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Renvert, Johanna. "Students' attitudes towards Corporate Social Responibility." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-11092.

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Corporate social responsibility or CSR is a phenomenon that has steadily been growing for the past decade. CSR is generally considered as activities performed by a company in order to strengthen its positive image. Previous research has indicated that there is a connection between a company’s CSR actions and its consumer’s reactions towards the company and its different product/s. However, few studies have investigated university students’ attitudes towards CSR as well as different CSR initiatives. Therefor the aim of this dissertation is to study the knowledge, attitudes and the importance of CSR initiatives among young university business students. A second aim is to study the influence of CSR activities on the decision making process when in a buying situation. In order to investigate this a quantitative survey was conducted among young business students at the University of Kristianstad. The survey consisted of 18 questions regarding CSR knowledge, attitudes and attributes. A total of 87 respondents participated and handed in the survey. The results demonstrated that even though the students were unsure as to what the abbreviation CSR stands for, when given examples the majority answered correctly. It also became evident that females considered CSR to be more important than the male respondents in many aspects. Especially the CSR initiative “Against animal testing” proved to be seen as much more important among the females than with the males. The results also reveled differences between the age groups. The age group 18-21 was the one that differed the most compared to the other three age groups (22-25, 26-30, 30+). In conclusion the students have a generally positive attitude towards CSR but it does not affect their purchasing decisions.

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Gaudou, Benoît. "Formalizing social attitudes in modal logic." Toulouse 3, 2008. http://thesesups.ups-tlse.fr/315/.

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Décrire un agent à l'aide de ses états mentaux, comme ses croyances ou ses intentions, est un des moyens les plus puissants pour expliquer ou prédire son comportement. En intelligence artificielle, de nombreuses recherches ont été mené pour décrire en logique (notamment en logique modale) ces attitudes mentales individuelles dans le but de les intégrer dans des agents artificiels. De nombreux exemples, comme : " Le gouvernement pense qu'une guerre est inévitable ", illustrent le fait que des attitudes mentales, en particulier des croyances, peuvent être attribuées à un groupe d'agent. Il est intéressant de constater que même si le groupe appelé " gouvernement ", formé de ministres, croit que la guerre est inévitable, certains ministres peuvent avoir un avis privé différent. Le but de cette thèse est donc de donner une représentation en logique modale de la croyance de groupe, d'en décrire les propriétés logiques et les liens qu'elle entretient avec les attitudes individuelles. Il apparait que la croyance de groupe dans ce sens émane souvent d'une discussion entre les différents membres du groupe pour arriver à un compromis. Nous montrerons donc les liens étroits qu'elle entretient avec le dialogue et les actes de langages
One of the most powerful tools to explain and predict an agent's behavior is to describe him thanks to his mental states, such as his beliefs or his intentions. In Artificial Intelligence, many researchers have focused on the formalization in modal logic of these individual mental attitudes, in order to use them in artificial agents. Lots of examples, such as: " The government believes that war will begin soon. ", highlight the fact that attitudes, and beliefs in particular, can be ascribed to a group of agents. Besides it is interesting to notice that, even if the government as a whole believes that war will begin soon, some government members can disagree privately. The first aim of this dissertation is to provide a logical framework to represent the concept of group belief and to describe its features and its links with individual mental attitudes. It also appears that group belief in this sense results from a debate between group members. The second aim of this dissertation is thus to highlight the close link existing between group belief, dialog and speech acts

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Iacianci, Colleen. "Hotel Manager's Attitudes toward Social Media." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1447191763.

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Rydell, Robert Joseph. "The implicit and explicit effects of changing a conditioned attitude." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1112297169.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Psychology, 2005.
Title from second page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [2], vi, 113 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-87).

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Wu, Lai-man, and 胡麗敏. "Attitudes of social workers toward wife abuse." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31978757.

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Chan, Kar-wing Veronica, and 陳嘉詠. "Social attitudes towards swearing and taboo language." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951211.

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Lai, Chih-Chao Albert. "Fairness, social identification and attitudes towards work." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300850.

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Kaplan, Rebecca Dawn. "Women's social identities and attitudes : a thesis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57962.

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Dowling, Monica S. "Social work and poverty : attitudes and actions." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1994. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14739/.

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This study has investigated to what extent social workers' attitudes to poverty have been translated into actions. Factors which have affected social workers' ability to turn attitudes into actions have included: the restructuring of welfare, which has involved social service cutbacks and financially restrictive social security policies; and social workers' subjective norms and behavioural controls. The study also includes a consideration of the ways in which social workers aid social service users with financial difficulties - through welfare rights advice and/or advocacy or direct cash payments. It is suggested that social workers are increasingly being expected to collude with the DSS' functions of income maintenance and therefore their role as welfare rights advocates/advisers can be compromised. However social service users' increasing poverty indicate that social work help with financial and material needs may be an important part of the social work task from a consumer's perspective, both in training and in work. Social work students had more positive attitudes than social workers towards dealing with poverty in practice, and were critical of the social control functions of social workers in relation to income maintenance. However, they were not similarly subject to the controls and norms of social work institutions. The poverty awareness programme created as a result of the fieldwork findings, allows social workers and social work students to be more aware of conflicts between attitudes and actions, and fulfils students' needs for an understanding of poverty that integrates theory and practice. Some social service users constructed their financial problems differently from the way social workers perceived them. However users were generally grateful for any financial help or advice they received, but tended to find such help stigmatising. Some users had turned to welfare rights agencies for further financial advice where such agencies were available. Further research would need to evaluate: the effectiveness of poverty awareness programmes; the changing role of the social worker in relation to poverty in a developing social care market; and whether social security policies continue to put additional financial pressure on social service users and hence affect the role of the social worker in relation to financial need.

