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Showing 1 to 20 of 139 for “"personal lives"”.
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Balancing Act: The Professional and Personal Lives of Female Elementary School Principals
… MELISSA BRYANT. The Balance of Professional and Personal Lives of Female Elementary School Principals. (Under the direction of Dr. Lance Fusarelli). The purpose of this research was to understand what female elementary school principals perceive as a balance between their personal and …
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Professional and Personal Lives of Psychologists: Spillover, Family Functioning, and Life Satsiafction
… to examine work life, spillover, family, and personal lives. A measure of spillover, Stressors and Enhancers for Psychologists, was also evaluated. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated two negatively correlated dimensions of work spillover: positive spillover termed family enhancers and …
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Exploring firefighters perceptions of how their working experience and personal lives influence each other
… perceptions of how their working experiences and personal lives positively and negatively influence each other. The purpose of this study was also to understand firefighters' perceptions of the support that is currently available to them and what further support they require, in order to cope with …
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Male Army Nurses: The Impact of the Vietnam War on Their Professional and Personal Lives
… trauma medicine. Further, these men experienced personal and professional growth that they never would have received in the civilian world. They gained confidence in their skills and worked with wounds and diseases seldom seen at home. For many, the opportunities created by the war led to a …
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Unexpected Work Intrusions into Employees' Personal Lives: Investigation, Measure Development, and Exploration of Causes and Consequences
<p>The present research explored unplanned work performed during employees' nonwork hours in response to unexpected work intrusions. Three studies were conducted to achieve four goals: 1) better understand the nature of switching from nonwork roles to the work role in response to work intrusions …
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Building personal lives as informal migrants in South Africa : narratives of poor African informal migrants in Johannesburg
… Africa’s harsh migration context, to build their lives, and how, in pursuit of a better future, they engage with the various forms of socioeconomic and political constraints that they experience. Popular as a destination for African migrants, South Africa is a country with a very high percentage …
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Court Of Public Opinion: How the Convicted Perceive Mass Media Have Affected Their Criminal Trials and Personal Lives
… on their cases and how they feel they have been personally affected by media coverage of their alleged crimes and subsequent trials.</p>
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“A way of waking up to whatever it is”: the experience of counselling psychologists who use mindfulness in their personal lives and professional practice
… psychologists who use mindfulness in their personal lives and professional practice. It aims to shed light on the lived experience of mindfulness for these individuals. The research took the form of a qualitative, idiographic inquiry and due to the relative lack of existing literature on the …
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How does becoming and being a professional counsellor affect one’s personal life : a qualitative exploration
… and professional practice, can have on one’s personal life. The significance of this study lies in its contribution to a base of research literature that is starting to form on the personal lives of counsellors. Qualitative methodology and thematic analysis were chosen for this study. …
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Impact of student death on teachers of the severely disabled
… effect of student death on the professional and personal lives of the teachers. Research was conducted on one student death immediately after it occurred. Four retrospective cases were also completed in order to gain information on the long range effects of death on teachers. Data were collected …
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Arsenal of femininity: Women, relationships, and gender roles during World War II
… how women responded to these questions in their personal lives. Reading correspondences between men and women after the attack on Pearl Harbor can help answer the question of why women’s gender roles did not continue to experience change after the war and gives a unique insight into the …
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An Investigation of the Perceptions and Expectations of Vocational Educators, Facilitators and Small Business Owners Regarding Entrepreneurship Education in Jamaica (Developing Countries, Program Design, Training)
… some basic knowledge to assist them in their personal lives, and to help those who become small business owners to be aware of factors that can contribute to efficient operations.
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A Survey Of Women in Sports Media
… of balancing their careers and their personal lives, specifically the challenges of family life. Previous research has shown that most WSM are leaving their careers between six to ten years on the job and have cited reasons of work conflicting with their careers (Hardin, Shain and …
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Women's aspirations for the high school principalship: a heuristic phenomenological inquiry
… area encounter in their professional and personal lives, and how those experiences inform their aspirations regarding their procuring and holding the principalship. An internet survey was completed by 68 female participants, and from there eight co-researchers were chosen to represent a …
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Taxi Driving: A Study of Leasing in New York City
… has had upon the occupational, social and personal lives of fleet taxicab drivers. Ethnography has been conducted at the Yellow Taxi Company (a pseudonym for a major taxicab fleet garage in New York City); 408 surveys were completed by fleet drivers, and 50 interviews were conducted (30 …
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The Association Young Africa and its context with special reference to Trafalgar High School
… It endeavours to place these elements in their personal lives as students, their arrests and imprisonment on Robben Island, and the very limited developments that followed on the mainland after their release. The research is important because its central focus, the history of the AYA, is …
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Adolescents' Idea of Fiction in Their Own Writing
… wrote stories that reflected a part of their personal lives. The stories involved the authors in three distinct ways. Some stories were experiential and represented something that had happened to the author; others were experiential, but the writer had witnessed the event happening to an …
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Psychological Entitlement as a Predictor of Unethical Decision Making: An Investigation of Moral Disengagement as a Mediator
… in the workplace as well as in individuals’ personal lives. However, this research has not investigated the processes through which entitlement leads to unethical behavior. Drawing on a sample of 699 adults, I will investigate the hypothesis that moral disengagement mediates the relationship …
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Staff nurses' appraisals and coping strategies in a critical incident
… the CIs impacted on the nurses' professional and personal lives? The investigator recruited 50 nurses and each participant completed four instruments. Quantitative data were coded and descriptive statistics were calculated. Open-ended questions were subjected to content analysis. The staff nurses …
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In the Driver's Seat: Living and Working as a Trucker
<p>This project examines the work and personal lives of truck drivers. Using data from fieldwork at a Midwestern trucking company, along with interviews with 38 drivers, dispatchers, company management and spouses and partners of drivers, I explore the questions: Thirty years out from deregulation, …
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