"Situational factors" refer to the specific circumstances or conditions that influence a situation or event. They can include things like the environment, people involved, resources available, time constraints, and other relevant factors impacting a particular situation. These factors help shape the overall context and can affect how events unfold or decisions are made.
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Crucially, Lankford points out that attack resolution outcomes may not be solely determined by offenders» individual psychology — outcomes may also be the product
of situational factors when the event is underway.
Empowering learners has just as much to do with staging
situational factors as it does with being transparent about the planning, design, and facilitation choices teachers make for and with their classroom.
It's a fundamental human tendency to focus on other people's stable traits and personality when trying to explain their behavior and preferences, but to focus more
on situational factors when making sense of one's own behavior and preferences.
«Our approach shifts the traditional perspective that employee motivational forces are primarily imposed by
external situational factors to a view that individual motivation is generated by the pursuit of high - order goals that emanate from one's personality traits,» they write in their paper,» The Theory of Purposeful Work Behavior,» published recently in the Academy of Management Review.
Further multiple comparisons,
critical situational factors on college students from high - income families score significantly higher than those from middle - income, low - income families of the students.
Social factors such as lack of opportunity; parent - related factors including background, social position, as well as personality and character traits; child - related factors such as handicaps, behavior and appearance; and
situational factors including relations between parents, social isolation and family conflict have all been suggested as possible causes.
View Abstract Explores child, parental, and
situational factors associated with child abuse, and the interactive role of physical punishment and other parental behaviors on the development of aggression later in life.
Situational factors observed to impact on parental / caregiver coping include the availability of treatment services (e.g., Gray 2006), clinician referrals to support resources (e.g., Mandell and Salzer 2007), family functioning (e.g., Altiere and von Kluge 2009), and the combined effects of community support availability and child behavior problems (e.g., Hall 2012).
Often families seek closed environments because
of situational factors, such as the availability of attentive program instructors and the presence of behavioral therapists to observe and anticipate additional needs.
Her final BSc Psychology paper was on the subject of workplace creativity: a survey exploring personality and
situational factors as future predictors of creative performance.
Research has shown that in general, men have a tendency to misjudge a woman's sexual intent, often based on individual or
situational factors such as alcohol intoxication.
This emphasis
on situational factors is influenced by the larger cultural social niche, in which the relationship grows and develops.
Researchers focus on aspects of school readiness, including social and language development, along with other data such as hours in care, so as to better understand the ways in which a child's growth is influenced
by situational factors.
(Which is why I think Ivory's addition means the entire Jags passing game is overvalued — even if Bortles and the Allens take a step forward, and they're all Class of 2014 so they probably will,
situational factors will mean touchdown regression.)
In the above - mentioned study conducted by Elizabeth Gershoff, she found that
situational factors, namely parental relationship, mitigated the negative effects of spanking.
An utterance's shock value rises as a function of
situational factors and an individual audience member's propensity for offense.»
Frank said the variations likely come from innate and
situational factors.
A male perspective on sexual attraction comes down to individual and
situational factors, according to a recent study.
A handful of reports exist; however, describing declines in testosterone with acute stress imposed in the laboratory setting or observed in community - dwelling subjects under a variety of
situational factors (49).
NPD's Morning MealScape 2011 study, which delves deeply into
the situational factors and attitudinal drivers impacting consumers» food and beverage choices in the morning, finds that males, 18 - 34, have the highest incidence of skipping (28 percent) whereas those adults 55 and older have the lowest incidence of skipping (11 percent for males, ages 55 and older, and 10 percent for females in this age range) among adults.
In this role, she applied social psychology theories to examine cognitive, affective, and
situational factors that affect health decisions.
By establishing frequent, ongoing communication with learners, where they feel able to discuss issues in an open and honest manner without fear of censorship, online instructors are in a better position to monitor and respond to
situational factors that could potentially undermine learner motivation.
A heightened awareness of
situational factors may have granted survival advantage in human males during hunting expeditions or conflict between males and clans.
Furthermore, my friendly attitude combined with my customer care training will allow me to manage problems of Bloomingdale Store's existing customers and analyze
the situational factors in a better way.
The reproductive health needs of women and men change over time and are influenced by a variety of biological and
situational factors.
Continuous assessment of risk levels throughout the intervention (i.e., involvement with the child or youth)- for which the time - period is not predetermined - is crucial, as
situational factors may change, increasing or reducing the level of risk for suicide.
Back in 1968, psychologist Walter Mischel created quite a stir when he challenged the concept that we even have a core personality that organizes our behavior, contending instead that
situational factors are much better predictors of what we think and do.
Methods: MANOVA was used to determine the relationship between caregiver strain and three
situational factors: (1) gender; (2) where the care recipient lives compared to the caregiver; and, (3) family type.
Certain people, namely those with an avoidant attachment personality (i.e., fear closeness), are more likely to use the avoidant breakup strategies.2 Second, a person might feel less compassionate love (i.e., care and empathy) towards her or his soon to be ex - partner.3 Finally, there might be
some situational factors that shape a person's choice to ghost a partner.
Young women's satisfaction with sex and romance, and emotional reactions to sex: Associations with sexual entitlement, efficacy and
situational factors.
In the above - mentioned study conducted by Elizabeth Gershoff, she found that
situational factors, namely parental relationship, mitigated the negative effects of spanking.
The results of studies 4 and 5 reveal that individual differences as well as
situational factors can moderate the effects of crowdedness on brand attachment.
These findings are consistent with past interpersonal theories that argue that each type of relationship provides a unique «
situational factor» that interpersonal traits may be expressed (Zayas et al., 2002).
Situational factors may include a traumatic birth, the pregnant woman's own mother's parenting style, experienced stress, social support, and the influence of her spouse.