Dissertations / Theses: 'Attitude measuring'

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Saunders, Lance Walter. "Measuring Safety Attitude Differences in the Construction Supply Chain." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/20378.

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Construction worker safety is normally a construction activity in the United States, even though there is an emerging body of literature discussing the positive effects of considering safety earlier in the construction lifecycle. This literature has discussed the fragmentation in terms of safety attitudes between owners and designers and those carrying out the construction of a project. Quantitatively identifying the specific areas that the differences exist in terms of safety attitudes between common roles on a construction project could be a step toward reducing the fragmentation that currently exists in the work system and promoting safety to be more of a consideration earlier in the project lifecycle. One common technique for measuring safety attitudes is the use of safety climate survey instruments, but in the construction industry these have historically focused on just construction personnel. This research will discuss the development of a survey instrument to measure differences in safety attitudes between typical members of the entire construction project work system in order to identify specific areas that gaps exist. Phase I of the research include the development of an instrument using Mohammed\'s (2002) survey as a base, validation of the measurement model using Confirmatory Factor Analysis, and using applied nonparametric statistics to analyze the data and identify significant differences. These results will be used in Phase II to develop a training tool to educate relevant project personnel on differences that were identified in Phase I, and to determine the best mediums for conveying this type of information.
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Townsend, Lisa Dawn. "The Conceptual Adequacy of the Drug Attitude Inventory For Measuring Youth Attitudes Toward Psychotropic Medications: A Mixed Methods Evaluation." online version, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=case1216162396.

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Collins, William C. "An empirical investigation of the DFIT framework for measuring DTF and DIF in a polytomous satisfaction scale." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28923.

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PARIKH, NIRAV RAJENDRA. "LOW-COST MULTI GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR SHORT BASELINE ATTITUDE DETERMINATION." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1163482121.

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Xu, Xiaoying. "Evaluation and Application of Instruments Measuring Spatial Ability and Attitude for College Chemistry Students." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5599.

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Student performance in college chemistry courses remains a concern for educators seeking to help improve the future STEM workforce. Besides math ability and prior chemistry knowledge, spatial ability and attitude toward chemistry have been considered as important factors influencing college chemistry performance. This work includes five studies and uses data collected from instruments to examine the relationships of these two factors - spatial ability and attitude - with student chemistry performance, and provides psychometric evidence for using the Purdue Visualization of Rotations test (ROT) and Attitude toward the Subject of Chemistry Inventory (ASCIv2) to measure these two factors, respectively, in college chemistry classrooms. The first two studies are about the evaluation and application of the ROT to measure the spatial ability of college chemistry students. Study 1, Sex difference in spatial ability for college students and exploration of measurement invariance, examines whether ROT items function in the same way between sexes. This study provides evidence that the ROT is an appropriate tool to measure the mental rotation component of spatial ability for college students. Results indicate the bi-factorial structure of ROT items, with each of the five items sharing the same rotation pattern. Thus, the item score is influenced by the general construct of mental rotation ability and the item rotation pattern. In addition, ROT items function in the same way across sexes; therefore, they can support the use of ROT for examining sex difference with less concern about test bias. A sex gap favoring males persists in the data. The second study, The role of spatial ability in students' progression through organic chemistry, examines whether students who scored low on the ROT in general chemistry are less likely to advance through organic chemistry, and the relationship of spatial ability to organic chemistry course grades for students who completed organic chemistry courses. The findings indicate that the ability to perform mental rotations, as measured by the ROT, does not present a barrier for students seeking to advance and succeed in the organic chemistry course sequence in the current setting after other factors, such as math ability, are held constant. For students who were at the low end of ROT, alternate approaches can be used to compensate for the lack of mental rotation ability to solve spatial-related chemistry problems, as suggested by the literature. The next three studies are about the evaluation and application of the ASCIv2 to measure student attitude toward chemistry. The ASCIv2 is based upon a previous publication, Refinement of a chemistry attitude measure for college students. Study 3, Attitude toward the subject of chemistry in Australia: An ALIUS and POGIL collaboration to promote cross-national comparisons, and Study 4, Gathering psychometric evidence for ASCIv2 to support cross-cultural attitudinal studies for college chemistry programs, gather psychometric evidence for the use of ASCIv2 internationally. The purpose for these two pilot studies is to investigate how ASCIv2 functions at multiple sites where the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) is implemented with one of the objectives being to foster a positive attitude toward the subject in general. One student cohort is from a university in Australia, and the other is from a Saudi Arabian institution. The findings suggest ASCIv2 can be an appropriate tool to measure attitude in an Australian context; however, Saudi Arabian student cohorts responded differently to the item (chemistry is challenging vs. unchallenging), which raises concern about using these items to measure the attitude subscale for students in Saudi Arabia. As compared to Australian and Saudi Arabian students, US students at SE exhibited a negative attitude towards chemistry. Special attention should be paid to ways of getting students more interested in Chemistry. The last study, College students' attitudes toward chemistry, conceptual knowledge and achievement: structural equation model analysis, examines the contribution of attitude to chemistry performance when math ability and prior chemistry conceptual knowledge are controlled. Results reveal that a full SEM model using three predictors at the beginning of the semester can explain a very high percentage (69%) of the variance in chemistry achievement at the end of course. Both prior conceptual knowledge and attitude toward chemistry contribute a significant unique portion to the prediction of chemistry achievement when controlling for math ability. Therefore, we should not ignore the importance of student conceptual understanding and attitude. Additional analysis was performed using both ROT and ASCIv2. Results from multiple regression analysis indicate that the unique contribution of the ROT score to the ACS general chemistry exam score is not significant when other variables, such as attitude and math ability, are controlled.

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Mitsell, Maria, Annie Johansson, and Sanna Lindberg. "Branding : - A research measuring brand involvement and brand attitude and their effects on buying intention." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-19086.

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The purpose of this thesis was to investigate if there is a relationship between brandinvolvement, brand attitude and buying intention. From the purpose, two hypotheses weredeveloped. Brand involvement has a positive impact on brand attitude and a positive Brandattitude has a positive impact on buying intention. They were tested on the eventMöbelriksdagen. A quantitative method was used, an e‐mail questionnaire was sent out to400 previous participants to Möbelriksdagen and 80 of them responded. The result showsthat the hypothesis is supported. There is a clear connection between both brandinvolvement and brand attitude, and between brand attitude and buying intention. Thesefindings give organizations an understanding of the importance of having involved customersto affect the brand attitude, buying intention and event participation. Recommendations arepresented and could help organizations to know what is important to focus on when theywant to affect buying intention and event participation.

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Greenberg, Stuart Elliott. "Measuring absence cultures: an examination of absence perceptions of males and females." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44639.

