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Title: Careers in crisis: The relationship between person-environment fit and job satisfaction.
Creator: Jackson, Craig Campbell, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Archival data collected from a private-practice career counseling center was analyzed to evaluate the extent to which situational constraint measures can be applied as moderators of person-occupation congruence. Demographic, personality, and career interest inventory responses, particularly those for the Strong Interest Inventory (SII), the 16PF, and the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory, served as the primary units of analyses. Data was collected by career counselors over a ten-year period for 202...
Show moreArchival data collected from a private-practice career counseling center was analyzed to evaluate the extent to which situational constraint measures can be applied as moderators of person-occupation congruence. Demographic, personality, and career interest inventory responses, particularly those for the Strong Interest Inventory (SII), the 16PF, and the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory, served as the primary units of analyses. Data was collected by career counselors over a ten-year period for 202 clients (125 men and 77 women; M age = 36.9). Difference score measures were calculated for clients by comparing SH scores to normative means for the general reference sample of the SH and appropriate occupational samples. Situational constraints such as age, income, marital status, having children, time spent in one's career field, and time spent in one's job were hypothesized to be positively associated with seeking career counseling for less voluntary reasons (i.e., terminations or lay-offs) than those who sought counseling for other reasons (i.e., career change, relocations, reentry, or resignation). Although situational constraint hypotheses were not supported, career counseled clients were highly incongruent with the occupational interests of their occupations. The magnitude of this finding exceeds that of those typical of the career-interest congruence literature. Despite clients' incongruence with the interests most commonly associated with their occupations, clients were more congruent on those interest dimensions when scores were compared to general reference sample means. That is, through selection practices or socialization, clients have achieved a minimal degree of congruence yet do not completely match the characteristics of the majority of others in their occupations. The results of this study suggest there is a maximum level of incongruence expected of interest congruence studies. Career-counseled clients in this sample spent considerable sums of money to find work situations that would improve their level of work satisfaction. Further research is necessary to verify whether the inclusion of career counseled clients provides a ceiling for the measurement of congruence-satisfaction relationships. Although situational constraint measures were not identified as effective moderators, their inclusion in future nonarchival studies may yield more sensitive tests of situational constraint hypotheses.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11973
Subject Headings: Psychology, Industrial, Psychology, Personality
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Title: Children's perceptions of the consequences of aggression toward victimized peers.
Creator: Williard, Jean Carlisle, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: In Study 1, fourth--through seventh-grade children (mean age = 11.5 years) were asked to estimate the likelihood that various outcomes would occur following hypothetical acts of aggression by themselves toward victimized and nonvictimized peers. Subjects were also asked to indicate how much they valued the occurrence of the outcomes. When the targets of the aggression were victimized peers, children were more likely to anticipate tangible rewards, more likely to expect signs of victim...
Show moreIn Study 1, fourth--through seventh-grade children (mean age = 11.5 years) were asked to estimate the likelihood that various outcomes would occur following hypothetical acts of aggression by themselves toward victimized and nonvictimized peers. Subjects were also asked to indicate how much they valued the occurrence of the outcomes. When the targets of the aggression were victimized peers, children were more likely to anticipate tangible rewards, more likely to expect signs of victim suffering, and less likely to anticipate retaliation than when aggressing against nonvictimized peers. Also, children placed greater value on securing tangible rewards but were less concerned by the thought of hurting or by the thought of their target retaliating when attacking a victimized peer than attacking a nonvictimized peer. This pattern was stronger for boys than for girls. Study 2 was designed to see what evaluative reactions fourth--through seventh-grade children (mean age = 11.3 years) would expect from themselves, from peers, and from teachers for aggression against victimized and nonvictimized peers. When contemplating aggressing against a victimized peer, children expected less disapproval from self and peers. A second purpose of Study 2 was to determine whether children were more likely to display hostile attributional bias toward victimized peers than toward nonvictimized peers. As predicted, hostile attributional bias was greater toward victimized peers than toward nonvictimized peers. Implications for theories of aggression, future areas of research, and for intervention with victimized children are discussed.
