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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"socio-cultural influences"”.
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Schizotypy: A Multi-Country Study of Psychometrics, Socio-Cultural Influences, Cognitive Processes, and Electrophysiological Markers
… anomalies in cognition (e.g., hallucinations), socio-emotional function (e.g., constricted affect), and behaviour (e.g., odd behaviour and language) that do not meet the clinical threshold for psychotic disorders. This thesis presents a series of studies investigating schizotypal measurement …
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Socio-Cultural Influences on Adolescent Smoking in Mainland China: The Mediating Role of Smoking-Related Cognitions
… the interplay among multiple systems at the cultural, familial, and personal levels, but few investigations have explored the effects of multiple environments on adolescent smoking behaviors. Survey data were collected from 658 parent-child dyads of Chinese adolescents aged between 14 and 17 …
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Socio-Cultural Influences on Face-to-Face and Electronic Mentoring of New Teachers Learning to Teach
The findings showed that the teachers highly valued the mentors' emotional support and rated their assistance on classroom management, engaging student learning and teaching methods most helpful in both face-to-face mentoring and e-mentoring. The findings also showed that new teachers focused more …
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Adolescent sexuality in Namibia: An analysis of sexual knowledge, attitudes and practices among secondary school learners in Katutura
… struggle of identities. The thesis demonstrates socio-cultural influences on adolescent sexuality, focusing on secondary school learners in Katutura, a former township during apartheid. In Namibia adolescent sexuality has received much attention recently from both national and international …
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The effects of media exposure on body dissatisfaction and cognitive bias in adolescent girls and boys
… cognitive bias and body dissatisfaction. Two socio-cultural influences, ideal internalisation and perceived pressures from the media, are postulated to be individual risk factors for these effects. Investigation of body dissatisfaction is particularly important in adolescents when body image …
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Spatial Presentation in Children's Drawings: Why Do Japanese Children Draw in Their Own Particular Ways
… of this study was to examine the kinds of socio-cultural factors that tend to produce a particular method of spatial treatment in children's drawings based on the universality of artistic development. In a pilot study of cross-cultural analysis of children's artistic development which was …
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Communicative Language Teaching in Current Chinese Colleges and Universities.
… College teachers and learners are constrained by socio-cultural influences such as the perceptions of teachers' roles and ways of learning and teaching (Hu, 2002; Rao, 1996). Although some teachers have shown positive attitudes towards CLT, in general they have failed to practice it …
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Middle school African American males: educational goals, career aspirations and high school retention factors
… of this study was to examine educational and socio-cultural influences affecting the perception of African American middle school males about schooling, in general, their educational goals, career aspirations and motivations to continue school. Identifying and understanding the factors that …
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Navigating a bilingual/biliterate childhood: a longitudinal study of three second-generation young learners in the U.S.
… and development as naturally interactive and culturally embedded processes of socialization, I longitudinally investigated three siblings’ bilingual and biliteracy acquisition and development in their natural daily setting for six years. I also explored the focal children’s situated and …
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Green Grass and Dirty Old Sidewalks: Evolving Images of the Rural and Urban in Honky-Tonk Country Music
… and also how it has evolved in light of shifting socio-cultural influences and changes brought by modernity. These analyses showed that while the core idealizations of the rural and urban are retained, the rural vs. urban theme is often presented in a way that reflects the reality of an …
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Acceptability of Antiretroviral Drugs among adults living in Chawama, Lusaka
… questionnaire was used to collect data socio-demographic and other factors likely to influence willingness The Chi square test was used to determine association between variables of interest and multivariate analysis was performed to determine predictors of willingness Overall (n=409), …
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Acceptability of Antiretroviral Drugs among adults living in Chawama, Lusaka
… questionnaire was used to collect data socio-demographic and other factors likely to influence willingness The Chi square test was used to determine association between variables of interest and multivariate analysis was performed to determine predictors of willingness Overall (n=409), …
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Risk, colon cancer & physical activity: a qualitative exploration in older adults
… participation exist, though few studies focus on socio-cultural influences. This study explores barriers specific to individuals at elevated risk of CC following screening colonoscopy, as well as how health professionals or a ‘diagnosis’ may provide additional motivation to change. Methods …
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An exploration of the socio-cultural factors influencing condom use intentions and behaviours of migrant youth in South Africa
… The purpose of this study is to explore socio-cultural determinants influencing condom use intentions and behaviour of young migrant youth residing in Cape Town South Africa. This qualitative study employed purposive and snowballing sampling techniques to explore with migrant youth their …
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Staying the course: the life stories of eight entrepreneurial women
… of seasoned entrepreneurial women were shaped by socio-cultural influences, significant individuals, gender, and learning challenges. Theories and research on lifelong and biographical learning, entrepreneurial learning, women's learning, and entrepreneurial women's learning helped to frame the …
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The Relationship Between Perceived Physical Competence and the Physical Activity Patterns of Fifth and Seventh Grade Children
… . There also appear to be very powerful socio-cultural influences on the types of activities that boys and girls choose (Lirgg, 1992). Girls were significantly more active in health enhancing lifetime physical activities such as walking, jogging, and bicycling, and chose activities of a …
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An exploration into factors and influences towards increased effectiveness of Public Sector Boards (PSBs) in Abu Dhabi
… most important of all the implicit and explicit socio-cultural influences on the behaviour and interactions of the members on the PSBs Boards. Islamic values and beliefs seemed to positively influence the Boards operations through trust, honesty, and responsibility to others and community. The …
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The canon or the kids: Teachers and the recontextualisation of classical and popular music in the secondary school curriculum
… of this research was on the teachers and the influences on their curriculum decision making. Within a wider cultural context dominated by aesthetic relativism there are tremendous challenges and responsibilities for teachers as they act as recontextualising agents in the pedagogic …
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Global gamers, transnational play, imaginary battlefield: encountering the gameplay experience in the war-themed first-person-shooter, Call of Duty
… sequences involved in the gameplay and its socio-cultural influences/effects to individual and community etc. However, the wide range of critical debates in this field has reflected the growing interest of scholars in the complex political relationship between military and entertainment …
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An examination of association of parental feeding practices with childhood obesity among school children aged 6-12 years in Ghana: A mixed method study.
… group discussions and interviews to capture cultural nuances and perceptions of parents/carers/guardians (n=24) and children (n=16). The qualitative data was analysed using a thematic analysis approach. Quantitative analysis revealed that parental feeding practices encompassed various …
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