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Situation factors, taken more broadly, may refer to (a) situation cues (objective physical stimuli in an environment), (b) psychological situation characteristics (subjective meanings and interpretations of situations), and (c) situation classes (types or groups of entire situations with similar cues or similar levels or profiles of characteristics). More narrowly, situation factors may refer to broad dimensions of situation characteristics that can be used to describe and compare any situation. Show
Key InformationThe definition of what a situation is has been a thorny issue in psychology (Reis 2008). Recently, Rauthmann and colleagues (Rauthmann et al. 2014; Rauthmann 2015; Rauthmann et al. 2015a) proposed to see situations sets of fleeting, dynamic, and momentary circumstances that do not lie within persons, but in their surroundings. Situations then contain objectively quantifiable stimuli (cues) that may be perceived and interpreted by persons (thus creating psychological... Keywords
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Rights and permissionsReprints and Permissions Copyright information© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG About this entryCite this entryRauthmann, J.F. (2020). Situational Factors. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1910 What are examples of situational factors?Situational Factors are any outside elements that can influence children's behavior, including such things:. illness in the family,. divorce,. geographic relocations,. deaths (of people or even of pets),. birth order of the children,. socio-economic level,. holidays,. and even vacations.. What are key situational factors?Situational Factors (also known as External Factors) are influences that do not occur from within the individual but from elsewhere like the environment and others around you. Examples of situational factors are your environment, work and school, and the people around you.
What are the categories of situational factors?Situational factors. Abuse and neglect. Abuse and neglect can have an impact on an individual's wellbeing. ... . Adoption. ... . Bereavement. ... . Bullying. ... . Children with looked after status. ... . Family difficulties. ... . Parenting difficulties. ... . Sexuality.. What are the situational factors in a business?Situational influences are temporary conditions that affect how buyers behave. They include physical factors such as a store's buying locations, layout, music, lighting, and even smells. Companies try to make the physical factors in which consumers shop as favorable as possible.
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