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Snow, Janeanne T.; Harris, Mary B. – Journal of Adolescence, 1989
Investigated incidence of eating disorders in Pueblo Indian and Hispanic high school students (N=95). Found no ethnic differences. Majority of girls reported wanting to lose weight, being worried about weight, and indulging in binge eating. Nine girls reported eating habits consistent with bulimia. Few boys indicated concerns about weight or…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, Anorexia Nervosa, Body Weight
Van Hook, Mary P. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1993
Reports results of three gender expectations questions added to the Monitoring the Future Project questionnaires of 1977, 1983, and 1989, which were administered to high school seniors nationally. Findings from white rural teens indicate that their gender role expectations were changing but lagged behind social and economic realities. Males held…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Change, Economic Change, Expectation
Miller, Maurice; Loukellis, Irene – 1982
A revised form of the Scale of Children's Attitudes Toward Handicaps (SCATE), which provides a breakdown of attitudes toward specific disabilities, was administered to 332 children in grades 2 through 6. The SCATE was shown to be reliable. The ranking of most positive attitudes to least was: nonhandicapped, learning disabled, hearing impaired,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Measures, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities
Kuvlesky, William P. – 1980
If youth employment programs for rural areas are to be successful in helping rural youth to find employment that is both desirable and developmental, the diversity of ability, skills, needs, life goals, and particular circumstances of these young people must be taken into consideration. According to a 1976 study by Kuvlesky and Edington, there is…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Counselors, Employment Opportunities

Arutyunyan, Y. V. – 1976
Since there is no private property in the Soviet Union, social status is largely determined by education. Consequently, the educational levels of rural youth in all the Union Republics are nearly identical, while among the older generations of rural inhabitants there are still definite differences. In Estonia, for example, the educational level of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences

Farris, M. Cynthia; And Others – Research in Rural Education, 1985
Examines how well structural and social psychological variables explain occupational aspirations of 447 rural, low-income southern youth during preadolescence, adolescence, and young adulthood (contacts were made in 1969, 1975, and 1979). Finds results vary from Ginsburg's theory of three stages with occupational expectations declining rapidly…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Career Choice, Economically Disadvantaged

Close, David – Canadian Journal of Education, 1984
Describes the results of survey of 1,100 grade 5, 8, and 11 students to determine their knowledge of and attitudes toward world affairs. Notes that age, sex, and class were the most important correlates and that children were only marginally more knowledgeable about domestic politics than international affairs. (SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 11
Edwards, Ruth W. – 1997
This paper compares data on the prevalence of alcohol and other drug use by students in grades 8 and 12 across four sizes of communities. Data from the American Drug and Alcohol Survey (ADAS), administered in approximately 250 communities during the 1992-93 and 1993-94 school years, were analyzed for four community sizes: very small (population…
Descriptors: Community Size, Drinking, Females, Grade 12
McCracken, J. David; And Others – 1991
This paper examines the relationships between high school curriculum (academic, general, and vocational) and students' occupational and educational aspirations in rural schools. The study was conducted in Ohio and then replicated in Southwest Georgia. In Ohio, 767 predominantly white rural senior students completed a questionnaire and the…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Preparation, Employment Level, High Schools
Saltiel, John – 1980
Questionnaire data gathered from 142 high school students in a rural Montana town were used to identify the sources of influence in setting occupational and educational goals and to analyze the amounts of information transmitted from various categories of significant others. Results showed that for both occupation and education, peers and,…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment, Extracurricular Activities
Mason, Kristine; And Others – 1980
A review of literature and research on rural education in England indicated declining enrollments coupled with severe government restraints on public expenditures are impacting upon the maintenance and orientation of rural English schools. Investigation of research on the education of girls with specific reference to academic achievement and work…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Stuart, Nina G.; Dunkelberger, J. E. – 1974
Composed entirely of statistical tables, this report documents historical change in the residential projections of Northeast Alabama youth. Comparing 1968 data with 1972 data, tabulations are presented by race (black and white), sex, and place of residence (large city, small city, town and village, open country nonfarm and farm) for the following…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Attitude Change, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
Kerfoot, James F. – 1969
The Purdue Perceptual-Motor Survey, a standardized test of perceptual-motor ability, was administered to 98 disadvantaged rural 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders. Comparisons between the mean scores of the disadvantaged sample and the norm group, and within the group of disadvantaged children, were made on the basis of both the total test scores and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Body Image, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 4
Schwarzweller, Harry K. – 1976
Comparing survey responses of U.S. rural youth (1,142 males and 1,148 females) with those of Norwegian rural youth (660 males and 650 females at the comprehensive school level and 237 males and 192 females at the secondary level), youth career orientations were analyzed in terms of career desiderata and sex differentials, social class origins, and…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Career Choice, Career Planning, Comparative Analysis
Clay, Daniel C. – 1976
Using data obtained from recent cross-national and longitudinal studies, the link between family influences and the traditional patterns of school achievement were assessed in terms of rural educational mobility and sex differentials within the context of the "sponsored" system of Norway's schools and the "contest" system…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences