This difference in the connotation between Kenyan and Benin respondents may be due to the fact that so-called "motivation allowances" ("primes de motivation") have been introduced in Benin, that may have changed the meaning of motivation from a state of mind to that of an incentive.
Presser saw that, while "not allow" and "forbid" might literally mean the same thing, the difference in the connotations of the words — the intimidating, legalistic tone of "forbid," compared with the gentler, parental tone of "not allow" — was significant enough to reverse a person's stated opinion on an issue and alter the majority result of a survey.
In addition, previous research indicates that the SES-health relationship may differ in different health indicators (Huurre et al. 2005), resulting from the differences in the connotations, properties of the measure of each health indicator, and effects of the external social factors.
As in "837" the role playing is childish in manner but adult in connotation.
The name makes a difference in that people don't forget it, but there has been no negative connotation.
This difference in response tendencies or strategies might be due to cultural differences: Admitting to "not know" something might have a different connotation in Korea, as compared with the Netherlands.
An intervention was necessary, and Copland provided it in "Connotations".
30, 35 The current study revealed no significant differences in terms of positive, neutral, and negative connotations reported among four countries toward hearing aids and related aspects, suggesting many similarities.
Cultural differences in the health of one's reference group, different expectations of one's health, and differences in response style, or in the connotation of the symptom questions, may play a role, so that it is uncertain whether the symptom scales function equivalently in all three groups.
Within social sciences, and gender studies in particular, the category of the category of gender has connotations of power misbalances between and within men and women and consequent differences in their social roles and positions.
