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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"hoarding"”.
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Hoarding Disorder: new horizons
The theme of this contextual statement is Hoarding Disorder (HD), which can be defined as a failure to discard possessions, which may be useless or of little value, resulting in excessive clutter that precludes activities for which the living space was originally intended. Individuals with HD have …
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Exploring the perceptions of hoarding from those who support people exhibiting hoarding behaviour: an Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
… research suggests that hoarding disorder is a complicated, multi-faceted issue with early onset and lifelong progression affecting physical, psychological and environmental aspects of people’s lives. The treatment of hoarding is often hampered by high drop-out rates …
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Factors Influencing Community Responses To Hoarding: Evaluating Operational Culture Of Hoarding Task Forces, Stigma, And Successful Outcomes
<p>Hoarding is generally recognized as a pervasive need to acquire and retain items past the point of maintaining safe living spaces. Ushered into popular culture through television shows highlighting conflict, awareness of hoarding has increased. Experts report this condition affects 2-5% of the …
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Opportunity Hoarding Through Arizona’s Voucher Expansion of 2022
… Accounts (ESAs) is an example of opportunity hoarding as a means of perpetuating inequities to the detriment of students from racially and socioeconomically minoritized populations. Using several quantitative research methods, this identifies relationships between voucher participation and …
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Moral Reasoning and Moral Emotions Linking Hoarding and Scrupulosity
Hoarding and scrupulous OCD are part of the Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, which are characterized by obsessional preoccupation and ritualistic behavior. Prior research has found a statistical relationship between hoarding and scrupulosity after controlling for these common factors, …
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Conceptualizing Hoarding Behavior Among Elderly Women: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Hoarding in the community involves substantial cluttering and impaired functioning, often exposing the hoarder to extensive health and safety risks. This research, based on Functionalism social theory, explores the three elements of hoarding—relentless acquisition, intense possessiveness of …
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The effect of preweaning infantile food deprivation on hoarding in adult rats
<p>Hoarding or hoarding behavior refers to the active storing and accumulation of food or other objects by an animal. Hoarding is often experimentally defined as the act of transporting food or objects, from some area outside the Ss home cage, back to the home cage. A typical hoarding experiment …
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Seed dispersal of western and Utah junipers: the role of scatter-hoarding rodents.
… juniper species is not fully understood. Scatter-hoarding rodents have been recorded removing seeds and/or cones of several juniper species but have mostly been considered seed predators. In this study I documented harvest and caching of western and Utah juniper seeds, showing that …
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The Pull to fusion: an exploration of observed links between autism and hoarding
… a psychoanalytic understanding to elucidate hoarding behaviours. My thesis explores whether ideas relevant to autism can be used to explain extreme hoarding. The existing psychoanalytic understandings of the autistic manoeuvres are applied to data from a TV program on hoarding. This thesis …
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Culturally Responsive Evaluation Methods in Philanthropy: Striving for Community Inclusion Amidst Power Hoarding Practices
… norms and that pressure to comply with power hoarding practices, a type of white dominant norm that centers the funder’s evaluation interests, was a barrier to community inclusion. This study provides context about current shifts within culturally responsive evaluation and culturally …
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The study of being an adult daughter of a hoarding mother: A qualitative description
Research into the phenomenon of compulsive hoarding has only been conducted during the last twenty years. To date, no studies have been done that examine the impacts of compulsive hoarding on young and grown children. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore what the positive and …
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A Content Analysis of A&E's Hoarders
<p>The interest in hoarding has peaked since its first clinical definition in 1996 and is evident by six television shows centered on the topic. This thesis reports the results a content analysis of two seasons (21 episodes) of the popular T.V. series A&E’s <em>Hoarders</em>. People rationalize …
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Penimbunan bahan pokok perspektif masyarakat Bawean: Studi fiqh muamalah
… Type of trade that often occurs now is goods hoarding in which the accumulation of these items can result the rising prices of goods on the market. The practice of goods hoarding is often every year during the dry season and bad weather that can lead to break Bawean- Gresik transportation. On …
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The role of emotions in obsessive-compulsive experiences
… by elevated levels of guilt. Third, hoarding profiles appeared to be characterised by fewer undesirable phenomena. Fourth, aside from hoarding, anxiety and depression were found to be consistently present across the profiles of all compulsions. Fifth, individuals experiencing multiple …
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Psychologies and Spaces of Accumulation: The hoard as collagist methodology (and other stories)
Taking hoarding as a model for amassing materials within art practice, this research questions the borders of a productive or rational relationship to collation and the development of pathology. In practice, I focus on how materials can be manipulated to reflect or imply attachments and value …
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Rodent Mediated Seed Dispersal of Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia)
… that Joshua tree seeds are cached by scatter-hoarding rodents and that other dispersal syndromes are unlikely. The majority of Joshua tree fruits monitored were taken directly from Joshua tree canopy by white-tailed antelope ground squirrels, and seeds and fruits on the soil surface were …
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The Role of Organizational Routines in Perpetuating Disparities Among African American Students in Secondary Advanced Academic Programs: A Mixed Methods Study
… study, guided by Charles Tilly’s opportunity hoarding, examines the systematic underrepresentation of African American students in advanced academic programs. Using a transformative mixed methods design, the researcher analyzes enrollment patterns, the intersectionality of race and gifted …
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Small mammal community structure (Rodentia: Muridae) in Punda Maria, Kruger National Park, South Africa : Causes and consequences
… Seed dispersal activity was low; no , scatter hoarding was identified; only larder hoarding was observed by Aethomys sp. and M. natalensis at North-facing sites and Acacia sites respectively. Trampling by megaherbivore activity impacted vegetation structure and has negatively affected rodent …
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