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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"goal conflict"”.
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Goal Conflict in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
This dissertation develops goal conflict theory and its application to intergovernmental public policy through state-level empirical analysis of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) from 1999-2007. This program was selected for analysis because it is a program in which goal …
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Back to Work: The Effects of Goal Conflict on Working Mothers
… experiences in one’s lifetime. Fulfilling career goals in addition to the demands motherhood can cause psychological distress. In this paper I present literature reviews on mothering, careers, goal conflict and how positive psychology tools can help alleviate depression in women. Based on …
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A Manipulation of Cognitive Restriction and Goal-Conflict: Mechanisms Underlying the Disinhibition Effect of Eating Behavior
… dilemma whenever the attainment of a long-term goal would come at the expense of an alluring temptation. The goal-conflict model of eating (Stroebe, van Koningsbruggen, Papies, & Aarts, 2013) suggests that restrained eaters (i.e., chronic dieters) experience self-regulation failure (e.g., …
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Conflict Between Women's Physically Active and Passive Leisure Pursuits: The Role of Self-determination and Influences on Well-being
… for physically active and passive leisure on conflict between these two leisure domains and the influence of this conflict on well-being among physically active working mothers. A total of 66 women who were physically active, worked at least 30 hours per week outside the home and had at least …
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Conflicting goals in product development : learning from the fatal Firestone flaw
… are often the result of poor negotiation between conflicting organizational and value-driven goals. The purpose of this analysis is to consider how goal conflict inhibits the product development process and leads to suboptimal or destructive results. This exploration seeks to learn from an …
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The Importance of Life Goals in the Treatment of Marijuana Dependence
… indicate that a person's broader set of life goals may have motivational properties for specific behavior change efforts. The present study examined the types of life goals and ratings of life goal attributes as predictors of marijuana treatment outcomes in a sample of marijuana dependent …
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Uncertainty and Information Processing
… the degree to which uncertainty signals active goal conflict or not. In the first study, 145 participants with a mean age of 19.51 were induced with uncertainty either before or after information about the target accused of illegal behavior. The results demonstrated that uncertainty before …
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Conflict Management Among Church Elders: A Delphi Study
… to enhance church elders’ ability to manage conflict amongst themselves in ways that honor God and benefit the church. With a firm commitment to building upon the biblical foundation for Christian conflict management, this study sought to discover which, if any, are the concepts and practices …
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The effect of performance based grant on research and development at Pakistani Public Universities
… R&D performance through the mediating role of goal conflict and information asymmetry. Agency theory is used to support this research as a theoretical framework which aids to analyze the relationship between government (Principal) and the universities (agents) in the context of higher …
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Reconciling materialism and anti-consumption: A grounded approach to the co-existence of solid-liquid consumption in fashion rentals
… services have therefore intensified the conflict between material possession pursuits and anti-consumption principles, resulting in dissonances among consumers that signal the possibility of more underlying ontological disconnects and changes to consumption to emerge. The accelerated …
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Reconciling materialism and anti-consumption: A grounded approach to the co-existence of solid-liquid consumption in fashion rentals
… services have therefore intensified the conflict between material possession pursuits and anti-consumption principles, resulting in dissonances among consumers that signal the possibility of more underlying ontological disconnects and changes to consumption to emerge. The accelerated …
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The Effects of Pricing on the Sales Force and the Firm: A Strategic View
… importance of identifying the misalignment of goals of the pricing and sales force compensation strategies as a potential root cause of disappointing program outcomes. Essay 1 uses in-depth qualitative interviews with business-to-business (B2B) salespeople and sales managers across several …