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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"explanatory model"”.
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Caregiving in later life: an attachment explanatory model
In this study I proposed and tested a causal model between disruptions in childhood attachment, dimensions of adult attachment, and caregiving in later life. The research was intended to fill a void in both the attachment and the gerontological caregiving literatures. Like the construct of …
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Development and Testing of an Explanatory Model of Registered Nurse Empowerment
… purpose of this study was to develop and test an explanatory model of registered nurse empowerment. The predictor variables included personal characteristics of registered nurses (age, experience, organizational tenure, education, and position level of clinical and/or management responsibility), …
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Gender and counterproductive work behavior (CWB): a personality-based explanatory model
… & Lam, 2016). The present study proposes an explanatory model for the CWB gender gap, using personality traits (narcissism, sadism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional intelligence) and sex role orientation (agency and communion) to explain the gap. Study 1 uses meta-analytic …
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An Explanatory Model on Quality of Life in Patients with Hematologic Malignancy
본 연구는 혈액암 환자의 삶의 질을 설명하는 요인을 규명하고 요인들 간의 영향력을 확인하여 설명모형을 제안함으로서 혈액암 환자의 삶의 질을 예측하는 요인을 제시하고자 시도되었다. 본 연구의 가설적 모형 구축을 위하여 Wilson과 Cleary (1995)의 건강관련 삶의 질 모델과 혈액암 환자의 삶의 질에 대한 선행연구를 분석한 결과, 자기효능감, 진단 후 기간, 사회적 지지는 외생변수로 증상, 자가간호행위, 지각된 건강상태, 삶의 질은 내생변수로 선정하였다. 자료 수집은 경기도 소재 2개 병원과 한국 혈액암 협회에서 치료 과정에 …
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Explanatory model of stress and coping process for dual-career men and women
An explanatory model of stress and coping for dual-career women and men is presented and tested using distress, a global measure of somatic symptomatology, as the stress measure outcome. Results indicate that the men and women sampled are psychologically vested in both professional and family …
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Female leadership advantage: A personality-based explanatory model of the gender gap in transformational leadership
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Thinking of leaving your leader: A meta-analysis and explanatory model of transformational leadership and turnover intentions
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Explanatory model of antecedents and outcomes of health and safety climate in the South African construction industry
… the study being reported here was to develop an explanatory model of the health and safety (H&S) climate in the local construction industry. A secondary objective was to provide a theoretical and practical framework for the study of the health and safety climate in the South African construction …
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The Development and Empirical Tests of an Explanatory Model for Daily Changes in The Treasury Bill Cash-Futures Basis
Managing the risk associated with unexpected changes in interest rates is a problem facing borrowers, lenders and fixed income security dealers. Financial instrument futures contracts were created to provide a mechanism to reduce interest rate risk. If the price of the futures contract and the …
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An evaluation of the parent education classes provided by a community based organization
… was the focus of the study. A positivist explanatory model with a pre-test and post-test design was used to evaluate the program.
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Leukemia and bone marrow transplantation : personal meanings and perceptions of the illness experience
… and to explore and describe how the individuals' explanatory model of health and illness differs from the professional biomedical model of health care. A phenomenological approach guided the data collection process. Personal interviews with the four participants were conducted with the interview …
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Motor car aesthetics : The contexts of design.
… whose incidence cannot be predicted by the model. Neither can such revolutions be related to technological change. Rather, they seem to result from changes occurring on an ideological level; and it was to this level that research was directed.It was postulated that design revolutions …
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Life Satisfaction Typologies among Roman Catholic Secular Clergy: A Q Methodological Investigation
… clergy. The findings led to the creation of an explanatory model recognizing a multi-factorial pathway to understanding clergy life satisfaction.</p>
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Control, introversion, and social support: a model of loneliness in Alzheimer's caregivers
… members was examined through the use of an explanatory model. Stepwise multiple regression was used to test the association between characterological variables (introversion and control), situational variables (social support), demographics (income), and self-reported loneliness in a …
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Marital Quality in Dual-Career Couples: Impact of Role Overload and Coping Resources
An explanatory model of stress and coping among dual-career partners examined the influence of role overload on individual coping strategies and relational coping resources as mediators, using marital quality as the measured outcome. Individual coping strategies included problem-focused and …
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Análisis de los factores determinantes del abandono escolar temprano en La Rioja
… Based on the basic structure of the UTAUT model, a highly contrasted explanatory model of human behavior, an adaptation is made by uniting the aspects found in the literature, creating a global and multidimensional explanatory model of Early School Leaving with an integrating sense. Then, …
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Getting Back: Successful Rehabilitation after a Hip Fracture
… Dimensional analysis was used to develop an explanatory model of successful rehabilitation following a hip fracture. In-depth interviews were conducted with eighteen older adults between 72 and 92 years of age. Analysis of the data yielded an explanatory model of successful rehabilitation …
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Conflict Behaviors: Religiosity, Culture, and Gender as Predictors for Conflict Management Styles Among First and Second Generation Arab Muslim Immigrants in the United States
… the United States. My study follows a sequential explanatory model with a mixed methods approach, and specifically explores the conflict management styles utilized by first and second-generation Arab-Muslim immigrants in the U.S. and how their culture, gender, and religiosity contribute to these …
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Freshmen weight gain: The convergence of popular culture, college transition and nutrition education.
… university was conducted to develop a students' explanatory model for the Freshmen Weight Gain. Students described coming to college with limited knowledge about the freshmen culture and that there were limited external controls, rituals and role models to guide their behavior during their …
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On The Future Of Antidepressant Treatments: Targeting Neurotrophic Factors And Plasticity
For 60-plus years the explanatory model for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) has been the monoamine theory, which states that low levels of monoamine neurotransmitters or alterations in their post-synaptic receptors are responsible for depressive symptoms. Drugs designed to elevate synaptic …
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