Dissertations / Theses: 'Self-serving'

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Stenlund, Sara, and Madeleine Svensson. "Self-Serving Bias i Syskonskaran." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-34737.

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Self-Serving Bias handlar om tendensen att tillskriva positiva händelser till sig själv och de negativa händelserna tillskrivs yttre omständigheter. Beroende på vilken plats i syskonskaran man har kan self-serving bias, det subjektiva välmåendet och den egna tilltron till ens förmåga se olika ut. Syftet med studien var att undersöka skillnader mellan self-serving bias, subjektivt välmående och self-efficacy relaterat till plats i syskonskara. 185 enkäter delades ut till socionom-, beteendevetar- och psykologistuderande varav bortfallet var 35. Enkäten innehöll de tre skalorna Attributional Style Questionnaire, satisfaction with life scale och General self-efficacy scale vilka översattes från engelska till svenska innan den delades ut till olika klasser på campus. Resultatet visade på ett signifikant positivt samband mellan subjektivt välmående, self-efficacy och self-serving bias. Dock var huvudeffekten för plats i syskonskara och interaktionseffekten inte signifikanta. Resultaten för hypoteserna, kritik till studien, framtida forskning och förförståelsen hos forskarna innan denna studie gjordes togs upp i diskussionen.

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Woods, Daniel John. "Does self-serving generosity diminish reciprocal response?" Thesis, University of Canterbury. Economics and Finance, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8376.

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Cox, Friedman, and Sadiraj (2008) develop a model of reciprocity, „Revealed Altruism‟, which posits that a „more generous than‟ (MGT) offer elicits a „more altruistic than‟ (MAT) response. A MGT ordering is defined by two conditions. Condition a) states that MGT is ordered by the maximum potential increase in income of the recipient, or that the more you stand to receive from an offer, the more generous it is to you. Condition b) states that the increase in maximum potential income of the recipient cannot be less than the maximum potential increase in income of the proposers. In other words, Condition b) states that an offer cannot be self-serving, but it is not specified in Cox, Friedman, and Sadiraj (2008) precisely how b) affects the MGT ordering. I propose that a violation of b) is considered self-serving and is less MGT than when b) is not violated. I then experimentally study the empirical relevance of b) using two designs that hold a) constant, comparing MGT differences implied by responses. The first design is a variant of the Lost Wallet Game (Dufwenberg & Gneezy, 2000) with a negative outside option, and the second design is a modified Investment Game (Berg, Dickhaut, & McCabe, 1995) with elements of the Dictator Game implemented by Andreoni and Miller (2002). I find no empirical support that b) affects the MGT ordering.

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Moss, Daniel. "Humanitarian or self-serving : the nineteenth century German temperance movement /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm913.pdf.

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Rees, Karen Leah. "Parental cognitions in disciplinary situations, the role of self-serving bias." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23469.pdf.

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Staddon, Melissa. "Self-Serving Biases In Students' Evaluations of Teaching: Examining the Impact of Self-Reported Narcissism and Shyness." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31364.

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Students’ evaluations of teaching (SETs) have been used as a primary means of evaluating the teaching quality at postsecondary institutions for a number of years. The research in this area has been consistently expanding in an effort to validate its use and efficacy. To date, there has been little consensus regarding the validity of these evaluations, especially with regards to the possible impact of extraneous factors. Researchers have previously found evidence of a link between the self-serving bias and grade expectations. The present study used an experimental design to examine the validity of SETs in the context of the self-serving bias. According to the self-serving bias, individuals will be more likely to attribute success internally but attribute failure externally. Specifically, the present study examined whether there were differences in the presence of the self-serving bias in relation to self-reported narcissism and shyness. Students at a large university aged 17 - 46 (N = 563) were asked to write a short essay on euthanasia and were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In the first condition, students were assigned a low grade; in the second condition, they were assigned a high grade. When they were given their essay grade back, students had an opportunity to rate their evaluator. Results indicated that students were more likely to externalize their essay grade when in the negative condition whereby they attributed their grade to reasons outside their control versus the positive condition, irrespective of their level of self-reported narcissism or shyness. These results suggest that the self-serving bias does exist within SETs and calls into question the validity of these evaluations. The findings from this study highlight the need for further research into the role that student characteristics play with regards to SETs.

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Pettersson, Johan. "Upplevelser av att skriva ett självständigt arbete : En induktiv studie om examinerade studenters upplevelser av interna och externa faktorers inverkan på kontrollfokus." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85396.

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Föreliggande studie syftar till att bilda kunskap kring hur examinerade studenter från Linnéuniversitetets grundlärarprogram med inriktning mot arbete i fritidshem år 2018, upplever utbildningsmomentet att skriva ett självständigt arbete. Intentionen med studien är att, utifrån en induktiv grundteoretiskt metod, bidra till en utvecklad teoribildning kring sambandet mellan studenters upplevelser och orsaker. Totalt deltar fyra examinerade studenter, med grundlärarexamen med inriktning mot arbete i fritidshem, i studien. Resultatet baseras på studenternas livsberättelser med fokus på upplevelser av uppsatsprocessen samt utbildningsmomentets innehåll. Resultatet redogör för hur kontrollfokus utgör en central aspekt i studiens teoriutvecklande syfte av att beskriva sambandet mellan informanternas upplevelser och orsaker. Detta genom tillämpning av termen self-serving bias. Informanternas beskrivningar av subjektiva upplevelser och dess orsaker tyder på intern och extern nivå av kontrollfokus, vilka omfattar dels av en intern fokusering på upplevelsen av tilliten till den egna förmågan (self-efficacy) och en extern fokusering på stödet från handledaren. Resultatet tyder på olika upplevelser av self-efficacy medför skillnader i upplevd emotionell påfrestning. Samtliga informanter uttrycker upplevelsen av orättvisa. Orsaken till orättvisan beskrivs av informanterna vara lokaliserad till handledarna, där vissa handledare till andra handledningsgrupper av studenter, upplevs bistå med mer stöd och fler handledningstillfällen. Detta upplevs medföra kvalitetsskillnader i studenternas självständiga arbeten vilket väcker känslor av avundsjuka och ilska.

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PARISE, MIRIAM. "Self-enhancement e relazione di coppia: positive illusions, self-serving bias e l'influenza del parenting intrusivo." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1020.

