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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"group context"”.
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Individual goal setting and performance in a group context
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 L48
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Individual goal setting and performance in a group context
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 L48
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Who Should Lead? Effective Influence as a Product of Group Context and Group Purpose
<p>One of the most important features of any group is who is most influential, who leads. Expectation states theory (EST) and the social identity theory of leadership (SITL) both make predictions about which group member will have the most influence. EST argues that group members follow whomever …
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Acceptance and commitment therapy for depression and anxiety : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of clients’ experiences in a group context
… of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in a group context for individuals with depression and/or anxiety. However, there is limited qualitative research in this area. Aim: This thesis aimed to address this gap by exploring individuals’ experiences of an ACT group for depression and/or …
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A human rights violation during the South African transition: documenting narratives of the 1993 Highgate attack in a support group context
A support group was formed in November 2006 for survivors and family members of victims of the 1993 attack on the Highgate Hotel in East London, South Africa. The purpose of the support group was to help group members come to terms with new information that had emerged concerning the identity of …
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Giving and receiving help: Group behavioral predictors of outcomes for members of a mutual help organization
"Although mutual help groups are addressing the mental health needs of millions of Americans, empirical research has not kept pace with the growth and popularity of the movement. The present empirical investigation focuses on one mutual help organization for ex-mental patients and: (a) provides …
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An Investigation into Predictors of Competitive Success in a Large-Scale Group Foraging Task
… assessments, including an individual and group-context delay discounting task. Results demonstrate that the allocation of participants conformed to the IFD theory. Additionally, results suggest that, while controlling for all other assessments, the individual delay discounting assessment, …
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Is there a divergence between the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines and post-BEPS interpretation of the Arm?s Length Principle in OECD materials, with emphasis on the control of risk and value creation?
… with applying the separate entity principle in group context. This has contributed, it is suggested, to increasing tolerance of and even promotion of profit-split approaches, both conceptually and in practice.
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A study of group size and the engaged activity of students in the second-language classroom
… to build language proficiency. The use of small-group and pair instruction has been promoted as an alternative to large-group instruction and as an avenue for the accomplishment of the goal of becoming proficient in a second language. In this study, three elementary-school French classes were …
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The Role of Social Cognition and Person Perception in Economic Social Decision-Making
… take into account the importance of the social context and social cognitive processes that are engaged when viewing another person. Using social psychological theory to guide our hypotheses, four research studies investigate the role of social cognition and person perception in guiding economic …
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Hardiness and public speaking anxiety: Problems and practices.
… lower trait communication apprehension in three contexts: 1) meeting, 2) interpersonal, and 3) group. Overall, students did not differ on measures of hardiness and a fourth communication context: public speaking anxiety. Likewise, on measures of hardiness and state public speaking anxiety, …
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In their own performance: an ethnographic study of mothers’ accounts of interactions with professionals at a children’s centre
… and stream of consciousness writing in a drama group context, text was collected over an eighteen month period from 16 mothers. Initial review, editing and distilling of text was carried out with participants, generating 18 scenes for a play performed together in front of a live audience. Text …
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Predicting and understanding sexual and nonsexual adolescent peer victimization in schools: A mixed methods approach
… is used and experienced by adolescents in the context of interacting with their peers. The characterization of high-status gender role conforming perpetrators and low-status gender role nonconforming victims in popular media suggests that gender role development and peer social status are …
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Developing an Instrument to Measure Group Dynamics Awareness: A Mixed Methods Study
… leaders are needed more than ever. Based on group relations programs developed by the Tavistock Institute, a pedagogy known as case-in-point has recently been brought to prominence and incorporated into leadership development programs. These methods claim to develop systems thinking and …
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Emotions, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation for Academic Writing: A Collective Case Study with Doctoral Students
… contribute to writing productivity. A writing group might be particularly beneficial to provide emotion regulation support from others through interpersonal emotion regulation. The purpose of this research was to understand the emotion experiences of doctoral student writers while engaged in …
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Creating the container for reflective practice in virtual small group supervision
… My primary practice is supervising virtual small groups of executive coaches. Coaching supervision is a developing practice; there is little research in the field of individual coach supervision, and almost none in the context of small group supervision. My overall purposes were to influence the …
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Conformity and confirmation: group decision-making in foreign policy
… set foreign policy in consultation with small groups of experts and advisors. In this dissertation, I explore the effects that groups of advisors have on foreign policy decision-making. We lack understanding about how biases among advisors can affect group decisions. To this end, I study small …
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Group cohesion and collaborative information behaviour: An exploration of student experiences of university group work
… skills by designing and incorporating group projects into courses. The findings of relevant research demonstrate that employers are still not satisfied with the newly-hired graduates’ performance and students also reflect negative attitudes towards university group work. In this regard, …