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Date Issued: 1990
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12259
Subject Headings: Psychology, Developmental, Psychology, Personality
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Title: The dynamics of attitudes: Individual beliefs to cultural norms.
Creator: Harton, Helen C., Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Dynamic social impact theory (DSIT; Latane, 1996a; 1996b), a macro-level theory of social influence, predicts that discussion will lead to a self-organization of public opinion through decreasing minority sizes, increasing spatial similarity, and emerging correlations. The catastrophe theory of attitudes (CTA; Latane & Nowak, 1994), a micro-level theory, suggests that attitudes are a joint function of issue involvement and information favorability. This paper describes the predictions leading...
Show moreDynamic social impact theory (DSIT; Latane, 1996a; 1996b), a macro-level theory of social influence, predicts that discussion will lead to a self-organization of public opinion through decreasing minority sizes, increasing spatial similarity, and emerging correlations. The catastrophe theory of attitudes (CTA; Latane & Nowak, 1994), a micro-level theory, suggests that attitudes are a joint function of issue involvement and information favorability. This paper describes the predictions leading from these theories separately and as integrated and meta-analytically combines analyses of almost 500 students discussing social and political issues over a computer network with twenty previous studies testing aspects of CTA. The results of an original computer simulation are also described. Involving attitudes are extreme and change nonlinearly, and involvement mediates thought-, information-, and discussion-induced attitude polarization. Involvement also relates to persuasion and the self-organization of opinion. These studies show converging support for CTA and DSIT and suggest that combining these theories may increase our ability to track the evolution of attitudes from individual beliefs to cultural norms.
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Date Issued: 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12568
Subject Headings: Psychology, Social, Psychology, Personality
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Title: Influences of child temperament and maternal childrearing behavior on victimization in the peer group.
Creator: Malone, Maurice James, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Possible contributions of child temperamental styles and maternal parenting behaviors to the prediction of victimization in the peer group were examined. 106 middle-class boys and girls in the 4th through 7th grades and their mothers participated in the study. Children reported on the parenting behavior of their mothers, male and female same grade classmates nominated subjects on victimization and other social behaviors, and mothers of the children reported on their child's temperament....
Show morePossible contributions of child temperamental styles and maternal parenting behaviors to the prediction of victimization in the peer group were examined. 106 middle-class boys and girls in the 4th through 7th grades and their mothers participated in the study. Children reported on the parenting behavior of their mothers, male and female same grade classmates nominated subjects on victimization and other social behaviors, and mothers of the children reported on their child's temperament. Results indicated no moderator or mediator roles, for child temperament or maternal parenting, in the prediction of victimization. However, for boys, maternal overprotective parenting was associated with peer victimization. Maternal overprotectiveness also predicted boys' internalizing problems among peers. For girls, maternal hostility was associated with peer victimization and internalizing problems. For both sexes, hostile parenting predicted externalizing problems in the peer group. An impulsive temperamental style also predicted externalizing problems for both sexes. A unifying theory explaining gender differences in the relation between maternal behaviors and peer victimization was given. Suggestions for future research were also advanced.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12484
Subject Headings: Psychology, Developmental, Psychology, Personality
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Title: The emergence of personality: dynamic foundations of individual variation.
Creator: Nowak, Andrzej, Vallacher, Robin R.
Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2181980
Subject Headings: Personality., Social psychology., Personality development.
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Title: Dynamical minimalism: why less is more in psychology.
Creator: Nowak, Andrzej
Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2181982
Subject Headings: Personality., Social psychology.
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Title: Perceptions of situational variability: Redefining its role in trait attributions.
Creator: Janowsky, Alisha, Florida Atlantic University, Monson, Thomas C.
Abstract/Description: A basic difference between the perspectives of actors and observers is the amount of information each has to make attributional inferences. Jones and Nisbett (1971) suggested these informational differences lead to an inverse relationship between trait and situational attributions, such that better-known others receive more situational attributions while lesser-known others receive more trait attributions. We hypothesized that attributors typically ignore their perceptions of situational...