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Il lavoro di tesi si focalizza su due meccanismi di self-enhancement, le positive illusions e il self-serving bias, e li analizza nel contesto della relazione di coppia, con particolare attenzione all’influenza che una strategia di parenting disfunzionale come l’intrusive parenting esercita su di essi. La tesi si articola in tre studi: il primo ed il secondo studio, adottando un approccio quantitativo, si focalizzano sul costrutto delle positive illusions, mentre il terzo, attraverso un disegno sperimentale, sul costrutto del self-serving bias.
Self-enhancement is a self-motive which pushes individuals to increase positive self-views and to protect their self-concept from negative information. Two mechanisms associated with the self-enhancement motive, positive illusions and the self-serving bias, will be analyzed in the context of couple relationship. Positive illusions deal with the tendency to perceive one’s relationship favorably when compared to the couple relationship of the average other. The self-serving bias relates to the tendency to make internal responsibility attributions for positive events but to make external responsibility attributions for negative events; however, when individuals collaborate with a close partner on an interdependent-outcome task, they refrain from self-serving attributions or even manifest the other-serving bias. These mechanisms serve the purpose of maintaining and protecting a relationship that is central in one’s couple identity. The present work will also focus on the influence that an insidious parental behavior like intrusive parenting exerts on these two biases pro-relationship and, consequently, on couple identity. Study 1 and 2 are dedicated to the examination of couple positive illusions in couples in transition to marriage whereas study 3 investigates the self-serving bias in dating partners.

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Shin, Hye Min. "On the Relationship Between Misperceptions of Randomness and the Self-Serving Bias." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/675.

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The study looked at how misperceptions of randomness (the gambler’s fallacy or the hot-hand fallacy) would show differences in self-serving-bias through different levels of perceived control. In order to investigate this relationship between misperceptions of randomness, self-serving bias, and perceived control, the study manipulated perceived control by varying who threw the coin (experimenter/participant) and by showing a skill prime to some participants. Thus, in the experiment, participants either saw a skill prime or not by random assignment. Afterwards, the participants predicted an outcome, rated the confidence of the prediction, then the participants would throw a coin for half of the trials while the experimenter would for the other trials. Due to little variability of the self-serving bias, the analysis could not test the hypothesis. However, the study found that other variable such as confidence was able to predict the misperception of randomness when the participants threw the coin.

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Blount, Matthew Raymond. "Antisocial Behavior: Roles of Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions and Ventromedial Prefrontal Function." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1342472637.

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Maechel, Gustaf. "Priming av självrelevanta ord : Kan attributionsstil påverkas av omedvetna signaler?" Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-8362.

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Människor tenderar att attribuera framgångar till sig själva och misslyckanden till externa källor, fenomenet kallas för Self-serving bias. Hur individer attribuerar kan enligt forskning påverkas av bland annat graden av självkontroll samt självkänsla. Enligt forskning kan intentioner eller beteendemål aktiveras automatiskt och omedvetet av en utlösande signal, så kallad priming, och därmed aktivt guida en persons självreglering. Denna studie har genom ett experiment, med 56 högskolestudenter, undersökt om priming av självkontroll och självförtroende kan påverka hur en individ attribuerar vid framgång och misslyckande. Resultatet visade ingen signifikant skillnad mellan priminggrupperna. Humör visade sig ha betydelse för hur deltagarna attribuerade. En ojämn gruppfördelning och en för bred variationsvidd på beroendemåttet diskuteras om det hade någon påverkan på resultatet.

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Way, Lyndon C. S. "Self-serving national ideologies : a critical discourse analysis of Turkish Cypriot radio news." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2009. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55867/.

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This thesis examines the historical formation and contemporary circulation of competing variants of Turkish Cypriot nationalisms as they are realised in different Turkish Cypriot radio news outlets. Unlike North Atlantic models of journalism, these media are not governed by the values of neutrality nor of a fourth estate role, being closely aligned to political interests. Presently, there is an ideological struggle between two versions of Turkish Cypriot nationalism in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Turkish nationalism' sees TRNC as part of a pan-Turkish nation. Within this ideology, TRNC's future is linked to Turkey and independent of the Republic of Cyprus. 'Pro-federation' nationalism sees TRNC as part of an inclusive Cypriot identity. TRNC's future is in a federation with the Republic of Cyprus. TRNC radio, each station closely affiliated to one of these nationalisms, is one site where national discourses can be accessed and evaluated. In this thesis, Critical Discourse Analysis is used to reveal how participants and their actions are represented in news stories. These shape the way that events appear, contributing to prevailing nationalisms. This analysis is contextualised historically, conceptually and ethnographically with newsroom studies. These produce an understanding of the processes behind a set of highly ideological news texts. This thesis adds to existing academic work which indicates that Cypriot media frame events in ways which aggravate the Cyprus conflict. Unlike other studies, this thesis challenges the myth that national discourses are uniform expressions and allegiances in news media. Instead, the data analysed reveal national discourses are internally fractured, politically differentiated and temporal. Though discourses mostly support interests associated with each station, some pretextual discourses of compromise, cooperation and unity are revealed. Though minimal, these contribute to a solution-friendly atmosphere which frees residents from a life of embargoes, fear and isolation.

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Sibert, Harrison. "The Influence of the Self-Serving Bias and the Similar-to-Me Effect on Hiring Decisions." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1410451585.

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Nightingale, David. "Towards an ecologically valid system for investigating the exaggerated self-serving attributional bias in paranoia." Thesis, Bangor University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318575.

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Seabrook, Dorothy Ann. "Relationship Between Socialization Tactics, Military Cultural Competence, and Self-Efficacy of Service Providers Serving Veterans." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7507.

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Military cultural competence has gained attention due to the past 15 years of military conflict and ongoing deployment of troops around the globe. Returning veterans, particularly those who go on to experience homelessness, have reported negative experiences and adverse treatment from programs that were designed to support them. Those experiences have resulted in perceived barriers to access or use of such services. Researchers have established the need for increased levels of military cultural competence to develop rapport with veterans and their families when delivering community-based social and healthcare services. Bandura's self-efficacy theory was the theoretical framework of this study. This study examined the relationship between military cultural competence, socialization tactics, and perceived self-efficacy of service providers employed with Continuum of Care Program member organizations that served veterans experiencing homelessness. Data were collected utilizing a cross-sectional web-based survey. After conducting a bivariate correlation, a statistically significant relationship was found between military cultural competence levels, socialization tactics, and self-efficacy levels. After conducting multiple linear regression, it was found that socialization tactics did not moderate the relationship between military cultural competence levels on self-efficacy levels. Though moderation was not found, leadership of organizations that support veterans may want to consider these factors to inform onboarding and training decisions. Addressing behaviors and attitudes of service providers may support social change by reducing adverse treatment that creates barriers to access and use of programs and services.

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Fletcher, Sandra E. "Personal and Institutional Factors: Relationship to Self-Efficacy of Persistence to the Senior Year in College among Self-Identified Black Undergraduate Students in a Hispanic Serving Institution." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/703.

