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Showing 1 to 20 of 333 for “"disengagement"”.
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Disengagement and Entrepreneurial Exit
… to understand how psychological variables affect disengagement and the exit strategies that entrepreneurs pursue to leave their business. I propose emotional disengagement (i.e. feeling of being emotionally distanced from business) as a mediating psychological mechanism in the relationships …
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James Joyce's Disengagement from Philosophical and Religious Systems
Joyce's art Is based upon no particular philosophic or theological system; rather, it is based upon the premise that system, a product of the finite mind, is imposed upon rather than intrinsic to infinite reality and that, therefore, reality cannot be fully comprehended systematically. As an …
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Educational and vocational disengagement in autistic young adults
… However, to date little is known about how disengagement unfolds in the autistic population specifically. This thesis aims to shed light on this phenomenon by investigating three broad themes: the association of autism and other SEN with disengagement, the implications of disengagement on …
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Diplomacy derailed : the consequences of U.S. diplomatic disengagement
… the U.S. has employed policies of diplomatic disengagement in approximately 30% of its economic sanctions episodes, studies have focused solely on economic sanctions. Seeking to weigh in on this debate, my doctoral dissertation focuses on two central questions: (1) What are the effects of …
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Physical and Digital Disengagement Behaviours in the University Classroom
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Disengagement from patient relationships: nurses' experience in acute care
… are not any theories on the nurses’ process of disengagement from patient relationships. Using Strauss and Corbin’s (1990) grounded theory method, this study explored acute care nurses’ experience of disengagement in patient relationships. The purpose of the study was to develop a mid-range …
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Disengagement: The Influence of Family Dysfunction and Childhood Trauma
"It was found that the nature of Disengagement again differed for the two, groups and also that although trauma did not appear to differentiate between the groups, family dysfunction was much more prevalent in the ""low"" control group. In sum, Disengagement, as initially construed, seems to be …
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A downward spiral: Young people, the media, and political disengagement
This study examines whether political disengagement is related to the amount and/or type of television that young people watch. The study was conducted through survey research at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with over one hundred undergraduate participants. It demonstrates that there is no …
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Causal Analysis of Disengagement Among Paid and Volunteer City Employees
… jobs to paid workers might reveal much about the disengagement process since the need to maintain a source of income will not mask their affective responses. Volunteers represent cost-reduction potential for the cities using them wisely. The Mobley et al. (1979) model included cognitive, …
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Not our problem: Ingroup glorification facilitates moral disengagement and exclusion
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Tracing the Dynamics of Value-Based Attention: from Generalization to Disengagement
… about whether value also affects attentional disengagement, that is, the ability to shift attention away from previously rewarded stimuli. Presenting a series of studies, this thesis aims to clarify both the generalization of value-driven attentional biases and the role of attentional …
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Political Disengagement and Spaces of Neglect in the Current Political System
… or declining voter turnout highlight spaces of disengagement from formal political processes and are a legitimate cause for concern. Political disengagement has the potential to create spaces of inequality in terms of the level of political representation a given area or group in society …
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Work Disengagement: Motivational Regulation Shaped by Psychological Need Frustration and Perceived Injustice
<p>Employee disengagement represents a persistent global challenge, yet remains theoretically underdeveloped and is frequently conflated with burnout, behavioral withdrawal, or deviance. Building on Kahn’s (1990) original conceptualization, this dissertation reconceptualizes disengagement as a …
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