A Longitudinal Comparative Study of Nonreactive Attitude Measurement of Controversial Topics

1980 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 567-574
Author(s):  
George H. Hines
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
South African ◽  
Attitude Measurement ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
Time Attitudes ◽  
Over Time ◽  
New Zealanders

Orne (1962) and Rosenthal (1963) have challenged social psychologists to devise nonreactive techniques of attitude measurement. This study of unobtrusive lost letter and lost postcard methods was designed to compare attitudes in 1971 and 1978 of New Zealanders toward proposed cricket tours of Australian and all-white South African teams. Results were compared to conventional questionnaire data. As predicted, the more explicit message on the postcard allowed more sensitive measurement of opinions on controversial topics than did the lost letter. While attitudes toward the non-controversial Australian tours were stable over time, attitudes toward the controversial South African tour changed in the predicted direction.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Geslani
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Indian Religion

The introduction reviews the historiographic problem of the relation between fire sacrifice (yajña) and image worship (pūjā), which have traditionally been seen as opposing ritual structures serving to undergird the distinction of “Vedic” and “Hindu.” Against such an icono- and theocentric approach, it proposes a history of the priesthood in relation to royal power, centering on the relationship between the royal chaplain (purohita) and astrologer (sāṃvatsara) as a crucial, unexplored development in early Indian religion. In order to capture these historical developments, it outlines a method for the comparative study of ritual forms over time.

scholarly journals Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Addison's Disease: A Comparative Study of South African and Swedish Patients

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. e90768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Louis Ross ◽  
Ragnhildur Bergthorsdottir ◽  
Naomi Levitt ◽  
Joel Alex Dave ◽  
Desmond Schatz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk Factors ◽  
South African ◽  
Addison’S Disease ◽  
Addison's Disease

A comparative study of RFID adoption patterns in retail

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Narges Kasiri ◽  
G. Scott Erickson ◽  
Gerd Wolfram
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
The Us ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Current Stage ◽  
Over Time

Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been viewed as a promising technology for quite some time. Initially developed a couple of decades ago, the technology has been accompanied by predictions of imminent widespread adoption since its beginnings. A majority of retailers and other users are now using or planning to use the technology. This paper employs a combination of the technology-organization-environment (TOE) model and the 3-S (substitution, scale, structural) model to analyze the long journey of RFID adoption in retail. Top retail executives in the US and Europe were interviewed to investigate RFID adoption patterns based on differences in technological, organizational, and environmental circumstances. As the retail industry is moving into a post-adoption era, these results demonstrate the current stage of retail RFID adoption, identify factors playing important roles over time as motivators or impediments, and provide some insight into the slow pace of adoption.

scholarly journals Verstedeliking: Vergelyking tussen Suid-Afrikaanse letterkundes en die kultuurteks

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-59
Author(s):  
Jacomien Van Niekerk
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
South African ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Black People ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
Literary Histories

Despite many efforts to publish comprehensive literary histories of South or Southern Africa in recent years, few studies existin which a thorough comparative study is undertaken between two or more South African literatures. This article wants to provide a practical example of such a study by comparing the urbanisation of Afrikaners in Afrikaans literature with that of black people as seen in English and Zulu literature. The statement made by Ampie Coetzee that comparative studies should take place within the framework of discursive formations is one of the fundamental starting points of this study. Maaike Meijer’s concept of the “cultural text” is further employed as a theoretical instrument. The identification of repeating sets of representation is central to the demarcation of a “cultural text about urbanisation” in Afrikaans, English and Zulu literature respectively. The cultural text forms the basis from which a valid comparative study can be embarked upon, and the results of the research have important implications for further comparative studies but also literary historiography.

scholarly journals Journey Towards Self-realization in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner: A Comparative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-141
Author(s):  
Mohanraj A ◽  
Dr. A. K. Muthusamy
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
South African ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Foreign Country ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
Native Place

The Prolific South African novelist, Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup (2001) and the promising Afghan writer, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (2003) belong to New Literatures in English. The main characters in these two novels undertake their journey from their native place to foreign country in pursuit of happiness, place, prosperity and self-realization. This research paper attempts to make a comparison between Gordimer’s The Pickup and Hosseini’s The Kite Runner in terms of the journey undertaken by the protagonists Abdu and Julie of The Pickup and Amir of The Kite Runner though these two novels are set in a different background.

scholarly journals The psychosocial benefits of providing non-kin childcare in older adults: A longitudinal study with older New Zealanders

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Á Szabó ◽  
Eva Neely ◽  
C Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Grandparental Childcare ◽  
Psychosocial Benefits ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time ◽  
New Zealanders

© The Author(s) 2019. Community grandparenting may promote the well-being of older adults. We examined the impact of non-kin and grandparental childcare on quality of life and loneliness using longitudinal data from 2653 older New Zealanders collected over 2 years. Providing both non-kin and grandparental childcare predicted greater self-realisation for women only and was associated with reduced levels of control and autonomy for men. Non-kin childcare was also associated with reduced social loneliness over time independent of gender. Findings suggest that non-kin grandparenting has psychosocial benefits for older adults. Surrogate grandparenting offers promising avenues for those without grandchildren to experience the benefits of grandparenting.

scholarly journals Private hospital expenditure and relation to utilisation: Observations from the data

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marine Erasmus ◽  
Helen Kean
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Older People ◽  
South African ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Private Hospital ◽  
Private Hospitals ◽  
Detailed Understanding ◽  
Hospital Market ◽  
Hospital Expenditure ◽  
Over Time

Background: This study contributes to the detailed understanding of the drivers of medical scheme expenditure on private hospitals in South Africa over 2006–2014. This is important in the context of various regulatory reforms that are being considered at present. Aim: The aim is to provide an updated analysis and description of the drivers of medical scheme expenditure on private hospitals in South Africa. Setting: Private hospital market, South Africa. Methods: Data from the three largest private hospital groups – which account for approximately 70% of the South African private hospital market share – are collected, aggregated and analysed. This study uses targeted descriptive and exploratory analyses, relying on a residual approach to hospital expenditure. Results: It is found that over time medical scheme beneficiaries, on average, are being admitted to private hospitals more frequently, as well as staying in hospital for longer during each admission. The data also indicate that over time older people are being admitted to hospital more often. Conclusion: This study’s findings contradict previous assertions that it is only prices driving increased medical scheme expenditure on private hospitals.

The Earliest South African Hominids

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-143
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Clarke ◽  
Travis Rayne Pickering ◽  
Jason L. Heaton ◽  
Kathleen Kuman
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
Taxonomic Assignment ◽  
First Time ◽  
Over Time

The earliest South African hominids (humans and their ancestral kin) belong to the genera Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo, with the oldest being a ca. 3.67 million-year-old nearly complete skeleton of Australopithecus (StW 573) from Sterkfontein Caves. This skeleton has provided, for the first time in almost a century of research, the full anatomy of an Australopithecus individual with indisputably associated skull and postcranial bones that give complete limb lengths. The three genera are also found in East Africa, but scholars have disagreed on the taxonomic assignment for some fossils owing to historical preconceptions. Here we focus on the South African representatives to help clarify these debates. The uncovering of the StW 573 skeleton in situ revealed significant clues concerning events that had affected it over time and demonstrated that the associated stalagmite flowstones cannot provide direct dating of the fossil, as they are infillings of voids caused by postdepositional collapse.

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