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Wu, Lai-man. "Attitudes of social workers toward wife abuse." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20130910.

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Chan, Kar-wing Veronica. "Social attitudes towards swearing and taboo language." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18685377.

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Sayaka, Osanami. "Different Attitude towards Different Groups? Opinions and attitudes towards four immigrant groups in Sweden." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21594.

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Moore-Berg, Samantha. "How Specification of Race and Social Class Affects Stereotypes, Implicit Attitudes, Explicit Attitudes, and Behavior." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/507937.

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Psychology
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Race and social class are inherently confounded in the American society/culture—people stereotypically assume poor Black and rich White when only race is specified. However, much of the social psychological literature focuses on either race or social class during stereotype and attitude assessment. This focus is problematic given that different patterns of responses arise when both categories are specified (e.g., rich Black) rather than when only one of the two categories is reported (e.g., Black). Here I report on two pilot studies and two independent studies to examine the unique and combined effects of race and social class on stereotypes, implicit attitudes, explicit attitudes, and decision-making when stimulus race and/or social class are/is manipulated. In Pilot Study 1, I examined general race only and social class only implicit preferences and found overall pro-White/anti-Black and pro-rich/anti-poor preferences. In Pilot Study 2, I examined implicit associations between race and social class. Results confirmed that participants hold implicit rich-White and/or poor-Black associations. In Study 1a and 1b, I directly examined implicit attitudes, explicit stereotypes, and explicit affective responses when both race and social class are specified. Across all measures, participants had more positive attitudes and stereotypes about rich Blacks than rich Whites, rich Whites than poor Whites, and rich Blacks than poor Blacks. Attitudes and stereotypes about poor Whites compared to poor Blacks were more nuanced and were measure dependent. In Study 2, I investigated how race and social class information influences decision-making in a situation resembling a real world scenario (i.e., academic honor society selection processes). The results of this study suggest that the intersection of race and social class might be nuanced for this type of decision-making task, as only marginally significant effects for race appeared. Participants demonstrated lower criterion for Black than White applicants, suggesting that they are more likely to accept Black than White applicants into the honor society. This effect did not vary by target social class. These findings provide important insight into associations between race and social class, how the intersection of race and social class information affects stereotyping and attitudes, and fluctuations in decision-making when both race and social class of an academic honor society applicant are known. Overall, these results suggest that the intersection of race and social class need to be examined together.
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Maltby, John. "Unconscious determinants of social attitude : can conservatism and religiousity be described as ego-defensive attitudes?" Thesis, University of Ulster, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241756.

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Webb, Melanie Jennifer. "Social interaction and attitudes towards computers in seniors /." Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/wlu/fullcit?pMQ96600.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (l. 52-59). Issued also online via the World Wide Web ; full text files in PDF format available to WLU users. Available in microfiche format.

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Mavor, Kenneth Ian. "Religious orientation, social identity and attitudes to homosexuality /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17894.pdf.

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Casali, Ana. "On intentional and social agents with graded attitudes." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7748.

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La principal contribución de esta Tesis es la propuesta de un modelo de agente BDI graduado (g-BDI) que permita especificar una arquitetura de agente capaz de representar y razonar con actitudes mentales graduadas. Consideramos que una arquitectura BDI más exible permitirá desarrollar agentes que alcancen mejor performance en entornos inciertos y dinámicos, al servicio de otros agentes (humanos o no) que puedan tener un conjunto de motivaciones graduadas. En el modelo g-BDI, las actitudes graduadas del agente tienen una representación explícita y adecuada. Los grados en las creencias representan la medida en que el agente cree que una fórmula es verdadera, en los deseos positivos o negativos permiten al agente establecer respectivamente, diferentes niveles de preferencias o de rechazo. Las graduaciones en las intenciones también dan una medida de preferencia pero en este caso, modelan el costo/beneficio que le trae al agente alcanzar una meta. Luego, a partir de la representación e interacción de estas actitudes graduadas, pueden ser modelados agentes que muestren diferentes tipos de comportamiento. La formalización del modelo g-BDI está basada en los sistemas multi-contextos. Diferentes lógicas modales multivaluadas se han propuesto para representar y razonar
sobre las creencias, deseos e intenciones, presentando en cada caso una axiomática completa y consistente. Para tratar con la semántica operacional del modelo de agente, primero se definió un calculus para la ejecución de sistemas multi-contextos, denominado Multi-context calculus. Luego, mediante este calculus se le ha dado al modelo g-BDI semántica computacional. Por otra parte, se ha presentado una metodología para la ingeniería de agentes g-BDI en un escenario multiagente. El objeto de esta propuesta es guiar el diseño de sistemas multiagentes, a partir de un problema del mundo real. Por medio del desarrollo de un sistema recomendador en turismo como caso de estudio, donde el agente recomendador tiene una arquitectura g-BDI, se ha mostrado que este modelo es valioso para diseñar e implementar agentes concretos. Finalmente, usando este caso de estudio se ha realizado una experimentación sobre la flexibilidad y performance del modelo de agente g-BDI, demostrando que es útil para desarrollar agentes que manifiesten conductas diversas. También se ha mostrado que los resultados obtenidos con estos agentes recomendadores modelizados con actitudes graduadas, son mejores que aquellos alcanzados por los agentes con actitudes no-graduadas.
The central contribution of this dissertation is the proposal of a graded BDI agent model (g-BDI), specifying an architecture capable of representing and reasoning with graded mental attitudes. We consider that making the BDI architecture more exible will allow us to design and develop agents capable of improved performance in uncertain and dynamic environments, serving other agents (human or not) that may have a set of graded motivations.
In the g-BDI model, the agent graded attitudes have an explicit and suitable representation. Belief degrees represent the extent to which the agent believes a formula to be true. Degrees of positive or negative desires allow the agent to set di_erent levels of preference or rejection respectively. Intention degrees also give a preference measure but, in this case, modelling the cost/benefit trade off of achieving an agent's goal. Then, agents having different kinds of behaviour can be modelled on the basis of the representation and interaction of their graded attitudes. The formalization of the g-BDI agent model is based on Multi-context systems and in order to represent and reason about the beliefs, desires and intentions, we followed a many-valued modal approach. Also, a sound and complete axiomatics for representing each graded attitude is proposed. Besides, in order to cope with the operational semantics aspects of the g-BDI agent model, we first defined a Multi-context calculus for Multi-context systems execution and then, using this calculus we give this agent model computational meaning.
Furthermore, a software engineering process to develop graded BDI agents in a multiagent scenario is presented. The aim of the proposed methodology is to guide the design of a multiagent system starting from a real world problem. Through the development of a Tourism recommender system, where one of its principal agents is modelled as a g-BDI agent, we show that the model is useful to design and implement concrete agents.
Finally, using the case study we have made some experiments concerning the exibility and performance of the g-BDI agent model, demonstrating that this agent model is useful to develop agents showing varied and rich behaviours. We also show that the results obtained by these particular recommender agents using graded attitudes improve those achieved by agents using non-graded attitudes.

