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Sahin, Muhittin; Ifenthaler, Dirk – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
Within digitally-supported learning environments, learners need to observe themselves so that they can reflect on their strengths and weaknesses and take a step toward autonomous learning. Within the scope of this research, a technology and analytics enhanced assessment environment in which students can assess themselves was implemented and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Behavior Patterns, Learning Processes
Rivers, Thomas M. – 1981
This paper lists and describes inventionist themes that writers and writing teachers can use during rhetorical invention. It defines invention as the process whereby writers discover ideas to write about, and the inventionist as one who focuses on this discovery process, whether that focus be pedagogical or theoretical. The items included and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classification, Higher Education, Individual Characteristics
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Oresick, Robert J.; Sokol, Michael – 1979
Clinical judgement involves a search for internal consistency which can be validated by predicting responses within a protocol, or internally. Internal predictive validity assumes that one source of consistency is the individual--an assumption that was tested in a prediction task using the sentence completion test (SCT). Artificial protocols…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Individual Characteristics, Personality Assessment
Rubenstein, Carin M.; Shaver, Phillip – 1979
Before empirically based theories of loneliness can be formulated, it may be necessary to probe people's feelings, explanations, and reactions in a relatively unstructured way. Toward this end, three multiple response items relating to these issues were included in an 84-item questionnaire, published in the Spring of 1978 in several northeastern…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
Tankard, James W., Jr.; Harris, Murray – 1979
Since statistics on television viewing and television ownership suggest that this medium is a pervasive and powerful influence on most people's lives, it is potentially informative to identify and study that relative handful of people who are not regularly exposed to television, identifying their defining characteristics. In contrast to previous…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Discriminant Analysis
Birch, Leann Lipps – 1979
This discussion focuses on elements of children's immediate experience that influence their food preferences. Some evidence suggests that there may be sensitive periods early in life that are critical for the formation of food preferences and aversions. Additionally, the familiarity and the sweetness of foods appear to be important determinants of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Children, Context Effect
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Hochhauser, Mark – 1979
Researchers have long focused upon the problems of student/adolescent drug use; however, such a limited perspective may actually provide inaccurate information as to the actual nature and extent of total drug use. It may be more appropriate to emphasize a lifespan developmental perspective regarding drug abuse behaviors, insofar as drug use must…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Developmental Stages
DeLange, Janice – 1978
The relative efficacy of systematic desensitization and assertive skill training in increasing assertive responses, reducing anxiety related to being assertive, and increasing response satisfaction, was compared to two control conditions--a placebo-control (discussion) and an assessment-control. Also investigated was the effect of the subjects'…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns
Marini, David C. – 1979
The various relationships of stress arousal and stress-prone personality traits to menstrual distress were investigated in order to quantify psychophysiological arousal differences between high and low menstrual distress symptom reporters and examine differences in stress-prone personality traits between high and low menstrual distress symptom…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Behavior Patterns, Females, Individual Characteristics
Ward, Russell A.; And Others – 1984
Despite low levels of criminal victimization, older people often express greater fear of crime than others. To examine the causes and consequences of such fear, 1,185 adults aged 60 and over, were interviewed about their personal characteristics, social resources, environment, subjective well-being, and lifestyle. Results showed that older people…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Fear, Individual Characteristics, Life Satisfaction
Harris, Charles S. – 1979
Normal drinking patterns in an older population were examined by posing a series of questions directed at identifying drinking norms and practices, the social context and changes in alcohol use over time, and the ways individuals perceive alcohol and drinking. Instruments (N=3) were constructed: a schedule for structured personal interviews with…
Descriptors: Age, Alcoholic Beverages, Behavior Patterns, Drinking
Aronson, David W.; And Others – 1978
To investigate sexual aggressiveness in college-age males, a sexual experiences questionnaire was used for preselection of university males high, moderate and low in sexual aggressiveness. High and moderate males were individually interviewed by a trained male graduate psychology student, and all three groups were administered a variety of…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, College Students
Ostman, Ronald E.; Jeffers, Dennis W. – 1980
A model specifying relationships between life stage, motives for using television and the perceived reality of television was tested with data from 140 telephone interviews of adults living in Southern Illinois. The adults ranged in age from 18 to 87 years. Life stage was related to five of the 11 motives for using television: learning things,…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns
Barrett, Carol J.; Beresford, Jody M. – 1978
The determinants of widows' attitudes toward women were investigated, using social and personality variables known to discriminate attitudes in other marital status groups as well as variables reflecting the unique experiences of widowhood. The subjects were 118 urban widows, aged 29-78. Over 40 potential attitude predictors were assessed in…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Females, Individual Characteristics, Marital Status
Blake, Brian F.; And Others – 1974
Students in four metropolitan high schools participated in a survey of marijuana use. It was found that the personality traits of these early adolescents were related to the "style" of their marijuana usage, i.e., to the social conditions under which they tended to use the drug. Further, a given personality trait's relationship to the style of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Drug Abuse, Individual Characteristics, Marihuana
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