Show moreA basic difference between the perspectives of actors and observers is the amount of information each has to make attributional inferences. Jones and Nisbett (1971) suggested these informational differences lead to an inverse relationship between trait and situational attributions, such that better-known others receive more situational attributions while lesser-known others receive more trait attributions. We hypothesized that attributors typically ignore their perceptions of situational variability when constructing their trait attributions as these perceptions are biased by the number of available observations. Subjects were given two or eight samples of behavior for a series of different targets and asked to independently make both trait and situational attributions. Subjects with access to eight observations perceived more behavioral variability and made more trait attributions than those with access to two observations. Furthermore, attributors' perceptions of situational variability were more closely related to measures of biased "sample variances" than to measures of "estimated population variances."
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12838
Subject Headings: Personality, Attribution (Social psychology)
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Title: THE EFFECTS OF SITUATIONAL CONSTRAINT AND SELF-SELECTION ON THE CROSS-SITUATIONAL CONSISTENCY OF BEHAVIOR.
Creator: WALKER, JACK B., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Many psychologists have promoted the use of personality traits and other dispositional constructs for the prediction of human behavior. However, other psychologists have concluded that individuals do not exhibit sufficient cross-situational consistency in their behavior to warrant the use of dispositional measures as predictors of behavior (e.g., Mischel, 1968; Nisbett, 1980). The present research was designed to demonstrate that cross-situational consistency correlation coefficients may be...
Show moreMany psychologists have promoted the use of personality traits and other dispositional constructs for the prediction of human behavior. However, other psychologists have concluded that individuals do not exhibit sufficient cross-situational consistency in their behavior to warrant the use of dispositional measures as predictors of behavior (e.g., Mischel, 1968; Nisbett, 1980). The present research was designed to demonstrate that cross-situational consistency correlation coefficients may be inadequate indicators of the utility of dispositional constructs. In particular, it was proposed that a consideration of the situational constraint present within a situation and the degree of the opportunity to self-select into a situation are important factors which aid in the specification of when personality traits can and cannot be used successfully to predict human behavior.
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Date Issued: 1986
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14344
Subject Headings: Personality, Human behavior, Prediction (Psychology)
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Title: Resolving the consistency paradox: An averaging explanation of the discrepancies between naive and professional psychologists.
Creator: Saigal, Elizabeth Anne, Florida Atlantic University, Monson, Thomas C.
Abstract/Description: Professional psychologists have frequently examined cross-situational correlations in behavior. Based upon low correlations in the range of 0.15 to 0.30, many professional psychologists have questioned the utility of using personality traits to describe and predict behavior. In contrast, the "naive psychologist" appears to have an inordinately high expectation that the behaviors that individuals exhibit are strongly related to the traits that they possess. This discrepancy in the views of...
Show moreProfessional psychologists have frequently examined cross-situational correlations in behavior. Based upon low correlations in the range of 0.15 to 0.30, many professional psychologists have questioned the utility of using personality traits to describe and predict behavior. In contrast, the "naive psychologist" appears to have an inordinately high expectation that the behaviors that individuals exhibit are strongly related to the traits that they possess. This discrepancy in the views of professional psychologists and naive psychologists has been termed the "consistency paradox". Based upon the many errors and biases that have been documented in the attribution process, most psychologists have assumed that the viewpoint held by the professional psychologist is correct and that held by the naive psychologist is wrong. The results of several studies are presented suggesting that naive psychologists are capable of accurately detecting traits through a behavior averaging process even when cross-situational correlations reach zero.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12846
Subject Headings: Personality, Psychologists, Attribution (Social psychology)
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Title: The implications of self-selection for the adaptiveness of the fundamental attribution error.
Creator: Wilson, Lili Milian, Florida Atlantic University, Monson, Thomas C.