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Sympson, Stacey. "Attitudes Toward Diversity: Determining Differences by Social Locators." TopSCHOLAR®, 1999. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/759.

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Diversity training in workplaces is occurring across the U.S. at a growing rate. These programs attempt to make work environments more pluralistic for everyone. Conflict and feminist theory both agree that those with less power will see issues in a different way than will those with more power. This research involved a questionnaire administered to employees at a governmental agency in a small city in the Southeastern United States. Indices were used to measure attitudes toward diversity and sexual orientation. T-tests and multiple regressions were employed to determine the differences in employees' attitudes toward the two dependent variables. Results from 175 returned questionnaires showed females, nonwhites, and employees with fewer years of employment had more positive attitudes toward diversity and equality based on sexual orientation than did males, whites, and employees with a large number of years in the workforce.

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Kalenka, Susanne. "Modelling social interaction attitudes in multi-agent systems." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395937.

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Martin, Natalia Wentink. "Youth conceptualisations and attitudes towards anti-social behaviour." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486935.

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Through a series of studies, the ways in which youths conceptualise anti-social behaviour, and evaluate and modify their judgements about anti-social behaviours is examined. This research examines and proposes a model linking conceptualisations, attitudes, and behaviour which takes into account the manner in which attitudes can change according to the perceived target status of the victim. The proposed model contextualizes Heider's Balance theory (1958) in an intervention context in which target status and reconceptualisation playa central role. The first set of analyses examined the ways in which youths conceptualise anti-social behaviour the Multiple Sorting Task. Data was analysed using Multiple Scalogram Analysis (MSA). Conceptualisations were compared by age and offending history. The second set of analyses examines the structure of youth attitudes towards antisocial behaviour using a self-report questionnaire . It is argued that participant attitudes are a function of the target or victim relative to the offender; the notion of a target status resides within a socio-cultural framework of rights and duties in society (Moghaddam & Vuksanovic, 1990; Moghaddam, 2000). Smallest Space Analysis (SSA-1) revealed general themes of pro-social and anti-social behaviours and specific themes in relation to the anonymous and familiar target status relative to the offender The third set of analyses is based a 'before and after' study of a programme targeting fire-related anti-social behaviour. Smallest Space Analysis was used to examine the structural aspects of attitude change before and after the intervention. This analysis revealed the ways is which attitudes towards specific behaviours are conceptualised and re-conceptualised in relation to each other. The process of attitude change is discussed in relation to Heider's Balance Theory and discusses the role of a change in target status relative to the offender as a key feature ofattitude change. The implications of these findings for understanding-youth anti-social behaviour are discussed. Applications of these findings in relation to future programmes targeting anti-social behaviour are outlined, and future directions for research into youth conceptualisations, attitude, and attitude change are proposed.

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Turkes-Habibovic, Mevlida. "Social Context and Muslim Women's Attitudes Towards Counseling." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1348.

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Although there is a recognized need for counseling Muslims and underutilization of mental health services by this population is assumed, research regarding the attitudes of Muslims towards counseling is scarce. This qualitative study explored Muslim women's attitudes towards counseling and utilization of counseling services. The influence of religiosity and religious coping as well as the Muslim women's perception of the Imam-counselor liaison, and the influence of the liaison on counseling-seeking attitudes have been examined. Participants consisted of 10 purposefully selected Muslim women from each of five distinct socio-racial categories, including White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Arab. Data collection consisted of semi-structured interviews and the administration of a demographic questionnaire. Data analysis involved phenomenological exploration and hermeneutical interpretations of the participants' meaning. The findings indicated that attitudes towards counseling do not indicate actual use of the services. Rather, utilization of religious coping, availability of family and friend support, accessibility of Muslim counselors and counseling within the Muslim community, and the Imamcounselor liaison have a significant impact on counseling-seeking attitudes of the Muslim women. Additionally, the findings indicated variation of counseling utilization among socioracial groups. All non-U.S.-born Arab, Asian, Hispanic, and Black participants reported no use of professional counseling, whereas U.S.-born White, Black, and Hispanic participants and one non-U.S.-born White participant reported utilization of the services. However, rather than linking ethnicity alone to use of counseling, other factors need to be considered as well. The Imam-counselor liaison seems to hold promise towards closing the gap in delivery and utilization of counseling services by Muslims. The findings generated a greater awareness of the xi importance for the inclusion of religious beliefs and practices in therapeutic conversation with Muslim female clients. It is my hope that the findings will facilitate reflection on current counselor and counselor educator practices, and lead to changes that will enhance service provision to this population. In sum, it is hoped that the revealed pertinent areas will be considered within both the counseling room and the classroom.

