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Hein, Jonas Ibrahim [Verfasser], Heiko [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Faust, Fariborz [Gutachter] Zelli, and Christoph [Gutachter] Dittrich. "Rescaling conflictive access and property relations in the context of REDD+ in Jambi, Indonesia / Jonas Ibrahim Hein. Betreuer: Heiko Faust. Gutachter: Heiko Faust ; Fariborz Zelli ; Christoph Dittrich." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1103656007/34.
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Hein, Jonas Ibrahim Verfasser], Heiko [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Faust, Fariborz [Gutachter] Zelli, and Christoph [Gutachter] [Dittrich. "Rescaling conflictive access and property relations in the context of REDD+ in Jambi, Indonesia / Jonas Ibrahim Hein. Betreuer: Heiko Faust. Gutachter: Heiko Faust ; Fariborz Zelli ; Christoph Dittrich." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-11858/00-1735-0000-0028-8778-6-8.
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Türk, Sarah Lorena. "The African studies course of the Instituto de Estudos Superiores Militares. An analysis of the correlations and conflictive character inside the triangle - Development, environment and security - in Africa’s Nigeria." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9395.
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Relatório de Estágio de Mestrado em
Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais
Globalização e AmbienteThe following dissertation circles around the present-time character of reliance of elements inside a system, conflictive structures and process directions, with a focus on Africa and a country case to be analysed in more detail, which will concentrate on the 3 factors of development, environment and security. Two principal parts constitute this investigation work, of which one specifies and evaluates the African studies program held during the time of the internship at IESM, its various panels and thematic approaches to issues of development and security in the African continent and the countries of the CPLP. The dissertation’s second part examines the status and the conflictive character of the triangle’s elements and their inter-relations inside West Africa’s Nigeria. The richness of the country’s natural resources, the outcomes of political leadership constantly marked by military rule, inter-communal conflicts, neglecting the natural environment and insufficient living conditions form essential aspects of research and are the basis for the country’s troubled state. To correct the inappropriate policies and deficient consideration of elementary issues and relations; to construct collaborations involving representatives from the local to national level; and to create a living environment to be freed from crime, insecurity and frustration, mark centrepieces of future activities and objectives to be realized in order to turn Nigeria away from its devastating misguidance.
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Alhijazi, Yahya Z. D. "The conflicting interests - the Warsaw system crisis /." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20219.
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Private international air law encompasses the delicate balance of interest between the air carriers and the consumers of their service. This balance is made by states according to their socioeconomic and political conditions. Since these conditions differ among states, another, yet more complex conflict of interests arises between states as to how the interest of air carriers and consumers should be balanced. This difference between states has been, and still is, the biggest obstacle in the way of unifying private international air law.Giving an overview of the present situation and the possible future implications, this thesis highlights the balance of interest of the successive private international air law instruments and examines the factors that lead thereto. This thesis further analyses the crisis of unified private international air law and the actions taken to confront it by examining the reasons behind it in order to understand the current situation and apprehend the future.
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Loera, Gonzalez Juan Jaime. "Conflicting paths to wellbeing : Raramuri and Mestizo inter-ethnic relations in northern Mexico." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45213/.
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Indigenous people in Mexico have historically been subjected to subordinate positions in relation to dominant non-indigenous groups. Indigenous people continue to face political exclusion, social discrimination and economic disadvantages compared to the non-indigenous population. Most studies use a universalising approach to conceptualise wellbeing in order to account for these differences among groups, neglecting to consider local indigenous understandings of wellbeing, and how such understandings may be obscured by inter-ethnic power relations at the local level. This research contributes to the larger debate of how asymmetries among social groups are formed, how they are contested through the articulation of discourses, and the implications of mobilising discourses as a political tool at the local level. The dissertation focuses on the case of the Raramuri indigenous people of Northern Mexico, and uses detailed ethnographic evidence to explore how discourses of wellbeing are constructed by the Raramuri people in their daily interactions with the non-indigenous population and how power asymmetries between these groups form and persist. It does so by pursuing three main objectives. The first is to document local understandings of wellbeing which emerge for the Raramuri people in contexts of ethno-political oppression. The second is to uncover underlying power relations that hinder wellbeing and reproduce ethnically differentiated vulnerabilities. Examples of this are land conflicts and institutional arrangements behind land management schemes. The third objective is to analyse resulting mechanisms of resistance employed by the Raramuri indigenous people in order to seek control of practices and customs that promotes ethnic distinction. These three pillars provide a novel framework to explore the formation and perpetuation of asymmetrical social, economic and political relations at the local level. The study finds that the Raramuri people, like other minority groups living in the margins of nation states and global markets, are constrained to act strategically to face political, economic and social exclusion, while at the same time, taking the opportunity of this position to articulate culturally embedded discourses and mechanisms to reinforce their identity and self-definition. It is in the marginal context that the Raramuri discourse of living well develops and makes sense; fluctuating between the tension of having the right to live differently and the need to be part of the larger society. As a result, this discourse, by stressing ethnic membership and differentiation from other groups, appeals to culturally deep-seated homogenising and idealised elements of ethnicity. Consequently, Raramuri people articulate a recurrent strategy of resistance that allows them to consolidate their cultural identity and the internal cohesion of the group. However, this strategy limits political influence and their capacity to challenge the asymmetric power relations they face from dominant, non-indigenous spheres.
