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Woosley, Mary Ann – Communication: Journalism Education Today (C: JET), 1978
Examines characteristics of today's teenagers and discusses their buying power and buying patterns. (GT)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Consumer Economics, Demography

Johnson, Deborah Hazel; Sedlacek, William E. – Journal of the NAWDAC, 1981
Compared freshmen (N=2180) who were interested in different types of counseling, or indicated no interest, on a variety of attitudinal and demographic items. Results indicated that students who showed different counseling interests as incoming freshmen could also be differentiated on other variables (political and social attitudes, college…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Counseling
Brown, Sandra A. – 1983
Alcoholism research has independently focused on background characteristics and alcohol-related expectations, e.g., social and physical pleasure, reduced tension, and increased assertiveness, as important variables in identifying high risk individuals. To assess the utility of alcohol reinforcement expectations as predictors of drinking patterns,…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Alcoholism, Background, Behavior Patterns

Prendergast, Michael L. – Journal of American College Health, 1994
Reviews recent research on college students' substance abuse, discussing the nature and extent of substance use and examining the effect of demographics and personality, year in college, grade point average, residence, motivation, and attitudes. Suggestions for coping with problems of campus alcohol use are offered. (Author/SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alcohol Abuse, Behavior Patterns, College Students
Rehberg, Richard A. – 1976
A five-year, four-wave, longitudinal study of 2,788 youth from seven public and parochial, urban and suburban school systems in the southern tier of New York provided data, through survey questionnaires, for a comparative analysis of students entering two-year and four-year colleges, and students who terminated their formal education with a high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Behavior Patterns, College Students