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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"social resources"”.
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Examining the Role of Social Resources in Diabetes Control among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
… complications and related health care costs. Social resources are central to adherence of these self-management practices, particularly in middle-aged and older adults. Past research has examined the effect of social resources on health behaviors and health outcomes, but little has been done …
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Can I borrow your expertise? Integrating transactive memory system, social network, and social resources theory
… and knowledge are increasingly critical resources in organizations, a key question facing organizations today is ‘knowing who knows what’ rather than ‘knowing what.’ However, awareness of others’ expertise does not necessarily lead to the utilization of that knowledge. Integrating …
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Aging well : the effect of community and social resources on subjective wellbeing among older South Africans
… I investigate the links between community resources, social relationships, gender and wellbeing in an aging South African population. My research confirms selected community and individual resources that contribute to increased subjective wellbeing. This work adds to a growing …
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Tapping into social resources to address occupational health : a network analysis of Vietnamese-owned nail salons
Social networks in the Vietnamese nail salon industry were studied for their utility in addressing occupational health risks. Major findings include heavy reliance on family networks for fundamental needs, an extensive industry network effective in spreading information, and a sparse community …
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The Proposed Role of Positivity Resonance in Building Social Resources to Address Physical Activity Declines Across Adulthood
… the broaden-and-build effect by building vantage resources that further support the health behavior (Anderson & Heyne, 2016; Fredrickson & Joiner, 2018; Fredrickson et al., 2020). However, research is lacking when looking at the shared experience of positive emotion (i.e., a micro-moment of love, …
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Understanding the Relationship Between Social Resources and Levels of Parent Involvement in Illinois Early Childhood Programs: A Program-Level Perspective
… examine the relationship between the number of resources and levels of parent involvement across state-funded preschool programs in Illinois. This dissertation presented a mixed methods study using survey data from the <italic>Illinois Birth to Five Evaluation FY09</italic> (n=843) and …
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Addressing Food Insecurity and Developing Social Resources Through Community Garden Projects In Low-Income Areas: Qualitative Interviews with Outreach Coordinators From Three Urban Agriculture Organizations
… deficits. First, this thesis will address how social inequalities, which are products of structural power, prevent the poor from being properly fed and discuss how urban agriculture programs, specifically community gardens, can reduce food insecurity and build a community’s social resources. …
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Addressing Food Insecurity and Developing Social Resources Through Community Garden Projects In Low-Income Areas: Qualitative Interviews with Outreach Coordinators From Three Urban Agriculture Organizations
… deficits. First, this thesis will address how social inequalities, which are products of structural power, prevent the poor from being properly fed and discuss how urban agriculture programs, specifically community gardens, can reduce food insecurity and build a community’s social resources. …
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The mental health advantage of Latino neighborhoods: Investigating the role of social resources, stressful exposures, and neighborhood perceptions in the Latino composition-mental health relationship among Mexican-descent residents in high and low Latino composition neighborhoods of Texas City, Texas
… between neighborhood Latino composition, social resources, stressful exposures, and mental health in two phases. In the first phase, the relationship between neighborhood Latino composition and depressive symptoms is estimated in a large, representative sample of Mexican-descent residents …
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Citizen-Subjectivity, Experiential Evaluation, and Activist Strategies: Explaining Algerian Violence and Polish Peace under Authoritarian Rule
… state formation, institutional performance, and social movement evolution in postwar Poland and postcolonial Algeria a conditional model derives violent and non-violent opposition strategies from divergent practical citizenship regimes in formally similar autocratic systems. It argues that …
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Role of Trauma in Social-Cognitive Adjustment Strategies and Moral Disengagement among African-American Urban Youth
… Traumatic experiences can hinder an adolescent's social-cognitive development, prevent the use of adequate coping mechanisms and cognitive processes, such as social problem solving, and lead youth to disengage their moral controls (Ng-Mak, Salzinger, Feldman, & Stueve, 2002). The purpose of this …
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Positive Affect, Coping, and Student Engagement In Early Adolescence
… 'building' upward spirals of improved social resources and increasing well-being. This study seeks to examine this hypothesis within a school context. Building on previous research, it was hypothesized that students who report experiencing more positive emotions will use more adaptive …
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Guanxi 2.0: social capital within a cultural context revealed by the use of social media by Chinese international students
… from other countries, constructing a new social network is a key step for them to obtain necessary help and support to carry out their new study and life. This thesis takes Chinese international students studying at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom as an example, using the …
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Seasonal Water Insecurity in Urban Philippines: Examining the Role of Gender, Resources, and Context
… factors--gender and financial, physical, and social resources--and contextual factors may relate to water insecurity by season. Data collection methods include archival research, informal interviews, randomly-sampled household surveys: N=396), randomly-sampled individual subsurveys: N=291), …
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Behavioural and Emotional Correlates of Age-Related Visual Decline : Contextual and Self-Regulation Perspectives
… in old age, and one empirical paper focusing on social context in middle and old age in general. Results are based on different samples of older adults. In study 1, the sample was comprised of older adults suffering from pathological age-related visual impairment. Moreover, a sighted control …
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Integrating Play Into Work: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Building Work Engagement Through Play
… into work offers a strategy to develop employee resources, assisting in actualizing organizational goals and cultivating a positive workplace culture through enhancing work engagement. In this mixed methods dissertation, which involves interviews with leaders (Study 1) and employee surveys (Study …
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ELITES AND POLITICS: WHO GOVERNS US? Measuring and comparing species of capital in the Chilean political elite, 1990-2010
… effect of different forms of capital (cultural, social and political) on access to strategic positions in the legislative and executive branches of government. It focuses on the political elite in the 20 years between 1990, when military dictator Augusto Pinochet handed over the presidency to …
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Border-crossing knowledge networking among multinational firms : the case of R&D facilities
… is expected, given their additional knowledge resources. The respondents' urgency in looking for the relevant knowledge is the primary explanation for this difference between the two networks. This difference in knowledge networking among the different groups did not result in more similar …
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Anticipating Detroit : a collection of instruments as a catalyst for recovery
The social, political and economic history of Detroit has been inextricably linked to the development of its most dominant industry: automotive manufacturing. This thesis suggests a strategy to overcome the disadvantages of this industrial legacy, drawing from the city's viable contemporary social …
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Mobile phones for development: How have women in the informal sector used their mobile phones to enhance themselves and their business?
… and growth through the conceptual framework of social inclusion and inclusive growth. This was used as a lens to analyse the data on mobile phone use by women in the informal sector. Qualitative research was conducted in three townships in Cape Town, through purposive sampling of five female …
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