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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"Situational factors"”.
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Extreme Ideologies, Situational Factors, and Terrorists’ Target Selection
… the current study is to examine how ideology and situational factors shape terrorist target selection in the United States. While a growing number of studies have examined target selection by terrorists, the current study is the first to consider how combinations of factors present situated …
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Situational Factors and the Effectiveness of Children's Advertising
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The role of personality and situational factors in forgiveness /
This study deals with personality and situational variables that influence forgiveness. The relations between empathy and forgiveness were studied, followed by the examination of the relation of these two variables to the Big Five personality traits, as well as honesty, absorption, the propensity …
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The Effect of Two Situational Factors on Conformity Behavior
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Situational factors affecting judgments of future performance and judgment-performance correspondence
… present study investigated the effects of three situational factors on judgments of future performance, judgment confidence, and judgment-performance correspondence. Research participants were familiarized with the performance task under varying conditions of monetary rewards, perceived internal …
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The role of individual and situational factors in the stressor-detachment model
The influx of remote and hybrid work arrangements has led researchers to explore whether recovery differs between remote and hybrid workers and how organizations can best facilitate worker recovery in these contexts. Using the stressor-detachment model as a theoretical framework, the present study …
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Determinants of Self-Other Discrepancies in Attribution: Situational Factors and Individual Differences
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Examining the effects of demographic and situational factors on childhood animal cruelty methods
… between participants’ demographic and situational factors and their individual methods of childhood animal cruelty. The study also investigated the predictive value of childhood animal cruelty methods on adult recurrent violent crimes. Logistic regression revealed that those who were …
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Individual and Situational Factors Associated With Social Barriers for Persons With Mobility Impairment
Decades of research have examined factors involved in complex, and sometimes stressful, interpersonal interactions between individuals with and without disabilities. The present study applies structural equation modeling to test an integrative model of individual and situational factors affecting …
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The role of goal orientations, perceived ability, and situational factors in determining participation motivation in young athletes
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The personal and situational factors influencing decision-making by long-haul travellers' in relation to crime-risk : an empirical investigation
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-213).
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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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Conditional influences on children and the quality of family life
… of this inquiry was to determine if specific situational factors influence the manner in which number of children affect family life quality. Situational factors examined were: congruence between ideal number of children and actual; and secondly, expressed differences in family life quality by …
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Beyond Measures of Speed & Accuracy: Evaluating Visualization Perception, Reasoning & Decision-Making
… but also various heuristics and external factors. While research has shown that individual traits and situational factors can impact performance with visualizations, they have not been explored in the context of decision-making. By focusing on three essential stages of the decision-making …
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An Empirical Test of the Relative State Model with Texas Holdem Poker Scenarios
… attributable to the interaction of embodied and situational factors within the environment of competition. Embodied factors are inherent physical or psychological capabilities of the decision-maker; situational factors determine how those capabilities compare relative to others in an environment. …
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Self-efficacy for employee participation: an exploratory investigation
… and the relationship between perceptions of situational factors and self-efficacy. Exploratory factor analysis found preliminary support for the three proposed dimensions of participation self-efficacy and also for a fourth communication dimension. Weak (e.g., r=.27) and non-significant …
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Readiness for digital learning: examining self-reported and observed mobile competencies as steps toward more effective learner readiness assessment
… digital competencies. Second, it explores situational factors shaping human-computer interactions through video-based, case-study analyses. Finally, it proposes a threshold approach to self-reported digital competencies, which may help identify students requiring greater preparedness for …
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Exploring the Glade: a Residential Program as a Transformational Factor on Environmental Knowledge, Attitude, and Action
… in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Situational factors that affect students after the program are also discussed. Findings indicate GLADE is a transformational factor that results in long-term growth in environmental knowledge, attitude, and leadership, but that situational factors …
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THE ROLE OF UNCERTAINTY IN SOCIAL COGNITION: INTEGRATING FMRI AND BEHAVIORAL APPROACHES
… and personality traits of a given person or what situational factors bear on their actions at a given moment. Therefore, in order to make social predictions, we need to rely on probabilistic inferences. In this dissertation, I examine the role of uncertainty in social inferences, integrating fMRI …
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