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4. Defence of status (DST): need to defend one's status, sensitivity to the opinions of others, and tendency to refrain from actions in order to avoid failure. 5. Guilt feelings (GUI): guilt feelings, and a strict conscience with a strong sense of duty.
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By analysing situational uncertainty instead of dispositional or context-bound forms of communication apprehension, the focus shifts from persistent tendencies to refrain from participation to factors that are more dependent on the perceived properties of the current interaction process.
This 33-item questionnaire assesses three eating styles that reflect dysfunctional regulation of food intake: 1) external eating (i.e. the tendency to eat in response to external cues), 2) emotional eating (i.e. the tendency to overeat in response to emotions) and 3) restrained eating (i.e. the tendency to attempt to refrain from eating) [ 75].
After plotting the data we decided to refrain from background correction since it has the tendency to add more noise to the data [ 43].
I'll try to refrain.
He planned to refrain from the latter.
To refrain from that requires patience.
"We're going to refrain from "The Hunger Games".
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