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Mortality salience increases death-anxiety for individuals low in personal need for structure

Motivation and Emotion, 2012
Research derived from terror management theory suggests that death cognition does not lead to death-anxiety because people respond to thoughts of death by turning to social and cultural structures that provide a sense of psychological security. However, recent research indicates that it is people high, but not low, in personal need for structure that ...
Routledge, Clay, Juhl, Jacob, Vess, Matthew   +2 more
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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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Structured Terror: Further Exploring the Effects of Mortality Salience and Personal Need for Structure on Worldview Defense

Journal of Personality, 2010
Previous research indicates that people respond to heightened death-related cognition with increased defense of predominant cultural beliefs (cultural worldview defense). However, recent research indicates that individual differences in personal need for structure (PNS) impact responses to threatening thoughts of death such that those high, but not low,
Jacob Juhl, Clay Routledge
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THE POSITIVE CORRELATION BETWEEN PERSONAL NEED FOR STRUCTURE AND THE MERE EXPOSURE EFFECT

Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 2001
It was predicted that the amount a person is affected by mere exposure would be positively correlated with their Personal Need for Structure (PNS). Forty participants rated unfamiliar Turkish words for pleasantness. As predicted by the mere exposure effect, the greater the participants' exposure, the more pleasant the words were rated.
Teresa Hansen, Robert A. Bartsch
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Connecting the dots: how personal need for structure produces false consumer pattern perceptions

Marketing Letters, 2014
The human tendency to recognize patterns even when none exist is shown to have applications in consumer behavior. The current research demonstrates that as one’s personal need for structure (PNS) increases (i.e., requiring predictability and disfavoring uncertainty), false consumer pattern perceptions emerge. Construal level moderates this relationship
Alexander Davidson, Michel Laroche
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The Effects of Personal Need for Structure and Occupational Identity in the Role Stress Process

The Journal of Social Psychology, 2001
The authors formed and tested a model of the antecedents, consequences, and possible moderators or mediators of the role ambiguity construct in a new occupational group of nurses (N = 1,240) in Finland. They hypothesized that (a) job characteristics (control and feedback) would be associated with role ambiguity and (b) this association, in turn, would ...
M, Elovainio, M, Kivimäki
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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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Navigating Ambiguity: Adapting and Validating the Personal Need for Structure Scale in Spanish

The Spanish Journal of Psychology
AbstractThe 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, Javier Horcajo, Pablo Nájera, Miguel A. Sorrel   +3 more
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Personal need for structure and occupational strain: An investigation of structural models and interaction with job complexity

Personality and Individual Differences, 1998
We explored the relation between personal need for structure (PNS), as a global construct and as divided into two components, and occupational strain. Analyses of questionnaire data from two independent samples of Finnish social and health care personnel (n = 3015 and n = 1840) suggest that a high personal desire for structure (DS-component) decreases ...
Marko Elovainio, Mika Kivimäki
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Inter‐ and intrapersonal processes underlying authoritarianism: The role of social conformity and personal need for structure

European Journal of Personality, 2009
Several personality constructs have been theorised to underlie right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA). In samples from New Zealand and Germany (Ns = 218, 259), we tested whether these constructs can account for specific variance in RWA. In both samples, social conformity and personal need for structure were independent predictors of RWA. In Sample 2, where
Jugert, P., Cohrs, Christopher, Duckitt, J.   +2 more
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