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Psychological Processes of Disadvantaged Children
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Individualism/Collectivism, Psychological Processes, and Styles of Conflict Resolution
… (Thandis et. al. 1993) as well as attribution processes and related emotions. Psychological factors such as causal attributions (the belief to which other's actions are attributed) and interpersonal emotions such as anger and empathic feelings were examined in relation to both the …
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Chronic fatigue syndrome: assessment and psychological processes as perpetuating factors
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The illusion of control: influencing factors and underlying psychological processes.
… the illusion. The review goes on to discuss the psychological processes underlying the effects of various influencing factors. Two relatively unexplored arguments are advanced. The first is that people in gambling tasks engage in problem-solving. Problem-solving involves searching for actions …
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Exploring the Underlying Psychological Processes of Gambling Behaviour: Individual and Contextual Factors
High levels of impulsivity, positive gambling attitudes, and positive gambling beliefs are identified as risk factors for pathological gambling and related symptoms in numerous surveys and naturalistic studies. However, there remains a need for experimental studies, as we know little about how the …
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The Psychology of Ritual: An Empirical Investigation of Ritual’s Regulatory Functions and Psychological Processes
… function by drawing on bottom-up and top-down processes, and suggest that all forms of ritual are a result of some combination of these two levels of psychological processing. Second, I use the framework to generate testable predictions and outline seven experiments as part of this research …
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Exploring the psychological processes underlying touch : lessons from infant massage and the Alexander technique
… findings to discuss the role of touch in dyadic processes.Part two is an empirical paper that attempts to explore the psychological processes underlying touch through studying the Alexander Technique. Both qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys are used to address how pupils of the …
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Cognitive and Emotional Defusion: Investigations of the Underlying Psychological Processes using Explicit and Implicit Measures
The aim of the current thesis was to conduct experimental analyses of the emotional impact of cognitive defusion techniques on positive and negative thoughts about the self. Part I of the thesis investigated the impact of defusion on explicit self-report measures. Experiment 1 examined the …
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Unpacking mindfulness: Psychological processes underlying the health benefits of a mindfulness-based stress reduction program
<p>This study examined the efficacy and processes at work in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program (MBSR) in a heterogeneous adult population (N = 71). Changes in mindfulness, psychological symptoms and physical functioning were examined, along with their relationship to course compliance …
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Exploring the social psychological processes of lone fatherhood after separation or divorce : a constructive grounded theory approach
… and aims: There is very little known about the psychological well-being of lone fathers in the UK. Yet, studies have found higher rates of distress in lone fathers as a result of separation or divorce when compared with married fathers, widowers and the general population. Studies have suggested …
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Approach-avoidance motivation across cultures
… an ideal self are facilitated by a network of psychological processes. One such psychological process is approach and avoidance motivations: approach motivation is useful for Westerners’ pursuit of high self-esteem whereas avoidance motivation is useful for East Asians’ concerns for face …
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La comprensión lectora en Braille y los procesos psicológicos en personas con discapacidad visual
… review was to identify the relationship of psychological functions in the process of reading comprehension in braille in people with visual disabilities. The study compilation was carried out according to the PRISMA guide (Page et al., 2021) located in the EBSCO, SCOPUS and PUBMED databases; …
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Guidelines for Culturally Informed Interventions: Culture, Attributions and Continuity of Care
… affect the specific behavior of interest through psychological processes in a minority population. Guided by Betancourt’s integrative model of culture, psychology, and behavior, the current project proposes guidelines to facilitate studies that are theoretically and methodologically sound in …
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Intimacy, identity and loyalty: Exploring the mediation pathways towards donor loyalty and the moderating role of donor identity esteem
… — the complex nature of donors’ underlying psychological processes toward donor loyalty remains unclear. This thesis aims to enhance our understanding of donor loyalty by studying the role of intimacy and donor identity esteem in donors’ psychological processes. Building on the marketing and …
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The Informed Human Firewall: The Impact of Knowledge Dimensions on Employees' Secure Behavior
… the impact of knowledge mechanisms on PMT psychological processes. This study explains the key psychological processes that influence employees’ secure behavior and seeks to understand how organizational knowledge mechanisms influence these key psychological processes that form threats …
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Content Dimensions of the Velten Mood Induction Procedure: Multiple Routes to Negative Mood
… Little effort has been made to investigate the processes that result in mood change. In this study the Velten Mood Induction Procedure, the most commonly used mood change technique, was separated into its two apparent dimensions (degree of self-reference and negative content) in order to test …
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Examining processes in the relationship between narrative identity and psychological functioning
… support a link between narrative identity and psychological functioning. When examining this relationship, psychological functioning has typically been conceptualised in terms of diagnostic symptoms. As a result, the transdiagnostic psychological processes underpinning the relationship remain …
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Ego identity among young people of Spanish speaking Latin American immigrant families in Melbourne, Australia
… there has been a developing interest in the psychological processes of immigration. However, to date, httle empirical research in this area has been reported, and none pertaining to Latin American immigrants. The present exploratory study focused upon psychological experiences among 28 …
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Satisfaction and service quality in the quantity surveying profession
… To this end, a greater understanding of the psychological processes involved in making a satisfaction decision is required and is achieved by the presentation of the theory of consumer satisfaction. It was found that consumer satisfaction is the result of meeting or exceeding expectation with …
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