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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Self-Affirmation"”.
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Impact of Manipulated Perceived Efficacy and Self-Affirmation on Measures of Risk, Efficacy, and Intention
… program of research examined the effect of self-affirmation and manipulated perceived efficacy on perceptions of efficacy, risk perception, and risk-reducing behavioural intentions. Participants were undergraduate students who were randomly assigned to a self-affirmation manipulation …
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The Effects of Priming on Framing Bias: An Integrative Study Examining Mortality Salience, Self-Affirmation, and Emotional Intelligence
… participants with mortality salience (MS) or self-affirmation (SA) and, then, evaluated the ability of 10 framed scenarios to alter choice behavior as well as the potential of EI to influence those effects. Three-hundred and sixty-nine participants (252 women, 96 men, and 4 other; …
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Identity, Intergroup Relationships, and Environmental Conflict
… the lens of two social-psychological theories: self-affirmation theory and moral foundations theory. Through one theoretical review, two online experiments and one in-lab experiment I explore, integrate and test theoretically grounded strategies for reducing the defensive information processing …
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Predictors of Self-Injurious Behaviors: A Person by Situation Analysis of Health-Compromising Behavior
… identity threat, and gender role orientation on self-injurious behavior. Gender role orientation was measured using the Bem Sex-Role Inventory during a mass screening and during the laboratory session participants either received a masculine threat or no threat. Men engaged in more self-injurious …
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Comparing the Efficacy of Two Affirmation Interventions to Reduce Stereotype Threat Effects on Women’s Math Performance
… threat. The current thesis project evaluated two self-affirmation interventions designed to reduce the effects of stereotype threat on women’s math performance. Participants completed a math test under one of four conditions: control (no explicit stereotype activation), stereotype threat …
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Running to Work: Marathon Training, Replenishment, and Worker Well-Being
… conservation of resources theory (COR) and self-determination theory (SDT), I suggested that certain elements of leisure activities promote resources, thereby increasing feelings of replenishment. In turn, replenishment (i.e., a gain in resources) increases well-being. Using a sample of …
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Individual Difference Moderators of Interpersonal and Intrapsychic Reactions to Hostile-Controlling Coaching Behaviors
… coaches to be blaming increase their own self-blame (Conroy & Coatsworth, 2007). Individual difference variables may moderate how athletes respond to hostile-controlling coaching behaviors. The purpose of the current research was to examine fear of failure, need for achievement, and …
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Uncertainty, Individual Differences, and Paranormal Beliefs
… were placed in four different prime conditions: self uncertainty, other uncertainty, self affirmation, or other affirmation. The current study was created due to the widespread belief in supernatural phenomena in America and its effect on society. Results suggest that uncertainty increases …
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Dança autobiográfica – multivocalidade do self encenado a partir e além da carne negra
… argued and conceived as a dance that stages the self. This study presents a single case study, with the purpose of investigating how an autobiographic dance proposal may evoke a shared space between the particular universe of the creator and that of those who watch the dance. The chosen case here …
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Exploring community and enacted stigma among South African bisexual women of colour
… contexts; (2) strategic identity management in self-preservation; and (3) resilience through community, language, and self-affirmation. Participants reported bisexual invalidation, hypersexualisation, and conditional acceptance from both heterosexual men and lesbian women. Cultural and religious …
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Unbiasing Information Search and Processing through Personal and Social Identity Mechanisms
… that affirming an unrelated core aspect of the self can eliminate the need for ego defense and result in more evenhanded evaluation. This study proposes a competing intervention. Individuals possess numerous social identities that contextually vary in relative prominence; therefore a different …
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Using Affirmation Theory to Further Understand the Distinction between the Individual Self and the Collective Self
… points to a discontinuity between the individual self and the collective self such that operating at the collective level of identity leads one to be more biased, defensive, and hostile than when operating at the individual level of identity. One area of research where this distinction is …
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Exploring Social Identity Complexity and the Possible Impact on Stereotype Threat
<p>Stereotype threat is the fear of confirming as self-characteristic, a negative stereotype associated with a specific social identity that can hinder performance (Steele & Aronson, 1995). It is hypothesized that one way to protect against stereotype threat is to increase the availability of …
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Self and Other in the theology of Robert Barclay
… theological views on the relationship between self and others, from his soteriology to peace testimony. The thesis has two main objects; the first is to raise the question about the modern view of Barclay. His theology has long been negatively treated as an exterior or foreign factor by the …
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Ethnic Minorities in Brazil and Spain: Erasure and Stigmatization, Gender, and Self-Representation of Indigenous and Roma Communities
… of media by marginalized ethnic minorities for self-representation, using as its frame of reference scholars such as Faye Ginsburg, Gayatri Spivak, Judith Butler, Stuart Hall, Achille Mbembe, and David Harvey. Specifically, this dissertation examines Indigenous communities in Brazil and the Roma …
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Onward and Upward: Strategies to Boost Need Satisfaction in Emerging Adulthood
… satisfaction, which refer to a meta-theory of self-determination theory which reflects the degree to which individuals feel skilled (competence), connected to others (relatedness) and in control of their own decisions (autonomy) (Deci & Ryan, 2011). Increasing psychological need satisfaction …
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A framework for discretionary effort based on performance expectancies in integrated work environment
… construct. Research has however, revealed that self-affirmation (A) adds another important dimension to the Discretionary Effort Framework (VIEA) (April & Katoma, 2008). This research investigated Discretionary Effort (the full VIEA) in an integrated work environment, using professional …
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Double Standards In Self-Deception: The Development Of The Self-Other Double Standards Scale
<p>Self-Deception creates a mental state in which an individual unquestioningly maintains a belief that has clearly been refuted and proven faulty by some information which the self-deceiver has come to possess. However, aside from personality trait measures, no measurement techniques have been …
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Perbedaan tingkat asertifitas antara siswa yang tinggal di panti asuhan dan siswa yang tinggal bersama orangtua
… behavior in which an individual is expressing himself which includes disclosure of positive feelings, self-affirmation and expression of negative feelings clearly and freely, expressed in an appropriate manner and respect for others. Asertiv behavior is very important to be developed in a variety …
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PUBLICIZING THE AFRICAN CAUSE: EVALUATING GLOBAL MEDIA DISCOURSES REGARDING THE CELEBRITY-LED "MAKE POVERTY HISTORY" CAMPAIGN
… discursive continuities are classification, affirmation, debasement, idealization, and negation. These discourses are not static but have variations and shifts but some clear outlines of a continuation of colonial discourses were apparent. Classification refers to arranging nations according …
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