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Sloan, Cathy – Research in Drama Education, 2018
This article moves on from the 'turn to affect' in applied theatre to explore further how concepts related to affect theory might offer ways in which practice might respond to the contemporary context of a 'post-normal' and 'post-truth' world. Acknowledging the influence of transdisciplinary discourses on gender, race, disability, space, place,…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Interdisciplinary Approach, Gender Differences, Race
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Mullins, Nicole M. – Physical Educator, 2015
Continually accumulating information on the health risks associated with sedentary lifestyles indicates a severe public health need for increased physical activity, as well as for careful attention to factors that can curtail it. Study and documentation of such factors, however, are not enough to promote widespread change in firmly established…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Physical Activities, Health Behavior, Risk
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Sawtelle, Vashti; Brewe, Eric; Kramer, Laird H. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
The quantitative results of Sources of Self-Efficacy in Science Courses-Physics (SOSESC-P) are presented as a logistic regression predicting the passing of students in introductory Physics with Calculus I, overall as well as disaggregated by gender. Self-efficacy as a theory to explain human behavior change [Bandura [1977] "Psychological…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Physics, Calculus
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Wurst, Friedrich Martin; Mueller, Sandra; Petitjean, Sylvie; Euler, Sebastian; Thon, Natasha; Wiesbeck, Gerhard; Wolfersdorf, Manfred – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2010
A substantial proportion of therapists will at some point in their professional life experience the loss of a patient to suicide. Our aims were to assess how therapists react to patient's suicide over time and which factors contribute to the reaction. One third of the therapists, mostly women, suffer from severe distress. The impact is not…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Suicide, Counselor Attitudes, Patients
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Okinaka, Takeru; Shimazaki, Tsuneo – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
A reversal design was used to evaluate the effects of vocal and written prompts as well as reinforcement on safe behavior (dismounting and walking bicycles or motorcycles on a sidewalk) on a university campus. Results indicated that an intervention that consisted of vocal and written prompts and reinforcement delivered by security guards was…
Descriptors: Influences, Reinforcement, Prompting, College Students
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MacPherson, Laura; Myers, Mark G. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2010
Little information describes how adolescents change their smoking behavior. This study investigated the role of gender in the relationship of motivation and cognitive variables with adolescent smoking self-change efforts. Self-report and semi-structured interview data from a prospective study of smoking self-change efforts were examined among 98…
Descriptors: Smoking, Self Efficacy, Intention, Interviews
Lynch, Sarah; Styles, Ben; Poet, Helen; White, Richard; Bradshaw, Sally; Rabiasz, Adam – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2015
This summary reports the findings from two cluster-randomised trials of Drinkaware's school-based In:tuition life skills and alcohol education intervention: one trial of the programme for 10-11 year olds in primary schools, and another for 12-13 year olds in secondary schools. The trials have been carried out by the National Foundation for…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Alcohol Education, Intervention, Prevention
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Dillon, Justin; Huang, Jing – School Science Review, 2010
In this article we take a critical look at education for sustainable development (ESD), which is a more contested idea than policy makers might have us believe. After a brief examination of the history of the term, we look at the recent Ofsted report into how it is being implemented (or not) in UK schools. We examine why it is a contested term and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational History, Environmental Education, Science Departments
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McKee, Gregory; Duffield, Stacy K. – Journal of Education for Business, 2011
The authors examined the effect a curriculum about cooperative businesses had on high school student attitudes toward these businesses. Cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions were measured before and after participating in the curriculum. Older high school students increased their attitudes toward cooperatives more than did younger…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cooperatives, High School Students, Pretests Posttests
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Jessor, Richard; Turbin, Mark S.; Costa, Frances M. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2010
This article reports a cross-national study of developmental change in health-enhancing behavior--healthy eating and regular exercise--among adolescents in China and the United States. The application of a conceptual framework comprising psychosocial and behavioral protective and risk factors--both proximal and distal and at both the individual…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Risk, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Chun, Heejung; Mobley, Michael – Journal of Adolescence, 2010
Based on Jessor's theory (1987) the comparability of a second-order problem behavior model (SPBM) was investigated across gender and grade-level among adolescents. In addition, gender and grade-level differences in problem behavior engagement were addressed examining latent mean differences. Using a sample of 6504 adolescents drawn from the…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, Sexuality, Behavior Change
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Wyker, Brett A.; Davison, Kirsten K. – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2010
Objective: Drawing on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and the Transtheoretical Model (TTM), this study (1) examines links between stages of change for following a plant-based diet (PBD) and consuming more fruits and vegetables (FV); (2) tests an integrated theoretical model predicting intention to follow a PBD; and (3) identifies associated…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Intention, Young Adults, Public Health
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Carey, Kate B.; Henson, James M.; Carey, Michael P.; Maisto, Stephen A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
In this study, the authors evaluated the efficacy of a brief motivational intervention (BMI) and a computerized program for reducing drinking and related problems among college students sanctioned for alcohol violations. Referred students (N = 198, 46% women), stratified by gender, were randomly assigned to a BMI or to the Alcohol 101 Plus…
Descriptors: Intervention, Sanctions, Gender Differences, Alcohol Abuse
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Skaliotis, Eleni – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
Empirical research on parental involvement in children's education often makes the assumption that levels of involvement remain fixed over time. This paper highlights evidence from a longitudinal study that half of parents of young people in Year 9 reported becoming more or less involved in their child's school life over a two-year period and…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education
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Joyce, Aaron W.; Ross, Michael J.; Vander Wal, Jillon S.; Austin, Chammie C. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2009
The present study examined differences in college students' preferences for processes of change across four kinds of problems: academic, relationship, depression, and anxiety. Two hundred eighteen undergraduates were randomly assigned to complete either an academic problems, relationship problems, depression, or anxiety Processes of Change…
Descriptors: Psychological Services, College Students, Psychotherapy, Depression (Psychology)
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