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The problem of this study was to ascertain the relationship of students' differential perception of a campus environment to some personality characteristics. The following correlates of perception were considered: personality traits, length of stay in college, sex, college entrance scores, academic marks, and leadership roles. The major conceptual framework of this study included Kelly's (1955) psychology of personal constructs and Snygg and Combs' (1959) phenomenological determinant of behavior postulate. The subjects of this study included 594 students enrolled at the Bukidnon Normal College, Philippines, during the school year 1970-71. The College and University Environment Scales of C. Robert Pace (1966) and the new Edwards Personality Inventory (1966) were the two major instruments used in the study. In addition, the class advisers evaluated the students' leadership qualities using the Leadership Rating Form. Means, standard deviations, analysis of variance, the F test of significance, Duncan's New Multiple Comparison Test, and the Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient were the statistical techniques used in the analysis of data. The results showed that the freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior students had a consensus of the various dimensions that make up the school environment. It was found that the negative perceivers of campus environment tended to have some aggressive personality traits, while positive perceivers of campus environment tended to have some passive personality traits. In general, students tended to rate the campus environment lower as they stayed longer in the campus. Males were found to rate the campus environment lower than females. Furthermore, it was found that the students' perception of a campus environment was negatively related to individual academic performance and leadership roles. Implications from the findings were made for counselors, faculty members and school administrators for the improvement of various educational programs at the college. The major conclusion of the study is that students in the college have a consensus perception of the campus environment and that those with positive and negative perceptions of the environmental press have some personality characteristics related to their manner of evaluating the institutional image. / Education, Faculty of / Graduate

M.A. (Industrial Psychology) / This study attempted to measure the public image of an organisation, and to determine the applicability of a Semantic Differential scale for use in telephone surveys. The public image of an organisation plays an important role in the success of that organisation, as the environment continually provides inputs in the form of favourable or unfavourable actions towards the organisation. It is also important for management to know the public's image of that organisation, and which scales and surveys can be used in the determination of that image. Data were collected from two random samples of N = 220 and N = 190 whites respectively. The first sample's image of Company X was measured with a Likert type mail questionnaire. The second sample's image of Company X was measured using a Semantic Differential type telephone questionnaire. The data was then analysed using parametric statistics. Results on both the Likert scale and semantic differential indicated that the white public exhibited relatively favourable attitudes towards Company X, Afrikaans speakers were, on the whole, more positive towards Company X, than English sneakers. Only two aspects of the public image namely the utilization of employees, and employer - employee relations, were evaluated negatively.

While much research has examined factors thought to affect patient compliance with therapeutic regimen, relatively little is known about the relationship between psychiatric patients' attitudes toward treatment regimen and their adherence to the treatment regimen. Compliance rates for psychiatric patients remain the lowest of the medical patient population, probably due to psychological and social characteristics of psychiatric patients. Because of a trend in the United States toward self-medication for an increasingly ambulatory psychiatric patient population, the ability to predict patient compliance with medication regimen has become more important than ever before. Before potential noncompliers can be identified and patient compliance predicted through the use of attitudes, an examination of the nature of these attitudes is needed. Scientific literature and theory suggest that attitude is one of several variables which corresponds to behavior. Specific attitudes are thought to develop as a result of 2 real or vicarious experience with the attitude referent. In addition, research has shown that attitudes toward specific objects correlate highly with beliefs, behavioral intentions, and behavior. Therefore, it is hypothesized that psychiatric patients with prior medicine-taking experience will have developed different patterns of attitudes toward pharmacological treatment than will medicine-naive patients. The hypothesis implies that knowing these attitudes will permit prediction of compliance of experienced and naive patients with therapeutic regimen. As the first step of investigating using attitudes to predict compliance, a 20-item Likert-type rating scale, the Psychiatric Medicine Attitude Scale (PMAS), was developed. An alternate forms reliability coefficient of .93 was obtained. Mean score for Form A for the psychiatric medicineexperienced subjects was 2.85, for the medicine-naive subjects, 3.40. Form B scores were 3.17 for the experienced subjects and 3.51 for the naive subjects. These scores show that on both Forms A and B, individuals without prior experience with psychiatric medicine tended tb express more negative attitudes toward the referent object than did the subjects who had previous medicine experience. The next steps, outside the range of this project, will be to develop norms and to ascertain if compliance behaviors will be a function of PMAS scores.

