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Mayton, Daniel M. – 1989
Values are a central concept in understanding and predicting human behavior. Value priority differences have been shown to predict important political, social, and economic attitudes and behaviors. The purpose of this study was to identify differences and similarities among the value hierarchies of adolescents who have never tried alcohol,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Differences, Drinking
Marshall, Catherine; And Others – 1989
A research project that developed methods for describing, organizing, analyzing, and predicting state education policy activity had as its major focus the way that values affect that policy. Data were drawn from six states: Wisconsin, Illinois, California, Arizona, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. They were chosen to represent ranges of political…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Culture
Wheelock, Gerald C., Ed. – 1983
Ten separate 1890 Land-Grant Universities and Tuskegee Institute cooperatively conducted a 10-state southern regional research project, "The Isolation of Factors Related to Patterns and Levels of Living in the Rural South," which elicited household and demographic data on 2,580 rural families. The 10 contiguous southeastern states which…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Attitudes, Beliefs, Black Colleges