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While undergraduate enrollment of all racial groups in United States higher education institutions has increased, 6-year graduation rates of Blacks (39%) remain low compared to other races; Asians (69%), Whites (62%), and Hispanics (50%; NCES, 2010). Women’s graduation rate is higher than men’s; 58% compared to men’s at 53% in public institutions (IPEDS, 2011). Retention literature does not address the perceptions of Black ethnic groups’ experiences in college, particularly in Hispanic serving institutions. Informed by Tinto’s (1975, 1987, 1993) student academic and social integration model, Guiffrida’s (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006) model of relationships while at college, and ex-post facto research design, the study investigated personal and institutional factors that relate to Black students’ self-efficacy and persistence to the senior year in college. Data about Black ethnic undergraduate seniors’ (N = 236) academic and social experiences in college were collected using the Student Institutional Integration Survey (SIIS), an online questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were used to collect background information about the sample, correlation was calculated to indicate the degree of relationship between the variables, and multiple linear regressions were used to identify variables that are predictors of self-efficacy of persistence. Independent samples t-test and analyses of variance were computed to determine whether differences in perceptions of personal and institutional factors that relate to self-efficacy of persistence to the senior year in college could be identified between gender and ethnicity. Frequency was summarized to identify themes of participants’ primary motivation for finishing undergraduate degree programs. These themes were: (a) self-pride/personal goal, (b) professional aspiration/career (c) motivation to support family, (d) desire to have financial independence/better job, (e) to serve community, (f) opportunity to go to college, (g) being first-generation college student, and (h) prove to family the value of higher education. The research findings support the tenets of academic and social integration theories which suggest that students’ interaction with peer and faculty, relationships with family and friends, and involvement in institutional activities and organizations influence their persistence in college. Implications based on the findings affect institutional policy, curriculum, and program improvements that relate to Black undergraduate students’ academic and social support.

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Mack, Kyle Garret. "Sour Grapes While You're Down and Out: Self-Serving Bias and Applicant Attributions for Test Performance." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3433.

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Recent research has shown that outcome favorability (Ryan & Ployhart, 2000) and perceived performance (Chan, Schmitt, Jennings, Clause, & Delbridge, 1998a) are key determinates of justice judgments, suggesting that self-serving bias is a critical mechanism in the formation of applicant reactions. However, organizational justice theory continues to be the dominant paradigm for understanding applicant reactions. Chan and Schmitt (2004) have suggested a far ranging agenda for research into reactions, which includes considering reactions in a longitudinal framework and considering the natural effect of time on reactions. The current study incorporates these theoretical approaches and addresses these gaps in the research by examining applicant reactions at four time points during and after a selection procedure. This study also uses a multi-dimensional measure of test taking motivation (TTM) based on expectancy theory which enables me to explicate the effect of test performance, expectations, and outcome feedback on each motivational component. Using a sample of 227 student participants, this study provides evidence that an applicant's expectations regarding the selection outcome and the selection outcome itself have strong effects on fairness perceptions and TTM. Some key findings are the following: I) negative selection decisions and negative expectations tend to reduce fairness perceptions and TTM in applicants, while for the most part, positive expectations and positive selection decisions do little to increase these reactions and 2) valence, or the desire for the job, seems to be the motivational component most affected by the selection procedure. These findings have important implications for future research into applicant reactions.

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Kabanyane, Tommy Ndzimane. "The manipulation of the poor by the powerful for self-serving careerism : a pastoral care study." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23572.

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The basic premises of this study is that the poor people should not be manipulated by the rich and powerful for their selfish end. Though they are poor, they are God’s people and God loves them as well. Growing up in the poor rural areas of Herschel, the researcher was the victim of apartheid laws at an early age. He experienced the pangs of hunger and on many occasions was tempted to steal. As a small boy he had many unanswered questions, when he saw white boys of his age being well fed, clad, and staying in beautiful homes. Later as a minister, working with Rev. S.R. Kumalo, in Ivory Park informal settlement, the researcher was touched by the plight of the poor living in shacks. In 2001 he was stationed in the neighbouring Olievenhoutbosch informal settlement. Here he was confronted with circumstances that perpetuated poverty among the poor, such as lack of job opportunities, no formal school buildings, sports facilities that keep the youth away from crime, no sites for churches, shops, clinics and police station. The people felt neglected and betrayed by the very government they voted for in 1994 and 1998. The government has failed to fulfill the promises made then. The poor even question the existence of God, as poverty in this area is absolute. If God does exist, as far as they are concerned, he has either forgotten them, or turned his back on them. Caring for the poor was a major challenge to the researcher. He had to study and acquire skills of empowering and liberating the poor from their morass. The researcher used Gerkin’s biblical traditional method of shepherding God’s people, as used in Old Testament times. He also applied Masango’s liberation theology as a way out to freedom from bondage of oppression. The researcher also identified five forms of poverty that affects the poor people of Olievenhoutbosch, but emphasis is zeroed on economic poverty, as it affects all their spheres of life. The daily struggle of the poor here is how to keep the body and soul together. The economic poverty has resulted in other evil repercussions, such as prostitution or sex work, which in turn leads to wide spread of pandemic HIV/AIDS, crime such as house breakings, car hijackings and general robbery, are on the increase. The poor are neglected by the politicians and the rich. Every time during political campaigns the politicians remember that there are people to be addressed in Olievenhoutbosch, they visit them. After elections the politicians disappear to come back again when there is the next political campaign. The researcher views this as the manipulation of the poor by the powerful for their own selfish ends. The researcher has included the stories of the poor to back up their suffering after being used as pawns by the politicians. As means of healing the poor people of Olievenhoutbosch informal settlement, the researcher has recommended some pastoral care guidelines. The poor must be encouraged to re-evaluate and come out of their state of inertia and start to live a new life. They must be empowered to use their voting power to change their circumstances and lives. They must end their exploitation through their sheer numbers. The lesson of liberation will also focus on the powerful as they are the victims of greed and power hungry. Nobody can really be happy and live comfortably when the neighbor is starving and unhappy. The boycotts and marches taking place recently in the townships are a sign that the masses can no longer tolerate their sufferings, and unfulfilled promises. In concluding this study the researcher has suggested the way forward for pastoral care-givers. He has further suggested some researches that need to be done. At the end of this study the researcher also became aware of his own weaknesses, which are his personal ongoing struggles and challenges that must be subdued in the new democratic South Africa.
Dissertation (MA(Practical Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2006.
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Arneson, Eric E. "The Self-Perceived Effects on Faculty that Result From the Experience of Serving in a Residential College." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/484.

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The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine the effects that faculty who live in residence with college students perceive result from their experience. This study examined the perspectives from current and recent residential faculty members. Data were gathered through individual structured interviews with current and former residential faculty who gave firsthand accounts of how they felt that experience impacted them. Literature consistently showed that faculty-student interaction is very important to the development and success of students (Astin, 1993). Research has clearly demonstrated positive outcomes that result for students. The present study was undertaken because there is a dearth of research, however, regarding this impact on the faculty members themselves. Given the importance of faculty-student interaction outside of the classroom (Lundberg, 2004), it is crucial to recruit faculty for these communities. Thus, more information regarding this experience will be valuable to faculty and administrators considering working with residential colleges. The study was conducted at a mid-sized private university in the Southeastern United States. The reason for this choice was the fact that this school has a 25-year history as a residential college system and utilizes 12-15 residential faculty members yearly. The researcher conducted interviews with 13 faculty members and coded and analyzed the data. The study findings indicated that the faculty perceived great benefits from serving as residential college faculty members. Perceived benefits as described by the participants included increased skill in teaching, feeling a sense of community, stronger relationships with other faculty members and students, and an increased affinity toward the university. While there were some challenges such as lack of training, institutional politics, and loss of privacy all participants in the study felt they gained from the opportunity and would do it again in the same situation. This study enhanced the limited formal knowledge available regarding how faculty experience living in residential colleges with students.

