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Totenhagen, Casey J. "Daily Processes in Romantic Relationships." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/145463.
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My goal was to examine how experiences and behaviors of individuals and their romantic partners impact relationships on a daily basis. I conducted three separate but empirically and conceptually related studies. For all three papers, the sample was both members of heterosexual romantic relationships (N = 164 couples, 328 individuals) who completed measures each day for seven days. The papers were informed by tenets from interdependence theory and the conservation of resources model. The main purpose of the first paper was to examine a set of relational constructs (i.e., satisfaction, commitment, closeness, conflict, ambivalence, maintenance, and love) to determine which constructs fluctuated daily. All seven relational constructs showed significant within-person variability and were thus appropriate for further daily investigation. With this information, the next step was to understand how to foster positive relationships by examining what daily experiences were associated with those fluctuations. In the second paper I examined whether daily hassles and uplifts were associated with same-day and next-day feelings about the relationship. For same-day effects, I found that hassles were associated with decreased positivity and increased negativity about relationships, whereas uplifts were largely associated with increased positivity. I also found interactions between hassles and uplifts, suggestive of "blunting" effects whereby the positive effects of uplifts were nullified by high levels of hassles. For the next-day effects, I unexpectedly found that uplifts were associated with
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Linardatos, Pantelitsa. "Relationship-specific identification and spontaneous relationship maintenance processes." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110414.
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Attractive alternative partners pose one of the greatest potential threats to the stability of a romantic relationship (Kelly & Thibaut, 1978; Simpson, Gangestad & Lerma, 1990). Given that people are often limited in the time and energy they have to manage such relational threats, having the capacity to engage in effortless relationship protective responding is extremely useful. In 6 studies, I explore how people's identity in terms of their romantic relationship - their relationship-specific identity - affects their relationship protective behaviours and relationship survival. I predicted that once a relationship becomes a core part of one's sense of self, individuals are able to exhibit relatively fluid, spontaneous relationship maintenance responses (RMRs). In Study 1, I assessed the convergent and divergent validity of relationship-specific identification by examining its associations with other relationship constructs. In Study 2, I explored whether relationship-specific identification predicted relatively spontaneous pro-relationship responses, and found that high identifiers were more likely to use subtle variations in language to reflect and cultivate a shared reality with their partners. In Studies 3, 4, and 5, I examined the relationship-specific identification to spontaneous RMRs link in the context of an attractive alternative relational threat. Specifically, in Studies 3 and 4, I found that participants less identified with their relationships were less likely to mention their partner or relationship than those high in relationship-specific identification, but only when interacting with an attractive member of their preferred sex. Similarly, in Study 5, using a dot probe visual cueing task, I found that when primed with an attractive member of their preferred sex, those low in relationship-specific identification gazed longer at attractive preferred-sex others compared to those high in relationship-specific identification. Finally, in Study 6, I found that relationship-specific identification was associated with relationship survival 1-3 years after the initial assessment. The present results demonstrate that relationship-specific identification is one variable that may protect relationships by fostering relatively spontaneous, pro-relationship responses in the face of relational threat.Les individus que l'on considère attirants et qui représentent une alternative intéressante en tant que partenaire romantique constituent l'une des plus grandes menaces potentielles à la stabilité d'une relation amoureuse (Kelly & Thibaut, 1978; Simpson, Gangestad & Lerma, 1990). Étant donné que les gens sont souvent limités dans le temps et l'énergie qu'ils ont pour gérer de telles menaces relationnelles, il est extrêmement utile d'avoir la capacité de pouvoir manifester sans effort une réaction pouvant protéger la relation. Grâce à 6 études, j' explore la façon dont l'identification que les individus possèdent par rapport à leur relation amoureuse – leur identification spécifique à la relation – affecte leurs comportements qui protègent leur relation ainsi que la survie de leur relation. J'ai prédit que, dès qu'une relation devient un élément essentiel du sentiment identitaire, les individus sont en mesure de démontrer des réactions de maintien relationnel (RMRs) relativement fluides et spontanées. Dans l'étude 1, j'ai évalué la validité convergente et divergente de l'identification spécifique à la relation en examinant ses associations avec d'autres concepts relationnels. Dans l'étude 2, j'ai exploré si l'identification spécifique à la relation prédisait des réactions pro-relationnelles relativement spontanées, et j'ai ainsi constaté que les individus s'identifiant plus fortement à leur relation étaient plus susceptibles de recourir à des variantes subtiles du langage pour accepter les raisons qui guident les actions de leur partenaire. Dans les études 3, 4 et 5, j'ai examiné le lien entre l'identification spécifique à la relation et les RMRs spontanées dans le contexte d'une menace relationnelle amenée par un partenaire potentiel intéressant. Plus précisément, dans les études 3 et 4, j'ai constaté que les participants s'identifiant moins fortement avec leur relation étaient moins susceptibles de mentionner l'existence de leur partenaire ou leur relation comparativement à ceux s'identifiant plus fortement à leur relation, mais ceci seulement lorsqu'ils interagissaient avec un individu intéressant du sexe préféré. De même, dans l'étude 5, grâce à l'utilisation d'une tâche de repérage visuel à point de sonde ('dot probe task') et par la technique de l'amorçage (priming) présentant des individus intéressants du sexe préféré, j'ai constaté que les participants s'identifiant moins fortement avec leur relation regardaient plus longuement des individus intéressants du sexe préféré, comparativement aux participants s'identifiant plus fortement avec leur relation. Enfin, dans l'étude 6, j'ai constaté que l'identification spécifique à la relation était associée à une survie de la relation 1 à 3 ans après l'évaluation initiale. Les résultats présentés ici démontrent que l'identification spécifique à la relation est une variable qui peut protéger les relations en favorisant des réactions protectrices pro-relationnelle de façon relativement spontanée face aux menaces relationnelles.
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Boertien, Diederik. "Socio-economic resources, relationship processes, and separation." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/119609.
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This thesis consists of three empirical papers that all study relationship processes and their effects on divorce. Of particular interest is the role that socio-economic resources play in this story. In the first empirical paper of this thesis I investigate why there exists a negative correlation between women’s education and the risk of divorce. The second paper addresses whether the correlation between income and separation is causal by looking at the effects of lottery wins. The last empirical chapter aims to explain a common but relatively illogical course of events, namely, the dissolution of relatively satisfying relationships. Overall the results of this thesis show that resources play an important role in relationship dynamics, but they primarily affect the barriers to leave each other, instead of improving the marital lives of couples directly
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Williamson, Sarah. "Relationship between food structure and drying processes." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272917.
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Reyna, Samuel H. "Self-Enhancement Processes in Couples." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011799/.
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Self-enhancement is a process by which individuals misperceive themselves by viewing themselves in a positively biased manner. Past research indicates that self-enhancement can have both positive and negative effects on romantic relationships. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the role of self-enhancement in unmarried dating couples (N = 124 couples; 248 individuals) with respect to conflict, dyadic adjustment, causal and responsibility attributions, and possible moderators between self-enhancement and dyadic adjustment. The results are organized in four sections. First, I found a curvilinear relationship between participant self-enhancement and conflict. At very low and very high levels of self-enhancement there were increased levels of conflict. Second, participant self-enhancement was positively associated with positively associated with increased participant dyadic adjustment, but there was no relationship between participant self-enhancement and partner dyadic adjustment. Third, there was no relationship between participant self-enhancement and causal and responsibility attributions. Fourth, forgiveness and commitment did not moderate the relationship between self-enhancement and dyadic adjustment; however, there were main effects for both forgiveness and commitment - both forgiveness and commitment were positively associated with dyadic adjustment. I conclude by discussing limitations, areas of future research, and implications for counseling.
