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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"diary study"”.
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Teaching English in the Philippines: a diary study of a novice ESL teacher
<p>"In this diary study, the writer explores the similarities and differences between teaching English at the college level in the Philippines and the United States while completing internships in the summers of 2011 and 2012. His students were in their first or second year of university classes …
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Investigating How Reading Enhances Empathy: A Longitudinal, Diary Study of Everyday Reading Habits
… to testing these relationships, the present study aimed to link reading to prosocial outcomes (e.g., donating). I conducted a longitudinal (27-day) diary study using a quasi-experimental design with a group of adult, self-described avid readers and book club members (<em>n</em> = 111) who …
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The Role of Emotion Regulation in the Relationship Between Social Anxiety and Depression: A Daily Diary Study
… on ES and an underutilization of CR. The present study investigated the role of emotion regulation, specifically ES and CR, in the relationship between social anxiety and depression over time. Our primary aim was to evaluate ES and CR, separately, as mediators of the relationship between social …
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A diary study of self-esteem, social anxiety, interpersonal interactions and health risk behavior in college students
This study sought to clarify mixed findings regarding the association between trait self-esteem and social anxiety and engagement in health risk behaviors among college. A daily diary methodology was used to investigate whether trait self-esteem, social anxiety and interpersonal experiences predict …
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Reflections on Teaching and Host Mothering Chinese Secondary Students: A Novice ESL Teacher’s Diary Study and Autoethnography
… middle and high school students, they had been studying English from four to 13 years in their home country. A mixed methodology of retrospective diary study, case study, and critical and autoethnography helped me to refine my teaching for this population and to prepare others to teach English …
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“Did you have a good weekend?” A week-level diary study examining the relationship between weekend recovery and weekday performance
… and employees use the weekend to recover, this study investigated the relationship between recovery experiences (i.e., psychological detachment, relaxation, and mastery) over the weekend and the state of being recovered on the following Monday. Further, the relationship between the state of …
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Alcohol use as a risk factor for bidirectional intimate partner violence among college students: Results from a daily diary study
Background. Decades of research have found alcohol and negative affect (NA) are global and proximal risk factors for psychological and physical intimate partner violence (IPV), especially among college students. Despite recognition as the most common form of IPV, bidirectional psychological and …
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Examining state emotion regulation as a moderator of the proximal association between intimate partner violence victimization and alcohol use: Results from a daily diary study
… use association remains unexamined. This study investigated the hypothesis that daily IPV victimization would positively and prospectively associate with same-day alcohol use (any drinking, number of drinks, and heavy episodic drinking [HED]), and that higher levels of daily emotion …
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Recharged and ready: a week-level diary study exploring an integrated model of weekend recovery, incorporating circadian and boundary perspectives, and their relationship with weekly performance
… their theoretical alignment with recovery, this study extends an integrated model of weekend recovery by incorporating a boundary perspective (i.e., psychological reattachment to work) and a circadian perspective (i.e., sleep characteristics), offering a more comprehensive understanding of how …
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No Pressure!: Designing Mobile Interventions to Improve Pressure Relief Adherence for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury through Diary Studies
… was tested with individuals with SCI. A 10-day diary study was conducted to capture their experiences in real-time, resulting in a collection of quantitative and qualitative data. The analysis led to a set of key considerations for designing such mobile interventions: 1) technology with a human …
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Context awareness for wearable computers
… to investigate this premise. A photograph diary study is carried out to elicit defining features of a broad range of everyday activities. These features are called Context Identifiers. From this a structured definition of context is suggested that bridges the gap between the current …
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CoListen
… I conducted three studies. The first study was a diary study over 14 days where I asked about the current practices of middle schoolers for communicating with friends out side of school and for listening to music. In the second study, I conducted a design charrette where participants …
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The New Internet Virus - Facebook Depression? The Role of Gender and Facebook Social Comparison on Depressive Symptoms
… social comparisons. The cross-sectional pilot study (N= 180), revealed an association between time spent on Facebook and depressive symptoms for both men and women. However, results demonstrated that, for men only, making non-directional social comparisons on Facebook mediated the link between …
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A novice ESL teacher's experience of language learning in France: an autoethnographic study of anomie and the "Vulnerable Self"
<p>"This thesis combines diary study with autoethnography to report an MATESL candidate's study abroad experience as an advanced learner of French. The writer summarizes language-learning experiences in Quebec and France while focusing on his second study abroad experience in France, where he …
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Creating a Patient-Generated Health Data Visualization System for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions
… them. We conducted interviews and a 2-week diary study with nine older adult patients with MCC to understand how they track and physicalize their PGHD at home. This research identified the types of PGHD patients collected at home and the preferred visual encodings and channels. We created …
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What Predicts Support Selection: Examining Personality and Gender
… 171 participants were recruited for a daily diary study in which they reported on the people they had sought for support each day. We examined the effects of gender, Big Five personality traits and attachment style in predicting the number of supporters people sought per issue. In addition, …
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The Role of Self-Control, Social Support, and Reliance on Others in the Religiosity-Health Link
… to see if they all work together. The current study presents three possible mediators of the religiosity-health link: social support, self-control, and reliance on others. Participants were recruited from Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk worker system (N = 112) for a 14-day diary study in which all …
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The relationship between tinnitus, cognitive performance and demands on the individual
… and finite attentional resources.A second study attempted to narrow this down further, identifying specific tasks and specific circumstances in which tinnitus sufferers performed less effectively than their non-tinnitus counterparts.From these results, it was postulated that the …
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What stories mean to children: Low-income preschoolers' emotional attachments to stories
… gender of child, participated in an interview study, and two of the mothers also participated in a short-term, longitudinal diary study. Both studies converge on several key findings. Every child experienced at least two emotional attachments to stories. The television/video medium was the most …
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