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Direct linkRasberry, Catherine N.; Chaney, Beth H.; Housman, Jeff M.; Misra, Ranjita; Miller, Paula J. – American Journal of Health Education, 2007
The purpose of this research was to assess the frequency of nutrition label use among college students and its relationship to nutrition and label knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding diet-disease relationships, and to determine factors predictive of frequent or infrequent label use. This study utilized a cross-sectional design. Volunteer…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Nutrition, Diseases
Fish, Lynn A.; Wilson, F. Scott – College Student Journal, 2007
Although several studies have been performed, Graduate Admissions programs are still encountering difficulties uncovering criteria that will predict academic success in their programs. Researchers have analyzed Executive, full and part-time MBA programs and can only conclude that undergraduate grade point average and the GMAT are significant…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Masters Degrees
Lemelin, Jean-Pascal; Boivin, Michel; Forget-Dubois, Nadine; Dionne, Ginette; Seguin, Jean R.; Brendgen, Mara; Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E.; Perusse, Daniel – Child Development, 2007
Using a genetic design of 840 60-month-old twins, this study investigated the genetic and environmental contributions to (a) individual differences in four components of cognitive school readiness, (b) the general ability underlying these four components, and (c) the predictive association between school readiness and school achievement. Results…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Academic Achievement, Genetics, Etiology
Sari, Enver – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2007
This research was conducted in order to determine the relationships between levels of indecisiveness and their self-esteem among Turkish university students. The study was designed and implemented in 2006 with 320 voluntary university students of whom 170 were females and 150 males in Giresun, Turkey. The Personal Indecisiveness Scale (PIS;…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Esteem, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Hser, Yih-Ing; Evans, Elizabeth; Teruya, Cheryl; Huang, David; Anglin, M. Douglas – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2007
California's voter-initiated Proposition 36 offers non-violent drug offenders community-based treatment as an alternative to incarceration or probation without treatment. This article reports short-term treatment outcomes subsequent to this major shift in drug policy. Data are from 1104 individuals randomly selected from all Proposition 36…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Criminals, Drug Use, Participant Characteristics
Antshel, Kevin M.; Faraone, Stephen V.; Stallone, Kimberly; Nave, Andrea; Kaufmann, Felice A.; Doyle, Alysa; Fried, Ronna; Seidman, Larry; Biederman, Joseph – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: The aim of this study was to assess the validity of diagnosing attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in high IQ children and to further characterize the clinical features associated with their ADHD. Methods: We operationalized giftedness/high IQ as having a full scale IQ greater than or equal to 120. We identified 92 children…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Intelligence Quotient, Psychopathology, Clinical Diagnosis
Clingenpeel, Beth T.; Pianta, Robert C. – Early Education and Development, 2007
Research Findings: This study expands on previous research (Bus & van Ijzendoorn, 1988, 1992, 1997) establishing an association between the quality of mother-child interactions and reading behavior during a joint book-reading task. In a sample of 58 mother-child pairs, the quality of the relationship between mothers and their children at 36 months…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Personality Traits, Correlation
Ng, Thomas W. H.; Feldman, Daniel C. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2007
The current article provides an extension of the conceptual literature on the school-to-work transition (STWT). Specifically, we attempt to integrate this diverse literature by proposing a role identity approach to studying STWTs. Here, we suggest that an individual's work role identity plays three roles in understanding the outcomes of STWTs: as…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Self Concept, Predictor Variables, Role Theory
Freeman, Jerrid P.; Hall, Eric E.; Bresciani, Marilee J. – College Student Journal, 2007
The purpose of this quantitative research study is to identify variables that lead students to having thoughts of leaving their institution, talking with someone about leaving their institution, or taking steps to leave their institution. This attrition study identifies variables that institutional faculty, administrators, and staff can address…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Predictor Variables, School Holding Power, College Students
Galloway, Shayne – Journal of Experiential Education, 2007
Outdoor leaders function in naturalistic decision-making contexts and may be influenced by personal, social, and environmental factors in making critical decisions in the field. The experience level of the outdoor instructor is posited as a critical variable in the development of his/her decision-making and overall judgment. This research measures…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Decision Making, Outdoor Leadership, Models
Crane, Catherine; Williams, J. Mark. G.; Hawton, Keith; Arensman, Ella; Hjelmeland, Heidi; Bille-Brahe, Unni; Corcoran, Paul; De Leo, Diego; Fekete, Sandor; Grad, Onja; Haring, Christian; Kerkhof, Ad J. F. M.; Lonnqvist, Jouko; Michel, Konrad; Renberg, Ellinor Salander; Schmidtke, Armin; van Heeringen, Cornelius; Wasserman, Danuta – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2007
The associations between life events in the 12 months preceding an episode of self-poisoning resulting in hospital attendance (the index episode), and the suicide intent of this episode were compared in individuals for whom the index episode was their first, episode and in individuals in whom it was a recurrence of DSH. Results indicated a…
Descriptors: Females, Suicide, Correlation, Self Destructive Behavior
Dunton, Genevieve Fridlund; Schneider, Margaret; Cooper, Dan M. – American Journal of Health Behavior, 2007
Objective: To determine whether individual factors influenced rates of physical activity change in response to a school-based intervention. Methods: Sedentary adolescent females (N = 63) participated in a 9-month physical activity program. Weekly levels of leisure-time physical activity were reported using an interactive website. Results: Change…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Intervention, Physical Activities, Females
Brown, Sharice Angel; Arnold, David H.; Dobbs, Jennifer; Doctoroff, Greta L. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2007
The relationship between parenting and physical aggression is well established. However, less consideration has been given to parenting and relational aggression. The present study investigated four aspects of maternal parenting--overreactivity, laxness, positive affect and negative affect--and their relationships to relational aggression, in a…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Aggression, Parenting Styles, Mothers
Gobet, Fernand; Campitelli, Guillermo – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The respective roles of the environment and innate talent have been a recurrent question for research into expertise. The authors investigated markers of talent, environment, and critical period for the acquisition of expert performance in chess. Argentinian chess players (N = 104), ranging from weak amateurs to grandmasters, completed a…
Descriptors: Handedness, Games, Drills (Practice), Group Activities
Pinquart, Martin; Juang, Linda P.; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Journal of Career Development, 2004
In times of dramatic social change, new career options emerge and old options may become obsolete. We investigated predictors of change in general career aspirations and of plans to attend a university of East German adolescents from 1989 (before German unification) to 1991 and 1995, respectively, after German unification. Higher pre-unification…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Academic Ability, Adolescents, Vocational Education
