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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"outcome expectancies"”.
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Mood, Social Goals and Children's Outcome Expectancies
Past research suggests that emotions, arousal, and goals affect how children reason in social situations, but, thus far, there has been very little research on how these variables interact. It has been hypothesized that emotion could affect any area of social information processing directly, but it …
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Self-response and response-outcome expectancies as predictors of performance deficits and depressive affect
… suggests that the expectation of uncontrollable outcomes is sufficient to result in performance deficits and depressed mood. On the other hand, self-efficacy theory proposes that while the expectation of uncontrollability is important, the individual's perception of self-efficacy determines when …
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The Effect of Alcohol Outcome Expectancies on the Relationship of Social Anxiety and Desirability of Alcohol
… factor against heavy drinking. Alcohol outcome expectancies (AOEs), the beliefs one holds about the effects of alcohol consumption, have been identified as an important variable in the consideration of the Social anxiety-alcohol use link. The current study tested the effect of an …
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Changes in Preservice Elementary Teachers' Personal Science Teaching Efficacy and Science Teaching Outcome Expectancies: The Influence of Context
… personalscience expectancy and science teaching outcome expectancy among preservice elementary teachers when exposed to a science teaching methods course. Preservice elementary teacher candidates (N=69) enrolled in Spring and Fall 2007 sessions of an elementary science methods class were asked to …
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How Motivational Interviewing Affects the Motivation, Self-Efficacy, and Outcome Expectancies of Adjudicated Adolescents in a School Setting
… factors (e.g. motivation, self-efficacy, and outcome expectancies) that are central to behavior change.</p><p> Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based intervention that directly addresses factors useful for behavioral change. For adolescents using drugs and alcohol, MI has been …
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The Effect of Episodic Future Thought on Delay Discounting, Outcome Expectancies, and Alcohol Use among Risky College Drinkers
Positive, but distal consequences of reducing alcohol use among at-risk users may have little impact on behavior due to temporal discounting (Mazur, 1987), in which delayed rewards are devalued relative to more proximal rewards, even if such distal rewards actually provide considerably more value. …
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Testing the Construct Validity of Self-efficacy in Relation to College Student Drinking
… specific coping skills for limiting drinking, outcome expectancies associated both with expected effects of drinking and expected effects of limiting drinking, and retrospective drinking behavior. Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine reliability and validity, as well as …
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The Association Between Emotional Competencies and E-Cigarette Susceptibility
… suggest that negative affect reduction outcome expectancies are positively associated with cigarette susceptibility in this age group. Further, emotion competencies, such as emotion regulation difficulties, distress tolerance, and positive and negative urgency have been positively …
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Outcome and efficacy expectancies in college student drinking
goals of this study were to modify efficacy and outcome expectancies related to moderate alcohol consumption through written communications and determine subsequent changes in behavioral intentions to consume alcohol. Furthermore, two theoretical models which have attempted to conceptualize the …
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Self-Efficacy, Outcome Expectancy, and Fear of Failure as Predictors of Physical Activity
… Social-Cognitive Model (self-efficacy and outcome expectancies) and added the construct of fear of failure in order to evaluate what factors influence an individual's decision to exercise or avoid physical activity. Self-report data assessing fear or failure, self-efficacy, outcome …
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Alcohol use in adolescents: a comparison of expectancy and self-efficacy theories
… The cognitive variables of self-efficacy and outcome expectancies are important in determining behavior and can be viewed as mediational components whereas predisposition variables are translated into actual alcohol use or abuse. The arena where these predispositions may find the greatest …
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Targeting Negative Urgency and Expectancies in Persuasive Messaging
<p>Evidence indicates targeting outcome expectancies of risky health behaviors via persuasive communication is an effective approach for deterring risky health behaviors. Targeting specific domains of impulsivity (e.g., sensation seeking) via persuasive messaging has also been associated with …
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Personal goals systems and social cognitive theory: A motivational model of college student alcohol use
… indicated that alcohol self-efficacy, negative outcome expectancies, and drinking self-regulation strategies were shown to be significant predictors of drinking. In addition, the goal attribute variables of Involvement and Efficacy, incongruence, and avoidance accounted for unique variance in …
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The effect of motivational interviewing on treatment participation, self-efficacy, and alcohol use at follow-up in inpatient alcohol dependent adults
… of time in treatment, treatment participation, outcome expectancies, self-efficacy, stage of change, and alcohol use at follow-up, using a brief motivational interviewing intervention (Miller & Rollnick, 1991). The subjects were 42 alcohol dependent adult men in an inpatient substance abuse …
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Systematic Desensitization: Effects on Intellectually and Emotionally Based Assessments.
… the possible causal role of various types of expectancies in the behavior therapy technique of systematic desensitization. Researchers have long theorized that a person’s perception of the consequences of a given behavior (response-outcome expectancies) plays an important part in determining …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of the YASP Intervention: Adolescent Substance Use Outcomes
… levels of substance use, change substance use outcome expectancies, decrease negative consequences resulting from substance use and increase participants sense of self-efficacy. A sample 27 adolescents was recruited from several YASP cohorts from August 2010 until October 2011 for this study. …
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An evaluation of social-cognitive factors in dietary restraint, smoking, and weight control smoking
… There also were significant differences for expectancies (i.e., outcome expectancies, outcome values, and self-efficacy). Because of methodological concerns, this study was unable to fully assess the role of outcome expectancies on restrained eating, smoking, and weight control smoking …
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Preschool Children's Perceptions of Fruit and Vegetable Messages and Their Relationship to Parenting Practices, and Child Knowledge, Preference, and Consumption
… of age) have reported that positive and negative outcome messages influence a child's fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption. Positive outcome messages have the most significant mediating effect. However, there is a deficiency of studies involving children <5 years of age. The purpose of this study …
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