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The Utility of the Prototype/Willingness Model in Predicting Alcohol Use among North American Indigenous Adolescents
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Armenta, Brian E.; Hautala, Dane S.; Whitbeck, Les B. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
In the present study, we considered the utility of the prototype/willingness model in predicting alcohol use among North-American Indigenous adolescents. Specifically, using longitudinal data, we examined the associations among subjective drinking norms, positive drinker prototypes, drinking expectations (as a proxy of drinking willingness), and…
Descriptors: Drinking, Adolescents, American Indians, Models
Explaining Human Behavior.
Olson, Alton T.; And Others – 1990
The Deductive-Nomological (D-N) model of human behavior is useful and provides the most objective explanation when it is appropriate but it is not necessarily an all-inclusive statement. For instance, explaining human behavior is always an act that entails languages and theories that are value laden and reveal human choices; however the D-N model…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Deduction, Foreign Countries, Models
Student Drop-Out in Distance Education: An Application of Tinto's Model.
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Sweet, Robert – Distance Education, 1986
Describes a survey of 356 adult students enrolled in university-level courses at the Open Learning Institute which was conducted to assess the predictive validity of Tinto's theoretical model of student dropout. It was found that, overall, the Tinto model appears to be a useful framework for such investigations. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Correlation, Discriminant Analysis, Distance Education