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The Life Closure Scale: A Measure of Psychological Adaptation in Death and Dying

The Hospice Journal, 1990
The Life Closure Scale (LCS) is a measure of the multidimensions of psychological adaptation during the dying process and was developed in two phases. The first phase of instrument construction was based on a retroductive method utilizing: theoretical and empirical sources, a small qualitative study and analysis of concept definitions.
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The Impacts of Need for Cognitive Closure, Psychological Wellbeing, and Social Factors on Impulse Purchasing

Journal of Global Academy of Marketing Science, 2009
Abstract Impulse purchasing is defined as an immediate purchase with no pre-shopping intentions. Previous studies of impulse buying have focused primarily on factors linked to marketing mix variables, situational factors, and consumer demographics and traits.
Dong Mo Koo   +3 more
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How serious was it? The impact of preschool closure on mothers’ psychological distress: evidence from the first COVID-19 outbreak

The Japanese Economic Review, 2020
During the early days of the first outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Japan, preschools were exempted from the nationwide school closure, which came into effect on March 2, 2020. However, the decision to close or open preschools was left to each facility and the municipality of their location, and the decision was ...
Izumi Yokoyama, Reo Takaku
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After-hours work-related technology use and individuals' deviance: the role of interruption overload, psychological transition and task closure

Kybernetes, 2021
PurposeThe information and communication technologies have made it progressively practical for employees to remain associated with work, even when they are not in the workplace. However, prior studies have provided very little understanding of the implications for the deviant behavior aspect.
Junaid Khalid   +4 more
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The Influence of Social-Psychological Traits and Job Search Patterns on the Earnings of Workers Affected by a Plant Closure

Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1974
Assesses the job search patterns and social-psychological traits of displaced workers in the United States. Implication of plant closures on employees; Factors considered in the dismissal of workers; Programs of the government to help the unemployed; Information on the U.S. labor market. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
Kenneth A. Root   +2 more
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Political Tolerance and Coming to Psychological Closure Following the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks: An Integrative Approach

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2004
This study tested hypotheses generated from an integrative model of political tolerance that derived hypotheses from a number of different social psychological theories (e.g., appraisal tendency theory, intergroup emotion theory, and value protection models) to explain political tolerance following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. A national
Christopher W. Bauman   +2 more
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Psychological predispositions and network structure: The relationship between individual predispositions, structural holes and network closure

Social Networks, 2006
Abstract We examine the effect of individual psychological differences on network structures, proposing several hypotheses about how individual differences might predispose actors to structure their social environment by seeking network closure or by sustaining structural holes.
Kalish, Y, Robins, G
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The life closure scale: Additional psychometric testing of a tool to measure psychological adaptation in death and dying

Research in Nursing & Health, 2004
AbstractThe purpose of this study was to conduct additional psychometric testing on an instrument designed to measure psychological adaptation in end‐of‐life populations across a wide spectrum of terminal illnesses. A sample of 20 participants completed initial testing of the Life Closure Scale (LCS); however, its usefulness was limited by the small ...
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The closed mind: ‘Experience’ and ‘cognition’ aspects of openness to experience and need for closure as psychological bases for right–wing attitudes

European Journal of Personality, 2011
Openness to Experience and Need for Closure (NFC) are dispositional variables related to social–cultural right–wing attitudes. The present study investigated their joint effects. Factor analysis revealed an ‘experiential’ dimension with high loading openness items, and a ‘cognition’ dimension with high loadings for most NFC items and about a quarter ...
Ilse Cornelis   +3 more
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Psychological theory testing versus psychometric nay-saying: Comment on Neuberg et al.'s (1997) critique of the Need for Closure Scale.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1997
S. L. Neuberg, T. N. Judice, and S. G. West (1997) faulted our work with the Need for Closure Scale (NFCS) on grounds that the NFCS lacks discriminant validity relative to S. L. Neuberg's and J. T. Newsom's (1993) Personal Need for Structure (PNS) Scale and is multidimensional, which, so they claim, renders the use of its total score inadmissible.
KRUGLANSKI A. W   +5 more
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