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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"mediated relationships"”.
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IT IS A SMALL WORLD AND IT IS ONLY GETTING SMALLER: EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS AND OUTCOMES WHILE ACCOUNTING FOR THE INFLUENCE OF MEDIATORS AND MODERATORS
… boundary conditions of the aforementioned mediated relationships (i.e., social network characteristics - fit perceptions - employee performance; social network characteristics - fit perceptions - job satisfaction). First, I consider how individual differences (i.e., racioethnicity, sex) …
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Curating Connection: How Millennial Women Navigate Self-Presentation, Intimacy, and Rejection in Online Dating
… platform design and future scholarship on AI-mediated relationships.
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Intention to use Robo-Advisors, considering the Behavioral Reasoning Theory, and moderating effect of prior knowledge and experience.
… and investing experience moderate these mediated relationships in a nonlinear fashion. Data collected from 400 participants through a structured survey was analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results indicate that while personal values indirectly influence adoption …
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Stress, social support, and health risk behaviours as mediators of the forgiveness-health relation /
… support, and health risk behaviours in the relationships between dispositional forgiveness and mental and physical health were examined. Participants were 748 undergraduate students (554 women, 194 men) entering their first year of studies at Brock University. Participants, ranging in age …
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An Examination of Social Media and the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image Disturbance
… in females as well as indirect roles through mediated relationships with appearance comparisons and thin ideal internalization. A form of media gaining recent attention is social media. Although there is limited research on social media and body image, studies suggest that use of social media …
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Attracting and retaining teachers in a changing educational system
… was proposed wherein organizational commitment mediated the relationship between turnover and seven categories of school working conditions: skill variety, autonomy, participation in decision-making, feedback, collaboration, learning opportunities, and resources. One hundred and twenty one …
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Modality switching in online dating: identifying the communicative factors that make the transition from an online to an offline relationship more or less successful
… meet online, which could prove advantageous for relationships initiated on online dating sites. However, empirical evidence suggests that while such hyperpersonal impressions can intensify the development of mediated relationships, they can also result in disillusionment if the first date fails …
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Authenticity, Commodification of the Self, and Micro-Influencers: An in-depth analysis into the online identity construction of South African micro-influencers within the Western Cape
… construction as a means of understanding the mediated relationships between influencers, the brands they collaborate with, the platform Instagram, and the ways in which these relationships effect the construction of their online identities. This study made use of individual interviews with …
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Water and the City: Roman Water Distribution and Use in the Transjordan Decapolis
… communities. Urban water systems in this region mediated relationships between landscape, built infrastructure, and civic life. Focusing on the Transjordan Decapolis (modern Jordan), this dissertation examines water distribution and use in Jerash, Gadara, and Amman during the Roman period (1st …
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Environmental and Biotic Drivers of Seaweed–Bacterial Interactions: Insights into the Seaweed Holobiont
… of microbes with which they form chemically mediated relationships, operating as a unified holobiont - an integrated functional unit. Host fitness is reliant on this symbiosis, with interactions from epiphytic bacteria necessary for the correct physiological functioning, health, development, …
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Cognitive And Attitudinal Predictors Related To Graphing Achievement Among Pre-Service Elementary Teachers
… towards science, mathematics and graphing mediated relationships between scores on mathematics, reading, logical thinking and line graphing. Ninety-four pre-service elementary education teachers enrolled in two different elementary science methods courses during the spring 2009 semester at …
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Reinventing the rattling tin : explaining the dynamics of social networking site fundraising
… area that has been hugely neglected in computer-mediated communication (CMC) research. Drawing on social capital theory, and the concepts of mass interpersonal persuasion and online collective action, it generates a refined framework that aims to produce a rich and insightful analysis of a type …
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Destructive Leadership in Organizations: Empirical Studies on the Dark Triad of Personality and Its Interplay With Motivation, Satisfaction, and Development
… it was demonstrated that followers¿ dark traits mediated relationships in the workplace and beyond. Besides drawing overarching conclusions from the empirical studies and considering their implications for science and practice, the last section illustrates their limitations and suggestions for …
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Reading the map: geographic space, reading publics, and the shaping of nineteenth-century American identity, 1803-1898
… and spatially changing and changeable sets of relationships would yield its current form. My dissertation engages the work of scholars who have variously turned to the intersections of geography and print culture to explore ideologies of exceptionalism, nationalism, and empire. While the field …