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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Self-focus"”.
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The Influence of Task- Versus Self-Focus on Children's Achievement Performance and Attributions
… because they are overly preoccupied with self-doubt. Low-anxious persons focus more on task demands. The present research investigated how self-focus versus task-focus instructions influenced the performance and attributions for performance of high- and low-anxious children. It was …
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An Extension of the Savoring Approach to Increasing Help-Seeking for Depression: Reducing Self-Focus Through a Writing Task and Savoring PSA
… dysfunctional when information is greater in self-relevance (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979), it was hypothesized that reducing savoring’s self-focus may result in greater help-seeking intentions. As such, Study 1 (N = 1,308) compared the effects of five savoring writing tasks that varied in …
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The persuasive impact of autobiographical memories ads: schema-triggered affect or episodic self-referencing?
… memories ads work (i.e., episodic self-referencing). Similar to previous studies, the current study found scant evidence of episodic self-referencing. This study recharacterized self-referencing using the more general term "self-focus". In addition, this study suggested that a …
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Ego identity, egocentrism, and formal operations
… 21 percent of the variance. Also the self-focus subscale of egocentrism, when added to grade, significantly explained 21 percent of the variance in vocational identity. Further investigation regarding the concept of egocentrism among adolescents and self-focus as it relates to …
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Examining a Three-Dimensional Model of Competitive State Anxiety in Sport
… model with five specific factors (worry, private self-focus, public self-focus, physiological anxiety and perceived control) and one general factor, cognitive anxiety, that encompassed the items reflecting worry, private and public self-focus. Study 2 provided further support for this bifactor …
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Performance Anxiety in Sport: Revisiting the Process Goal Paradox and Measurement Development
… Therefore, the second half of the thesis focused on addressing this issue. Specifically, study 3 used qualitative interviews to explore the cognitive dimension of the athletes' performance anxiety response. The study revealed that the cognitive dimension contained worry, private self-focus …
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Attention Style and Appreciation: The Differences between Gratitude and Indebtedness
… research.It is hypothesized by this thesis that self-focused attention affects feelings of gratitude and indebtedness. Focusing less attention on the self, thus turning attention resources outward, may allow for the experience of gratitude, whereas focusing inward may create feelings of …
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Effects of Immediate Knowledge of Results and Test Anxiety on Achievement Test Performance in a College Classroom Setting
… KR was provided because provision of KR would focus attention on the task. The study also examined whether there were characteristics besides test anxiety indicative of liking for immediate KR and choice of KR for the third and last course exam. Other areas investigated included influence of …
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THE INTERACTION OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FOCUS IN SOCIAL ANXIETY: CLARIFYING COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL MODELS
… that socially anxious persons become highly self-focused, they also assert that self-focus and vigilance to threat in the environment coexist and interact throughout social situations. This study provides a direct test of this discrepancy, predicting that persons who scored high and low on a …
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Using Trait Self-Distancing to Predict Affective States
… perspective of a third-person, which is called self-distancing, buffers against negative emotional changes. Self-distancing and its conceptual opposite, self-immersion, have been previously studied as induced and spontaneously occurring states. I argue that the perspective that one takes when …
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Understanding the Consequences of Interpersonal Confrontation: The Role of Goal Pursuit in Men's Responses to Being Confronted as Sexist
… idea that actual confrontation leads to other-focus. Further supporting the assertion that general and imagined threats lead to self-focus (Crocker, 2008), a respect goal was uniquely accessible when men imagined gender-neutral confrontation. In Study 2, men were primed with either an …
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The role of dispositional reinvestment in choking during decision-making tasks in sport
This thesis examines the moderating effect of dispositional reinvestment upon ‘choking’ in cognitive based tasks such as decision-making. Study 1 tested sixty-three participants’ performances on low- and high-complexity tests of motor skill, psychomotor skill and working memory under low- and …
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Mental Preparation Techniques and Accomplishment of Race Goals by Ironman Triathletes: A Qualitative Investigation
… 2) previous experience, 3) choice of focus, 4) breaking down the race and 5) camaraderie/social support. From these main themes, subthemes were discovered within two of the main themes. In preparation: 1) having a schedule/plan, 2) visualization and 3) being prepared for adversity. In …
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Orientations to moral reasoning among men and women leaders of higher education in Taiwan
… analysis. The types of incidents, the conflict focus, the primary considerations, final decisions, and self-evaluation of decisions and consequences in the process of moral reasoning resolution were examined. The findings showed that dilemma situation factors were more important than gender …
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Shyness in the Context of Reduced Fear of Negative Evaluation and SelfFocus: A Mixed Methods Case Study
… of reduced fear of negative evaluation and self focus on behaviors related to shyness in a church environment. A sample of 239 members, regular attenders, and visitors completed a survey, consisting of the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation-Straightforward (BFNE-S) Scale; two checklists …
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An iterative time reversal high-power microwave approach to detect resonant frequencies of electronics
… from scatterers that has been shown to self-focus on the dominant frequency of simple resonators. Frequency selective iterative time reversal can be implemented to converge on the most dominant resonance of the scatterer within the desired frequency range. In this work, an automated …
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Using TFA Systems (tm) to assess behavior patterns of alcoholics who achieve sobriety
… thoughts of positive alternatives and positive self-focus. Results suggested that the first change to begin in recovery is to shift negative action toward positive thinking behavior. The next change appeared to occur in learning to integrate feelings and actions. Maintenance tasks appeared to …
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Narrative as Self Performance: The Rhetorical Construction of Identities on Facebook Profiles
New ways of creating and presenting the self in the "space" of the Internet are fascinating, but not yet fully understood. Framed in the theoretical literature of Goffman's presentation of the self, and Burke's conception of rhetoric, the study's primary concern is to explain and understand how …
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Descriptions of expert middle school band teachers’ decision-making processes before, during, and after instruction
… teachers' decisions after instruction were (a) Self-focus, (b) Short-term vs. Long-Term Goals, and (c) Reflection is Ongoing. Future research into the decision-making processes of both expert and novice teachers in additional contexts (i.e., beginning, high school, and collegiate ensembles) and …
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Investigating the Use of Choking Intervention Strategies With Choking-Susceptible Athletes
… in anxiety levels under perceived pressure. The self-focus model of choking (Baumeister, 1984; Beilock & Carr, 2001; Masters, 1992), distraction model of choking (Nideffer, 1992), and recently an integrated model of choking (Wang, 2002) have been proposed to explain choking. Predictors of choking …
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