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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"favoritism"”.
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Predicting Self-Esteem Based on Perceived Parental Favoritism and Birth Order.
<p>Parental favoritism is the preference or perception of preference of a parent for one child over another. The present study examines parental favoritism as well as the effects perceived favoritism has on one's self-esteem and if the effects are based on birth order. Participants were 325 …
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THE INFLUENCE OF RACE, CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION, & IN-GROUP FAVORITISM ON RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REHABILITATION SERVICES
Vocational rehabilitation (VR) is a program that provides individualized and supportive services to assist individuals with disabilities in obtaining and maintaining employment compatible with their skills, abilities, and interests. Previous research has shown that people with disabilities are at …
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Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, and Behavior in Majority and Minority Groups
… dominance, and ingroup identification on ingroup favoritism and outgroup discrimination in a minimal group paradigm were investigated in this study. Possible effects of majority and minority group size interactions with these constructs were also examined. It has been previously shown that …
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Essays on Identity-Based Bias and Discrimination
… I find strong relative opposite-gender favoritism in property crimes. In property crimes, relative to the mean, female prosecutors are 32.2% less likely to drop a case and 13.5% less likely to drop a charge when handling same-gender defendants compared to male prosecutors. These biases …
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Ethnic and political dynamics of poverty, employment, and wages in Kenya
… and realities of ethnic and political favoritism in wellbeing have been a major cause of ethnic conflicts, erosion of civic participation, and the undermining of an inclusive national identity and other aspects of social cohesion in Kenya. In turn, this has more broadly affected her …
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Ethnic and political dynamics of poverty, employment, and wages in Kenya
… and realities of ethnic and political favoritism in wellbeing have been a major cause of ethnic conflicts, erosion of civic participation, and the undermining of an inclusive national identity and other aspects of social cohesion in Kenya. In turn, this has more broadly affected her …
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Physical violence and psychological abuse among siblings: a theoretical and empirical analysis
… for abuse were a close maternal relationship, favoritism, parents yelling, sharing property I psychological stress, patriarchal attitudes towards chores, approval of violence, and sibling verbal conflict. The model explains considerably more of the variance in teenage sibling psychological …
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Essays on fiscal policy and income inequality
… the government budget changes according to the favoritism towards the poor. The simulations show that the existence of income inequality changes the optimal level of taxes and the reactions to supply and demand shocks, although the fiscal policy has limits. Also, we present evidence that …
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An investigation of the nature of conflict and conflict management strategies involving learners in selected public secondary schools of Lusaka District
… boys that is boyfriend/girlfriend relationships, favoritism of some pupils by some teachers, misunderstandings between and among each other, differences in backgrounds, beliefs and interests, miscommunication among them, negative behavior e.g. bullying, harassment, teasing, offensive language and …
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The relationship between multiple identity attributes and diversity, and individual decision making and group performance: experimental evidence.
… deep-level attributes, simultaneously, increases favoritism toward similar others. In addition, homogeneous groups outperformed diverse groups in tasks that were characterized by high interdependence when communication between group members was not allowed, but diverse groups outperformed …
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The Effects of Power and Religiously Motivated Ingroup Preference on Social Affiliation
… outgroup, and one powerful motivator of ingroup favoritism is religious affiliation. Although research has shown that feelings of low power increase the drive to socially affiliate, research has not yet explored how religious belief influences the relationship between power and social …
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Organizational Culture, Class Values, and Subordination at Work
… relationships of supervision, disrespect, and favoritism. is It the distribution of relationships of subordination, rather than differing class values, which explain class differences in evaluations of organizational culture.
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Perceptions of School Through the Lens of Black Male Elementary Students: A School Climate Study
… Management, Consciousness of Racism and Favoritism, and School as Family</em>. This information supports previous research on the education of black males. It also contributes to the literature on the educational experiences of black boys, through their own youthful voices and …
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ENVIRONMENTAL INGREDIENTS FOR DISASTER: DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING THE ALVARADO WORK ENVIRONMENT SCALE OF TOXICITY
… support for three of the dimensions was found: favoritism, perceived threat, and overall organizational climate. Additionally, through the qualitative portion, additional themes that emerged (e.g., bullying) could be utilized in future use of measures to help assess toxic work environment …
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A case study of supervisor-employee communication and the link to program quality
… by minimal feedback, the perception of favoritism, interference of work routine, low morale and increased absenteeism. The study found low quality supervisor communication hindered job satisfaction.</p> <p>The results of the study indicated that high quality communication between …
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Essays on Bureaucracy in Sub-Saharan Africa
… that are unusually large one and indicative of favoritism. In the second essay, I document an important phenomenon that has received scholarly little attention: public sector employees who simultaneously serve as local elected officials. In particular, I show that more than 40% of mayors in …
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Essays in financial economics
… opportunity to study the impact of political favoritism on firm performance during the East Asian crisis. Favoritism runs along two dimensions in Malaysia. Firms are favored based on the ethnicity of their owners as well as through personal relationships with key government officials. I find …
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NATURAL PRODUCT INSPIRED METHODOLOGIES: ADVANCES IN DIASTEREOSELECTIVE N-SULFINYL IMINE AND TRIFLUOROPYRUVIC ACID REACTIONS
… assisted with experimental analysis suggested a favoritism of metallodienamine geometry by choice of metal bases as the origin of the diastereoselective switch. The method worked well with a diverse set of N-sulfinyl aldimines and ketimines with 50-99% yield and 3:1 to 98:2 diastereoselectivity. …
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Factors associated with turnover among nurses in public health facilites in Khomas region of Namibia
… (.80). Further outcomes indicated that nepotism, favoritism, delayed overtime payments, lack of team work, unskilled supervisors, including lack of career development, were the main factors leading to nursing turnover. An inherent limitation of the study was its cross-sectional nature thus the …
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Examining Female Principals That Lead Within the Same Schools That They Once Taught
… issues of a friend; (2) the perception of favoritism toward a friend (3) the misconception of others about prior knowledge of the school; and, (4) acceptance of peers. Also, three categories of conflict that these participants experienced were identified: (1) conflict among colleagues; (2) …
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