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Becker, Saul. "Social worker's attitudes to poverty and the poor." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1987. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11223/.

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Field social workers are in daily working contact with the poor and deprived. In Britain as many as nine out of ten users of social work services are claimants of social security; over half are dependent on means tested social assistance. Most referrals to social workers are for benefit and housing problems. Social work trainers, managers, and agencies expect social workers to have positive attitudes to clients. Professional training is increasingly confronting racist and sexist attitudes amongst student social workers; but very little is known about social workers' attitudes to poor people or how these attitudes affect the nature and delivery of social work services to claimants - the main user group of social services. This study explores the attitudes to poverty of over 450 field social workers. As a group these social workers have relatively "positive" attitudes to the poor and feel very strongly - in a supportive direction - about a number of issues confronting social security claimants. Poverty itself is defined in relative terms, as a lack of opportunities for choice and participation in customs and practices accepted by the non poor population. The poor are viewed very much as victims of injustice and structural inequalities. But most social workers employ individualising methods of work aimed at helping clients adapt to their financial status and circumstances. Less individually focused approaches are generally unpopular. Organisational structures, priorities, and dominant methods of working are powerful constraints on alternative approaches. Current methods reinforce definitions of acceptable practice. The study raises important issues for the operation, practice, management and organisation of social work; in addition there are a number of implications for the research of attitudes to poverty. Social workers' attitudes to poverty and the poor are characterised by contradiction and paradox, as is social work itself. The study of these attitudes requires a number of complementary research methodologies.

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Mao, Lei. "Three essays on risk attitudes and social image." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LYO22003/document.

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Cette thèse est composée d’un essai sur la relation entre l’aversion au risque des individus et leur décision de migration et de deux essais sur l’importance de sauver la face et la réciprocité en termes d’image.Le premier essai s’appuie sur une expérience de terrain en Chine afin d’étudier si le statut migratoire est corrélé aux préférences en matière de risque, ambiguïté et compétitivité. Il montre que les migrants et les non-migrants ne présentent pas de différences dans leurs préférences concernant le risque et l’ambiguïté dans des loteries standard. En revanche, les migrants ont une attitude plus compétitive face à une incertitude stratégique dans un jeu d’entrée sur un marché.Le deuxième essai étudie si les individus sont prêts à sacrifier des ressources pour sauver la face en payant pour éviter l'exposition publique du membre de leur groupe le moins productif à l’aide d’une expérience de laboratoire à effort réel. La majorité des individus sont prêts à payer pour préserver à la fois leur image et celle des autres. Ce résultat est robuste à une manipulation de l'identité de groupe. Le sentiment de honte toujours présent à la suite d’une exposition publique évince la motivation intrinsèque.Le troisième essai étudie la récompense de la bienveillance et la punition de l’égoïsme en termes d'image. Il montre que les individus récompensent la bienveillance et expriment de la réciprocité vis-à-vis de ceux qui ont préservé leur image ou celle d’un tiers. En revanche, l’égoïsme de ceux qui ne font pas d’effort pour sauver la face des autres n’est pas sanctionné
This thesis consists of one essay on the relationship between risk attitudes and migration and two essays investigating the importance of saving face and reciprocity in terms of social image.The first essay is based on a field experiment conducted in China to study whether the migration status is correlated with one's preferences regarding risk, ambiguity, and competitiveness. It shows that migrants and stayers exhibit no difference in their preferences over risk and ambiguity as elicited with standard lottery choices. In contrast, migrants are significantly more likely to enter competitive markets in the context of strategic uncertainty. The second essay studies whether individuals forego resources to avoid the public exposure of the worst performer in their group in a real-effort laboratory experiment. A majority of individuals are willing to pay to preserve both self- and others’ image. This finding is robust to a manipulation of group identity. While the threat of exposure encourages effort, public exposure and a feeling of shame crowd out future intrinsic motivation.The third essay investigates whether individuals reward kindness and punish selfishness in terms of image. It shows that people reward kindness and reciprocate to people who have saved their face or others’ face. However, selfish behavior in terms of image saving is not sanctioned

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Carranza, Karla Eduviges, and Nicol Alejandra Stolar. "Social workers attitudes and perceptions toward transracial adoption." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2377.

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Overall attitudes, beliefs, and values have been shown to effect how individuals evaluate and process information. This knowledge is important and relevant to the practice of social work. Social workers are expected to put their attitudes, values, and perceptions aside when working with their clients. Attitudes are effecting processing and evaluation of events, therefore, it is imortant to understand the possible implications of workers perceptions and attitudes. Highly embedded attitudes toward transracial adoption, will influenceSocial workers behavior.

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Haskell, Rachael A. "Evaluating Social Work Students’ Attitudes Toward Physical Disability." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1655.

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Given the social work profession's commitment to serving individuals with disabilities and cultural competence, the promotion of favorable attitudes toward persons with disabilities within social work education is critical. This study examined the question: "what are the attitudes of undergraduate social work students at three universities toward individuals with physical disabilities as measured by responses on the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale Form B (ATDP-Form B; Yuker et al., 1960, 1966) and Interactions with Disabled Persons Scale (Gething, 1991)?" It explored the following hypotheses, that participants who: 1) have had prior positive contact with persons with physical disabilities; 2) have higher perceived levels of knowledge about issues affecting persons with physical disabilities; and 3) have had more social work classes will respond with more positive attitudes than other participants. Sociodemographic data about gender, ethnicity, country of origin, religion, and university affiliation was also collected to measure the possible impact of these characteristics on student attitudes. The primary aim is to learn more about the way undergraduate social work students generally view individuals with physical disabilities and feel about interactions with this population.

