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Edwards, Tim. "The Influence of Personal, Relational, and Contextual Factors on Forgiveness Communication Following Transgressions in Romantic Relationships." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1430661105.
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Bass, Anneliese Joy Moore Ginger A. "Mutual regulation of parent-infant dyadic interactions synchrony, flexibility, and relations with contextual factors /." [University Park, Pa.] : Pennsylvania State University, 2009. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-4716/index.html.
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Williams, Natalie A. "Mothers' strategies for helping toddlers cope with stress : relations among child, maternal, and contextual factors /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1418076.
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Sardar, Shakir. "Organizational communication and employee’s deviant behavior : exploring underlying mechanisms and contextual factors in the Pakistani manufacturing industry." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Aix-Marseille, 2022. http://theses.univ-amu.fr.lama.univ-amu.fr/221212_SARDAR_607baico621z811audm684al_TH.pdf.
Анотація:
Les chercheurs en communication reconnaissent la nécessité d'élargir et d’approfondir les connaissances dans ce domaine, particulièrement dans les organisations. Une question reste d'actualité : comment la communication organisationnelle impacte-t-elle les attitudes et comportements de travail des salariés ? En plus de cette communication organisationnelle, les chercheurs ont peu exploré les mécanismes sous-jacents et les facteurs contextuels qui pourraient conduire à des comportements déviants. Cette thèse vise à répondre à ces questions. Elle comporte une étude qualitative et une étude quantitative d'employés travaillant dans les industries manufacturières du Pakistan. Pour ce faire, nous avons conclu notre recherche en deux parties. Dans un premier temps, nous avons interrogé des professionnels travaillant dans les industries manufacturières pour comprendre à quel point la communication est essentielle et affecte le comportement au travail des employés. Nous avons réussi à développer une base solide selon laquelle la communication organisationnelle a trois dimensions, à savoir l'adéquation de la communication, le canal de communication et la relation de communication, qui influencent à leur tour l'attitude au travail de l'employé, et plus particulièrement l'engagement et l'identification avec l'organisation. Cette relation est influencée par la culture d’un environnement de travail favorable au sein de l'organisation. S'il y a un déséquilibre dans ces relations, cela peut créer une attitude de travail hostile parmi les employés. Dans une deuxième étape, et dans le but de généraliser nos résultats issus de l’étude qualitative, nous avons développé un modèle de rechercheCommunication researchers increasingly recognize the need to expand the field of organizational communication. One question is still valid: how does organizational communication impact employees' working attitudes and behavior? In addition to that organizational communication, researchers have neglected the underlying mechanism and contextual factors that might lead to one’s deviant behavior. This dissertation aims to answer these questions with qualitative and quantitative studies of employees working in the manufacturing industries of Pakistan. To do so, we have concluded our research in two parts. First, we interviewed professionals working in manufacturing industries to understand how much communication is essential and affects employees' working behavior. We succeeded in developing a strong ground that organizational communication has three dimensions, i.e., Adequacy of communication, communication channel, and communication relationship, which are responsible for influencing the employee’s working attitude, i.e., commitment and identification with the organization. This relationship can be supported moderately by the supportive work environment culture in the organization. If there is a misbalance in these relationships, it can create a hostile working attitude among employees. In the second stage, to generalize our qualitative findings, we have developed a hypothesized research model to test the relationship between organizational communication and employees’ deviant behavior by mediating the role of organizational commitment and organizational identification. We have also tested the moderating role of a supportive work environment in the relationship between
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Jin, Hong-Seok. "A study of contextual factors and management practices in relation to foreign invested enterprises' performance : a focus on organisational adaptation of American and Japanese MNCs in Korea." Thesis, University of West London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439111.
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Guez, Hava. "Psychopathologie et attachement dans la transition à la maternité." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022PA080042.
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La santé mentale périnatale est un sujet de préoccupation sociétale majeure ; le suicide étant devenu la deuxième cause de mortalité maternelle après les maladies cardiovasculaires, soit 13,4% des morts maternelles durant la période périnatale. L’objectif cette thèse était d’étudier la psychopathologie des mères durant la transition vers la maternité en lien avec des variables contextuelles, relationnelles et des représentations d’attachement. Une première étude visait à étudier les trajectoires de dépression et d’anxiété durant la transition à la maternité. Notre échantillon était composé de 148 femmes canadiennes (âge moyen : 21,66). Elles ont répondu à un questionnaire d’informations socioéconomiques, à un inventaire de symptômes psychologiques (Symptom Check-List, SCL-90), à une mesure du stress psychologique (PSM), à une échelle d’ajustement dyadique (The Dyadic Adjustment Scale, DAS) et à un questionnaire de soutien social (SSQ). Dans une seconde étude, nous avons examiné les liens entre burn-out et symptomatologie anxiodépressive. Notre échantillon était composé de 70 femmes françaises (âge moyen : 31,19) qui ont répondu à l’échelle de dépression postnatale d’Edimbourg (EPSD), à un inventaire d’anxiété (STAI Trait/Etat) et à un questionnaire de burn-out parental (Parental Burnout Assessment, BPA). Dans une troisième étude, nous avons examiné les liens entre attachement, symptomatologie anxiodépressive et burn-out, trente-cinq femmes (âge moyen : 31,32) ont répondu à l’EPSD, la STAI Trait/Etat et au PBA. L’Attachment Multiple Model Interview a également été administré pour évaluer l'attachement à chacun des parents et au conjoint. Enfin, pour illustrer les résultats de notre dernière étude, nous avons utilisé le même échantillon avec une approche qualitative.Les résultats ont montré : (1) chez des mères à haut risque sur le plan social, l’existence de trois trajectoires distinctes de dépression et d’anxiété, l’une d’elles avec des niveaux élevés de symptômes qui continuent d’augmenter tout au long de la transition ; (2) que l’environnement familial et personnel de la mère peut être rattachées à un ensemble de facteurs (revenu familial, stress psychologique, satisfaction conjugale, perception du soutien social) qui prédisent les trajectoires de santé mentale tout au long la transition à la maternité ; (3) que des représentations d’attachement désorganisées à la mère sont liées à une symptomatologie composite : symptômes dépressifs et anxiété trait dans le post-partum ; (4) qu’une stratégie d’attachement d’inhibition au conjoint est associée au fait d’avoir un état anxieux dans le post-partum ; (5) que l’anxiété trait médiatise le lien entre représentations d’attachement et burn-out maternel durant le post-partum.Nos résultats soulignent l’importance :- de privilégier les études de trajectoires dans la transition à la maternité. Ces dernières permettent de considérer les différences interindividuelles de profils maternels dans le vécu de l’adaptation, témoignant de la nécessité d’accorder une vigilance particulière pour les mères à risque.- de prendre en compte le contexte personnel et familial dans lequel la grossesse se déroule pour anticiper les trajectoires de dépression et d’anxiété durant le transition à la maternité.- d’une évaluation prénatal permettant un dépistage précoce systématique- d’un dépistage systématique de l’anxiété lors de l’examen prénatal pour prévenir du burn-out.- d’apporter une attention particulière aux modèles et stratégies d’attachement dans le post-partum afin d’intervenir précocement par des psychothérapies efficacesPerinatal mental health is a major societal concern; suicide has become the second cause of maternal mortality after cardiovascular disease, representing 13.4% of maternal deaths. The objective of this research was to study psychopathology among mothers during the transition to motherhood, in relation to contextual and relational variables as well as attachment representations.A first study was aimed at identifying trajectories of depression and anxiety during the transition to motherhood. Our sample consisted of 148 Canadian women (mean age: 21,66 years). They filled in a socio-demographic questionnaire, an inventory of psychological symptoms (Symptom Check-List, SCL-90), a measure of psychological stress (PSM), a dyadic adjustment scale (The Dyadic Adjustment Scale, DAS) and a social support questionnaire (SSQ). In a second study, we examined the links between burnout and anxious-depressive symptomatology. Our sample consisted of 70 French women (mean age: 31,19 years) who completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPSD), an Anxiety Inventory (STAI Trait/Etat), and the Parental Burnout Assessment (BPA). In a third study, we examined the links between attachment, anxious-depressive symptoms, and burnout. Thirty-five women (mean age: 31.32 years) filled in the EPSD, the STAI Trait/Etat and the PBA. The Attachment Multiple Model Interview was also administered to assess attachment to each parent and partner. Finally, to illustrate the results of our final study, we used the same sample with a qualitative approach.The results showed: (1) the existence of three distinct trajectories of depression and anxiety, one of them with a high level of symptoms that continued to increase during the transition to motherhood ; (2) that mothers’ family and personal environments can be linked to a set of correlated factors (family income, psychological stress, marital satisfaction, perception of social support) that predict mental health trajectories throughout the transition to motherhood ; (3) that disorganized attachment in the relationship with one’s own mother is linked to a composite measure of depressive and trait anxiety symptoms in the postpartum period ; (4) that deactivating attachment strategies with the partner are associated with having an anxious state in the postpartum period ; (5) that trait anxiety mediates the link between maternal attachment and parental burnout.Our results highlight the importance of:- prioritizing trajectory studies in the transition to motherhood. They make it possible to consider inter-individual differences in maternal profiles of adaptation, highlighting the need to pay particular attention to mothers at risk.- taking into account the personal and family context in which pregnancy takes place to anticipate the trajectories of depression and anxiety during the transition to motherhood.- a prenatal assessment allowing systematic early detection of mothers at risk.- systematic screening for anxiety during the prenatal examination to prevent burnout.- pay specific attention to attachment models and strategies in the postpartum period in order to intervene early through effective psychotherapies
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Morin, Johanne. "Learning relational cliches with contextual generalization." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/8773.
