Effects of Casual Attributions of Performance Outcome on Nature of Self-Statements and Self-Esteem

36 college students participated in a study to determine the role of causal attributions of success and failure on the modification of self-esteem. Although Brockner (1979) has suggested that the key to augmenting self-esteem is the increasing of positive self-evaluation that follows success, several studies suggest that it is not the positive self-evaluation after success but the negative self-evaluations after failure that are crucial in determining one\u27s level of self-esteem. Thus it was hypothesized in the present study that if external attributions were made for failures while internal attributions for success were maintained, self-esteem would increase. Subjects high and low in self-esteem were given instructions designed to influence their attributions for the outcome of individual trials on a task in which they were led to believe that their overall performance had been superior. Cognitions following each trial were measured by a thought listing procedure. A no-instruction control group and a group, which had been instructed to make internal attributions after success, showed no change in self-esteem. However, both the high and low self-esteem subjects that had been instructed to attribute failure to external factors and success to internal factors showed such a change. The self-esteem of the high self-esteem grot1p decreased while the self-esteem of the low self-esteem group increased. These results were discussed in terms of a reconceptualization of the differences in performance outcome attributions by individuals high and low in self-esteem

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 11, No. 3, December 1894

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Implementing a quality management system using good clinical laboratory practice guidelines at KEMRI-CMR to support medical research [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

Background: Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) is a standard that helps ensure the quality and reliability of research data through principles of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and Good Clinical Practice (GCP). The implementation of GCLP includes careful documentation of procedures, competencies and safety measures. Implementation of GCLP is influenced by existing resources and quality systems, thus laboratories in low- and middle-income countries may face additional challenges. Methods: This paper describes implementation of Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) at the Kenya Medical Research Institute-Center for Microbiology Research (KEMRI-CMR) as part of a quality system to support medical research. This study employed assessment, twinning (institutional mentorship) model, conducting relevant training workshops and Kaizen 5S approaches to implement an effective quality management system using GCLP standard. This was achieved through a collaboration between the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) and KEMRI-CMR. The aim was compliance and continuous monitoring to meet international GCLP standards in a way that could be replicated in other research organizations. Results: Following a baseline assessment in March 2017, training, mentorship and a cycle of quality audit and corrective action using a Kaizen 5S approach (sorting, setting in order, shining, standardizing and sustaining) was established. Laboratory personnel were trained in writing standard operating procedures and analytical plans, microbiological techniques, and good documentation practice. Mid-term and exit assessments demonstrated significant declines in non-conformances across all GCLP elements. KEMRI-CMR achieved GCLP accreditation in May 2018 by Qualogy Ltd (UK). Conclusions: Involving all the laboratory personnel in implementation of quality management system processes is critical to success. An institutional mentorship (twinning) approach shows potential for future collaborations between accredited and non-accredited organizations to accelerate the implementation of high-quality management systems and continuous improvement

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The Republican Command: 1897–1913

This powerful book reminds us of the enormous power the nation accords its political leaders and how in the significant period, 1897–1913, these leaders failed to meet their responsibilities. Their inadequacies, the authors feel, delayed the administration of justice for all citizens, neglected African Americans, and seriously impaired the future effectiveness of their own once viable, successful, and justly proud Republican Party. The authors follow the maneuvers of McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Senators Aldrich, Platt, Allison, and Spooner, and House Speaker “Uncle” Joe Cannon as they juggled pressing domestic questions, perpetuating themselves in power without really confronting the public need. From the outset, when the party came into power in 1897 under remarkably auspicious circumstances, until it met final defeat at the hands of Woodrow Wilson in 1912, the Republican leaders laid a foundation by default for the Democratic return to power. Their neglect of major national problems afforded the Democrats a golden opportunity to appropriate those issues as their own. Horace Samuel Merrill is professor of history at the University of Maryland. Marion Galbraith Merrill is a specialist in manuscript research. Perceptive and trenchant, The Republican Command is one of the most quotable books on the Progressive Era and a major contribution to the political history of the early twentieth century. —Frank Friedel, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, University of Washingtonhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_political_science_american_politics/1022/thumbnail.jp

Recollections of Samuel Breck, with passages from his note-books (1771-1862)

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [2002-2003

Litchfield County centennial celebration, held at Litchfield, Conn., 13th and 14th of August, 1851.

iv p., 1 l., [7]-212 p. front. 22 1/2cm."Address ... on the occasion of the centennial celebration, 1851. By Judge Church": p. [21]-69. "The age of homespun. A discourse ... 1851. By Horace Bushnell": p. [105]-139

Reports of cases argued and adjudged : in the Superior court of judicatur of the province of Massachusetts bay, between 1761 and 1772. /

vii, 606 p. ; 23 cm."The notes and appendix to the celebrated case of the 'Writs of assistance', and the notes relating to slavery in Massachusetts and in England, are the work of Horace Gray, jr."--Pref