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The Role Of Exploration And Critical Decision Making And Problem Solving In Making Life Choices, Ondina Arrufat
The Role Of Exploration And Critical Decision Making And Problem Solving In Making Life Choices, Ondina Arrufat
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Although the literature on the types of abilities and processes that contribute to identity formation has been growing, the research has been mainly descriptive/correlational. This dissertation conducted an experimental investigation of the role of two theoretically distinct processes (exploration and critical problem solving) in identity formation, one of the first to be reported. The experimental training design (pre-post, training versus control) used in this study was intended to promote identity development by fostering an increase in the use of exploration and critical problem solving with respect to making life choices. Participants included 53 psychology students from a large urban university …
Social And Cultural Influences In The Formation Of Identity: A Cross-National/Cultural Study., Ervin Briones
Social And Cultural Influences In The Formation Of Identity: A Cross-National/Cultural Study., Ervin Briones
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This multi-site, multi-ethnic/cultural study examined the effects of variation between ethnic/cultural groups and the effects of institutional variation within ethnic/cultural groups on identity formation. The participants were 892 late adolescent college students from six sites in 5 countries (Brazil, China, Costa Rica, US, and Sweden) representing different linguistic and ethnic/cultural traditions living in the context of varied social conditions. As hypothesized, there were significant differences in the proportion of identity statuses between sites in the Personal domain, X2(20, N=858)= 164.78, p2(20, N=858)= 145.69, p2(20, N=858)= 120.89, p
Intra-Organizational Turnover In A Self-Selective Team Environment, Sharon Anne Israel Dolfi
Intra-Organizational Turnover In A Self-Selective Team Environment, Sharon Anne Israel Dolfi
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Four-hundred twenty-seven firefighter/paramedics and firefighter/emergency medical technicians completed questionnaires regarding past and current turnover decisions. The employees, who work in teams of either three or four, have a collective bargaining benefit that allows them to "bid for" (request) new positions/teams every six months; positions are awarded on the basis of seniority. Because employees are leaving neither the organization nor their job, the "bid" process creates intra-organizational turnover on a regular basis. It was hypothesized that those individuals higher in teamwork/social cohesion expectations, higher in interpersonal orientation, and lower in conflict tolerance would report placing greater importance on interpersonal reasons (teamwork/social …
Contingent Maternal Attention As Determinant Of Infant's Protest Responses In Dark And Light Contexts, Aida Isabel Sanchez
Contingent Maternal Attention As Determinant Of Infant's Protest Responses In Dark And Light Contexts, Aida Isabel Sanchez
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When infants confront darkness, a context many consider to be aversive and to elicit fear responses, their protests are often taken to denote fear of the dark. A functional analysis using the operant-learning paradigm was conducted of the role of contingent versus noncontingent maternal attention on protests when confronting darkness, in each of 10 human infants. In the laboratory, each mother served as interactor, her behaviors prompted by the experimenter. Identified were the controlling antecedents and consequences that shape and maintain infants' protests in darkness, and under an illuminated control condition. For every one of the 10 single-within subject designs, …
Contingent-Relations Description Facilitates Rule-Following In A Subsequent Generalization Task, Noel Alexander Crooks
Contingent-Relations Description Facilitates Rule-Following In A Subsequent Generalization Task, Noel Alexander Crooks
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The present study examined if the opportunity to describe contingent relations after a matching-to-sample conditional-discrimination training procedure differentially affected participants' performances on a generalization task; and if verbal feedback differentially affected the number of trials-to-criterion during training. Eighty college students were randomly assigned to one of four groups (N=20/group). Group 1 received verbal feedback congruent with computer generated contingencies. Group 2 received verbal feedback incongruent with these contingencies. Group 3 received no verbal feedback but was asked to write a description of their correct responses before the generalization test. Group 4 received neither verbal feedback nor the opportunity to write …