This dissertation’s three essays investigate trade and productivity effects on firm behavior based on new heterogeneous-firms trade models in the case of Korea. In the first essay, firms’ decision to export in the case of Korean manufacturing industries is examined, where the change in firms’ productivity before and after exports...
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Purpose: The current study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of participation in the IMPACT program on increasing undergraduate volunteer’s self-efficacy towards working with children with disabilities. A secondary aim of the project is to identify potential factors influencing changes in volunteers’ self-efficacy.
Background & Significance: Individualized Movement and Physical...
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disabilities in fostering physical activity and healthy lifestyles.
As self-efficacy is known as a strong
Abstract
Purpose: The current study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of participation in the IMPACT program on increasing undergraduate volunteer’s self-efficacy towards working with children with disabilities. A secondary aim of the project is to identify potential factors influencing changes in volunteers’ self-efficacy.
Background & Significance: Individualized Movement and Physical...
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fostering physical activity and healthy lifestyles.
• As self-efficacy is known as a strong predictor of
The cultivated strawberry is one of the youngest domesticated plants, developed in France in the 1700s from chance hybridization between two western hemisphere octoploid species. However, little is known about the evolution of the species that gave rise to this important fruit crop. Phylogenetic analysis of chloroplast genome sequences of...
Children’s self-regulation has been found to be an important predictor of later school success.
This study examined relations between family mobility and children’s self-regulation in preschool.
Using a diverse sample of 477 preschool children, results indicated that the number of moves a family made in the past five years was...
Our culture has been shifting toward an expectation of self-service for over a decade. In banks, grocery stores, gas stations and airports, people are becoming accustomed to self-service. Libraries have also joined this larger trend by implementing ways to allow patrons to interact with services in a disintermediated manner if...
This dissertation demonstrates how Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986,
1997) can be successfully applied to Counselor academic advising interventions, in
order to increase students' self-efficacy and self-regulated learning (Zimmerman,
2000) in academic planning as learned outcomes. This was accomplished by (a)
reviewing the academic advising literature and showing the current...
The regulation of behavior is a major issue in early childhood development, with
important implications for children’s adaptive and maladaptive developmental outcomes.
Emerging research suggests that the degree of successful self-regulation depends upon
the efficiency of the child’s attentional system and that the ability to focus and sustain
attention supports...