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Greenblat, Cathy Stein – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1983
Focuses on the early years of marriage, including the sexual relationship. Interviews, with 80 persons married five years or less, showed considerable variation in first-year frequencies with few normative guidelines. Despite the relatively low frequencies reported, respondents consider sex important or very important in marriage. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Interpersonal Relationship, Life Style
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St. Pierre, Richard; Warren, Carrie Lee – Journal of School Health, 1975
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Eating Habits, Habit Formation
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Pollack, Donald; Stanley, Gerald – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns
Gmelch, Walter H. – 1993
This book provides an overview of recent ideas and research on faculty stress and presents plans of action for stress reduction. Self-assessment instruments, schematic models, and exercises are used throughout the text to assist in understanding, internalizing, and applying the key concepts of stress management. Chapter 1, "Check Your Stress…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Career Planning, College Faculty
Shiffman, Saul – 1982
Outcome data on smoking cessation has emphasized that most people have difficulty not in quitting smoking, but in maintaining cessation. An attempt was made to develop a more meaningful typology of relapse-promoting situations using a sample of 183 exsmokers who called a telephone hotline seeking help to stay away from cigarettes. Two higher order…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Behavior Change
Brunson, Bradford I. – 1982
The Type A behavior pattern is defined as an action-emotion complex that can be observed in any person who is aggressively involved in a chronic, incessant struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time, and if required to do so, against the opposing efforts of other things or persons. The dimensions of this coronary-prone behavior were…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Cardiovascular System
Matthews, Doris B.; Quinn, Jimmy L. – 1981
This paper presents a problem-solving process for stress management, which is based on the premise that the ability to manage stress is a survival skill necessary for parents if they are to provide a home environment conducive to children's social, emotional, and mental growth. The materials delineate a four-stage model for the: (1) identification…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Coping, Family Relationship
Motiff, James P. – 1980
A 5-week, 12-hour course given to the community emphasized understanding and coping with stress. At the beginning of the course several inventories were administered to the students, who also completed the instruments in a follow-up procedure 10-12 weeks after the end of the seminar. The course focused on recognition of stress signals and the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Coping
Matthews, Doris B. – 1981
Several counseling methods have attempted to help individuals change their behavior patterns. Techniques that teach control of the internal functions of the mind, body, and emotions are designed to allow the individual to reach his/her potential. Alpha training is one such method that is concerned with a brain wave pattern yielding an alert,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Age Differences, Behavior Change