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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"dispositional traits"”.
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The Direct and Interactive Effects of Life Stressors and Dispositional Traits in the Prediction of Youth Psychopathology
Dispositional differences are likely to influence youth's adjustment to stressors; however, the potential for interactions among stressors and dispositional traits is uncertain. Prior efforts to examine these interactions have yielded mixed results: whereas some results have shown that presence of …
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"Can I get a second opinion?" How user characteristics impact trust in automation in a medical screening task
… user characteristics—such as personality and dispositional traits—play in developing trust. User responses to automation may warrant adaptation in how automation is presented and distributed in order to encourage its acceptance. In the present study, researchers examined the relationship …
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Perceptions of Academic and Social Self-Efficacy among Adolescents Diagnosed with Cancer and their Relations with Dispositional Optimism, Perceived Vulnerability, and Treatment Modality
… adapting to cancer, treatment modality, dispositional optimism, and perceived vulnerability were chosen as variables likely related to social and academic self-efficacy. Forty-two adolescents diagnosed with cancer and at least six months post-treatment completed questionnaire packets. …
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Personality and the Two Ways of Regulating Emotion
… describes the whole person in terms of dispositional traits. The current study considered a different concept of personality in terms of human functioning in time and space, as a whole system of personality dynamics. The aim of the study was to explore this concept using …
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Salesperson Perceptions - An Examination of Sales Manager Leadership and Salesperson Engagement
… how salespeople perceive their sales manager’s dispositional traits (extroversion/introversion and other/self-orientation) influence the perception of their sales manager’s leadership orientation. Building upon recent work by Grisaffe, VanMeter, and Chonko (2016) on hierarchical servant …
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The Enhanced Effectiveness of Parent Education with an Emotion Socialization Component
… parents learned about temperament, how these dispositional traits affect children's behavior, and successful strategies for aiding children in emotion management. At each session, parents completed measures designed to assess their children's temperament and behavior. Additionally, parents …
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Using the circumplex model to examine the relationship between gender, gender-role identity, and attachment style
… types endorsed dominant and affiliative traits with parity. Masculine gender-role types endorsed more dominant traits than remaining gender-role and attachment types. Also as predicted, preoccupied attachment types and feminine gender-role types endorsed more affiliative traits than …
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Functional organization of the human superior temporal sulcus
… driven by underlying mental states and dispositional traits. The ability to rapidly extract abstract social information from perceptual input, termed social perception, is critical to human social behavior. This thesis investigates the cognitive architecture of social perception by …
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Vulnerability to Online Political Misinformation: The Role of Non-clinical Schizotypal Traits
… sought to explore schizotypal personality traits as potential predictors of belief and engagement toward online political misinformation. The project also sought to investigate the potential significance of specific cognitive biases associated with schizotypal cognition that might serve to …