Анотація:
Inductive logic programming (ILP) is concerned with the problem of inducing concepts represented as logic programs (or Horn clauses) from examples. Top-down inductive learners such as FOIL (Quinlan 1990; Cameron-Jones et al. 1993) learn Horn clauses adding one literal at a time using a hill-climbing search. These learners suffer from local plateaus, where the selection of a conjunction of literals, rather than a single literal, would improve the accuracy of the clause. The problem becomes the search for combinations of literals rather than just single literals. A mechanism to search efficiently through the space of combinations of literals is needed. The FOCL system (Pazzani et al. 1991) solved this problem by giving the concept learner hand-made "relational cliches" which are combinations of literals to consider while learning. The problem is that these cliches are hard to derive and often specific to a domain. So, it would be desirable to learn them automatically. As a part of this thesis, an inductive learner called CLUSE (Cliches Learned and USEd) has been developed that learns combinations of literals called relational cliches. The underlying idea is to learn cliches from examples of a concept and to use them with a hill-climbing learner to escape local plateaus. Cliches are learned from a concept in one domain and used to learn concepts within the same domain as well as across domains. Assuming that cliches are learned and used in the same domain, literals used to express different concepts overlap. Consequently cliches learned from one concept should provide appropriate lookahead to learn concepts in the same domain. On the other hand, these cliches probably have few literals in common with concepts across domains, hence the need for more general cliches. To solve this, CLUSE learns two kinds of cliches: Domain Dependent Cliches expressed as a conjunction of literals specific to a domain, and Domain Independent Cliches where literals have variable predicate symbols. CLUSE is a bottom-up inductive relational learner based on Relative Least General Generalization (RLGG). To remedy the inefficiency and the overgeneralization problems of RLGG, a modified version of RLGG has been developed that exploits the context in which LGG is applied. The modified RLGG is called Contextual Least General Generalization (CLGG). Empirical experiments with CLUSE reveal that cliches learned with CLUSE provide appropriate lookahead to escape local plateaus of a hill-climbing learner both within and across domains. For the purpose of the evaluation, FOIL has been extended to learn concepts with or without cliches. In two domains of application, cliches have proven to be useful. One domain is the real-life application defining structures for the finite element methods (FEM). The other domain is the synthetic domain of blocks, which offers a wide variety of problems (or concepts). Other domains of application such as drug design, text categorization, and detecting traffic problems are also discussed.
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Morin, Johanne. "Learning relational clichés with contextual generalization." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0015/NQ46535.pdf.
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Jenkins, Alexander. "Relational Training Of Contextual Cues And Responses Allocation Towards Slot Machines." OpenSIUC, 2020. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2778.
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Slot machine gambling is the most addictive form of gambling and it is the most popular type of gambling in America (Abbot, 2001). The United States ranks number 1 in annual gambling losses, which equaled to about 40 million dollars (Ghezzi, Lyons, & Dixon, 2000). The present study sought to expand on previous studies by Zlomske & Dixon (2006) and Hoon et al. (2008) by using of contextual cues to teach conditional discrimination relations, one through exclusion, and evaluated the participants' response allocation across four different colored slot machines. Results demonstrated that all of the participants except for one was able to score one correct response when tested on the exclusionary stimuli. Further analysis showed that only a few of the participants' response allocation on the gambling task was altered towards the slot machines that shared the contextual cues of "best" and "greater than".
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TERRAGNI, SILVIA. "Modeling Relational and Contextual Information into Topic Models and their Evaluation." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/365002.
Анотація:
La conoscenza testuale è uno dei pilastri principali della nostra società. Infatti, la conoscenza umana è spesso trasmessa attraverso le parole. Dall'invenzione della scrittura, gli uomini hanno raccontato e descritto la loro esistenza con parole su pezzi di carta. Questa quantità di conoscenza si accumula fino a ciò che l'intera civiltà ha raccolto in più di 5000 anni. Gli storici e gli scienziati sociali e politici cercano modi per capire meglio questa vasta quantità di conoscenza collettiva che non può essere esplorata manualmente.
A questo scopo, i ricercatori di machine learning, statistica e linguistica computazionale hanno sviluppato i topic model, una suite di algoritmi che mirano ad annotare grandi archivi di documenti con informazioni tematiche. La popolarità di questi modelli è dovuta al fatto che sono non supervisionati e che sono interpretabili. I topic model analizzano e riassumono i temi principali, anche detti topic, di grandi collezioni di documenti, presentando le informazioni in una forma compatta e comprensibile.
La maggior parte dei topic model si concentrano solo sulle parole codificate nei documenti. Tuttavia, informazioni aggiuntive possono essere introdotte nei topic model per migliorare le loro prestazioni. Infatti, in molti casi del mondo reale, raramente abbiamo solo i semplici testi da analizzare. Invece, abbiamo informazioni aggiuntive o metadati relativi ai documenti, ad esempio, l'autore del documento, la data, collegamenti ipertestuali ad altri documenti, un insieme di hashtag, menzioni o etichette. Possiamo usare queste informazioni precedenti per aiutare un topic model a scoprire topic di qualità. Per esempio, sapere che un documento cita un altro documento aumenta la nostra fiducia che i documenti parlano degli stessi argomenti.Inoltre, i topic model spesso ignorano l'ordine delle parole e le informazioni contestuali, rendendo difficile dedurre gli topic coerenti e significativi.
Un altro problema nel campo è legato agli iperparametri usati per durante il processo di learning dei topic model. Gli iperparametri sono spesso fissati e pochi ricercatori hanno cercato di studiare il loro impatto sui risultati.
