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Showing 1 to 20 of 162 for “"gender difference"”.
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Gender Difference in Emotionally Disturbed Children
… to the situation of girls in such classes: gender ratios, aggression, restrictive environment and interaction. The teachers responded to the statements on a Likert scale.</p> <p>Part 2 of the study consisted of a description of a typical school day with key words omitted. The teacher …
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Gender Difference Variables Predicting Expertise in Lecture Note-taking
… in class. Research suggests that there may be gender differences in note-taking and test taking. However, previous research on lecture note-taking has only examined gender differences, or used gender as an anecdotal variable, in post-hoc analyses. This is the first dissertation to investigate …
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Gender difference in professional developmental relationships within male and female-dominated professions
The purpose of this study was to identify differences in professional developmental relationship functions between males and females and between nurses and non-nurses. Quantification of the professional development relationship functions was accomplished using a demographic scale and the …
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Gender difference in daily activity patterns, urban form, and intra-household interactions
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2011.
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Is body shaming predicting poor physical health and is there a gender difference?
… health. Furthermore, the aim was to examine gender differences regarding body shame, physical illnesses and self-reported physical health. Participants were 92 students in Reykjavik University aged from 20-38. Data was gathered through a questionnaire. The questionnaire included questions …
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Gender Difference in Situation Awareness when Receiving Wayfinding Direction by Landmarks and Headings
… in aviation and other fields have shown that gender differences exist in SA performance. Four hypotheses were tested in this study: women navigate better from landmark cues; men navigate better from headings cues; women have better SA performance than men when receiving landmark directions; …
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The Biology of Mantle Cell Lymphoma: Exploring the Gender Difference in Mantle Cell Lymphoma
… This aim of this thesis was to explore the gender difference observed in MCL. The study investigated the difference in the quantity of immune cells in the peripheral blood and lymph node biopsies of untreated male and female MCL patients. There was a significantly greater number of T cells …
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Southern Post-Modernism, Anti-Romanticism and Gender Difference in Flannery O'Connor and Some Other Southern Contemporaries
… their own works. Attention is also given to the differences found in voice, theme and tone between southern contemporary male and female writers today, and explanations are offered as to why these marked differences exist.</p>
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Does the amount of physical activity have effect on adolescent depression and is there a gender difference?
… matters for this effect and whether there is a difference between genders. This study investigated this effect using a sample of Icelandic adolescents. The data used in this study were originally gathered in the study “Youth in Iceland 2007” (Ungt fólk á Íslandi 2007). In the current study a …
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Understanding Tax Progressivity as a Mechanism of Gender Difference in Tax Payment Patterns and Post-Tax Income
<p>Gender difference in taxation is generally understudied. However, existing scholarship, largely country case studies, suggests men pay higher tax rates where income tax progressivity is higher, due to their higher average income. Men’s higher rates should then increase gender equality in income …
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Woman's investment pays the best interest: Literature-based dissertation on gender difference in investing in emerging markets
Gender differences in investing is an expanding research area in Behavioural Finance. Research has shown that males and females behave differently in many of their decision-making processes, but this dissertation will focus mainly on the differences in investing behaviours. Because males are …
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Examining At-Risk Students Based on Their Attitudes toward Educational Factors: Is There a Gender Difference in Identification of At-Risk Students?
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among four specific typologies of environmental factors and at-risk teenagers. The four typologies explored were influences by parents and peers, teachers, educational setting, and factors relating to school behavior.</p> <p>Six research …
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Sports Participation and Mental Health among Adolescents
… topic of this study is sports participation, gender difference, and the affect it can have on depression and anxiety among adolescence. In this study a data from ICSRA was used with sample of 2000 Icelandic 10th graders. 2X2 MANOVA was used to test the relationship. The hypothesis is that …
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Gender differences in predictors of Filipino out-marriage
… This thesis asks, what factors explain this gender difference in Filipino/as' out-marriage patterns? Using a sample of Filipino/as married to whites, I examine gender differences in rates of out-marriage, employ logistic regression to predict the likelihood of out-marriage, and test for …
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Psychometric Properties of the Icelandic Version of the M5-50 and its Relationship to Age, Education, Gender, Political Affiliation, and Salary.
… five-factor model of personality, 2) to assess gender difference in personality factors as measured by the M5-50, and 3) to assess relationship between personality factors and political affiliation. Participants answered the M5-50 and demographic questionnaires on the website prof.egummig.is. …
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Job satisfaction and perceived equality within Icelandic organizations
… survey. In addition, the aim was to explore differences in job satisfaction and perceived equality and whether equality policy affects employees’ job satisfaction. Participants in the study were 1041 employees within organizations that participated in a two- sided study carried out on HRM …
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Gender, Spatial Learning Trials, and Object Recall.
… in object recall. The current study tested for gender differences in object recall over three memorization trials using gender neutral stimuli. Fifty men and 53 women viewed pictures of 60 objects (15 in each of four quadrants) for one minute, and then had three minutes to recall as many objects …
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