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Reed, Jerilyn Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Sexual assault has been an issue facing institutions of higher education for many years (Office of Civil Rights, 2011). Alcohol plays a role in both who have been victims of sexual assault and who have perpetrated the crime of sexual assault (Crawford, Wright, & Birchmeier, 2008). The purpose of this study was to look at sexual misconduct at…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Drinking, Rape, Victims
Pyle, Stephanie J. Asteriadis – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Gambling disorder is a behavioral addiction that disproportionally affects college students as a population group and can disrupt college careers. While gambling disorder has not traditionally been one that institutions of higher education have addressed, the rapid growth of legalized gambling in the United States and the resulting widespread…
Descriptors: Prevention, Addictive Behavior, College Students, Mixed Methods Research
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Pedrelli, Paola; Collado, Anahi; Shapero, Benjamin G.; Brill, Charlotte; MacPherson, Laura – Journal of American College Health, 2016
Objectives: Comprehensive models elucidating the intricate associations of depressive symptoms, coping motives, alcohol use, alcohol-related problems (ARPs), and gender among young adults have been scarcely examined. This study investigated relationships among these variables and the effect of gender on these pathways. Methods: College students (N…
Descriptors: College Students, Alcoholism, Drinking, Gender Differences
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Wagner, Rachel – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2015
The balance of empirical research on college men is a portrait of their maladaptive and antisocial attitudes and behaviors. Studies have demonstrated the correlation between college men's problematic behavior and adherence to gender role traditionalism. Educators have few composites of men's prosocial behavior nor the masculine ideology that…
Descriptors: College Students, Males, Masculinity, Student Adjustment
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Foster, E. Michael; Jenkins, Jade V. Marcus – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
This article reconsiders the association between childhood arts participation and cognitive and developmental outcomes. Using data from a large, nationally representative sample with extensive covariates, we employ propensity score weighting to adjust comparisons of children who do and do not participate in arts education (music and performing…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Music Activities, Theater Arts, Art Education
Tse, Marina – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research indicates that up to 65% of children diagnosed with ADHD may continue to display general behavior problems, as well as specific symptoms of ADHD, later in life. In most of the studies, ADHD college students' self-esteem is strongly aligned with their social skills. The purpose of this study was to find directions that will assist ADHD…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, College Students, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Community Colleges
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Brown, Joanne; Brown, Lorraine – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2013
This article reports findings from a qualitative (interview) study of the identity conflict experienced by five international students at a university in the south of England for whom real and perceived challenges to national self-image were shown to be unsettling. The article suggests that our cultures of origin are centrally important to our…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Well Being
Cowden, Belle Doyle – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Many online classrooms today are designed based on learner-centered principles. Implicit with this design perspective is the goal to create and facilitate a virtual learning community in which students learn from and share with each other through discussion-based computer conferencing. In the current literature, little has been shared on what…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Student Behavior, Online Courses
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Staroverova, Irina Vladimirovna – Russian Education and Society, 2010
The intensive rise of deviant consciousness and behavior in the population (including consciousness and behavior conducive to crime) has been classified rightly as one of the most dangerous "social disorders" of Russian society. Especially salient is the epidemic of "deviancy in regard to the law" in the consciousness and…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Humanities
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Lumadi, Mutendwahothe Walter – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2008
In 2004 South Africa embarked on a mission of reforming its higher education system, merging and incorporating small universities into larger institutions, and renaming all higher education institutions university. The democratic country's universities and technikons, which were incorporated with others and thus no longer exist, will be mentioned…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, College Students, Student Behavior
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Weinstock, Jeremiah; Whelan, James P.; Meyers, Andrew W.; McCausland, Claudia – Assessment, 2007
The psychometric properties of two pathological gambling (PG) screening instruments, the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) and the Massachusetts Gambling Screen-DSM-IV subscale (MAGS), were explored in a sample of college students (N = 159). Participants completed the two screening instruments, a diagnostic interview for PG, the Gambling-Timeline…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Efficacy, Validity, Psychometrics
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Cuero, Kimberley K.; Kaylor, Maria – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2010
This case study examines José, a bilingual Latino fifth-grader, and his complex and dynamic engagements in "travesuras" (mischievous behaviors). José's "travesuras" served to disassociate him from being labeled a "schoolboy." This disassociation was evident in how José: (1) renounced "school-like" work and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Grade 5, Labeling (of Persons), Case Studies
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Suinn, Richard M. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1974
This paper outlines a training program in behavior modification consultation. Undergraduates with little or no background in psychology were trained in behavioral interviewing and operant behavior modification program design. Discussion includes the issues of screening, training procedures, and the effects achieved in actual consultation by the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, College Students
Levenson, Ann M. – Journal of College Placement, 1982
Discusses ten common psychological roadblocks to job hunting including arbitrary deadlines, post-graduation letdown, isolation, lack of structure, neglecting information interviews, and ambivalence about getting a job. Presents strategies to help job-seekers surmount these obstacles. (RC)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Career Counseling, College Students, Counseling Techniques
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Lamanna, Michael – Journal of Drug Education, 1981
Uses survey and interview data and recent findings to consider the marijuana problem in the following areas: marijuana use at an early age and for negative reasons; drug effects leading to learning impairment and school behavior problems; young people lacking accurate information; and usage leading to other drug use. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, College Students, Drug Abuse, High School Students