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Paulson, Patricia – Journal of the American College Health Association, 1973
The purpose of the study was to investigate the attitudes and practices toward drugs by users and nonusers at Queensborough Community College and the relationship of these attitudes and practices to selected psychosocial factors. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Data Analysis, Drug Education
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Penner, Wes; Zingle, Harvey – High School Journal, 1973
Study attempts to determine the personality characteristics of high school students with an accent on two stereotypes, hippies'' and straights''. (RK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Data Analysis, High School Students, Individual Characteristics
Jacobs, Keith W.; Galvin, Kathryn Sue – Southern Journal of Educational Research, 1974
In order to differentiate college fraternity and sorority members from non-members, 86 undergraduate students were administered the Eysenck Personality Inventory, Rotter's Internal External Control Scale, Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale, and a biographical data blank. (Editor)
Descriptors: Fraternities, Personality Assessment, Research Methodology, Sex Differences
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Cohen, L.; And Others – Educational Review, 1972
This present study takes up the theme of activism in student-tutor relationships and explores a number of personality correlates of students' preferences for active or passive classroom relationships with college staff. (Author)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Correlation, Educational Environment, Personality Assessment
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Hanusa, Barbara Hartman; Korn, James H. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1975
The present studies were designed to gather data on student preferences for p-f grading and to determine some of the characteristics of students whoprefer one system over another. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Pass Fail Grading, Personality Assessment, Research Methodology
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Labouvie, Gisela V.; Baltes, Paul B. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1973
Findings are interpreted in the framework of adolescent egocentrism and discussed both in terms of their implications for the study of adolescent socialization and the study of perceived age changes. (Authors)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, High School Students, Intelligence
Reichard, Donald J.; McArver, Patricia P. – 1976
Information collected on the 1,312 freshmen who entered the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the fall of 1975 indicates that the average freshman is 18 years of age and that 78 percent are female, 96 percent are single, and 74 percent reside in dormitories. Other items of information include their academic potential and financial…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Freshmen, Expectation, Family Characteristics
Hensley, Anne – 1970
This study examines the attitudes which black high school students hold toward other blacks when they speak standard English and when they speak black English. Tenth-grade black students listened to recordings of black speakers, each using both standard English and black English for the same text. The students were asked to judge the speakers on…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, Black Dialects, Comparative Analysis
Rasor, Lori T.; Rasor, Richard A. – 1998
A study was conducted on community college students in order to determine the correlational values among the variables of test anxiety and study behavior, and the student characteristics of age, gender, and ethnicity. Students enrolled in introductory psychology and English classes at American River College and Sacramento City College in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Black Students, Community Colleges