A loss -
avoidance strategy does not mean that investors should hold all or even half of their portfolios in U.S. Treasury bills or own sizable caches of gold bullion.
Not exact matches
Some investors view this as a smart, risk -
avoidance strategy: If they don't recognize the names of foreign companies and aren't sure of their business model, they're skeptical.
Politicians can try to clamp down on tax
avoidance but they can't stop people employing the
avoidance strategy of last resort: don't earn a lot of money in the UK.
There are almost as many methods of training as there are trainers, but over time the basic
strategy has shifted away from punishment or
avoidance training (negative reinforcement) to positive reinforcement, where the dog is rewarded for
doing the correct thing during most phases of training rather than being punished for not
doing what the trainer wants.
Teachers in this group show healthy motivation with respect to the positive motivation factors, they
do not lack perceived control, are not overly anxious, and are not inclined towards performance
avoidance strategies.
These teachers appear to have a very healthy motivational profile; they know what needs to be
done in order to succeed in their work (low uncertain control), and they are not anxious or inclined towards performance
avoidance strategies.
Unfortunately, the company's policies are underwritten by Red Sands Insurance, which
did not have any ethical policies for investments and received Ethical Consumer's worst ratings for both likely use of tax
avoidance strategies and environmental reporting.
The other four of the Big Six received our worst rating for likely use of tax
avoidance strategies, as
did ENGIE.
At the same time when asked whether
avoidance strategies work, the same people say that they generally
do not.
BSA patients used potentially maladaptive coping
strategies more frequently than BW patients at baseline (hopelessness / helplessness p = 0.005, fatalism p = 0.0005,
avoidance p = 0.005; the CIDQ denial statement «I
do not really believe I have cancer» p = 0.0005).
The items, with responses ranging from 1 «I usually don't
do this at all» to 4 «I usually
do this a lot», referred to five major independent dimensions: Social Support, Positive Attitude, Problem Solving, Turning to Religion and
Avoidance Strategies.
This is why
strategies to problem solve, time outs,
avoidance or being mindful of communication styles aren't effective — because these
strategies don't address the pain of being unheard or misunderstood or the fear of loosing each other.
As can be expected from relations between maladaptive and adaptive
strategies,
Avoidance correlated negatively and Aggression
did not correlate with Adaptive Emotion Regulation.
In response to the open - ended question about gambling - related coping
strategies, the responses were coded under four major themes reflecting
strategies the participants used to cope with family member's problem gambling: (1) financial control including taking over the finances; (2) supportive engagement including talking, rationalising, giving advice; (3) help - seeking including support for the gambler to attend counselling; and (4)
avoidance and denial such as keeping away from the gambler and
doing their own thing.