Thesis (D. Phil (Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 1990. / Adviser: Michael Grossman. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-88).

Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2778. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 23-24).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1973. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-153). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Why do people engage in innovative behavior in the workplace? More specifically, what motivational reasons affect an employee?s decision to introduce new product ideas, apply new work methods, and suggest new ways to achieve objectives? Based on the efficiency-oriented perspective and the social-political perspective in understanding innovation, I hypothesize and test expected positive performance outcomes, expected image risks, and expected image gains as proximal determinants of individual innovative behavior at work, and examine how they mediate the effects of more distal antecedents. Adopting a contingency approach, I also examine the explanatory power of performance and image outcome expectations under different reward contingency situations. The theoretical framework was tested in a field study. I found a significant positive effect of expected positive performance outcomes and a significant negative effect of expected image risks on employee innovative behavior. Five distal antecedents (perceived organization support for innovation, supervisor relationship quality, innovativeness as job requirement, reputation as innovative, and dissatisfaction with the status quo) had indirect effects on innovative behavior by either increasing expectedpositive performance outcomes or reducing expected image risks, or both. The effect of expected positive performance outcomes was stronger when perceived performance-reward contingency was high. The effect of expected image risks was stronger when perceived image-reward contingency was high. Implications were discussed in terms of building a multiple-perspective framework for understanding innovative behavior and designing managerial strategies to encourage employee innovativeness.

The paper focuses on attitudes and behavior on the concept of the youth’s buying behavior towards branded sports shoes, different consumers have got different decision making process. The buyer’s ultimate goal is to buy the product of qualitative, quantitative with low/best affordable price. In order to identify different kinds of consumer’s behavior towards buying of different branded shoes and Nike sports shoe. I have carried out buying behavior of youth and different kind of consumer behavior models, literature and theory of consumer behavior; finally, I analyzed and concluded with research based on questionnaire of Nike shoes and case studies of Nike sports shoes at Halmstad University.

With the increased use of teleworkers, it is important to understand how teleworker attitudes are related to the willingness to accept and follow guidelines that maintain data security in the telework environment. The objective of the study was to evaluate the application of the Theory of Planned Behavior and the idea of subjective norms as a means of explaining teleworker compliance in using information technology (IT) security guidelines in a telework environment. A sample of 150 respondents who considered themselves formal and informal teleworkers and were eligible for membership in The Telework Exchange completed an original Teleworker Security Survey. Descriptive and linear regression analyses were used to determine relationships existing between willingness to follow organizational teleworker data information security guidelines and practices. The findings of the analyses demonstrated that Personal Attitude, Social Pressure, and Sense of Control represented a weak to moderate model for explaining teleworker willingness to follow an organization’s security guidelines. This study is significant to organizations with teleworkers by identifying insight on attitudes of teleworkers regarding data security, sense of control and sense of responsibility teleworkers have regarding the confidentiality and integrity of data, and the intent of teleworkers to follow security protocols in a telework environment.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a cognitive behavior modification self-instructional training procedure on the reading comprehension performances of fifth grade students with reading comprehension difficulties.Twelve fifth grade students nominated by their classroom teacher as adequate decoders but poor comprehenders served as the subject pool from which the selection of subjects was made. Students were screened to establish adequate decoding skills and below average reading comprehension ability. Additionally, on the basis of the screening process, students were judged to have average intellectual functioning and an adequate receptive vocabulary. Of the students meeting the above criteria, four were randomly selected to participate in the study.A modified multiple baseline design across subjects was utilized to analyze the effects of self-instructional training on reading comprehension. Baseline data was collected according to Homer and Baer's (1978) multiple-probe technique. Self-instructional training was sequentially introduced across subjects. At the completion of the training sequence, posttraining assessments of reading comprehension were made for each subject.Self-instructional training was modeled after Meichenbaum and Goodman's (1971) cognitive behavior modification self-instructional training procedure. Training consisted of five, approximately thirty minute, sessions. Procedural steps of the cognitive behavioral paradigm were progressively introduced over a training period of five days. During training, subjects were individually taught to verbalize self-instructions while reading. The self-instructions consisted of self-statements to be utilized by the subject in comprehending a reading passage.Functional analysis of the treatment effects indicated an increase in reading comprehension performances for three of the four subjects after they were exposed to the training sequence. Only one subject's performance indicated maintenance of the treatment effects over time. All subjects demonstrated individual clinically significant posttraining performances. However, the overall average increase in each subject's posttraining performance did not reach clinical significance.As a result of the data analysis, it was concluded that self-instructional training can be an effective procedure in improving the reading comprehension performances of fifth grade poor comprehenders. Discussion of the obtained results and recommendations for future research were presented.

This thesis studied three plants traditionally used for treating a variety of anxiety related conditions. The three species were Roseroot, Rhodiola rosea from Nunavik, Cordonsillo, Piper amalago from Belize and “Sin Susto”, Souroubea sympetala from Costa Rica. The main objective of this research project was to investigate effects on behavior of these traditionally used native plants. It was found that the crude ethanol extracts derived from these plants administered intragastrically had measurable anxiolytic effects in male Sprague Dawley rats. Rats treated with extracts of these plants were then tested in several behavioral paradigms: elevated plus maze (EPM), social interaction (SI), conditioned emotional response (CER) and fear potentiated startle FPS. “Sin susto” produced significant anti-anxiety effects in several paradigms. Its active principle, betulinic acid, was significantly active in the EPM and FPS at a dose of 0.5mg/kg. Cordonsillo had strong activity in the SI paradigm and Roseroot in the CER paradigm. The results suggest that traditional use is based on pharmacological activity of the plants.