Abstract/Description: The fundamental attribution error (FAE) refers to the social perceiver's tendency to emphasize dispositional rather than situational information when determining the causes for an actor's behavior (Ross, 1977). The present study challenges previous FAE research by suggesting that highly constrained experimental circumstances, not representative of real-world occurrences in which self-selection variables play a major role, are perhaps responsible for these findings. Subjects were given...
Show moreThe fundamental attribution error (FAE) refers to the social perceiver's tendency to emphasize dispositional rather than situational information when determining the causes for an actor's behavior (Ross, 1977). The present study challenges previous FAE research by suggesting that highly constrained experimental circumstances, not representative of real-world occurrences in which self-selection variables play a major role, are perhaps responsible for these findings. Subjects were given behavioral information and asked to make attributions based on a target's level of agreeableness and predict their intentions concerning future interactions. The data indicates that limited information can still lead to accurate identification of true scores. Attributions for behaviors that were exhibited under both low and high situational constraint were useful in detecting a target's underlying trait. They also form a foundation for guiding future interactions. Together, these findings support the notion that the FAE serves as an adaptive and appropriate strategy.
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Date Issued: 1993
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14927
Subject Headings: Attribution (Social psychology), Personality assessment
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Title: An evolutionary psychological approach to the study of sibling influences.
Creator: Michalski, Richard L., Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Research in the psychological sciences has long focused on the impact families have on later development. One feature of families is the birth order in which children from one family develop. Birth order serves as a proxy for developmentally relevant criteria including differences in age, size, and status between siblings. Following from theories derived from evolutionary psychology, differences in perceived favoritism, personality dimensions, and sexual strategy are examined. As an initial...
Show moreResearch in the psychological sciences has long focused on the impact families have on later development. One feature of families is the birth order in which children from one family develop. Birth order serves as a proxy for developmentally relevant criteria including differences in age, size, and status between siblings. Following from theories derived from evolutionary psychology, differences in perceived favoritism, personality dimensions, and sexual strategy are examined. As an initial examination of the influences siblings can have beyond childhood, responses to the upset over the infidelities of in-laws are examined. Results from this series of studies suggests (1) birth order does not covary with personality but that distinctions among the relatedness between siblings can provide fruitful avenues of future research, (2) features of sexual strategy do covary with birth order, particularly variables related to projected sexual strategy, (3) perceptions of parental favoritism covary with the birth order of the participant, and (4) men and women do not differ in their upset over the infidelities of brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law but that the mechanisms generating upset over a sibling-in-law's infidelity may be sensitive to the age of the sibling and thus, the birth orders of the participant and sibling.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12159
Subject Headings: Social Work, Psychology, Developmental, Psychology, Personality
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Title: Syllable structure and stress effects on articulatory coordination.
Creator: Gleason, Philip Lawrence, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
Abstract/Description: Two experiments are reported, both dealing with syllable affiliation of a consonant. The first experiment extends the work of Tuller and Kelso (1990) and was designed to capture the signatures of loss of stability in a dynamical system (enhanced fluctuations and critical slowing). An Articulograph device (Carstens Medizinelektronik GmbH.) was used to track the movements of the tongue tip, the lower lip, and the jaw in the midsagittal plane while the subjects spoke a VCC word in time to an...
Show moreTwo experiments are reported, both dealing with syllable affiliation of a consonant. The first experiment extends the work of Tuller and Kelso (1990) and was designed to capture the signatures of loss of stability in a dynamical system (enhanced fluctuations and critical slowing). An Articulograph device (Carstens Medizinelektronik GmbH.) was used to track the movements of the tongue tip, the lower lip, and the jaw in the midsagittal plane while the subjects spoke a VCC word in time to an auditory metronome at a slowly increasing rate. A clear transition occurred in the phonetics (VCC -> CVC) as judged by a phonetically trained listener, and the transition in phonetics corresponded to a change in the relative phase between the tongue tip and the lower lip and between the tongue tip and jaw. The transition was accompanied by both enhanced fluctuations and critical slowing for subjects who complied with the metronome. The second experiment examined syllable affiliation in natural English phrases with contrasting metrical structures. The phonemes /s/, /t/ and /k/, were used, and the tongue tip, tongue blade, and jaw were recorded by the Articulograph device. Consistent relative timing of the consonant movement in relation to vowel movement was observed, thus supporting the position that syllable affiliation is expressed as distinct phase values in natural speech as well as reiterated speech. In addition, the evidence supports the view that the syllable is an organizational unit of speech in English.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12591
Subject Headings: Language, Linguistics, Psychology, Psychobiology, Psychology, Experimental, Psychology, Personality
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Title: The DIAMONDS at Work: Applying the DIAMONDS Dimensions to Occupations.
