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Nelson, Toben F.; LaBrie, Richard A.; LaPlante, Debi A.; Stanton, Michael; Shaffer, Howard J.; Wechsler, Henry – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2007
Gambling on college and professional sports and the influence of attending colleges with differing levels of "sports interest" were examined among athletes, sports fans, and other students (N = 10,559) at 119 colleges in the United States using multilevel statistical analysis. Athletes and fans reported more sports gambling compared to…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, College Athletics, Athletes, Statistical Analysis
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Rice, Joy K.; Redding, Juliette L. – Youth and Society, 1975
Results do not support the characterization of the radical activist student as the brighter, better adjusted, more task-oriented individual, and supports previous finding that these students are neither the social and psychological elite nor misfits of their time. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Activism, College Students, Group Behavior, Higher Education
Patchen, Martin; And Others – 1975
The relative importance of factors such as student characteristics, prior contact with the other race, opportunity for contact in the present situation, and conditions of inter-racial contact are examined in order to determine how they predict the social outcomes of inter-racial contact in high schools. Multiple regression analyses are performed…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Black Students, Group Behavior