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Baak, Sara Ann. "An Evaluation of a Waiting Period and DRL on Reducing Mands serving as Precursors to Self-Injurious Behavior." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703297/.

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Extensive research has been conducted demonstrating the utility of differential reinforcement as an effective intervention for self-injurious behavior. However, the majority of this literature requires teaching an alternative response to access reinforcement. Further evaluation of treating self-injurious behavior in individuals that already possess the repertories to contact reinforcement appropriately. Prior to initiating the study, functional assessments were completed for both participant that demonstrated high-rate bursts of mands served as a reliable precursor to self-injurious behavior. In the present study, we evaluated a waiting period and differential reinforcement of low rate behavior on reducing mands while keeping self-injurious behavior at or near zero levels. Results indicated that shorter waiting periods and DRL values were effective at reducing mands and maintaining near zero levels of self-injurious behavior.

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Eriksson, Jenny, and Matilda Torstensson. "Global turism och hållbar utveckling : Svenska turisters uppfattningar om destinationspåverkan." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Globala studier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-24794.

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De senaste åren har den internationella turismen ökat explosionsartat och den förväntas fortsätta öka på samma vis. Detta medför både positiv och negativ påverkan på destinationen och för lokalbefolkningen. För att turismen skall vara långsiktigt hållbar är det viktigt att inbegripa turisternas perspektiv på destinationspåverkan. Tidigare forskning har främst varit fokuserad på lokalbefolkningens syn på turismen, och därför behövs vidare forskning från turisternas synvinkel. Föreliggande uppsats har som syfte att undersöka hur svenska turister uppfattar destinationspåverkan inom de tre hållbarhetssfärerna ekonomi, sociokultur och ekologi. Vidare syftar uppsatsen till att undersöka eventuella skillnader i upplevelser mellan de två turistgrupperna massturister och alternativturister. Undersökningen har gjorts med hjälp av en enkätundersökning administrerad på Internet. Enkäten har spridits på sociala medier med hjälp av ett snöbollsurval som avser spegla diverse varianser i populationen. Teorierna Social Exchange Theory och Self-Serving Bias har använts för att beskriva turism och turisters aktioner. Resultaten har analyserats statistiskt i programmet SPSS, genom att göra T-Test. Resultatet visar att turisterna anser att den ekonomiska påverkan från den allmänna turismen är positiv, medan den ekologiska påverkan är negativ och på det sociokulturella planet finns en bred spridning mellan positivt och negativt. De uppfattar också sin egen resa som positivt ekonomiskt och sociokulturellt men den ekologiska sfären anses inte påverkas speciellt mycket av deras egen resa. Vidare redovisas mycket svaga skillnader mellan olika turisttypers svar om destinationspåverkan, däremot tydliga skillnader i uppfattning om sin egen resa i förhållande till den allmänna turismen.

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Clark, Patrina Michelle. "Protecting and Serving Her Way| A Qualitative Inquiry of Female Law Enforcement Leaders' Social Identity and Leader Self-Efficacy." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10828345.

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This qualitative research study (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016) informed by an a priori theoretical framework gathered perspectives of female law enforcement leaders on their experiences leading in hegemonic masculine police cultures (Archbold & Schulz, 2012; Morash & Haarr, 2012; Rabe-Hemp, 2009) to better understand how female law enforcement leaders described the construction of their social identities (Morash & Haarr, 2012; Rabe-Hemp, 2009; Tajfel & Turner, 1979) and the influences on their self-efficacy (Bandura, 1977, 1986, 1997). The two areas of focus for the study within the law enforcement leaders’ experiences included understanding how the women thought of themselves and others as a group and what experiences influenced their confidence to lead. The study was guided by two research questions: How do female law enforcement leaders describe their social identities? and What experiences shape the formation and evolution of self-efficacy of female law enforcement leaders? There were two subquestions: How, if at all, is gender a factor in the female law enforcement leaders’ social identity constructions? and How do the reported experiences described by the female law enforcement leaders inform the four information sources for self-efficacy theorized by Bandura (1977)?

This study provided in-depth descriptive data about the social identity constructions and self-efficacy evolution of 16 female law enforcement leaders. General findings from the study indicated women’s social identities (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) are constructed within and outside of the law enforcement community with a strong identification with groups outside of law enforcement and influenced by gender. Further findings from the study indicated that a myriad of experiences and interactions influence leader self-efficacy (Archbold & Schulz, 2012; Bandura, 1977, 1986, 1997; Rabe-Hemp, 2009; West & Zimmerman, 1987) that are generally aligned with Bandura’s (1977, 1986, 1997) self-efficacy theory, with one noteworthy exception and one emergent influence.

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Lee, Myoungki. "Three essays on applied contracting." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1153714667.

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Solórzano, Ramón. "From "Spanish choices" to Latina/o voices interrogating technologies of language, race, and identity in a self-serving American moment /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3372278/.

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Kyle, Crystal Anne. "The Formation of Cultural Capital using Symbolic Military Meanings of Objects and Self in an Adult Agricultural Education Program serving Military Veterans." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/85241.

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The purpose of this qualitative ethnographic case study was to investigate how an adult agricultural educational program generates new learning spaces for military veterans. Utilizing Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Capital Theories this study illustrates how military veterans use and making new meanings of military symbols in an agricultural educational context. After leaving their military service, veterans often discharge with not only the physical scars of battle, but sometimes harboring mental and emotional distress that can prevent their abilities to successfully reintegrate into a civilian setting. For several veterans, adult agricultural programs can provide a vital educational experience to help them address physical and mental challenges, launch a new career in agriculture, and form new civilian identities. Findings from this research indicate that participants of this study transformation of a civilian identity is positively impacted when familiar symbols of the military are used in the implementation of agriculture education and that these symbols then take on new meanings supporting Blumer (1969) Symbolic Interactionism Theory. Further, mutually beneficial experiences occurred between veterans and community members, allowing for the veteran to build positive connection with civilians and move up in civilian society. This supports the concept of Pierre Bourdieu (1986) Cultural Capital Theory. Further, these finding show that military veterans are employing this adult agricultural education program to transform their cultural identity and re-assign symbolic military meanings of objects and self. They connect with familiar military constructed language, behaviors, and physical symbolism to represent their identity, during and after their service. For them, it is important to be able to express their military identity to civilians and other veterans. It is also, vital for them to participate and express their military identities through symbolic military behaviors. This military symbolism is critical to their ability to socialize with others, acquire a civilian identity, and navigate social mobility. When the use of symbolism is not applied, or is not recognized by civilians, it influences their civilian identity and for some, creates transition challenges and challenges to their connection to civilian population.
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Johnston, Kathleen. "The Actor's Self Serving Bias: An Exploration of Various Acting Techniques in the Creation of the Role of Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2007. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/521.

