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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"helping behaviors"”.
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Childhood Trauma, Self-Esteem, and Helping Behaviors: Does History of Trauma Predict Helping?
… the relationship between self-esteem and helping behaviors. Specifically, some findings indicate that those with lower self-esteem are less likely to help others than those with higher self-esteem (Michelini, Wilson, & Messe, 1975), while others show the opposite trend (Briggs, Landry, & …
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Newcomer Entry and Team Creativity: The Roles of Coworkers, Leaders, and Newcomers
… team creativity, when coworkers engaged in helping behaviors toward newcomers or newcomers were proactive. Moreover, coworker helping behaviors and newcomer proactive personality interacted with each other to affect team creativity. Specifically, the relationship between team coworker …
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Justice Across Group Boundaries: Extending Empathy-Motivated Helping to Out-Groups
… of empathy and an individual's effort to extend helping behaviors to out-groups. The literatures on social justice, prosocial behavior, and group stereotypes are reviewed. An experimental study manipulated empathic concern for an out-group by varying the perspective through which participants …
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Helping Out or Acting Out? A Moderated Mediation Model of Organizational Citizenship Behavior
… citizenship behavior (i.e., non-required helping behaviors at work, OCB; Organ, 1988), as social role theory (Eagly, 1987) suggests that the gendered roles individuals are socialized to fulfill (e.g., women as caretakers, men as breadwinners; Parson & Bales, 1955) will likely yield gender …
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Reliability and Validity Analyses of the Community Service Attitudes Scale
… (2000) and based on Schwartz's (1977) model of helping behaviors was conducted. Scores on each of the subscales of the Community Service Attitudes Scale showed strong reliability with coefficient alpha scores ranging from .80 to .93. The factor analysis confirmed the findings of the original …
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Resident Assistant Motivations to Seek The Position: A Comparison Between Generations X and Y
… the following reasons (by order of importance), Helping Behaviors, Career Development, Financial Obligations, RA Cohesiveness, Personal Growth, and Desire for Power. Second, Gen Y females reported Helping Behaviors as an important reason for seeking the RA position significantly more often than …
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Superficial Self-Harm Behavior: Helping Young Women Who Hurt Themselves
… to deal with and/or reduce their self-harming behaviors. Results revealed that participants perceive their friends as the most helpful group. The most preferred helping behaviors included the following: having someone acknowledge the severity of their distress; talking about self-harm with …
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Initiating a Bystander Awareness Program at a State University
… teach students how to avoid situations, abusive behaviors and potential attacks. This project initiates a bystander awareness program at a local state university, teaching students how to be effective bystanders. The objectives of this project was to increase knowledge about bystander awareness …
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The Impact of Transactional Strategies Instruction on the Reading Comprehension of a Diverse Group of Second Graders
… increased teacher-like facilitating and helping behaviors, and evidence of children informing instruction for the teacher. Participatory action research by children suggested that second graders enjoyed learning through Literature Circles as well as ways to improve Literature Circles.</p>
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Misforecasting Positive Affective Responses to Prosocial Behavior
… shows that with </p> <p> general everyday helping behaviors, consumers overestimate their positive affective responses, i.e., consumers have more positive affect when they think about helping than when they actually help. This overestimation is shown to be due to consumers' perception of …
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The Characteristics and Functions of Weak Ties
… judgments of responsibility, attitudes about helping behaviors, personal network type, and exchange history. The findings from this study provide a foundation for further conceptualization of weak ties and a framework on which to develop instruments to measure tie strength and the potential …
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Measuring Prosocial Behavior Through the Implementation of a Violence Prevention Intervention
… have focused on determining the positive behaviors that could potentially stop aggressive situations from progressing. These helping behaviors are defined broadly as prosocial behaviors (Cashwell, Skinner, & Smith, 2001; Greener, 2000; Goldstein, Carr, Davidson II, & Wehr, 1981; Leffler & …
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The Effects of a Violence Prevention Intervention on Prosocial Behavior and Perception of School Safety
… have focused on determining the positive behaviors that could potentially stop aggressive situations from progressing. These helping behaviors are defined broadly as prosocial behaviors (Cashwell, Skinner, & Smith, 2001; Goldstein, Carr, Davidson, & Wehr, 1981; Greener, 2000; Leffler & …
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Investigating Religious Orientation and the Attribution Model of Mental Illness Stigma
… which in turn may lead to discriminatory behaviors towards people with mental illnesses. Given that people make different assumptions about different mental illnesses, if this model is correct, it suggests that specific diagnoses would elicit different types of stigma. Another important, …
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Construction of interpersonal helping behaviours exhibited among pirate taxi drivers in the city of Lusaka: an embedded mixed methods design.
This study aimed at constructing interpersonal helping behaviours that are exhibited among pirate taxi drivers. Amixed methods study emedded design guided thi study. One hundred and sixty nine pirate taxi drivers who were enlisted using cluster random sampling reponded to a survey questionnaire. A …
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Construction of interpersonal helping behaviours exhibited among pirate taxi drivers in the city of Lusaka: an embedded mixed methods design.
This study aimed at constructing interpersonal helping behaviours that are exhibited among pirate taxi drivers. Amixed methods study emedded design guided thi study. One hundred and sixty nine pirate taxi drivers who were enlisted using cluster random sampling reponded to a survey questionnaire. A …
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Moral Outrage Moderates the Relationships Between System Perception, System Justification, and Intergroup Helping Behavior: A Multigroup Approach
<p>Helping behavior is proposed to be a universal experience where a wide range of behaviors are used to benefit another person or group (Aknin et al., 2013; Nadler, 2002). Often these behaviors are motivated by positive values or emotions (Dovidio et al., 2012). However, when social status is …