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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"self-directing"”.
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Perceived Stress, Religious Coping Styles, and Collectivism of Korean-Americans
… among perceived stress, religious coping styles (Self-Directing, Collaborative, and Deferring), and collectivism in two generations of Korean-Americans. Three scales (Perceived Stress, Collectivism, and Religious Problem Solving) were administered to 145 first and second generation …
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Neuroticism and Religious Coping Styles as Mediators of Depressive Affect and Perceived Stress
… researchers have shown that the collaborative, self-directing, and deferring styles of religious coping result in different outcomes of depression under different levels of perceived stress. Neuroticism has also been shown to affect coping effectiveness overall or choice of coping method. …
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Religious Problem Solving and Coping with End Stage Renal Disease
… religious problem-solving style, the self-directing religious problem-solving style and the deferring religious problem-solving style all moderated the relationship between ESRD life-related couple/family stressors and strains and outcome variables. Implications for research, theory, …
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Three essays on our planetary future
… agency. By taking the Enlightenment idea of a self-directing democratic future to the planetary level, the thesis hopes to turn our attention to the possibilities of human agency and help to spark a debate about what we, as an emerging planetary civilization, can hope to achieve in the century …
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Loneliness among widowed persons in later life
… theorists contend that people are active, self-directing, and creative individuals who adjust to dramatic situational changes such as widowhood by defining the transition according to its symbolic meaning and their current perspective of the event. The loneliness model suggested that …
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Religious Coping and Depression in Home Care Patients
… Scale (RPSS) (Collaborative, Deferring, and Self-Directing), the SF-12 Health Survey (Physical Health and Mental Health), the Duke Activity Status Index (DASI), and Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDIII). The data were analyses by means of Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple …
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Five paradigms of induction programmes in teacher education: A comparative analysis of teacher induction programmes in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, United States and Canada
… development among beginning teachers. Self-evaluative activities incorporated as basic teacher assessment procedures were also profiled as critical factors in promoting a self directed beginning teacher. From these findings an identification of five distinguishable paradiams of …
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History of Virginia's 4-H Camping Program: A Case Study on Events Leading to the Development of the 4-H Educational Centers
… and attitudes that further their development as self-directing, contributing, and productive members of society" continues to be carried out through the residential camping program. The purpose of this dissertation is to describe, record and analyze the concept that provided the foundation for …
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Conceptualising an epistemology of praxis for teaching research in Information Systems
… students learn’, ‘how to teach’ students to be self-directed as well as ‘how’ academics are able to learn to teach themselves. It is suggested that the current practice of prescribing to students what, when, where and why they should learn is harmful to their long-term self-directing …
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From Darkness to Light: Examining the Role of Playwright/Director on Obscura
… thesis is to examine the process of playwrights directing their own work, using the production of my play Obscura as an example of personal research, as well as examples of other dramatists. I will examine the advantages and disadvantages that playwrights face when directing their own work. I …