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Master Thesis
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| Author |
Chee, Jade Gek Chin |
| Title | Correlates of help-seeking behavior in Singaporean parents. |
| Institute | Thesis (M.A.) (Applied Psychology) National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University |
| Year | 2000 |
| Supervisor | Lim, Kam Ming |
| Call no. | BF637.C6 Che |
Summary
Past research studies in the area of help-seeking behavior included investigating variables like gender, preferred sources of help, socioeconomic status, age, personality, self-esteem and social context. Models on help-seeking behavior include Darley-Lataneations hitherto not evident or evident only in a limited sense. In contrast to piaget's Identity, Negation, Reciprocity, Correlativity grouping (INRC) and the propositional logic model which he postulated as the structures present in formal operations, this study investigates Acceptance of lack of Closure (ALC) and Multiple Interacting Systems (MISS) as formulated by E Lunar. LAC and MISS are seen in the light of alternative structures that appear in the thinking of adolescents.
The adolescent who takes the given content as decisive, who fails to or will not reconcile opposing conclusions, and who does not conceive of unstated possibilities, is performing a kind of "premature closures". The adolescent though who does take account of all evidence, measures the inadequacy of such evidence and supplements it or acknowledges its lack from his store of general knowledge has shown greater tolerance for unclosed operations. He can withhold closing while he considers the different variables in the problem.
MIS is, however,closely bound with abstraction. When more than one system is involved, as in MIS, variables have no direct correspondence with objects or stipulated events. Instead, the adolescent reconstructs objects as variables according to perceived laws and then tests his hypothesis against alternative. Thus, the adolescent will see abstract statements and genaralisations as more meaningful than statements of association and membership. The study therefore, focuses on students' ability to judge and the extent to which their judgement if guided by possibilities other then those given. The study also attempts to measure the preference of a student for more abstract and generalised statements rather then specific statements of incidental association. The study is also undertaken to see if the two characteristics mentioned are developmental and if so, whether the developmental trend differs in boys and girls.Any association between this developmental trend and home background is investigated.
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