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Need for Closure and Youths' Leisure Time Preferences

Psychological Reports, 2006
The Need for Closure is an individual characteristic which may help explain individual differences in engagement in leisure activities. Both a leisure engagement inventory and a validated Dutch version of the Need for Closure Scale were administered to a convenient sample of 1,035 young adults ages 15 to 24 years of whom 552 were female.
Iris, Vermeir, Maggie, Geuens
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The Role of Prejudice and the Need for Closure in Religious Fundamentalism

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2010
Religious fundamentalism has been consistently linked to prejudice toward a variety of outgroups. This article proposes that this is partially the case because fundamentalist ideology provides a sense of consistency and closure. Outgroups that challenge the epistemic certainty that fundamentalism provides are rejected in an effort to protect this ...
Mark J, Brandt, Christine, Reyna
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Intolerance of Ambiguity and Need for Closure

Psychological Reports, 1978
The definition of intolerance of ambiguity as a predisposition to perceive lack of structure as a possible threat implies that both environmental demands and the individual's coping resources will affect that perception. Thus, Raphael and his colleagues, in establishing the relationship of intolerance of ambiguity to intelligence and the need to ...
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Effect of Forgiveness on Need for Closure

International Journal of Health Sciences and Research
Aim of the present study is to find the relationship between Forgiveness and Need for Closure and to find the influence of one on the other. Convenience sampling was used to collect data from a sample of 200 young adults from different parts of India, using Heartland Forgiveness Scale (Yamhure Thompson et al., 2002) and Need for Closure Scale (Paliwal &
Manshi Begal, Vigraanth Bapu K G, Priyanka V R   +2 more
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The Influence of Need for Closure on Learning and Teaching

Educational Psychology Review, 2009
A primary goal of educational systems is to provide learners with the information, skills, and dispositions needed to be an effective member of a complex and information-rich society. To effectively address this goal, educators and educational psychologists need to understand both the ability and the willingness of learners to grapple effectively with ...
Teresa K. DeBacker, H. Michael Crowson
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Need for Closure and Leisure of Youngsters [PDF]

, 2004
We introduce Need for Closure (NFCL) as a potential individual characteristic that can help explain and predict individual differences in engagement in leisure activities. Results show that high (versus low) NFCL youngsters engage more in leisure activities like fun shopping, while low (versus high) youngsters go more to pubs and parties, visit or host
I. VERMEIR, M. GEUENS
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The integral closure need not be a Prüfer domain

Mathematika, 1974
Recent years have witnessed a significant development of the theory of Prufer domains; there are many known characterizations of such domains within the class of integral domains with identity or the class of integrally closed domains—for example, see [6; Exer. 12, p. 93] or [10; Chap. 4]. E. Bastida and R.
Gilmer, Robert, Hoffmann, Joseph F.
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Acculturation Attitudes, Need for Cognitive Closure, and Adaptation of Immigrants

The Journal of Social Psychology, 2002
The author validated Berry's model of acculturation (J. W. Berry, 1990a, 1990b, 1991; J. W. Berry, U. Kim, S. Power, M. Young, & M. Bujaki, 1989) and examined the relation between acculturation attitudes and sociocultural and psychological adaptation among Croatian and Polish immigrants to Italy, 2 groups whose cultures are not very different from the ...
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Dispositional Need for Cognitive Closure and Self-Enhancing Beliefs

The Journal of Social Psychology, 2000
In 3 studies, the author examined self-enhancing beliefs as a function of dispositional need for cognitive closure. The results of the 1st study revealed that fathers in the Netherlands believed that they devoted more time to their children than did average Dutch fathers; these beliefs were strongest for participants with a high need for closure ...
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Clinicians Need to Stay Current With Polypharmacy Concerns

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2023
Mike Fillon
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