Sökning: "expectancies"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade ordet expectancies.

  1. 1. Margins of Prevention : - On Older Adolescents' Positive and Negative Beliefs about Illicit Drug Use

    Författare :Patrik Karlsson; Anders Bergmark; Edle Ravndal; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Illicit drugs; adolescents; prevention; margins for change; beliefs; perceptions; expectancies; positive; negative; risk; pleasure; Sweden; Social work; Socialt arbete;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores older adolescents’ positive and negative beliefs about illicit drug use from a preventive perspective. By positive beliefs is meant positive expectancies and benefit perceptions. By negative beliefs is meant negative expectancies and risk perceptions. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Motivational aspects of test-taking : measuring test-taking motivation in Swedish national test contexts

    Författare :Eva Knekta; Hanna Eklöf; Anna Sundström; Rolf Vegar Olsen; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Test-taking motivation; Swedish national tests; validity; expectancy-value theory; task value; expectancies; young adolescents; self-report instrument; interview; structural equation modelling; test stakes; didactics of educational measurement; beteendevetenskapliga mätningar;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of the work underlying this thesis was to improve the understanding of students’ test-taking motivation in connection to achievement tests for young adolescents. The thesis includes four studies and a summary. All four studies explore test-taking motivation and are all connected to validity in one way of another. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The psychological situation in an interactional perspective of personality : a theoretical background and some empirical studies

    Författare :Håkan Stattin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : A total of nine studies are presented addressing the issue of 'the psychological situation' in personality research. After a review of environmental conceptualizations in two basic theories of personality - behavior theory and trait theory - a modern interactionistic perspective on situation analysis is summarized. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Alcohol Use and Stress in University Freshmen - A Comparative Intervention Study of Two Universities

    Författare :Claes Andersson; Kliniskt Centrum för Hälsofrämjande Vård; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; university dropout; stress measurement; comparative design; intervention; stress; university freshmen students; alcohol;

    Sammanfattning : Starting university is associated with major academic, personal and social opportunities. For many people, university entrance is also associated with increased stress and alcohol consumption. LÄS MER

  7. 5. A new family of survival functions and a method for measuring risk inequalities

    Författare :Harald Hannerz; Statistiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Mortality law; survival analysis; risk inequalities; excess fraction; Mortality law; survival analysis; risk inequalities; excess fraction;

    Sammanfattning : The present compilation thesis is divided into two sections, one for each of two separate methodological issues: reduction of random errors in mortality estimates and offsetting random variation related bias in data generated estimators of risk inequalities. Summary of section A In regard to the first issue a new family of survival functions is proposed. LÄS MER