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In psychology, the self-serving bias refers to a person's tendency to claim responsibility for his or her successes rather than failures. In acting, it takes on new meaning. The study of acting requires that the student use any source that will lead to his or her growth. The bias refers to this tendency towards self-betterment in the artistic process. This study is an attempt to document this process in my creation of the role of Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa. Included in the experiment are outlines of my basic process and the techniques I used to supplement it, how the creation of Kate fit into that process and an assessment of my performance and the usefulness of the various techniques in strengthening my abilities as an actor.

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Kunkel, Jennifer, and Kristina Chen. "Actor-observer effekten och bilkörning : Hur attribuerar människor beteenden vid riskabel bilkörning?" Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-677.

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Actor-observer bias är tendensen där människan som aktörer tillskriver sitt beteende till yttre omständigheter medan observatörer tenderar till att tillskriva aktörens beteende till personliga faktorer. Syftet med denna studie var att få en klarare bild av hur människor i sin roll som aktör eller observatör attribuerar ett riskabelt bilkörningsbeteende. Deltagarna bestod av 101 svenska studenter från en högskola i Mellansverige varav 77 stycken var kvinnor och 24 stycken var män. Deltagarna fick svara på en enkät angående actor-observer bias och riskfullt bilkörningsbeteende. Resultaten visade att andras beteende förklaras mer av personliga egenskaper än då personen själv kör riskfullt medan yttre omständigheter inte gav skillnad för vare sig andra eller en själv. Betydelsen av detta och implikationer för framtida forskning diskuterades.

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De, La Rosa Nelson. "A Path Analysis Exploration of Teacher’s Effect, Self-Efficacy, Demographic Factors, and Attitudes toward Mathematics among College Students Attending s Minority Serving Institution in Face-to-Face and Hybrid Mathematics Courses." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3532.

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Graduation rates in colleges and universities have not kept up with the increase in enrollment. Lack of mathematics competence is a factor that impairs students from completing higher education studies. This problem is even more pervasive in minority groups. The existing body of research on mathematics education have not favored emerging minority populations in terms of addressing their needs for academic program completion across mode of instruction. The study analyzed the relationship between type of instruction and the factors underlying students’ attitudes toward mathematics. Further, this study examined the effect of factors underlying the constructs of teacher’s effect and self-efficacy as well as gender and mode of instruction on factors underlying attitudes of students to learn mathematics. Data were collected from a sample of 390 students enrolled in College Algebra delivered in face-to-face and hybrid learning at a minority-serving college, using three well established instruments. A one-way MANOVA and Path Analyses were used to analyze the data. There were significant differences in the level of importance students attributed to learning mathematics for their life in terms of mode of instruction. Those students who learned mathematics in the hybrid setting believed that learning and mastering mathematics would become an advantageous factor for their life. Beliefs of encouragement from the teacher and mathematics capability to solve procedural problems predicted judgments of satisfaction for being enrolled in College Algebra, as well as judgments of the importance students attributed to learning mathematics for their life. Mode of instruction was also a significant predictor of importance. Mathematics apprehension was significantly predicted by discouragement. Perceptions with respect to performing mathematics problems that required applying several procedures was significantly predicted by the combined effect of judgments of encouragement and discouragement from the teacher. Perceptions of being encouraged from the teacher predicted beliefs to perform critical thinking problems in mathematics.

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Olsson, Ingrid. "Help-Seeking and Causal Attributions for Helping." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Psychology, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-1756.

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This thesis investigates help-seeking and effects of help-seeking on causal attributions for helping (i.e., what people believe caused help or lack of help). Additionally, it examines self-serving and other-serving attributions (i.e., to augment a person's positive sides and diminish the negative ones). Help-seeking was investigated in questionnaires, describing situations where spouses collaborate in doing household chores. A first study showed that women and men report using direct styles (i.e., explicitly verbalising the requests) more often than indirect ones. A second study showed that spouses inaccurately believe that wives in general would report more indirect and less direct styles than husbands in general. Causal attributions for helping were investigated in four studies with different methods, settings, and types of relationships (questionnaires, laboratory experiment; spouses doing chores, students and strangers doing computerized exercises). Consistent support was obtained for a predicted interaction between helping and the clarity of the request for help in determining the attributions. It is suggested that this finding is an effect of people comparing the behavior of one person with their beliefs about how other persons behave (i.e., consensus). Additionally, the findings did not support the claims that people make self-serving attributions and that the latter would be more pronounced among men than women. However, the attributions were other-serving. The thesis gives a novel understanding of everyday life by combining the issues of help-seeking and causal attributions. It also offers a discussion of the previous literature and of theoretical and applied implications of the findings.

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Östling, Robert. "Bounded rationality and endogenous preferences." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Samhällsekonomi (S), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-454.

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Nieto, Faye Lotta. "A drug prevention education program serving East Los Angeles youth: Program outcome evaluation." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/431.

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Oakley, Florence. "Generational differences in the frequency and importance of meaningful work." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Management, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10931.

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This thesis aimed to investigate generational differences in the frequency and importance of meaningful work in employees based on the 7 facets of the Map of Meaning. Hypotheses were tested through Analysis of Variance of secondary data. 395 participants self-reported levels of meaningful work on the Comprehensive Meaningful Work Scale. Results indicated that Generation Y had significantly lower levels of meaningful work. Generation Y had significantly lower levels of Unity (importance), Serving (frequency and importance), Expressing full potential (frequency), Reality (frequency and importance) and Inspiration (frequency). Significant differences occurred mainly between Generation Y and Baby boomers, with some significant differences between Generation Y and Generation X and no significant differences between Generation X and Baby boomers. Results showed that overall frequency and importance levels were significantly lower for Generation Y. Overall frequency levels were lower than overall importance levels, which suggests that employees’ desire for meaningful work may not be satisfied. In light of this evidence, it is suggested that to improve organisational outcomes such as engagement, retention and performance, managers should provide opportunities for employees to engage in meaningful work with particular focus on Generation Y. Employees themselves should take responsibility to find meaning in their own work and life because engagement in meaningful activities can lead to satisfaction, belonging, fulfilment and a better understanding of one’s purpose in life.

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Rode, Julian. "Experiments of ethics and economic behavior." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7362.

