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Darwin Leavell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Gender inequality limits women's ability to make decisions in their best interest and behave independently of the male patriarch in the home. These inequalities can result in limited access to healthcare, support, services, and positive outcomes from receiving medical care. In addition, women deemed to have a lower social status than men do not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Sex Fairness, Academic Aspiration
Robinson, Carly D.; Gallus, Jana; Lee, Monica G.; Rogers, Todd – Grantee Submission, 2019
It is common for organizations to offer awards to motivate individual behavior, yet few empirical studies evaluate their effectiveness in the field. We report a randomized field experiment (N = 15,329) that tests the impact of two common types of symbolic awards: pre-announced awards (prospective) and surprise awards (retrospective). The context…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Awards, Attendance, Incentives
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Boileau, Catherine; Rashed, Selim; Sylla, Mohamed; Zunzunegui, Maria Victoria – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2008
We developed an instrument for HIV/AIDS behavioral surveillance applicable to youth living in urban West Africa. The instrument includes a comprehensive set of constructs borrowed from the sociocognitive theory of planned behavior as well as measures of parental and peer communication An exploratory (n = 189) and validation sample (n = 342) of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Urban Youth, Measures (Individuals), Questionnaires