The research findings of most studies on student behavior problems have shown that these behaviors can be reduced to four major clusters of interrelated characteristics--conduct disorder, personality disorder, inadequacy-immaturity and socialized delinquency. Discusses these behaviors and some research on behavior change. (Author/RK)

The primary research emphasis of School to College: Opportunities for Post Secondary Education (SCOPE) is to analyze and report the interrelationships of yearly data in such ways as to help answer questions about why different students behave and believe as they do, and how these actions and attitudes influence the decision-making process. For…

This booklet reviews several research studies in light of the possibility of identifying certain behavioral characteristics and the relationship of the characteristics to vehicle operator performance. Focus is on implications for driver education. A short introductory section describes the development of the Mann Inventory for categorizing…

The document describes a field study to investigate the relationship between altruism and blood donating behavior among members of a large midwestern college community. Altruistic behavior is interpreted as combining three motivations: (1) reward-cost, also referred to in terms of behavior as social exchange; (2) social responsibility and…