theory analysis, repertory grid interviews analyzed through Generalized Procrustes Analysis and Principal Components Analysis, and semi-structured interviews analyzed thematically. Findings indicate the importance of relationship in developing teacher identity, the …
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Aufbau, Evaluation und Weiterentwicklung eines psychosozialen Krisendienstes unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Mitarbeiterperspektive
… vorgelegt (Rücklaufquote 67%) und jeweils ein Repertory-Grid erstellt. Schließlich wurde noch eine Zukunftswerkstatt durchgeführt. Es zeigte sich eine gleichmäßige, zuletzt steigende Auslastung des Krisendienstes durch die Zielgruppe. Die Mitarbeiter konnten ein differenziertes Bild der Arbeit …
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Subjektive Konstruktion religiöser Selbstkonzepte im Kontext religiöser Sozialisation und religiöser Veränderung
… verglichen. Erhebungsmethode ist eine Form der Repertory Grid Technik (Religiöses-Selbstkonzept Grid). Für die Inhalte von RSK wird induktiv ein Kategoriensystem entwickelt und auf Inter-Rater Reliabilität getestet. Erwartungswidrig zeigen die Ergebnisse u.a. weitgehende Unabhängigkeit der …
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Problem structuring: a personal construct theory perspective
… method. The method developed uses Kelly's repertory grid technique in a particular form that is modified for the specific needs of problem structuring in groups. A computer software developed particularly for this method is used interactively in elicitation of personal constructs and their …
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Identifying and changing attitudes toward palliative care: an exploratory study
… and the carers of both of these groups (n=35). Repertory grids (n=12) were also used to explore and compare participants’ constructs of palliative care. Thematic analysis of the interview data revealed four key themes and associated subthemes that described patients’ and carers’ attitudes toward …
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Self-assessments skills of occupational therapy students.
… social work were interviewed through the use of repertory grid interviews. Self-evaluation was emphasised and strongly, linked to professional development, within the course documents of both universities. Students and academic stab identified clinical placements as the area within which, most …
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