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Molin, Jonas. "Business Streamlining : Toward a Substantive Theory of the Streamlining of Outsourced Business Processes." Licentiate thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Institutionen för Marknadsföring och strategi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-2300.
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Research comparing public-private services outsourcing applying a longitudinal approach including the production/delivery processes (life after purchase) in services sourcing contexts is scarce. In addition, prior studies on service sourcing tend be under conceptualized. To address the above this licentiate thesis presents the results of a comparative and grounded theory inspired case study of two major Swedish FM services outsourcing projects, a public and a private case of operational partnering. Client-provider interaction processes on management level have been followed regularly over time utilizing participant observation as a core element combined with interviews and documentary studies. Observed variations in relational orientation over time, are problematized and discussed. A substantive theory – Business streamlining - of Facility Management outsourcing processes, including the seldom-researched life after purchase processes, is outlined and contextualized. It is argued that existing relational classifications, such as operational partnering, do not capture the life after purchase dynamics of the studied relationships. Business streamlining rests on four main categories, which have major influence on how Facility Management relationships evolve over time.Lic.-avh. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2014
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Kolbe, Lutz Maria. "Processes and systems for integrated customer relationship management /." St. Gallen, 2005. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00132039.pdf.
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Tiryakioglu, Gulay. "EFL learners' writing processes : the relationship between linguistic knowledge, composing processes and text quality." Thesis, Lyon, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LYSE2047.
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L'écriture est un processus complexe à la fois dans la langue première (L1) et dans une langue étrangère ou seconde (L2). Les recherches sur les processus d'écriture en langue seconde et en langue étrangère se multiplient, grâce à l'existence d'outils de recherche qui nous permettent d'examiner de plus près ce que les apprenants font réellement dans leurs langues lorsqu'ils écrivent (Hyland, 2016; Van Waes et al., 2012; Wengelin et al., 2019) ; les recherches sur les comportements d'écriture plurilingue restent cependant rares. Cette étude examine la relation entre la connaissance de la langue, les compétences en dactylographie, les processus d'écriture (fluidité d'écriture, pauses et révisions) et la qualité des textes écrits par 30 collégiens français (14-15 ans), lors de l'écriture dans leur premier (français) et deuxième (anglais) langues. Dans la seconde étude, nous avons examiné cette relation complexe au sein d'un sous-groupe de 15 élèves bilingue turcophone (14-15 ans, résidant en France) lors de l'écriture dans leur langue d'origine (turc), langue scolaire (français) et l'anglais (une langue étrangère, également apprise à l'école). La troisième étude explore cetterelation complexe entre le sous-groupe de 17 apprenants bilingues (15 apprenants turcophone et 2 apprenants arabe-français) et 13 apprenants monolingues français.Nous avons utilisé un plan d'étude à méthode mixte: une combinaison d'enregistrement des touches tapées au clavier, de questionnaires avant et après l'écriture, de textes écrits par les élèves et d'entretiens de rappel stimulé. Nos participants ont effectué trois tâches d'écriture (une tâche de copie, une tâche descriptive et une tâche narrative) dans chaque langue à l'ordinateur à l'aide de l'outil d'enregistrement des touches tapées au clavier, Inputlog (Leijten & Van Waes, 2013). L'enregistrement des touches tapées au clavier (possibilité de mesurer avec précision le comportement de frappe), qui s'est développée au cours des deux dernières décennies, permet une investigation empirique des comportements de frappe lors de l'écriture à l'ordinateur. Les données relatives aux processus d'écriture ont été analysées à partir de ces données d'Inputlog: la fluidité d'écriture a été mesurée en caractères par minute, mots par minute et la moyenne des caractères entre deux pause en rafales de pause (de 2000 millisecondes); les hésitations ont été mesurées par le nombre de pauses, la durée des pauses et leur emplacement (à l'intérieur ou entre les mots); les révisions ont été mesurées en nombre de suppressions et d'ajouts, et en rafales de révision (le nombre moyenne d’ajouts et suppressions entre deux longues pauses de 2000 millisecondes). La vitesse de frappe a été mesurée avec une tâche de copie dans chaque langue du projet; cette tâche de copie est corrigée automatiquement par Inputlog ; nous avons développé cette tâche en turc pour notre étude, et elle a été normalisée et figure maintenant comme partie intégrante du logiciel, pour d’autres utilisateurs. Pour évaluer la qualité des textes écrits par nos apprenants, une équipe d'évaluateurs a utilisé une échelle d'évaluation holistique et analytique pour juger du contenu, de l'organisation et de l'utilisation de lalangue dans les textes en L1, L2 et L3 ; nous avons ensuite comparé cette évaluation qualitative aux mesures quantitatives obtenus dans Inputlog. Nous avons également recueilli des données avec un protocole de rappel stimulé auprès d'un sous-groupe de sept scripteurs, pendant qu'ils regardaient les données enregistrées sur Inputlog se dérouler à l’écran (avec la fonction Replay); ce processus fascinant nous a permis d’obtenir des informations liées aux pensées des écrivains lors des pauses et révisions longues. Enfin, nous avons obtenu d’autres informations sur les comportements d’écriture des participants en dehors de la classe à l’aide d’un questionnaireWriting is a complex process both in the first language (L1) and in a foreign or second language (L2). Researchon second- and foreign-language writing processes is increasing, thanks to the existence of research tools thatenable us to look more closely at what language learners actually do as they write (Hyland, 2016; Van Waes etal., 2012; Wengelin et al., 2019); research on plurilingual writing behaviour remains, however, scarce. Thisstudy looks at the relationship between knowledge of language, typing skills, writing processes (writing fluency,pauses and revisions) and the quality of texts written by 30 middle school French students (14-15 years old),during writing in their first (French), and second (English) languages. In the second study, we looked at thiscomplex relationship among a sub-group of 15 middle school French-Turkish bilingual students (14-15 yearsold, residing in France) during writing in their home language (Turkish), school language (French), and English(a foreign language, also learned at school). The third study explores this complex relationship between thesubgroup of 17 bilingual learners (15 Turkish-French bilinguals and 2 Arabic-French bilinguals) and 13 Frenchmonolingual learners.We used a mixed-method study design: a combination of keystroke loggings, pre- and post-writingquestionnaires, students' written texts and stimulated recall interviews. Our participants performed three writingtasks (a copy task, a descriptive and a narrative task) in each language on the computer using the keystrokeloggingtool Inputlog (Leijten & Van Waes, 2013). Keystroke logging (the possibility of measuring precisetyping behaviour), which has developed over the past two decades, enables empirical investigation of typingbehaviour during writing. Data related to writing processes were analyzed from this Inputlog data: writingfluency was measured as characters per minute, words per minute, and mean pause-bursts (text producedbetween two pauses of 2000 milliseconds); pausing was measured as numbers of pauses, pause length, andlocation (within and between words); and revisions were measured as numbers of deletions and additions, andrevision-bursts (additions and deletions between two long pauses of 2000 milliseconds). Typing speed wasmeasured with the Inputlog copy task tool in three languages; we developed the Turkish copy task for our study,and it has been standardized and added to the Inputlog software. To assess text quality, a team of evaluatorsused both a holistic and an analytical rating scale to judge content, organization and language use in the L1, L2and L3 texts, and this qualitative assessment is compared with the quantitative Inputlog measures. We alsocollected stimulated recall protocol data from a focus group of seven writers, as they watched the keystrokelogged data unfold; this fascinating process enabled us to obtain information related to the writers’ thoughtsduring long pauses and revisions. Finally, we obtained background data on the participants’ writing behaviorsoutside the classroom with a questionnaire.Analyses of the keystroke logging data reveal important differences between L1 and L2 as well as between L1,L2 and L3 writing processes, which appear to be linked to our bilingual subjects’ linguistic backgrounds, andespecially their contact with written Turkish (Akinci, 2016). Writing processes were more fluent in French, withlonger pause-bursts, fewer pauses and revisions than writing in English and Turkish. Post-hoc comparisons ofwriting processes in the three project languages show that although there are significant differences betweenFrench and Turkish/English writing processes, English and Turkish writing processes are similar, with,however, significant fluency differences
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Varlamova, Viktoriya. "The Relationship between Time Management and Decision-Making Processes." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2283.
