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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Transactional Theory"”.
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Reader-Reported Influences on a Fifth Grader's Transaction With Extended Text
… The findings support and flesh out Rosenblatt.s transactional theory, Vygotsky.s Zone of Proximal Development theory, and Lipman.s Philosophy for Children theory. Conclusions were that there are numerous sociocultural influences on a reader's transaction with text and that these influences must …
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The role of sense of coherence in stressor appraisal
According to the transactional theory of stress, cognitive individual differences impact stressor appraisal. Sense of Coherence (SoC) refers to an individual’s generalized perception of environmental stimuli. Individuals with a strong SoC perceive the world as more comprehensible, manageable, and …
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Challenge stressors, hindrance stressors, and psychological strain : the role of appraisals and goal orientations /
… strain, a negative outcome. Using the transactional theory of stress, I examined whether and how individuals' appraisals of challenge and hindrance stressors and their goal orientations influence the positive relationships between both types of stressors and psychological strain. I …
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Nonfiction and Fiction: Does Genre Influence Reader Response?
… the theoretical basis of Louise M. Rosenblatt's transactional theory of reading and its focus on the reader's efferent and aesthetic stances during transaction with nonfiction and fiction. The study explores the following questions: Does genre (nonfiction or fiction) influence the reader's …
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Community violence exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder : support and faith among children and adolescents in inner-city Jamaica
The present study utilized the ecological-transactional theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1983; Cicchetti & Lynch, 1993) as a theoretical framework for examining the relationship between Community Violence Exposure (CVE) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among Jamaican inner-city children and …
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Temperament and Child Maltreatment: A Closer Look at the Interactions Among Mother and Child Temperament, Stress and Coping, Emotional and Behavioral Regulation, and Child Maltreatment Potential
… not yet examined collectively. As such, a new transactional theory was proposed for the current study. As part of this study, a national community sample of 158 culturally diverse mothers of young children who were between the ages of 1½- to 5-years rated their own temperament, emotional and …
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Dialogue Journals: Literacy Transactions of Fourth-Grade Students
… responses during content-based lessons. The Transactional Theory of Literacy acknowledges that readers generate individualized experiences as they transact with literacy. Although Rosenblatt focused explicitly on the transactions readers make with text, this study expands the idea of these …
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Public Elementary Teachers' Experiences With Explosive Student Outbursts: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study
… was based on Lazarus and Folkman’s (1984) transactional theory of stress and coping. Literature review themes included explosive outburst characteristics and terminology, behavior intervention strategies, adverse effects on teachers, teacher coping strategies, and teacher resilience. Data …
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Boys Who Love Books: Avid Adolescent Male Readers in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom
… are socially constructed. Rosenblatt's (1978) Transactional Theory of Literary Work forms the theoretical framework of this study. Rosenblatt (1978) argued that as readers engage with texts, they bring an individual schema to these literary transactions. This prior knowledge and experience are …
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Effects of Online, Collaborative Discourse on Secondary Student Writing: A Case Study of the History and Ecology of an Electronic Exchange
… Loaf School of English. Louise Rosenblatt's transactional theory, M. M. Bakhtin's discourse theory, and Lev Vygotsky's social constructivism formed the conceptual framework for this study. Through the intrinsic case study of Pass the Poetry, an electronic exchange conducted on BreadNet via …
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An Examination of Elementary Learners' Transactions with Diverse Children's Books
This study was designed to explore the transactional relationship between young learners and diverse texts. Students' perceptions toward difference are shaped by prior, lived experiences, and books provide students with virtual experiences of diversity, which can lead to transformative …
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Literary art as experience: teaching young adult literature, moral inquiry, and the personal journey toward meaning
… is due, in part, to the gap that exists between theory and practice, where those who work in the classroom find little relevance in the theory discussed and researched on the university level. This dissertation is an attempt to begin bridging this gap. Yet current educational practice and theory …
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An interpretive phenomenological analysis of religious coping and relationship with god among older adults with functional impairments
… within the framework of the motivational theory of lifespan development and the transactional theory of stress and coping. Participants' coping represented both primary and secondary control processes as well as problem-, emotion-, and meaning-focused coping. One's perception of God's will …
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Pilot Study of the Effects of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback on Perceived Stress, Perceived Coping Ability, and Resilience in Accelerated Baccalaureate Nursing Students
… This study was guided by Lazarus and Folkman’s Transactional Theory of Stress and Coping, with a focus on primary appraisal.<br />Background. ABN students report higher perceived stress and anxiety compared with nursing students in traditional four-year nursing programs due to the compressed and …
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Dramatic response to children’s literature in an early childhood classroom setting
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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The effects of challenge and hindrance stressors on multinational corporations’ subsidiary performance: the role of institutional dependence
… combining the three complementary theories of transactional stress, JD–R, and neo-institution. From a managerial perspective, the present study suggests that MNCs should assess job stressors for subsidiary TMTs in terms of work challenges and hindrances that they encounter in working with/for …
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Community development: the use of corporate social responsibility initiatives by shopping centre landlords
… uThungulu District Municipality. Relational theory and transactional model theory are used to develop a model for shopping centres landlords to embrace CSR as a tool to community development. This study employs a survey method which was conducted among the management of the centres and …