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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"social constraints"”.
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The Role of Social Support Seeking and Social Constraints on Psychological Outcomes After Trauma: A Social Cognitive Theory Perspective
Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) posits that survivors of a traumatic event have the ability to influence their own outcomes and do so most aptly when they perceive they can exert control over their outcomes. Posttraumatic growth outcomes are associated with a greater perception of controllability, …
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Expressive writing intervention among newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients: Effectiveness on distress and intrusive thoughts and social constraints as a moderator
… it was tested whether patients that felt social constraints in expressing their emotions about their cancer benefitted more from the EWI than those that did not experience such constraints. A sample of 73 newly diagnosed PCA patients were randomly assigned to write for 20 minutes on 3 …
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The Model Diet: Building a tailored dietary intervention for fashion models to meet the needs of the individual and the occupational and social constraints of the fashion industry
… plan, while considering the occupational and social constraints, and nutritional deficiencies found in previous studies. This eating plan was based on education, leading to a “how-to-eat” guide as well as 53 easy to follow recipes for vegan, vegetarian, omnivore and FODMAP diets, in each city …
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Economic Disadvantage, Nativity, and Academic Performance and School Punishment Among Latino/a Children
… instability. The additional myriad of legal and social constraints that parental nativity provides for family members can moderate this relationship. Data was drawn from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal measure of U.S. couples and their children in 20 large U.S. …
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Discourse in Science Communities: Issues of Language, Authority, and Gender in a Life Sciences Laboratory
… the work of indexing and constituting social constraints, of maintaining or undermining the hierarchical power dynamics of the laboratory, of shaping members' presentation of self, and of modeling social and professional skills required to ""do science."" Despite the widespread …
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An assessment of recreational carrying capacity at Infanta, South Cape
… most activities. Major physical, ecological and social constraints for further township development are identified. The beach and swimming area, as well as ancillary shore facilities for boats, are already inadequate to support current recreational pressure. Increased recreational pressure will …
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A Comparison of Certified Nurse-Midwives in Two Locations: The Freestanding Birth Center and the Hospital
… share some common national/state and community social constraints; although there are also some unique challenges directly affecting the practice of midwifery in free standing birth centers versus hospital environments. For example, CNMs in hospitals may find it difficult to act as advocates for …
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The Bronx is burning a hole in my pocket : why gentrification may never come (and what might happen to lenders, landlords, renters & buildings instead.)
… to selfcertify, and that recognizes the social constraints on landlords and tenants as actors. Many of these gaps are bridged by community groups that can function as regulatory aides, advocates for both housing stock and property viability, and on-the-ground analysts of the shifting …
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Some wood-transportation modeling problems associated with Quebec's new land-management system
… model would be subject to some exogenous constraints. These are political constraints--e.g., laws governing transportation; economic constraints, which include wood coming from the private forests; social constraints, such as those imposed by the desirability of maintaining employment in …
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A Non-Conformist Choice: The Lifeworld of Young Women Pursuing STEM-Related TVET in Upper Secondary Technical Institutes in Ghana
Researchers have studied the structural and social constraints that affect the under-participation of females in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and technical, vocational, education, and training (TVET). However, removing these constraints alone has not improved young …
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Church in Black and White: Racially-Integrated Churches and Whites' Explanations for Racial Inequalities
… motivation or ability as opposed to structural constraints such as oppression or discrimination. Emerson and Smith have also established that churches tend to be racially homogenous organizations. The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not members of racially-integrated …
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A Sociolinguistic Study of T-glottalling in Young RP: Accent, Class and Education
… RP speakers and which are the linguistic and social constraints that affect its variability. The data are based on sociolinguistic interviews of 20 teenagers, aged between 13 and 17, from three different types of schools in the South of England: a major public (private) boarding school, a …
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Sociable machines : expressive social exchange between humans and robots
… Kismet, that can engage humans in expressive social interaction. We outline a set of design issues and a framework that we have found to be of particular importance for sociable robots. Having a human-in-the-loop places significant social constraints on how the robot aesthetically appears, how …
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Stage(d) mothers: mother-daughter tropes in Twentieth-Century American drama
… relationship a central one in the socialization of women. Because it is such a powerful site, the mother-daughter relationship has received attention in the world of representation. Of particular import to this study is the representation of the mother-daughter relationship in …
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Female Dispersal and Inbreeding in the Red-cockaded Woodpecker
… effects on population structure, demography, social systems, and population viability. To add to our knowledge of dispersal and, in particular, our understanding of the relationship between dispersal and inbreeding, I studied three aspects of the biology of the red-cockaded woodpecker: …
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HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK
… between artistic self-stylization and the social constraints intrinsic to the liberal rule of law.
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A Macro-Level Sustainability Assessment Framework for Optimal Distribution of Alternative Passenger Vehicles
… impacts of alternative vehicle options, social and economic dimensions and trade-off relationships among all of these impacts were not investigated sufficiently. Moreover, most economic analyses are limited to life cycle cost analyses and do not consider macro-level economic impacts. …
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The Modernist Imagetext: Embodying Impersonality From Optics to Aesthetics
… inherently impersonal and embedded in bodily and social constraints. Whereas critics often take impersonality as the ultimate instance of modernism's desire to inoculate itself against bodily contingency, I argue that the impersonal aesthetic in fact registers the imbrication of mind and body, and …
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Dialogue Structure in Modern French Plays and Spontaneous Conversation
… in actual conversation: recognition of the social constraints governing informal interaction between relative strangers.
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Veiksniai, sąlygojantys socialinio darbuotojo veiklos turinį senelių globos namuose /
… ageing demographic is increasing the need for social services for the elderly. These services are mostly provided and organised in residential care facilities for the elderly. Reteriment homes provide comprehensive care and care for the elderly. Social workers provide a range of social …
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