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Nielsen, Samuel W. "Attitudes towards young children: A social learning perspective." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1993. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36700/1/36700_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.

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This study aimed to investigate adult affect and cognition toward young children (3-8 year olds) using Social Learning Theory. A measure was developed to assess affective and cognitive reactions and evaluated on its ability to predict adult avoidance of young children in terms of prior experiences, self-efficacy, outcome expectations and attitudes. A factor analysis (N=208) led to the development of the Attitudes Towards Young Children Scale (ATYCS). The two subscales of the ATYCS were: (a) Apprehension of Children, and (b) Attitudes Towards Interaction With Children. These factors were interpreted using a Social Learning Theory analysis. It was predicted that the more experience a person had with young children and the more positive these experiences had been, the greater the perceived self-efficacy and outcome expectations for interacting with young children. People with higher self-efficacy and outcome expectations would have less apprehension and more positive attitudes towards young children. A series of hierarchical multiple regressions were used to test the expected pattern of relationships. Results indicated that self-efficacy did predict apprehension of and attitudes toward interaction with young children, and outcome expectations predicted attitudes toward interaction. The Apprehension of Children subscale predicted avoidance of young children due to self-doubt. The Attitudes Towards Interaction With Children subscale predicted avoidance of interaction with children as not worthwhile. Males reacted more negatively to young children than females. Adults without children reacted more negatively than parents. Results suggest that greater interaction with children would alter this trend in negativity. In the future, consideration must be given to opportunities for social interaction for adults isolated from children to affect the development of positive attitudes of adults towards young children.

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Brady, Stephen C. "Contemporary Engagement: Attitudes and Attitudes and Practices of College Students." DigitalCommons@USU, 1988. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2384.

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitudes and practices regarding engagement in modern America, focusing on the attitudes and evaluations of college students concerning the purpose and function of engagement. A questionairre was designed to measure the attitudes and evaluations of college students regarding engagement through the use of open-ended and Likert-type questions focusing on different aspects of the engagement process and a number of quest ions providing extensive demographic information. Respondents designated their present heterosexual relationship, allowing comparisons to be made based upon the respondents' relationship experience and exposure to the engagement process. Data were collected from 464 respondents. The results of the study show that engagement is cons idered by young college students to be a stage of commitment and a preparation period for marriage. Nearly all respondents were involved in or planned to be involved in the engagement process and believed that engagement is a necessary and viable phase towards marriage. The custom of exchanging an engagement ring, as well as other symbolic behaviors, was found not only to still have importance in the engagement process but al so to possibly provide initiation into a stage of relationship separately distinct from marriage. Several factors emerged from a factor analysis of Likert - type items identifying distinct characteristics of the engagement process . These factors provide items of measurement that should be employed in future studies concerning engagement .

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蘇金照 and Kam-chiu Ivan So. "Social workers' and NGOs' attitudes towards using computers in social welfare services." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977467.

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So, Kam-chiu Ivan. "Social workers' and NGOs' attitudes towards using computers in social welfare services." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1374513X.

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Lykes, Valerie A. "Local environmental attitudes, global environmental attitudes, and religion| An analysis in 47 nations." Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10126141.

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Religion as culture shapes the worldview of its subscribers and thence attitude formation and preferences of individuals towards many topics including the environment. Research interest in the impact of religion soared in the late 1960s, in response to White's (1967) article in Science claiming that a huge burden of guilt for the environment crisis rested on the shoulders of Christianity. Although this Dominion Hypothesis highlights the contrast between Christianity and other religions, the contrast has not been addressed in systematic comparative cross-national research assessing whether Christians hold more negative environmental attitudes than other world religions. This dissertation fills that research gap. The Dominion Hypothesis does not exhaust the potential impacts of religion on environmentalism. For example, social psychology posits the importance of experience as well as of culture on attitudes about matters one encounters directly, so the dissertation posits the Direct Experience Hypothesis and confirms the differentiation of local from global environmental attitudes. Moreover, social psychology also directs our attention to the Reverence Hypothesis, that a subjective side effect of religiosity is reverence and responsibility for nature. To address the Dominion Hypothesis that Christians hold less environmentalist attitudes than their peers in other religious traditions, the direct experience effect, and the Reverence Hypothesis, this dissertation includes descriptive analysis, psychometric scale evaluations, OLS regression, and multilevel modeling of data from the pooled World Values Survey/European Values Survey. Findings are mixed on the Dominion Hypothesis, but consistently support the Direct Experience and Reverence Hypotheses.

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Lanzalotta, Jaroth V. "Contradicting Moral Attitudes Enhances Hypocrisy Judgments: The Role of Attitude Strength and Surprise." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1561286210520023.

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Barnard, Sarah. "Police officers' attitudes about rape victims." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1569988.

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Police officers are often the first contact a victim of rape has with the criminal justice system and may be the first people to whom rape victims disclose. To examine the extent to which police officers endorse rape myths, this quantitative study assessed their views about rape victims, along with the effects of demographics and experience. The Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale--Short Form was administered to 66 patrol officers in Southern California. The officers scored in the mid-range of this scale, which addresses seven different categories of common rape myths, such as "she lied" and "she asked for it." For some rape myths, females and ethnic majority officers indicated less endorsement of rape myths. These findings reveal a need for more in-depth research on police officers. Social workers who work with the victims of rape should advocate for increased education of law enforcement personnel about rape and its victims.

