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Direct linkNourollah Zarrinabadi, Editor; Miroslaw Pawlak, Editor – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This edited collection provides a state-of-the art overview of research on willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second and foreign language. In particular, it includes innovative studies seeking to demonstrate the ways in which WTC can be examined within the framework of complex dynamic systems, how the construct is related to self-assessment,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes, Immigrants, Second Language Learning
Prinstein, Mitchell J., Ed.; Dodge, Kenneth A., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2008
Scientists, educators, and parents of teens have long recognized the potency of peer influences on children and youth, but until recently, questions of how and why adolescents emulate their peers were largely overlooked. This book presents a framework for understanding the processes by which peers shape each other's attitudes and behavior, and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Drug Use, Adolescents, Ecology
Peer reviewedSarup, Gian – Social Behavior and Personality, 1981
Contrasted three major theories on attitude change: cognitive dissonance, incentive, and social judgment. Results from student questionnaires provided little support for cognitive dissonance. Also provided credible, though overlapping, evidence for incentive and social judgment theories. Improvised role playing produced more change than did…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, College Students
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This document contains three papers from a symposium on emotion and behavior in the workplace that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "Emotion Work, and Perceptions of Affective Culture in a Military Nonprofit Organization" (Jamie L. Callahan, David R. Schwandt) reports on a study of the emotion…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Affective Behavior
Albert, Bill, Ed.; Brown, Sarah, Ed.; Flanigan, Christine M., Ed. – 2003
This collection of papers on early adolescent sexual behavior includes seven papers in two parts. Part 1, "Papers from Nationally Representative Data Sets," includes (1) "Dating and Sexual Experiences among Middle School Youth: Analyses of the NLSY97" (Elizabeth Terry-Humen and Jennifer Manlove); "(2) "Dating Behavior…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Contraception, Dating (Social), Disadvantaged Youth
Emde, Robert N., Ed.; Hewitt, John K., Ed. – 2001
This book analyzes the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study, a collaborative study by leading developmental scientists and behavioral geneticists on the transition from infancy to early childhood. Part 1 of the book describes the twin method and procedures used and introduces the analytic strategies. Parts 2 through 4 present results related to…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
Carey, William B., Ed.; McDevitt, Sean C., Ed. – 1994
This collection of essays, in honor of child psychiatry pioneers Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas, focuses on their idea that important life outcomes are the product of ongoing interactions between a child's behavioral style and the complimentarity or lack of fit of the parenting environment. Following an introduction, the remaining chapters are:…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Behavior, Child Development, Children
Ryan, Bruce A., Ed.; And Others – 1995
The nature of the relationships among contemporary family variables and school achievement is examined in this collection of articles. Divided into two parts, the collection examines related processes and issues. In the first part, the chapters and authors are: (1) "The Family-School Relationships Model" (Bruce A. Ryan and Gerald R.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Community Influence, Elementary Secondary Education
Whitman, Thomas L.; Borkowski, John G.; Keogh, Deborah A.; Weed, Keri – 2001
This monograph details the Notre Dame Parenting Project, a comprehensive longitudinal study of the lives of adolescent mothers and their children from pregnancy through the first 8 years of life, describing how their respective developmental trajectories are interwoven and linked to the social contexts in which they live. A total of 281…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Adolescents
American Council on Education, Washington, DC. National Center for Academic Achievement and Transfer. – 1993
Presenting results of transfer research undertaken between 1989 and 1992, this book examines three different dimensions of student transfer from two- to four-year institutions. Following an introduction by Judith S. Eaton, the first chapter, "The Total Community College Curriculum," by Arthur M. Cohen and Jan M. Ignash, presents results…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Planning, College Role, College Transfer Students
2001
This document contains three papers on managerial performance issues. "Managerial Skill Requirements: Evidence from the Scottish Visitor Attraction Industry" (Sandra Watson, Martin McCracken) presents the findings from an exploratory study of those skills that managers in the Scottish visitor attraction sector considered most important…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education
