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Eilam, Efrat; Trop, Tamar – Education and Urban Society, 2014
The present study revisits a subfield of environmental education: significant life experiences, which studies the influences that shape the development of environmental stewardship. In the present study, we examine the effect of various formative experiences on a group of adults and analyze the role of school, as a formative influence on the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, School Role, Factor Analysis, Attitude Measures
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Lampert, Shlomo I.; Tziner, Aharon – Social Behavior and Personality, 1985
A voting behavior model hypothesizing voting intention as an intervening variable which mediates the relationship between voter attitudes and voting behavior was examined in the framework of the general election in Israel. Voter attitudes were assessed via a new attitude scaling device. The model was tested primarily via discriminant analysis.…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Behavior Patterns, Discriminant Analysis
Privette, Gayle – 1982
Peak performance in the death crisis as a critical incident of creative response to the awareness of one's own or another person's death is the concern of this report. The topology of peak performance in the death crisis was examined in an investigation of retrospective self-reports of 20 adult respondents and a factor structure of peak…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Behavior Patterns, Coping
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Terry, Deborah J.; Hogg, Michael A. – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1996
Two studies provided support for the proposal that the role of norms in attitude-behavior relations can be useful reconceptualized for the perspective of social identity/self- categorization theory. Study one examined group norms as they influenced subjects to engage in regular exercise. Study two examined group norms as they influenced subjects…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Behavior