perceived threat
collocation in Englishmeaningsofperceiveandthreat
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perceive
verb[T]
uk/pəˈsiːv/us/pɚ-/
to come to an opinion about something, or have a belief ...
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threat
noun[C]
uk/θret/us/θret/
a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is ...
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(Definition ofperceiveandthreatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The bivariate relationship betweenperceivedthreatin 1996 and tolerance in 1998 is entirely filtered throughperceivedthreatin 1998.
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Agitated and confused patients may misinterpret their surroundings and try to escape fromperceivedthreat.
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Thus, controlling forperceivedthreatand temperament reduced the coping-symptom relations.
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Additional costs may result from theperceivedthreatof discrimination, as discussed above.
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However, tolerance in 1996 has an independent effect onperceivedthreatin 1998.
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Some writers have stressed theperceivedthreatthe latter posed to colonial rule.
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Perceivedthreatsignificantly predicted active and avoidant coping and child-report of symptoms in the positive direction, as hypothesized.
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Even if sessions were opened up to the public, there was no abatement in theperceivedthreatto morality.
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Variation in threat perceptions has rarely been successfully explained, so this discovery thatperceivedthreatflows from intolerance is important.
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The measure ofperceivedthreatwas the mean of the standardized threat scores for the three events.
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Therefore, actions associated with persecutory delusions may often be attempts to reduce theperceivedthreatand consequent feelings of anxiety.
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These claims are indicative of a broad cultural process of assimilating theperceivedthreatof science to religious faith.
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What if a furtherperceivedthreatarises?
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Certainly, there was no urgency in anyperceivedthreat.
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In practice, thatperceivedthreatis definitely exaggerated.
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Although negative emotionality was not directly related to coping, it had significant indirect effects to higher active and avoidant coping throughperceivedthreat.
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The users' expressions showed awareness of the signs of normal ageing and created distance from theperceivedthreatof old age.
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The non-significant association between coping and symptoms was also the result of including temperament andperceivedthreatin the models.
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In addition, the strong effects of positive emotionality on psychological symptoms led to the post-hoc expectation that positive emotionality might also be related to lowerperceivedthreat.
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Before discussing the model tested in this study, we will discuss prior research on the role of temperament,perceivedthreatand coping in children's adaptation to divorce.
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In this way, tolerance is 'an index of this very capacity for mixing and of theperceivedthreatto a social norm that it portends' (p. 73).
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Flexibly deployed teams of officers attend targeted arrivals according to intelligence andperceivedthreator risk.
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For example, they may sometimes over-react to aperceivedthreat.
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The point of variable fees was to give universities flexibility to respond to aperceivedthreat.
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We are committed already to levels of security which are appropriate to theperceivedthreat.
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