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Direct linkAgarwal, Deepti; Loukas, Alexandra; Perry, Cheryl L. – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
Background: Although use of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) is increasingly prevalent among young adults, little is known about predictors of ENDS initiation among this population. Aims: We examined the roles of the social environment (i.e., peer ENDS use and household ENDS use), normative beliefs (i.e., social acceptability of ENDS…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Environment, Norms, Beliefs
Evans, Heather K. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2015
Given the decline in political engagement among the electorate, especially among youth, there has been an effort to increase engagement through service-learning courses at both the high school and college levels. The research that exists regarding the effects of these courses on students is mixed. Some studies show that students become more…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Longitudinal Studies, Political Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
Richman, David M.; Dotson, Wesley H.; Rose, Chad A.; Thompson, Samuel; Abby, Layla – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2012
This study identified (a) patterns of fearful stimuli for children and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), (b) the severity of the fear, and (c) whether excessive fear or the absence of fear negatively affected the participant's quality of life. A web-based survey was used to distribute a modified and extended version of the Fear…
Descriptors: Autism, Fear, Stimuli, Severity (of Disability)
Polacek, Georgia Johnston N. L.; Hicks, Jennifer A.; Oswalt, Sara B. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2007
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection rates in the United States continue unabated among some groups, with young adults of color at greater risk than others. This study sought to determine college students' knowledge, perceptions, and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Undergraduate students (N = 443) at a large, urban Hispanic-serving…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Communicable Diseases, At Risk Persons, Student Attitudes
Download full textCosby, Arthur G.; Howard, William G. – 1976
Comprised of graphs and tables, this document presents comparisons relative to: national surveys of residential preference in the U.S. from 1948 to 1972; the trend for city preference reported in national Gallup opinion polls since 1966; preferences of blacks and whites for rural residence; preferences for large city residence from the S-81 data…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Attitudes, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
White, Inman – 1977
Objectives of this research study were (1) to determine areas of agreement and disagreement concerning the value of Future Farmers of America (FFA) contests; (2) to determine if there is a need for additional contests, deletion of some contests, or changes in contest procedures; and (3) to determine if the contest activities selected are…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Agricultural Education, Exhibits, Parent Attitudes