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Apseloff, Rebecca J. "Knowledge and Attitudes About Twins." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1395149872.

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Chan, Chun-kuen. "A study of social workers' attitudes towards the elderly /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1992. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13417964.

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Oliveira, Tâmara Maria de. "Espace public et capital social : l'identité brésilienne comme construction sociale de la réalité : le cas de la circulation à Aracaju." Aix-Marseille 1, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004AIX10041.

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Cette thèse approche la circulation à Aracaju en tant qu'espace public moderne, isolant deux dimensions différentes de l'expression de la règle et de la transgression de la règle - la dimension immédiate des interactions entre usagers différents (piéton, automobiliste, etc. ) et la dimension médiate de la gestion institutionnelle de la transgression. Sans établir un lien de cause à effet entre ces dimensions, on considère qu'aussi bien les interactions immédiates que les représentations médiates sur la régulation institutionnelle sont une construction sociale de la réalité médiatisée par le contexte historique-social du Brésil moderne. Dans la dimension immédiate, l'analyse des données d'une observation directe a saisi comment l'équipement de circulation, privilégiant l'usager motorisé, s'établit en repère pour l'orientation de l'action des différents types d'usagers les uns avec les autres, configurant un espace public dont l'inégalité physique entre types d'usager acquiert un sens de construction sociale d'inégalité, lors de l'occupation des espaces de déplacement. Dans la dimension de la gestion institutionnelle de la transgression, l'analyse typologique du contenu des discours a saisi comment l'orientation motivationnelle et justificative des acteurs est diversement médiatisée par leurs représentations sur la gestion factuelle de deux principes idéaux modernes - l'universalité des normes, leur application impersonnelle - se configurant en capital social inégalement distribué pour la rupture des normes de sanction. Ainsi, entre l'inégalité dans les rues et l'inégalité dans les têtes, cette thèse a reconstruit la signification sociologique de ce que les acteurs repésentent sur l'identité nationale brésilienne, la modernité et l'inégalité sociale, pour la construction quotidienne de l'espace public circulation.

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Prior, Lindsay Francis. "The social organisation of death : medical discourse and social practices in Belfast." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1985. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU361809.

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This is a study of the manner in which death is organised in the city of Belfast. It is concerned with the analysis of the principles, practices, and forms of knowledge which serve to organise the dead from the moment at which physical death is pronounced until the moment of disposal. The thesis is presented in two parts. Part One is entitled Public Bodies. It focuses, in the main, upon the discourse through which individual deaths in particular, and mortality patterns in general, are explained, described, and analysed by state agents and agencies. Chapter One examines the principles according to which causes of death are discovered and allocated. Chapter Two switches attention to modes of death, and examines the use of categories of natural and unnatural death. Chapter Three focuses upon the discourse of modern pathology as it operates within the confines of the city mortuary. And, Chapter Four, concentrates upon the General Register Office, and the principles according to which it collects, collates, and produces data on Belfast mortality patterns. The second part of the thesis is entitled Private Death. Here, the point of focus shifts to the examination of the activities and forms of thought which operate outside of, and beyond the official state agencies. Chapter Five presents an investigation of the organisational principles through which death is ordered within the cemetery, the city, and the hospital. Chapter Six, investigates the ways in which sentiments of the bereaved are structured in relation to the dead. Whilst Chapter Seven focuses upon the organisation of body, soul, and social being during the phase of disposal. The final chapter examines the interpenetration of Belfast politics and political ideologies with the social practices which surround the disposal of the dead. The methodological basis of the study is outlined in Appendix A.

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Kjellin, Daniel, Sara Jonsson, and Jessie Wing Yan Mak. "Attitudes of Swedish corporate managers towards Corporate Social Responsibility." Thesis, Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-13116.

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Chan, Chun-kuen, and 陳振權. "A study of social workers' attitudes towards the elderly." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249115.

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Gilbert, Nicola Jane. "Social processes and the development of disordered eating attitudes." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410596.

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Background: A review of the literature reveals a need to extend the current cognitivebehavioural models for eating disorders. The present thesis aims to address this need by investigating the role of social processes in the development of eating psychopathology. Objectives: The thesis has two broad aims. The first is to thoroughly determine links between two socio-cognitive processes (a fear of negative evaluation and self-comparison) and eatingrelated attitudes. The second aim is to explore social proximity, similarity and the convergence of unhealthy eating attitudes amongst groups of young women. Methods: These aims were tested using experimental and correlational methods. Female students completed self-report measures of eating attitudes, related psychopathology and socio-cognitive processes. Main findings: First, heightened negative evaluation fears were associated with restrictive eating attitudes, and were reliable predictors of the development of bulimic symptoms over time. Second, general self-comparison was linked with more disordered eating attitudes (particularly bulimic attitudes). Furthermore, self-esteem was a perfect statistical mediator of the general self-comparison-eating psychopathology link. Finally, peer selection and peer influence operated to bring about group similarity and a convergence of eating attitudes. Implications: The current findings make valuable contributions to both eating disorder research and clinical practice. These implications are discussed.

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SALMI, MILLA. "Social or environmental labelling- Consumers’ knowledge, attitudes and preferences." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-18012.