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Shinoda, Hideaki. "Conflicting notions of national and constitutional sovereignty in the discourses of political theory and international relations : a genealogical perspective." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1998. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2481/.
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This thesis presents unexplored aspects of the problematic notion of sovereignty, a major issue in ongoing theoretical debates in international relations. Deploying a 'genealogical' perspective, it clarifies the transformation of ideas of sovereignty which reflect political changes in domestic and international society. Focussing primarily on Anglo-American discourses, it explores the hidden conceptual struggles involved in theories of sovereignty by illuminating its encounter with nationalism and constitutionalism. The national and constitutional forms of sovereignty are used to trace the trajectories of concepts of sovereignty in the fields of political, legal and international studies. This thesis opens with an explication of the genealogical tools derived from Nietzsche and Foucault and a survey of existing accounts of sovereignty within the international relations literature. The historical research begins by identifying the nature of notions of sovereignty within 'constitutional' traditions in seventeenth and eighteenth century Britain and America. After looking into major Continental theories of national sovereignty in the nineteenth century, the thesis examines the rise of nationalistic theories of state-sovereignty in nineteenth century Britain and America. This thesis argues that a strong strand of 'international constitutionalism' appeared as a result of the Anglo-American victory over Germany in the First World War. In consequence, during the initial inter-war period sovereignty was understood as a principle compatible with 'the international rule of law'. The thesis then explores the dramatic decline of this tendency in the thirties which eventually led to the intrusion of national sovereignty in tandem with the rise of political realism. In the midst of the Cold War and the processes of decolonisation, vigorous advocates of national sovereignty in socialist and Third World countries pushed Anglo-American intellectuals to abandon projects of international constitutionalism in the final quarter of this century. It argues that while old-fashioned international constitutionalism based on an anthropomorphic domestic analogy is no longer valid, it is possible to identify in academic debates and political practices values of constitutionalism such as the protection of human rights which are compatible with international society and the concept of sovereignty.
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Silguero, Russell V. "Do contingency-conflicting elements drop out of equivalence classes? Re-testing Sidman's (2000) theory." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc848078/.
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Sidman's (2000) theory of stimulus equivalence states that all positive elements in a reinforcement contingency enter an equivalence class. The theory also states that if an element from an equivalence class conflicts with a programmed reinforcement contingency, the conflicting element will drop out of the equivalence class. Minster et al. (2006) found evidence suggesting that a conflicting element does not drop out of an equivalence class. In an effort to explain maintained accuracy on programmed reinforcement contingencies, the authors seem to suggest that participants will behave in accordance with a particular partitioning of the equivalence class which continues to include the conflicting element. This hypothesis seems to explain their data well, but their particular procedures are not a good test of the notion of "dropping out" due to the pre-establishment of equivalence classes before the conflicting member entered the class. The current experiment first developed unpartitioned equivalence classes and only later exposed participants to reinforcement contingencies that conflicted with pre-established equivalence classes. The results are consistent with the notion that a partition developed such that the conflicting element had dropped out of certain subclasses of the original equivalence class. The notion of a partitioning of an equivalence class seems to provide a fuller description of the phenomenon Sidman (1994, 2000) described as "dropping out" of an equivalence class.
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Holm, Alison E., Benoit Decreton, Phillip C. Nell, and Patricia Klopf. "The dynamic response process to conflicting institutional demands in MNC subsidiaries - An inductive study in the Sub-Saharan African e-commerce sector." Wiley, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1145/full.
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In this paper, we examine responses to the conflicting institutional demands faced by an e-commerce subsidiary located in Sub-Saharan Africa and headquartered in Europe. Following an inductive approach, we gathered data from a 6-month participant-observation study and interviews with local managers. Our findings show that the subsidiary managers responded to conflicting institutional demands in a dynamic way, taking one response after the other. In some cases, the subsidiary managers responded in a way that they thought would be satisfactory but subsequent pressures from their headquarters or their local environment pushed them to adopt a new response. In other cases, the subsidiary managers intentionally adopted responses knowing that they would (have to) adopt another response later in the process.
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Roussopoulos, Theodoros. "Identity disputes and politics at the end of the 17th century : the Archbishop Meletios Typaldos and his conflicting relations with the Greek Confraternity of Venice." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11706.
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This thesis takes as a focal point an important Archbishop of the Greek community in Venice, Meletios Typaldos, who lived in the turbulent era of the late seventeenthearly eighteenth century (1651-1713). An enquiry into the course of his life was deemed worthy of scholarly research: first, because he had not been till now adequately investigated; second, because he is a multi-faceted personage who is highly representative of the ambiguities of that historical period but also clearly and sophisticatedly involved in them. In addition, a study of his life and work reveals a great deal about the religious and cultural beliefs and bias of the flourishing Greek Diaspora of Venice during this historical period. The dissertation investigates initially the political background within which Venice played a crucial role. Moreover, it brings to the fore the religious conflicts of the era as well as the renewal of the theological and philosophical ideas related to scholastic Aristotelism, derived from the teachings at Padua University which spread to the territory of the city-state of Venice. The emphasis in the dissertation is to focus on the impact that these ideas had on the beliefs and views of Typaldos. Principally, the thesis disambiguates the initiatives of Meletios Typaldos who, as head of the Orthodox Church in Venice, planned to convert the Orthodox Greeks to Catholicism without taking into consideration the church body, i.e., the Greek Orthodox clergy and congregation. In contrast to the prevailing view that his ambition to become a cardinal drove him to the acceptance of the Catholic doctrine, this dissertation argues that Typaldos’ activities were inspired by his desire to play a crucial role in a Uniate Church under the Pope’s auspices, with the ultimate ambition to convert all Greeks to it. Finally, specific attention has been given to the resistance of the Greeks of Venice to Typaldos’ plans. After examining the evidence, the thesis concludes that the will of the Greek Confraternity to maintain its social independence -that was guaranteed by the Venetian state - and its passionate desire to maintain unchanged the Confraternity’s Greek ethnic and religious identity are the main causes that determined its reactions against Typaldos. The conflict between the Archbishop and leadership of the Greek community ended in Typaldos’ excommunication by the Patriarchate of Constantinople and, with the loss of his leadership, the decline of the Greek Community of Venice.
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Aggelen, Johannes G. C. van. "Conflicting claims to sovereignty over the West-Bank an in-depth analysis of the historical roots and feasible options in the framework of a future settlement of the dispute /." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92137.
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Arendt, Johannes Friedrich Walter [Verfasser], and Felix [Akademischer Betreuer] Brodbeck. "An empirical investigation of conflicting relational models as an antecedent of perceived (in)justice and (un)cooperative behavior at work / Johannes Friedrich Walter Arendt ; Betreuer: Felix Brodbeck." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2019. http://d-nb.info/123801688X/34.
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Skowrońska, Kaja. "Serving or controlling ? : conflicting logics of migration policy in Poland after the 2013 Act on Foreigners : a case study of the Department of Foreigners of the Masovian Voivodeship Office." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016IEPP0021/document.
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La thèse porte sur un champ spécifique des politiques publiques abordé à travers le filtre des interactions quotidiennes entre les agents d’État et le public. Plus spécifiquement, elle est centrée sur la politique migratoire de la Pologne. Elle consiste à interroger un cas particulier (le Département des étrangers de l’office la Voïvodie de Mazovie) comme lieu où se cristallisent et révèlent les logiques divergentes et souvent contradictoires caractérisant l'ensemble d'un champ de politique étatique. Elle est guidée principalement par la question de savoir ce que les pratiques quotidiennes des fonctionnaires du Département peuvent révéler sur la configuration et les logiques internes du champ des politiques migratoires en Pologne. Inscrit dans une perspective interactionniste, ce travail puise également son inspiration dans les travaux sur les « politiques de guichet » ou encore la « street-level bureaucracy ». Il inclut aussi d'importants éléments de la tradition néo-institutionaliste, notamment par l’usage du concept de champ organisationnel. Le point central de la démarche est l'idée qu'il est possible de mettre en lumière la configuration d'un tel champ et les dynamiques qui le parcourent, à partir d'une analyse focalisée sur un de ses acteurs clés. Ainsi, ce travail, réalisé en co-tutelle et situé à l'intersection de la science politique et de la sociologie, allie une réflexion sur le processus politique d'élaboration des politiques publiques à une étude sociologique à l'échelle micro. Dans une approche qualitative, l'enquête inclut une période d'observation participante au sein de l'institution étudiée et une série d'entretiens semi-directifsThe dissertation focuses of Poland's migration policy as seen through the lens of the daily face-to-face interactions between immigrants and civil servants at the Department of Foreigners of the Masovian Voivodeship Office – an institution responsible for the legalization of foreigners' stay in Poland. This specific case is analyzed as a site where different and often divergent logics characteristic of this field of policy come into play and become apparent. Thus, the central question is what can be learned about the configuration and internal dynamics of a field of public policy through an observation of everyday practices of the agents of the Department. While adopting an interactionist perspective, this work draws as well on a literature focused on what can be called « street-level bureaucracy ». It also includes important elements of the neo-institutionalist tradition, notably through the use of the concept of organizational field. An idea central to the approach taken here is that it is possible to throw light on the configuration and the logics characterizing such a field based on an analysis of one of its key actors. Situated between the disciplines of political science and sociology, this work combines a reflection on the process of policy-making with a micro-scale sociological inquiry. Following a qualitative approach, the research consists of a period of participant observation and a series of semi-structured interviews
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Hein, Jonas Ibrahim. "Rescaling conflictive access and property relations in the context of REDD+ in Jambi, Indonesia." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0028-8778-6.
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Blažek, Zdeněk. "Čína, Indie a potenciál ozbrojeného konfliktu v jihovýchodní Asii." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-327494.
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Master's thesis China, India and the armed conflict potential in South East Asia is concerned with the current relations of mentioned countries and is trying to figure out, if an outburst of a military conflict between them could occur or whether they will rather cooperate. The thesis is based on the notion that these two world giants in the terms of number of inhabitants, area and even a GDP volume have an unresolved border dispute, ever since the India reached independence. Their mutual border has never been officially demarcated. The small skirmishes between the border patrols of both states are uncountable. In addition, in 1962 they waged a war against each other, which China won in very decisive manner. Both states have been disputing which side caused this conflict till today. Rising economic power of both states currently, together with supposed arming, development of military rocket and submarine technology capable to carry nuclear warheads and establishment of naval bases by China in the proximity of India could create a really effervescent atmosphere in the area. The thesis is divided into six chapters. First chapter introduces the topic. Second chapter establishes the theoretic framework, which is underpinning the research. The other chapters are empirical. The main areas of the analysis...
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Gray, Christine Robison 1975. "Testing a model of the development of trust in situations of conflicting interests." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3585.
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The purpose of this study was to test a theoretical model that explains how interpersonal trust develops from interactions in personal relationships. The sample consisted of 311 individuals who were randomly recruited with their dating partners for a longitudinal study on dating relationships. Using interdependence theory as a framework, I tested a model of how trust develops from behaviors and attributions in handling situations of conflicting needs, wants, and desires. This model also examined both the direct and indirect effects of two background characteristics, adult attachment style and parental divorce, on beliefs of trust. The model explored whether attributions partially mediated the direct relationship between the background characteristics and trust. Lastly, multiple group analyses explored whether gender and two developmental factors, stage of relationship involvement and developmental change in relationship involvement, moderated the simultaneous relationships among the predictor variables and trust. The analyses testing my model of the development of trust examined two separate outcomes: trust in partners' benevolence and trust in partners' honesty. The results from the path analyses revealed that the data fit the model for trust in partners' benevolence well enough for the importance of the predictors to be interpreted, but did not fit the model for trust in partners' honesty. The findings showed that in the overall model of trust in partners' benevolence, partners' voice and individuals' attributions were significant predictors of trust. The findings for the multiple group comparisons further revealed that the model was not significantly modified by stage of relationship involvement, developmental change in relationship involvement, or gender. A few marginal findings, however, suggest areas for future research.
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Wolansky, Randall. "Conflicting values ; "official" and "counter" meta-narratives on human rights in Canadian foreign policy - the case of East Timor." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11468.
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Belief in human rights is a value central to the Canadian self-image. Canadians view
the development of Canada's international peacekeeping role and overseas development
assistance program in the post-1945 era as the foreign policy manifestation of this belief.
It has led to the national myth of the country as a "Humanitarian Middle Power".
Canada's response to Indonesia's oppressive occupation of East Timor (1975 - 1999)
contradicted this national myth. The concept of meta-narrative, of political mythmaking,
is used to examine the reasons why the Liberal and Progressive Conservative
governments in Ottawa during this period perceived Canada's national interest in
maintaining a strong economic relationship with Jakarta over the protection of human
rights in East Timor. These "Official" meta-narratives were countered by Canadian
human rights activists, such as the East Timor Alert Network, who stressed the primacy
of human rights in foreign-policy decision-making. Ultimately, this debate represents a
conflict of values in Canadian society. The "Official" meta-narrative has developed
since World War II in active support of the capitalist world-system dominated by the
United States, whereas the "Counter" meta-narrative challenges the morality of that
system. The "Humanitarian Middle Power" myth, which is at the core of the Canadian
identity vis-a-vis the international community, is not completely invalid, but it is greatly
limited by the firm adherence of Canadian governments to the world economic structure.
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Mzimela, Leonard Mduduzi. "Using systems thinking to create a viable student recruitment model : accommodating conflicting concerns in the student recruitment process." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/4174.
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The University of Natal has a Schools Liaison team that is responsible for undergraduate Students Recruitment. Recruitment activities are, however, not restricted to the Schools Liaison team. There are special programmes funded in part or wholly by corporate partners. These partnerships have placed additional demands on the recruitment function which is served by using special recruiters. Certain faculties have also chosen to make use of specialised recruiters in the form of Public Relations Officers. The presence of more than one group of individuals involved in Students Recruitment creates problems, more especially because the various groups of recruiters operate mainly within the same target market. The coming together of the conflicting and competing goals coupled with the parallel and independent recruitment drives of competing faculties, negatively affects the synergy that could be beneficial to the recruitment function. The focus of the study is on using systems thinking methodologies to engage stakeholders in a process that assists the University in creating a Student Recruitment Model that allows the various recruiters to pursue their various goals without harming the larger organisational goal and fragmenting the organization. The objective of this study is to use the Soft Systems Methodology as a tool aimed at developing a viable Student Recruitment model. This dissertation uses systems thinking methodologies to examine stakeho1der interests and concerns and attempts to bring all these together within a consolidated framework that should make up the viable Student Recruitment Model that serves the various interests within a single system. A number of lessons learnt during the process are highlighted and discussed in the last section of this study. The said lessons are considered valuable in the future as new demands arise and the organisation needs to modify its recruitment model.Thesis (M.Com.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2003.
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Kurdunowicz, Beth Webber Elaine. "Parenting attitudes and 12 month old infants' ability to cope with conflicting parental messages a research report submitted in partial fulfillment ... /." 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/68787897.html.
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Lounnas, Djallil. "La sécurité collective dans l’unipolarité : la crise nucléaire iranienne." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4513.
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L’argument central de notre thèse est qu’une structure internationale unipolaire non hégémonique favorise la sécurité collective. Après avoir montré que telle est la structure actuelle et avoir justifié notre positionnement théorique néolibéral, nous avons eu recours au modèle d’interaction du « leader-suiveur de Stackelberg », pour démontrer qu’une coopération conflictuelle entre États rationnels est possible, ce qui leur permet de surmonter leur dilemme de l’action collective. Une coopération possible en raison de l’existence d’un intérêt mutuel et d’un leader favorisant la coopération entre ces États, ainsi que de conditions leur permettant de mettre en place une ‘stratégie de la réciprocité’. Ils forment alors ce qu’on appelle le « groupe de Stackelberg ». Le suiveur de la périphérie, ou ‘défecteur’ doit, pour sa part, non seulement s’ajuster à l’intérêt mutuel ainsi défini, mais aussi coopérer et négocier avec le groupe, et ce, sous la pression de sanctions, voire d’un usage ultime de la force si besoin est. Après l’éventuel succès de ces négociations, un équilibre de Stackelberg favorisé par le leader, soit la puissance unipolaire et non hégémonique, est alors atteint et la coopération permet, alors, à chacun de retirer un bénéfice de cet intérêt mutuel.
Dans notre cas, le groupe de Stackelberg est constitué des membres du G5 + 1, soit les cinq membres permanents du Conseil de Sécurité de l’ONU et de l’Allemagne, agissant sous le leadership américain; l’Iran est un suiveur de la périphérie, soupçonné de défection, et l’intérêt mutuel est celui de la lutte contre la prolifération des ADM. Notre évaluation empirique montre que les conditions de la réciprocité des membres de ce groupe sont réunies et que celles de l’Iran sont en cours de négociation.The main argument of our thesis is that a unipolar and non hegemonic structure of the international system furthers collective security. After having shown that the present international structure is as such and having justified our neoliberal theoretical approach, we have adopted the interaction model of the Stackelberg leadership model to demonstrate that a conflicting cooperation between rational States, that are respectful of the international order, is possible, which allows them to overcome their collective action dilemma. This cooperation depends on the existence of shared interests, on the ability of the leader to foster cooperation among them, and on structural conditions as well, which enable the setting up of “a reciprocity strategy”. They, thus, form what we call as a “Stackelberg’s group”. With regard to the periphery follower, or defector, he should adjust to the mutual interest of the group, as defined by this latter, as well as cooperate and negotiate with it, under the pressure of sanctions or the use of force if necessary. In the event of a successful negotiation, a Stackelberg equilibrium, furthered by the leader of the group, that is the unipolar and non hegemonic power, is then reached where cooperation between the members of the group, i.e. the States, allows them to get their share, that is a benefit from their mutual interest. In our case study, the Stackelberg’s group includes the five permanent members of the U.N Security Council plus Germany, all acting under the US leadership. Iran is a periphery follower suspected of defection, and the mutual interest is the international security against WMD proliferation. Our empirical assessment shows that the respective conditions, which enable a reciprocity strategy within the Stackelberg’s group, are then met by its members, whereas those of Iran are still under negotiations.
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Langer, Caroline. "Est-ce que le Contrôle est un facteur de protection ou de vulnérabilité pour le décrochage scolaire chez les adolescents?" Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/8875.
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Cette étude visait principalement à examiner si le Contrôle (« Conscientiousness ») modère la relation prédictive entre différents facteurs de risque et le décrochage chez les adolescents. Les données de l’étude Stratégie d’Intervention Agir Autrement (SIAA) ont été employées. L’échantillon compte 1864 adolescents âgés de 15 ans provenant de 62 écoles secondaires québécoises. Des analyses de régression logistique ont confirmé le pouvoir prédictif de certains facteurs de risque connus du décrochage (indiscipline scolaire, statut socioéconomique faible, engagement scolaire faible, rendement scolaire faible, retard scolaire, désengagement scolaire des amis et des relations conflictuelles avec les enseignants). Les analyses ont aussi révélé que le Contrôle modère la relation entre les relations conflictuelles avec les enseignants et le décrochage et s’avère donc un facteur de vulnérabilité. En effet, un adolescent qui a un niveau élevé de Contrôle est plus à risque de décrocher lorsqu’il a des relations conflictuelles avec les enseignants.This study’s main goal is to determine if Conscientiousness moderates the relation between risk factors and dropping out of high school. This project is a secondary analysis of the data from the “Stratégie d’Intervention Agir Autrement” (SIAA) study. The sample includes 1864 15 years old adolescents who go to 62 different high schools in Quebec. Logistic regression analyses confirmed the importance of different risk factors in high school dropping out such as disobedience in school, socioeconomic status, commitment to school, performance in school, grade retention, friends’ lack of school commitment, and conflicting relationships with teachers. Moreover, it was revealed that Conscientiousness moderated the relation between conflicting relationships with teachers and dropping out and was therefore a vulnerability factor. Indeed, an adolescent who has a high level of Conscientiousness is more at risk of dropping out when s/he has conflicting relationships with his or her teachers.