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During the last two decades, time management and decision-making have become well-established topics in modern working life. However, little research attention has been given to the link between the two. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between time management factors and decision-making processes. This research was specifically focused on identifying which aspects of decision-making processes are related to time management factors. It was predicted that decision-making processes will be more efficient\effective when employees have time management related competencies and work in an environment that supports time management. A research model was built based on previous research in this field and tested using bivariate correlations, t-tests, and multiple-regression analyses. Five organizations in New Zealand and three in Russia participated in the research, contributing a total of 164 employees. Results indicated, as predicted, that the effectiveness of decision-making processes partially depends on time management factors. Implications of the findings are discussed and future directions for research on the relationship between time management factors and decision-making processes are suggested.
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Abubakar, M. T. "Customer relationship management processes in the Nigerian retail banking sector." Thesis, University of Salford, 2017. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/43740/.
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The acceptance and wide adoption of relationship management strategies stem from the strategic competitive advantage(s) associated with an excellent customer-bank relationship. Similarly, its acceptance by big organisations and its subsequent performance in those organisations from developed nations results in its proliferation to other parts of the world. Similarly, due to perceived novelty of Western-based business theories in other parts of the world, organisations in developing countries adopt relationship management strategies with less concern on how economic and systematic differences could affect their effectiveness. Although few studies have highlighted this challenge, however, they are largely conceptual. Recent studies argue for the need to explore the impact of external environment on relationship management in the retail-banking context in an environment where face-to-face interactions dominate the business interaction. In an attempt to fill this gap, the researcher conducts a qualitative case study that draws on twenty-nine semi-structured interviews from three Nigerian banks. The researcher also reviewed banks' documents and secondary data on Nigeria/Sub-Saharan African banks based on the view that perception of relationship management by actors and implementers of the strategy affects its implementation, performance and success. Specifically, the research examines how managers perceive and implement customer relationship management, how external variables affect relationship development and management in the retail-banking sector, as well as how banks engage the use of technology in relationship management. The researcher uses within and cross-case analysis during data analysis. At data analysis stage, after initial pilot study, themes that emerged have been used to address the research questions. In the end, the study argues that external environment, specifically institutional frames, affects the effectiveness of relationship management in non-Western culture. Specifically, the study shows that in a bottom of the pyramid market, interpersonal relationship influences the effectiveness of relationship marketing approach of a bank, as banks conceptualise interpersonal relationship as an important instrument in marketing to customers. Lack of strong institutions and vital infrastructure results in weak system-based-trust, and thus interpersonal trust influences relationship initiation and management strategy of the banks, as customers accord value to effective trust – trust at a personal level. Further contribution shows how interpersonal relationship was supported by the presence of religious, racial and ethnic affiliation that encourage relationship development and management. Reflection of religious and ethnic affiliation through religious dress, religious greetings, language and tribal affiliation create identity relations and facilitate relationship initiation and development between boundary spanning elements and customers in the Nigerian retail-banking context. As weak system-based-trust affects bank-customer communication dimension, hence customer relationship management at the customer-facing level, the impact of interpersonal relationship and hence religious and ethnic affiliation in trust formation become strong. Thus, the study extends the impact of religion and ethnicity to non-Western context and the influence of religion and ethnic affiliation to conventional bank relationship literature. Based on these findings, the study recommends developing strategies that will negate and reduce the cost effect of high present of face-face-face interaction in the Nigerian retail-banking context, such as using incentives to promote the use of technology-enabled service delivery channels that link customers directly with the bank. Promotion of such channels may reduce high dependent on interpersonal channels and strengthen the link between banks and their customers. Furthermore, the study recommends the development of policies that will reduce the effect of risk associated with technology-enabled channels usage and hence excellent customer bank relationship. Consequently, the study recommends further study on the effectiveness of relationship marketing in mobile money (a form of banking method for retail customers in Sub-Saharan Africa), in relation to micro and small businesses that constitute significant percentage of retail banking customers in Nigeria.
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Draper, John E. "The relationship between adolescent psychological separation processes and interpersonal style /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9809669.
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Sibbitt, Rae. "The relationship between lexical and non-lexical processes in spelling." Thesis, Open University, 1991. http://oro.open.ac.uk/56450/.
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Research into children's spelling difficulties has generally focussed on the kind of errors children make, categorising them as 'phonetic' or 'non-phonetic'. These errors are then interpreted within the framework of the 'dual-route' model of spelling. Although this model can account for phonetic errors, the explanation of non-phonetic errors is inadequate. The first half of this thesis investigates the hypothesis that children use non-phonetic phoneme-grapheme mappings to produce non-phonetic spellings. In order to examine these mappings, three studies were carried out to look at children's spelling of nonwords. The first compares the spelling of vowel phonemes in nonwords and real words; the second compares the spelling of vowel phonemes by children with and without spelling difficulties and the third shows how a corpus of nonword spellings can be used to identify problematic phonemegrapheme mappings. In the second half of the thesis, it is suggested that nonwords are not simply spelt using phoneme-grapheme mappings, but that lexical information in the form of morphemes may also be used. Three experiments are described. The first is a phoneme-classification task used to test for the activation of morphemes in the lexicon; in the second and third experiments (carried out on adults and children respectively) nonwords are presented in priming and non-priming contexts to test for the effect of higher level information on the use of morphemes in nonword spelling. The results suggest that not only can morphemes be used in spelling nonwords, but their use can be influenced by the context in which the nonword is presented. It is proposed that the dual-route model should be modified in order to allow for interaction between the lexical and non-lexical routes in nonword spelling, and to allow for the influence of syntactic information on this interaction.
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Hankin, Erik Ravnholt. "Scales of bank roughness and their relationship to bank erosion processes." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9661.
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Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Geology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Wong, Ka-kuen, and 黃嘉權. "Stochastic models for customer relationship management." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30289968.
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Calhoun, Ryan J. "On the relationship between generalized covariance union and the minimal enclosing ellipsoid problem." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6675.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 22, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.
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Pidgeon, Robert William. "Evaluating the impact of alternative dispute resolution processes on union-management relationship." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ62033.pdf.
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Tatum, Ricky David. "A study of the relationship of organizational protective processes and teacher resilience." Click here to access dissertation, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2007/ricky_d_tatum/tatum_ricky_d_200701_edd.pdf.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007."A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Under the direction of Barbara J. Mallory. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-144) and appendices.
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Chan, Sui-hing. "A contextual approach to the relationship between achievement motivation and teaching processes." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29789941.
