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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Peer influence"”.
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The Effect of Peer Influence on Student Motivation
… around. Analysis of previous research shows that peer motivation can significantly improve a teenager’s motivation to participate in physical education or physical activity. The purpose of this synthesis was to review the literature on the effect of peer influence on a student’s motivation to …
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Peer Influence: A Method to Help Manage Stress
… that was found was to be developed into a “peer influence” program to help prevent the workers from experiencing chronic stress symptoms.</p> <p><strong>Method:</strong> From research it was determined that there is a significant difference between middle managers’ and blue-collar workers’ …
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Determinants of risky decision-making: What is peer influence?
… an understanding into contextual factors that influence decision-making, focusing on the effects of peers, age, and gender. Article 1 (Chapter 2) reports on a single study where participants completed a delay-discounting task either alone, or in the presence of a same-aged peer of the same …
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Explaining School-Based Aggression: A Situational Analysis of Peer Influence
… examines the situational role of aggressive peers in the explanation of school-based aggression. Peer influence research has traditionally been limited by the neglect of person-environment interactions, the failure to specify and test plausible causal mechanisms, and the need for …
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The effects of peer influence on college student decision making
… of college on students illustrate the effects of peers on student attitudes and behavior. Likewise, college administrators view peers as a major source of influence on students. Despite awareness of peers as a significant source of influence on students, little research has been conducted to …
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Acculturation, peer influence, and academic achievement among Hispanic descent early adolescents
… to examine the relations between acculturation, peer influence, and academic achievement among Hispanic early adolescents. The study utilized an existing data set. The data were based on a survey which was constructed by the principal investigators (Carlson, Lain, Schott, & Uppal, 1998). The …
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Does Peer Influence Have An Impact On Young People’s Drinking Patterns?
… person’s development is involvement with their peers. This is really evident during adolescence as teenagers develop a sense of independence from their families. As they grow older they are inclined to be re warded by the recognition and acceptance of their peers than their parents and other …
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Ethnicity, qualifications, and peer influence: Relative effects in a simulated hiring decision
… study sought to build on that design, adding the influence of peers as a possible way to reduce this discrimination in hiring.</p> <p>Participants viewed two résumés varying in qualifications, one belonging to a seemingly Anglo candidate and one belonging to a seemingly Arab candidate. They chose …
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Belief propagation analysis in two-player games for peer-influence social networks
… value, which indicts the willingness to be influenced by the peers. Agents communicate in stochastic pairwise interactions with their neighbors. A dynamic, two player game is formulated whereby each player strategically controls the placement of one stubborn agent over time in order to …
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Exploring the design and analysis of complex experiments: Selective randomization and peer influence
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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The mediating effect of resistance to peer influence on identity and future outlook by friendship quality in adolescence
… their behavior. In fact, this susceptibility to peer influence can lead adolescents to engage in risky behavior rather than consider the future consequences of their actions. Despite the large body of literature that delineates peer influence and its effect on adolescent behavior, researchers …
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Acculturation, Peer Influence, Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies, and Alcohol Use and Related Problems among Asian and Pacific Islander College Students
… (APIA) college students. Both acculturation and peer influence have been identified as factors contributing to variations in drinking behavior among this population. However, less is known about the experience of alcohol-related problems. The current study assessed the use of alcohol protective …
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Why and How Organizational Members Encourage Their Peer Coworkers to Voluntarily Exit the Organization: An Investigation of Peer-Influence Exit Tactics
… members use various tactics to encourage their peer coworkers to voluntarily exit their organizations. These tactics are known as peer-influence exit tactics. What has been missing from the literature is clarity about the factors that influence organizational members' use of peer-influence exit …
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AN EXAMINATION OF THE IMPACT OF POSITIVE NORMATIVE CULTURE AND INTENTIONAL POSITIVE PEER INFLUENCE ON STUDENT ATTITUDES, POSITIVE BEHAVIORS, AND ACHIEVEMENT IN READING AND MATH
… normative culture and intentional positive peer influence have within a Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP) on students’ attitudes toward schooling, positive behaviors, and achievement in reading and math as measured by Plato FASTRACK, a skills-assessment courseware that …
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Black Youth Educational Under-Achievement Problem: How Peer Influence, Social Attitudes, Education Policy, & Family Circumstance Unite to Maintain this Problem in the Ontario Public School System
This research paper is concerned with the problem of black youths educational underachievement in Ontario public schools. The general aim of the thesis is to demonstrate that this problem is not one that education policy makers are interested in finding a fix for, even though it has been a mainstay …
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Peer Influences on Risk-taking in Middle Childhood
… school-aged children occur during unsupervised peer activities, but peer influences on risky behavior in preadolescence remain under-investigated. We examined peer context effects on reported risk-taking, identified predictors of peer influence, and compared peer influence in high- and …
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Personal And Social Factors In Risk-Taking Behaviors Of Emerging Adults
… and social factors such as sensation seeking, peer influence, perceived general resistance to peer influence, perceived self-efficacy to resist risky behavior, and emotion regulation. The participants were 427 emerging- adult, undergraduate students 18 to 25 years of age (who were) enrolled in …
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