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Absenteeism was explored from a social psychological perspective. The purpose was to measure the absence cultures (Nicholson and Johns, l9S5) of male and female employees through the use of policy capturing (Hobson and Gibson, l9S3). Absence was split into three dimensions: Personal Health, Stress Relief, and Family Responsibility (Nicholson and Payne, l9S7). One hundred and two employees of a large southeastern university were used as subjects. They were asked to give their own opinion and their opinion of their organization's view about the inappropriateness/appropriateness of the absence behaviors in the 27 policy capturing vignettes. They were also asked to give their subjective weighting of how they used each dimension to make their overall rating.

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Kurthakoti, Raghu. "THREE ESSAYS ON MEASURING PRODUCT PLACEMENT EFFECTIVENESS IN MOVIES: ECONOMIC WORTH, FORGETTING AND ATTITUDE TOWARD NEGATIVE PLACEMENTS." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/415.

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Product placements are gaining more importance in corporate marketing communication budgets and marketers need to understand the effectiveness of these placements to justify investments into them. Three studies were conducted to study the effectiveness of product placements in movies. Essay one studied the economic worth of product placements on the long term profitability of the firm through an event study. Analysis of 467 placements of movies released during 1968-2007 shows that product placements generate a mean cumulative abnormal return of 0.21% during the (-1, +2) event window. Hierarchical linear modeling of the abnormal returns in cross-sectional analysis indicates that placement duration positively impacts the abnormal returns. Placement blatancy was found to negatively affect placements' worth. We did not find any support for the effect of critical reviews or presence of a star director on the worth of product placements. Crime and comedy genres were found to positively affect abnormal returns of placements. Additional MANCOVA analysis, using different event windows as the dependent variable, suggests that a period of two weeks might be required after a movie's release for the information about placement execution factors to be incorporated by the market in its evaluation of the firm. In essay two we study the effectiveness of product placement from a memory perspective by means of a longitudinal study, using a student subject panel. Subjects were exposed to a full- length movie and recognition was tracked at weekly intervals for a period of four weeks. Results of a dynamic panel analysis using generalized estimating equations indicate that audience recognition for a movie placement significantly diminishes one to two weeks after exposure to the movie. In addition, recognition of placements is enhanced by audiences' attitude toward product placements. Recognition is further affected by placement execution factors. Specifically, we found that audio placements and placements of longer duration positively affect placement recognition. Plot connectivity and character association did not significantly impact recognition over time. Essay three examines the impact of brand-character association on consumer attitude toward the placed brand. A 2x2 within subjects experiment, using a full-length movie as a stimulus, was conducted on a panel of student subjects to assess the interaction effect of character-brand valence on consumer attitude. Results support a significant interaction between character and brand valence. Analyses also indicate that congruency between character and brand valence enhances affective measures toward the placed brand, supporting the congruency theory and Meaning Transfer Model. Additionally, we found that brand familiarity fully mediates the character-valence interaction. Limitations and Implications of the studies were also discussed.

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Mellott, Deborah S. "Measuring implicit attitudes and stereotypes : increasing internal consistency reveals the convergent validity of IAT and priming measures /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9169.

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Chen, Kuan-Chou. "Associating corporations with collegiate athletics through facility naming rights sponsorship measuring the effects on consumers attitude and purchase intention /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0041314.

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Wallace, Connie M. "Measuring changes in attitude, skill and knowledge of undergraduate nursing students after receiving an educational intervention in intimate partner violence." Click here for access, 2009. http://www.csm.edu/Academics/Library/Institutional_Repository.

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Thesis (Ed. D)--College of Saint Mary -- Omaha, 2009.
A dissertation submitted by Connie M. Wallace to College of Saint Mary in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctorate in Education with an emphasis on Health Professions Education. This dissertation has been accepted for the faculty of College of Saint Mary. Includes bibliographical references.

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Ashouri, Rad Armin. "Three Essays on Dynamics of Online Communities." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71641.

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Essay #1: Reconstructing Online Behavior through Effort Minimization Data from online interactions increasingly informs our understanding of fundamental patterns of human behavior as well as commercial and social enterprises. However, this data is often limited to traces of users' interactions with digital objects (e.g. votes, likes, shares) and does not include potentially relevant data on what people actually observe online. Estimating what users see could therefore enhance understanding and prediction in a variety of problems. We propose a method to reconstruct online behavior based on data available in many practical settings. The method infers a user's most likely browsing trajectory assuming that people minimize effort exertion in online browsing. We apply this method to data from a social news website to distinguish between items not observed by a user and those observed but not liked. This distinction allows us to obtain significant improvements in prediction and inference in comparison with multiple alternatives across a collaborative filtering and a regression validation problem. Essay #2: Measuring Individual differences: A Big Data Approach The amount of behavioral and attitudinal data we generate every day has grown significantly. This era of Big Data has enormous potential to help psychologists and social scientists understand human behavior. Online interactions may not always signify a deep illustration of individuals' beliefs, yet large-scale data on individuals interacting with a variety of contents on specific topics can approximate individuals' attitudes toward those topics. We propose a novel automated method to measure individuals' attitudes empirically and implicitly using their digital footprints on social media platforms. The method evaluates content orientation and individuals' attitudes on dimensions (i.e. subjects) to explain individual-content ratings in social media, optimizing a pre-defined cost function. By applying this method to data from a social news website, we observed a significant test-retest correlation and substantial agreement in inter-rater reliability testing. Essay #3: Social Media and User Activity: An Opinion-Based Study An increasing fraction of social communications is conducted online, where physical constraints no longer structure interactions. This has significantly widened the circle of people with whom one can interact and has increased exposure to diverse opinions. Yet individuals may act and respond differently when faced with opinions far removed from their own, and in an online community such actions could activate important mechanisms in the system that form the future of the outlet. Studying such mechanisms can help us understand the social behaviors of communities in general and individuals in particular. It can also assist social media outlets with their platform design. We propose models that capture the changes in individuals' activities in social media caused by interacting with a variety of opinions. Estimating the parameters of the models using data available from a social news website (Balatarin) as a case study, we extracted mechanisms affecting the communities on this platform. We studied the effect of these mechanisms on the future formation and the lifecycle of the platform using an agent-based simulation model. Having examined the effect of biased communities on the social media, the results imply that individuals increase their online activity as a result of interacting with contents closely aligned to their own opinion.
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Park, YoongSoo. "The development and field testing of an instrument for measuring citizens' attitudes toward public school funding in terms of equity, adequacy, and accountability." Ohio : Ohio University, 2010. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1268147159.

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Love, Ann Marie. "Measuring attitudes toward assertive responding." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/941583.

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The focus of the present study was the measurement of attitudes toward people acting in an assertive manner, compared to those who are acting in an aggressive or passive manner. Earlier studies suggest there are several mitigating factors on social judgments of assertiveness. These include: sex of the assertor (model), sex of the subject, the assertion situation, and the degree of empathy or consideration in the assertive response. The present study sought to investigate the roles of subject sex, model sex, and situation on social judgments of assertiveness. Further, an empathic assertive condition was included to allow a comparison between ratings of empathic assertive and assertive responses. The empathic assertive response paired assertiveness with extra consideration and understanding toward the other person.Each of 150 university undergraduate subjects (75 men and 75 women) reviewed one written vignette from each of four situations (i.e., work, class lecture, telephone solicitation, dating). Model sex and behavioral response style were randomly assigned. A 26 item personality inventory (Interpersonal Attraction Inventory) was completed by each subject for each vignette.Significant main effects were revealed for both behavioral response style and situation. Subject ratings of behavioral response style were as follows, from least to most favorable: aggressive, passive, assertive, and empathic-assertive. Subject ratings of situation were as follows, from least to most favorable: date, telephone solicitor, work, lecture. The only significant interaction was between behavioral response style and situation. There were no significant main effects or interactions for subject sex or model sex.The present results contradict earlier studies in which passive women were rated significantly more positively than assertive women. Given the time elapsed between the present data collection (1993) and the majority of earlier studies (1987 and earlier) it is possible that sex role change is responsible. In addition, results indicate that what was referred to as empathic assertion in the present study may be a socially distinct class of behavior from assertive behavior. Clearly more research is required in order to confirm a societal sex role change, differences between assertiveness and empathic assertiveness, and generalizability of the present results.
Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

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Legault, Benoit. "Measuring risk attitudes of Quebec dairy and hog producers." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59539.

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The objective of this study is to investigate the degree of risk aversion towards investment in the Quebec hog and dairy sectors. The Direct Elicitation of Utility function was employed to determine producers' degree of aversion to risk. The Delphi technique was also introduced as a means of obtaining more refined and realistic information. The highly diverse risk attitudes which vary between extremely concave and extremely convex utility functions indicate, on average, a slightly risk averse behaviour for both farming groups. Dairy producers have 69% risk-averse, 10% close to risk-neutrality and 21% risk-loving individuals for the $100,000 investment game in the EP format. These figures are respectively 69 %, 6 % and 23 % for hog producers. Hog farmers are found more averse to risk than dairy producers, but more significantly at higher levels of investment. Integrated and non-integrated hog producers do not show any conclusive differences with respect to their risk preferences.

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Patterson, Douglas Mark. "Measuring attitudes regarding mobility and urban form in Calgary." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq20880.pdf.

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Broström, Jessica, and Kajsa Nilsson. "Äldre personer i vården - smärta och smärthantering : Faktorer som påverkar äldre personers vardagliga liv till följd av brister i bedömning och hantering av smärta." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-4617.

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Bakgrund: Smärta och äldre personer är centrala delar i sjukvården. Smärta är en subjektiv upplevelse och påverkar en person både psykiskt och fysiskt. Smärta är komplext och det finns många anledningar till att smärta uppkommer. Många äldre personer i samhället får inte korrekt smärtlindring vilket kan bero på attityder och felaktiga bedömningar. För att underlätta bedömningen av smärta finns det instrument som vårdpersonal kan ta hjälp av för att underlätta bedömningen av äldre personers smärta. Syfte: Att beskriva hur äldre personer upplever smärta och hur den handhas på vårdenheter. Metod: En litteraturöversikt som byggts på tio vetenskapliga artiklar. Artiklarna har hämtats från CINAHL complete. Sökord som har använts i studien: Perception, aged, analgesia, nursing, pain, pain assessment, older adults, aged 80 and over, patient, pain measurement, interviews. Den teoretisk referensram som användes var Katie Erikssons teori om lidande som syftar på att lidandet är en del av livet och är ett skydd för den enskilda individen. Resultat: Analysen av resultatdelarna delades upp i tre teman: Smärta och äldre, som belyser hur smärta kännetecknas hos äldre. Identifiering och bedömning av äldre personers smärta, belyser bedömningen av äldre personers smärta och bedömningsinstrument för att mäta smärta samt hur smärta hanteras, som belyser behandling av smärta hos äldre personer. Diskussion: De två teman som togs upp i diskussionen var smärta och äldre samt bedömning av äldre personers smärta. Dessa har diskuterats mot Katie Erikssons teori om lidande och konsensus begreppet vårdande.
Background: Pain and elderly people are central parts of healthcare. Pain is a subjective feeling affecting humans both psychologically and physically. Pain is complex and there are many reasons why pain arises. Many elderly people in society do not get the right pain relief, which may be due to attitudes or incorrect assessments. To facilitate the assessment of pain, there are instruments that health professionals can use to assess the pain of the elderly. Aim: To describe elderly people’s perception of pain and how it’s administered in care settings. Method: A literature review that has been built on ten scientific articles. The articles were taken from CINAHL complete. Search terms used: Perception, aged, analgesia, nursing, pain, pain assessment, older adults, aged 80 above, patient, pain measurement, interviews. The theoretical framework was Katie Erikson's theory of suffering that refers to that suffering is part of life and is a defense for the individual. Results: The analyses of the results were divided into three themes: Pain and elderly, which illustrates how the pain is characterized in elderly. Identification and assessment of older people's pain, highlighting the assessment of older people's pain and the assessment instruments that can be used and how pain is managed, that elucidate the treatment of pain for elderly people. Discussions: The two themes addressed in the discussion were pain and elderly, and assessment of elderly people’s pain. These were discussed against Katie Erikson's theory about suffering and the consensus term care.

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Jacobson, Stephanie A. "Older adult sexuality| Measuring healthcare provider knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors." Thesis, City University of New York, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3601877.

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Healthcare provider practices around older adult sexuality are increasingly the focus of scholarship. Researchers use available scales to study health worker knowledge and behavior in their research. This dissertation argues the need for a new scale, because the available measures are dated and do not account for changes in attitudes and medical advances over three decades. After a review of the increasing role of physicians, social workers, and other health workers providing care for sexual issues throughout history, I describe available scales for measuring knowledge and behaviors about older adult sexuality and review research that employs them. The purpose of the dissertation was to develop a contemporary measure regarding older adult sexuality practices among health workers. I utilized a two-phase plan following Bowen and Guo’s 12-step mixed-method approach for scale development (2012). Phase I included a literature review and qualitative interviews with experts on older adult sexuality regarding the construct. Then I created a universe of items, reviewed them with the experts, and revised items. In Phase II, I tested the items with 155 healthcare providers and conducted analysis for reliability and validity. Based on the analysis, I culled items to create a shortened scale. I proposed a scale consisting of 52 items with three subscales: a 25-item Knowledge subscale, a 13-item Attitude subscale, and a 14-item Behavior subscale. The Knowledge subscale showed poor internal reliability (KR-20 = .625). The Attitudes (α = .825), and Behavior (α = .837) subscales showed good internal reliability. I also evaluated content validity and criterion-related validity for the subscales. Flaws in the methods and analysis make the 52-item proposed scale conceptually unsound. Limitations in generating the pool of items, evaluating the items, and testing reliability and validity did not produce a viable scale. I analyze problems with the methodological approach and propose a redesign that corrects for flaws in the approach employed here. I will use an inductive, social justice model that expands scale development to include interviews with practitioners and older adults. I conclude with a number of research, practice, and policy implications that will result from a redesigned scale.