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Lloyd, Joda. "Examining the relationship between acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) processes and stigma." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6510/.
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This thesis describes three empirical studies that were designed to examine the relationship between Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) processes and stigma. The unique contributions of this work to the field involved the investigation of multiple ACT processes and different expressions of stigma within a new and understudied area of application; namely welfare service users. The first phase of experimentation involved a cross-sectional examination of the relationships between ACT processes and stigma towards unemployed people. Fortyfive undergraduate and postgraduate students responded to a series of self-report questionnaires, and a computer-based task. The questionnaires assessed psychological flexibility, mindfulness, and explicit stigma. The computer-based task utilised the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) to assess implicit stigma. Correlational analysis indicated that ACT processes did not relate to stigma measured explicitly, and that implicit and explicit stigma converged. The findings suggest that participants were not attempting to regulate their stigma expression and therefore were not demonstrating elaborated and considered responding; for this reason explicit stigma did not correlate with psychological flexibility and mindfulness. The second phase of experimentation involved a longitudinal examination of stigma within customer service advisors. Two intervention studies, with formal mediation analyses, were carried out to investigate the impact of increasing ACT processes on indirect and explicit expressions of stigma, and other outcomes of importance. In the first study, one hundred and ten advisors working with elderly people were randomly assigned to two conditions: (1) an ACT group, or; (2) a waitlist control group. Outcome and process of change measures were administered at four time points over ten months. Results showed that ACT resulted in improvements in stigma measured indirectly, emotional exhaustion, and stress. Whilst psychological flexibility and mindfulness mediated changes in the latter variables, this was not found for stigma outcomes. The second study replicated the methodology of the previous but investigated sixty-six advisors working with unemployed people, and also assessed the ACT process of cognitive defusion. Results showed that ACT training decreased stigma measured indirectly, and increased turnover intention, however, ACT processes did not mediate either of these changes. Overall, the second phase of experimentation indicated that while ACT was effective in alleviating stigma that is articulated indirectly, once again no significant relationships between ACT processes and stigma outcomes were demonstrated. The general discussion focuses on the immediate implications of the findings for research and practice, and broader implications in relation to the ACT/RFT account of stigma.
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Scielzo, Shannon. "THE EFFECTS OF TRAINING ON GOAL ORIENTATION, MENTORING RELATIONSHIP PROCESSES, AND OUTCOMES." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3728.
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The purpose of the current study was to examine the effectiveness of preparatory training for mentors and protégés with respect to relationship processes and outcomes. Specifically, it was proposed that training provided to mentors and their protégés should foster a high learning goal orientation and a low avoid goal orientation. The former is associated with learning for the sake of continuous improvement and the latter is associated with a willingness to be perceived by others as having failed at a task. It was hypothesized that mentors and protégés who received goal orientation training prior to beginning their formal mentoring sessions would engage in greater feedback-seeking and would be more willing to self-disclose potentially ego-threatening information. Moreover, it was expected that training would also lead participants to expect such behaviors from their partners and as a result respond more positively when the desired behaviors were demonstrated. Eighty (i.e., first and second semester freshmen) were paired with eighty mentors (i.e., college juniors and seniors with a minimum grade point average of 3.0), resulting in a total of 160 study participants. All participants received one hour of preparatory training. A two by two factorial design was employed whereby mentors and protégés each received either goal orientation training or training simply designed to orient them to computer-mediated communication. After training, mentors and protégés met with one another using online chat for four, 30-minute weekly chat sessions. Results indicated that a) protégés in a high state of avoid goal orientation felt they received less psychosocial support the more their mentor disclosed his/her own personal downfalls, b) mentors who received goal orientation training felt they had provided greater career support the more their protégés sought feedback but the reverse was true for mentors who did not receive goal orientation training, c) mentor self-disclosure was more strongly related to their protégé's self-disclosure if the protégé had received goal orientation training, and finally d) mentor and protégé perceptions of the psychosocial and career support that had been provided/received during online sessions were more strongly correlated if the two had received the same type of preparatory training (especially if both received goal orientation training).Ph.D.
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Keegan, Brendan James. "Social media marketing evaluation decision making processes and the agency-client relationship." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/621831/.
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Evaluation of social media marketing is central to its success. This thesis seeks to contribute to our understanding of social media marketing evaluation processes and outcomes, together with an exploration of the dynamics of agency-client relationships. It contributes to knowledge across three major themes: strategy development, evaluation, and agency-client relationships and is one of the first studies to consider the role of the agency-client relationship in social media marketing. In particular, the study addresses a gap in current knowledge by revealing the significant influence of agency-client relationships on the processes and outcomes of social media marketing strategy development and evaluation. Adopting the ontological and epistemological position that reality is socially constructed, a qualitative study of twenty social media marketers provided a specialist digital agency perspective of social media campaigns. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with key practitioners, supported by a cognitive-mapping elicitation technique. The findings generate knowledge of the first two major themes: strategy and evaluation through the development of two process models: the 'Cycle of Social Media Marketing' for strategy, and the 'Cycle of Social Media Marketing Evaluation' for evaluation. Findings for the second theme reject the traditional view of agency-client relationships, and instead offers a fresh perspective on these relationships in social media marketing, identifying three sub-themes: context, conflict and co-creation. The findings reveal key techniques for enhancing client relationships, including client account management strategies; the impact of conflict on trust between both parties; the crucial role of mutual participation in strategy development of strategy and evaluation; and the importance of co-creation, largely facilitated through collaborative learning workshops. This study has implications for scholars as it contributes to our understanding of evaluation in relation to strategy development in a rapidly developing area of modern marketing practice, affirming the importance of social media data analysis to decision-making. This study has implications for practice as it extends knowledge through conceptualisations of processes and offering insights into the influence and dynamics of agency-client interactions in social media marketing. Finally, a key contribution to knowledge is the development of two conceptual frameworks: The Contextualised Conceptual Framework of Social Media Marketing Evaluation in Strategy Development, and The Conceptual Framework of Agency-Client Dynamics in Social Media Marketing which encapsulate the multi-layered nature of this study and the vital importance of evaluation in social media marketing.
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Mummareddy, Bhargavi. "Additive Manufacturing Processes for High-Performance Ceramics: Manufacturing - Mechanical and Thermal property Relationship." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1629131959379597.
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Benson, Thomas A. "An evaluation of the relationship between optimum tone reproduction and reproduction size /." Online version of thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11550.
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Warsta, J. (Juhani). "Contracting in software business:analysis of evolving contract processes and relationships." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2001. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9514266005.
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Abstract
The relationships between software producing companies, their customers
and other parties involved have growing importance in the turbulent and
fast developing business environment of today. The software industry
itself is characterized by the Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS), tailored,
and Modified-Off-The-Shelf (MOTS) businesses modes. In this versatile
context of cooperation, financing and acquisitions demand exact details of
the ownership of the products, i.e. the Intellectual Property Rights of
these products and services. Legal forms and contracting procedures are
emerging as the critical issues for the development of the information
technology industry.
This study addresses the problem of how software contracting has been
approached and what concepts and models have been presented to understand
it. Further, the question of the role of inter-organisational
relationships (business-to-business) and intra-organisational process
evolution in software contracting is discussed. The domains of interest
and of relevance in this research are software development process,
business process, legal process, and the contracting process itself, and
the evolving interaction between these processes. The focus of this study
is especially on contracting and on analysing the process of contracting,
i.e. the dynamics, dependencies and elements of process related issues.
