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Directionality between Tolerance of Deviance and Deviant Behavior Is Age-Moderated in Chronically Stressed Youth
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Ridenour, Ty A.; Caldwell, Linda L.; Coatsworth, J. Douglas; Gold, Melanie A. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2011
Problem behavior theory posits that tolerance of deviance is an antecedent to antisocial behavior and substance use. In contrast, cognitive dissonance theory implies that acceptability of a behavior may increase after experiencing the behavior. Using structural equation modeling, this investigation tested whether changes in tolerance of deviance…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Youth Problems, Behavior Problems, Antisocial Behavior
Student Disengagement in Relation to Expected and Unexpected Educational Pathways
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Blondal, Kristjana S.; Adalbjarnardottir, Sigrun – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
Students' different educational pathways were examined in relation to their disengagement during adolescence. The participants were Icelandic youth (N = 832) who were followed from age 14 to 22. Based on their academic achievement at age 15 and educational attainment at age 22 they were classified into groups that took expected versus unexpected…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Adolescents, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement
Indoor Tanning and Problem Behavior
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Bagdasarov, Zhanna; Banerjee, Smita; Greene, Kathryn; Campo, Shelly – Journal of American College Health, 2008
Objective: The authors examined factors predicting college students' use of tanning beds. Participants and Methods: Undergraduate students (N = 745) at a large Northeastern university participated in the study by answering a survey measuring tanning behavior and other psychosocial variables, including sensation seeking, self-esteem, tanning image…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Undergraduate Students, Social Networks, Health Behavior
The Naive Misuse of Power: Nonconscious Sources of Sexual Harassment.
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Bargh, John A.; Raymond, Paula – Journal of Social Issues, 1995
Considers sexual harassment from the perspective of abuse of power, and discusses the possibility of having power within a situation that automatically and nonconsciously triggers a sexuality schema, just as racial or gender features automatically trigger stereotypes of that group. The possible origins of the automatic power/sex linkage and its…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories, Emotional Abuse, Interpersonal Relationship
Ambivalence and Stereotypes Cause Sexual Harassment: A Theory with Implications for Organizational Change.
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Fiske, Susan T.; Glick, Peter – Journal of Social Issues, 1995
Theorizes that workplace sexual harassment results from the complex interplay of ambivalent motives and gender stereotyping of women and jobs. It argues that ambivalence combines hostile and "benevolent" sexist motives based on paternalism, gender differentiation, and heterosexuality and that organizational context can encourage or discourage the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories, Employed Women, Hostility
Tactics of Social Influence.
Mehrabian, Albert – 1970
In this book, the principles of behavior modification are presented as a set of guidelines for identifying recurrent behavior patterns and are then applied as techniques to change various undesirable behaviors. Progressively more complex steps toward behavior modification and its social influence are cited and illustrated in chapters which deal…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories