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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Script Theory"”.
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Scripts, selfies and sexting: exploring young women’s engagement with the internet and social media in Northern Ireland
… in Northern Ireland.<br/><br/>Guided by sexual script theory, this research evidences how, via the use of contemporary technology, girls and young women are both empowered and constrained by post-feminist ideals and cultural norms, particularly the heterosexual script.<br/><br/><i>Thesis …
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The Cultural Adaptation of Internet Dating: Attitudes towards Online Relationship Formation
… in the framework of cultural adaptation, script theory and the saturated self, support is found for low cultural approval of internet dating. Conditions of face-to-face interaction, issues of trust, and affinity to the internet demonstrate clear effects on the approval of relationships …
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Sexual script flexibility, sexual satisfaction, and sexual communication: comparison between bisexual and heterosexual identifying cisgender women
… a sizable body of research has utilized sexual script theory to examine factors related to sexual health, it has rarely been applied to cisgender bisexual women. Further, much of the existing research on sexual health is rooted in heteronormative and mononormative schemas that fail to recognize …
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When is it rape? The role of rape and seduction scripts
… it as such. The current studies explore one theory which may help account for unacknowledged rape, script theory. Specifically, it may be that individuals have scripts for rape and seduction which overlap on a number dimensions, which may lead certain incidents of rape to be labeled …
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The Influence of Parental and Parent-Adolescent Relationship Characteristics on Sexual Trajectories from Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Using the perspective of sexual script theory (Gagnon & Simon, 1973) and growth curve modeling, this study examined whether characteristics of parents and parent-adolescent connectedness influence change in lifetime number of sexual partners from adolescence through young adulthood. Living in a …
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Positive sexual consent: an investigation into perception and communication of positive sexual consent in heterosexual couples in the UK.
… Secondary research closely examined Sexual Script Theory and other primary research in the field from the past twenty years. Findings suggest that participants shared a good literacy of each other’s means of communicating their consent. A dominance of non-verbal, mostly physical means of …
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The crime-commission process of sexual offences on London trains (SOLT): offending in plain sight, not just at night
… aims to produce a detailed and comprehensive descriptive account of sexual offences on London trains (SOLT), utilising psychological and criminological theoretical constructs, for example, crime script theory and narrative criminology, to understand the commission of such offences. The initial …
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Memory Bias in the Use of Accounting Information: An Examination of Affective Responses and Retrieval of Information in Accounting Decision Making
This dissertation is based on the Kida-Smith (1995) model of "The encoding and retrievability of numerical data." It is concerned with the variable conditions under which a positive affective response (i.e., a decision or opinion that results in a positive valence) on previously viewed accounting …
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‘Talking’ During Early Romantic Courtship: An Empirical Examination of Potential Sex Differences in Self-Reported Beliefs and Behaviors
<p>This thesis tests various hypotheses from a variety of research traditions that predict the likelihood for potential sex differences in "talking": a newly-emergent phase of romantic courtship. Data for this study was derived from a purposive sample of 566 students enrolled during the Fall 2011 …