Creator: Bell, Steven, Sherman, Ryne A., Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Just as people can be described by traits, situations can be described by the “Situational Eight” DIAMONDS (Duty, Intellect, Adversity, Mating, pOsitivity, Negativity, Deception, Sociality) (Rauthmann et al., 2014). Based upon the common occurrence of situations in combinations unique to different occupations the current study sets out to (1) map the DIAMONDS dimensions into the workplace and (2) examine the relationships between the DIAMONDS dimensions and other measures of work contexts ...
Show moreJust as people can be described by traits, situations can be described by the “Situational Eight” DIAMONDS (Duty, Intellect, Adversity, Mating, pOsitivity, Negativity, Deception, Sociality) (Rauthmann et al., 2014). Based upon the common occurrence of situations in combinations unique to different occupations the current study sets out to (1) map the DIAMONDS dimensions into the workplace and (2) examine the relationships between the DIAMONDS dimensions and other measures of work contexts (Skill, Abilities, Knowledge, etc.). Through the use of a modified version of the S8* (Rauthmann & Sherman, 2014), the DIAMONDS dimensions were correlated with scored responses of either individuals in the profession, or professional experts, on important worker characteristics and occupational requirements for 954 individually identified occupations (n = 954) compiled by O*NET (National Center for O*NET Development, 2016).
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004913
Subject Headings: Social psychology., Personality assessment., Personality and occupation., Career development--Psychological aspects., Occupations--Psychological aspects.
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Title: A COMPARISON OF THE PERSONALITY MEASUREMENTS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS ACCORDING TO THE MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR AND THE PERSONAL PROFILE SYSTEM.
Creator: GRIGSBY, JAMES DELMAR., Florida Atlantic University, Olson, Arthur H., Kerensky, Vasil M.
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the personality measurements of college students according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Personal Profile System (PPS). Both instruments were administered to 265 students in two community colleges and two universities in Central and South Florida. A frequency distribution was computed for the respondents according to MBTI type and according to PPS scale. Each individual PPS scale was analyzed against the...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the personality measurements of college students according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Personal Profile System (PPS). Both instruments were administered to 265 students in two community colleges and two universities in Central and South Florida. A frequency distribution was computed for the respondents according to MBTI type and according to PPS scale. Each individual PPS scale was analyzed against the four separate MPTI dimensions, and against the sixteen MBTI types. A chi-square, a lambda (asymmetric), and an uncertainty coefficient (asymmetric) statistical test were employed in the analysis of the data. The .05 level of significance was used in testing the hypotheses. The following conclusions were based on the analysis of data: (1) In every case the chi-square test indicated that a statistically significant relationship existed between the measurements of the two instruments. (2) Both the lambda and the uncertainty coefficient tests indicated that knowledge of a person's measurement on one test improved the ability to predict the person's measurement on the other test. (3) Each Myers-Briggs type related to a specific Personal Profile System scale over 60% of the time, and six of the sixteen MBTI types matched with a particular PPS scale over 90% of the time. (4) The high correlation of similar measurements of the two tests tends to reinforce the validity of both instruments. (5) Since the scales and dimensions of the two instruments did not correlate consistently in all measurements, the tests themselves cannot be used interchangeably. In summary, this study provided data which indicated that a statistically significant relationship exists between the measurements of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Personal Profile System, as noted within the limitations of the study. Possibilities for future research were outlined.
