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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Social standards"”.
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Social Anarchy in the Works of Byron
… against the religious and the moral and the social standards of God and man.
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Predicting Behavior from Psychopathic and Antisocial Personality Traits in a Student Sample.
… personality is associated with a myriad of social and behavioral problems including violence, criminal activity, and overall failure to conform to social standards. In this study, psychopathic and antisocial personality traits are measured in a sample of college students via self-report …
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A study of frustration tolerance in handicapped children
… upon him (with reference to his age, sex, social status, race, etc.) by the group to which he belongs.<sup>1</sup></p>The report goes on to say, however, that the evaluation of a person's adjustment must be made not only in terms of existing social standards but also in terms of …
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To Take Posesion of the Crown: Forms, Themes, and Politics in Julia Palmer's Centuries
… themes consistent with biblical, puritan, and social standards. Palmer's centuries fuse the seventeenth-century spiritual journal with the eighteenth-century hymn. Applying the personal introspection of the journal to public worship would not become customary until the eighteenth century. This …
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TOWARD A CO-VIVIAL COMMUNITY: HOPES FOUND IN THE FRIENDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY LABELS
… and citizenship are often doubted by dominant standards in industrialized societies. In addition to resisting social standards and presenting broader meanings of participation and competence, the informants of this study seemed to try to resist giving significant authority to the concepts of …
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Work family conflict amongst females in a service organisation in the Western Cape
… longer the norm. However, an alternative set of social standards have not yet been established as a substitute to new patterns of work and family life. As a result, it is important to focus on concerns relating to female experiences in the workplace to try and overcome the effects of work-family …
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Constructing everyday notions of healthy eating: exploring how people of three ethnocultural backgrounds in Canada engage with food and health structures
… exploration of how food practices are shaped by social structures (or determinants) and individual agency. The purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which people engage with food structures to construct everyday notions of healthy eating. ‘Food structures’ draws on the concept of …
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Global and local trajectories of social standardisation: The cases of Argentina and Brazil
… particular type of global governance mechanism – social standardisation – and national political economic structures in two countries of the global South: Argentina and Brazil. In doing so it provides a greater understanding of the emergence of new governance structures and the growing role of …
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Post-event processing in social anxiety
… detailed and negatively-biased review of a prior social event, in the maintenance of social anxiety. The six studies presented had three major goals: (i) to outline the cognitive contents of PEP (Study 1), (ii) to explicate the cognitive causes of PEP (Studies 1-3), and (iii) to investigate the …
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Female sexuality and body image during pregnancy
… women felt overweight, and unacceptable by social standards, yet they viewed these bodily states as temporary. The projective account of body image yielded no significant differences. The conclusion was drawn that women consciously rejected their pregnant body image, but subconsciously it …
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Prestige and the Restraint of Power in International Relations
… states appeal to existing normative standards of restraint in international society. By conspicuously exceeding those standards, states express both (1) their material capacity—the abundance of underlying resources that equips them to voluntarily forgo self- interested behavior; and …
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Essays on conflict, cooperation and economic development
… three chapters on topics relating to conflict, social cooperation and development economics. Several studies have identified the impact of adverse economic shocks on civil conflict using rainfall variation as an instrument for income or growth. The first chapter contributes to this literature by …
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Application of The Theory of Planned Behavior in a Randomized Control Trial Targeting Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake and Physical Activity in Southwest Virginia
… can be positive or negative), subjective norms (social standards and expectations surrounding the behavior), and perceived behavioral control (perception of the ease with which the behavior can be performed). According to literature, behavioral intentions predict 20% - 40% of the variance in …
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Examining Organisational Culture Change in a UK Talent Development Programme
… towards the NGB. Denial of responsibility and social weighting neutralised the stigma of perpetuating antagonism. These findings suggested ignoring and denying antagonism could lead to a destructive culture. Yet, the support towards NGB-1 increased during double-cycles three and four because …