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This paper is an analysis of a recent study conducted in a health care setting to assess the attitudes and beliefs of health care providers (including physicians and nurses), patients and family members about family presence during intensive care treatment. This paper includes a summary of the purpose of the study, the procedures, results and implications of results to health care practise.

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"The purpose of this paper is to summarize and discuss the purpose, results and implications of a recent study that examined the attitudes towards family presence in a health care setting. Description of study: Duran and colleagues (2007) recently conducted a survey study with the purpose of determining the attitudes and beliefs of health care providers, patients and families towards having family members present during a resuscitation or invasive hospital procedure. The issue of the attitudes and beliefs towards family presence is..."

Tags:attitudes, health care, family

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In this article, the writer presents personal views and attitudes related to death. The writer looks at the cultural norms regarding death and grief in Africa. The writer notes that Africa has a particularly high death rate in comparison to other countries and discusses the connection between death and global inequality.

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"Africa is comprised of many regions with different racial and religious groups as well as various issues related to death and grief. In general, however, the cultural norms and socialization agents tend to be the same. Death, especially as it affects children, is denied, and before adolescence children are not allowed to have any association with funerals or other rituals. Meanwhile, Africa has one of the highest death rates in the world. Certain people on that continent see the reality of death for what it is, where death is linked to global inequality. For the most part, death is perceived in terms of superstition. My own childhood was impacted ..."

Tags:death, attitudes

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In this article, the writer identifies critical issues facing a specific business and then creates an instrument which would be used to gain information from employees regarding the significant concerns which complicate the job negatively, affect performance and productivity or otherwise inhibit the capacity of the business to meet its goals and objectives. The writer provides a questionnaire about employee attitudes concerning issues such as pay, hours, fringe benefits and career opportunities in the fast food industry.

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"The purpose of this report is to identify critical issues facing a specific business and to then create an eight-question instrument which would be used to gain information from employees regarding the significant concerns which complicate the job negatively affect performance and productivity or otherwise inhibit the capacity of the business to meet its goals and objectives. The project is a response to a request from the business owner to develop research that is relevant to the organization. The business selected ..."

Tags:employee attitudes, questionnaire, fast food industry

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The following paper discusses the attitudes and strategies that should be used to get the best results from employees, what it takes to keep employees motivated, the attitude of the boss and different attitudes of employees and how it affects their job. All of the latter are discussed with reference to research studies of selected companies and their organizational patterns of behaviour.

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"It is well known by Human Resources Personnel and Managers that positive employee attitudes create positive actions toward organizational goals. Employee attitude is increasingly cited in surveys as the number one performance-related issue of companies, both large and small. As attitudes deteriorate, so do commitment, loyalty and, most importantly, performance. In this research paper we are particularly looking at physical labor jobs such as landscaping, construction, farm workers and other environments which do not take place in an office settings."

Tags:organizational, psychology, human, resources, motivation, job, satisfaction, committment, insecurity, self-esteem

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This paper examines if there are differences in attitudes regarding job satisfaction between men and women. It then discusses the reasons for any differences in job satisfaction attitudes. This paper aims to determine how likely it is that men and women have similar job satisfaction attitudes.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Literature Review
Research and Methodology
Results and Conclusion
Bibliography

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"It seems that men and women have little in common (Rosenberg, 2003). They do not think the same, they enjoy different types of movies, they do not even have the same amount of ribs. However, when it comes to job satisfaction, it is unclear as to whether or not men and women share similar attitudes. While many people say that women getting paid less that men is blatant sexism, the real reasons for the discrepancy are much more complex, some argue (Bort, 2003). According to Bort (2003), survey respondents say these issues are at heart."

Tags:methodology, literature, review, gender, career

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This paper reviews an extensive amount of literature regarding the achievement of culturally diverse students and the impact on this achievement of the attitudes of teachers toward these students, or specifically, the expectations that teachers hold in relation to the achievement potential of these students. The paper further looks at how failure to properly educate and prepare teachers for the multicultural education classroom leaves too many unanswered questions in the instructional provision relating to attitudes based on myth or falsehoods, misconceptions or misrepresentations. Additionally, the paper contends that it is critical that teachers be effectively educated with regard to their attitude prior to their entry into the multicultural classroom.

