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Zhan, Crystal – Education Economics, 2017
Informal institutions are defined as socially shared rules that guide individuals' behaviors outside of officially sanctioned channels. This paper investigates the link between individual educational attainment and education-related informal institutions by examining second-generation immigrants in the USA. I measure the education-related informal…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Behavior Standards, Educational Attainment, Informal Education
Lucas-Molina, Beatriz; Giménez-Dasí, Marta; Fonseca-Pedrero, Eduardo; Pérez-Albéniz, Alicia – School Psychology Review, 2018
This study examines the interplay between individual characteristics (social status, provictim attitudes, and family messages about conflict resolution) and classroom descriptive and injunctive norms (peer victimization behaviors and bullying-related beliefs, respectively) in explaining defending behavior. For this purpose, we used a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Behavior, Student Characteristics
Boyle, Sarah C.; Smith, Daniel J.; Earle, Andrew M.; LaBrie, Joseph W. – Journal of American College Health, 2018
Objective: Examine 1) whether observed social reinforcements (i.e., "likes") received by peers' alcohol-related social media posts are related to first-year college students' perceptions of peer approval for risky drinking behaviors; and 2) whether associations are moderated by students' alcohol use status. Participants: First-year…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Mass Media Use, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role
Ruble, Lisa A.; McGrew, John H.; Wong, Wing Hang; Missall, Kristen N. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2018
Although data-based decision making is an evidence-based practice, many special educators have difficulty applying the practice within daily routines. We applied the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to understand the influences that promote or hinder early childhood special educators' intentions to collect data. We assessed three influences on…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Data Collection, Intention, Teacher Attitudes
Jun, Mikyoung; Agley, Jon; Huang, Chunfeng; Gassman, Ruth A. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2016
The extent to which social norms (injunctive and descriptive) are associated with collegiate alcohol use--including binge drinking--has been examined at length, but studies examining the efficacy of interventions derived thereof have reported mixed outcomes. This study examines data from 5,124 college students at 13 different colleges collected by…
Descriptors: College Students, Alcohol Abuse, Intervention, Student Attitudes
McAlaney, John; Jenkins, William – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
The social norms approach is an increasingly widely used strategy of behaviour and attitude change that is based on challenging misperceptions individuals hold about their peers. Research to date has been carried out predominately in the US college system, with a focus on substance use behaviours. The aim of the current study was to explore peer…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Smoking, Drinking, Marijuana
Landry, Alicia S.; Butz, Rebecca; Connell, Carol L.; Yadrick, Kathy – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2017
Purpose/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate behaviors related to fruit and vegetable intake before and after implementation of a theory-based Farm to School pilot intervention in a rural school. Methods: Students in fifth grade at a rural elementary school were asked to complete pre- and post-test measures based on the Theory of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Food, Agricultural Production, Pretests Posttests
Walton, Andre P.; Kemmelmeier, Markus – Creativity Research Journal, 2012
Past research has frequently made the assumptions that creativity is an individual, rather than social, behavior; that the factors shaping creative behavior influence everyone in the same way; and that these factors always have the same influence regardless of the situation. This research challenges all 3 of these assumptions. In an experiment,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Social Environment, Behavior Standards, Social Behavior
White, Katherine; Wood, Maria – Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
This study examined the psychosocial factors impacting upon the rule-following behaviour of residents of a hostel providing crisis accommodation to women who are homeless. After their arrival, residents of a women's hostel (N=83) completed questionnaires assessing the theory of planned behaviour constructs of attitude, subjective norm, perceived…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Females, Questionnaires, Statistical Data
Moriano, Juan A.; Gorgievski, Marjan; Laguna, Mariola; Stephan, Ute; Zarafshani, Kiumars – Journal of Career Development, 2012
The current research aims to shed light on the role of culture in the formation of career intentions. It draws on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB; Ajzen), which has been widely employed to predict intentions, including entrepreneurial career intentions, but past research has almost exclusively been conducted in "Western" countries.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship
Shittu, Ahmed Tajudeen; Madarsha, Kamal Basha; AbduRahman, Nik Suryani Nik; Ahmad, Tunku Badariah Tunku – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
Understanding reasons why students use social media has become a major preoccupation of researchers in recent time due to the rate of its adoption among the present generation of students. Some of the few study on social media phenomenon employed a single theory as a framework in order to understand the factors that influence the acceptance of it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Social Networks, Undergraduate Students
Ingram, Gordon P. D.; Bering, Jesse M. – Child Development, 2010
Tattling, defined as the reporting to a second party of norm violations committed by a third party, is a frequent but little-studied activity among young children. Participant observation and quantitative sampling are used to provide a detailed characterization of tattling in 2 preschools (initial mean age = 4.08 years, N = 40). In these…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Young Children, Statistical Data, Preschool Education