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Examining the Use of Alternative Restoration Scripts on the Psychological Reactance Process
(2014-05)
This study (N = 396) utilized a 3 (restoration: prescript vs. restoration postscript vs. control) × 2 (language: forceful vs. non-forceful) × 2 (topic: exercise vs. nutrition) mixed-model design to examine the effects of ...
Rural school postsecondary education Discourse: Individual anxiety-corporate confidence
(2014-12-12)
This study addressed a gap in the literature about the importance of the school context in predicting and mediating postsecondary education participation for rural students. Using grounded theory with a modified constant ...
National Symbols and Social Change: A Case Study of Poland
(2014-05-09)
This study focuses on national symbols and the communicative role they play in social change as it manifests itself in social movements and revolutions. Symbols in social movements and revolutions play a crucial role in ...
FOR EVERY ACTION THERE IS A STORY: NARRATIVES OF OKLAHOMA TEACHERS ABOUT THE 2018 WALKOUT AND TEACHING IN OKLAHOMA
(2018-05-10)
Members of social movements create and maintain the meanings of that movement (Snow & Benford, 1992). Interviews with 49 teachers between September and November 2018 provide the data for this qualitative study. This ...
REACTANCE THEORY AND SELF-CONSTRUAL IN THE EAST AND WEST
(2017-05-12)
Using psychological reactance theory (Brehm, 1966) as an explanatory framework, this dissertation experimentally tests the effects of appeal type, restoration type, and self-construal on freedom threat perceptions, reactance ...
THE (PASSIVE) VIOLENCE OF HARMONY AND BALANCE: LIVED EXPERIENCED OF JAVANESE WOMEN WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES
(2014-05-09)
This study is an examination of Javanese women’s lived experience with Type 2 diabetes, an exploration of the ways these women maintain interactions with family members and society and how they adapt diabetes management ...