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The dissertation employs laboratory experimental methodology to study decision-making when people face trade-offs between ethical and economic values. More explicitly, the three chapters investigate 1) consumer behaviour when a substantially equivalent version of a product is more expensive because it was produced without child labour, 2) the interaction between an expert advisor and an ignorant decision-maker, when the former may gain from lying and the latter has to decide whether or not to trust in the advice, and 3) fairness in divisions of an economic gain between two people who were both involved in creating the gain, but only one of them provided real effort. Here, a focus is on the impact of power structure, i.e. who decides, on divisions and fairness judgments. All studies discuss implications of experimental behaviour for market and business domains. In addition, the thesis emphasizes ethical theories as complementary to normative benchmark from economic and psychological theory.
La tesis utiliza una metodología experimental para investigar las decisiones de los individuos cuando hay un conflicto entre valores éticos y económicos. Mas específicamente, los tres capítulos investigan sobre 1) el comportamiento del consumidor cuando se enfrenta a dos versiones de un mismo producto, siendo una de ellas más cara por ser producida sin trabajo infantil, 2) la interacción entre un agente experto y un agente desinformado que debe tomar una decisión confiando o no en el consejo del experto, el cuál puede mentir para ganar más dinero, y 3) el reparto justo de una ganancia económica entre dos personas de las cuales sólo una ha contribuido trabajando en un ejercicio. Este último estudio se centra en el impacto de la estructura de poder, es decir quién decide, en el reparto y en los juicios de que es lo justo. Los estudios analizan las implicaciones del comportamiento experimental sobre los mercados y las empresas. Además, la tesis propone teorías éticas para complementar las teorías económicas y psicológicas.

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Recchia, Holly. "Social-cognitive predictors of siblings' self-serving biases." Thesis, 2005. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/8577/1/MR10186.pdf.

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This study investigated the associations between children's social-cognitive abilities, their conversations about internal states with family members, and their later self-serving biases in descriptions of the sibling relationship. At Time 1, 32 preschoolers were observed during two naturalistic interaction sessions with mothers and younger siblings. Various features of mothers' and children's internal state (IS) language were coded. Each child also completed a battery of three social-cognitive measures. Two years later, 26 children were interviewed about various aspects of their sibling relationship, and responses were coded for five measures of self-serving bias. Although children's social-cognitive skills were not strongly related to their later self-serving biases, there were a number of associations between families' IS talk and children's later biases. In general, results indicated that children who were other-oriented in the content and function of their IS language and who discussed internal states in causally connected ways tended to exhibit fewer self-serving biases two years later. In addition, when mothers were attentive to their children in conversations about internal states (as opposed to ignoring them, or being selectively focused on the baby), children tended to have fewer self-serving biases two years later. Thus, these results support the social-constructivist notion that the quality of children's earlier interactions with family members is related to the way they construe themselves in comparison to their siblings.

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Tsai, Fen-Fang, and 蔡芬芳. "Self-esteem and self-serving attribution: The interaction between the content and the structure of self-concept." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06856599605151826910.

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Huang, Yu-Hsuan, and 黃于瑄. "Investigating mothers of children with ADHD about the self-serving bias." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3zvsme.

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Hua, Chong-Yu, and 花崇育. "How and When Does Procedural Fairness Affect Self-evaluation? Self-serving Bias or Uncertainty Management Theory." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3337x5.

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國立臺灣大學
心理學研究所
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Previous research has shown that procedural fairness and outcome favorability often interact to influence employees’ self-evaluation, but has not clarified “how” and “when” this interaction affects self-evaluation. To address the “how” issue, the author proposes that, based on attribution theory, procedural fairness and outcome favorability interact to influence self-evaluation via attributions of self-responsibility. To address the “when” issue, the present research divides outcome favorability into “actual” outcome favorability and “expected” outcome favorability, providing two competing theories: self-serving bias and uncertainty management theory. According to self-serving bias, when people receive a negative actual outcome, they may be more eager to seek information about procedural fairness. In contrast, according to uncertainty management theory, when the actual outcome is inconsistent with the expected outcome, people are more eager to seek information about procedural fairness. The results of 2 experiments show that people use procedural fairness information to make attributions of self-responsibility according to different outcome favorability （actual/expected, positive/negative）. In addition, the results support uncertainty management theory, demonstrating that people tend to search procedural fairness information when actual outcomes are inconsistent with expected outcomes. The research findings, implications, limitations, and future research directions are discussed.

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Hou, Shi-Min, and 侯詩敏. "Self-Serving Bias in Loss and Threat Situation in Individuals with Paranoid Ideations." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13486489013511783831.

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中原大學
心理學研究所
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Background and purpose. The research of attributional styles in individuals with paranoid ideations are not consistent conclusions, these has been the subject of concern to scholars. In a series of study mainly from Bentall and his colleagues, they suggested patients with persecutory delusion tended to attribute negative events to external causes and positive events to internal causes for protecting the depression and low self-esteem, it was likely an extreme form of the self-serving bias, and it was a defense methanism. Freeman et al. consider individual with paranoia ideation, noticed the threat stimuli on their own will be expected to cause harm, and anxiety in this matter, those anxiety are linked with past experiences related to the fundamental mode. Due to the different schema, individuals with paranoid ideations have behavior for avoiding injury. Past studies used negative events in attributional inventory, it contains many lost events. According to Freeman et al., lost event is difficult to trigger paranoid ideations of paranoia and therefore can not exhibit attributional bias. Therefore, the aim of this research is to reprogram attribution scale, increasing threat events in questionnaire, and investigate university students with paranoid ideations who face lost events and threat events, whether there will be attributional bias. Methods. Researcher preparing Chinese Internal, Personal and Situational Attributions Questionaire- Revised (CIPSAQ-R), gathered 157 participants had experienced life situation, participants were recruited from Chung-Yuan Christian University and member of society, prepared 48 problem situations, And invited 20 Chung-Yuan Christian University Master of Psychology undergraruates help distinguish between loss events and threat events. Study is divided into three stages, 1)pilot study of CIPSAQ-R, 261 Chung-Yuan Christian University students participated in the study, in which four subjects have missed more than one scale or appeared to response set, 257 valid questionnaires were analysis, participants took CIPSAQ-R, Chinese Internal, Personal and Situational Attributions Questionaire (CIPSAQ). 2)Groups surveying, 341 students participated in the study, in which one subject have miss too many answer, 340 valid questionnaires, participants took Green et al. Paranoid Scales(GPTS), Beck Anxiety Inventory(BAI), Beck Depression Inventory-II(BDI-II). 3) According to GPTS scores, screening 75%(68 points) or more for the paranoid ideations tendency group, and 25%(45 points) or below for the general control group, 73 students to participated in telephone solicitation, and took CIPSAQ-R. Results. The moderate relation of CIPSAQ-R reliability and validity, and reliability reduced after delete items. In attributional bias, the scores of threat event external personal bias (TPB) reveals significance in the paranoid ideations tendency group, general control group show attributional bias in lost and threat events. Two groups show no significant differences in TPB, general comtrol group is significantly higher than paranoid ideations tendency group in other attributional bias. In attributional style, groups and events have significant interaction. Conclusions. Sad and threat level in CIPSAQ-R lost and threat events have significant differences, but part of items are difficult to distinguish between feelings of sadness and threats. Paranoid ideations tendency group have depressive attributioal style, and general control group have attributional bias. Two groups tend to attribute threat events to external-personal, it show threats and loss events on paranoid ideations tendency group terms with different meanings and lead to different thoughts. Other factors that influence study and future implications were discussed.

