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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"personal agency"”.
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Profiles of Personal Agency: Ethnocultural Variations in Self -Efficacy Beliefs
… value orientations for the experience of personal agency. Discussion centers on within-group patterns of individualist and collectivist value orientations, implications for measuring individualism and collectivism among ethnocultural groups in the U.S., considerations relevant to the …
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The Romantic Relationships of Girls in Child Protective Services: Perceptions of Personal Agency
… as a critical context whereby teens exercise agency to promote their own development. However, expressions of agency within the romantic context have only been studied among adolescents who have normative parental relationships known to support their romantic development. Thus, this study …
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Supporting Student Writers' Personal Agency Through Meditation in the Composition Classroom: An Exploratory Study
… seem to exist between the goal of supporting personal agency in student writers and a specific meditation practice as implemented in the second semester of freshman composition. With both whole-class and individualized data sources, the study seeks to address changes in students' attitudes …
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Youth employability in ghetto neighbourhoods: The role of personal agency in reproducing or transforming social structures
… structuralist accounts that ignore the role of personal agency and hold that structures alone determine action. The critical realist framework offers a helpful understanding of social structures as both material and cultural since human agency, or action, is influenced by circumstances that are …
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Gifted Voices: A Study of High School Students' Proficiency in Persuasive Writing and Their Perceptions of Personal Agency
… outcomes by one's actions is the power of human agency. This study examined the following research question. What is the relationship between identified gifted high school students' proficiency in persuasive writing and those students' beliefs about their own powers of agency? The results shed …
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The Exercise of Personal Agency by Mobile Phone Use: A mixed methods study study among young people in Mumbai, India
… accomplish goals in daily life is referred to as Personal Agency in this study. In a particular manner this study explores the exercise of Personal Agency in managing contingent situations and in maintaining regular relationships in the daily lives of individuals. This study also set out to …
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Saving face: an arts-based hermeneutic phenomenological study of women’s personal agency explored through the lens of adverse childhood experiences
… study explores the development of women’s personal agency and the phenomenon of ‘saving face’. Ten experienced female psychotherapists, all in practice and with recognised ACEs, were recruited with interviews being conducted via the online platform Zoom or in person. Semi-structured …
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Webquest Design Strategies: A Case Study Measuring the Effect of the Jigsaw Method on Students’ Personal Agency Beliefs, Engagement, and Learning
… design challenges: Enhancing students’ personal agency beliefs; sustaining student engagement; and, promoting students’ deep understanding and critical thinking. This dissertation was a comparative two-case case study that investigated how one cooperative learning method. Jigsaw, was …
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"We saw how life was going in Hanover Park and none of us wanted that life for ourselves" : Exploring resilience factors in the life narratives of community-engaged youth.
… intelligence and academic achievement; insight; personal agency; determination and self-discipline; empathy; hope; future orientation; and religious faith. A second category of themes concerned the social support received by participants, from their mothers, teachers, adult mentors and friends. …
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The significance of meaning-making, agency and social support: a narrative study of how poor women cope with perinatal loss
… was mediated by social support and personal agency. Where one or both of these were present, the bereaved mothers were able to find meaning in their loss; women who had neither seemed unable to do so. Those who portrayed themselves as agentic were able to reflect on their experience …
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Culture of Growth: Teacher Collaboration for the Empowerment of All Students
… the framework of the school were identified: Personal Agency; Philosophy; and Beliefs about Students. Personal Agency describes their sense of themselves as agents of change within the school. This includes discussions of how their personal educational history gave rise to their current …
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Second Graders' Solution Strategies and Understanding of a Combination Problem
… powerful systematic strategies grounded in their personal experiences. This research shows that even when the teacher does not foster personal agency, children will still exercise agency. The social interactions in the classroom helped students learn to propose mathematical ideas, make …
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Conversations: the socially engaged artist as environmental change agent
… agent, as essential to encourage change at a personal level. (Ballard and Associates 2005b; Darnton et al. 2006) I use the value-action gap, the tension point between knowing about climate change and failing to make changes in our own behaviour, (Blake 1999; Darnton 2004b; Kollmus and Agyeman …
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Creating Participatory Space through Partnership Exploring the relationship between a faith-based day programming organization and a cohousing community for individuals with and without disabilities
… for individuals with disabilities to exercise personal agency and independence, as well as encourage mutual relationship building between persons with and without disabilities. The implications of their partnership were the central focus of this inquiry. The analysis investigates how the …
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RAP AND RESISTANCE: VISIONS OF SELF AND SOCIETY IN AMERICAN, AFRICAN, AND FRENCH HIP HOP MUSIC
… vital and revolutionary stage for social change, personal agency, and non-violent communication.
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The Internal Conversations and Social Networks of Care Leavers at University
… proudly independent, demonstrating considerable personal agency, but were well connected and able to access emotional and practical support in their social networks. They felt different to others and managed their difficult histories in a variety of ways. The results are considered in …
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Telling Our Stories: Exploring the Path Toward Successful Mathematics Degree Attainment at an Under-Resourced Predominantly Black Institution
… who cared, (2) sense of belonging, and (3) personal agency. The findings and themes from this study suggest that the challenges and opportunities are interconnected, and a successful mathematics degree program relies on the integrity of its community to creatively use its limited resources, …
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Beyond the scores: A critical realist study of the causes of regional educational inequality in Kazakhstan
… the importance of human interaction and personal agency. Specific focus is placed on student motivation as an important channel mediating other influences on student achievement largely overlooked in educational policy priorities. Regional context further shapes motivation and schooling, …
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ESTABLISHING VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF A SURVEY MEASURING INTENTION TO AID A PERSON WITH LIFE-THREATENING BLEEDING
… factors of the IBM: Attitude, Intention to Act, Personal Agency, and Perceived Norms. Chi-square/degrees of freedom demonstrated poor model fit but additional fit indices confirmed the good model fit. Correlational analysis revealed all four factors positively correlated with Intent to Use BCT. …
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ESTABLISHING VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF A SURVEY MEASURING INTENTION TO AID A PERSON WITH LIFE-THREATENING BLEEDING
… factors of the IBM: Attitude, Intention to Act, Personal Agency, and Perceived Norms. Chi-square/degrees of freedom demonstrated poor model fit but additional fit indices confirmed the good model fit. Correlational analysis revealed all four factors positively correlated with Intent to Use BCT. …
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