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Sanentz, Shahe – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this research is to understand the information seeking and information utilization behaviors of Armenian-English adult bilinguals, while paying particular attention to the contextual and experiential as well as to the affective and motivational aspects involved. At a meta-theoretical level, the study is rooted primarily in the…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Bilingualism, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language)
Stephens, Nicole M.; Markus, Hazel Rose; Fryberg, Stephanie A. – Psychological Review, 2012
The literature on social class disparities in health and education contains 2 underlying, yet often opposed, models of behavior: the individual model and the structural model. These models refer to largely unacknowledged assumptions about the sources of human behavior that are foundational to research and interventions. Our review and theoretical…
Descriptors: Prevention, Behavior Patterns, Individual Characteristics, Behavior Change

Zetlin, Andrea G. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1993
The sociocultural context of the lives of five Hispanic American and five Anglo learning-disabled adolescents was studied over a school year to determine everyday stressors and coping strategies. In addition to the typical concerns of adolescents, cultural conflicts and learning handicapped status are major sources of stress. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anglo Americans, Behavior Patterns, Context Effect
Pedersen, Paul – 1981
Symbolic meaning expressed by Chinese language characters is helpful to non-Chinese persons in understanding Chinese culture. The implicit metaphors in Chinese characters present pictographic descriptions of the meaning in the form of a story, situation, or symbol which places the otherwise abstract concept in a cultural context. All languages…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Cross Cultural Training
Fyans, Leslie J., Jr.; Maehr, Martin L. – 1977
This study deals with attributional theory, a factor of special concern in achievement theory, which focuses on specific behavior as caused by the subject's attributions to the perceived causes of such behavior. This study investigated whether an individual's attributional biases were predictive of task selections he or she made. Furthermore, it…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement, Attribution Theory, Behavior