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Elias, Maurice J.; Kress, Jeffrey S. – Journal of School Health, 1994
Describes a classroom-based social decision-making intervention to promote health and prevent problem behaviors. The approach unites social-cognitive, affective, behavioral, and social relationship areas with critical thinking skills important for academic achievement. Because middle school students are high risk for negative health outcomes, they…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior
Dawes, Mary E.; Horan, John J.; Hackett, Gail – 1997
A study evaluated experimentally a technology education program designed to provide mastery experiences described in Bandura's self-efficacy theory (1986) and predicted to improve career decision making. Seventh graders (n=97) and eighth graders (n=72) were stratified on grade level and randomly assigned either to a commercially published…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development
Day, Michael Andrew; Luzzo, Darrell Anthony – 1997
A study evaluated the effects of Strong Interest Inventory (SII) completion and participation in a theoretically based model of SII feedback/interpretation on the social cognitive career beliefs of 99 first-year students at a southwestern university. The Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale--Short Form (CDMSES-SF) measured each participant's…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Beliefs, Career Choice, Career Counseling