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The Motivation Beliefs Inventory: Measuring Motivation Beliefs Using Four Motivation Theories
… the author challenged readers to question their beliefs about what motivates employees; this challenge was based on research that questions the validity of widely used management approaches to employee motivation, particularly those based on reinforcement theory. Answering this challenge was …
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Health Beliefs Affecting Exercise Patterns
… sought to ascertain the differences in health beliefs as a function of self-reported exercise patterns. A sample of 112 nurses participated in this study. Procedure. The Health Perceptions Questionnaire (HPQ) by John Ware, Jr. (1976) was utilized to collect data on health beliefs. A second …
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How Beliefs Affect Relationship Formation
Past research has investigated racial implicit biases in the context of short-term relationships, such as strangers. However, implicit biases have not been studied in the context of longer-term relationships. The present study explores ways in which implicit biases may impact integral aspects of …
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Paranormal Beliefs and Personality Traits
The current study examined the non-skeptic view of paranormal belief, suggesting that belief in the paranormal does not indicate psychopathology. This study examines the non-pathological personality traits present in paranormal believers by using a broad personality test. One hundred and one …
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Community Breastfeeding Attitudes and Beliefs
… their breastfeeding and bottle feeding (formula) beliefs, attitudes, and breastfeeding exposure, and then comparing that to their breastfeeding behaviors. Findings from this study will provide information to policy makers and clinicians for developing educational programs and crafting strategies …
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BELIEFS ABOUT RESPITE AMONG CAREGIVERS
… emphasis of this research was to evaluate the beliefs about respite among caregivers of the clients associated with Inland Caregiver Resource Center. The caregivers of the elderly and those who suffer from Alzheimer’s and dementia, or suffer from traumatic brain injury that was organic in …
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Emotional Awareness and Peculiar Beliefs
… between emotional awareness and peculiar beliefs were examined in two studies with college student participants. Emotional awareness includes facets representing the extent to which emotions are attended to, and to which their source and their type (i.e., anger vs. fear) are understood. In …
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The Dimensionality of Educational Beliefs
… it is clear that lay citizens hold a variety of beliefs about education. It is not clear, however, to what extent these beliefs are organized along the lines of several more embracing ideologies or movements in education. This research explores three major questions. First, are the educational …
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Beliefs in an Opaque Brain
… underdetermines all of an agent's second-order beliefs about her own beliefs. Such a result is far more negative than the ISA's well-known pessimism regarding self-knowledge. Furthermore, I also argue that, from the same assumptions, it is possible to build an argument to the effect that …
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Teachers' beliefs about grade retention
… used to gain a better understanding of teachers' beliefs about retention in grades K-7. The participants in this study were the 135 classroom and specialty teachers in one school division (with six elementary schools, K-7). Two survey instruments were developed: (a) the Teacher Retention Belief …
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Investigating Preservice and Practicing Teachers' Epistemological Beliefs: An Exploration of Relationships Between Beliefs and Communities
… and practicing teachers' epistemological beliefs (i.e., beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning) and to look for relationships between those beliefs and membership in various professional and family subcultures.
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Uncertainty, Individual Differences, and Paranormal Beliefs
… between uncertainty and supernatural beliefs, as well as the link between individual personality traits and supernatural beliefs. Participants were placed in four different prime conditions: self uncertainty, other uncertainty, self affirmation, or other affirmation. The current study …
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Beliefs underlying treatment choices in osteoarthritis
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Whose Beliefs Matter for Firm Investment?
… This disagreement raises the question of whose beliefs guide corporate investment. This paper examines the extent to which firm capital investment reflects the beliefs of managers, as opposed to those of outside market participants. Motivated by a standard q-theory framework, I relate firm …
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Grading, a Survey of Current Beliefs
Educators were asked to agree or disagree with 40 statements on grading practices and on the usefulness of grades. The results of teachers and administrators, of males and females, of beginning and experienced educators, of elementary and secondary educators, and of older and younger educators were …
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Beliefs About Fatherhood Among Social Workers
<p>This research was conducted to study the beliefs about fatherhood among social workers. Data for this project were gathered through separate interviews which were conducted using a sample of five individual social workers that worked with children and families. The participants were asked a …
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