The empirical part of the study was completed by analysing twelve software
producing companies - eight were Finnish firms established in Silicon
Valley (USA) and the rest were local Finnish firms with international
operations. Based on the empirical findings, a software-contracting model
was elaborated to describe how the contracting processes form and evolve
in the context of software business. The model gives more understanding of
the evolving contract processes and relationships. Further, the research
produced concepts of how to manage contracting processes in the software
business.
Contributions of this study are, first, the well-defined model for
contracting process in a software developing company. The elaborated model
gives new insight into the elements, interrelationships and governance
structures included in the contracting process and the relationship
development between cooperating companies. Software companies can compare
their contractual situation with the model. This enables them to develop
their own processes further to respond to the present-day requirements.
Secondly, the study specifies and introduces three different generic
contracting networks for COTS, tailored, and MOTS business modes of
software developing companies. It was established that these three
business modes have similarities as well as differences in the application
of software contracting processes. The COTS business relied firmly on
multiform licensing practices, whereas the tailored business saw the
framework contract as the main contractual tool and interestingly the MOTS
business employed combinations of these two previous forms, i.e. both
licensing and framework contracts.
This study evoked some interesting future research prospects. In order to
create a more accurate overall view of the whole contracting process the
research should be continued and take the interplay of both customer and
supplier under closer scrutiny. Another important issue would be to
examine the contracts used in these different business modes from a strict
legal viewpoint and the possible transformation of the predominant legal
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McDermott, Beverley E. "Promoting Positive Development: Family Processes and Risk Behavior Among Adolescents." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/577.
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The present study is designed to address the problem of risk behaviors among adolescents, in an effort to promote positive developmental trajectories. Previous studies have resulted in divergent findings pertaining to the predictors of adolescent engagement in risk behaviors. In addition to considering this divergence, the focus of the study is the nature of bidirectional individual ó contextual relationships and their influence on adolescent engagement in risk behaviors. The study tested two models that considered whether parent-adolescent relationship or peer relationship mediated the relation between theory and research-based predictors and the endogenous variable, co-occurring substance use and sexual activity. Participants were 396 demographically diverse multi-problem adolescents from an archived dataset derived from an HIV risk reduction outpatient treatment program for alcohol and other drug use. Participants responded to questions that measured family structure, parent-adolescent relationship quality and communication, religiosity, school connectedness, peer relationship, and engagement in substance use and sexual activity. The study found that the model with peer relationship as the mediator fit the data better than the model with the parent-adolescent relationship mediator, and that the mediated model provided a better fit to the data than direct relations between the exogenous and endogenous variables. The results suggested also that primary caregiver was not a significant predictor of adolescent participation in co-occurring substance use and sexual activity. The present study provides a holistic theoretical and conceptual framework that highlights a constellation of factors determined to contribute significantly to co-occurring substance use and sexual activity, and thereby reshape existing models of risk behavior among adolescents.
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Cavender, Dana Ann. "Sex and relationship(s) education : an examination of England's and Northern Ireland's policy processes." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021703/.
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This thesis presents the first in-depth ‘home international’ comparison examining England’s and Northern Ireland’s policy processes with regard to making sex and relationship(s) education a statutory component of their national curricula for secondary schools. Drawing on policy network analysis, advocacy coalition and political decisionmaking literature more broadly, this study focuses on how policy actors in both regions conceptualise the debate around sex and relationship(s) education. It extends the ‘values in sex education’ discussion and focuses on the specific values informing policy discussions, as well as those embedded within/excluded from relevant policy texts, and the centrality of power around who or what groups are influential in shaping policy. Informed by a social constructivist epistemology and utilising a mixed method, case study design, this study’s data include Northern Ireland Assembly and Westminster Parliament Hansard transcripts, relevant legislation and statutory policy texts, and semi-structured interviews with 32 elected representatives, civil servants, third sector representatives, academics and local school practitioners. Employing thematic and content analysis to each text, a framework was created for both the England and Northern Ireland cases to determine how policy actors in both countries approach sex and relationship(s) education and the values driving policy development arguments. Cross-case comparisons indicate that SRE policy-making in England is primarily made through a closed, ‘top down’ policy strategy with the authoritative power of the ruling government overshadowing the perceived reputational power of those within the larger SRE policy network. Meanwhile Northern Ireland adopts a more open, partnership sharing, ‘ground up’ policy strategy toward RSE with relatively little influence from Members of the Legislative Assembly within the policy-making process. This study’s findings offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the different factors that shape the sex and relationship(s) education policy-making systems within both countries and provides a tool for possible policy learning in these countries more widely.
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McCartan, Conor. "The relationship of illness beliefs, mastery strivings and emotion regulation processes to diabetes outcomes." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24926.
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Ninety six adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes were assessed on measures of illness beliefs, mastery strivings, and emotion regulation processes in a cross sectional design to determine their predictive relationship to diabetes distress, self care behaviour, and blood sugar levels (the latter was measured at baseline and at 6 months follow up to allow cross sectional and longitudinal comparisons). When comparing illness beliefs with emotion regulation processes, illness beliefs (control; seriousness) and a specific emotion regulation process (rumination) predicted diabetes distress. Illness beliefs (particularly control and seriousness) partially mediated the association between emotional rumination and diabetes distress. When comparing mastery strivings with illness beliefs, diabetes distress was predicted by a particular mastery striving (perfectionism) and specific illness beliefs (control; seriousness). Illness beliefs (control and seriousness) mediated the association between specific mastery variables (Type A and rational coping) and diabetes distress. In a comparative evaluation of mastery strivings and illness beliefs as potential predictors of self care behaviours, rational coping (a mastery striving) predicted general diet in the final model. Perceived control partially mediated the effect of rational coping on general diet. None of the mastery striving variables or illness beliefs predicted exercise in the final model (rational coping, while predictive at step two, dissolved at step three). When comparing self care behaviours with psychophysiological variables in relation to blood sugar levels, none of the components of either grouping predicted HbA1c scores at baseline. However, at 6 months follow-up, one specific psychophysiological variable - emotional inhibition - predicted blood sugar levels. Conclusion: Illness beliefs possibly mediate the effects of more generic personality characteristics – mastery strivings and emotional regulation processes – on diabetes outcomes (emotional adjustment, self care behaviour). Moreover, an emotion regulation process (inhibition) directly mediated changes in blood sugar levels.
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McFadden, Collin. "The Generative and Degenerative Processes of the Mind| The Relationship Between Psychosis and Creativity." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527518.
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Two processes working together account for the building and maintenance of the mind. The generative process makes links within the mind, whereas the degenerative process is used to dissolve links. In this hermeneutic study of the relationship between psychotic and creative processes in the human psyche, some of the prevailing research on psychosis and creativity is reviewed. A model is presented in which the mind is seen as an ecosystem that is built and maintained through continuous establishment and dissolving of links. An imbalance of the generative and degenerative processes is suggested as being responsible for the manifestation of psychotic symptoms. Creativity is proposed as a product of the interaction between these processes of the mind.
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Dixon, Mary Katherine Eidy. "The relationship between planning, attention simultaneous and successive cognitive processes and anxiety and aggression /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148785931334541.
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Fogt, Nicklaus F. "The relationship between motor and sensory processes in the fusion of disparate retinal images /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487933648650302.
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Thomas, Brian Anthony. "Distal and proximal team processes as mediators on the training outcomes-training transfer relationship." Thesis, Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004:, 2003. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-04072004-180227/unrestricted/thomas%5Fbrian%5Fa%5F200312%5Fma.pdf.
