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Personal Need for Structure and Attitudes Toward Homosexuality

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1998
The need of a sample of U.S. students to cognitively structure reality as measured by the Personal Need for Structure (PNS) Scale was examined as a predictor of attitudes toward homosexuality measured by the Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men (ATLG) Scale. Significant relationships between the two constructs and strong gender differences on the ATLG
M R, Smith, R A, Gordon
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Personal need for structure: Individual differences in the desire for simpler structure.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1993
Individual differences in the desire for simple structure may influence how people understand, experience, and interact with their worlds. Studies 1 and 2 revealed that the Personal Need for Structure (PNS) scale (M. Thompson, M. Naccarato, & K. Parker, 1989,1992) possesses sufficient reliability and convergent and discriminant validity. In Studies 3-5,
Steven L. Neuberg, Jason T. Newsom
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Effects of Components of Personal Need for Structure on Occupational Strain

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1996
The relationship of two elements of personal need for structure-desire for structure and negative reaction to lack of structure-to vulnerability to occupational strain was investigated. Data obtained from a questionnaire administered to female hospital personnel in Finland and analyzed with structural equation models indicated that a high personal ...
M, Kivimäki, M, Elovainio, J, Nord
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Personal need for structure as a boundary condition for humor in leadership

Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2016
Summary Recent research has established a positive relationship between humor in leadership and organizational behavior variables. However, neither the mechanisms nor the boundary conditions of the positive effects of humor in leadership are completely understood.
Alexander Pundt, Laura Venz
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Ageing-related influences on personal need for structure

International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2001
The need for structure construct was examined in relation to adult age using the Personal Need for Structure scale (PNS; M.M. Thompson, M.E. Naccarato, & K. Parker, 1989). The results of a series of confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the two intercorrelated-factor structure of the PNS scale held up well across individuals aged 21 to 85 ...
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Structural Modification for Personally Licensed Vehicles to Meet the Transportation Needs of Persons with Disabilities

2021
<div class="section abstract"> <div class="htmlview paragraph">The recommendations in this SAE Information Report apply to structural integrity, performance, driveability, and serviceability of personally licensed vehicles not exceeding 10 000 lb GVWR.
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Differing emotional sensitivities in the two factors of personal need for structure

Journal of Research in Personality, 2012
Abstract The current project examines dispositional orientations toward positive or negative stimuli based on individual differences in personal need for structure (PNS). Although Neuberg and Newsom (1993) describe PNS as stemming from two sources of simple structure, desire for structure (DFS) and response to lack of structure (RLS), the two ...
Jenel Taylor Cavazos, Nicole Judice-Campbell, Christopher P. Ditzfeld   +2 more
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Structural Modification for Personally Licensed Vehicles to Meet the Transportation Needs of Persons with Disabilities

2017
<div class="section abstract"> <div class="htmlview paragraph">The recommendations in this SAE Information Report apply to structural integrity, performance, driveability, and serviceability of personally licensed vehicles not exceeding 10 000 lb GVWR.
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The personal need for structure as a factor affecting the understanding and projecting of complex spacial structures

Czasopismo Techniczne. Architektura, 2015
Creativity and understanding of complex spatial structures are reqired from architects.Thereat, avoiding the uncertainty and the necessity of simplifying complex structures may, in consequence, lead to an inadequancy of the effect of their work.Employing thescales of Personal Need for Structure(PNS)and PNS-Geometry served to determine if the ...
Wojtowicz, Agnieszka, Barbara Wojtowicz
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Are persons high in the need for structure more influential communicators of stereotypes?

2009
It was predicted that individuals with a high chronic need for structure (compared to persons with low need for structure) exert more influence in the processes through which individual perceptions of groups coalesce into consensual stereotypes.
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