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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"helpfulness"”.
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Breast Cancer Patients' Perspectives on the Helpfulness of Supportive Offerings
… that it provides an exploration of the perceived helpfulness of support provision that is well-intended. This study employed a phenomenological approach based on the interpretivist lifeworld perspective. It was conceptualized within the postmodern paradigm which draws from the works of Durkheim …
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Organizational Socialization Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions Integration: Helpfulness to Organizational Commitment
… characteristics of the merger process. The helpfulness of OS practices and domains is examined for the employees of merging organizations. I find that training programs have a positive effect on OC during the integration period, while social activities and observation have negative effects. …
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Faculty Advisement and Helpfulness and the Retention of First-Semester Associate Degree Nursing Students
… full potential. Nursing faculty advisement and helpfulness are essential components of nursing student retention. Guided by the Jeffreys Nursing Universal Retention and Success (NURS) conceptual model, this quantitative descriptive multi-site research study appraised first-semester associate …
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Rural Primary Health Care Providers' Response to Intimate Partner Violence and Survivors' Perceptions of Helpfulness
… to collecting information on the perceptions of helpfulness by survivors who received care from a rural provider. A mixed-methods study was conducted across rural Missouri and included surveys and interviews of rural providers and interviews with rural survivors of IPV. Overall, data indicated …
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Gaining perspective : an examination of the short- and long-term effectiveness and helpfulness of the University of Missouri McNair Scholars Program
… the short- and long-term effectiveness and helpfulness of the University of Missouri McNair Scholars Program. The investigation was unique because it examined the perspectives of program participants at different stages of their academic lives: before participating in the program, …
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Helping in the Workplace: A Social Cognitive Perspective
… were 194 undergraduates. The study was a 2 (Helpfulness) by 2 (Fairness) design. After completing distracter tasks 1 and 2, participants received either a helpfulness prime or a control prime (task 3). Participants then either experienced either a fair manipulation or an unfair manipulation. …
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An investigation of teachers' perceptions of school psychologists
… Self-reported measures of school psychologists' helpfulness, performance, and general knowledge of school psychologists' duties and responsibilities were evaluated. Information pertaining to teachers' specialization, employment history, student population characteristics, and school size were …
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Executive Self-management of Reading and Writing for College Students with ADHD
… functioning, academic achievement, and perceived helpfulness of reading- and writing-focused sessions within a cognitive-behavioral intervention for college students with ADHD. <strong>Method.</strong> N = 41 undergraduate students (Mean age = 21.32 years, SD = 2.74; 70.7% female) with ADHD were …
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Problems and coping strategies of urban divorced men at the time of divorce and six months later
… tested to ascertain their effect on degree of helpfulness of the coping strategies.Courthouse records were examined during a six-and-three-quarters-month time period in two counties in Indiana. The names of the men who had decrees granted during this time span were obtained. This resulted in …
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The status of and associations between professional development, job satisfaction and anticipated jobretention of young faculty members in China's private colleges
… the degree to which these perceptions of PD helpfulness, job satisfaction, and anticipated job retention are associated. An on-line survey was completed by 732 full-time faculty members in Shanghai, 35 years or younger, who responded to demographic items; job satisfaction items adapted from …
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Children’s Social Judgments of Others on the Basis of Dialect-Specific Vocabulary
… of likability, niceness, intelligence, and helpfulness. Participants demonstrated social preference and selective trust for American dialect users over British dialect users. Participants rated American dialect users significantly more favorably in domains of likability, intelligence, and …
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Clients' Perceptions of the Therapeutic Process: A Common Factors Approach
… the variance of clients' perceptions of therapy helpfulness. Findings further suggest that the clients' level of hopefulness and expectancy for positive change is the most significant predictor for both client change and therapy helpfulness. Qualitative results indicate that the therapeutic …
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Dementia caregiving: burden and breakdown
… perceived impact on quality of life; perceived helpfulness of community care services; behaviour problems - especially shouting, swearing and screaming, irritability and night disturbance; poor quality carer/dependant relationship; mood problems; perceived helpfulness of informal support; …
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Aligning Language Models Using Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning
… to be helpful and harmless. It is found that helpfulness and harmlessness sometimes have problems in trade-offs, making it difficult for a model trained toward the optimization of one objective to perform well on both. Therefore, to address the highly potentially conflicting or dominating …
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