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Anderson, David K. "Measuring angler attitudes toward the catch-related aspects of recreational fishing." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2652.

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The primary purposes of this dissertation were understanding the nature of an attitudinal scale designed to measure the consumptive orientation of recreational anglers and filling a gap in the published literature regarding measurement using the scale. Consumptive orientation was defined as the attitude anglers hold towards catching fish, including catching something, retaining fish (as opposed to releasing), catching large fish (size), and catching large amounts of fish (numbers). In order to confirm these four attitudes are measured by the scale, a model was hypothesized and tested using a confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of male anglers in Texas. It was reasoned that a different subculture may interpret the attitudinal statements differently; thus, the structure of the scale was explored using women as a separate sample. Finally, an example of how the scale could be used was provided by examining differences between tournament and nontournament anglers?? attitudes towards the four constructs measured by the scale. Overall, results were varied with the hypothesized model used to confirm the scale. While results indicated dropping four of the sixteen statements would not result in a significant change in the structure of the scale, results also confirmed there were four distinct attitudes measured by the consumptive orientation scale. The use of the scale with the larger angling population was confirmed by finding the same structure using a sample of women anglers. Finally, the scale was shown to be useful for examining activity-specific differences in angling social worlds. Differences were detected between tournament and nontournament anglers on three of the four consumptive attitudes: ??catching numbers,?? ??catching large/trophy fish,?? and ??retaining fish.?? Differences found were related to the commitment level of tournament and nontournament anglers. Further analysis examined how avidity may have affected differences among angler groups. These differences further current knowledge about tournament anglers and their expectations for fishing experiences. Overall, results support the usefulness of the consumptive orientation scale as a survey tool for understanding recreational fishing clientele.

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Blanton, Sandra. "Justice in Health Care Access Measuring Attitudes of Health Care Professionals." TopSCHOLAR®, 2000. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/714.

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To measure attitudes toward justice in access to health care services in managed care plans in a convenience sample of medical professionals at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Methods. A sixteen item, self-administered instrument based on Morreim's four concepts of justice in health care access was administered to 147 health care professionals, representing physicians, allied health, and hospital administration. SPSS was used to analyze the results. Results. The attitudes of the respondents were negative toward managed care. They did not feel that managed care had been a positive development in the United States or that managed care had improved access to preventive care or improved primary care. On the survey instrument, respondents scored highest on the scale measuring fairness to individual patients. Conclusion. In a convenience sample of health care professionals at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville, Indiana, equity in distributing access to health care among individual patient needs was found to more closely meet their expectations of justice in health care access. There were no differences found across occupational groups in their responses to the two scales. There were differences in attitudes toward managed care among occupational groups.

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Novak, Amanda Lynn. "Mental illness: measuring worker attitudes in residential settings: the stigma factor." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110372.

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The stigmatization of people with mental illness is present in all facets of modern society. Many studies have shown that even mental workers trained to work with this vulnerable population held stigmatizing attitudes about mental illness and people with mental illness. This study: (1) examined if the functioning of graduates from mental health agencies was impacted by the attitudes of workers. (2) Compared the attitudes of the mental health professionals of four local agency settings to the US general population. (3) Examined the relationship between worker attitudes and stated agency policies. (4) Examined the relationship between the levels of stigma and the personal characteristics of the mental health professionals. Two standardized instruments were used: for graduates the Independent Living Skills Survey (ILSS), for workers two vignettes from the MacArthur Mental Health Module. A total of 41 workers were recruited from four mental health residential services. These workers were found to have significantly less stigmatizing attitudes about mental illness than the general public. For some items females reported less stigmatizing views than males, and university graduates had less stigmatizing views than non graduates. This suggests that hiring workers with university degrees should be considered, and providing training for workers about issues related to mental illness should be encouraged
The stigmatization of people with mental illness is present in all facets of modern society. Many studies have shown that even mental workers trained to work with this vulnerable population held stigmatizing attitudes about mental illness and people with mental illness. This study: (1) examined if the functioning of graduates from mental health agencies was impacted by the attitudes of workers. (2) Compared the attitudes of the mental health professionals of four local agency settings to the US general population. (3) Examined the relationship between worker attitudes and stated agency policies. (4) Examined the relationship between the levels of stigma and the personal characteristics of the mental health professionals. Two standardized instruments were used: for graduates the Independent Living Skills Survey (ILSS), for workers two vignettes from the MacArthur Mental Health Module. A total of 41 workers were recruited from four mental health residential services. These workers were found to have significantly less stigmatizing attitudes about mental illness than the general public. For some items females reported less stigmatizing views than males, and university graduates had less stigmatizing views than non graduates. This suggests that hiring workers with university degrees should be considered, and providing training for workers about issues related to mental illness should be encouraged

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Stein, Janine, Melanie Luppa, Ulrike Ruzanska, Claudia Sikorski, Hans-Helmut König, and Steffi G. Riedel-Heller. "Measuring negative attitudes towards overweight and obesity in the German population." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-157787.

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Objective: Obesity is one of the leading public health problems worldwide. Obese individuals are often stigmatized and the psychosocial consequences of overweight and obesity are the subject of current research. To detect stigmatizing attitudes towards obese people, the Fat Phobia Scale (FPS) was developed in the USA in the early nineties. In addition, the 14-item short form of the FPS was constructed. The FPS belongs to the most commonly used instruments for measuring negative attitudes towards obese people because of its good psychometric properties. For the recently developed German short form of the FPS, however, the comprehensive investigation of the psychometric properties and the determination of reference values are still pending. Thus, the main objectives of this study were the evaluation of the psychometric quality of the scale as well as the calculation of reference values. Methods: The study was based on a representative survey in the German general population. A sample of 1,657 subjects (18–94 years) was assessed via structured telephone interviews including the 14-item German version of the FPS. Descriptive statistics and inference-statistical analyses were conducted. Reference values in terms of percentage ranks were calculated. Results: Substantial evidence for the reliability and validity of the German short version of the FPS was found. This study, for the first time in Germany, provides age-specific reference values for the German short form of the FPS allowing the interpretation of individual test scores. Conclusion: Facing the far-reaching consequences of experienced stigmatization of obese individuals, these study results provide an important basis for further studies aiming at the investigation of negative attitudes towards overweight and obesity.

