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Personal need for structure shapes the perceived impact of reduced personal control [PDF]
Personality and Individual Differences, 2021 Control is a fundamental motive in people's lives and previous research converges on the notion that lack of control is aversive because it undermines epistemic beliefs in the nonrandomness of the world. A key motivation underlying control is therefore the need to perceive the world as structured.
Noordewier, M.K., Rutjens, B.T.
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Personal need for structure, the Einstellung task, and the effects of stress [PDF]
Personality and Individual Differences, 1998 Abstract We examine the relationship between the personality variable of Personal Need for Structure (PNS) and problem solving on the Einstellung water-jar task. The Einstellung task was administered under stressful and nonstressful conditions. Results from 172 participants showed the predicted interaction between PNS and experimentally-induced ...
P.Wesley Schultz, Alan Searleman
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Personal Need for Structure and Creative Performance: The Moderating Influence of Fear of Invalidity [PDF]
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2007 Previous research has suggested that personal need for structure (PNS) is negatively related to creative performance. In this article, it is argued that this relation, in fact, depends on another personality variable: personal fear of invalidity (PFI). When PFI is high, PNS should indeed be negatively associated with creativity.
Rietzschel, E.F. +2 more
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Adaptability, Cognitive Flexibility, Personal Need for Structure, and Rigidity [PDF]
Journal of Psychology Research, 2012 IA (individual adaptability), COFL (cognitive flexibility), PNS (personal need for structure), and rigidity of attitudes, all have an aim in common to evaluate the person’s self-perceived capacity to manifest a flexible or inflexible behavior in a given situation. However, these seemingly related concepts have rarely been investigated jointly. The goal
HAMTIAUX, Armanda, HOUSSEMAND, Claude
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Motivation and Emotion, 2012 Previous research indicates that the awareness of death can be a barrier to creative expression. Specifically, when mortality is rendered salient, creativity is inhibited.
Jacob Juhl, Clay Routledge
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Personal Need for Structure in Relation to Language Variables
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014 AbstractThe present study focuses on determination of relationship between personal need for structure PNS, desire for structure F1 and response to lack of structure F2, and language variables, namely, reading comprehension in foreign language and language proficiency.
Eva, Stranovská +2 more
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Navigating Ambiguity: Adapting and Validating the Personal Need for Structure Scale in Spanish
The Spanish Journal of PsychologyAbstractThe Personal Need for Structure (PNS) scale assesses individuals’ tendency to seek out clarity and structured ways of understanding and interacting with their environment. The main aim of this study was to adapt the PNS scale to Spanish and assess its psychometric properties. There are two versions of the PNS scale being used, which vary in the
Rafael Gil +3 more
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Analysis of the motivational features of the choice of the teaching profession by students [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The relevance of the present study is determined by the demand of the state and society for training pedagogical personnel who are highly motivated for professional activity and chose their profession consciously. Thus, the first premise of the conducted
Polkovnikova Natalia
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Foreign Language Textbook: On Actualizing a Learner-Centered Practice [PDF]
ARPHA Proceedings, 2021 The paper represents the study of the ways of implementation of innovations into the system of foreign language teaching of university students. The most interesting issue is the innovative potential of a foreign language textbook.
Elena G. Tareva
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Motivation of protest and socio-political activity of an individual and its potential in the system of life-purpose orientations [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Акмеология образования. Психология развития, 2021 The relevance of the study is conditioned by the need for formation of theoretical and practical knowledge and technologies that allow to determine the structure of motivation of socio-political and protest activity.
Milena A. Klenova
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