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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Situational Characteristics"”.
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Predicting work-related behaviour from personality traits and situational characteristics
The dual influence of person characteristics and situational contexts on behaviour has long been debated on by personality and social psychologists alike. Traditionally, personality traits have been emphasised, whilst the assessment of situational influences has received limited attention. As a …
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Predicting work-related behaviour from personality traits and situational characteristics
The dual influence of person characteristics and situational contexts on behaviour has long been debated on by personality and social psychologists alike. Traditionally, personality traits have been emphasised, whilst the assessment of situational influences has received limited attention. As a …
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The effect of outsourcing and situational characteristics on physical distribution transportation efficiency
… versus contract carrier transportation) and the characteristics of the transportation activities. Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) offered a useful theoretical framework for consideration of this make or buy decision by suggesting the independent variables of asset specificity, uncertainty, and …
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Examining the Demographic and Situational Characteristics that Predict News-Media Coverage of Bias Homicides:
<p>Recent trends indicate that incidents of hate crime have become increasingly more violent since 2017, resulting in an overall increase in incidents of bias homicide specifically. Knowledge of bias crime among the general public largely derives from news media sources and, unfortunately, research …
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Prisoner, prison and situational characteristics and their relationship with the prevalence, incidence and type of prison offending recorded by a sample of prisoners within Western Australian prisons
… have identified several prisoner, prison and situational characteristics as relevant in regard to their relationship with the prevalence, incidence and type of prison offences committed. However, no studies have been conducted in Australia, and therefore no studies have included Aboriginal …
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The role of self-leadership and employment characteristics in predicting job satisfaction and performance
… characteristic (self-leadership) and two situational characteristics (job autonomy and supervisory structure) in determining job satisfaction and employee performance. The situational characteristics accounted for a significant amount of variance for both job satisfaction and performance; …
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The adaptive behavior construct and its effect on salesperson performance
… personality traits, salesperson behaviors, and situational characteristics that affect salesperson performance. Results indicate that no single approach to the study of salesperson performance is sufficient by itself. This study investigated the interactions among personality, situational, and …
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A Perception Based Integrative Theory of Individual Behavior in Organizations
… influence of objective (i.e., actual) situational characteristics, and individuals' needs and characteristics. The underlying dimensions that linked climate perceptions operationalized at the three levels of analysis with objective situational characteristics were referred to as life …
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To what extent do student characteristics and situational factors influence academic dishonesty amongst economic and business students in a sample at three South African universities?
This study examines the situational and personal characteristics that predict academic cheating. It examines the situational characteristics such as the perceived likelihood of getting caught and punished when cheating, the perception of how much peer cheating takes place and the standards and …
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NCAA Division I Athletes Preferences for Coaching Behaviors
… I coaches should consider both individual and situational characteristics when working with their athletes to achieve the desired outcome.
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Perceptions of male rape victims: Examining rape myth acceptance and victim blaming attitudes among a sample of college students
… More specifically, data based on vignettes where situational characteristics were manipulated are used to determine how various incident, offender, and victim-level characteristics influence student perceptions. It was found that this sample of students were more likely to agree with indirect …
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Understanding the Relationship Between People and Their Environments Using Smartphone Data: A Study of Personality, Places Visited, and Emotional Experiences
… differently, depending on their psychological characteristics (e.g., personality). In this dissertation, I draw upon recent technological advances in smartphone-sensing methods to investigate the relationship between people’s psychological characteristics and their physical movements through …
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The psychosocial impact of online problem gambling
… however, little is understood in relation to the characteristics of internet gamblers, the psychosocial impact of internet gambling (e.g. problem gambling) and implications for public social policy. The overall aims of this thesis were to establish (i) what makes internet gambling potentially …
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Victimization, Fear of Crime, and Perception of Risk in the Workplace: Testing Rival Theories with a Sample of Greek and Greek-Cypriot Journalists
… at hand assessed the relative importance of situational and dispositional factors in predicting victimization, perceived risk, and fear of crime at work as a first step to developing practices and procedures that minimize employees' experiences of workplace victimization. The theoretical …
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Motivation for Seeking a Nurse Manager Position: A Qualitative Study
… were made regarding the place of discussion, situational characteristics and events associated with the interview. The model derived from the data provides a unique view of why nurses choose the nurse manager role that is particularly pertinent to sustaining nurse’s in the manager position. …
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Rape myth acceptance and fear of sexual victimization on college campuses
Numerous studies have identified individual characteristics associated with fear of crime and more specifically, fear of sexual assault. Research often focuses on the relationship between sex and fear of crime with findings consistently demonstrating that women are more fearful of being victimized …
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Traits, States and Situations: Automatic Prediction of Personality and Situations from Actual Behavior
… their behavioral manifestation according to the situational context in which they are in. In this thesis, we propose a shift from the traditional personality trait theory, to an approach which incorporates the personality fluctuations. This new perspective defines personality as dynamic episodes, …
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A national study of the relationship of demographic, psychological, and situational variables to job involvement of student affairs professionals in community and junior colleges
… the influence of demographic, psychological, and situational variables on the job involvement, or psychological identification with work, of student affairs professionals in community and junior colleges in the United States. Job involvement is related to the quality of life for individuals and …
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The Influence of Environmental Disruption on Offender-Target Interactions and Criminal Activity in Emergency Scenarios
… potential offenders under heterogenous situational characteristics. Disturbances to that system can influence the spatial availability and accessibility to crime opportunity by both offenders and law enforcement, which in turn can produce new and alternative patterns of criminal …
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Factors influencing the use of HIV self-testing kits among adolescents: a case of Kalingalinga compound, Lusaka.
… of acquiring these kits. These demographic and situational characteristics collectively contributed to a greater likelihood of non usage among the surveyed individuals. Multivariate analysis found higher income as a barrier (OR = 1.473, 95% CI: 1.222 - 2.252), while being single increased …
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