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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"instrumentality"”.
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Factors influencing instrumentality beliefs in a merit pay environment
… attempts to identify factors which may influence instrumentality beliefs in a merit pay environment. Specifically, the purpose was to investigate the relationship of: (1) of perceived performance appraisal accuracy, merit increase satisfaction, trust in top management, and trust in supervisor to …
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CONNECTEDNESS AND PERCEIVED INSTRUMENTALITY IN PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS: A COMPARISON OF TWO MEASURES
… of FTP-Connectedness and ALS-Perceived Instrumentality to examine the hypothesis that the two questionnaire sub-dimensions were measuring two distinct constructs. The findings of the FTP survey analysis described results similar to those found by Husman and Shell (2008). The findings of …
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Examining the Instrumentality of Attitudes: The Interactive Effect of Social Context, Medium and Product Type on Product Thoughts and Evaluations
Previous theorizing has suggested that social situations such as group discussion foster social-expressive concerns, thereby increasing the saliency of a product's social attributes. The present research suggests, however, that the impact of group discussion on product thoughts and evaluations may …
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An analysis of the relationship of gender and levels of instrumentality and expressiveness to the Eriksonian ego identity achievement of young adults
… gender-role orientation, defined as levels of instrumentality and expressiveness, to Eriksonian ego identity achievement in young adults. Erikson's theory of psychosocial development was the theoretical framework for the study. It was hypothesized that a regression model can predict ego …
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Psychological benefits of sport participation and physical activity for adolescent females.
… characteristics such as physical self-concept, instrumentality and positive body images; in addition, sport was found to be related to these psychological benefits for high school girls. However, physical self-concept played a central role by mediating the sport -body image and sport …
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The effects of a simulation career game on the achievement motivation of vocational students enrolled in developmental arithmetic
… the simulation experience upon student perceived instrumentality were examined with a pretest-posttest comparison group research design. The criterion measure, math achievement, was examined with the posttest-only control group design utilizing a two by two by two factorial design. The factors …
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The Role of Intelligence in Securitisation Processes: A Tool or An Agent
… implementing policies, explicitly performing its Instrumentality. This project provides a general framework for conceptualising the role – Agency and Instrumentality – of Intelligence Services in securitisation processes through assessing how the Intelligence Service behaves in various stages and …
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An investigation of the relationship between the satisfaction with school communication system and teachers' work motivation
… motivation which was composed of three factors, instrumentality, valence and expectancy. Three regressions were conducted, one with each of the factors in teachers' work motivation. Frequencies and means were obtained for the demographic variables. The results revealed that there was a …
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Why Pharmacists Choose to Seek or Not Seek Board Certification in Pharmacy Practice: A Comparison of Motivation and Motivating Factors
… the two groups were completed. These were <a></a>instrumentality, valence, valence-minus-instrumentality and valence-times-instrumentality. Additionally, the components of the valence and instrumentality products (the VI Scores) were multiplied by expectancy (anticipated chance of success of an …
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MOTIVATION AND ATTITUDE OF SAUDI UNIVERSITY'S LEARNERS OF ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
… anxiety, attitude towards, integrativeness, and instrumentality. A survey determined students' major, gender, motivation level, anxiety towards English use and English class, and attitude towards English teachers and courses. Participants rated their affective factors on a scale ranging from 1 …
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Factors affecting student choices: a higher education marketing study
… those goals through individual effort and the instrumentality of an organization. A random sample of potential students was asked to put in order or priority five major goals and expectations for achieving those goals through various means, ranging from educational effort through luck. The …
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The effects of contract grading on motivation and mathematics achievement of underprepared college students
… level, valence of second level, expectancy, and instrumentality provided the theoretical basis for this research. This investigation provided answers to the following questions: Is there a difference in mathematics achievement of students using contract grading as compared to students not using …
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Performance based pay: an empirical investigation of the impact of performance pay increases on perceptions critical to successful merit pay programs
… investigated in this study included: 1) instrumentality, 2) expectancy, 3) performance appraisal administration, 4) performance appraisal content, 5) trust in city management, 6) pay communication, and 7) importance of pay. It was hypothesized that individuals who received above average …
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The impact of revivalism upon Baptist faith and practice in the American South prior to the Civil War.
… their theology and practices to emphasize human instrumentality. They added invitations to their preaching, songs calling on sinners to convert were appended to their hymnbooks, and they shifted their corporate structures to emphasize missions and evangelism. As a result, the Southern Baptist …
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Roots and routes : locating Tibetan identities in diaspora
… position, I take as my entry-point the idea of instrumentality, and, sketching a rough trajectory of academic writing about Tibet, probe some of the dominant discourses and implicit strategies that emerge in the literature. I draw upon two months of ethnographic fieldwork where I interacted …
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UTILIZING VROOM'S EXPECTANCY THEORY AS A PREDICTOR OF STUDENT ACADEMIC SUCCESS ON THE ILLINOIS NURSE ASSISTANT COMPETENCY EXAMINATION
… and academic success as measured by the Valence, Instrumentality, Expectancy Scale. Utilizing Vroom's Expectancy Theory as the framework for study, the research assessed the responses of 375 nurse assistant students in the state of Illinois to evaluate the self-report of the constructs of Vroom's …
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An investigation of the relationship between union commitment and union participation
… of union participation and perceived union instrumentality is a significant predictor of union commitment. Affective organizational commitment and affective union commitment correlated moderately with each other. Results also indicated that there are no significant differences between union …
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The Importance of the Non-Important Re-Orientations
… the mediation of these entanglements through instrumentality complements the ways in which artistic awareness is grounded in multiple body states, that seek the formation of new ways of feeling, seeing, thinking, and re-representing. And border thinking, understood as the superposition of …
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