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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Status-Seeking"”.
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Ontological Security and Status-Seeking: Thailand's Proactive Behaviours during the Second World War
… the approaches of ontological security and status concern to interpret Thai proactive behaviours during the wartime period. It argues that concerns for status and recognition from the great powers were the primary motivations of Thailand’s proactive behaviours. In order to discern material …
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Brothers professionally and socially: the rise of local engineering clubs during the Gilded Age
… in the 1920s for an excessive focus on sterile status seeking. This perceived lack of twentieth century engineering activism is especially puzzling given that nineteenth-century American engineers and engineering societies did not hesitate to lobby openly for clean water, smoke abatement, …
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Consumer Motivations and Perceived Value in Online Second-Hand Luxury Fashion Shopping
… economic, critical, hedonic, fashion, status seeking—on perceived value, which leads to purchase intention toward online second-hand luxury fashion retailers. </p> <p>A total of 216 participants from a Mid-Southern university completed an online survey distributed through an email …
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A uses and gratifications perspective of Chinese college students' motivations in using renren (Chinese social networking site)
… that is, socializing, entertainment, self-status seeking, and information seeking, were utilized to measure how much weight Chinese college students give to each motivation.</p> <p>Culture's impact on the usage of online social networking sites was also investigated. The concept of …
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The influence of social media on chinese college students' social activism
… students who used social media for information seeking were likely to participate in individual social activism. Besides, students who used social media for self-status seeking and information seeking were likely to participate in collective social activism. No significant correlation between …
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Motivated to Attack: Consumer Aggression Against Brands and Other Consumers
… wrongdoers, rather than as an altruistically or status motivated act. In Essay 2, I introduce “Offensive Consumption” as a form of consumption wherein consumers actively desire to offend others with their purchases, rather than offending others as an unintentional byproduct of consumption. In …
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Strategies for Managing Regional Conflicts: Ethiopia’s Foreign Policy in 1991-2018
… policy objectives: territorial irredentism and status seeking, and has an approach to rivalry management that centres on military force and the pursuit of a victor’s peace. The second orientation is the Revolutionary orientation, which guided the EPRDF’s foreign relations in 1991-1998. It was …
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Micro-Impact: Deconstructing the complex impact process of a simple microinsurance product in Indonesia
… a long-term societal shift from equality-seeking balanced reciprocity towards status-seeking and socially diversifying general reciprocity. In effect, Payung Keluarga has attacked cooperative social cohesion head-on where it is still strongest in a rapidly modernizing Indonesian society. …