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Suarez-Balcazar, Yolanda; Early, Amy R.; Garcia, Claudia; Balcazar, Daniel; Arias, Dalmina L.; Morales, Miguel – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Walking is correlated with both improved physical and emotional health. However, walking behavior is often heavily influenced by environmental conditions. The goal of this study was to examine actual and perceived walkability safety and the relationship between perceived walkability safety and self-rated levels of walkability participation,…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Traffic Safety, Public Health, Neighborhoods
DeBoer, Jennifer – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
This paper gathers and analyzes self-reported user behavior data for public computers installed in varied neighborhoods in India to explore the relationship between environmental factors such as urbanicity and reported usage behaviors. There is evidence of large differences in usage behavior between urban and non-urban sites. Children at urban…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Neighborhoods, Behavior Patterns, Computers

Sadalla, Edward K.; Stea, David – Environment and Behavior, 1978
Introduces this special issue devoted to the psychology of urban life by explaining the two approaches of study, the ecological and the sociostructural, and by briefly describing each paper presented. (MA)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Environmental Education, Environmental Influences, Psychological Needs
Lieber, Michael – Urban Anthropology, 1976
Notes that the street-based commitments and engagements of young black men in Port-of-Spain, largely reflect their intention to seek and to design certain sorts of sociality. (Author)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Behavior Patterns, Blacks, Ethnography

Rapoport, Amos – Environment and Behavior, 1978
Concepts derived from general man-environment system (MES) models are applied to the specific problem of nomadic sedentarization. The analysis focuses on the manner in which residential mobility may function as a central element in nomadic cultures. (Author/MA)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Environmental Education, Environmental Influences, Land Settlement

Ottensmann, John R. – Urban Life, 1978
High degrees of neighboring were related to both a high density urban environment and a lower or working class population. However, due to the strong relationship between class and environment, the individual impacts of these factors could not be untangled. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Environmental Influences, Ethnography, Social Class
McCauley, Clark R. – 1970
This paper briefly discusses three studies aimed at exploring the overload hypothesis posited by Stanley Milgram. That hypothesis suggests that impoverished social interaction in the city is an adaptation to overload of interpersonal contacts. The three studies examine various aspects of the phenomenon using different methodologies. Comparing city…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Field Studies, Interpersonal Relationship

Sadalla, Edward K. – Environment and Behavior, 1978
Reviews evidence which indicates that the sheer size of an urban center has important social and psychological consequences. Available literature suggests that size combined with structural differentiation is related to psychological and behavioral variables such as anomymity, deindividuation, deviance, personality development, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Environmental Education, Environmental Influences, Land Settlement

Milgram, Stanley – Science, 1970
Suggests that human adaptations to urban overload create characteristic qualities of city life that can be measured. Studies are cited which offer insights into (1) the behavior patterns of city-dwellers, (2) their perception of social responsibility, (3) the "atmosphere" of great cities, (4) the tempo of life, and (5) cognitive maps of cities.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Dropouts, Human Relations, Social Environment
Harkins, Arthur M.; Woods, Richard G. – 1969
Indian leaders in Minneapolis are frequently those Indians who are in favor with the non-Indian population; who are employed in the poverty program area; and who have assumed leadership roles for the benefit of non-Indians, self, and select cronies. As Indian spokesman, they have opposed public assistance in the form of educational programs and…
Descriptors: Activism, Adjustment (to Environment), American Indians, Behavior Patterns

Griffin, Robert M., Jr.; And Others – 1979
In the conceptual scheme for this research study, urban environments were viewed as related to personal well-being by control-seeking and support-seeking behaviors and the psychological consequences of obtaining these goals. Measures of predispositions to these behaviors were found to be related to observed behavior variables. Predispositions to…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Family Environment, Health, Locus of Control

Bruml, Hana – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1972
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Black Youth, Lateral Dominance
Dayton Human Relations Commission, OH. – 1966
Southern Appalachians who had migrated to East Dayton, Ohio, neighborhoods were studied to determine group characteristics, the degree of urban adjustment, and problem areas in social behavior and culture conflict. Interviews were conducted with 5 community leaders, 5 area students who attended a workshop on urban adjustment of migrants, and 5…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Culture Conflict, Economically Disadvantaged
Schoggen, Maxine – DARCEE Reports and Papers (George Peabody Coll. for Teachers), 1969
The purpose of this study was to generate a library of 198 specimen records of the behavior of 24 3-year-old children in different socioeconomic environments: low income urban, low income rural, and middle income urban. (A specimen record provides a continuous narrative in natural language of the behavior of an individual together with the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Data Collection, Environmental Research, Family Environment
Ley, David – 1974
While the earth's geography is well known, vast sections of the human landscape are considered to be unsurveyed by scientific explores; In this monograph the world of black America is studied. The boundaries and patterns of a black neighborhood in inner Philadelphia are charted, and its behavioral and environmental characteristics identified. Such…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Community, Black Influences, Cognitive Processes
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