In questa tesi, ci proponiamo di affrontare i problemi menzionati. Introduciamo nuove famiglie di topic model per ottenere prestazioni migliori. Esploriamo anche le questioni relative all'ottimizzazione degli iperparametri progettando e sviluppando un nuovo strumento per fornire ai ricercatori delle linee guida migliori su come usare un topic model.Textual knowledge is one of the main pillars of our society. Indeed, human knowledge is often passed along using words. Since the invention of writing, humans have narrated and described their existence with words over pieces of papers. This amount of knowledge builds up to what the entire civilization has collected over more than 5'000 years. Historians and social and political scientists look for ways to understand better this vast amount of collective knowledge that cannot be manually explored. To this end, researchers from machine learning, statistics and computational linguistic have developed topic models, a suite of algorithms that aim to annotate large archives of documents with thematic information. The popularity of these models is due to the fact that they are unsupervised and that they are interpretable. Topic models analyze and summarize the main themes, or topics, of large collections of documents, presenting the information in a compact and understandable form. Most topic models focus only on the words encoded in the documents. However, additional information can be introduced into topic models to improve their performance. In fact, in many real-world cases, we seldom have only the mere texts to analyze. Instead, we have additional information or metadata related to the documents, e.g., the document's author, the date, hyperlinks to other documents, a set of hashtags, mentions or labels. We can use this prior information to help a topic model discover better topics. For example, knowing that a document cites another document increases our confidence that the documents talk about the same topics. Also, topic models often ignore word order and contextual information, making it difficult to infer high-quality topics. Another problem in the field is related to the hyperparameters used to train the topics models. The hyperparameters are often fixed in experimental settings and few researchers have tried to study their impact on the results. In this thesis, we aim to tackle the mentioned problems. We introduce novel families of topic models to obtain better performance. We also explore the issues related to hyperparameter optimization by designing and developing a novel tool to supply researchers with better guidelines on how to train a topic model.
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Rodgers, Carie S. "Family factors and relational aggression /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978598.
Анотація:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-77). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Trout, Cheryl Lynn. "Assessing contextual factors for immersion programs." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/628.
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Gangamma, Rashmi. "Relational Ethics Among Couples in Therapy." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1222191012.
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McNabb, Robert C. "Contextual and behavioral factors in disciple-making." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.
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Anderson, Jeffrey Ryan. "Understanding Contextual Factors in Regression Testing Techniques." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10365/25547.
Анотація:
The software regression testing techniques of test case reduction, selection, and prioritization are widely used and well-researched in software development. They allow for more efficient utilization of scarce testing resources in large projects, thereby increasing project quality at reduced costs. There are many data sources and techniques that have been researched, leaving software practitioners with no good way of choosing which data source or technique will be most appropriate for their project. This dissertation addresses this limitation. First, we introduce a conceptual framework for examining this area of research. Then, we perform a literature review to understand the current state of the art. Next, we performed a family of empirical studies to further investigate the thesis. Finally, we provide guidance to practitioners and researchers. In our first empirical study, we showed that advanced data mining techniques on an industrial product can improve the effectiveness of regression testing techniques. In our next study, we expanded on that research by learning a classification model. This research showed attributes such as complexity and historical failures were the most effective metrics due to a high occurrence of random test failures in the product studied. Finally, we applied the learning from the initial research and the systematic literature survey to develop novel regression testing techniques based on the attributes of an industrial product and showed these new techniques to be effective. These novel approaches included predicting performance faults from test data and customizing regression testing techniques based on usage telemetry. Further, we provide guidance to practitioners and researchers based on the findings from our empirical studies and the literature survey. This guidance will help practitioners and researchers more effectively employ and study regression testing techniques.
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Catrone, Rocco Giovanni. "Relational training of contextual cues and self-rule formation in simulated slot machines." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1795.
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Between 1% and 1.4% of people who engage in gambling behaviors lead to disordered or pathological gambling (Whiting & Dixon, 2015), while 44% of all money spent on legal gambling is done so with slot machines (Choliz, 2010). Various behavioral concepts have been theorized as a possible source of gambling addition; losses disguised as wins (LDWs), near-miss, gamblers’ fallacy, illusions of control, and verbally constructed self-rules related to these topics. The current study sought to extend the previous research on condition discrimination in altering slot machine preference while also analyzing the effects of vocalized self-rules during slot machine selection. Conclusions are drawn regarding results comparing cumulative selection to various vocal statement categories. Limitations are expressed and future research is suggested.
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Ye, Jiali. "Maintaining Online Friendship: Cross-Cultural Analyses of Links among Relational Maintenance Strategies, Relational Factors, and Channel-Related Factors." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-10092006-150113/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006.1 electronic text (153 p.) : digital, PDF file. Title from title screen. Jaye Atkinson, committee chair; Cynthia Hoffner, Yuki Fujioka, Merrill Morris, Elisabeth Burgess, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Mar. 26, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-135).
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McAra, Marianne. "Participatory design with young people : exploring the experiential, relational and contextual dimensions of participation." Thesis, Glasgow School of Art, 2017. http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/5247/.
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Within the field of Participatory Design, whilst there is rich debate on the participation of children, there lacks an explicit knowledge-base focused on the specific participation of young people in the teenage years. There is a need for a more in-depth and person-centred understanding of how young people participate in and can be transformed by Participatory Design. In this practice-based PhD I apply my Participatory Design practice in a research context and build upon my interests of empowering young people in an adult-centric society through design. In this explorative study, I ask: how can a Participatory Design process engage young people and lead to an understanding of their sense of agency? To answer this, I draw on evidence from my fieldwork where I collaborated with a group of fifteen young people over the course of two years. Implementing a five-phase approach, presented as a single case study, I was able to incrementally build trust and rapport with the group. By transporting the filmmaking technique of direct animation into a Participatory Design context, the young people explored and expressed their experiences of education through experimental and abstract imagery and narrating their films with song lyrics. Here I was able to learn about their localised social and educational practices, motivations, and ambitions – observing what I term agency-in-action. My four contributions to knowledge are based on my understanding and experience of the experiential, relational, and contextual dimensions of participation. Through examining the process of participation, I suggest Participatory Design practitioners develop flexible approaches that support young people to collaborate in both an independent and collective capacity, as well as seek out opportunities to bond with participants to build a relationship based on trust. I also propose a need for practitioners to critically engage with the role of context and the impact localised discourse can have on participation. In seeking to protect the participants’ anonymity whilst at the same time exploring the situational, interactional, and tacit aspects of participation, I developed a novel approach to visually documenting, reflecting, and reporting the findings. I constructed a 3D scale model box of the fieldwork setting and, using my field notes, recreated and re-lived significant and meaningful moments; presenting these as the accompanying Portfolio of Practice. These contributions provide the field with both theoretical and methodological insights that are more relevant to the teenage years. My aspiration is that the findings and approaches developed in this study will be harnessed by, give confidence to, and inspire other Participatory Design practitioners by candidly depicting the journey the young people and I went on, the relationship that developed, the challenges I had to negotiate, and the transformative impact of participation.
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Avgerinakou, Anthi. "Contextual factors of flaming in computer-mediated communication." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2201.
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Instead of viewing 'flaming' in computer-mediated communication (CMC) as an objective feature of CMC messages, this study adopts an innovative communication analysis approach and theorises it as an interactional phenomenon emerging between luman actors influenced by the social situations created in CMC and the roles and relationships the medium's attributes facilitate.
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Fillion, Lila. "Governing Urban Agriculture: : Internal, External and Contextual Factors." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-292290.
