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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"repertory grids"”.
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Eliciting Visualization Attitudes with Repertory Grids
… of their sociocultural group, by adapting the repertory grid technique from clinical psychology, to the context of data visualization. I demonstrate the effectiveness of this mixed methods approach by eliciting both the attitudes towards a visualization most salient to an individual, and the …
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A repertory grid study of anorexia nervosa in females
… treatment, on elicited and assigned construct repertory grids, where the latter grid's construction reflected aspects of central interest to the syndrome. The two repertory grids for each subject were processed using Slater's (1972) "INGRID 72 PROGRAM : the principal components analysis for the …
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Maladaptive appraisals and intrusive thoughts associated with obsessive compulsive disorder: A semiidiographic approach.
… undergraduate students completed two repertory grids and three anxiety scales. The repertory grids respectively examined the appraisal process of intrusive thoughts both from the perspective of the rater and the rater's imagined average person. Variables quantified from the rep grid …
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The Gender Role perceptions of adolescent girls
… data collection were employed: interviews' and repertory grids. The interviews were used to collect cross-sectional data pertaining to participants' perceptions of academic, occupational, sports and leisure choices. The repertory grids were used to collect both cross-sectional and longitudinal …
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Senior Management Perceptions of Staff Development Provision in Further Education Colleges in Wales
… survey, case studies involving interviews and repertory grids and the design and testing of a staff development model, (Chapter 3).<br/><br/>The investigation proceeds in four stages - a preliminary survey which assesses the accuracy of perceptions derived from the literature survey; a general …
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Behavioural reactions of managers towards airline operations performance in times of crisis and growth.
… paradigm and used semi-structured interviews and repertory grids to examine individual personal construct systems. The research is essentially qualitative but draws on quantitative techniques where appropriate. The research has shown that people do not automatically adopt the behaviours necessary …
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Architecture and space for thought
… developed from Kelly's Personal Construct Theory Repertory Grids. 2) A partially developed spatial analytic language, my personal response to 1) above, which is to be seen as the start of a new research programme that may last many years (the future of which is outlined). 3) An account of a …
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Student expectations of future life roles
… have of their future life roles. Using Kelly's Repertory Grids Technique, qualitative data was obtained through fifteen interviews with postgraduate students from the University of Cape Town. The data was analysed using a combination of thematic analysis and frequency counts. The reliability of …
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Sourcing of public sector building surveying and engineering professional services : a framework for progression
… reality’ personal construct theory incorporating repertory grids was used to elicit constructs from the participants, and ultimately inform the framework. The main issues arising from the case studies included: lack of client / supplier trust, contractual restrictions, performance monitoring, over …
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Consumers' perceptions of the competitive tiers in six grocery markets
… processing paradigm, hypotheses were advanced. Repertory grids identified the attributes consumers use to evaluate competing tiers and the numerous attributes were reduced by examining the correlations between attributes, in conjunction with principal component analysis. These attributes formed …
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The role of social capital in French entrepreneurial networks at the pre-organisation stage
… interviews, participant observation and repertory grids. In particular the latter is a tool that has to date been underexploited in entrepreneurial network and social capital research. There are a number of significant contributions this research makes to the extant literature on …
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Identifying and changing attitudes toward palliative care: an exploratory study
… and the carers of both of these groups (n=35). Repertory grids (n=12) were also used to explore and compare participants’ constructs of palliative care. Thematic analysis of the interview data revealed four key themes and associated subthemes that described patients’ and carers’ attitudes toward …
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To Boldly Go: How do women in senior positions in the Church of England construe their leadership?
… studies employ a method of interviewing called Repertory Grids, which derive from a theory of personality proposed by George Kelly known as Personal Construct Psychology (PCP). From the standpoint of those who are interviewed, it enables the discovery of some of the key issues and perspectives, …
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An integrated use of tools to acquire knowledge elements and support decisions in innovations processes
… developed, following extensions to the use of ‘‘Repertory Grids’’, for the purpose of capturing a ‘‘personal construct system’’. The cognitive mapping approach proposed by Damart (2008) can give information about the contribution of each participant to the exploration of a problem, in order to …