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Date Issued: 1982
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11816
Subject Headings: College students--Florida--Psychology, Personality tests
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Title: A labor approach to the development of the self or "modern personality": The case of public education.
Creator: Mocombe, Paul C., Florida Atlantic University, Evans, Arthur S.
Abstract/Description: Max Weber, Karl Mannheim, and Karl Marx suggested that there is a relationship between economic and political institutions and that behaviors and attitudes are influenced by this. Viewing this postulate as a conception which posits the economic mode of production as the locus of causality for culture, this examination of capitalism as culture, investigates how education and its pedagogical techniques, as a means of "enculturation," reflects the capitalist economic mode of production. Building...
Show moreMax Weber, Karl Mannheim, and Karl Marx suggested that there is a relationship between economic and political institutions and that behaviors and attitudes are influenced by this. Viewing this postulate as a conception which posits the economic mode of production as the locus of causality for culture, this examination of capitalism as culture, investigates how education and its pedagogical techniques, as a means of "enculturation," reflects the capitalist economic mode of production. Building on the theoretical notions in the Sociology of knowledge and Structuralism, this hermeneutical analysis discusses how pedagogical techniques and curriculum arrangements of public schools in capitalist societies correlate with the organization of labor (for it is that role of the self which is dominant in capitalist societies). Data for this research was gathered through the content analysis of pedagogical techniques and curriculum arrangements adopted by The School Board of Broward County, Florida. Results show that the current shift in the organization of labor (from industrial to post-industrial) parallels, and therefore correlates with, the shift in curriculum and pedagogical arrangements' of The School Board of Broward County, Florida; as such it is a legitimate claim to suggest that the socialization of the self is determined by its relation to the mode of production.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12765
Subject Headings: Educational sociology, Personality, Socialization, Social psychology
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Title: Affective response and cognition in HIV.
Creator: McIntosh, Roger C., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Resource allocation theory, Polich (2007) suggests cortical measures may attenuate when processing demands increase. Thirteen HIV-negative women (M = 36.5) and 15 HIV-positive women (M = 36.1) infected were instructed to view neutral and negative IAPS images and then to detect rare tones in a subsequent auditory oddball task. A 2 x 2 ANOVA for the auditory P3 did not indicate a main effect for picture valence however an interaction was found between picture valence and serostatus at location...
Show moreResource allocation theory, Polich (2007) suggests cortical measures may attenuate when processing demands increase. Thirteen HIV-negative women (M = 36.5) and 15 HIV-positive women (M = 36.1) infected were instructed to view neutral and negative IAPS images and then to detect rare tones in a subsequent auditory oddball task. A 2 x 2 ANOVA for the auditory P3 did not indicate a main effect for picture valence however an interaction was found between picture valence and serostatus at location Fz, F(1,24) = 18.99, p<.001. During the visual ERP sequence an interaction between valence and serostatus was found at the Pz location, F(1,24) = 18.99, p<.001, meaning the late positive potential (LPP) was not modulated between viewing neutral and negative images in HIV-positive women. These findings suggest that the manifestation of HIV in women may alter the neural processing of emotions, though not to the detriment of a subsequent cognitive task.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2978989
Subject Headings: AIDS (Disease), Psychological aspects, HIV-positive persons, Mental health, Clinical health psychology, Psychophysiology, Motivation (Psychology)
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Title: The directionality of person-situation transactions: Spill-over effects among and between situation experiences and personality states.
Creator: Cooper, Ashley Bell, Sherman, Ryne A., Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: To elucidate temporal sequences among and between person and situation variables, this work examines cross-measurement spill-overs between situation experiences S (on the Situational Eight DIAMONDS characteristics) and personality states P (on the Big Six HEXACO) in experience sampling data in two studies. Multilevel modeling of lagged data at tn-1 and non-lagged data at tn grants the opportunity to examine (a) the stability (P --> P, S --> S), (b) cross-sectional associations (S P), and (c)...
