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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"instrumental value"”.
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The Role of Students' Goals and Perceptions of Instrumental Value in The Development of Achievement Motivation at Junior High School
The influence of task value, expectancies, self concept of ability, task difficulty, and anxiety on the development of achievement motivation in junior high school was studied. Measurement instruments for intrinsic, attainment, and instrumental value, developed for use in this study, are described. …
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The environment and natural rights
… independent and confers on it intrinsic value as opposed to instrumental value. This intrinsic value is one that all the entities that make up the environment share. It is further argued that this intrinsic value is aesthetic rather than moral. Only beings that are specially endowed with …
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Value convergence as it relates to marital adjustment of twenty-five well-adjusted and twenty-five maladjusted couples in southeast Massachusetts
… whether there is an association between value system similarity and marital adjustment; and (2) to examine qualitatively the nature of that association. The relationship between mutual values and marital adjustment has long been assumed to be a strong one, although little research has …
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Wild Practices: Teaching the Value of Wildness
… A survey of the ways in which wilderness value is expressed through language reveals much confusion and repression regarding our understanding of the autonomy of nature. By framing discussions of wilderness through fact-driven language games, the value of the wild autonomy in nature …
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Reconceptualizing Social Capital Theory: Life Stories of Kazakhstani Youth from Rural or Lower Socioeconomic Backgrounds
… part of their tarbiyeh process had a significant value, which they argued was more important than the instrumental value of social capital. Ultimately, this dissertation invites scholars to re-envision social capital theory by considering how one’s moral values shape when and how they leverage …
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Exploring the importance of financial literacy within the Capability Approach framework
… life. The remaining three issues centre on the instrumental value of financial literacy. In the second part, it is proposed that financial literacy is a relevant conversion factor. Within the capability approach literature itself, there is a lack of empirical discussion on conversion factors. It …
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The nature and value of teaching and learning Mandarin Chinese as a school subject in South Africa: a case study of language and literacy ideologies in a public secondary school in South Africa
… nature of ideologies as ‘ontologies plus values'” (Hall & Cunningham, 2020, p. 4) as the main theore9cal principle informing this study, language and literacy ideologies with respect to Mandarin Chinese and its script are explored in rela9on to both “ontologies” and “values” with the aim …
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A Critical Overview: Evaluation and Evidence for Cultural Policymaking and Practice in Wales (2004-2014)
… to conceptualise and articulate, and its value often challenging to describe. Cultural policy is subsequently difficult to evaluate, and cultural data is often porous, inconsistent and incomparable. These are three elements that together form the foundation of this thesis which has its …
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Governmentality and power in 'design for government' in the UK, 2008-2017: an ethnography of an emerging field
… of practices, the thesis breaks away from an instrumental mode of researching and conceptualising design. The original contribution of the thesis is, first, in treating design as a contingent, mobile, and discursively constructed idea through methodologically blending an insider ethnography of …
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The Correlation of Value Profiles and Vocational Choice
<p>Problem</p> <p>Both vocational choice and value system development are processes that continue to dominate one's life-style. How do decisions in one area relate to those in the other? This study examined the value patterns held by individuals in different occupational environments, and …
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Language contact in two border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Lexical borrowings from French, English and African languages
… African languages that possess the greatest instrumental value by providing access to local economic ressources. The majority of borrowings attested in the corpus undergoes phonological and morphological adaptation and includes complex patterns of hybridization and native creations from …
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Lawyers Need Law: A Study of Constitutional Arguments Made to State Supreme Courts
… unique state traditions, judicial federalism had instrumental value in ensuring state level protections that were protected from review at the federal level. While supporters saw judicial federalism as a means of realizing the principle of dual constitutional rights protection through principled …
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What’s In It For Me? Consumer Perceived Value of Marketing Activities as a Driver of Consumer Brand Engagement on Social Network Sites.
… to utilize as well as tangible and intangible value these activities provide consumers. The effectiveness of social network site strategies can be measured in terms of online consumer brand engagement – or how many users are paying attention to and interacting with an organization’s brand …
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Why should wild nature be preserved? A dialogue between biblical theology and biodiversity conservation.
… wide-ranging debates around whether economic and instrumental valuations of wild nature assist in its preservation, or whether they commodify entities that possess intrinsic or inherent value. This thesis seeks to bring insights from biblical theology into dialogue with conservation biology …