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O'Hanlon, Ann. "Exploring, measuring and explaining negative attitudes to own future old age." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273764.

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Cuillier, David. "Access attitudes : measuring and conceptualizing support for press access to government records." Online access for everyone, 2006. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2006/d%5Fcuillier%5F041906.pdf.

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Ryan, Diane Michele. "In Their Place: Measuring Gender Attitudes and Egalitarianism among U.S. Army Personnel." NCSU, 2008. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03272008-165520/.

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The present study investigated the attitudes of U.S. Army soldiers assigned to a Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations command and a combat division with regard to gender using the Attitudes Toward Women and Modern Sexism scales; and egalitarianism using the Social Dominance Orientation scale. Soldiers (N=335) responded to a 78-item questionnaire that assessed their endorsement of group equality ideals, and collected specific information about individual characteristics, military training and military experience. Multivariate regression analyses found gender and months of deployment to significantly predict gender attitudes, and gender and ethnicity significantly related to egalitarianism. At the bivariate level the study also found associations between age and service component on both measures. Gender attitudes and egalitarianism were also found to be significantly correlated. Exploratory analyses further revealed rank as a possible moderator of the relationship between gender attitudes and egalitarianism, and found gender identity to be a significant predictor of both as well. Limitations of the study as well as implications and direction for future research are discussed.

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Parrilla, Sophia Joseph. "Measuring Knowledge and Attitudes of Clinicians About Motivational Interviewing with Troubled Adolescents." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2572.

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Adolescents with acting-out behavior have an increased risk of dropping out of high school, incarceration, and early mortality. Researchers have indicated the need for studies using motivational interviewing (MI) to promote behavioral change. There is a gap in the literature about the efficacy of MI with adolescents and clinicians' knowledge of, and attitude toward, MI. Using self-determination theory as the grounding theory, this study examined the knowledge and attitudes of 73 clinicians on the island of St. Croix, Virgin Islands, about knowledge and attitudes of MI and whether it predicted the use of MI as a therapeutic intervention for adolescents who exhibit acting-out behavior. A cross-sectional survey was used to collect data using an adapted version of Leffingwell's Motivational Interviewing Knowledge and Attitudes Test (MIKAT). Two phases were required: a pilot study and a full study. A pilot study of 10 clinicians was used to establish the reliability of the revised MIKAT. In total a purposive sample of 73 clinicians participated in the full study, which includes the 10 from the pilot study. Results of the multiple linear regression test indicated that knowledge about MI and attitudes towards MI were not significant predictors of likelihood to use MI (p = .875). The results of this study may contribute to positive social change by supporting the development of effective training for clinicians who work with adolescents on St. Croix, where adolescent behavior is of great concern.

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Vaughn, Tamala S. "Measuring Leaders' Attitudes About the Use of Story to Communicate Organizational Vision." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1303059296.

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Bell, Christi E., and Raul A. Salcedo. "Designing a Measure: Measuring Social Workers' Attitudes toward LGBT Youth in Child Welfare." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/85.

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This study reports the results of an exploratory factor analysis conducted to analyze the reliability of a pilot instrument created to evaluate social workers’ attitudes toward LGBT youth in the foster care system. The sample (n = 60) included social workers, supervisors, and staff from the County of San Bernardino Children and Family Services. Data were collected from February 2011 to March 2011. A two factor solution yielded the best results; Chronbach’s alpha for factor one yielded a strong result for internal consistency reliability (α = .777) and for factor two yielded a less strong result (α = .628). Strategies are recommended to increase the reliability and evaluate the validity of the measure in future.

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Superti, Chiara. "Popular Trust, Mistrust, and Approval: Measuring and Understanding Citizens’ Attitudes Toward Democratic Institutions." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17463986.

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High levels of political trust and approval are believed to be the basis of a healthy democracy. Attempts to gauge citizens’ political attitudes have flourished in the past decades, but political science has yet to converge on a valid – and cross-nationally comparable – measure of popular political approval. Meanwhile, from New York City’s Zucconi Park to Istanbul’s Gezi Park, from Madrid’s Puerta Del Sol to Cairo’s Tahrir square, popular political discontent is on the rise and historic manifestations of it remain difficult to interpret, reverse, or anticipate. The essays in this manuscript introduce a new measure of political approval and propose a different institutional interpretation of the determinants of political trust. The first essay, “Individual Blank Voting, Mobilized Protest Voting, and Voting Abstention,” compares different forms of electoral dissent – individual blank voting, mobilized null voting, and voting abstention – across Italy and in the Basque Country of Spain. It demonstrates that the least studied of the three – blank voting – expresses the most conscious and educated rejection of political candidates, parties, and electoral systems. The second essay, “Measuring Discontent and Predicting Trouble,” proposes the use of unconventional voting as a powerful alternative metric of popular electoral approval, by showing the existence of a systematic link between blank and null voting, and larger popular protests. I demonstrate that the rate of blank and null voting at the national level is a reliable proxy of larger popular discontent and an effective predictor of future protests. As such, it is comparable to other widely used measures of perceived electoral quality and popular approval, while being much less costly, time consuming, and with greater disaggregation potential. In the last essay, “Corruption and Trust in Institutions, Evidence from Israel,” Noam Gidron and I exploit a natural experiment offered by Israel’s unique immigration law, which expedites naturalization for Jewish immigrants. We find that cultural norms, as shaped by levels of corruption in immigrants’ sending countries, affect only their initial levels of trust, while subsequent exposures to socially inclusive institutions (e.g., the military) shape a mature and more positive political attitude.
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Lombardi, Allison 1977. "Measuring faculty attitudes and perceptions toward disability at a four-year university: A validity study." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10576.

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xi, 114 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
The primary purpose of this study was to develop and field test the ExCEL survey instrument, intended to measure faculty attitudes toward and perceptions about students with disabilities at four-year colleges and universities. A secondary purpose was to examine how demographic characteristics of the sample and prior disability-focused training experiences influenced these attitudes and perceptions. A cross validation study was conducted using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) resulted in an eight factor structure: Knowledge of Disability Law, Fairness, Invitation to Disclose, Willingness to Invest Time, Accessibility of Course Materials, Willingness to Adjust Course Assignments, Satisfaction with Campus Resources, and Willingness to Make Testing Accommodations. The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was intended to confirm the factor structure but resulted in an inadmissible solution, potentially due to model misspecification. These findings show initial reliability and validity of the ExCEL survey and suggest item development as a crucial next step in the development process. Follow-up analyses showed minimal differences between faculty according to gender but significant differences according to faculty rank (e.g., tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure) and department. In addition, group differences emerged according to prior disability-focused training, where faculty who had previous disability-focused training had greater positive attitudes and perceptions toward students with disabilities than did faculty without such training. These results will inform the field about important constructs to consider in instrument development for measuring faculty attitudes and perceptions toward disability, including knowledge of legal mandates and accommodations and knowledge of and willingness to adjust instruction according to the tenets of Universal Design. As well, the findings will inform four-year college and university administrations when planning targeted interventions for faculty members in disability awareness training.
Committee in charge: K Brigid Flannery, Chairperson, Special Education and Clinical Sciences; Deborah Olson, Member, Special Education and Clinical Sciences; Joe Stevens, Member, Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership; Douglas Blandy, Outside Member, Arts and Administration

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Higdon, Julia Dianne. "Measuring and Modeling Intercultural Attitudes Among Adolescents Across Europe: A Multi-Level, Multiple-Group Analysis Examining Student Attitudes, Intergroup Contact, and School Climate." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:16461055.

