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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"life choices"”.
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DECISION MAKING IN LIFE CHOICES
… understand how decisions are made in “real life contexts”, with the aim of focusing on health and mainly on how cancer patients and survivors decide to participate in psychological interventions that aim to improve the quality of life. Three studies have been designed to understand how …
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Life choices : university-educated mothers in a Japanese suburb
This thesis addresses how Japanese university-educated mothers in a suburban context make the most of their lives. The chief focus is a group of women who have chosen not to pursue a career outside the home. The expansion of numbers of university-educated women in post-war Japan has not made a …
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Improving emotional intelligence and developing servant leadership skills : an outcome evaluation of Life Choices' Leaders' Quest programme
… presents an outcome evaluation of the Salesians Life Choices' Leaders' Quest programme. The programme targets youth from economically disadvantaged schools in the Cape Flats, and engages with learners during their final two years of high school as well as providing support for an eased transition …
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More Than Me: The Voices Of African American Adolescent Mothers And Their Pursuit of Post-Secondary Education
… high risk of dropping out of school, making poor life choices, and ultimately living poor life outcomes. However, there is no substantial empirical data that supports this premise. Nor is there currently any national data which consistently tracks the triumphs, challenges, and general life …
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The role of guidance and counselling educators in secondary schools at Sibasa circuit of the Vhembe district in Limpopo province
… it fit to review the curriculum, amongst others Life Orientation was one of the learning areas incepted. One of the primary roles for LO is to offer learners with guidance and counselling, that’s developing them in totality; inter alia, educationally, socially, emotionally, mentally, spiritually …
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The impact of political ideology on conssumer behavior
… domains, including voting preference, daily life choices, as well as consumer behavior, which is the focus of my dissertation. Specifically, I investigate how political ideology drives one’s consumption decisions, which improves lives, strengthens society and might benefit the world at large. …
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Outcome evaluation of the family affairs parenting programme
… programme, a parenting programme offered by Life Choices, a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa. Life Choices focuses on parenting skills development through workshops, psychosocial counselling, and job-search counselling services for parents and caregivers. The main aim …
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Respect & Recognition: What’s the Story?
… affect their identities, relationships and life choices? Has this return to learning had an impact on confidence, self-esteem or personal worth? What does education mean to the learner? In an attempt to answer these questions this research study explores the experience of respect in the …
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Understanding A Familial Mentorship Model in Cultivation of Leaders Who Serve
… models uncovered the interconnectivity among the life of the mentor, the lessons passed on to the mentee, and the manner in which the story is told. Resonant leadership, transformative leadership, and servant leadership theory provided the theoretical framework used to analyze in-depth interviews …
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Follow-up of the graduates of the academic course at Moncton High School for the years 1968 to 1972 inclusively
… was to gather information concerning the life-choices of the graduates, their postsecondary studies, their type of employment, and their appreciation or evaluation of the Academic course at Moncton High School, from graduation day to the present time. The survey was concerned with only the …
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Underrepresentation of Women in American Politics
… Using this data, I found evidence that personal life choices have the most effect on rather women want to run for political office and successfully pursue political careers. Having this specific quantitative dataset, the study provides a better understanding to why women are still widely …
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A qualitative exploration of the factors affecting the capabilities and integration of Algerian immigrants into French society
… This situation has a negative impact on their life choices and opportunities as well as their social integration. Effective provision of support and social assistance is needed, as well as a reflection about immigration in France to facilitate the integration of immigrants into French society.
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Análise de conteúdo e validação clínica do diagnóstico de enfermagem autocontrole ineficaz da saúde
… Changes in laboratory tests (100%) and daily life choices ineffective to achieve health goals (81%); and three etiological factors had a higher frequency, they are: unfavorable demographic factors (94.5%), beliefs (79%) and comorbidities (77.5%). From Latent class analysis, diagnosis …
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Hope for today and tomorrow: identity construction power, and persistence of community college women who are first in their families to attend college
… of personal control over their finances and life choices in general. All four of the students held positive outlooks for their futures regarding gaining more independence, achieving their personal or professional goals, and becoming “smarter.” None of the four students viewed themselves as …
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“Life’s About Choices”: Exploring the everyday occupational choices of young adults with intellectual disability in a community context in South Africa
… The human need to experience and inform everyday life choices, and the limited opportunities to do so, results in a contemporary health and human rights issue. Research Question: This study aims to explore what informs the everyday occupational choices made by young adults with intellectual and …
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The Role of Climate Change Concerns and Perceptions of the Future in Reproductive Decision-Making in a Pronatalist Context
… affect how individuals think about long-term life decisions, including childbearing. Among macro-level uncertainties, my focus is on climate change, which is no longer a distant threat: it is unfolding in real time, shaping the world we live in, yet what this term means to individuals and the …
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Christian covenant and liberal freedom : a new approach to the modern marriage crisis.
… and frees the individual to pursue whatever life choices she or she wishes to make. Prevention of the legal disestablishment of marriage ultimately feeds religious complacency, weakens the marriage bond, and distracts from the pursuit of holiness; it also enslaves the free individual to the …
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Breast cancer in Chinese media : privatization, cultural politics and subjectivity
… people are now required to make their own life choices and to be ‘self-responsible’ in all walks of lives, including their health. Against this general background, this thesis analyses the socio-cultural constructions of breast cancer in post-socialist China. This analysis works as a case …
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"Freedom From Camps": Housing and Power In theExperience of Sri Lankan Long-Term Refugees In India
… structure of warehouse refugee camps shape the life choices of refugees and produce multiple marginalities in exile? How do the refugees resist and respond to the structure of warehouse camps in order to carve out new lives for themselves? How has encampment influenced the ways refugees …
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Surrender to Krishna : religious conversion and cultural change
… and where possible an indigenous picture of the life-world of Hare Krishna and assessing whether considerations of conversion, identity, meaning and belief evident in popular theory have any hold on that reality. On this basis it is suggested that conversion models do not adequately deal 'With …
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