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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"stage theories"”.
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Examining Stage Theories and the Predisposition to Lead within the Homosexual Community
An application of homosexual stage-based self-integration theory suggests that until gay individuals have become fully self-integrated, their capacity for leadership within the community is diminished. Unfortunately, now more than ever before, leadership is needed in dealing with such pressing …
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A Unifying Framework for the Analysis of Continuous and Discontinuous Change
… to investigate diverse patterns of change from a stage-sequential perspective. Whereas stage theories were originally proposed to describe discontinuous characteristics of human development, it is shown that stage-sequential change is not necessarily incompatible with continuous change. The family …
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Predictors of Intercultural Competence Among International Volunteers
… transformative learning theory, and various stage theories of intercultural learning all suggest, however, that cultural contact will only improve a volunteer's intercultural competence under certain conditions. This dissertation builds on previous scholarship by isolating four …
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The grief process and reaction to job loss
… reactions and neither the patterns suggested by stage theories for bereavement nor for unemployment were reproduced.
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Beyond Generosity: The Action Logics in Philanthropy
… agree that an adult develops in sequential stages over the course of a lifetime, gradually adopting an increasingly complex mental map. An individual’s developmental stage at any point in time, theorists argue, is made manifest as a type of “action logic” through which the individual …
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Exploring the Paradoxical Role and Experience of Fallback in Developmental Theory
Constructive-development and stage development theory, which posits that individuals move through different stages or action logics throughout life, has been the foundation for several models of human transformation. The literature on the leading stage theories indicates that research has focused …