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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"explanatory style"”.
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Explanatory Style as a Protective Factor for Victimized LGBT Adolescents
… one makes about negative life events, explanatory style (ES) can be conceptualized as either negative (attributing adverse events as due to internal, global, and stable causes) or positive (attributing events to external, specific, and transient causes). A negative ES has been …
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Explanatory Style as a Protective Factor for Victimized LGBT Adolescents
… one makes about negative life events, explanatory style (ES) can be conceptualized as either negative (attributing adverse events as due to internal, global, and stable causes) or positive (attributing events to external, specific, and transient causes). A negative ES has been …
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Religious Problem-Solving and Explanatory Style: Relationships Between Religious Coping and Pessimism
… relationships among religious problem-solving style, explanatory or attributional style, and dispositional optimism-pessimism. It also seeks to determine the degree to which these styles predict depressive symptoms. Ninety-three students enrolled in psychology classes received credit for …
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An Exploratory Study of the Academic Optimism of Principals
… optimism, life satisfaction, grit, zest, and explanatory style. These variables had a strong basis of research in the positive psychology literature and had strong theoretical implications for academic optimism of principals. Of the predictor variables, grit, zest, and explanatory style were …
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Building a Foundation for Positive Psychology in Schools
… meaning as three different paths to happiness; explanatory style; orientation toward teaching as a job, a career, or a calling; and job satisfaction. These results of these 170 participants are compared with those obtained from an Internet sample of 2,538 teachers on four of the same …
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RETURNING TO SCHOOL, RETURNING TO LIFE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF DISPLACED WORKERS
… that within the self component, a participant’s explanatory style was paramount in displaced workers’ understanding of their transition process. Within the supports component, my study found that family and faculty were important components in participants’ decision to return to school and that …
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From Coach to Positive Psychology Coach
… to influence one’s internal dialogue and explanatory style, positive emotions, and visual learning. I foresee using these approaches frequently in my coaching engagements.
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Does A Sense Of Control Moderate Self-Regulation Strategies And Performance? When Feedback Lingers
… as well as the revised Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ-R) to determine a sense of control based on explanatory style. Changes in mood and performance on anagram tasks were measured at three different times during the study: prior to, after, and after discrediting randomly …
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Psychosocial Predictors of Survival in Persons with HIV or AIDS
… variables (depression, stress and negative explanatory style) which research has shown to effect immune status. However, this study differs from other studies in that Hierarchical Linear Regression will be used to assess immune function as a mediating factor between psychosocial variables …
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Attributional style: a comparison of assertive and aggressive children
… quasi-experimental tasks assessing attributional style were used to investigate the mediating role of social cognitive processes in aggressive behavior for both boys and girls. Secondly, the use of current self-report measures of children's assertive and attributional style allowed for …
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A Measurable Model Of Resilience
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Thoughts and feelings of a beginning tertiary group of adult learners in a human resource development course
… interviews were carried out and the Attribution Style Questionnaire, which reports a person's explanatory style, and the Study Process Questionnaire, which reports a person's approach to learning, were administered. Self-report journals and field notes were also utilised. Data on participant …
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Grisilience: An Interpretivist Qualitative Case Study Of Indigenous Employees’ Success In Reaching Management And Professional Positions Within The Gaming Industry In Canada: Contributing Factors And Barriers
… themes included Self as relational centre, explanatory style and internal dialogue as resilience mechanisms, and the essential role of Community as both anchor and catalyst for motivation. <br/><br/>Building on these insights, the study proposes the Grisilience Model, symbolized by an …