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Molla, Mohammad Mofigul Islam. "A Stochastic Bayesian Update and Logistic Growth Mapping of Travel-Time Flow Relationship." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10365/25911.
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The travel-time flow relationship is not always increasing in nature, it is very difficult to predict precisely. Traditional method fails to replicate this unique conditions. Until millennium, although various researchers and practitioners have given much attention to develop travel-time flow relationships, the advancement to improve travel-time flow relationships was not substantial. The knowledge about the travel-time flow relationship is not commensurate with or parallel to the advancement of new knowledge in other fields. After millennium, most investigators did not devote enough attention to create new knowledge, except for application and performance evaluation of the existing knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary to provide a new theoretical and methodological advancement in travel-time flow relationship.
Consequentially, this research proposes a new methodology, which considers stochastic behavior of travel-time flow relationship with probabilistic Bayesian statistics and logistic growth mapping techniques. This research moderately improves the travel-time flow relationship. The unique contribution of this research is that the proposed methods outperforms the existing traditional travel-time flow theory, assumptions, and modeling techniques. The results shows that the proposed model is considerably a good candidate for travel-time predictions. The proposed model performs 36 percent better and accurate travel-time predictions in compared to the existing models.
Furthermore, travel-time flow relationship need capacity and free-flow speed estimations. Traditionally, practice of capacity estimation is mostly practical, subjective, and not steady-state capacity. Therefore, a robust and stable capacity-estimation method was developed to eliminate the subjectivity of capacity estimation. The proposed model shows robust and capable of replicating steady-state capacity estimation. The free-flow speed estimation should relate to the traffic-flow speed model while the density is zero. Therefore, this research investigates the existing deterministic speed-density models and recommends a better methodology in free-flow speed estimation. This research presents how the undefined practice of free-flow speed selection can be sensitive.
Additionally, finding suitable concurrent travel-time data and traffic volume is crucial and very challenging. To collect concurrent data, this research investigates and develops several technologies such as crowdsource, web app, virtual sensor method, test vehicle, smartphone, global positioning system, and utilized several state and local agencies data collection efforts.
Keywords: Travel-Time Flow, Travel-Time Delay, Volume-Delay Function, Travel Time, Origin-Destination Survey, Travel Demand Model, Travel Data Collection, Transportation Survey, Internet Sensor, Crowdsourcing, Virtual Sensor Method, VSM, Transportation Planning, GPS, Smartphone, Loop Detector, Travel -Time Prediction, Travel-Speed Prediction, TDM, Bayesian Inference, Logistic Growth Function.
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Call, Matthew Lloyd. "The Relationship Between Romantic Relationship Initiation Processes of Single LDS Emerging Adults and Change in Attachment Working Models with Implications for Practice." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4121.
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Relationship initiation is an integral part of romantic relationship development and a key developmental task of emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2004). In addition, relationship initiation practices (such as dating) have the capacity to impact the fluctuating levels of attachment insecurity (whether anxiety or avoidance) that an individual experiences over the course of emerging adulthood (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007). In the present study, I utilized latent growth curve modeling to examine whether certain dating variables (first dates, second or more dates, relationship breakups, dateless weeks) compiled over a 32 week dating history, as well as age and gender could predict change in attachment anxiety and avoidance over four time points in a sample of 309 Latter-day Saint (LDS) emerging adults. Results indicate that dateless weeks and second or more dates predicted the rate of change (i.e. slope) of attachment anxiety and that the overarching model accounted for 25% of the variance in the slope of anxiety. Findings also showed that age predicted initial levels (i.e. intercept) of attachment anxiety and that gender predicted initial levels of attachment avoidance. Findings were discussed in terms of theoretical significance and clinical application.
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Adam, William George. "The relationship between subglacial processes, basal ice characteristics and ice marginal moraines : a sedimentological approach." Thesis, Keele University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518415.
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Wong, Ho-ting Alison, and 黃皓婷. "Investigating the role of psychological resources in the relationship between cognitive processes and psychological wellbeing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50700510.
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Cognitive deficits have been shown to be responsible for the onset and maintenance of depression, while psychological resources are known to enhance psychological wellbeing. The present study aimed to understand the mechanism of depression by integrating both perspectives. Partial support was found for the hypothesis that participants with higher levels of negative attentional bias tended to engage in more brooding rumination, which in turn predicted more depressive symptoms. On the other hand, partial support was found for the hypothesis that participants with higher levels of cautiousness or vitality tended to engage in less negative attentional bias and brooding rumination, which in turn predicted less depressive symptoms. Implications for clinical practice and research were discussed in detail.published_or_final_version
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Rothenberg, Sandra L. 1968. "Is lean green? : the relationship between manufacturing processes and environmental performance within different regulatory contexts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9684.
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Polk, Nancy E. (Nancy Elizabeth). "The Relationship of Separation and Attachment Processes of Late Adolescence to Career Decision-Making Obstacles." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278818/.
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Tcha, Sooyoung Sul. "Exploring the relationship between organisational culture and planning processes in selected Western Australian sport associations." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1743.
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This study explored the effects of organisational culture on the planning processes of three state sport associations in Western Australia. Using the competing values framework of organisational culture and Chapman' s planning model, this study aimed to explore three research questions: (i) What are the demographic and organisational cultural profiles of the selected sport organisations? In particular, do professionals and volunteers share similar or different perceptions of the organisational cultures?; (ii) Wh~t are the development planning processes for each sport association? How does each association perceive the development planning processes?, and; (iii) How does organisational culture influence planning processes? To find answers to these research questions, this study used two kinds of data: a survey for quantitative analysis, and interviews with CEO/President and board members of each association for qualitative analysis. For all the associations, group culture was strongly emphasised. This may be a tradition in sport, especially as Australian sport has a strong reliance on volunteers, and is a quality that distinguishes sport organisations from other types of organisations. The slightly lower emphasis on rational and developmental culture may be indicative of the newer trends of professionalism in sport and the tension between especially group culture and rational culture as professional officers (paid staff) take over managing sport from the volunteers. All these sport associations exhibited low to very low emphasis on hierarchical culture, suggesting that these attributes are less evident and less valued, and perhaps the organisational structures are less hierarchical, although organisational charts for the associations were not investigated. In comparison, the interviewees recognised group, development and hierarchical cultures to be emphasised but not rational culture. This may indicate that the two facts were combined: first, organisations have moved from hierarchical to a more horizontal structure, and second, the interviewees, in general, had been with respective associations for a significantly longer duration than the average workers. It was found that the workers in the three associations had similar perceptions in regard to their planning processes. Regression analysis found that group cultural value was significantly related to the association's planning process. Hierarchical culture was also found to be related to some aspects of the planning process, such as the association's recognition of the importance of planning. It was also found that some demographic profiles of respondents affected the perception of planning processes. For example, a female worker was more likely to perceive that her association's planning processes were better developed. A worker with longer experience in the current occupation was more likely to perceive his/her association's planning processes as less developed. The status of the worker, whether she/he was a volunteer or paid employee, also seemed important in recognising the importance of planning. The findings from this study presented important suggestions and recommendations for sport organisations and national and state governments, as well as relevant academic disciplines, regarding the relationship between organisational culture and planning processes.
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Wright-Perry, Angela. "The impact of selected variables on grief responses and coping processes and the relationship between grief responses and coping processes of mothers of homicide victims." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1990. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/393.
