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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"action theory"”.
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A test of situational action theory in Saudi Arabia
Situational Action Theory (SAT) is a recent and increasingly popular framework for explaining criminal behaviour, especially among youths. It argues that most people comply with the law and refrain from committing crime because they do not see crime as an action alternative, not because they are …
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Motivation and Morality in Intimate Partner Violence: A Partial Test of Situational Action Theory
… motivation-perception process within Situational Action Theory (SAT) using the context of intimate partner violence (IPV). Specifically, the role of morality as a moderating factor in the relationship between motivation and IPV perpetration is explored for both the provocation and temptation …
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Social Beliefs, Agonistic Goals, Anger, and Biased Perceptions of Outgroups: A Social Action Theory of Covert Racial Prejudice
… discriminatory behavior. Drawing on Social Action Theory, this study tested the hypothesis that the relationship between racial attitudes and implicit biases / overt discrimination is moderated by socially-induced personal regulatory struggles that take the form of agonistic striving, or …
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Situational action theory and intimate partner violence: An exploration of morality as the underlying mechanism in the explanation of violent crime
… can be explained within the same general theory of crime. This thesis applies situational action theory, a general theory of crime that places morality at the centre of its explanatory framework, to the understanding and explanation of intimate partner violence. This thesis concentrates on …
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Disentangling School Climate: Analysing the causes of problem and criminal behaviour in schools through the theoretical lens of Situational Action Theory
While the exact role of schools is somewhat contested, most would agree that they should be safe environments where teachers can help to facilitate the healthy development of young people. Unfortunately, evidence suggests that problem and criminal behaviour is an issue in a significant number of …
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A Mixed-Method Examination of Primary Care Physician Message Strategies to Correct Patient-Held Health Misinformation: An Application of Goals-Plans-Action Theory
… & Thompson, 2021). Guided by goals-plans-action theory (Dillard, 1990), which explains the communicative process of creating and implementing influence messages, the purpose of this dissertation was to: (a) uncover primary care physician goals, plans, and action when correcting …
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A Comparative Analysis of Divine Action Methodologies in the Works of Robert John Russell and Alvin Plantinga
ABSTRACT A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DIVINE ACTION METHODOLOGIES IN THE WORKS OF ROBERT JOHN RUSSELL AND ALVIN PLANTINGA John Paul Wilkinson, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015 Chair: Theodore James Cabal This dissertation explores the relationship of epistemology to special divine …
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Why monitoring doesn't always matter: The situational role of parental monitoring in adolescent crime
… provide support for person-environment interactions inherent in the causal model of Situational Action Theory, and provide a novel addition to evidence that could be used in future to inform policy-relevant recommendations concerning parenting behaviour and adolescent offending. Although this …
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Commercial Farming Adaption to Drought as a Strategy for Stable Local Economic Growth in Ugu District Municipality
… droughts within the theoretical framework of an Action Theory of Adaptation to climate change. The key finding is that commercial farmers in uGu district Municipality perceived drought coping strategies a difficult task if not impossible to manage without government’s intervention. The majority …
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The roles of empathy, shame, and guilt in violence decision-making
… in violence decision-making using a Situational Action Theory perspective. Qualitative in-depth interviews were carried out with a violent offender subsample taken from the longitudinal Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+) in order to explore the role of moral emotion …
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Effective action approach to quantum phase transitions in bosonic lattices
… source term. Using time-dependent perturbation theory, I then expand the grand-canonical free energy as a double power series in both the tunneling and the source term. From here, an order parameter field is introduced, and the underlying effective action is derived via a Legendre …
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Do Social Control Motives Combine with Perceptions of Social Support to Predict Relationships between Interpersonal Stress and Blood Pressure in the Normal Environment?
… design and statistical analysis, inadequate theory-building, and a failure to investigate implicit psychological processes that operate during normal everyday social interactions. The present study utilized a promising theoretical framework (i.e., social action theory) to evaluate implicit …
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Improving the Pipeline for Students of Color at 1862 Colleges of Agriculture: A Qualitative Study That Examines Administrators’ Perceptions of Diversity, Barriers, and Strategies for Success
… This qualitative study utilizes the path-goal theory of leadership (House, 1971) and reasoned action theory (Fishbein and Azjen, 2010) to examine the perceptions of administrators regarding the barriers that students of color face within colleges of agriculture at 1862 land-grant institutions. …
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Integrating cognitive, motivational, and emotional self-regulation in early stage entrepreneurs
… the present research builds on past research and theory across the spectrum of psychological research on self-regulation, and integrates cognitive, motivational and emotional aspects, as they manifest in distal and proximal ways, and across the phases of the action process. The model draws on: …
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Positioning of Fifth Grade Students in Small-Group Settings: Naming Participation in Discussion-Based Mathematics
Abstract: Through the lens of Schegloff¡®s (1996) Action Theory, this study examined the dynamics of four groups of fifth-grade students as they learned to talk about academic mathematical reasoning over the course of a school year using Freeze Frame Analysis (Leander & Rowe, 2006) to help map …
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Knowing and doing, well and good
… explores the relationship between intentional action and knowledge. I argue that understanding this relationship is not only of central importance to action theory; it is also a means to progress on questions about the nature of knowledge, the mechanisms of oppression, and the foundations of …
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Developing Leadership Capability for Rigorous Inquiry: An Intervention Study
… using problem-based methodology to identify the actions characterising and explaining senior leaders’ approaches to leading PI with middle leaders and the consequences of these actions before and after introducing an intervention. Problem-based methodology theorises how research can contribute to …
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Norms and Reasons: Modernity and subjecthood inside (and outside) a Chinese school
… from philosophical discussions in epistemology, action theory, and moral philosophy to make sense of the ethnography.
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The male world of football media and beer drinking: a case study of sports bars in Cape Town, South Africa
… 2003) and James Wertsch’s (1998) Mediated Action Theory. The study analyses two dimensions of football media viewing in sports bars: it focuses on the psychological motivations and the socio-cultural structure. The study’s main objective is to understand both the role of media for the …
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Perceptions of eThekwini-based trade union leadership on service delivery violence under the Zuma presidency
… political process and employment of collective action in South Africa, in pursuing important national issues and championing popular collective objectives like freedom. The trade union collective’s leadership selection was motivated by trade union collective’s historic leadership of collective …
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