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Adams, G. R. – Human Development, 1977
This paper reviews research on physical attractiveness from a dialectical-interactional perspective and attempts to examine the relationship between outer appearance and inner psychological characteristics from a developmental perspective. (BD)
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Evaluation Criteria, Individual Psychology, Interaction Process Analysis

Hawes, Leonard C. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1973
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Theory

Edwards, Kevin J.; Hershberger, Paul J.; Russell, Richard K.; Markert, Ronald J. – Journal of American College Health, 2001
Examined the contributions of positive social support and negative social exchange in the relationship between stress and health symptoms. College student surveys indicated that negative social exchange significantly predicted physical symptoms, while positive social support did not. The relationship between negative social interaction and…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Life Events
Anderson, Linda – 2000
The relationship between life history, gender, and the discourse of modernization was examined from the perspective of a researcher with extensive experience performing evaluations about modernization within human services in Denmark. Three stories about site-based management in two human service institutionsa youth center and a boarding school…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bias, Biographies, Comparative Analysis
Young, Angela M.; Cady, Steven; Foxon, Marguerite J. – Human Resource Development Review, 2006
Issues of gender and mentoring are explored through several theoretical lenses--similarity-attraction paradigm, power dependence, social exchange, biological, and psychological theories--to provide a more comprehensive view of mentoring from a gender-based perspective. Issues related to gender and mentoring presented in past mentoring research and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Mentors, Gender Issues, Gender Differences
Neale, Anne Victoria – 1986
A study was conducted to examine the applicability of social comparison and social exchange theories to the family unit. One part of that study concentrated on the effect of the belief that one's parents favored or did not facor oneself over the sibling. College students (N=216) from two-child families were asked to indicate their perception of…
Descriptors: Birth Order, College Students, Family Relationship, Helping Relationship
Keedy, John L.; Achilles, Charles M. – 1982
A study of how principals in effective schools set norms for teacher behavior, student achievement, and educational goals used data from six elementary schools in Tennessee that achieved scores on standardized reading tests substantially higher than scores predicted on the basis of the students' socioeconomic levels. Four primary norm-setting…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrator Role, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Green, Thomas F.
The author raises questions in analyses of educational policy issues and suggests possible answers to them. The questions concern the nature of changes in the educational system from a given proposed policy change, the magnitude of such change, and the length of time needed to secure the anticipated magnitude of change. Competency-based education…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Benefits, Educational Change
Swap, Walter C.; Rubin, Jeffrey Z. – 1980
The construct Interpersonal Orientation (IO) refers to the degree to which a person is responsive to the interpersonal aspects of his relationships with other people. A self-report measure of IO was devised whose construct validity was supported by correlational data. Two experiments were conducted to assess the potential usefulness of IO in…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Cooperation, Disclosure
Nye, F. Ivan – 1977
This paper takes a step toward the construction of a general social theory. As the author points out, such a theory must deal with the interplay of social organizations, social movements and social institutions, and the interaction between them and individuals. The author hints that a theory of choice and exchange may some day meet these…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Beliefs, Decision Making, Family (Sociological Unit)

Solomon, Kenneth – Gerontologist, 1982
Examines social factors that lead to the development of learned helplessness in elderly persons in the health care setting, including stereotyping elderly by health care professionals, effects of unequal interpersonal exchange, and behaviors associated with sick and healer roles. Discusses programatic and educational prophylaxis and solutions to…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Health Personnel, Health Services, Helplessness

Dowd, James J. – Journal of Gerontology, 1980
Extends earlier work on aging as a process of exchange by focusing on the issue of exchange rates and how they are negotiated. Access to power resources declines with age, placing the old person in the position of negotiating from weakness. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Conflict, Gerontology
Holst, John D. – 2002
This book explores the relationship between adult education and social change and argues that it is vital for all adult educators to continuously engage radical theory in their teaching, reassess radical adult education's doubting and abandonment of the Marxist tradition in favor of postmodernism and radical pluralism, and seek to reinject the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Citizen Participation
Bandura, Albert – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
This article examines health promotion and disease prevention from the perspective of social cognitive theory. This theory posits a multifaceted causal structure in which self-efficacy beliefs operate together with goals, outcome expectations, and perceived environmental impediments and facilitators in the regulation of human motivation, behavior,…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Health Promotion, Self Efficacy, Prevention
Umbach, Paul D. – Review of Higher Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of the use of contingent faculty on undergraduate education. This study presents three research questions: (1) To what degree do contingent faculty members engage students in good practices less frequently than their tenured and tenure-track counterparts?; (2) What effect does the proportion of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Individual Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Practices