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The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of age, marital status, occupational characteristics, and length of time since death on the coping processes and grief responses and the relationship between grief responses and coping processes of 30 mothers using the Grief Experience Inventory (GEl) and the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ). The respondents, who ranged in age between 27- 64, were either married, single, worked in the home or outside of the home, and were experiencing grief from 1 month to 8 years. The variables used were age, marital status, occupational status, and length of time since death. T-tests and the Pearson Product-Moment Correlation were computed for each of the variables.
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Street, Karin Elisabeth Sørlie. "Students' mathematics self-efficacy : relationship with test achievement and development in the classroom." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3fb3778c-eb8f-4e27-8082-96cc0d53828a.
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Self-efficacy is individuals' judgments regarding their capabilities to carry out future tasks or challenges. These judgments of capability are related to important learning behaviours such as effort and persistence, performance, and choice of career path. In order to support students' continued engagement with and learning of mathematics, it is important to consider how students make sense of their mathematical experiences as well as the relationship between students' mastery experiences and mathematics self-efficacy. In this thesis I address important gaps in the literature in regard to the conceptualisation of the self-efficacy construct, the relationship between self-efficacy and mathematics performance, the stability and change of self-efficacy when learning new topics in mathematics, and self-efficacy development over a series of lessons in mathematics across cycles of self-efficacy and mastery experiences. The thesis included two phases of data collection and analysis. The first phase involved students in grades 5, 8, and 9 (N = 756) and included measures of students' self-efficacy and national test performance. The second phase involved students in grades 6 and 10 (N = 181) and included repeated measures of students' self-efficacy and mastery experiences from a series of lessons in mathematics, when students were introduced to new topics. I analysed the data using different methods, including confirmatory factor analyses to investigate the structural validity of my measures, and structural equation models to investigate stability and change over time, and relationships between constructs. Major findings from the analysis include the following: students considered levels of difficulty when appraising their experiences in mathematics and when forming their self-efficacy; students' test performance predicted their self-efficacy one year later, but not the other way around; the mean-level of students' self-efficacy grew significantly across lessons when students were introduced to new topics, even as the rank-order of their self-efficacy remained highly stable; and there was a reciprocal relationship between students' self-efficacy and their mastery experiences, where substantial effects from both constructs on gains in the other construct remained stable across a sequence of lessons in mathematics. The findings have important implications for how we conceptualise self-efficacy, mastery experiences, and their relationship over time. Furthermore, the findings from my thesis have implications for teacher practice. In order to support adaptive self-efficacy, teachers need to consider the experiences students have with mathematics, not just the skills they learn. If teachers themselves gain knowledge about how individual students make sense of their mathematical experiences, they can support students' appraisals of these experiences, and prevent maladaptive cycles from occurring. In short, students need support not just to develop their mathematical skills, but also to develop adaptive appraisals of their mathematical experiences, in order to form self-efficacy beliefs that are reflective of each student's potential to learn mathematics.
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Stones, Catherine Mary. "Pencil and Pixel: Identifying the relationship between paper-based and computer-based preliminary graphic design processes." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491709.
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This study examines the strengths and weaknesses of using paper-based and computer-based design tools during graphic design ideation. It focuses on student designers' use of these tools, involving both synthesis of form and generation of graphic ideas. The study includes discussions regarding definitions of graphic design, the design process and creativity. It isolates the principles of vertical and lateral thinking as key elements in this process. Key characteristics of sketching and digital designing are examined by theme, referring to both existing empirical research and practitioner testimony. Key themes isolated for discussion include words versus pictures, ambiguity and reinterpretation and the use of ready-made or self-generated forms. It presents results of primary research regarding both design process and outcome. Experiment 1 featured a group of student designers who devised solutions to two graphic design tasks using paper or computer-based tools. Three strategies were examined in detail and it was concluded that paper-based working supports the use ----~~------ .'--------- --.. _-~ .'.-_._._--_._ .. _...._....__._._--_._----_._-----~----------_.__. - - - ... _-_... _-- ---- . -_._--- --------_._-_.. of words and reinterpretation more strongly than digital working. It also demonstrated how the use of ready-mades and use of preinventive forms occurs during digital working, impacting on both fluency of results and efficiency of process. In Experiment 2, students were asked to perform a simple synthesis exercise involving syntactic properties only. A taxonomy of synthesis strategies was developed and this revealed how a potent means of combining form was achieved most often using paper. It was concluded that the act of drawing, and careful logical engagement with form enables more potent results to be made. In terms of originality it was also suggested that paper enabled more unique (in the dataset) solutions to be made than the computer. The study concludes by discussing strategies used when using certain tools in relation to vertical or lateral thinking styles. Both styles are needed in ideation activity. We need to ensure that the educator finds both ways to integrate ideation and tool activity into the curriculum, encouraging the way students use the sketch, and altering the way students use digital tools for ideation.
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Souter, Martin. "Sixteenth-century intabulation processes and their relationship to the formation and understanding of Sweelinck's keyboard style." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314416.
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Thompson, Susan Anne. "Post-decisional processes in health promotion/protection : the relationship between self-efficacy, coping planning and adherence." Thesis, University of Kent, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498892.
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Buckley, Vanessa. "Investigating the relationship between callous unemotional traits and emotional processes in adolescent females with conduct problems." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2013. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/investigating-the-relationship-between-callous-unemotional-traits-and-emotional-processes-in-adolescent-females-with-conduct-problems(3a66549c-e6ec-4626-b99a-3a5a81da568f).html.
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Background and Aims: There is a paucity of research investigating Callous Unemotional (CU) traits and emotional processing in females with conduct problems. The research that does exist has largely been conducted within a young, community dwelling age group. A number of these studies have suggested that adolescent girls with conduct problems present differently to both boys with conduct problems and girls without conduct problems on measures of CU traits and emotional processing. The current study therefore aimed to investigate the level of CU traits in a sample of adolescent females with conduct problems. In addition, the study aimed to measure a number of emotional processes (i.e. affective empathy, processing of emotional stimuli and emotional dysregulation) and investigate the relationship between these processes and CU traits. Finally, the study sought to clarify whether patterns observed in adolescent males with conduct problems are similar in adolescent females. Method: Seventy-four participants (mean age= 16.4) were recruited from youth offending teams and local schools into three experimental groups: females with conduct problems (n = 25), males with conduct problems (n = 24) and control females (n = 21). Participants were asked to complete self-report questionnaires about affective empathy, CU traits and emotional dysregulation. They were also asked to complete a computerised lexical decision task. Results: As predicted, females with conduct problems presented with a different pattern of emotional processing when compared to boys with conduct problems as shown by higher levels of affective empathy and emotional dysregulation but lower levels of CU traits. Whilst CU traits were associated with a deficit in cognitive and affective empathy in boys, CU traits were not associated with a deficit in affective empathy in girls. This relationship also did not differ depending on the level of emotional dysregulation reported by the young person. Finally, boys with conduct problems showed a deficit in attentional facilitation to emotional words whilst girls with conduct problems did not. When comparing females with conduct problems to control girls, they scored higher on a measure of CU traits and emotional dysregulation but lower on a measure of affective empathy. Affective empathy was not associated with CU traits in either female sample, and there was no difference in the level of attentional facilitation to emotional words between the control girls and conduct problem girls. Conclusions: Overall, our findings suggest that adolescent females with conduct problems and CU traits present differently to both their male counterparts and to control girls. These results have implications for future research and are potentially clinically relevant.
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Littler, Kate. "Cognitive and affective processes associated with moral reasoning, and their relationship with behaviour in typical development." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18168.
