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Showing 1 to 20 of 233 for “"mistrust"”.
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Using a communication approach to understand the antecedents of medical mistrust: Testing the ecological medical mistrust antecedents (EMMA) model
Medical mistrust, distrust in the motives of medical personnel and institutions, has been cited as a barrier to engagement in several positive health behaviors. It has been associated with decreased likelihood of engaging in routine health check-ups (Hammond, Matthews, Mohottige, Agyemang, & …
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Paranoia and social mistrust in UK and Hong Kong children
… Yet little is known about either the nature of mistrust in children or whether studying paranoia in children could increase our understanding of the aetiology of adult paranoia and inform early prevention strategies. The current thesis, comprised of three main studies, adopted a hitherto lacking …
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Trust Machines: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Humans in Cultures of Mistrust
Network technologies allow individuals to participate in technological market systems that can mediate trust independently from traditional public institutions. This presents a novel idea of governance that is distinct to the one in liberal democracies. I explore the use of cryptocurrencies …
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Implications of cultural mistrust on diagnosis and services for students with autism
… was to examine whether the level of cultural mistrust differed between Caucasians and minorities and to explore how a number of variables including, cultural mistrust, race, income, and level of education impact parents' agreement with the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder, their …
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Generating and Maintaining Confianza: Living a "Good" Life Amidst Violence, Insecurity, and Mistrust in Rural El Salvador
… Luhmann 1979, 1988, Govier 1997, Tilly 2007) and mistrust (Carey 2017, Muhlfried 2018, 2019, Scchiocchet 2018). Keeping rural Salvadoran understandings of violence as structural and an endemic threat in the forefront of the analysis, I work to develop both universal and Salvadoran definitions and …
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Attitudes of Arabs in Israel toward help seeking, given levels of cultural mistrust and ethnicity of help provider
… help provider, and the level of cultural mistrust toward Jews. A sample of 102 Israeli Arab undergraduate students from Haifa, Israel, participated in this study. It was hypothesized that attitudes toward help seeking, as measured by Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological …
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An exploration of racial identity, perceived racism, and religious orientation as predictors of cultural mistrust in African Americans
… have conditioned this marginalized group to be mistrustful of their relations with white Americans. This response, known as cultural mistrust, significantly contributes to negative help-seeking attitudes and underutilization of mental health services because the majority of practitioners are …
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The effects of medical mistrust on the willingness of African Americans to participate in medical research studies and seek medical treatment
… qualitative study is to evaluate how medical mistrust can affect the willingness of African Americans to participate in medical research and seek medical treatment. The findings of this study support that due to historical unethical practices in medical research involving African Americans, …
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Cultural Mistrust, Self -Efficacy, and Outcome Expectations as Predictors of Academic and Psychosocial Adjustment for African -American College Students at Predominantly White Universities
… in the Midwest were surveyed. Cultural mistrust, self-efficacy, and outcome expectations were the predictor variables while academic adjustment, social adjustment, personal-emotional adjustment, and attachment to the university were the criterion variables. Cultural mistrust, …
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The Consequences of Mistrust in the News Media: Media Skepticism as a Moderator in Media Effects and as a Factor Influencing News Media Exposure
… institutions. Specifically, it hypothesizes that mistrust in the media serves as a moderator for media effects and as a factor influencing media exposure selections. Both propositions were tested on five separate large sample data sets, including the National Election Study of 19%, General Social …
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Quantifying racial disparities in end-of-life care
… medical disparities can reflect higher rates of mistrust for the healthcare system among black patients. When the doctor-patient relationship lacks trust, patients may believe that limiting any intensive treatment is unjustly motivated, and demand higher levels of aggressive care. While there are …
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The Impact of Race on Plantar Loading and Research Engagement
… racial differences in research engagement and mistrust between AA and WA. Data was collected from 107 participants, aged 18-30, in this Institutional Review Board approved study. An EMED pressure-measurement system (Novel Electronics, St. Paul, MN, USA) was used to collect plantar loading data. …
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The Impact Of Vicarious Racial Discrimination On African Americans Via Social Media
… and trauma symptoms, public regard and cultural mistrust among African Americans. Survey data was collected from 329 participants recruited through email, social media platforms, listservs, message boards and text messaging. Participants completed the Perceived Online Racism Scale (PORS), the …
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A Chance for Change: The Role of Trust in Foster Care
… development a child learns trust vs. mistrust. For many children entering foster care, this first stage of development has not been achieved, given their experiences in their biological families. In order to protect themselves during this time of mistrust, children exhibit behaviors …
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Behavioral Economics of Persecutory Delusions
… and suspiciousness have some overlap with mistrust, and thus this dissertation focuses on the use of trust games to examine behavior and neural mechanisms of spite sensitivity. Spite sensitivity is the fear that a partner is willing to take a hit in order to ensure that you do as well, as …
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RACIAL CONCORDANCE, AUTONOMY, AND JUSTICE: EVIDENCE FOR THE ETHICAL NEED OF DIVERSITY IN MEDICINE
… contributes to these poor health outcomes is mistrust in the medical community. Mistrust is a consequence of a too-long history of unethical experimentation in African American and Latino communities, and has resulted in decreased use of preventive services and screening tools, lack of …
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