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"Motivations and Justifications for Partner Aggression in a Sample of African-American College Women"
No full textLittle is known about African American college women's use, experience, and conceptualizations of intimate partner violence (IPV). The current study addresses this gap in the literature by investigating a sample of African American college women's motivations for perpetration of psychological and physical IPV and justifications for hypothetical aggressive behavior. Using factors derived from a factor analysis of the Motivations and Effects Questionnaire (Follingstad, Wright, Lloyd, & Sebastian, 1991), results revealed that African American women in the current sample were using IPV primarily as a destructive method of communication. Furthermore, justifications for aggression, in general, were significantly related to the perpetration of minor physical aggression. Implications of the study for the prevention of dating violence among college women are discussed
An exploration of leadership thought and an introduction to proactive leadership in the context of managing change and diversity.
No full textThe concept of leadership has fascinated men arguably since the beginning of our existence. Intellectuals such as Stogdill, Lewin, Burns, House, Bass, and many others have all contributed to the existing body of knowledge on leadership. Scholars have been consistently seeking to unlock the mysteries of leadership, and throughout the 20th century there have been numerous approaches to it. The writers of this paper will explore the historical foundations of various approaches to leadership thought, in an attempt to use it as a base for future inquiry into the phenomenon that has been a source of intrigue for centuries. The construct Proactive Leadership will also be introduced as a new way to examine leadership in the context of managing change and diversity
The Use of the Institutional Grammar 1.0 for Institutional Analysis: A Literature Review
No full textSince Crawford and Ostrom proposed the Institutional Grammar (IG), a conceptual tool for breaking down and organizing institutional statements, a burgeoning literature has used it to study institutions contained in single documents and to conduct comparative institutional analysis across multiple countries and time periods. Moreover, rapid advances in text analysis and computational methods are creating new analytic opportunities to study rules, norms and strategies by leveraging the IG syntax. At this stage, it is important to assess the existing literature to understand how the IG has supported institutional analysis across a variety of contexts, including commons governance. Based on a corpus of 48 empirical articles published between 2010 and 2021, we explore how analysts have operationalized institutional statements using the IG. We also synthesize the IG-based metrics and theoretical concepts developed in these articles to illustrate the contributions of IG for measurement of challenging concepts such as polycentricity, discretion, and compliance, among others. Our findings indicate that the IG is a flexible and adaptable tool for institutional analysis, especially for making empirical contributions from text-based data, and it holds promise toward building a potentially new emerging subfield we call Computational Institutional Analysis
Classics Illustrated #12: The Monkey God
No full textExcerpted from one of the great classic novels of Chinese literature comes the supernatural adventure story of the Monkey God
Bone marrow transplantation prolongs life span and ameliorates neurologic manifestations in Sandhoff disease mice
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PROMOTING HEALTHCARE ADVOCACY AMONG STUDENTS: UTILIZATION OF A MULTIPRONGED APPROACH
No full textA novel multipronged approach was implemented in an urban state university to increase nursing advocacy focused on access to healthcare. Nursing students reported increased confidence, willingness, awareness, and participation in advocacy efforts which have contributed to engagement in legislative activities, passage of legislation, and development of health policy in Georgia. </i
The Impact of a Cultural Diversity Forum on Students' Openness to Diversity
No full textAn intervention study with a pre-test, post-test design was conducted in an effort to ascertain the impact of one school of nursing’s initiative to enhance the cultural awareness and sensitivity of students. The research question that guided data collection and analysis was: 1. What is the effect of a combined educational strategy using both a cultural diversity workshop format and small group discussion on college students’ openness to diversity and challenge for students matriculating within a predominately minority majority University? The research hypothesis is: Scores on the Openness to Challenge and Diversity Scale would be significantly related to time of testing, specifically, that the posttest scores would be significantly higher than the pretest scores. One hundred and twenty students registered and attended a Diversity Forum which included a lecture and cultural sensitivity activities. A total of fifty-five students completed pre and post tests. The impact of the Diversity Forum on students’ openness to diversity experiences was measured by Pascarella’s et al. (1996) 8-item Openness to Diversity and Challenge Scale.. Descriptive statistics and the Mann-Whitney U were used to analyze the data. The results of the study indicated that the Diversity Forum did have a significant impact on students’ openness to diversity/challenge
Exploring the influence of creativity and political skill on entrepreneurial intentions among men and women: A comparison between Kenya and the United States.
No full textAffiliation Clayton State UniversityPreceding studies show a positive relationship between creativity and entrepreneurship,
as well as a propensity for successful entrepreneurs to possess political skills. Research has also
maintained that behavioral intentions precede actions. These studies that pertain to
entrepreneurship, however, are scarcely conducted in developing countries. Therefore, this study
focused on intentions, as it explored the relationship between creativity and entrepreneurial
intentions among female and male undergraduate students in Kenya, and attempted to determine
whether political skill moderated the relationship. The results were compared to an earlier study
conducted using an undergraduate student sample from the United States. It was found that the
Kenyan students had higher entrepreneurial intentions than the US students. Also, unlike the US
sample, findings from the Kenyan study revealed no statistically significant positive relationship
between creativity and entrepreneurial intentions, or between political skill and entrepreneurial
intentions. Also, in the Kenyan study, the moderating effect of political skill on the relationship
between creativity and entrepreneurial intentions was found for men, but not women. Overall,
the findings and subsequent conclusions and implications provide insight into entrepreneurship
in developing countries in general, and in an African context in particular