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Peer reviewedKreuter, Marshall W. – Journal of School Health, 1976
The author presents a strategy for changing health behavior by developing a sense of personal responsibility in the participant through a process of (1) personally defining the concept of health, (2) self-rating one's health status, and (3) deciding which aspects of poor health the subject is willing to change. (MB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Health Behavior, Health Education, Health Needs
Schnidman, Robert E.; Layne, Christopher – 1980
Group assertion training has employed a variety of techniques including bibliotherapy, behavioral rehearsal, and didactic lecture presentations. Whether didactic information affects behavior, structure, and/or self-evaluation is unknown, and it is not clear whether behavioral practice enhances the effects of didactic training upon behavior,…
Descriptors: Adults, Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification
Riggs, Ronald C.; And Others – 1978
The incidence and extent of irrational beliefs in the obese were investigated as well as subsequent changes in such beliefs as a result of participation in a self-monitored weight control program. Subjects were 53 females who were a minimum of 10 pounds and an average of 32 pounds overweight. The obese sample was administered the Irrational…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Beliefs, Body Weight, College Students
Peer reviewedTurner, David N.; Saunders, Danny – Small Group Research: An International Journal of Theory, Investigation, and Application, 1990
Observed 2 Gamblers Anonymous (GA) groups in South Wales over a 12-month period. Determined 2 broad consequences arose from encountering fellow sufferers: acceptance of diagnosis and commitment to recovery and to will of GA, or rejection of the diagnosis with the knowledge that they are returning to the outside world with a reconstituted…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Foreign Countries, Group Counseling, Group Therapy
Eckstein, Judy Pettigrew; Eckstein, Daniel Gene – 1979
The Adventures in Attitudes (AIA) program is a 30-hour structured experiential seminar developed to help participants create positive attitudes and overcome negative ones. Effectiveness of AIA in promoting a positive self concept and moving an individual from an external to an internal locus of control was investigated. Adult subjects (N=6) in the…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Congruence (Psychology)
Levin, Susan – 1975
The educational and pyschological effects of the practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on secondary school students were examined. A course including TM technique was taught to two public high school classes of 30 volunteers each. One class took the TM course for both semesters; the other took an alternative course in self-development for the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Educational Benefits, Personality Assessment