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The following research questions were investigated: (a) Can the age-mates scales from the Dales developmental task scales be used with southwestern-urban adolescent populations? (b) Are there any systematic differences between northeastern-nonurban and southwestern-urban subject populations on the response to these scales? The subjects consisted of 884 adolescents, 11 through 15 years, evenly divided by sex. Subject responses were analyzed by sex and age groups using Guttman scalogram analysis. Goodman's test of significance revealed that the results could have occurred by chance (p > .05). The instrument in its present form was not found useful'-for an urban population. Lack of reproducibility made comparison of the performance of urban and nonurban adolescents unjustified.

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by Chi-heng Chan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-71). / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.4 / Chapter 1.1 --- Existing models on purchase intentions --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2 --- Objective --- p.7 / Chapter 2 --- Modelling --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1 --- Beta Distribution --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- Beta-binomial Distribution --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3 --- A new model without the binomial assumption --- p.17 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Difficulties of the binomial assumption --- p.17 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- A new measure of stated purchase intentions --- p.18 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Modelling the True purchase intention --- p.19 / Chapter 3 --- Methodology --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1 --- Two Approaches of Estimation --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Least Square Approach --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Maximum Likelihood Approach --- p.23 / Chapter 3.2 --- Estimation Procedures --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Least Square Estimation --- p.26 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Maximum Likelihood Estimation --- p.27 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Difference between DUNLSF and DUMPOL --- p.27 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Evaluation of the Two approaches --- p.28 / Chapter 3.3 --- Results --- p.28 / Chapter 3.4 --- Simulation Study --- p.37 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Procedure --- p.37 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Simulation Results --- p.37 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- Evaluation of performance --- p.41 / Chapter 4 --- An Example --- p.42 / Chapter 4.1 --- Review on Usage of survey --- p.42 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Survey --- p.43 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Details of the survey --- p.44 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Results and Findings --- p.45 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Interpretation --- p.47 / Chapter 5 --- Discussions and Conclusions --- p.51 / Chapter 5.1 --- Discussions --- p.51 / Chapter 5.2 --- Further Implications --- p.52 / Chapter 5.3 --- Conclusion --- p.54 / Chapter A --- Beta Distribution --- p.55 / Chapter B --- Programmes of estimation --- p.57 / Chapter B.l --- Minimization of (??) by the algorithm DUNLSF --- p.57 / Chapter B.2 --- Minimization of (??) by the algorithm DUMPOL --- p.60 / Chapter C --- Programmes of simulation --- p.63 / Chapter C.1 --- Simulation 1 (Refer to P.39) --- p.63 / Chapter C.2 --- Simulation 2 (Refer to P.40) --- p.67 / Chapter C.3 --- Simulation 3 (Refer to P.41) --- p.67 / Chapter D --- Programmes for figure drawing --- p.68 / Bibliography --- p.69

Thesis (M.A.(Research Psychology)) --University of Limpopo, 2014 / This study investigated the association between family structure and both academic outcome and psychological well-being among learners (N = 500) from the Nkomazi Municipality, Mpumalanga. The learners were classified into six family structure types, including traditional, two-biological parents, single mother, single father, blended, grandparent-led and sibling-led types. The results regarding the association between family structure and academic outcomes were equivocal; chi-square analysis showed that there was no association between family structure and the overall mid-year examination results (“pass” or “fail”) and the learners qualitative self-rating (ps > 0.05); yet the overall symbol obtained for the mid-year examinations was related to family structure (p < 0.05). Furthermore, an association was found between family structure and both self-esteem and positive affect (ps < 0.05), and the relationship between family structure and psychological distress, life satisfaction and negative affect, all measures of psychological well-being did not achieve statistical significance. Possible reasons for lack of association between family structure and some variables of academic performance and psychological well-being variables used in this study are explored. Keywords: family structure, academic outcome, psychological well-being

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