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ElectriCITY, a citizenship-driven economic association aims at making Hammarby Sjöstad the most climate-friendly district in Sweden. Their next step is to integrate urban agriculture into the neighborhood. Urban agriculture is, by definition, growing or producing food in a city. It allows, among other things, to increase access to locally grown food for the population nearby and to educate city dwellers on many aspects of agriculture. This project’s goal is to offer a large overview of urban agriculture and its different governance characteristics. In addition to the literature review and to have a better understanding of the relevant stakes of this field, the project was based on six different case studies that introduce various types of urban agriculture governance: SweGreen (Stockholm), Odlande Stadsbasarer (Stockholm), Nature Urbaine (Paris), the WandelGarten (Freiburg), the Tillsammansodling group of Viva (Gothenburg) and Greenhouse (Malmö). The study was built on desk studies, interviews, and two participant observations. It had a focus on the different governance characteristics of the urban agriculture approaches (internal, external, and contextual) based on a distinction between market-oriented projects and non-market-oriented ones. The findings showed similarities between the case studies on different points such as their approaches to sustainability or the need to have external partners and political support. They showed as well the importance to take into account the external and contextual factors for projects to be well-integrated into the urban system.
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Magnusson, Brianna. "Contextual Factors and Reproductive Control in U.S. Women." VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/190.
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Introduction: Access to family planning services is a major public health issue. State policies and funding for family planning services may increase access to contraceptive services and help women avoid unintended pregnancies. Study Design: We identified sexually active, fertile women participants of the National Survey of Family Growth (2006-2008). Women were categorized as consistent or inconsistent users of contraceptives based on self-report. States were classified based on 2006 Medicaid family planning waiver status (income expansions, limited expansions, or no Medicaid family planning expansions), 2006 public funding for family planning in dollars per woman, and insurance coverage of contraceptive mandate status (comprehensive mandate, partial mandate, or no mandate). Multi-level logistic regression was used to estimate the extent to which state-level constructs increase consistent contraceptive use among reproductive aged women at risk of unintended pregnancy. Results: Women living in states with an Medicaid family planning income expansion waiver had 44% increased likelihood of consistent contraceptive use relative to women living in states with no Medicaid expansions (adjusted odds ratio (aOR): 1.44; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.06-1.96). Limited Medicaid expansion was also associated with consistent contraceptive use (aOR: 1.30; 95% CI: 0.91-1.87). Nationwide a median of $86 (Interquartile range: $59-$133) of total public family planning funding was spent per woman in 2006. Higher levels of total public funding per woman for family planning services were not associated with an increase in the odds of consistent contraceptive use among all women (OR:1.05; 95% CI:0.98-1.12) or among women with incomes <250% of the federal poverty level (OR:1.06; 95%CI: 0.96-1.17). Comprehensive insurance coverage of contraceptives mandates increased the likelihood of consistent contraceptive use for privately insured women (aOR: 1.64; 95% CI: 1.08-2.50). Partial mandates were not associated with consistent contraceptive use. No association was observed among uninsured women (aOR: 0.77; 95%CI: 0.38-1.55). Conclusions: Comprehensive insurance mandates and income-based Medicaid eligibility expansions are associated with increased likelihood of consistent contraceptive use. More research is needed to understand the association between public funding for family planning and contraceptive use among women in need of publicly funded services.
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Kawar, Codina. "Parental Infidelity and Relational Ethics: A Dyadic Examination." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1574345666496227.
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Kehres, Irene Burgess Norma J. "Factors associated with teacher intervention in relational aggression." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Summers, Kjersti Maye. "Media and Parents: Socializing Factors of Relational Aggression." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7547.
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Exposure to relational aggression in various contexts has been found to predict relationally aggressive behavior in adolescents. Past research has examined socializing factors of relational aggression separately. The current study expounds upon this research by looking at three important contexts for socialization of relational aggression during adolescence together: media relational aggression, parental psychological control, and couple relational aggression. Specifically, this study looked at how these different socializing factors combine to predict relational aggression. Participants consisted of 423 adolescents and their parents. A person-centered approach was used to determine different profiles. Latent profile analysis found three profiles, including "average" (78%), "high psychological control" (18%), and "high couple relational aggression" (4%). The "high psychological control" group significantly predicted relational aggression in adolescents. Adolescents may be learning from their parents that it is appropriate to treat others in a relationally aggressive way. Parents need to promote a family culture of love and warmth rather than aggression.
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Moos, Daniel Charles. "Learning with hypermedia examining cognitive, motivational, and contextual factors /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/6750.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Human Development. 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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Hodari, Demian. "Strategy tools-in-practice : contextual factors and practical use." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2009. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2599/.
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Norris, Margaret Kathleen. "Contextual factors that enable or disable nurses' professional practice." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341515.
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This study explored the complex world of nursing at a time of humungous change in the delivery of health care services. The initial focus of the research was registered nurses' use of knowledge in professional practice; however this was largely displaced by contextual issues, which emerged from the data. Eraut's (1992,1994) concepts of professional knowledge informed the data generation and the analysis. A broadly qualitative approach drawing on grounded theory and constructivism provided the methodological framework and the research methods involved observation and interview. The sample comprised registered nurses undertaking a four-year part-time degree in nursing studies. Twenty-seven were observed in a variety of clinical settings: sixteen of this group were subsequently interviewed. Six of their managers were then interviewed. Data analysis followed a pattern of literal, interpretive and reflective coding and revealed a number of key issues for registered nurses working in the United Kingdom at the time of the research. The nurses fell into three categories, the survivors, the battle weary and the battle hardened; the largest group being the battle weary. The key causes of the weariness originated from organizational constraints such as low staffing levels, poor teamwork and an inability to give appropriate care to their patients. The effects of battle weariness included low morale, which affected their motivation, tearfulness and a general fatigue. The 'survivors' (a minority) were characterized by a sense of purpose and a fulfillment from their work. The contexts in which the battle weary worked were likened to a war zone with a clearly defined battlefield. Significant changes to the traditional role of the ward sister/charge nurse have left the majority of nurses in this study feeling unsupported and with a lack of clinical leadership. The nurses, often only working at 'D' or 'E' grade, frequently found themselves trying to cope with conflicts in practice with nursing colleagues, with patients and with doctors.Professional knowledge used in practice included communication and interpersonal skills, teamwork, delivering 'hands on' care to patients and coping with the ever changing demands on the nursing time. A number of recommendations are made and include an 'enabling curriculum' for educating nurses at initial and post registration level, a return of the clinical leadership role for ward sisters and charge nurses and a renewal of the focus of nursing practice.
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Van, Niekerk Magdaleen. "Weak states and child soldiering in Africa : contextual factors." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53716.
