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Showing 1 to 20 of 279 for “"dispositional"”.
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Dispositional Mindfulness and Perceived Stress
… reduce stress. Additionally, those with higher dispositional levels of mindfulness tend to exhibit lower levels of stress. While there is a clear relationship between the cultivation of mindfulness and reduced stress levels, the particular aspects of mindfulness that are associated with stress …
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The roles of dispositional flow, dispositional mindfulness, and self-compassion in the Objectification Theory Framework
Women are at greater risk than men for experiencing eating disorders, depression, and sexual dysfunction (American Psychological Association, 2007; Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997). Objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) was proposed to explain one process through which sexist social …
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Dispositional Antecedents to Post-Acquisition Employee Commitment
… perception of acquisition success and the dispositional antecedents of positive affect and adaptive coping on employee- organization commitment during the 60-day period following a business acquisition. Allen & Meyer's affective, normative and continuance model of commitment was used for …
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Development of an implicit measure of dispositional forgiveness.
… research exists to measure forgiveness at a dispositional and implicit level. The purpose of the current study was to develop and validate an implicit measure of forgivingness (or dispositional forgiveness) using the Implicit Association Test (IAT). This Forgiveness IAT (FIAT) was …
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Temporal, Perspectives, Dispositional Styles, and Subjective Well-Being
… Scale, composed by the author, assessed the dispositional styles. The Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZPTI) (Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999) assessed TP. Five temporal perspectives were found. Results indicated that the TPs emerged as strong and unique predictors of SWB in regression analysis. An …
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Development of an implicit measure of dispositional forgiveness.
… research exists to measure forgiveness at a dispositional and implicit level. The purpose of the current study was to develop and validate an implicit measure of forgivingness (or dispositional forgiveness) using the Implicit Association Test (IAT). This Forgiveness IAT (FIAT) was …
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Does dispositional mindfulness predict perceived stress in daily life?
Chronic stress in the mind-body system leads to frequent activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and sympathetic-adreno-medullar axes, creating excessive inflammation. This in turn increases a person's vulnerability for a host of conditions that take root in the "common soil" of …
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Withstanding Cruel Teasing: Does Dispositional Mindfulness Fortify Target Immunity?
<p>Cruel teasing can be pernicious for targets' psychological health. In this thesis I examined the extent to which trait mindfulness might mitigate the negative psychological effects associated with cruel teasing. Correlation results confirmed cruel teasing history related significantly and …
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Contextual and Dispositional Influences on Low-Income Children's School Adjustment
Examination of child temperament and early adult-child relationships is of vital importance to children's socio-emotional development, school success, and the prevention of future problem behaviors. In response, the current project examined the interaction of parenting style, child temperament, and …
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Turnover Intentions and Turnover: The Moderating Role of Dispositional Affectivity
… Allen, Weeks, and Moffitt (2005) suggested that dispositional affectivity moderates this relationship. Using a sample of 443 U.S. insurance company employees and hierarchical moderator logistic regression, I found that dispositional affectivity (i.e., positive affectivity [PA] and negative …
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Meaning Making and Dispositional Mindfulness among Women with Breast Cancer
… the theoretical links between meaning making and dispositional mindfulness for women with breast cancer to develop a guiding framework for future intervention research. The research questions were: 1) Does dispositional mindfulness moderate the relationship between meaning making and meaning in …
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The Role of Situational and Dispositional Factors on Sub-Optimal Performance
Pressure is known to decrease performance for well-practiced tasks. Research has found that pressure decreases performance for those with high self-consciousness when distracted, but the effects of pressure and distraction are not known for those with low self-consciousness. Therefore, the purpose …
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DISPOSITIONAL EMPLOYABILITY AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO CAREER SUCCESS: A META-ANALYSIS
<p>This meta-analysis focuses on the willingness to work aspect of the RAW model of employability of Hogan et al. (2009), in relationship to career success. Willingness to work (W) can be defined as favorably disposed to work hard and take initiative at one’s job. The variables I used to structure …
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The development of dispositional measures of self-congruity and functional congruity
This research addresses the question, can dispositional complements to situational self-congruity and situational functional congruity be identified? Self-image congruence research, which establishes a background for the situational impact of image and function-laden information, is reviewed. A …
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Examining systemic and dispositional factors impacting historically disenfranchised schools across North Carolina
<p>This mixed method sequential explanatory study provided analysis of North Carolina (NC) school leaders’ dispositions in eliminating opportunity gaps, outlined in NC’s strategic plan. The study’s quantitative phase used descriptive and correlation analysis of eight Likert subscales around four …
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The Intersection of Positive Psychology and Teachers' Dispositional Fitness: A Delphi Study
… behaviors that are indicative of teachers' dispositional fitness in positive classroom communities.</p><p>Using the Positive Teacher Disposition Index (PTDI), a panel of educators, consisting of classroom teachers, university faculty, and educational administrators selected 18 teacher …
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The role of dispositional reinvestment in choking during decision-making tasks in sport
This thesis examines the moderating effect of dispositional reinvestment upon ‘choking’ in cognitive based tasks such as decision-making. Study 1 tested sixty-three participants’ performances on low- and high-complexity tests of motor skill, psychomotor skill and working memory under low- and …
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Parental Attachment and Adult Attachment: The Moderating Role of Dispositional Forgiveness and Gratitude
… adjustment. Individual differences such as dispositional forgiveness and gratitude are often associated with secure adult attachment but have not been examined in relation to parent child attachment. The current study examined dispositional forgiveness and gratitude as moderators of the …
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