998 Search Results for Personality and Individual Differences
gifted middle school students and the efficacy of the instruction provided by their teachers is entitled A synthesis of research on psychological types of gifted adolescents, which was written by Ugur Sak. One of the particular benefits of this arti Continue Reading...
Anxiety Lahey
Anxiety, Mood and Delusional Disorders
Stress and anxiety related disorders are often derived of a complex set of overlapping symptoms and conditions. Anxiety disorders will frequently be encompassed by mood or personality related dis Continue Reading...
g., they need self-confidence); B2 only works if the employee really fundamentally trusts that "their performance will lead to expected outcomes"; and B3 is successful only if the outcomes truly will satisfy her or him (Green, p. 3-4).
Has the expec Continue Reading...
The researchers argue that the closer this proximity, the greater we may be able to predict the success of a transformational process. Accordingly, the researchers tells that "a key role of all business leaders is defining strategic goals for their Continue Reading...
Bandura's theories can be applied to a number of fields other than the clinical setting.
Social Learning and Social Work
In the field of social work, Bandura's theory has sweeping consequences for workers and the clients that they serve. In the ag Continue Reading...
First, which factors are most likely to influence the development of an eating disorder? What types of social environments are most conducive to healthy vs. unhealthy behavioral patterns? Social demographic issues including race, class, and gender m Continue Reading...
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But there are still many misleading and conflicting findings that affect Congress' efforts in noise control. While some feel that noise is not a distraction if you are used to it, there are other studies that vehemently oppose such c Continue Reading...
Promotion of Diversity: Is it Really Effective?
The effectiveness of diversity in an organization can be seen in the ability of every employee to recognize the differences that others have from them, and the ability of each to consider such differ Continue Reading...
The idea that gender differences in education might be genetically-based is confirmed somewhat in other studies that suggest that some genetic differences might influence achievement in certain areas of education (Zohar, 1998). However, genetic inf Continue Reading...
Public Communications and Public Relations: Why my experiences, interests, studies, and academic background translates into a perfect translation for the needs of the Westminster University program
The art and craft of translation is my passion, and Continue Reading...
Table of ContentsPageChapter 1: IntroductionStatement of the ProblemThe Research Problem ....Background and Justification....Deficiencies in Evidence..AudienceSetting of the StudyResearchers RolePurpose of the StudyChapter 2: Literature ReviewTheoret Continue Reading...
Conflict Management AnalysisIntroductionConflicts arise in organizational life, and often result from a clash in perspectives, approaches, assumptions, goals, and even biases among individuals and groups. Effective conflict management is important to Continue Reading...
Social Work Leadership Theories and Areas of Application
Leadership Theories - Servant
The philosophy and collection of practices constituting the 'servant leadership' style enrich people's lives, improve organizations and, eventually, foster a kin Continue Reading...
Alcohol and Special Populations: Unique Problems and Considerations That Apply to the Military
The military is a special population that has its own culture and its own code of ethics. Its veterans have their own VA hospital and society recognizes a Continue Reading...
Criminology
M8D1: Assessing criminological theories
According to Bernard (2010), individual differences between people are a factor that can explain why some people commit crime while other does not. Individual difference between people leads to so Continue Reading...
While I understand why non-literal meanings are particularly difficult for speakers to comprehend, it seems to me that interlanguage would be easier for people learning second languages, because they can draw from examples of interlanguage from thei Continue Reading...
Crime Theory
In the world of criminology, several theories have been constructed to help legal professionals understand the nature of and motive behind criminal activity. Studying these more closely can help with the rehabilitation of criminals and Continue Reading...
maturation, and why is Piaget's theory a good example of a maturational theory of children's cognitive development?"
Maturation is the way an infant gets to learn to become a proper individual by various maneuvers all through the early stages in li Continue Reading...
manage the effects of pressure and anxiety is an essential component of successful sports competition, but many athletes have difficulty with this. For instance, previous research investigating why Olympic athletes seek the assistance of a sports ps Continue Reading...
