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Showing 1 to 20 of 811 for “"contextual factors"”.
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Contextual Factors and Reproductive Control in U.S. Women
Introduction: Access to family planning services is a major public health issue. State policies and funding for family planning services may increase access to contraceptive services and help women avoid unintended pregnancies. Study Design: We identified sexually active, fertile women participants …
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Coaching Ideology: Contextual Factors and Implications for Practice
… and inductive analyses. The results suggest that contextual factors operate as powerful constraints and affordances for coaches as they attempt to coach in accord with their ideological stances. Furthermore, the coaching ideology and behavior relation can be affected by both intrapersonal factors …
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Contextual factors impacting on research performance at a young Australian university
… There is, however, limited knowledge about the contextual factors that impact on research performance, especially in universities that are new or not yet research-intensive. One such young university is the Another New Research University (ANRU), the setting for this research. To become …
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The Heterogeneity of Adolescent Factors: Investigating Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Factors
… of the individual, the interpersonal, and the contextual. In Study 1, I explored the relationship between individual differences and friendship change over time. Specifically, I considered the role of different HEXACO personality traits in relation to reciprocal friendship quantity, formation, …
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Exploring the Underlying Psychological Processes of Gambling Behaviour: Individual and Contextual Factors
… positive gambling beliefs are identified as risk factors for pathological gambling and related symptoms in numerous surveys and naturalistic studies. However, there remains a need for experimental studies, as we know little about how the effects of these variables on gambling emerge or the …
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Contextual Factors Influencing the Acute Care Registered Nurse's Response to Clinical Alarms
… was to develop a broader understanding of the contextual factors that influenced the acute care nurse's response to clinical alarms. This study used an interpretive phenomenological methodology to study the lived experiences of the nurses who encounter alarms in the medical-surgical patient …
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Optimising Outcome for Achilles Tendinopathy: An Exploration into Cognitive and Contextual Factors
… research is required to better understand factors which may influence exercise-led interventions. It is acknowledged that further research is required to understand the ‘specific’ influences of exercise, for example, the ideal exercise type, number of sets and repetitions remain uncertain. …
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The role of contextual factors during conservative chronic low back pain management
… enhance the quality and effectiveness of care. Contextual factors (CFs), such as the patient-practitioner relationship, beliefs/characteristics of patients and practitioners, treatment characteristics, and the therapeutic environment may affect long-term recovery, but knowledge of their role …
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The influence of COVID-19 contextual factors on information security policy compliance
… the impact of COVID-19 pandemic-induced contextual factors on information security policy compliance. The most significant change resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has been a shift to working from home. Hence, this study aims to understand the impact that telecommuting has had on …
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An Exploratory Study of General Aviation Visual to Instrument Meteorological Condition Contextual Factors
… bridge the existing literature gap of outdated contextual factor (CF) research through examination and determination of current General Aviation (GA) Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 visual flight rules (VFR)-into-instrument meteorological condition (IMC) contextual factors. …
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The impact on organizational performance of contextual factors, strategy and management control systems
… (MCS) by testing the alignment of strategic and contextual variables with variables of contemporary systems of control in the organization. The study further explored the performance consequences of the implementation of these control systems, and the manner in which strategy can influence the …
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Neighborhood and school contextual factors: longitudinal outcomes in a high-poverty adolescent population
… theory, suggests that neighborhood and school contextual factors greatly influence adolescent outcomes. While this research examines the multiple contexts that impact adolescent development, missing from the literature is an assessment that uses multiple data sources. Therefore, the present …
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Understanding and Interpreting Japanese NP1 WA NP2 DA Sentences: Mechanism and Contextual Factors
<p>This dissertation investigates the contextual factors that affect the understanding and interpretation of one Japanese topicalized construction, NP1 wa NP2 da sentences, by native speakers of Japanese. The construction allows two possibilities in the relation between the NP1 and the NP2. When …
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Engaging Adolescents in Organized Youth Programs: An Analysis of Individual and Contextual Factors
… the investigation of the role of program-level factors in the engagement process revealed four factors: (1) youth receiving verbal encouragement and strategic feedback from the leaders, (2) leaders' efforts to monitor the setting for the presence of diversions and exciting or novel activities, …
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The Effect of Weight Misperception and Contextual Factors on Weight Control Among Young Adults
… influence of weight misperceptions and other contextual factors to better understand why young adults, particularly men and African-Americans, do not attempt weight loss. Objective: To determine if observed differences in weight control by race and sex are due to differences in weight status …
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Exploring Contextual Factors and Trainee Characteristics: A Mixed Methods Study on Transfer of Training
… to explore the trainee characteristics and contextual factors that influenced transfer of training before, during and after training as well as the participants’ suggestions to foster transfer of training. The findings revealed that trainee characteristics as well as contextual factors …
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