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Peer reviewedHoward, George S.; Myers, Paul R. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1990
Discusses why agentic and idiographic approaches (in combination with more typical nomothetic, nonagentic studies) may enhance the predictive accuracy of psychological experiments. Presents study on exercise behavior of 42 college student subjects and analyzes it from 3 perspectives: nonagentic-nomothetic, nonagentic-idiographic, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Exercise, Higher Education
