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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"self-appraisals"”.
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Self-Appraisals, Perfectionism, and Academics in College Undergraduates
… race, gender, cognitive-affective and academic self-appraisals, and academic performance expectations were studied. The sample consisted of 155 Introductory Psychology students (57 African Americans, 41 Asian Americans, and 57 European Americans; 51.6% women) with a mean age of 19.4 years (SD = …
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Body image and self-disgust as self-appraisals influencing adjustment to limb amputation
This thesis explored the roles of body image and self-disgust, as self-appraisals, in their relationship to psychosocial adjustment and related factors in people with limb amputations. The thesis includes a systematic literature review of body image relating to psychosocial adjustment and a …
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Examining the impact of impression management context and self-monitoring on the leniency and accuracy of self-appraisals
Self-appraisals of performance are traditionally lenient and inaccurate, hampering their practical utility in applied settings. The purpose of the current study is to examine the underlying processes, namely self-deception and impression management, which contribute to this leniency and inaccuracy. …
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Effects of context on the leniency, accuracy, and utility of self-appraisals of performance: social comparison information and purpose of appraisal
… of appraisal on the leniency and accuracy of self-appraisals of performance. Previous research has shown that providing comparison information decreases the leniency and increases the accuracy of self-appraisals. While these effects of comparison information quantity are documented, no …
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Acculturation, Social Acceptance, And Adjustment Of Early Adolescents
… between SES and depression, anxiety, and self-concept. Considering these results, useful treatments may be developed that enhance early adolescents' abilities to assess realistically their own social skills and interact appropriately within different social spheres. Increased …
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Individual Differences and Memory Aging Concerns of Older Adults
… to address two issues with respect to the self-reported memory functioning of older adults. The first issue concerns older adults’ practical memory concerns, defined as self-appraisals of one’s own memory that include worries, apprehension, and fears about aging that relate to memory. We …
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Self-as-context moderation of relationship fusion: A comparison of intimate and familial relationship impact on weight concern
… and whether these effects are moderated by self-as-context perspectives and racial and ethnic background. Grounded in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and relational frame theory (RFT), eight models were constructed to evaluate influence of important others when absent or present and …
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A Cross-Cultural Study of Never-Married Chinese and American Adults' Mate Selection Perceptions and Criteria
… mate selection criteria are influenced by their self-appraisals and their perceptions of others' mate selection criteria. Two studies were conducted. Study 1 was based on social exchange theory, sexual strategies theory, and social context frameworks, and used multiple-group structural equation …
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Cultural Differences in Trauma Appraisals and Implications for the development and maintenance of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
… (PTSD). Substantial evidence indicates that appraisals and self-concept, both of which are central to the understanding and treatment of PTSD are found to differ across cultures. This thesis therefore investigated the influence of cultural variation in self-construal on a) trauma appraisals, …
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Perceptions of principals' behavior as rated by teachers, students, and principals in the junior high school in Chattanooga, Tennessee
… based upon critical analysis of the data: 1. The appraisals of principals' behavior as rated by teachers were consistently lower than principals' self-appraisals on each organizational variable considered. The appraisals of principals' behavior as rated by students were uniformly lower than that …
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Representations of unmarried women in the Hong Kong reality television series Bride Wannabes
… how they talk about themselves in terms of self-appraisals using Martin and White’s appraisal framework (2005). Last, I explore how they are talked to in terms of impoliteness using Culpeper’s impoliteness model (2011). The analysis demonstrates that the series characterises the participants …