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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"perceived control"”.
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How addictive frames can undermine perceived control
… behavior as being addictive reduces consumers’ perceived control over the focal behavior resulting in increased consumption. Specifically, across twelve studies, consumers led to believe that consumption activities including eating chocolate and granola, shopping, using social media, and viewing …
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Citizen Participation, Perceived Control, and Psychological Empowerment
… citizen participation literature and research on perceived control in an effort to further our understanding of psychological empowerment. Psychological empowerment is conceptualized as acting to gain mastery and control and as the self perception that one can exert influence over the environment. …
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Hindsight Bias and Choice: Understanding Hindsight Bias and Perceived Control
… information processing and decision making. Perceived control was defined by Langer (1975, p. 311) as "an expectancy of a personal success probability inappropriately higher than the objective probability would warrant." Some authors believe that the tendency to engage in illusions of control …
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Effects of timing on users' perceived control when interacting with intelligent systems
… addressed here is how to preserve the user's perceived control ("sense of agency'') when the control of the interaction is being transferred between the system and the user in a back-and-forth manner. Previous research in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience suggests timing is a factor …
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Stigma, perceived control and health-related quality of life for individuals experiencing Parkinson’s disease
… describes a study examining if the perception of control mediates the relationship between stigma and health-related quality of life and aspects of psychological wellbeing, for individuals with PD. Individuals were invited to take part in a survey online, or in a paper format on request. Data were …
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The role of perceived control in the perception of breathlessness severity in heart failure
… paper examining the role of health-related perceived control in the perception of breathlessness severity and distress for heart failure patients. An overview of the relevant literature, the rationale for the study, research questions and hypotheses are discussed. The paper describes the …
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Transportation trauma and psychological morbidity: Anxiety, depression, PTSD and perceived control in a hospitalized sample.
… between symptoms of distress and perception of control by self, others, and God/Higher Power of past, present, and future collision-related events. Subjects were 100 English speaking adult inpatients, 16 years and older, who were less than 3 weeks post-injury, and receiving some rehabilitation. …
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The effect of computer use and Logo instruction on third and fourth grade students' perceived control
… computer use and Logo instruction on students' perceived control of computers and generalized perceived control was examined. Third and fourth grade students (<u>N</u>=90) in four intact groups, consisting of one treatment and one control group for each grade level, were pre- and posttested, …
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SAUDI PRESERVICE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD TEACHING SCIENCE: EXPLORATION OF COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE, AND PERCEIVED CONTROL BELIEFS
… of cognitive beliefs, affective states, and perceived control beliefs. There is a dearth of research on preservice science teachers’ attitudes toward teaching science. Specifically, no such study has been conducted before in Saudi Arabia using this manner of exploring attitudes. As such, this …
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Personal Protective Equipment and Laboratory Safety Training: The Roles of Attitude, Subjective Norm, and Perceived Control
… equipment attitude, subjective norm, behavioral control, behavioral intention, past self-reported behavior, and safety training attitude. Multiple regression showed that the overall model accounted for 56% of the variability in the study population. Subjective norm was the theoretical construct …
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The Limits of Perceived Control: Novel Task-Based Measures of Control under Effort and in Anhedonia
… in relation to the value of exerting personal control such that personal control is generally reinforcing, but its value may also be limited in some individuals and under certain circumstances. Across two studies, this dissertation takes a step towards exploring the limitations of perceived …
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The Influence of Inhibited Expression of Anger, Perceived Control by Partner, and Withdrawal Cognitions on the Association between Conflict and Relationship Dissolution
… internal experiences, the suppression of anger, perceived control by partner, and thoughts about withdrawal, play roles in the relation between conflict and dissolution of couple relationships. The study used assessment data from 69 couples who sought therapy at an outpatient therapy clinic, …
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Examining a Three-Dimensional Model of Competitive State Anxiety in Sport
… public self-focus, physiological anxiety and perceived control) and one general factor, cognitive anxiety, that encompassed the items reflecting worry, private and public self-focus. Study 2 provided further support for this bifactor model and explored the predictive validity of the three main …
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Effects of choice and environmental control on the perception of control
… the effects of choice and environmental control on perceived control. A paired associate choice task was presented to all subjects and they were allowed to choose the response terms to be learned. When each of the response words was chosen aloud, the screen on which the words were printed …
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Leadership, control at work, supervisor-subordinate guanxi and psychological ownership: A longitudinal study in China
… model of the relations among leadership, perceived control, personal guanxi and psychological ownership in China with two data collection points separated by a six-month interval (N= 971 at Time 1, N=201 at Time 2), and to examine the relationship between leadership styles …
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Determining the Effects of Basic Feedback and Directive Feedback Environments on Task Productivity, Accuracy, Perceived Stress, Control and Demand under Forced Choice and Mixed Choice Progressive Ratio Schedules of Reinforcement
… and workers benefit from well-designed behavior control systems. These systems may contribute at differing levels of efficacy towards maximizing measures of productivity, accuracy, and problem-solving behavior through individual and group environmental intervention using performance feedback. An …
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The association between belief in free will, personal control, and life outcomes.
… wellbeing, is due to the perceptions of having control that form the core of lay free will beliefs. We then reason that, as pro deterministic/anti free will messages can undermine free will beliefs these manipulations may also impact perceived control and subsequently indicators of subjective …
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