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Mthembu, Bhekizitha. "Evaluating the 4A's framework in serving the low-income consumer self-help housing needs." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24401.

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This research project investigated the applicability of the 4As framework amongst the lowincome consumers for self-help housing in South Africa based on the study by Anderson and Billou (2007). In their research they established that in the heart of all organisations’ success in serving the low-income consumer; there is development of an approach that delivers the 4As, namely: acceptability, availability, affordability and awareness. South Africa, like the rest of the developing world, has a dire need to address poverty with regards to shelter as a more visible dimension of poverty. The lack of housing delivery has persisted despite South Africa putting in place a number of housing initiatives meant to alleviate the housing backlog. This research was conducted under the assumption that when people have control and responsibility over key decisions in the housing process (self-help housing), that helps break the barrier to alleviation of poverty and lack of reasonable housing. Recognition of any continuous improvement idea in low-cost housing (like the 4As framework), should help strengthen the self-help housing efforts and help the state achieve more with less effort. The study was conducted using quantitative method - focused on the consumer perspective and was confined to household owners whose earnings are less than R3,500 per month. This was the target group in the scope of the study regarded as the lowincome housing consumer and were designated as ‘poor’ for purposes of this study. The study found that the 4As framework does work and can be applied in the low-income consumer market for self-help housing needs. The research also found that affordability and availability were the highest rated by the poor consumers confirming the theory that affordability and availability of products amongst the low-income consumers are the main barriers.
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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LeRoux, Paul. "The effect of method of measurement on causal reports : do people really make self-serving attributions?" Thesis, 1985. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/5011/1/ML23126.pdf.

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Hsieh, Pei-Chun, and 謝佩君. "The Self-critical Reflection of Professionals Serving the Disable People on the process of ICF's Localization." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47440854305120336902.

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Wood, Adrian Harrold. "Examining quality and revenue sources in accredited and self study programs serving children from low income families." 2006. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08042006-114348/unrestricted/etd.pdf.

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Kohnz, Simone [Verfasser]. "Bargaining impasse : the role of asymmetric outside options, self-serving biases and participation requirements / vorgelegt von Simone Kohnz." 2006. http://d-nb.info/97947003X/34.

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Huang, Shao, and 黃紹甄. "A Study of Customer Participation in Co-production and Customer Satisfaction：The Implications of Self-serving Bias and Involvement." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26817002433702187185.

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大葉大學
事業經營研究所
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This paper is to test the relationship of customer participation in co-production and customer satisfaction. We consider of moderating/ intervene factors, self-serving bias and the level of involvement, to explore the relationship between them. As a result, four of hypotheses are supported, the more customers participate, the more they are satisfied, self-serving bias will effect the customer participation, the level of involvement will effect the customer participation and satisfaction. Two of the hypotheses which are the self-serving bias and the level of involvement have not significant effect to the customer satisfaction.

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Solorzano, Ramon. "From “Spanish choices” to Latina /o voices: Interrogating technologies of language, race, and identity in a self -serving American moment." 2009. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3372278.

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This study examines the embeddedness of Spanish delivering technologies in networks constructing Latina/o linguistic and racial identity. It assesses potential impacts of technology on linguistic diversity, cultural continuity, and racial divides in the post 9-11 American context. Applying autoethnographic, multi-sited methodology, it critically examines discourses generated at (a) the SpeechTek tradeshow, and (b) three non-profit agencies in Holyoke, MA. Drawing data from participant-observation and structured interviews, it found residents of racially and linguistically endangered Holyoke had diminished access to these technologies, and they employed innovative cultural logic to reconstruct them as English language learning tools by opting instead for English. Implicated in white technological space, middle-class Spanish application producers attempted cultural brokerage. The study posits Spanish options as a contested digital borderlands, contact zone, dialogue, and cyborg technoscientific landscape where rhetorics of power pit Anglo-European universalist genres of language, race, and technology against hybrid voices of excluded populations of color.

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Woodhall-Melnik, Julia. "Serving the Fast Food Nation: Analyzing and Understanding Food Choice, BMI and Self-Perceived Weight in the Food Service Worker Population." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7952.

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Policymakers, politicians, and media outlets have declared an obesity epidemic. In doing so, they have named a variety of villains, including fast food. Despite the framing of fast food as being a leading contributor to weight gain and obesity, we have yet to understand the impact that fast food has on those who work with it every day. The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the food choices, BMIs, and self perceived weights of the food service worker population. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and field, I investigate the role of the workplace and external cultural influences, such as the family, in navigating an obseogenic workplace environment that is centered on selling highly caloric food to the Canadian public in a quick and cost effective manner. The first stage of this research addresses the question: Are food service workers more likely to be overweight or obese and perceive themselves as being overweight compared to the general population? In order to do this, I analyzed secondary survey data from the Canadian Community Health Survey cycle 5.1 (2009-2010). I used logistic regression techniques to construct models that analyze the likelihood of having high BMIs and high self perceived weights in both the food service worker and general Canadian populations. In addition to this, I sought to understand the food choices that contribute to weight gain in fast food workers. To do this, I conducted forty semi-structured qualitative interviews with workers from a variety of fast food chains. The results of my research disprove my original hypothesis that food service workers are more likely to be overweight or obese because of their frequent exposure to fast food. Instead, I found that they are less likely to be overweight or obese than the general Canadian population. Additionally, they are also less likely to perceive themselves as being overweight or obese. Through the qualitative interviews, I found that these individuals participate in a process of regulation where they monitor their food intake at work. Additionally, I found that their consumption patterns stemmed from habitus generated through cultural exposures in other areas of their lives. Pierre Bourdieu (1984) argues that we develop habitus through meaningful cultural exposure. We use our habitus, or engrained dispositions, to navigate hierarchical spaces or fields. Through this research, I found that workers viewed their jobs as being temporary and their cultural consumption patterns did not seem to change from their exposures to their workplaces. The majority were part time students, working in this industry to pay for living expenses and tuition. For the most part, they were raised in middle class homes where their mothers prepared food for their families from scratch on a daily basis. Fast food was viewed as a special treat and not an item to consume on a regular basis. I conclude that the meaningful exposures we have to food and cultural norms throughout life are more important in determining our food choices than our exposure to fast food restaurants.

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Hong, Tong-Kwi, and 洪堂魁. "Effects of an Intervention Based on Autonomous and Control Environment Motivational Style of Self-Determination Theory in Tennis Serving Technique Learning." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40299037836461218239.

