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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"indecision"”.
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Career indecision amongst prospective university students
Career indecision is one of the key aspects that professionals in career guidance counselling are interested in assessing. Career indecision, in the context of university students has been defined as the “inability to select a university major or occupation” (Borgen & Hiebert, 2006, p. 58). Thus, …
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INDECISION 2008: REAPPROPRIATION AS POLITICAL ARGUMENT IN THE DAILY SHOW'S COVERAGE OF THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart uses humor to explore, analyze, and criticize current media and political trends, politicians, and campaigns. Reappropriation uses video as an argument against the original producers of that content, one of the tools used to highlight the problems with the political …
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The effects of an intensive vocational evaluation involving work samples on career indecision, self-esteem, and state anxiety in rehabilitation clients
… with career decision-making, (b) lessened career indecision, and (c) enhanced self-esteem. To accomplish the aforementioned, 60 clients of a comprehensive rehabilitation center were administered the A-State Scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Scale, the Career Decision Scale, and the Self-Esteem …
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What do Work Value Differentiation and Profile Elevation Predict?
… variance D, only Iachan D positively related to indecision but high-low D and variance D did not, 2) none of the three indices of D related to career maturity, 3) work values profile elevation (PE) positively related to extraversion, openness, and negatively related to depressive symptoms and …
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L' indécision professionnelle et les caractéristiques des métaprogrammes du Profil LAB: une étude comparative
… professionnelle ont accorde peu d'attention a l'indecision professionnelle, beaucoup d'etudes ont tout de meme cherche a identifier les raisons ou les facteurs qui contribuent a cette indecision. Cependant, aucune d'entre elles ne semble avoir cherche a verifier la presence de liens possibles …
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Predicting Career Success In Classically Trained Musicians
… (Anxiety Sensitivity Index-Revised), vocational indecision (5-item likert-like scale developed for this study), amount of time in the profession, and additional demographic questions. A total of 256 usable questionnaires were collected for the data analysis and reflected a largely Caucasian …
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A Rhetorical Evaluation of Claiborne Fox Jackson's Speeches on Slavery and States' Rights, 1847-1861
… historians. His rhetorical hesitation and indecision has been regarded as a major factor in allowing Missouri to remain in the Union. Employing classical forms of rhetorical evaluation, this study examines Jackson's speeches and documents and the types of ethical, logical and emotional …
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“He was the Mirror of the World”: Social Constructivist Reflections in Le Roman de Silence
… attempts to clarify the purpose of ambiguity and indecision within Heldris of Cornwall's <em>Roman de Silence</em>. Using the framework laid out by Judith Butler, it seeks to understand the way that the protagonist's performance of gender and class reflects the social context in which she lives. …
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Social integration following a stroke: understanding meaning and process in older people.
… after their stroke. The substantive theory from indecision to volition was generated and conceptualised as the core category and comprised of four related categories: Gaps in identity, internal conflict, negotiating and exploring and renegotiating and reconciling. It was found that people did not …
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The Protagonist: Using Artificial Intelligence & Storytelling to Make Value-Based Career Decisions
… many. For students in higher education, career indecision can be a major source of anxiety. Values play an essential role in helping one clarify their identity and find a meaningful career that is aligned with one’s authentic self. After a review of the limitations of existing quantitative value …
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The distortion of the meaning of bride wealth: significance for the evolution of living customary law in southern Nigeria
… signifies participation of local communities indecision-making that affects them. The thesis suggests that implementation of wide ranging consultations during the law-making process will strengthen democratic institutions in Nigeria.
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The influence of active procrastination and passive procrastination on university students' education and success in college
… (one who finds themselves paralyzed by their indecision to act on a task within an appropriate timeframe), or a non-procrastinator (one who does not procrastinate on most assignments) and analyzed their GPA and success in college. It was hypothesized that those who identified as active …
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The importance of water levels in the management of the Klein River Estuary, Hermanus
… agricultural lands, decrease in fish catches and indecision about the ideal position of the estuary mouth in the sand berm. This study concentrates mainly on the effects of different possible water levels. The conclusion is that the estuary water level should be permitted to rise at least as high …
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Afrikanerdoom? : negotiating Afrikaner identity in post-apartheid South Africa
… However, in the context of radical change and indecision, it is but one among many other attempts of redefining Afrikanerdom, many competing voices are heard and boundaries of identity are constantly contested and redrawn.
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The later political career of R.A. Butler 1951-1964
… reputation for ambiguity, evasiveness and indecision obscured this political achievement at the time - playing a part in his failure to gain the Party leadership - and his record has not been recognised by biographers and historians subsequently.
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Really Daddy: A Collection of Stories
… an African-American Muslim mother shocked into indecision when the Qur’an doesn’t lead her family in its crisis, or an enslaved woman torturing other slaves out of anger over losing her female love, fabulist techniques are combined with realism to unfold the haunting and humorous tales of the …
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Vague objects
… view, spelled out in terms of semantic indecision and supervaluation, offers the same solution to the problem of the many and to the problem of vague reference. But it leaves no room for de re beliefs about ordinary material object. The ontological view offers a solution to the problem …
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The concept of Aidos in Greek literature from Homer to 404 BC
… is apparent, as it frequently provokes crises of indecision. Such indecision, moreover, is often an important sign that all is not well. The psychological insight of Aeschylus, it is argued, is very far from elementary, but, of the three tragedians, it is Sophokles who makes most use of aidos in …
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