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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Social Representation Theory"”.
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Landowner Response to a Rural Appalachian Natural Gas Pipeline Project
… transmission rather than production. I use social representation theory to elicit factors unrecognized in prior research. It provides a framework for the process by which resident rural landowners become aware of, interpret, evaluate, and then respond to the Mountain Valley Pipeline. …
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An exploration of service users' experiences of a low secure forensic mental health service
… fell into four categories: biological, psychosocial stress, behavioural and experience as being senseless. Participants used a range of ways from each category to make sense of their experience and these were sometimes contradictory. There was also a theme of participants trying to make sense …
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Users' understandings of the virtual economy in social virtual worlds: consumption and entrepreneurship of virtual goods
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) such as Second Life have gained immense popularity during the last decade. Their popularity is reflected in the explosive growth of the in-world economy, which is mainly supported by users’ consumption of virtual goods and entrepreneurial behavior. Users’ economic …
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Social representations of alcohol use among women who drank while pregnant
… their alcohol use. Gaining insight into the social, psychological and contextual processes that contribute to risky drinking during pregnancy will help in guiding interventions that aim to prevent prenatal alcohol use, thereby preventing the occurrence of FASDs. Using both social …
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Understanding User and Investor Perspectives on Robo-Advisors Adoption in Fintech
… existing literature by offering a comprehensive, theory-driven framework that explains how Robo-advisors can be successfully adopted in different sociotechnical environments—specifically within Pakistan and Hungary. The study employs a mixed-methods approach. The qualitative phase consists of …