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臺北巿立體育學院
運動教育研究所
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Effects of an Intervention Based on Autonomous and Control Environment Motivational Style of Self-Determination Theory in Tennis Serving Technique Learning Student: Hong, Tong-Kwi Advisor: Ke, Tian-Lu Abstract Purpose : The purpose of this study were based on self-determination theory, explored the autonomous and control environment motivational style, interventional tennis Serve technique learning and retention effect of conditions. National Taiwan Ocean University junior tennis elective courses, freshman to senior students of a total of 100 men and women (age 20.55±1.27 yrs)as the research object for the study Method: Using perceived autonomy support scale, autonomy scale, competence scale, relatedness scale such as motivation measurement tools. Implemented the pre-test before the experiment, implemented the pre-test after teaching five weeks. Autonomous and control environment motivational style’ intervention in tennis serving technique learning. After five weeks of tennis serving technique learning, Implemented pre-test before the experiment, implemented the post-test after teaching five weeks, Implemented the retention test after 10 weeks. The data was analyzed by statistic software of SPSS 12.0 of Chinese edition, the significant levels as α=.05. The data were treated and analyzed with repeated measures one-way ANOVA , paired samples t-test, independent samples t-test. Results: 1.Autonomous motivation environment group of subjects than can feel self-support teachers in the classroom more able to self-study, competently. 2. The tennis serving technique learning courses, two groups of subjects were vi learning progress.3. The tennis serving technique learning courses, autonomous motivation environment group results were better reserved. Conclusion: Autonomous motivation environmental intervention tennis serve curriculum that allows students to active learning, competently and get a good retention results. Key words: tennis serve, Self-determination theory, autonomy support, autonomous motivation

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Tsai, Hsin-lin, and 蔡欣霖. "When the Customer is Provoked by Humiliation：The Effects of Embarrassment on Self-Serving Bias and Behavioral Response under the Service Failure Context." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07525225936821519592.

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東吳大學
企業管理學系
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Previous research has focused on examining embarrassment in sensitive product purchase situation. Although embarrassment is a widely occurring emotion in consumption situations, little research has explored its impact on service encounters, especially in the service failure context. This paper aims to investigate how customers react to different service failures that cause a certain degree of embarrassment, and to explore whether the likelihood of the self-serving bias exists when customers perceive higher level of embarrassment in service failure. The paper uses a 2 (source of failure) × 2 (level of embarrassment) scenario experimental method to examine the effect of two sources of failure on consumer’s locus attributions, negative emotions and negative behavior, considering the moderating effects of level of embarrassment. Data collected from 218 student subjects, independent sample t-test analysis, regression analysis and structural equation modeling were used to test our hypotheses. The results show that embarrassment plays an important role in service failure context. Specifically, it is found that when the consumer perceives higher level of embarrassment (vs. less) will lead them attribute more responsibility to the service provider. These attributions, in turn, will influence customer emotions, and behavioral response. These findings provide several important theoretical and practical implications in terms of embarrassing service failure.

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Hung, Chun Ling, and 洪純凌. "The Difficulty of Teachers in Planning and Implementation of the Curriculum Guide for the Self-Contained Classes of the Elementary Classroom for Serving Students with Mental Retardation." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50145565317641414037.

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臺中師範學院
國民教育研究所
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the difficulty of teachers in planning and implementation of the curriculum guide for the self-contained classes of the elementary classroom for serving students with mental retardation. The research methods employed in the present study was semistructured interview. Twelve elementary experienced teachers of self-contained classes for mental retardation were interviewed. The findings of this study are reported in three sections. First is to discuss the teacher’s difficulty in implementing the curriculum guide, the results indicated on-the-job training for implementing the curriculum was insufficient. Second, the solution of the teacher’s difficulty is that they surmount the difficulties themselves, and modify teaching materials and goals according to student’s abilities. Finally, the suggestions from interviewed teachers regarding curriculum guide are followings:（1）Lower the total teaching time periods for each area;（2）The teaching materials of all six areas needed for further modification;（3）Providing more teaching materials and teaching tools;（4）Adding the content of participating in the regular education. Based on above results, implications for practice and further research were recommended on the basis of the finding of this study.

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Ferreira, Marcos André Marinho. "Relação entre experiências adversas na infância, distorções cognitivas e delinquência numa amostra comunitária de jovens." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/68943.

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A literatura tem mostrado que experiências adversas na infância estão associadas aos comportamentos delinquentes. Contudo, pouca atenção tem sido dada aos mecanismos que explicam esta relação. O principal objetivo deste estudo foi investigar um possível mediador desta relação, as distorções cognitivas self-serving. Recorrendo a uma metodologia transversal, com base em instrumentos de autorrelato, uma amostra de 232 participantes, com idades compreendidas entre os 16 e os 22 anos, recrutada em escolas, locais de trabalho e locais com atividades recreativas, foi avaliada quanto a experiências adversas na infância, comportamento delinquente e distorções cognitivas self-serving. Os resultados mostraram que as distorções cognitivas self-serving medeiam a relação entre experiências adversas na infância e delinquência (b = .13, 95% CI [.08, .20]) e o mesmo acontece quer quando se considera especificamente comportamento delinquente violento (b = .06, 95% CI [.03, .09]), quer não violento (b = .08, 95% CI [.04, .12]). Estes resultados sugerem que é importante considerar distorções cognitivas self-serving na prevenção de delinquência em jovens que foram vitimizados na infância.
Literature has shown that adverse childhood experiences are associated with delinquency. However, little attention has been paid to the mechanisms that explain this relationship. The main goal of this study was to investigate a possible mediator of this relationship, self-serving cognitive distortions. Using a crosssectional methodology, based on self-report measures, a sample of 232 participants, aged between 16 and 22 years old, recruited from schools, workplaces and institutions with recreational activities, was evaluated for adverse events in childhood, delinquent behaviour and self-serving cognitive distortions. The results showed that self-serving cognitive distortions mediate the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and delinquency (b = .13, 95% CI [.08; .20]), and the same was observed even when considering specifically violent delinquent behaviour (b = .06, 95% CI [.03, .09]) and non-violent (b = .08, 95% CI [.04, .12]). These results suggest that it is important to consider self-serving cognitive distortions in the prevention of delinquency in youth who were victimized in childhood.

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Person, Kerrin. "The meaning of work for South African women graduates: a phenomenological study." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1234.

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Despite the feminisation of the workplace as one of the key developments of this domain, the meaning of work for women is little understood. A phenomenological approach was adopted in this study to gain in-depth understanding of the meaning ascribed to work by a sample of ten South African, women graduates. Literature was used to generate three models - a male-centred, stereotyped and contemporary conceptualisation. Unstructured interviews were conducted and the protocols analysed using the modified Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method (Creswell, 1998; Stones, 1985; 1986). Themes illustrated that the meaning of work for women is multifaceted and comprises a number of components including sense of identity and self-worth, meeting instrumental needs, social relatedness, serving others, intrinsic satisfaction and the exercise of power and authority. Findings suggested that the meaning women ascribe to work changes when they experience autonomy. Recommendations were made for future research and organisational practices.
Indust & Org Psychology
MA(IND AND ORG PSYCHOLOGY)

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