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Baker, Joseph R.; Yardley, John K. – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2002
Examines the moderating effect of gender on the predictive relationships between a measure of sensation seeking and impulsivity and four adolescent substance use outcomes. Main-effect relationships were consistently found for sensation seeking-impulsivity with each outcome, but not for gender. Gender was found to moderate the relationship between…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Conceptual Tempo, Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables
Rokach, Ami – 2002
The present study examined the influence of cultural background on the causes of adolescents loneliness. Eighty Canadian youth and 168 adolescents from the Czech Republic formed the participants pool. They answered and 30 item yes/no questionnaire. The questionnaire is composed of five subscales, namely: Personal inadequacies, Developmental…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries

Baer, Douglas – Journalism Quarterly, 1981
Concludes that more males than females read Canadian newspapers, and that persons between the ages of 30 and 49 are most likely to be nonreaders. (FL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Audiences, Foreign Countries, Journalism

Trovato, Frank – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1987
Conducted a longitudinal analysis of the relationship of divorce to the national suicide rate in Canada. Found the suicide rate varied directly with the rate of family dissolution, even after taking into account the effects of unemployment and females' participation in the labor force. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Divorce, Employed Women, Family Problems, Foreign Countries

Quirouette, Cecile; Gold, Dolores Pushkar – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1992
Examined relationships between spousal variables and psychological well-being of husbands and wives in older couples (n=120). Spousal variables significantly predicted wives' well-being with three most influential predictor variables being husbands' perception of the marriage, positive dimension of well-being, and physical health. Spousal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics, Older Adults, Physical Health
Galambos, Nancy L.; Maggs, Jennifer L. – 1989
With the majority of mothers of school-aged children now in the labor force, there is much concern about the supervision of these children when the parents are at work and school is out. Of particular concern are children in self-care after school, many of whom spend their time in places other than home. This study contrasted sixth-graders in…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Employed Parents, Foreign Countries
Murray, Joan; And Others – 1990
The idea is widely supported that abuse is far more common among acquaintances than among strangers and is most common within the family. The dating relationship is another intimate relationship in which abuse occurs. In this study the association between abuse in the family of origin and sexual abuse in dating was analyzed by determining the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Dating (Social), Family Violence, Foreign Countries

Barrett, Joelle; Kitchenham, Andrew – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1992
Analysis of the Attitudes toward Disabled Persons scale administered to 89 British Columbia (Canada) students in grades 8 and 10 found that (1) female students had more positive attitudes than male students; and (2) grade level and degree of contact were not strong or consistent predictors of attitude. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities, Foreign Countries

Korabik, Karen – 1981
Research indicates that sex role orientation may be a better predictor of leadership behavior than biological sex. To provide support for the integration of sex role and leadership theories, two studies were conducted using college students as research subjects. In the first study, female and male students completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Foreign Countries, Group Dynamics, Group Experience
Chodzinski, Raymond T. – Canadian Counsellor, 1983
Investigated the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) using 535 Canadian high school students. As expected, intelligence, grade, and sex were significant predictors of the CMI variables. However, evidence for discriminant validity was unsatisfactory and inconsistent with the theoretical framework of CMI. (JAC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries, High School Students

Page, Stewart; Rosenthal, Robert – Journal of School Psychology, 1990
Investigated sex-related teacher and student differences, and expectancy efforts, in an experimental teaching situation with Asian and White college students (N=96) taught by 12 teachers, all of whom possessed elementary teaching experience. Found sex of teacher, sex of student, and race of student were related to student performance. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Achievement, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Paulhus, Delroy; Martin, Carol – 1983
While minor physical anomalies (MPAs), a set of 17 non-obvious but measurable characteristics of the hands, face and feet, have been linked to a number of behavioral syndromes in children, such personality correlates of MPAs in adults have not been studied. To explore the relationshp between MPAs and temperament in a college sample, 114 students…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Behavior Problems, College Students, Congenital Impairments
Randhawa, Bikkar S.; Randhawa, Jason S. – 1989
A study was undertaken to determine aspects of gender-related differences in mathematics achievement among 10th graders (n=253). More specifically, the following aspects were assessed: (1) gender-related differences and similarities on specific process-, content-, and micro-component aspects; (2) stability of the patterns of differences and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries
Landy, Sarah – 1977
This study investigated the relative importance of the major factors associated with the habit of reading or nonreading. Some 2,731 seventh-grade students were the subjects of the study; from these, 487 were identified as either readers or nonreaders, and, from this group, 22 students were selected for additional in-depth case studies. From over…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Masters Theses, Predictor Variables

Baker, Paul M. – Small Group Behavior, 1988
Studied effects of factors on group discussion participation, observing 218 subjects in four-, five-, or six-person mock juries discussing mandatory retirement case. Visibility and size were main predictors of who spoke first; first-to-speak, age, and sex were predictors of participation in first minute. Total participation was affected by age,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Foreign Countries, Group Discussion
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