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Thesis (MMil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the last forty years Africa has been one of the most conflict-ridden regions in the world, resulting in untold human suffering. It has been estimated that between 1955 and 1999 some nine to ten million people have died as a result of violent conflict in Africa. However, those suffering the most in these wars are not merely the defenceless victims of conflict, but also its active perpetrators. More than 120 000 children under the age of 18 years have been forced or recruited to participate in armed conflicts across Africa. Although the use of children in armed conflict is not a new phenomenon, it has never been as widespread and as brutal as during the past decade. Governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations, academic institutions, security institutes and the media have conducted extensive research on the phenomenon of child soldiers, specifically focusing on the demobilisation and reintegration of child combatants. Surprisingly, not much research has been conducted on why particular states are more prone to utilise these little soldiers than others. This thesis attempts to fill that gap by analysing the circumstances under which children are utilised as soldiers in Africa. This aim is divided into three subdivisions, namely to describe the type of states in which children are utilised as soldiers, to analyse the conflicts in which child soldiers are utilised, and to describe the socio-economic conditions that urge children to take up arms. An analysis of the child soldier-phenomenon suggests that it transpires in weak states. These states exhibit very distinct characteristics, including serious problems of legitimacy, the absence of one cohesive national identity, the presence of opposing local strongmen, high levels of institutional weakness, economic underdevelopment, and a vulnerability to external international forces. The weakness of these states is created by the fragmentation of social control amongst various social organisations, which is in turn caused by the expansion of the world economy from Europe and also by colonialism. This fragmentation poses immense challenges to state leaders and forces them to adopt very distinct political policies, which put certain limitations on the process of state-making. In response to this, leaders have adopted a number of social, political and economic strategies. These, together with the socio-economic conditions - specifically poverty - within weak states often create civil violence. These strategies include political centralisation, authoritarianism, ethnic politics, the manipulation of democratic processes and mechanisms, patronage politics and the manipulation of state economic structures and policies. However, in order to successfully execute these strategies, rulers need wealth-creating resources, which usually result in the exploitation of scarce natural resources. Warlords and local strongmen also exploit resources to purchase arms to combat both government forces and opposing strongmen. In addition, large international private companies cash in on the financial advantages accrued from conflict. This leads to the formation of entrenched war economies. In the end then, these wars becomean excuse to plunder natural resources for private enrichment. A very distinct characteristic of these conflicts is the widespread use of child soldiers. All the armed groups in Africa's wars, including government armed forces, paramilitary groups and armed opposition groups, are to a greater or lesser extent guilty of recruiting, forcefully conscripting, press-ganging and deploying child soldiers. However, states that utilise child soldiers all exhibit similar socio-economic characteristics. Poverty is endemic. Famine is widespread and magnifies the problems caused by war and poverty even further. The provision of medical and health care is insufficient because of the vast number of war wounded and the destruction of hospitals and clinics. This is also aggravated by the high numbers of HIV/AIDS sufferers. Schools are destroyed, educational systems are often poorly developed and illiteracy is widespread. In addition, due to years of war and civil unrest, millions of people are displaced and forced to become refugees. These socio-economic characteristics create the ideal breeding ground for the recruitment of child soldiers.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Oor die afgelope veertig jaar was Afrika een van die mees konflikgedrewe streke in die wêreld wat op onbeskryflike menslike lyding uitgeloop het. Dit is bereken dat tussen 1955 en 1999 ongeveer nege tot tien miljoen persone gesterf het as gevolg van die gewelddadige konflikte in Afrika. Maar diegene wat die meeste in sulke oorloë gely het, was nie maar net die weerlose slagoffers van die konflik nie, maar hulle was inderdaad ook aktiewe deelnemers daaraan. Meer as 120 000 kinders onder die ouderdom van 18 jaar is gedwing of gewerf om aan gewapende konflik regoor Afrika deel te neem. Alhoewel die deelname van kinders aan gewapende konflik nie 'n nuwe verskynsel is nie, was dit nog nooit so wydverspreid en so brutaal soos tydens die afgelope dekade nie. Regeringsorganisasies, nie-regeringsorganisasies, akademiese instellings, sekerheidsinstellings en die media het uitgebreide navorsing onderneem oor die verskynsel van kindersoldate, en spesifiek gefokus op die demobilisering en herintegrasie van kinderkrygers. Verbasend genoeg is nie veel navorsing gedoen oor waarom spesifieke state meer gereed staan om hierdie klein soldaatjies aan te wend as andere nie. Hierdie tesis poog om hierdie kennisgaping te vul deur die omstandighede waaronder kinders as soldate in Afrika aangewend word, te analiseer. Die doel hiermee word in drie onderafdelings verdeel, naamlik om die tipes state te beskryf waarin kinders as soldate aangewend word, om die konflikte te analiseer waarin kindersoldate gebruik word en ook om die sosio-ekonomiese omstandighede te beskryf wat kinders aanspoor om die wapen op te neem. 'n Analise van die kindersoldaatverskynsel dui aan dat dit in swak state voorkom. Hierdie state openbaar besonderse kenmerke, insluitende ernstige probleme rakende legitimiteit, die afwesigheid van 'n enkele samebindende nasionale identiteit, die aanwesigheid van plaaslike sterk leiers, hoë vlakke van institusionele swakhede, ekonomiese onderontwikkeling en In blootstelling aan eksterne internasionale kragte. Die swakhede van hierdie state het ontstaan deur die fragmentering van sosiale beheer onder verskeie sosiale organisasies, wat op hul beurt veroorsaak is deur die uitbreiding van die wêreldekonomie vanuit Europa en ook deur kolonialisme. Hierdie fragmentering gee aanleiding tot ontsaglike uitdagings vir staatsleiers en dwing hulle om onderskeidende politieke beleidsrigtings toe te pas wat weer sekere beperkings op die proses van staatsvorming plaas. In antwoord hierop het leiers 'n aantal sosiale, politieke en ekonomiese strategieë aanvaar. Tesame met die sosio-ekonomiese omstandighede - en spesifiek armoede - skep hierdie strategieë dikwels burgerlike geweld binne swak state. Sulke strategieë sluit in politieke sentralisasie, outoritêre oorheersing, etniese beleidsrigtings, die manipulering van demokratiese prosesse en meganismes, die politiek van beskerming en begunstiging, asook die manipulering van die staat se ekonomiese strukture en beleidsrigtings. Maar om hierdie strategieë suksesvol uit te voer, benodig die heersers welvaartskeppende hulpbronne wat gewoonlik uitloop op die uitbuiting van skaars natuurlike hulpbronne. Gewapende aanvoerders en plaaslike onderdrukkers plunder ook hulpbronne om wapens aan te skaf om sowel regeringsmagte asook opponerende onderdrukkers te beveg. Daarby trek internasionale private maatskappye ook voordeel uit die finansiële opbrengste wat uit konflik verkry word. Dit alles lei tot die totstandkoming van verskanste oorlogsekonomieë. In die finale analise word hierdie oorloë bloot 'n verskoning om natuurlike hulpbronne vir eie verryking te plunder. 'n Baie onderskeidende kenmerk van hierdie konflikte is die wydverspreide aanwending van kindersoldate. AI die gewapende groepe in Afrika se oorloë, insluitende regerings se gewapende magte, paramilitêre groepe en gewapende opposisiegroepe, is almal tot mindere of meerdere mate skuldig aan die werwing, gewelddadige rekrutering en aanwending en ook die ontplooiing van kindersoldate. State wat kindersoldate gebruik, toon almal soortgelyke sosio-ekonomiese kenmerke. Armoede is endemies. Hongersnood is wydverspreid en vererger die probleme wat deur oorloë en armoede veroorsaak is. Die voorsiening van mediese- en gesondheidsorg is onvoldoende as gevolg van die hoë aantal HIVNigslyers. Skole is vernietig, onderwysstelsels is dikwels onderontwikkeld en ongeletterdheid is wydverspreid. As gevolg van jare se oorloë en burgerlike onrus word miljoene mense verder ook uit hul huise gedryf en gedwing om vlugtelinge te word. Hierdie sosio-ekonomiese kenmerke skep die ideale teelaarde vir die werwing van kindersoldate.
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Wong, Caitlin Aymong. "Character development and the role of individual & contextual supports:." Thesis, Boston College, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108504.
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Thesis advisor: Jacqueline V. LernerThis dissertation considered character development in adolescence from a relational developmental systems (RDS) perspective through the estimation of trajectories of five character attributes and the associations of these trajectories with the contextual factors of intentional self-regulation (ISR) and prosocial socialization from role models whom adolescents reported knowing personally. Character attributes considered were honesty, humility, diligence, future mindedness, and purpose. Data were taken from the Connecting Adolescents' Beliefs and Behaviors longitudinal study of character development in adolescents from the Northeastern United States. Results demonstrated that multiple trajectories can be estimated for each character attribute, supporting the RDS principles of plasticity and individual differences. Associations were also found among all character attributes considered at every time point. Contextual factors had more nuanced relationships with character attribute trajectories than was expected, with high levels of ISR associated with high start points for all character attributes and for overall character attribute patterns, but not necessarily with sustained high levels of character attributes. Prosocial socialization did not demonstrate a stable association with high levels or increasing levels of any character attribute examined. This pattern of findings suggests that additional contextual aspects should be considered as important aspects of character development. Limitations and future directions are discussed
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2019
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology
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Hamilton, Barbara G. "Perceptions of contextual factors affecting role efficacy : senior NHS managers." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2007. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/842925/.
