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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"affectivity"”.
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Levinas : subjectivity, affectivity and desire
The thesis argues that Emmanuel Levinas’s later concept of ethical subjectivity, explicated in his late work Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, can really only be understood by taking into account the very early work On Escape. The thesis argues that the concept of ethical subjectivity emerges …
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Agents, affectivity and aesthetics in user-interface design
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research has suggested that there has been a general shift away from more traditional aspects of design, such as usability, and the focus is now more pleasure, or emotion, based. Jordan (2000) states that pleasure based design is associated with more hedonic …
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The Limits of Rationality: Suicidality, Affectivity, and the Rational
<p>In this project, I expose conceptual and moral difficulties with the concept of rational suicide. After offering a comprehensive list of criteria used to define rationality in the bioethics literature, I turn to the scholarship of Susan Sherwin, Susan Wolf, Rosemarie Tong, Lisa Ikemoto and …
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Coping with multiple sclerosis: The role of negative affectivity
… with hypothesized relationships among negative affectivity, physical disability, internal health locus of control, and negative mood were tested. It was hypothesized that negative affectivity would be a significant predictor of negative mood and that self-reported physical disability and an …
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Turnover Intentions and Turnover: The Moderating Role of Dispositional Affectivity
… and Moffitt (2005) suggested that dispositional affectivity moderates this relationship. Using a sample of 443 U.S. insurance company employees and hierarchical moderator logistic regression, I found that dispositional affectivity (i.e., positive affectivity [PA] and negative affectivity [NA]) …
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Consuming Mutilation : Affectivity and Corporeal Transgression on Stage and Screen.
This thesis suggests the possibility that psychoanalytic frameworks may prove insufficient to apprehend the workings of post-millennial horror. Through a sustained exploration of how affect theory may be applied to horror, I propose a new affective corporeal model that accounts for the impact of …
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Mentalized Affectivity Among Adolescents in Wilderness Therapy: An Initial Exploration
<p>Mentalized affectivity (MA) blends emotion regulation and mentalization in a single construct that underlies psychopathology and is a target of psychotherapeutic intervention as a mechanism of change. Little research has investigated MA’s role in psychopathology and treatment for adolescents. …
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Mentalized Affectivity and its Role in Acculturative Adjustment and Well-Being
… construct in understanding wellbeing. Mentalized affectivity (MA) is an insight-based regulatory process that highlights the importance of understanding current emotional distress in the context of one’s past history (Jurist, 2005). The three dimensions of emotion identification, emotion …
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The positive project team : the impact of positive affectivity on project success
What is the impact of positive affectivity on project success? The primary purpose of this paper is to answer that question by comparing two project groups based on their psychological traits and attitudes and see whether it has an influence on project success. It is done by administering …
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Burnout in Applied Behvior Analysis Tutors: The Role of Personality, Stress, and Affectivity
… and burnout when accounting for the stress and affectivity as mediators. Participants included 152 (140 females, 92.1%) Applied Behavior Analyst (ABA) tutors ages 20-63 (M = 27.84, SD = 6.48) who worked with children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders and who spent the majority of …
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Ego Identity Development as a Mediator Between Negative Affectivity and Wellness of College Students
… studied the relationships between negative affectivity (i.e., depression, anxiety, and stress), ego identity development, and wellness of traditionally-aged undergraduate college students. It also tested if ego identity development mediates the relationship between negative affectivity and …
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Differentiating Externalizing Behaviors in Early Childhood: The Role of Negative Affectivity and Attentional Control
… In situations of low regulation, negative affectivity may differentially predispose children to these behaviors due to a reactive propensity for anger and frustration. Attentional control can act to regulate these behaviors through shifting and focusing of attention, but may execute this …
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The Changing Uses and Developments of Affectivity in the Practice of Confession (12th-13th centuries)
… in the development of the penitent’s penitential affectivity. This not only facilitated access to successful confession for the average Christian, but also allowed the expression of a lay affectivity in relation to God and sins, thus facilitating the development of new ways for the laity to …
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Synthetic Solidarities: Theorizing Queer Affectivity and Trans*national/temporal Emulsification as Embodied Resistance to Global Capitalism
This dissertation theorizes the synthesis of solidarities around queer embodied performativities as a mode of making-resistant the everyday experiences of exploitation under transnational capitalism. These solidarities, I argue, are cultivated around the affective, embodied experiences of what José …
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The Roles of Task Hedonic Tone and Time in the Effects of Mood and Affectivity on Creativity
… the effects of positive mood and positive affectivity on creativity, together with the contexts of task hedonic tone and time. The results revealed that high positive mood and a pleasant task tone were related to higher creative performance. Moreover, a pleasant task tone had a stronger …
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Job embeddedness and turnover intentions: The moderating role of affectivity traits, career stages and perceptions of organisational politics
… in Ghana. It also examined moderating effects of affectivity traits, career stage and perceptions of organisational politics (POP) on the JE–turnover intentions relationship. Analyses revealed that composite JE and its dimensions and sub-dimensions (except community fit) were negatively related to …
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Assessing the Influence of Personality, Affectivity, and Mood on Job Satisfaction and Job Behaviors: A Test of Alternative Models
… research, AET was modified to account for both affectivity and personality and their relationships with the components of job attitudes and job behaviors. Several alternative models were proposed based on the literature on job attitudes, job behaviors, personality, affectivity, and mood at work. …
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The influence of biographical characteristics on emotional concerns of new first-year students at the University of Zululand
… were identified as belonging emotions, positive affectivity, negative affectivity and pathological emotions. From the correlation analysis, the study revealed that age of the New First Year Students (NFYS) was not related to the three emotional constructs of negative affectivity, pathological and …
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