In short, the left prefrontal cortex is intimately connected to the cingulate cortex, the source of attentional ability (e.g. Kalish, Wiech, Hermann, & Dolan, 2006), whilst simultaneously serving as site for happiness. The hypothesis of this es Continue Reading...
(Snyder & DeBono quoted in Kjeldal 2003, Introduction section, ¶ 6).
The results from the study Kjeldal (2003) conducted with 70 participants in two stages suggest that the word association responses high self-monitors (HSMs) produce refle Continue Reading...
The Fun Principle stated that as "we take the fun out of physical activities, we take the kids out of them" (Martens, 1996, p. 306). Martens said that learning should be enjoyable and that when winning is pursued in the extreme, it produces behavio Continue Reading...
Consumer Society or Capitalism
Consumer society which evolves out of capitalism has its advantages as well as its disadvantages. But even with its disadvantages, consumer society has now become an accepted from of modern society.
Under the pressure Continue Reading...
role of video games in gender socialization of children growing up. For example, what would parents buy their 9-year-old son on his birthday and would it be different if it was a daughter. Also the effects of video games on the age groups that play t Continue Reading...
Expectancy theory of motivation, which was first created by Victor Vroom, has become a widely accepted theory for explaining how individuals make decisions regarding different behavioral alternatives.
According to Vroom (1964), an individual will ac Continue Reading...
Ethical Imperatives for Rational Paternalism in Advisor-Client RelationshipsInstructions:2/ Here is the one issue that I still dont have clarity on: what is your operational definition of rational paternalism for the purposes of your study? Here are Continue Reading...
Ethical Imperatives for Rational Paternalism in Advisor-Client RelationshipsDissertation ProposalAbstractThis study seeks to understand the role of ethics and rational paternalism in the practice of financial advising. A significant amount of researc Continue Reading...
Effects of Screen Time on ChildrenIntroductionWhat do we know about the effects of screen time use of smartphones, tablets and game consoles, among children ages 10 to 15 and academic achievement? This literature review intends to answer that questio Continue Reading...
Motivation in the WorkplaceMorale. This is referred to as the total satisfaction obtained by a particular person from their work, job, organization, environment, and superiors. It simply implies an individuals happiness, satisfaction, and comfort (Al Continue Reading...
Introduction
All human relationships are based on communication. Effective communication skills are therefore integral to both professional and personal success. Individual differences in temperament and personality, gender and culture, and situation Continue Reading...
Group counseling offers tremendous benefits to clients like Maria when offered as stand-alone interventions or in conjunction with other forms of therapeutic techniques. However, there are major differences between different types, styles, and forms Continue Reading...
Criminology
Offenders: Alex and Derek King (12 and 13 when they killed their father)
Theory: Sampson and Laub's Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control
One basic premise of the Age-Graded criminology and informal social control theory was Continue Reading...
social structures exert a definite pressure upon certain persons in the society to engage in nonconformist rather than conformist conduct," (Merton, 1938, p. 672). With his own italics emphasizing the stress and strain that social structures can pro Continue Reading...
DCT
Dual Coding Theory (DCT) was originally developed for memory research. The basic notion is that images and words influence memory differently. DCT has been applied to reading and has been used to improve reading programs. The assertion is that l Continue Reading...
Americans going to Singapore to entertain the possibility of establishing business there, need to know each of the three cultures prefers to deal.
Religion plays an important part in the cultural life of every country, and a peer-reviewed article i Continue Reading...
Hence, a more corporate attitude is being embraced by pro-vice-chancellors, but the salient question in this article is this: will a university be better off with corporate-style, bureaucratic leadership, or with leadership that pursues academic exc Continue Reading...
Parenting Approaches:
The impact of parents in the development of a child has been an issue of great interest for developmental psychologists. This has led to the discovery of different parenting styles and the impacts they have on children. In most Continue Reading...
g. A Police Office in a large metropolitan area like New York will have different duties and dangers than a County Sheriff in a rural Oklahoma area) (Barlow, 2000).
Rightly so, modern society has a certain level of expectations for its military and Continue Reading...