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Dissociation and the traumatic experience from a psychotherapeutic perspective
(Dublin Business School, 2016)This study sets out to examine dissociation as a marker of trauma in the psychotherapeutic environment. It offers some definitions of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and dissociation. It examines the neuroscience ... -
Distinguishing depression levels amongst ex-offenders, whilst investigating romantic influences on each gender
(Dublin Business School, 2006)There are two hypotheses of the study in question. One related to the difference in depression levels amongst gender, that is females would have higher levels of depression compared to males. Additionally, the second ... -
The diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy in Ireland renders statutory registration impossible.
(Dublin Business School, 2005)Counselling and Psychotherapy in Ireland is a self-regulating profession. There is a diverse range of views on the theory and practice of both counselling and psychotherapy. The different approaches and theories are ... -
Do adolescents learn or remember more effectively when materials are presented visual or aurally?
(Dublin Business School, 2012)Memory is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences. Pectoral stimuli are encoded into both a visual store and an acoustic store which is believed to be superior to aurally presented words, which are ... -
Do age/gender, religious affiliation/sexual orientation predict negative attitudes against homosexuality & civil unions
(Dublin Business School, 2009)Previous studies that set out to investigate attitudes towards homosexuals were carried out in the u.s. on middle class Caucasian students with views of ethnic minority groups going unrepresented. The aim of this study ... -
Do attitudes in society play a part in the approach to antenatal services?
(Dublin Business School, 2007)According to Studies across the UK and Ireland since 1995, there has been extensive identification that drug-dependent women are a distinct group among women using the maternity services. The objective of this research ... -
Do children need fairytales? A psychoanalytic study
(Dublin Business School, 2018)Do children need fairy tales? In 1976, psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim published a book entitled The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, whose German translation, Kinder brauchen Marchen, ... -
Do friends make you smarter : a comparative study of educational performance across friendship / acquaintance pairings
(Dublin Business School, 2007)Recent literature has acknowledged that children's performance on cognitive tasks can be improved when undertaken jointly among pairs of pupils leading many researchers to claim that friendship groupings should be used ... -
Do gender differences and task difficulty level have an effect on audio inattentional deafness?
(Dublin Business School, 2016)The aim of this study was to test whether gender differences and task difficulty level have an effect on audio inattentional deafness rates. It was expected that there would be a significant difference in the number of ... -
Do individual attachment styles in the workplace affect a follower’s job satisfaction, engagement and commitment?
(Dublin Business School, 2014)The aim of this study was to investigate if individual attachment styles of followers within the leader-follower relationship were associated with levels of job satisfaction, employee engagement and organisational commitment. ... -
Do Irish adolescents think that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem? Taking a look at suicidal ideation among Irish adolescents
(Dublin Business School, 2006)The current, escalating number of deaths by suicide in contemporary Ireland has sparked cause for grave concern among existing government bodies and concerned independent groups of our time (Reach Out, 2005). We, as Irish ... -
Do Irish companies think that becoming certified to ISO 9001 is beneficial?
(Dublin Business School, 2009)The adoption of the ISO 9001 Total quality management Systems Standard has proven to be very popular amongst Irish companies, yet to date little research has been undertaken that can indicate how improvements in business ... -
Do it herself : does the Irish female consumer shop in DIY stores?
(Dublin Business School, 2006)A study of 67 female consumers took place outside four Dublin DIY stores to examine the female DIY consumer's perception of the industry. There is no published evidence within this specific area. Literature was explored ... -
Do line managers in Circle K use emotional intelligence to improve employees’ job performance and are they trained and supported by HR?
(Dublin Business School, 2019)The aim of this research is to find out if managers in Circle K are trained and supported by HR managers to use emotional intelligence especially, to improve employees’ performance. The geographical coverage of this research ... -
Do mergers and acquisitions create shareholders wealth in India? Event study methodology on banking and manufacturing sectors
(Dublin Business School, 2019)The main aim of this research is to find out how M&A create shareholders wealth in Indian banking and manufacturing sectors. The sample comprised of ten companies listed on BSE at the time of announcement (or approval) ... -
Do mergers and acquisitions create sustainable shareholder value?
(Dublin Business School, 2015)Merger and acquisitions have been a restructuring strategy incorporated by companies to drive growth, increase access to capital markets, create synergies and improve operating efficiency. However history would show us ... -
Do motivation, grit, working memory and math make four of a kind in poker?
(Dublin Business School, 2019)It has been debated whether poker is a game of skill. Professional and recreational poker players show different traits and attitude towards poker. Further differences were aimed to be explored in Motivation for Gambling ... -
Do researchers take student privacy seriously?
(Dublin Business School, 2017)Many researchers and educational research institutions have recognised an ethical dimension in terms of personal privacy within the practice of learning analytics (LA). Examples are Avella, et al., (2016), Pardo & Siemens, ... -
Do the online project management apps and tools enhance the functionality for the project management in SMEs in Ireland?
(Dublin Business School, 2019)Project management greatly affects the success rate of the projects. The available project management tools and software are expensive and time taking and demanding in terms of competition between the organization and its ... -
Do working public librarians in Ireland perceive and run their libraries as community centres?
(Dublin Business School, 2020)This study explores the role of the public library in the community from the perspective of Irish librarians. There is a global conversation taking place on the role of the public library in the community, and whether ...