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Exposure to Violence across the Social Ecosystem and the Development of Aggression: A Test of Ecological Theory in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Boxer, Paul; Huesmann, L. Rowell; Dubow, Eric F.; Landau, Simha F.; Gvirsman, Shira Dvir; Shikaki, Khalil; Ginges, Jeremy – Child Development, 2013
Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological model proposes that events in higher order social ecosystems should influence human development through their impact on events in lower order social ecosystems. This proposition was tested with respect to ecological violence and the development of children's aggression via analyses of 3 waves of data (1 wave…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Conflict, Observation
Adolescent Girls in Distress: A High-Risk Intersection.
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Berger, Roni; Shechter, Yuta – Adolescence, 1989
Specifies parameters of adolescent girls in distress in terms of behavioral and personality features. Discusses main characteristics of adolescents, females, and those in social distress. Develops an integrative theoretical model that illustrates uniqueness of this group and its problems. Concludes that needs of this group require establishment of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Females, Foreign Countries
A Predictive Study of Voting Behavior Using Lampert's Pollimeter.
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Lampert, Shlomo I.; Tziner, Aharon – Social Behavior and Personality, 1985
A voting behavior model hypothesizing voting intention as an intervening variable which mediates the relationship between voter attitudes and voting behavior was examined in the framework of the general election in Israel. Voter attitudes were assessed via a new attitude scaling device. The model was tested primarily via discriminant analysis.…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Behavior Patterns, Discriminant Analysis
Psychological Motives and Defensive Person Perception: A Brief Historical Account and a Revised Model.
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Assor, Avi – Social Behavior and Personality, 1987
Provides brief historical account of three stages in development of theoretical framework which has guided research on defensive effects of motives on person perception, then proposes revised interactive model as fourth stage of conceptualization. New model suggests that defensive effects of motives on person perception are most likely to occur in…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Models
Drug Use among High School Students in Israel: A Syndrome of Social Vulnerability.
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Javetz, Rachel; Shuval, Judith T. – Youth and Society, 1984
Data are analyzed and discussed from a sample of Israeli secondary school students in an attempt to determine the social correlates of drug behavior. The probability of drug abuse is assessed in terms (1) of demographic and subgroup variables and (2) of specific social and behavioral traits. (RDN)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Crime, Drug Abuse, Foreign Countries
Expectancy Theory Prediction of the Preference to Remain Employed or to Retire
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Eran, Mordechai; Jacobson, Dan – Journal of Gerontology, 1976
Vroom's expectancy theory model to predict older worker's choices between employment or retirement hypothesized that a person's preference would be a function of differences between instrumentality of employment and retirement for attainment of outcomes, multiplied by the valence of each outcome, summed over outcomes. Results supported the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Males, Models, Older Adults
Assessment of Prelinguistic Behaviors in Deaf Children: Parents as Collaborators.
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Dromi, Esther – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2003
Assessment of the prelinguistic behaviors of 43 deaf children (ages 8 to 49 months) of hearing parents in Israel found only partial resemblance to the theoretical model of prelinguistic communication in hearing infants. Unique interrelationships among pointing and early noncommunicative behaviors were found with no correlation between use of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Deafness, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries