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Plate, Rista C.; Fulvio, Jacqueline M.; Shutts, Kristin; Green, C. Shawn; Pollak, Seth D. – Child Development, 2018
Individuals track probabilities, such as associations between events in their environments, but less is known about the degree to which experience--within a learning session and over development--influences people's use of incoming probabilistic information to guide behavior in real time. In two experiments, children (4-11 years) and adults…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Young Children, Change Strategies
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Xiong, Shanying; Li, Xianxiong; Tao, Kun; Zeng, Nan; Ayyub, Mohammad; Peng, Qingwen; Yan, Xiaoni; Wang, Junli; Wu, Yizhong; Lei, Mingzhi – JTRM in Kinesiology, 2017
Guided by the Transtheoretical Model (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1982), this study investigated the differences of physical activity levels and correlates (i.e., self-efficacy, decisional balance, process of change) across different stages of change levels among Chinese college students. The relationships between students' physical activity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activity Level, Correlation, Self Efficacy
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Covarrubias, Rebecca; Stone, Jeff – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2015
We examined how self-monitoring (i.e., regulating one's behaviors; Snyder, 1987) relates to Latino male achievement. In Study 1, college students (N = 413) completed self-monitoring items and reported SAT math scores. As hypothesized, self-monitoring was positively correlated with achievement for Latino male students but was unrelated to…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Self Management, Change Strategies, Predictor Variables
Smith, Robert Elijah – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study was designed to examine the mediation role of self-efficacy and the moderating roles of change leadership strategy and trust on the change attitudes of job insecure employees. Using job insecurity theory (Greenhalgh, 1983), Chin & Benne's (1961) seminal classification of change leadership strategies and the tripartite model of…
Descriptors: Multiple Regression Analysis, Job Security, Self Efficacy, Correlation
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Grzesiak, Roy C.; Locke, Bill J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
Subjects were psychiatric patients assigned to a newly formed experimental ward. These results suggest that the overt behavior altered in such programs is accompanied by shifts in cognitive or "internal" aspects of psychological functioning as well. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Change Strategies, Cognitive Objectives
Jessup, B.; And Others – 1976
The possibility of alleviating migraine headaches by autogenic relaxation training, with or without hand temperature biofeedback, was assessed. The study examined five independent groups in a bi-directional control group design. Volunteer migraine sufferers served as subjects, each participating for 12 weeks. The first four weeks of the study were…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Biofeedback, Change Strategies
Moody, Lamar; Blackbourn, Joe M. – 1981
Group Interaction Scale (GIS) peer ratings were obtained on all students enrolled in an educational leadership class between July of 1976 and August of 1980. The GIS was also administered to a random sample of ten teachers who work with twenty-nine of the administrators who had taken the leadership class. Computation of a zero-order correlation…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrators, Behavior Change
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Henry, Gary T.; Mark, Melvin M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2003
Although use is a core construct in the field of evaluation, neither the change processes through which evaluation affects attitudes, beliefs, and actions, nor the interim outcomes that lie between the evaluation and its ultimate goal--social betterment--have been sufficiently developed. We draw a number of these change mechanisms, such as…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Social Sciences, Evaluation Utilization, Literature