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Managerial work in National Health Service takes place in a highly complex and volatile emergent context. National Health Service senior managers play a crucial role in implementing structural and cultural change. They make sense of their social, political work environment and their expectations for role efficacy in an individual and highly contextual manner. It is increasingly vital for those responsible for major organizations to understand and manage organisational processes such as directing senior managers more effectively to better enhance organisational capability. This study adopts a social constructionist interpretive approach to identify the unique constructs senior managers use to describe the facilitative and inhibitory contextual factors influencing role efficacy. A repertory grid technique developed by George Kelly (1955) and based on his Personal Construct Theory is applied to a group of National Health Service senior managers at a large District General Hospital to elicit their unique constructs. The study reveals that senior managers believe leadership, team effectiveness and clarity of role and organisational strategic objectives are vital to their role efficacy as change managers. These findings corroborate those of extant literature that has explored factors conducive to change, innovation and entrepreneurship. This study makes a unique contribution to change management literature by presenting rich qualitative descriptions in the words of the senior managers. The study also endorses the repertory grid technique and underlying Personal Construct Theory as productive and appropriate frameworks for use in management research to access valuable tacit knowledge and eliminate researcher bias. These results contribute to the growing body of literature that associates organisational effectiveness with senior and middle manager role efficacy. Suggestions are made for further research.
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Cocksey, Joanne Margaret. "Contextual factors associated with psychological inflexibility and distress in adults." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/7026.
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It is widely accepted in the literature that adverse experiences in childhood, such as abuse and emotional invalidation, pose a major risk factor for the development of psychopathology later in life. What is less known, however, is what processes mediate these associations. This study investigated whether psychological inflexibility – that is, cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance - play a role in mediating these relationships. Although abuse and experiential avoidance have featured prominently in the literature, emotional invalidation and cognitive fusion have been comparatively neglected. 518 adults currently experiencing self-reported psychological distress were recruited from online mental health support forums. They completed questionnaires measuring experiences of abuse and maternal/paternal emotional invalidation in childhood and current levels of cognitive fusion, experiential avoidance and psychopathology in an online survey. Given the interpersonal nature of the childhood experiences, and the impact these may have on attachment relationships, participants were also asked to complete a measure of adult attachment. Regression and path analyses indicated that whilst childhood abuse had a direct impact on adult psychopathology, experiences of maternal and paternal emotional invalidation had indirect relationships with psychopathology via cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance. In terms of predicting current levels of psychopathology, cognitive fusion made the most significant contribution, both directly, and indirectly via experiential avoidance. No reliable predictive relationships were observed between adult attachment and any other variable. The results add novel findings to the literature regarding the role of childhood emotional invalidation and cognitive fusion in the development and/or maintenance of distress. They suggest that clinical interventions aimed at cognitive defusion may be of particular benefit to people currently experiencing psychological distress and, perhaps, those with a history of emotional invalidation. However, the cross-sectional nature of this study limits the causal conclusions that can be made and future research should consider the use of longitudinal designs to extend these findings.
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Jameson, Molly M. "Contextual factors related to math anxiety in second grade children." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1395460.
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Math anxiety is a greatly understudied construct in children. In adult and adolescent samples, research shows that a number of factors are related to math anxiety including negative self-perceptions and outcomes. It is unknown if these same factors are related to math anxiety in children. This study was conducted to identify factors related to math anxiety in second grade children. Using Bandura's (1989) theory of triadic reciprocity as a theoretical model, children (n=91) and their parents (n=81) completed a series of self-report measures on math anxiety, math self-concept, reading self-concept, math self-efficacy, and aspects of the home math environment. Results indicated that the strongest predictor of math anxiety in second grade children was their level of math self-concept. The addition of environmental factors did not significantly increase the amount variance explained in math anxiety. Furthermore, despite research with adults that shows strong gender differences in math anxiety, no gender differences in math anxiety were found in second grade children. The discussion focuses on possible explanations for these findings as well as directions for future research.Department of Educational Psychology
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GAUDIO, CHIARA DEL. "PARTICIPATORY DESIGN AND SOCIAL INNOVATION: THE INFLUENCE OF CONTEXTUAL FACTORS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2014. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=37115@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROEsta tese investiga a ação do designer que atua em contextos sociais de conflito e marginalizados para promover e potenciar processos locais de Inovação Social através de experiências participativas e da estratégia de Design. Por isto, em primeiro lugar, foi desenvolvida uma revisão teórica com relação ao âmbito da contribuição social do Design, às abordagens e práticas mais conhecidas e ao contexto selecionado. Este momento foi preparatório para a fase subsequente de pesquisa que consistiu na implementação de um projeto de Design participativo em uma favela carioca em colaboração com uma ONG local. Ao longo da pesquisa de campo foram coletados dados usando como estratégia a observação participante. Em seguida, os dados foram analisados, sendo identificadas duas macro categorias de investigação, que são fundamentais para o tipo de ação de Design considerada. Trata-se do tempo e dos parceiros de projetos e interesses locais. Ambas foram depois verificadas, compreendidas e detalhadas através de entrevistas com designers e de uma nova fase de revisão teórica. Tudo isso permitiu chegar aos resultados de pesquisa: foram levantadas duas questões que podem influenciar o processo de Design, obstaculizá-lo ou até impedi-lo. Em primeiro lugar, o tempo apresentou-se com um elemento determinante no desenvolvimento de um projeto, capaz de favorecê-lo ou obstaculizá-lo. De fato, podem ocorrer divergências temporais entre o designer e o processo de Design, o contexto e os parceiros de projeto. Em segundo lugar surgiu a influência das forças contextuais exercidas pelos atores locais - e baseadas em interesses e agendas internas - sobre as ações do designer e a sua relação com a estrutura da rede de projeto. Os resultados de pesquisa sugerem que: (1) os fatores contextuais podem influenciar o processo de Design no desenvolvimento de projetos participativos que visam promover processos locais de Inovação Social; (2) a ação do designer em experiências participativas que visam a Inovação Social pode se beneficiar de abordagens que consideram os fatores contextuais; (3) as metodologias e ferramentas desenvolvidas até então para a atuação do designer no âmbito social não são suficientes para a ação. Por fim, a partir disso, a tese promove uma reflexão sobre a proposta de um Design social eficaz e a atual formação em Design neste âmbito.
The thesis investigates the designer s action in conflict and marginalized social contexts aimed at promoting and enhancing local Social Innovation processes through participatory experiences and the Design strategy. Firstly, a theoretical review of the social contribution of Design, of the best-known approaches and practices, and of the selected context was developed. This moment had been preparatory for a subsequent phase of applied research that occurred with the implementation of a participatory Design project inside a Rio de Janeiro slum in collaboration with a local NGO. During field research data were collected through participatory observation. Their later analysis led to identify two key research macro-categories - time, and Design partners and local interests – that were verified and better understood through some interviews with designers and a new phase of theoretical review. All this led to research results: two main issues that may influence, impede or hinder the development of this kind of project were identified. Firstly, time appeared as a fundamental element in project development, able to promote or prevent it. In fact, temporal divergences between the designer and the Design process, between the context and the Design partners may occur. Secondly, the influence of the forces exerted by local actors - and based on interests and inner agendas - on the designer s actions emerged as well as its relation to the project network structure. Research results indicate that: (1) contextual factors may influence the Design process in participatory projects aiming at promoting local Social Innovation processes; (2) the designer s action in participatory experiences may benefit of approaches that consider contextual factors; (3) the methodologies and tools that have been developed to support designer s work in the social field are not enough for action. Finally, this thesis promotes a reflection about the widespread idea of an efficient Social Design practice and about Design education in this area.
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Hulley, Susan (Susan D. ). Carleton University Dissertation Social Work. "Nepean police victim crisis services; contextual factors and service development." Ottawa, 1994.
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Gracie, A. "Relational and cognitive factors in psychosis-related posttraumatic stress disorder." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1417571/.
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Research suggests that the experience of acute psychosis (symptoms and treatment) may be traumatic and precipitate posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and that outcomes may be worse for people affected. The first part of this thesis reviewed studies of psychosis-related PTSD (PR-PTSD), with a particular focus on evaluating the methodologies of research, given the complexities of assessment. Three assessment factors were identified as critical to the reliability of prevalence rates (the timepoint of assessment; the assessment method; and the definition of the traumatic stressor). Sample selection biases were also identified as key to the validity of findings. Additional indicators of quality were judged to be the assessment and control of current symptoms of psychosis; measurement of the subjective meaning of trauma; and the control of co-existing variables such as distress in relation to prior trauma, and current symptoms of psychosis. The second part is an empirical paper which derived hypotheses from a cognitive interpersonal model of psychosis to test the relationship between psychosis-related PTSD and a number of relational and cognitive variables. Thirty participants with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia completed measures of childhood trauma and related PTSD, negative emotional memories, adult attachment, PTSD symptoms in relation to psychosis, fear of recurrence and depression. In addition, current symptoms of psychosis were assessed and Care Coordinators completed a measure of service engagement. Some support was found for the cognitive interpersonal model, particularly with respect to anxious attachment. Anxious attachment and fear of recurrence of psychosis were the strongest predictors of psychosis-related PTSD symptoms, after controlling for the role of current symptomatology. Childhood trauma-related PTSD was associated with PR-PTSD. There was less support for other relational variables and no relationship was found between service engagement, avoidant attachment and PR-PTSD. Part three is a critical appraisal. It assesses the empirical paper in light of the methodological recommendations made in the literature review. It also concerns participant wellbeing, which has been a priority from initial planning of the study and throughout recruitment.
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McIntire, Donald H. "Determinants of parenting stress : child characteristics, parent characteristics, and contextual factors /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487687485809021.
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Haines, Danell Jean. "A case study of injuries and contextual factors in university recreation /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487859313347473.
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Van, den Berg Dirk Nicolaas. "Contextual factors influencing the implementation of an HIV and AIDS programme." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05022009-180244/.
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Adams, Cecily Darden. "African American residential mobility an analysis of individual and contextual factors /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3605.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Sociology. 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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Knoblauch, Deanne E. "Contextual factors and the development of student teachers' sense of efficacy." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1085620654.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 136 p.; also includes graphics Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-136). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Pozzobon, Daniel. "THE ROLE OF CONTEXTUAL FACTORS ON HEALTHCARE OUTCOMES OF MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21220.
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Musculoskeletal pain is a highly prevalent and disabling condition usually presenting with physical function loss and incurring substantial health care costs. The burden of musculoskeletal pain is expected to increase over the next decades due to the aging population and increasing obesity globally. In Europe, the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain is reported to range from 12% to approximately 30%, with research reporting the prevalence of disability-adjusted life years for musculoskeletal conditions having increased 60% between 1990 and 2010. The two most common causes of musculoskeletal pain worldwide are osteoarthritis and non-specific low back pain. Contextual factors related to health conditions may range from lifestyle factors (e.g. practice of physical activity, obesity, food intake, and smoking) to people’s individual characteristics (e.g. sex, genetic factors, and predisposing conditions). The broad aim of this thesis was to investigate the role of specific contextual factors, namely obesity, sex, diabetes, level of physical activity and existing comorbidities on the prevalence, prognosis and management of musculoskeletal pain. One of the most disabling conditions, especially in the elderly population, is osteoarthritis. Despite the potential benefits of surgical interventions for the management of osteoarthritis and the influence of patient characteristics on the disease progression, there is controversial evidence on the association between lifestyle characteristics, namely obesity and physical activity participation, on the clinical outcomes of surgical procedures. Chapter Two presents a systematic review with meta-analysis of 62 cohort studies. This meta-analysis shows that pre-surgical obesity is associated with worse clinical outcomes of hip or knee arthroplasty in terms of pain, disability and complications in patients with osteoarthritis. Due to lack of relevant studies, the impact of physical activity participation is still unclear. Another important cause of disability worldwide is low back pain. It is estimated to have a point prevalence of around 18.3%, a 30-day prevalence of 30.8% and a lifetime prevalence of 84%. Sex is also one contextual factor believed to influence prevalence of low back pain. Chapter Three presents a co-twin control study aiming to quantify the association between sex and prevalence of low back pain. The discordant-pair twin analyses showed, however, no significant association. These results have challenged previous views on the role of sex as a predisposing factor for the development of low back pain. Currently, diabetes is also one of the most commonly reported chronic diseases and patients with low back and neck pain will often report the co-existence of type 2 diabetes. The nature and magnitude of this link was, however, still under-investigated. In this context, Chapter Four presents a meta-analysis of studies assessing the association between type 2 diabetes and the presence of neck, low back or spinal pain (i.e. concurrent back and neck pain). The results suggest that diabetes and low back pain or neck pain are significantly associated. A direct causal link between them is however, unlikely. Recent research shows that exercise, either alone or in combination with education, is an effective strategy to prevent new onset of low back pain. In Chapter Five we have established whether the level of physical activity participation before an acute episode of low back pain predicts recovery within the following 12 months. The findings of this cohort study show that pre-pain levels of physical activity participation are not a significant predictor of recovery from low back pain. Finally, Chapter Six presents a study addressing the effect of comorbidities on the rate of hospital complications for people with low back pain and sciatica. The study used hospital admitted patient data and the analyses on the potential association between comorbidities and hospital complications were adjusted for patient-level (e.g. sex, age) and health care-level (e.g. type of hospital or access to private health insurance) characteristics. The multivariate logistic regression analyses showed that presence of cardiovascular, respiratory and renal comorbidities were independently associated with higher rates of in-hospital complications. The evidence presented in this thesis has established the role of a range of important contextual factors on the prevalence, prognosis and management of people with musculoskeletal pain.
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Groenewald, Johannes Pieter. "Contextual factors impacting on research performance at a young Australian university." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2372.
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High-quantitative and quality research performance is critical to the reputation and success of a university and plays a vital role in developing the socio-economic status of a country. There is, however, limited knowledge about the contextual factors that impact on research performance, especially in universities that are new or not yet research-intensive. One such young university is the Another New Research University (ANRU), the setting for this research. To become competitive and sustainable, especially young universities, need to increase both the quality and volume of their research to improve research performance.
The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify and explore which contextual factors impacted on academics’ research performance at ANRU. The research drew on organisation development and phenomenological theoretical perspectives to make sense of the socially constructed realities of the participants’ lived experience of their research work. A purposefully selected stratified sample of 31 participants was interviewed to explore their experiences of research. The participants included research-active academics and research leaders from both the Humanities and the Natural Sciences Executive leaders were also included as participants. Academics from the departments in the Humanities (DOH), Sciences (DOS), and leaders (RLC) provided three datasets. The transcribed datasets were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as the primary technique supported by analysis techniques advocated in grounded theory.