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European nations, built on democratic foundations, rely on participation that is inclusive of all groups. Among efforts to support social cohesion in Europe, investigating the development of intercultural attitudes—attitudes toward others on the basis of their intersecting group memberships—is a crucial area of research. Further, examining attitudes among adolescents is useful because of their growing capacity to understand complex systems, while still being engaged in formal education in which interventions aimed at developing positive attitudes are often applied. In this dissertation, I used data from the 2009 IEA ICCS (International Civic and Citizenship Education Study) to examine determinants of intercultural attitudes among adolescents (n=16,847) in seven countries across Europe—the United Kingdom (England only), Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, and Greece—focusing on cultural contexts and school climates. First, I established the measurement invariance of a variety of measures of intercultural attitudes to support the validity of cross-cultural comparison, using a novel approach in the Bayesian framework. Using this method, I was able to validly compare intercultural attitudes across contexts in Europe, and these findings are interpreted and discussed. Then, I examined the ways in which intergroup contact, gender, and school climates were associated with intergroup attitudes across these seven countries. I found limited evidence of an association between native-born and immigrant contact and positive intercultural attitudes. However, I found that positive intercultural attitudes were consistently associated with positive and democratic school climates, as well as with gender and attitudes toward gender equality. In this dissertation, I present these findings, as well as provide interpretation, discussion, and future directions with regard to educational interventions.
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Diazibarra, Dulce M. "Measuring student attitudes towards philosophical chairs versus traditional discussion to promote argumentation in the science classroom." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10140468.

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Middle school students were introduced to the concept of scientific argumentation through the use of a pre and post performance task. Students were required to answer a question based on data provided and be able to justify their reason with evidence. This study compared two different forms of discussion, philosophical chairs and traditional discussion, in order to identify what type of discussion was beneficial to students to communicate a written argument. This study investigated two research questions, first if the type of discussion affects students’ ability to write a logical argument and whether the use of philosophical chairs affect student attitudes compared to traditional discussion. Statistical findings show that there is no difference between the group when it comes to the format of discussion. Both types of discussions help students communicate a logical written argument. However, the type of discussion does affect students’ attitudes and willingness to participate.

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Burgoon, Jacob N. "The Moral Foundations of Teaching: Measuring Teachers' Implicit Moral Beliefs." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1544787174462244.

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Montoya, Jared A. "Measuring Prejudiced Attitudes Toward Mexicans in Latter-Day Saint Missionaries During Missionary Service in the American Southwest." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2004. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4953.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the foundations of prejudiced attitudes toward Mexicans held by White Americans and to investigate a means of reducing it, paying specific attention to prejudice found within a subpopulation of White Americans. The origins of American prejudice toward Mexicans are outlined using both historical and psychological explanations. An understanding of these origins leads to the notion that increased favorable contact is the best method for reducing prejudice. A field study focusing on prejudice toward Mexicans among ecclesiastical volunteers demonstrated that missionary service can be considered a means of favorable contact. Eighty-one White American Latter-day Saints were measured on their levels of prejudice toward Mexicans and the amount of favorable contact with Mexicans before and during their service assignments in the American Southwest. Results indicated that individuals reported significantly more favorable contact after six months of service and significantly less prejudice. There were no significant differences in the amount of favorable contact or levels of prejudice between individuals who were assigned to Spanish-speaking or English-speaking service assignments.

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Oliver, Brad Ernest. "Measuring stages of teacher concern about instructional technology : a descriptive study of select Indiana elementary teachers' attitudes and beliefs." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1259309.

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The purpose of this study was to measure stages of teacher concern about the use of instructional technology in the elementary classroom. The study examined the role of instructional technology as a change innovation within the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM).Elementary schools selected for this study were identified through the Indiana Department of Education's School Technology Profile completed during the spring of 2000. Stages of Concern Questionnaires (SoCQ) were mailed and systematically distributed to teachers in each school during the fall of 2002. The SoCQ consisted of thirty-five Likert-scale items that asked respondents to rate statements concerning instructional technology on a five-point scale.Data obtained from the Stages of Concern Questionnaire were analyzed, summarized, and presented in narrative form. Tables were developed to report the data. The following conclusions were drawn based on the findings in the study:1. Change innovations exist as a developmental pattern consisting of personal feelings and perceptions that evolve as the change process unfolds.2. Instructional technology exists as a change innovation for Indiana elementary teachers.3. Concerns expressed by Indiana elementary teachers toward instructional technology exist with similar levels of intensity at seven developmental stages.4. Among Indiana elementary teachers, significant differences exist among teachers at the Information and Collaborative stage, Consequence and Collaboration stage, and Consequence and Refocusing stage.5. When examining years of teaching experience, significant differences exist among teachers at the Informational, Management, and Refocusing stages.6. Indiana elementary teachers who had previous teaching experiences as middle school and high school teachers expressed no significant differences in concern when levels of teaching experience were considered.7. Indiana elementary teachers expressed no significant differences in concern when stand-alone computers limited their access to instructional technology.8. Indiana elementary teachers expressed no significant differences in concern when computer access to the Internet was readily available.9. Indiana elementary teachers expressed significant differences in concern about instructional technology when specific models for teacher training were examined.10. Indiana elementary teachers expressed no significant differences in concern when school district mandates to use instructional technology in the classroom were examined.
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Johnson, Michelle E. "Design and Validation of a Scale for Preschoolers: Measuring Nutrition Knowledge, Beliefs, and Behaviors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3332.

