Individual Control, Intensity of Reactions and Frequency of Occurrence: An Empirical Study of Cross-Culturally Invariant Relationships

1989 ◽  
Vol 68 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1339-1350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertil Törestad ◽  
Attila Olah ◽  
David Magnusson
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Predictive Control ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence ◽  
Individual Control ◽  
High Sense

To investigate the relations between behavioral control, predictive control, intensity of reaction, and frequency of occurrence, the Multisituational-Multireaction Inventory was administered to 452 17-yr.-old youngsters in Hungary, Italy, and Yemen. Data were analyzed to allow an interpretation of the factors both as personal characteristics and situational properties. The main findings for situations were that situations frequently reported as anxiety-provoking were associated with low anxiety and high behavioral control. For individuals, those with a high sense of behavioral control also experienced lower anxiety. Individuals with a high sense of predictive control tended to report more exposures to the aversive situations. The fruitfulness of this two-way analysis of the same data (persons and situations) is emphasized.

The Image of the Accountant in a German Context

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Hoffjan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Management Accountant ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Professional Context

This study introduces content analysis as a method of examining the accountant's role. The empirical study is based on 73 advertisements, which are directed primarily at employees who are affected by the management accountant's work. The findings of the study indicate that the subject of accountancy is used particularly in connection with promises of “cost reduction.” Consequently, the majority of advertisements use the accountant stereotype of “savings personified.” In a professional context, the work ethic of the management accountant is given particular emphasis in the advertisements. He/she identifies him/herself with his/her task to the maximum degree, is regarded as loyal to his/her company and, for the most part, is well organized in his/her work. However, the characterization of the management accountant as a well disciplined company-person conflicts with the negative portrayal of his/her professional qualities. In advertisements, the management accountant is portrayed as a rather inflexible, passive, and uncreative specialist who, as a result of these qualities, often demotivates others. The personal characteristics of the management accountant are shown in a negative light. This gives him/her the unappealing image of a humorless, envious, dissociated, and ascetic corporate-person.

Averting Diversity: A Review of Nominations and Appointments to the Philippine Supreme Court (1988-2008)

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dante B. Gatmaytan ◽  
Cielo Magno
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Geographical Origin ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Academic Background ◽  
The Supreme Court

AbstractThis paper is an empirical study on the nominations and appointments of Supreme Court Justices during a twenty-year period from 1988, when the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) was created in the 1987 Philippine Constitution, to 2008. The study examines the profile of individuals nominated by the JBC including their gender, age, geographical origin, academic background, and professional experience. It also explores whether the appointing Presidents display any preferences based on personal characteristics relating the effects of these preferences to the diversity on the Supreme Court. The study indicates that nominees and appointees all hail from the same background. As a result, membership of the Supreme Court is sorely unrepresentative of Philippine society. This study sets the stage for future research that will determine how this lack of diversity on the Supreme Court can affect the resolution of legal issues.

scholarly journals TO THE QUESTION OF STUDYING THE INDIVIDUAL-PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADOLESCENTS WITH TOBACCO SMOKING ADDICTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1(82)) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
М. Кулаченко
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Tobacco Smoking ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Smoking Addiction ◽  
The Individual

The article is concentrated on attention to concerning about individual−personality characteristics of the smoking-prone teenagers, while organizing the prophylaxis. Methods of studying the problem are shown, and the results of an empirical study are described.

scholarly journals Analysis of intention toward halal products: an empirical study of young consumers

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Budi Harsanto ◽  
Dika Jatnika
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Planned Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Halal Food

The purpose of this paper is to determine the intention of consumer in choosing halal products, particularly for food products. The three main elements in the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) consisting of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control is connected to the intention to consume halal products, particularly halal food. This study refers to the two studies both in the Malaysian context. This is a survey-based research. It used a questionnaire for collecting the data taken from  151 active students of Faculty of Economics and Business in Unpad who participated as the respondents in this research. The data were analysed using a descriptive statistics, correlation, chi-square. and multiple regression. The findings show that the three main elements have a significance effect on the intention. This study is unique since it was conducted in Indonesia’s context and the results is slightly different from the findings of the previous one.

Strategic Marketing Planning by Product Managers—Room for Improvement?

1983 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Cossé ◽  
John E. Swan
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Product Market ◽  
Strategic Marketing ◽  
Organizational Hierarchy ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Marketing Planning ◽  
Product Manager ◽  
Planning Processes

Product managers have a unique position in the organizational hierarchy. Neither line nor staff executives, they are responsible for planning and managing the activities of the firm's revenue generating product-market entries and are key executives in the firm's strategic planning and implementation activities. Do product managers utilize planning processes that require the types of data and data analyses recommended in the strategic planning literature? What organizational and personal characteristics are related to product manager planning activities? This article reports findings of an empirical study designed to answer these questions.

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF INNOVATORS — AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF ROLES IN INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (06) ◽  
pp. 1129-1147 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTINA N. MANSFELD ◽  
KATHARINA HÖLZLE ◽  
HANS GEORG GEMÜNDEN
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
International Firms ◽  
Expert Power ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Successful Innovation ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
Selection Of

First and foremost, innovation is driven by people. These people have specific personal characteristics and fulfil designated roles in innovation management. We have conducted an empirical study among 190 employees in R&D departments of mature international firms from four different countries (Germany, U.S.A., Great Britain and Switzerland) currently working on innovation projects. Using multivariate analyses, we could identify personal characteristics associated with different roles people can take over the course of an innovation project. These roles are called expert, power, process or relationship promotor as well as champion. The identified personal characteristics exhibit a distinctive pattern in their combined occurrence for each role. Our results show a detailed picture of specific personal characteristics of individuals, so called innovators, necessary for successful innovation. Based on these findings, we derive recommendations for a targeted human resource acquisition and a better selection of employees for successful innovation teams.

Entrepreneurial Attitudes Among Romanian Doctoral Students: An Empirical Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Alina Badulescu ◽  
Daniel Badulescu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Family Status ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe subject of entrepreneurial attitudes, orientation and potential of young students is one of great interest in approaching the way public policies can be designed in order to support and foster entrepreneurship among students. In addressing this need - with focus on doctoral students, and in the framework of other similar approaches in literature, we have conducted a survey in January 2012 and developed a sample-based study. The papers aims to present and defend the results of this study, by emphasizing Romanian doctoral students’ attitudes and facts concerning issues such as: entrepreneurial background, interest in entering entrepreneurship, on-going steps if any, factors and motivations driving the choice of an entrepreneurial career. There are also investigated some personal characteristics (age, gender, family status) in relation with entrepreneurial approaches and there are also presented concluding remarks and policy recommendations.

scholarly journals Psychological Factors of Multiple Debt Repayment Strategies

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gagarina ◽  
T. Goroshnikova
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Debt Repayment

The article presents a review of the literature and the results of an empirical study of strategies for repayment of multiple debts in a laboratory experiment and their connection with the personality traits of the respondents (N = 348). The main strategies of debt repayment are identified - Rational, Semi-rational, Aversive, Distributive, Chaotic and Ignoring of small numbers. The smallest group in the empirical study is the group of respondents with Rational strategy. Respondents of all the groups, except Rational, were compared among themselves on personal characteristics. Respondents with the Semi-rational strategy, in contrast to respondents with other strategies, demonstrate a greater propensity for risk. An Aversive strategy is characterised by a tendency to reduce the number of debts and is demonstrated by respondents when performing various tasks. Respondents with a Chaotic strategy made multiple mistakes in the simulation and, in comparison with all other respondents, are less open to new experience. Respondents with a strategy for paying off debts Ignoring small numbers turned out to be more benevolent than Chaotic respondents and respondents with the Close to rational strategy.

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