Reported experiences led to the identification of three contextual themes, namely: personal, work and external contexts. These contexts comprise 11 contextual factors in total from the three independent cases. Participants rank-ordered these factors to indicate which three factors most facilitated, and which three factors most hampered, their research. The three most facilitating factors, overall, were the personal profile, academics’ interactions, both from the personal contextual theme, and community impact from the external contextual theme. In contrast, the factors that constrained research performance the most, namely financial resources, work content, and environmental capability were all from the work contextual theme. Data from the six high impact factors revealed distinct differences amongst the different academic levels and between the two broad disciplines. The contextual work theme highlighted the most apparent differences.
Not only did the study contribute new insights about the personal context and external context to the commonly studied work context domain, but it also highlighted the potential and compounded impact that these three contexts could have on research performance. Experiences reported by the participants led to insights about the wellbeing of academics being affected by role identity issues and competing demands. These role identity issues were mainly because of approach-approach conflicts amongst professional, teaching and research sub-identities nested in the academic role.
The results from this research have allowed the development of a theoretical framework and a high-performance adaptive model that could guide the implementation of comprehensive and integrated strategies to improve research performance at mainly young universities.
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Lau, Wing-shuen Erica. "The acceptance of peer coaching and its relationship with school contextual factors and teachers' individual factors." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29791224.
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Theuri, Naomi. "Gender and Contextual Perspective in Countering Violent Extremism (CVE): Examining Inclusion of Women and Contextual Factors in Online Approaches to CVE." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25174.
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A holistic approach to Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) in the Internet Environment and Social Media is essential. This thesis focuses on gender and context consideration in online approaches to CVE through use of a literature review and samples of online counter-narrative campaigns. This has led to determination of the extent to which gender and context have been considered in online approaches to CVE and identifying what they mean for CVE online, while highlighting full participation of women in online approaches that are aimed at countering violent extremism as well as the critical role of contextual factors in online approaches to CVE. In addition, the thesis shows that more research is needed to fill the gaps identified. These gaps are the role of women in online CVE campaigns as well as contextual factors that are associated to violent extremism. More so, online narratives should be all rounded since this study found that CVE narratives have failed to identify a predictable psychosocial trajectory to explain de-radicalization processes that are crucial to disengage radicals.
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Neves, Sonia Maria Mello. "The emergence of equivalence relations in children : a study of the effects of naming relational terms and contextual control." Thesis, Bangor University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359348.
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Van, den Berg Dirk Nicolaas. "Contextual factors affecting adolescents' risk for HIV/AIDS infection implications for education /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03172005-121034/.
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Ventouras, Athanasia. "Contextual factors in unsuccessful teaching practica : the perspective of the teacher candidate." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57744.
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Failure, or the need to repeat a practicum, in the Teacher Education program occurs for approximately 10% of teacher candidates (Clarke, 2015). This study examined ways in which the practicum context served or hindered teacher candidates who were required to repeat their practicum. Data were collected by an anonymous online survey of teachers who repeated and subsequently completed their practicum [to determine the factors believed to have contributed to their need to repeat their practicum], followed by interviews of three survey participants. Experiences of the researcher are also included in the data set. Five themes emerged from the data as contributing factors to needing to repeat a practicum. They are: excessive workload, inappropriate feedback, poor relationships with mentors, role models who could not demonstrate best practice, and personal limitations. The results of this study confirm the importance of attending to contexts of the practicum setting. In particular, there is a need for mentoring practices to be refined. The results also support the need for a more integrated approach to teacher education.Education, Faculty of
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Yang, Tieh Chung. "Rethinking washback : the interplay of beliefs and contextual factors to mediate pedagogy." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/18370.
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This study addresses issues of English as a foreign language (EFL) practice in the attainment-oriented context at the tertiary level. Referring to the widespread use of testing as an instrument for the enhancement of teaching quality, the study stresses the importance of teachers’ epistemological beliefs and other contextual factors to mediate teacher’s pedagogical decision-making. Four EFL teachers at Air Force colleges in Taiwan were selected to participate in the present research. The EFL teachers’ beliefs were collected by semi-structured interviews, and actual classroom practices were analyzed through a taxonomy of teachers’ questions, a taxonomy of teachers’ corrective feedback and Communicative Orientation Language Teaching (COLT) scheme analysis. The evidence of this case study generated four archetypal patterns of washback based on aligned or oppositional beliefs and its contexts. The study concludes that test designers’ expectations to use a test to innovate the curriculum do not always produce the desired results. Education reform that requires pedagogical changes of practitioners but fails to provide re-attribution training and sufficient resources to effect belief changes will likely yield resistance and pressure. Finally, implications of four archetypes of washback on the teaching of English are presented in order to sustain the successful testing, teaching, and learning.
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Osuji, Hadiza L. "Contextual Factors and Direct Exposure to HIV| Influences on Youth Sexual Intention." Thesis, Walden University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3707711.
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Youth are having sexual intercourse at an early age and as such, are engaging in risky behaviors that are associated with adverse health outcomes, including HIV infection. Little research has been undertaken to examine the influence of contextual factors on youth intentions to delay sexual involvement. To address that gap, this study aimed to examine the influence of age, gender, race, immigration status, HIV knowledge, HIV-related stigma, concern about HIV, direct exposure to HIV/AIDS, peer pressure, and religious influence on youth intentions to delay sexual involvement. Delayed sexual involvement was conceptualized as youth attitudes towards abstaining from sex, their knowledge of the consequences of sexual involvement, and perceived parent or peer disapproval of the behavior. The theory of reasoned action was used as a framework to guide the study. The cross-sectional study involved secondary data analysis of baseline data pooled from a program evaluation. The sample included 536 urban low-income African American and Latino youth aged 11 to 16 years at high risk of HIV/AIDS. Multiple linear regression analyses revealed that the weighed combination of the predictor variables, age, gender, race, immigration status, HIV knowledge, direct exposure to HIV/AIDS, peer pressure, and religious influence explained the greatest variance of intention to delay sexual involvement (R2 = .246, p < .05). Also observed was a significant relationship between age, gender, and sexual intentions across the regression models. These findings can enhance HIV prevention and social change initiatives because of the potential to impact youth early sexual debut, reduce risky sexual behavior, and consequently decrease the rates of HIV infection among youth.
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Feldman, Marissa Alexis. "Cyber-Bullying in High School: Associated Individual and Contextual Factors of Involvement." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3099.
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For the past several decades, researchers have extensively investigated the impact of bullying on the nation's youth. Although we may now have a better understanding of these maladaptive behaviors, recent technological advances have created a new forum for bullying. The current study investigated adolescent experiences with cyber-bullying using a self-report survey. Youth (N=2,086) from five high schools (grades 9-12) were surveyed to identify individual, peer, parenting, and school factors hypothesized to be related to involvement in cyber-bullying as a victim, perpetrator, or both. Results indicated that cyber-involvement was related to a variety of psychosocial factors, with students who were both perpetrator and victim (i.e., cyber-bully/victims) reporting worse psychosocial functioning and poorer relationships than youth classified as cyber-bullies, cyber-victims, and cyber-uninvolved. Additionally, the academic and behavioral correlates of involvement in this new and growing form of bullying were examined using school records. Inconsistent associations between cyber-bullying and school performance variables were accounted for by differences in the frequency and intensity of behaviors used to define cyber-bullying. Proposed moderators were investigated to determine whether social support buffered the negative psychosocial correlates found for adolescents involved in cyber-bullying. Social support was generally related to better psychosocial functioning for all youth, with the exception of cyber-bully/victims. Results may inform the design and implementation of universal prevention and intervention programs, as well as improve schools' ability to identify youth at risk for involvement in this rapidly growing social phenomenon.