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The literature indicates a lack of validated scales to measure nutrition knowledge, attitudes and behaviors in preschool-aged children. Reliable and valid assessment tools are critical in the development of nutritional interventions for young children; careful design, including psychometric evaluation of reliability and validity, is the best approach to scale development. Best practice points to an efficient, yet comprehensive look at the constructs of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. This multi-phase study included 298 preschool children ages 2-6 years (151 girls, 147 boys; mean age 3.936). A 45-item scale was created, with 4 subscales to measure the nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of preschool children, and piloted among 54 of these children (30 girls, 24 boys; mean age 4.3). Cronbach’s alpha (α) for the total scale with predicted behavior excluded was .775, and also determined for each subscale, including food identification (0.642), food group categorization (0.644), and classification of foods as healthy and unhealthy (0.576). Behavior was predicted, as children created a virtual plate of preferred food and beverage selections for breakfast, lunch, and snack. Internal consistency was not calculated for this stage of scale development. ANOVA and post-hoc testing identified age-related differences between 3 and 5-year olds, in overall performance on the scale, F(3, 43) = 6.183, p = .001, partial ŋ2 = .301 but not among other age groups (3, 4, 5, and 6 included). Through multiple iterations of the scale, it became clear that the healthy versus unhealthy subscale was problematic. An adaptation of the Traffic-light diet, a variation of this subscale, was created and piloted with 74 items, and then narrowed to 25 items (Cronbach’s α .924). This resulted in a revised final version of the scale, with 52 items including 8 food identification tasks, 15 food group categorization tasks, 25 Go, Slow, Whoa tasks, and 4 virtual plate food and beverage preference tasks, for delivery on interactive technology (iPad). Future research will include pre-post testing with a nutrition intervention to determine further validity and test-retest reliability. It is predicted that Cronbach’s α will be similar if not improved by further testing.

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Wang, Zibin. "Measuring attitudes of ridership regarding the design of LRT stations using CAD and VR as an assessment tool." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ48250.pdf.

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Harris, Ann Elizabeth. "The Development of a Survey Instrument Measuring Elementary General Education Teachers Attitudes Toward Inclusion of Students with Autism." Thesis, Piedmont College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3629375.

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The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable survey instrument to examine elementary general education teachers' attitudes toward the inclusion of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the general education classroom. By determining what influences attitudes, the needs of elementary general education teachers can be established to make educated decisions, develop meaningful professional development activities, or enable teachers to self-reflect thus improving attitudes of elementary general education teachers toward inclusion of students with ASD.

The study was guided by the following phases: Phase One: (1) Reviewed current literature and conducted a discussion with a focus group to determine the overall construct, (2) wrote and modified an initial set of items, (3) consulted a panel of experts to certify that items measure the overall construct intended for content and construct validity, (4) conducted a think-aloud with individual teachers to ensure questions are being interpreted as intended, and (5) rewrote and revised as needed. Phase Two: Conducted an Exploratory Factor analysis in order to determine common factor structures. Phase Three: Conducted a pilot test to establish reliability in a test/re-test format. The findings indicate evidence of a valid and reliable survey instrument to examine elementary general education teachers' attitudes toward the inclusion of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the general education classroom.

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Greenwell, Felicity Emma. "Measuring implicit attitudes towards pictures : Presenting a modified version of the Extrinsic Affective Simon Task (EAST), and its applications." Thesis, Bangor University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528319.

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Abramoff, Benjamin A. "Measuring Attitudes Toward Interprofessional Education and Views of Health Professionals in Pre-Licensure Students Taking an Interdisciplinary Health Education Course." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1367415484.

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WILLIAMS, KELLY ALISHA. "Examining the Underutilization of Mental Health Services by Measuring Help-Seeking Attitudes Among University Students: Implications of Ethnicity, Gender, and Counseling Exposure." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/183.

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Research shows that mental health services, generally, are underutilized. The impact of untreated mental health disorders are pervasive and pose social concerns for all communities. Therefore, there is a need to understand why mental health services are not being utilized. Help-seeking attitudes, stigma, ethnicity, gender, and counseling exposure have been identified as significant deterrents to individuals seeking mental health services. However, there are gaps in the literature related to how these factors impact students on college campuses. Therefore, it is the goal of this study to examine the implications of ethnicity, gender, and counseling exposure on help-seeking attitudes. Examining these factors may shed light on why there is a delay in seeking out mental health services. The results of the study indicated there are no statistically significant differences in ethnicity and help-seeking attitudes. However, there were statistically significant differences in help-seeking attitudes among participants who reported exposure to counseling and no exposure to counseling. Additionally, there were statistically significant differences in gender and help-seeking attitudes, with females being more likely to seek mental health counseling than male university students. Following the research findings, there will be a brief discussion of the research implications, limitations of study, and suggestions for future research .

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Brolin, Robert, and Carl Spångby. "The impact of advertising exposure on attitudes and purchase intention : A quantitative study measuring the impact of Instagram advertising exposure on attitudes toward the ads and brands, and purchase intention of sportswear." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Jönköping University, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-48871.

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Lau, Wai-ha Abby, and 劉慧霞. "Structural equation modeling of the child perceptions questionnaire measuring oral health-related quality of life of children in HongKong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40988089.

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Kridli, Suha Al-Oballi. "Establishing reliability and validity of an instrument measuring attitudes, subjective norms, perceived control, and behavioral intentions of Jordanian Muslim women toward the use [of] oral contraceptives." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9841313.

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Fleurs, Llewellyn. "Truvada approved as HIV PreP: are South African doctors ready? Survey measuring willingness to prescribe and attitudes, knowledge, and practises regarding HIV PrEP amongst South African based doctors." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22824.

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HIV prevention has received renewed attention with the release of results from clinical trials dealing with the efficacy and safety of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), particularly once daily Truvada, within the last decade. The results seemed to suggest that PrEP is efficacious with high levels of adherence. This culminated in the South African Medicines Control Council (MCC) approving use of Truvada as HIV PrEP in December 2015, coupled with the release of SA HIV Clinicians Society guidelines in February 2016. Several issues were found to be involved in prescribing Truvada as PrEP, including clinical monitoring, adherence counselling, and potential for patient behavioural disinhibition. The objective of this thesis is to discuss the results of an online survey administered to South African doctors, on their opinions on the use of Truvada as PreP. Part A deals with the survey protocol and focuses on (1)ethical issues such as approval by the University of Cape Town Research Ethics Committee, and obtaining consent, (2) method of data collection and (3) procedure of data analysis. Part B is a literature review expanding on the topics described in the Background section, including extent of problem posed by HIV, failure to develop a viable HIV vaccine, need for HIV PrEP, review of previous research on HIV PrEP, and the need for a study on South African doctors' opinions on PrEP. Part C is a manuscript that shows the results of the survey, analysis of the data and a discussion on the possible implications.

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Bürgi, Jörg. "Influences of the use of management systems on the moral attitudes and behaviours of small and medium sized enterprises : measuring the dynamic interplay of morality, environment and managing systems." Thesis, Open University, 2010. http://oro.open.ac.uk/54511/.

