Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"direct experience"”.
-
Influence in Small Groups: Direct Experience and Attitude Behavior Consistency, Minority Influence, Choice Shift, Social Combination Models, Prevailing Norms and Demonstrability
A theoretical integration of the direct experience and attitude-behavior consistency literature, the minority influence and choice shift literatures, and the social combination models literature was made in an attempt to more fully understand influence processes in small groups. The role of …
-
An Empirical Examination of the Influence of Gender, Age, Training, Openness, and Social Norms on Attitudes Toward and Willingness to Use Telepsychology among Graduate Students
… to explore the relationships between openness, direct experience, social norms, attitudes, and willingness to use telepsychology among psychologists-in-training. The present study found that openness, social norms, and direct experience positively impact willingness. Furthermore, attitudes …
-
Local environmental attitudes, global environmental attitudes, and religion: An analysis in 47 nations
… social psychology posits the importance of experience as well as of culture on attitudes about matters one encounters directly, so the dissertation posits the Direct Experience Hypothesis and confirms the differentiation of local from global environmental attitudes. Moreover, social …
-
Taking Turns: A Conversational Approach to Ecological Design
… design techniques combining dialogue AND direct experience. The project ended with the completion of a conceptual design but did not reach construction stage before the close of fieldwork.'Embodied conversation' describes the design process, characterized by alternating modes of …
-
Exploring clinicians' experiences of working with people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder
… design to sketch an understanding of clinicians’ experiences of working with BPD, including their instrumental knowledge of the disorder, their personal experiences of working with people diagnosed with BPD and the impact of the apparent stigmatisation of BPD on the participants’ conceptualisation …
-
Teaching and Learning Styles Of Community College Business Instructors and Their Students: Relationship to Student Performance and Instructor Evaluations
… instructors favored the Organization, People, Direct Experience, and A-Influence scales of the Canfield Instructional Styles Inventory, implying that they present material to their students in a clear, logical, and organized manner. Opportunities are created for students to interact in …
-
Attitudes and Perceptions Towards Snakes: Informing Conservation Education
… factors, emotional responses, and personal experiences influence attitudes toward snakes and willingness to engage in conservation education programs. A quantitative survey of 369 Canadian adults assessed emotional, experiential, and demographic predictors using validated and adapted …
-
The Psychology of Self-Surrender: A Contemplative-Hermeneutic Study
… phenomenon that is grounded in direct experience. As such, this study draws on an integrative methodology that synthesizes elements of applied hermeneutics with autoethnography and contemplative practice. The author conducts an applied hermeneutic analysis of two psycho-spiritual …
-
An exploration of the role of coaching in supporting non-traditional students in higher education in the UK : the perspectives of the students and their coaches
… the research question of what are the HE experiences of non-traditional students leading to and during their undergraduate studies using heuristic inquiry, portraying the voices of non-traditional students from the unique perspective of the researcher, who has direct experience of the …
-
Creating Values of Heritage: An Analysis of Policy Processes of Candidacy to UNESCO's World Heritage List
… examines four different case studies based on direct experience. The methodology is based on the structuring of a phased Model capable of interpreting the policy processes of the nominations and on qualitative analysis using semi-structured interviews with key agents in the various case …
-
The role of the psychologist in South African society : in search of an appropriate community psychology
… as a basis. Based on all of the above and direct experience of working and teaching within a community psychology framework in South Africa, suggestions for practice and training were offered.
-
Ancient Art, Modern Tech: Experiencing the Digital Reinvention of the Mogao Grottoes
… tourism. The sheer volume of visitors seeking a direct experience of this unique but delicate site has resulted in an increasingly rapid process of destruction in the 21st century. Its guardian institution, the Dunhuang Academy (DA), has thus embarked on an ambitious, decades-long undertaking …
-
Sexual harassment in the ivory tower
… Tech, though most of the students had not directly experienced it. Of those with direct experience, the incidents closely paralleled reports in the literature. Though apparently not a wide-spread phenomena on the Virginia Tech campus, students expressed a need for more information, more …
-
The general public's knowledge and perceptions of the certified athletic trainer's professional role and educational background
… sports injury care advice. For those with direct experience with an ATC, performance effectiveness ratings within each of the athletic training domains was generally favorable.</p>
-
Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions And Expectations of K-12 Schooling Locales in Saskatchewan
… knowledge of these locales was either through direct first-hand experience or anecdotally through friends and colleagues, rarely through their university program. Locales not directly accessible to the participants, often band, were most often learned about indirectly, for example, through …
-
Observance of Parental Violence and Its Association With Responses of College Students to an Analog Dating Task
… may have learned through observation or by direct experience that the use of physical violence is an appropriate way to interact in relationships. To investigate the hypothesis that witnessing parental violence would be associated with dating violence, 241 college students responded to two …
-
Linger: Chinese Culture Center
… and understand the culture. However, the most direct experience is a personal experience. As the most important carrier of human activities, architecture cannot be overlooked. From the direct sensory experience and indirect behavioral patterns, architecture is involved in human activities and …
-
Lietuvos partizanų karas: sovietinis, vietinis ir išeivijos pasakojimai /
… but it always maintains a connection with the direct experience of the events remembered. In this regard, the memory of the Lithuanian guerilla war ended up in very complex situation, in which it could not emerge as a continuous social and cultural phenomenon. The collective memory of normal …
-
Lithuanian guerrilla war: Soviet, non-Soviet and diaspora's narratives /
… but it always maintains a connection with the direct experience of the events remembered. In this regard, the memory of the Lithuanian guerilla war ended up in very complex situation, in which it could not emerge as a continuous social and cultural phenomenon. The collective memory of normal …
-
From class to club : an exploration of high school civic-minded student organizations from 1996-2011 in Corpus Christi, Texas
… as it is perceived by alumni and those with direct experience of the organizations. While a study of this type may not be highly generalizable, it will provide new insights into promising civic education and engagement for previously marginalized groups of students. The findings of this …
Page 1 of 4