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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Working adults"”.
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Teaching Singaporean working adults in diploma programmes at a privately funded educational institute
… of the small-scale survey was to study how adults learn and receive information from teachers at MIS. It is the contention of the present study that adult learners at MIS are different from adolescence students studying in the mainstream educational state-owned institutions and that their …
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Modeling Physical Activity in Working Adults: How Suitable Is the Expanded Parallel Process Model?
… secondary analyses of a dataset from a group of working adults. These individuals had elected first to participate in a health plan ‘Quality Improvement Study’ and were then randomly selected to receive an intervention program designed to get people to be more active.</p> <p>Data on self-reported …
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Testing a brief, theory-guided video chat intervention for enhancing self-efficacy and lifestyle physical activity among low active working adults
… engaging in regular physical activity, American adults’ physical activity levels are generally low (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017a. The most common reported barrier for low activity is lack of time (Bellows-Riecken & Rhodes, 2008; Cohen-Mansfield, Marx, & Guralnik, 2003; Manaf, …
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Building Careers That Bounce Back: A New Measure of Career Resilience (SYCRA Scale/Systems-Based Career Resilience Assessment) for Working Adults in U.S.
… and barriers of career resilience among working adults in the United States. Following a systematic search across seven databases, thirteen studies met the inclusion criteria from an initial pool of 2,154 records. Findings indicated that career resilience has been examined using …
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The feasibility and efficacy of a novel social cognitive theory-based intervention to reduce sedentary time and promote physical activity among working adults
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Testing the impact of flow-based, moderate-intensity yoga on executive functioning and stress among low active working adults with symptoms of stress
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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闲聊会话的连续性初探 = An exploratory study of the continuity of casual conversations among Singaporean young Chinese working adults
The present study seeks to understand the achievement of continuity in casual conversations. The investigation set sights on three aspects which are of direct relation to the sustainment of conversation, namely topic generation, thematic organization, listener responses. This study also aims to …
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Sleep characteristics and cardiometabolic disease risk factors in corporate executives
… the majority of time in a typical day of working adults. As a result, the workplace is a key setting for public health action. Among working adults, 71% of deaths globally are related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), most of which are attributed to cardiometabolic diseases (CMD). While …
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Initial Validation of the Work and Human Needs Inventory
… theoretical approaches, such the Psychology of Working perspective (Blustein, 2006; Duffy, Blustein, Diemer, & Autin, 2016), have emphasized social stratification and social justice, and quantitative assessments of these constructs are needed. The current study examines the development and …
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Development and validation of a work mattering scale (WMS)
… 45 items. In phase II, with a sample of 299 working adults in the United States, exploratory factor analyses were employed and produced a two-factor model with 10 items. In phase III, with another sample of 251 working adults, confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to test the initial …
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The effect of implicit self-theories of intelligence on task persistence and performance in an adult sample: test of a structural model
… are relevant as well for performance of working adults. The purpose of the current study was to examine the effects of implicit self-theories in working adults by examining structural model with implicit self-theories predicting self-efficacy after task failure, which in turn predicts …
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Examining the Effects of Realistic Recruitment on Work-Family Conflict: A Test of the Mediating Role of Expectations.
… survey utilizing a broad sample of working adults. Study 2 sampled employees of a public school district in the Southeastern United States using a similar cross-sectional survey to Study 1. Study 3, also using a broad sample of working adults, was experimental in nature and randomly …
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Development of the Health Motivation Assessment Inventory
… motivation of health promotional behaviors in working adults, and how do these variables interact? The desire to examine why individuals practice (or fail to practice) behaviors or actions believed to be positive for health precipitated this study. Identification and examination of the …
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Analysis of Hospital-Based Emergency Department Visits for Dental Care Services in the United States in 2008
… based emergency department visits of among working adults.</p> <p>The Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, a component of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, was used for this study. All emergency department visits …
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"I Have To Be Everything" Voices of International Working Mothers: Negotiating Work-Life Balance in the United States
… addressed the effect of work-life conflict for working adults and the psychological and sociocultural adaptation of immigrants. However, rarely does this research explore how working adults, especially women, develop solutions to those work-life tensions. Previous literature is typically silent …
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Male-Female Workplace Friendships: Third Party Coworkers' Perceptions of and Behavior toward Organizational Peers in Cross-Sex Workplace Friendships
Workplace relationships range from professional working relationships, to workplace friendships, to romantic relationships at work. Cross-sex (male-female) workplace relationships, including friendships, are especially important for women, as research suggests they may help women to break through …
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Workplace Incivility and the Low-Status Target
… Data come from four different samples of working adults: employees from a property management company (N = 90), employees of a northwestern university (N = 1,843), a national sample of law school faculty (N = 1,256), and employed students from a southern university (N = 243). Participants …
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Organizational Commitment, Relationship Commitment and Their Association with Attachment Style and Locus of Control
… control (Rotter, 1966). Data collected from 171 working adults yield several noteworthy associations and suggest future directions of inquiry.
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Personally satisfying: Using Personal Style Scales to enhance the prediction of career satisfaction
… across 8 individual samples comprising 4,938 working adults. Sequential discriminant function analyses demonstrated that sets of hypothesized PSSs significantly distinguished between satisfied and dissatisfied workers beyond the six Holland themes in all 8 occupational samples. This research …
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Reinventing the Wheel: Examining the Antecedents, Moderators, and Outcomes of the Innovation Process
… ideas in the workplace. In a sample of 667 working adults, this study found that high leader-member exchange was positively related to cognitive and behavioral learning strategies focused towards generating innovative ideas. Employees with proactive personalities were more likely to engage …
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