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Katz, Harvey A.; And Others – 1967
The study makes use of Rotter's (1966) hypothesis that there are consistent individual differences between people who believe in the internal control of reinforcement and those who believe in the external control of reinforcement. Students who are "internals" will believe that their behavior controls academic successes and failures and may,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior, Behavior Patterns, College Students

Turner, Robert G.; Peterson, Marsha – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Investigated the moderating effect of both private and public self-consciousness on the predictive validity of self-reported emotional expressivity. Predictions of higher self-report-criterion correlations for low public self-conscious persons were supported. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Emotional Response, Individual Differences, Overt Response

Donovan, Dennis M.; Marlatt, G. Alan – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1982
Investigated the empirical derivation of clinically and theoretically meaningful subtypes among males arrested for driving while intoxicated. Five subtypes were defined through cluster analysis of driving--attitudinal, personality, and hostility measures. Two subtypes were found to have particularly high levels of risk-enhancing traits. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cluster Analysis, Drinking, Drug Abuse
Kavanagh, Michael J.; Weissenberg, Peter – 1973
The hypothesis that individual differences in psychological differentiation are related to the perceptions of the independence of leadership behaviors was tested. After viewing a supervisor-subordinate interaction sequence on closed circuit television tape, subjects responded to questionnaires measuring their perception/judgments of the…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Individual Differences

Casey, John; McManis, Donald L. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Individual Characteristics, Individual Differences
EMERY, JOHN R.; KRUMBOLTZ, JOHN D. – 1967
FIFTY-FOUR TEST-ANXIOUS COLLEGE FRESHMEN FROM STANFORD UNIVERSITY WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO ONE OF THREE GROUPS--(1) A DESENSITIZATION GROUP WORKING WITH INDIVIDUALIZED ANXIETY HIERARCHIES, (2) A DESENSITIZATION GROUP WORKING WITH A SINGLE STANDARD HIERARCHY, AND (3) A NO-TREATMENT CONTROL GROUP. THE CRITERIA CONSISTED OF SELF-RATINGS OF ANXIETY…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
Gordon, Wayne; And Others – 1978
The course of psychosocial adjustment to cancer was examined in 105 adults with cancer of the lung, breast and skin. Half of the patients received a program of systematic psychosocial rehabilitation plus evaluation, and the other half received only an evaluation, consisting of a series of psychometric instruments and a problem-oriented structured…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Coping, Diseases
Duncan, Joan; Laird, James D. – 1976
Individual differences in self-attributions in a forced-compliance task and following manipulations of facial expressions were found to relate, suggesting that the self-attribution processes are similar and that variations among individuals in these processes are general across contents and inputs. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
Goldstein, Alan M. – Essence, 1976
Adjustment of patients with a serious medical condition to psychological stress accompanying their disorder was investigated. Long-term hemodialysis patients (N=22) and 24 patients in recovery stages of minor medical problems were experimental and control subjects. A significant relationship was found between denial and external locus of control…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Denial (Psychology), Individual Differences

Kaplan, Howard B.; Pokorny, Alex D. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1976
Findings are reported concerning the relationship between adoption of suicidal responses and antecedent negative self-attitudes. Junior high school student (N=3,148) responses to questionnaires administered three times at annual intervals. Indicated suicidal behaviors are responses (whether or not subsequently continued) to experiences of negative…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Environmental Influences, Individual Differences, Junior High School Students
Chan, Carole – 1975
Although the Southeast Asian refugees are regularly referred to only as Vietnamese, many are Cambodians, people different from the Vietnamese. It is true that Asian people have much more in common with one another than they have in common with non-Asians. While there are many attitudes and manners which Vietnamese and Cambodians share resulting…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Behavior Patterns, Cambodians, Cultural Differences
Hinton, Bernard L.; Barrow, Jeffrey C. – 1972
A study was done to investigate the relationship between a selected set of personality dimensions and the propensities of supervisors to use varying levels of both positive and negative reinforcements. Data were collected during exercises involving 129 male undergraduate business students carried out in a behavioral laboratory wherein a…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Individual Characteristics