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The author designs a comprehensive model to characterise and optimise sustainable performance of small and medium sized enterprises SMEs - in the overall context of physical environment, society, economy and business. This model embraces issues of morality, management system, and environment and uses a corresponding measurement tool to discuss the interplay of these issues with the intention of leading SMEs to continuous improvement. For the design, issues of system thinking have been applied to cope with the complexity of the interplay of the elements. The model and the measurement tool are tested by a longitudinal survey of 27 SMEs in Switzerland and Germany. An outstanding issue of this survey is the interviewing of people from different hierarchical levels and departments of the companies (total: 212 individuals); it provides a comprehensive view of companies' attitudes and behaviours. The survey illustrates that a standardised management system is not decisive for the implementation of an increasingly dynamic and circular system with intensive integration of people. The implementation merely depends on the (moral) attitudes and behaviours of owners or top managers and employees. But SMEs with standardised (especially environmental) management systems generally demonstrate more outcomes towards embedded morality, circularity and integration as well as effectiveness and sustainable performance. Through the design and development of a comprehensive SME model and measuring tool, the author broadens the gap of narrowing SME research concerning optimised performance on individual issues and positions of individual companies to an overall context of society, economy, business and physical environment.

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Chao, Kuan-Hui, and 趙冠惠. "UAV Attitude Determination by Measuring Earth Electrostatic Field." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4yww75.

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For an UAV, autopilot system is the key for long distance flight, especially for out-of-view flight. In most of UAVs, the attitude-measuring sensor always uses tilter or gyroscope, but sensors with better quality often cost several thousand to ten thousand NT dollars or even more. That is too expensive. The objective of this thesis is to develop a simple and cheap attitude measuring equipment for UAV, differing from the traditional way that uses tilter or gyroscope, so as to reduce the developing cost of an UAV. The design concept of our attitude sensor is to use the field effect transistor（FET）and the characteristic of the earth electrostatic field, by installing a outboard FET on the both wing tips. When the wings of the airplane are atilt, the FET will measure the voltage difference of the Earth Electrostatic Field between the wing tips, and the rolling angular velocity of the wings can be attained. When testing, we use the data obtained by piezoelectric gyroscope as the reference standard signal, and plot a relationship curve between angular velocity of the attitude sensor and the FET output voltages.

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Wang, Ching-Yi, and 王晴怡. "Measuring Public Attitude of Genetically Modified Foods in Taiwan." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06447246777251908793.

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Genetically modified foods have arisen many controversies in European and America. In Taiwan, public still has low awareness of these foods, but we can see food manufacturers label their foods as non-GM. The exposure information content will influence public attitude along with availability of other relevant reports. Public attitude will decide the direction of development of genetic engineering. The aim of this study is to understand public attitude formulation towards the new product, genetically modified foods. Based on the previous literature, Hoban, Woodrum and Czaja (1992) proposed awareness and the results indicated that people with low awareness have opposed attitude toward genetic engineering on food and agriculture. This study proposed prior exposure information content, a type of awareness, and interested in its influence on attitude. The results indicated that gender, prior exposure information content, and age are three predictors of attitude formulation. Therefore, we can conclude that (1) women have more opposed attitude than men have, (2) people with net positive prior exposure information content have greater positive attitude, (3) the young have greater positive attitude than the elder. All of these findings give important application. Women are the main consumers consuming foods; therefore, food manufacturers should pay attention on this result and their acceptability of genetically modified foods. While exposure information content become more and more available, public attitude will change; therefore, these transmitting information should be neutral to provide consumers to make subjective decisions. The young will be the major decision makers in the future. They have positive attitude may due to environmental consideration. Using genetic engineering may decrease the use of agriculture chemicals. Environmental preservation may be the most persuasive reason to persuade public to accept the genetically modified foods. Genetically modified foods cover many fields, including education, communication, and label. Education and communication will provide public knowledge to participate, and interact effectively. Public should be given rights to do consuming choice by labeling genetically modified foods.

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Min-Yan, Lin, and 林珉妍. "Develop an instrument for measuring money attitude of information professionals." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47466724538535612710.

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Many people change their money attitude after global finance crisis of 2008. Develop an instrument for measuring money attitude of information professionals through this research because there is no any existing tool to measure this issue in Taiwan up to now. This research is to create an instrument based on MAS of Yamauchi and Templer in order to precisely measure the money attitude of information professionals in Taiwan. This instrument can provide a good reference of career development, training, education and promotion of relative people or organization in the future. This research is focus on information professionals and we get 160 feedbacks of total 200 surveys. There are 152 effective samples after discarding 8 invalid samples and total effective return rate is 76%. This research use “item to total correlations”, “Cronbach’s α”, “factor analysis”, “MTMM” to enhance the instrument analysis capability of precision, reliablilty and efficacy. We extract 5 factors and 26 items of money attitude after result analysis. Our instrument is highly reliable because its’ overall “Cronbach’s α” is 0.835 and average value of factor is between 0.701 and 0.865. Our instrument has “onvergent validity” because relative coefficient is not equal to 0 and reach 0.01 based on different variables of same factor. Our instrument has “discriminant validity”. We observe that: 1. Information professionals didn’t agree using money to influence other people and treating money as a sign of success. 2. Information professionals didn’t make careful financial planning for the future. 3. Information professionals didn’t distrust spending money. 4. Information professionals didn’t beleve that money can get better product quality or service. 5. Information professionals treat money as the source of anxiety but they also didn’t agree enough money can avoid anxiety.

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Lai, Chang-Hsing, and 賴長興. "A Quasi-Experimental Research of Automatic Measurement Technology Instruction in an University: Measuring Learning Achievement and Attitude." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82843231492758773452.

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工業教育與技術學系
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This study aimed to explore related the theoretical basis of constructivist teaching and establish a set of automatic measurement technology teaching materials. It was used on automatic measurement technology course to investigate the learning achievement and attitude of college students. This research followed one-group pretest-posttest design of quasi-experimental research design to select third-grader students in Dept. of Industrial Education and technology for National Changhua University of Education as the subjects via the purposive sampling method. The experimental group was treated with 10-weeks class of automatic measurement technology teaching materials. Learners’ learning achievement and attitude were evaluated by professional basis of cognitive test and psychomotor performance evaluation scale of the pretest-posttest, and learning attitude scale of a posttest, hence these data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and the paired-samples t-test. The conclusions were listed as follows： 1. The achievement tests of cognitive tests of automatic measurement technology course in the experimental group were significantly better than the pretest grade. 2. The achievement tests of skill tests of automatic measurement technology course in the experimental group were significantly better than the pretest grade. 3. Most students recognized that automatic measurement technology teaching materials could promote their learning motivation and needs. At the end of this study, owing to the establishment of these teaching materials which could foster college students’ the literacy of professional knowledge and skills in automatic measurement technology field, it could be a reference of designing teaching course.

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