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Social or environmental labelling- Consumers’ knowledge, attitudes and preferencesEngelska nyckelord: labelling, social or environmental labelling, eco-labelling, sustainability, transparency, fashion consumer, visual/verbal communication, consumer buying behaviour, green consumerism.Sammanfattning på engelska: In the recent years the Swedish fashion retailers have increased their range of various social or environmental labels on their garments which in return has created confusion amongst the fashion consumers. Currently, there are approximately fourteen different third-party labelling standards in Sweden and a diverse range of self-controlled labelling standards. The reason for this increase can partly be explained by the increasing pressure from various actors to act more sustainably and ethically, and companies having realized a competitive advantage by adopting sustainable strategies. This study provides a preliminary exploration into the types of social and environmental labels that are available on the Swedish market and consumers’ knowledge, attitudes and preferences regarding these labels. Based on two focus group discussions held at two different occasions, respondents indicated that environmental labelling of clothing could influence their purchase decision positively if product related attributes (design and quality) have the same standard as non-sustainable clothing. Although consumers’ knowledge about the social or environmental labels is relatively low, they have an increased interest to learn more about the various labels and the potential environmental impact the fashion industry may cause. However, the growing involvement of taking social or environmental issues into consideration does not always lead to consumers actually purchasing eco-friendlier clothes, and thus these two “identities” are not yet compatible with each other.Additionally, consumers respond differently to positive and negative labelling, where negative labelling seems to have a stronger effect on their feelings and may influence their purchase decision. When it comes to the design of the label, visual and verbal communications are additives and a label should also have a numerical rating system, which states how sustainable a garment is in comparison to other garments. Furthermore, the logo should be more coherent with the fashion industry in terms of colours and illustrations. Moreover, consumers think that there is a lack of information at the point of purchase regarding the social and environmental labels and this should be addressed with either QR-code or by providing a simple brochure.
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Carr, S. "Conservation on farms : conflicting attitudes, social pressures and behaviour." Thesis, Open University, 1988. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57040/.

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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, conservationists' concern about the loss of wildlife habitat on farmland escalated into open conflict with farmers, the conflict being heightened by controversy surrounding the passing of the Wildlife and Countryside Act in 1981. An improved understanding of the attitudes of farmers and conservationists would help ensure the most appropriate measures are adopted to resolve or avoid such conflict. This research therefore compared the attitudes of farmers and conservationists in Bedfordshire in two pairs of surveys. In the first, free-ranging interviews were used to establish the range of opinions on farming and conservation held by the two groups. In the second, Fishbein and Ajzen's theory of reasoned action was used as the framework for a more detailed comparison of the differences in attitudes between the two communities. The correlation of attitudes and social pressures with farmers' behaviour was also explored for three conservation-related activities about which there was conflict: hedge management, pesticide use and straw disposal. The first survey revealed a complex matrix of shared, complementary and conflicting beliefs and values between and within the two communities. Examples of conflicting values included those concerning land ownership and freedom of individual action versus stewardship, and pride in an efficient, productive and tidy farm versus a wilder countryside. The second survey showed that while farmers agreed with conservationists about the advantages of conservation expressed in general terms, once decisions about specific farm practices were involved, attitudes to conservation and wildlife were far outweighed by attitudes to farming and business considerations. Social pressures on farmers from conservationists were minimal; the strongest social pressures came from within the farming community itself and these generally served to perpetuate the dominant farming values. Although the theory of reasoned action provided a valuable means of exploring the role of attitudes, social pressures and behaviour in the conflict, some limitations in the use of the model in these complex circumstances were found. In particular it did not allow a distinction to be made between self-interested and deeply held values; the recommended method of constructing and scoring a behaviourial index was inappropriate where value judgements were involved; and respondents experienced difficulty in distinguishing between beliefs and values when evaluative opinion statements were used. Some suggestions for overcoming these limitations are made.

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Flores, Luis, and Matthew Ford. "MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS TRANSRACIAL ADOPTIONS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/476.

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This study explored Master of Social Work students’ attitudes towards transracial adoptions (TRA). The literature suggests that when children of color are transracially adopted, they are often deprived of the opportunity to learn and express their birth culture, and to develop a strong sense of self. The researchers decided to survey this population because MSW students are future foster and adoptive professionals. As such, they will have the opportunity to directly influence macro policies around TRA and adoptive families in micro practice. The researchers utilized a quantitative self-administered survey, with thirty-three questions to ascertain the attitudes of a diverse pool of MSW students at Cal State San Bernardino. Eighty-eight students completed the online survey. The researchers used descriptive and inferential statistics, including a t-test and one-way ANOVA to analyze the survey data. MSW students possess positive attitudes towards transracial adoption. Female respondents held significantly more positive attitudes towards transracial adoption than male respondents. Similarly, Black, White, and Latino/a participants held more positive attitudes towards TRA; however, these findings should be interpreted with caution due to the small number of Native American participants in our sample. We did not find significant differences in attitudes based on participants’ age, parental status, or life experiences related to diversity. Our findings are limited as our sample may not generalize to all MSW students or to social workers in general. The study suggests that MSW students, who are future social workers, view TRA as a positive option for children in need of families. Therefore, we suggest that schools of social work continue to provide and to expand their curriculum related to TRA so that future social workers are prepared to meet the needs of parents and children in TRA families.

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Mendelsohn, Michaela. "Social Attitudes toward Men and Women with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3227/.

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Although men are more likely to experience traumatic events, the risk of developing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is at least twice as high in women than in men after exposure to comparable traumas. These findings are more consistent in response to some types of trauma (e.g., assaultive violence) than others (e.g., natural disaster). There has been very little systematic study of the sources of these gender differences. This study began to explore the contribution of gender-related beliefs about appropriate responses to trauma by investigating the impact of victim sex and trauma type as well as participant sex, sex-role orientation, and personal trauma history on attitudes towards victims. Ninety-three male and 179 female students were administered the Bem Sex Role Inventory, the Trauma History Questionnaire, and a vignette measure of attitudes towards victims. Participants evaluated male victims significantly less favorably than female victims, and females had more positive attitudes towards victims than males. Feminine sex-typed and androgynous women rated victims more favorably than masculine sex-typed men and women. The interaction between sex of victim and trauma type was not significant. A positive relation was observed between personal trauma exposure and attitudes towards male victims among male participants only. These findings contribute towards a theoretical understanding of gender and PTSD, and also have important clinical applications.