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Objective: Moral reasoning (MR) reflects rationalisation in the moral domain, which matures across development and is underpinned by cognitive and affective processes. Although MR is associated with offending behaviours the mechanisms for this association are unknown. Examining the role of cognitive and affective processes in MR, and their influence on behaviour, may enhance existing psychological interventions that aim to reduce offending behaviours, and facilitate the development of novel targeted interventions. The current study investigated the hypothesis that MR would mediate the relationship between executive functions (EFs) and behaviour, and between empathy and behaviour. Method: In a cross-sectional design, typically developing adolescents (n = 72) individually completed an assessment battery, including the sociomoral reflection measure-short form, neuropsychological measures of working memory and cognitive flexibility/inhibition, and self-report questionnaires of empathy and behaviour. The battery also contained an assessment of intellectual functioning, and obtained data on socioeconomic status and age as confounding variables. Results: MR was not associated with self-report behaviour and, therefore, did not mediate the relationship between EFs/empathy and self-reported behaviour. A novel relationship was demonstrated between working memory and MR, and cognitive flexibility/inhibition was associated with MR. Self-report empathy was not associated with MR. Exploratory analyses suggested that intelligence and EFs were significant unique predictors of MR, and that truth and law moral values were associated with self-reported behavioural difficulties. Conclusions: Findings suggest that global MR is not associated with self-reported behaviour in typically developing adolescents, however, there may be an association between some moral values and self-reported behaviour. Findings also suggested that empathy is not associated with MR in this population, which warrants further investigation. These findings have implications for theoretical models of MR, and psychological intervention programmes. Recommendations for future research are presented.
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Smith, Hilary Anne. "The Relationship Between Briefly Induced Affect and Cognitive Control Processes: An Event-Related Potential (ERP) Study." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6427.
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Positive affect is generally associated with improvements in cognitive abilities; however, few studies have addressed positive affect and its relation to specific cognitive control processes. Previous research suggests positive affect conditions are more flexible/distractible states, suggesting cognitive control processes are perhaps decreased in context maintenance and increased in conflict detection/resolution. To measure the cognitive control processes, specific components of the scalp-recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) called the cue slow wave (context maintenance), the N450 (conflict detection), and conflict SP (conflict resolution) were acquired in response to an affective single-trial, cued-Stroop task. Participants were presented with pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant images prior to Stroop instruction (i.e., respond to "color" or "word") and response. Participants had greater accuracy during the pleasant condition when given a longer delay for extra time to process the high conflict task, t(36) = 3.09, p = .004, 95% CI (0.07, 0.02) compared to the unpleasant condition. Additionally, the unpleasant condition resulted in greater context maintenance than pleasant (increased cue-related slow wave amplitude; t(40) = 2.38, p = .02). Unpleasant conditions were associated with greater conflict resolution processes (as measured by the conflict SP) with high conflict trials, t(40) = 2.55, p = .015; whereas pleasant did in congruent trials, t(40) = 2.707, p = .010. Findings suggest negative affective states increase participants' focus on the task in avoidance of the distracting unpleasant picture. Our findings lay the foundation for understanding the differences between state and trait affect on cognitive control processes.
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Queiroz, Claudia Alexandre. "De uma chuva de manga ao funk de Lelê: imagens da afrodiáspora em uma escola de Acari." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2011. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4689.
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Nesta pesquisa o objetivo principal é discutir o padrão de beleza historicamente hegemónicos em uma escola Pública Muncipal de Educação Infantil, na periferia do Rio de Janeiro, em Acari. Tenho como pressuposto para pesquisa que neste tempoespaço escolar se estabelece uma tensão entre as invisibilidades e visibilidades de imagens de heróis e heroínas e suas narrativas africanas e afrobrasileiras em relação às identidades, pois nesse espaço escolar parte da representação do humano é preferencialmente eurocêntrico-branca, embora os indivíduos que frequentam àquele espaço - crianças e educadoras sejam em sua grande maioria negros e mestiços. É neste cotidiano escolar que desenvolvo uma pesquisa/intervenção, articulando brincadeiras e tecnologias com literatura infantil da contemporaneidade. Intervenção que propõe uma discussão em torno da ética e da estética. Tal abordagem me instiga a investigar e a discutir as questões de relação étnico-raciais dessa escola e as emergências de heróis e heroínas da afrodiáspora.The main objective of this research is to discuss the standard of beauty in a historically hegemonic Muncipal Public School Early Childhood Education in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro, Acari. I have as assumption to the research that in this school timespace a tension between invisibility and visibility of heroes and heroines and their African and Afrobrazilian narratives in relation to identities is established, because in this school space part of human representation is preferably white-eurocentric, although individuals who go to that space - children and teachers - are mostly blacks and mestizos. It is in this daily school that I develop a research / intervention, linking play and technologies with contemporary children's literature. Intervention that proposes a discussion on the ethics and aesthetics. Such approach encourages me to investigate and discuss this school issues, regarding ethnic-racial, and emergencies of heroes and heroines of the afrodiáspora.
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Åström, Linda. "The Journalist-NGO Relationship: A Social Exchange Theory Perspective : Exploring motivations, contextual influences, and trust building processes shaping the journalist-NGO relationship in Sweden." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Journalistik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45753.
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This study explores the relationship between journalists and NGOs in news making from a social exchange theory perspective. Drawing on semi-structured reconstruction interviews with journalists from Swedish media and representatives from the communications departments of Swedish NGOs, it examines motivations, contextual influences, and trust building processes that shape the relationship. The findings from the thematic analysis suggest three main characteristics of the journalist-NGO relationship. Firstly, the actors are motivated to interact due to a mutual dependency despite having separate goals. Secondly, the interactions are marked by an initiative imbalance caused by the contextual norm of a ruling media logic. Thirdly, trustworthiness is established between the actors through successful social exchanges which tend to reoccur and rationalize professional processes, ergolong-term relations lead to trust and efficacy. This thesis further concludes that journalists hold an upper hand in the news making process which NGOs accommodate to be recognized by media. Simultaneously, the NGOs play an important part in supplementing and substituting journalistic shortages which enhances their influence on news content. This leads to a relationship of mutual dependency which is sustained through reciprocal social exchanges that build trust and enable efficiency on both an interpersonal micro level, and an organizational meso level.
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Graham, Charlotte. "The relationship between inhibitory control and System 1 and System 2 processes in deductive and spatial reasoning." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1370.
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Dual Processing theory proposes that the ability to over ride associative (System 1) in favour of analytical (System 2) processed in deductive reasoning may depend on inhibitory control. The present study applies this association to a spatial reasoning task by adapting a mental rotation task to a multichoice format including System 1 (mirror) and System 2 (rotated image) responses. Fifty undergraduate volunteers from the University of Canterbury responded to a Stroop task as a measure of inhibitory control that was compared with System 1 and System 2 responding from a spatial and a deductive reasoning task. It was expected that people with weaker inhibitory potential would make more System 1 and fewer System 2 responses in both deductive and visual-spatial reasoning tasks. Contrary to expectation System 2 responding dominated for both tasks and correlations between both reasoning tasks and measures of inhibitory control were non-significant. The differing idiosyncratic demands of each task may have obscured any common variables associated with inhibitory control. This research initiated a test for the presence of System 1 and System 2 in spatial reasoning.
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Leboe, Jason P. "The relationship between feeling familiarity and recalling the context, shared processes in the service of separate functions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0025/MQ51390.pdf.
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