Show moreTo elucidate temporal sequences among and between person and situation variables, this work examines cross-measurement spill-overs between situation experiences S (on the Situational Eight DIAMONDS characteristics) and personality states P (on the Big Six HEXACO) in experience sampling data in two studies. Multilevel modeling of lagged data at tn-1 and non-lagged data at tn grants the opportunity to examine (a) the stability (P --> P, S --> S), (b) cross-sectional associations (S <--> P), and (c) cross-lagged associations among and between situation experiences and personality states (S --> P, P --> S).
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004933
Subject Headings: Interpersonal relations., Conduct of life., Personality assessment., Social psychology., Environmental psychology., Impression formation (Psychology)
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Title: System justification requires psychological proximity.
Creator: Martens, Nicholas J., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: System justification theorists have proposed that people will defend one's circumstances, even if they inflict psychological and material costs. This tendency has been found to extend even to outcomes that have not yet been decided, but are perceived as being likely; however, this research has only examined outcomes that will be decided on in the near future. According to Construal Level Theory (CLT), distant future events are represented primarily according to their essential features, while...
Show moreSystem justification theorists have proposed that people will defend one's circumstances, even if they inflict psychological and material costs. This tendency has been found to extend even to outcomes that have not yet been decided, but are perceived as being likely; however, this research has only examined outcomes that will be decided on in the near future. According to Construal Level Theory (CLT), distant future events are represented primarily according to their essential features, while thoughts about temporally near events are more concrete and contextual. We hypothesized that system justification results from the motivational impact of low-level thinking, and so would be expected to occur for near-future, but not distant-future, outcomes. Consistent with our hypothesis, our Main Study found evidence of system justification only when outcomes were to be decided in the near future. Distant future outcomes, in contrast, were viewed as being more undesirable as they became increasingly likely.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186299
Subject Headings: Motivation (Psychology), Social service, Psychological aspects, Resilience (Personality trait), Affect (Psychology), Study and teaching
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Title: The self-socialization of gender.
Creator: Menon, Meenakshi, Florida Atlantic University, Perry, David G.
Abstract/Description: A gender self-socialization model was conceptualized, wherein gender identity and idiographic gender stereotypes conjointly influence children's adoption of gendered behavior (i.e., gender typing). Further, children differ in their beliefs of sex differences as immutable versus fluid (entity vs. incremental theory); and it was hypothesized that entity beliefs would moderate the self-socialization process. Children (N=305, M age 10.8 years) responded to gender identity, gender stereotype, and...
Show moreA gender self-socialization model was conceptualized, wherein gender identity and idiographic gender stereotypes conjointly influence children's adoption of gendered behavior (i.e., gender typing). Further, children differ in their beliefs of sex differences as immutable versus fluid (entity vs. incremental theory); and it was hypothesized that entity beliefs would moderate the self-socialization process. Children (N=305, M age 10.8 years) responded to gender identity, gender stereotype, and self-efficacy measures. Two kinds of gender typing were computed. Personal gender typing was the correlation between personal stereotypes and self-efficacy; consensus gender typing was the correlation between the same-sex peer stereotypes and self-efficacy. Results indicated that gender typicality and gender contentedness were associated with personal gender typing, and felt pressure against other-gender behavior was related to consensus gender typing. Entity theory strengthened the relation between gender identity and gender typing. Results support the self-socialization model.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13312
Subject Headings: Sex differences (Psychology), Social psychology, Gender identity, Symbolic interactionism, Personality and situation, Identity (Psychology), Sex role
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Title: Pseudoscience.
Creator: Shier, Mike., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Pseudoscience is a collection of nonfiction essays analyzing the origins and methodologies or various pseudoscientific practices against the backdrop of events from the narrator's life that mirror those practices in some way. Pseudoscience is unverifiable. Pseudoscience is unverifiable.
Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359285
Subject Headings: Pseudoscience, Thought and thinking, Reasoning (Psychology)
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