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Westover, Kathleen. "Do Attitudes About Spoiling Children Affect Attitudes Regarding What Infants Need for Early Social-Emotional Development." DigitalCommons@USU, 2012. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1195.

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Secure infant attachment is important for the positive social-emotional development of children. Many parents have limited understanding of social-emotional development and the influence of appropriate responsive parenting behaviors to their infants’ cues. For example, many parents believe you can spoil an infant if you pick them up every time they cry. Researchers study the impact of positive responses to infants’ cues. Infants form a more secure attachment and learn to interpret the world as a safe place for exploration when parents respond to their signs of distress. In contrast, infants reared with authoritarian parenting styles of strict compliance and harsh punishment develop more insecure attachments. This study measured undergraduate students’ beliefs about spoiling children, child obedience, and parental responsiveness and examined changes in beliefs after instruction in the principles of attachment and the role of caregiver responsiveness in the formation of secure attachment. First, a pretest was administered followed by 1 to 2 hours of in class instruction regarding attachment theory. Next, a posttest was given to determine if in-class instruction had an effect on students’ attitudes regarding spoiling children, child obedience, and parental responsiveness. Students’ beliefs about spoiling children were associated with attitudes about child obedience and parent responsiveness, and students changed their attitudes about spoiling and responsiveness, although not obedience, after instruction. Young adults who have developed an understanding of parental responsiveness and have decreased their fears of spoiling children have the potential to be able to implement more developmentally supportive practices in their own lives as future parents and practitioners in the field of child development.

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Lo, Kwong-pui Francis. "Attitudes to public transport in Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23476527.

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Biteus, Jens, and Michaela Tuiskunen. "ATTITUDES TOWARDS SEXUAL OFFENDERS : A Thesis Comparing Students’ Attitudes towards SexualOffenders and Specific Sexual Offences." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-64774.

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Arruzzo, Kristi L. "The effect of a constructivist social studies unit on student attitudes toward social studies /." Full text available online, 2006. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.

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Lee, Wai-ming Aaron. "Social worker's attitudes to referring child abuse cases to police." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20622247.

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Kristensson, Johan. "Attitudes toward womenin the Swedish police force." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, Department of Behavioural Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-3958.

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This study is aimed to investigate attitudes toward women in the Swedish police force. The main question was to see if there were any difference in the answers by men and women. I have tested 58 male and 28 female police officers, with explicit and implicit instruments. The respondents finished a self-report survey containing a scale for attitudes toward women in the police, the Classic Sexism scale and the Modern Sexism scale. To measure implicit attitudes, the implicit association test was used, where the respondents associated pictures of male and female police officers with positive and negative stimuli words. The data were analyzed using multivariate and univariate analysis of variance. The results showed that men and women do differ significantly on both the explicit and implicit measure. Despite this, there were no negative attitudes to be found in the explicit measure. The implicit measure showed that both men and women show a preference for their own gender when it comes to associate gender and competence as a police officer.

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Kheibari, Athena. "SUICIDE ATTITUDES AND TERROR MANAGEMENT THEORY." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/csw_etds/26.

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Virtually every mental health problem carries stigma, but suicide appears to run so counter to our accumulative, achievement-oriented society, that it poses even greater threat of stigma. While suicide is inherently troubling in that it opposes the fundamental human instinct for self-preservation, the tendency to stigmatize and reject individuals affected by suicide appears to be counterproductive and excessive. Hence, the purpose of this three-manuscript dissertation is to gain a more nuanced understanding of suicide attitudes from an exploratory and terror management theory perspective. More specifically, this dissertation attempts to answer three general questions: (1) how do suicide attitudes differ from other stigmatized deaths – namely, unintentional opioid overdose, (2) does death anxiety and baseline self-esteem impact attitudes toward suicide, and (3) can the effects of death anxiety on suicide attitudes be reversed by temporarily boosting self-esteem? To address the first question, Study 1 compares suicide attitudes to attitudes toward opioid overdose death – another type of stigmatized death that has emerged as a major public health issue in the U.S. in recent years. Study 2 addresses the second question by examining the effect of mortality salience on attitudes toward suicide and by investigating whether participants’ baseline self-esteem will moderate this effect, in keeping with the theory’s claim that self-esteem buffers against death anxiety. Building on the theoretical assumptions of the second study, Study 3 tests whether the effects of death anxiety on suicide attitudes can be reversed by temporarily bolstering the participant’s self-esteem using experimental manipulation. In other words, can cultural worldview validation and self-esteem enhancement inhibit the awareness of personal death and promote prosocial attitudes and behavior? All three proposed studies used quantitative research strategies to examine the research questions detailed above. Study 1 used a traditional questionnaire method to explore and compare attitudes toward suicide and drug overdose death; whereas Study 2 and 3 employed an experimental design to test the MS hypothesis on suicide attitudes. Participants were recruited online using an inexpensive crowdsourcing service called Amazon MTurk. Findings from these studies could have important implications for how we understand the psychological underpinnings of suicide stigma and contribute to the growing body of evidence of the role of existential mortality concerns in hostile attitudes and discriminatory behavior. Not only are we confronted with death reminders in our everyday lives, the topic of suicide is inherently a reminder of death – making the problem of death anxiety even more relevant and unavoidable. These findings could expand our understanding of how cultural worldview and self-esteem are relevant to mitigating death anxiety, and the relationship between death anxiety and suicide.

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