Outline:
Objective
Multicultural Education Defined
Cultural Differences and the Construction of Meaning
Overview of Current State of Affairs
Identified Barriers to Student Achievement
Summary and Conclusion

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"The research conducted by Padilla and Lindholm has purported three: "major identifiable assumptions" relating to the education of ethnic minorities identified as follows: (1) The white middle-class American is the standard used for comparison of other groups to (typically this is the male); (2) Instruments used for assessment of differences are universally applicable "across groups, with perhaps only minimal adjustments for culturally diverse populations; and (3) Although a need exists for recognition of the sources of potential variance such as social class, educational attainment, gender, cultural orientation, and proficiency in English, these are nuisances that can later be discarded (1995, p. 97)." (McCue, nd) "

Tags:classroom, students, potential

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This paper discusses the links between personality and the behavior and attitudes of individuals. It examines how personality impacts risk aversion and risk-seeking attitudes and behaviors within individuals. The paper focuses on this particular characteristic and examines the implicit motivations individuals have to be risk seeking and risk averting in their attitude and behavior.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Background
Dependent Variable: At Risk Behavior that lead to Delinquency
Independent: Personality Types and Peer Influence
Information Need
Process

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"In order to delineate a specific link between personality characteristics and its resultant affects on attitudes and behaviors towards delinquency, a careful review of personality diagnosis of young children pre-maturity must be examined. This process will involve dissecting data of children who have received full personality tests that delineates their five factor model and correlates this data to the development of aggressive and anti-social behavior and attitudes. Instead of examining concrete violence or delinquencies later in life, this procedure will focus on predicative behavior such as aggressiveness and anti-social attitudes. Thus it will examine the root link between personality and behavior and attitude rather than behavior and delinquency."

Tags:delinquency, violent, peer, influences

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In this article, the writer looks at moral boundaries and deviant music. The writer discusses an article 'Moral Boundaries and Deviant Music Public Attitudes Toward Heavy Metal and Rap' by Lynxwiler and Gay that presents a discussion of the authors' analysis of survey data regarding variables related to public attitudes against this music.

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"The authors used archival research to examine existing findings from the General Social Survey. The authors identified the dependent variable as dislike for heavy metal and rap music and multiple independent or control variables variables listed below. Regression analysis was used to determine what factors predict dislike ..."

Tags:rap music, heavy metal, deviant music, variables, methods

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This research paper is a chapter of a PhD dissertation. This chapter discusses in-depth literature on the attitudes and values of high school students. Reforms to the high school system in the United States are also explained. Additionally, the reason why students need not be involved in the planning of reforms is elucidated.

Introduction
Attitudes and Values: Who are High School Students?
Reforms
References

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"Of a crucial age, climbing a milestone, conscious to their fullest with no fear of prospects, high school students have interested researchers and policy makers for centuries. They have quite a few common traits they behave as individuals of their own age group in a rather full-fledged way. They are go-getting to achieve their independence, they are show-offs, impressionable persons desiring to be their best (something to be learned) and to suit the times they live in. Their self-esteem is fragile and they are pretty sensitive to criticism, attention, and dilemmas, for instance, within their families."

Tags:moral, independence, responsiblity

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This paper examines the role of priming on several social psychology behaviors including attitudes, judgements and conformity. The paper provides a description of priming and of each of the social behaviors discussed in the paper. The paper then focuses on describing past research that shows the ways in which priming affects these behaviors.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Priming Attitudes/Judgments
Priming Social Conformity

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"Schemas are cognitive representations of nonsocial and social objects that are stored in memory in associative networks. Activation of a schema increases its accessibility in the present and in the future. One way to activate a schema is through priming. Priming is any experience or mental activity that occurs prior to an event or situation and which increases the likelihood that relevant schema will be made more accessible. Such experiences or activities are referred to as primes and primes vary in the level of activation or accessibility they create. The minimum prime required to activate a schema is called the response threshold (Moskowitz, 2005). This can then affect a perception, judgment, and/or behavior by associative processes in memory. In this paper I will examine priming effects on judgments and social conformity by describing several relevant studies and their results."

Tags:conformity, behavior, influence