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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Positive behaviors"”.
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Socially Positive Behaviors as Self-Handicapping
… taken to protect an individual's insecure positive reputation when future success is uncertain. Present literature operationalizes self-handicapping narrowly, focusing on socially negative behaviors such as drinking and procrastination. The current research sought to broaden the …
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Establishing Persistent and Positive Behaviors Among Military Veterans in Distress: Factors contributing to successful change in the face of challenges.
… placed special emphasis on the importance of positive interactions with faculty and with student peers. Chronological and experiential maturity of these students with a military background were noted contrasts with traditional undergraduate students, and many reported challenges related to …
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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
… methods case study was to examine the impact positive 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 …
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Exploring the Digital Literacy Divide Among American Teens: Influences of Parent Education, Gender and Race
… gender and race with U.S. teenagers’ high-risk behaviors, positive behaviors and self-efficacy when it comes to digital literacy. The analysis found a statistically significant effect of gender, race, and parental education on high-risk behaviors, positive behaviors and self-efficacy. Notably, …
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Amygdala circuits underlying valence-specific behaviors
… stimuli evoke a set of distinct stereotyped behaviors, which can be categorized as negative and positive valence-related behaviors, respectively. The stereotypic nature of negative and positive valence-related behaviors suggests that threatening and rewarding stimuli engage evolutionarily …
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Religion and economic growth : an analysis at the city level.
… certain religious beliefs stimulate people's positive behaviors and hence increase productivity. We also find that religious pluralism is positively correlated with economic growth.
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Implementation, Outcomes, And Perceived Effectiveness Of Positive Behavioral Interventions And Supports (Pbis) In A Title I School: A Program Evaluation
… subjected to exclusionary discipline practices. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) implementation aids the mitigation of discipline infractions, without relying on exclusionary practices. However, there is limited research on program efficacy and specific PBIS outcomes for …
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Nonresident fathers parenting and child and adolescent development
… child outcomes under investigation included positive behaviors including self-esteem, social competence and self-control. The problem behaviors that were examined were child externalizing behaviors (e.g., aggression, rule breaking) and internalizing behaviors (e.g., withdrawal, anxiety, …
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A Case Study on Administrative Perspectives of Student Relationships on a Rural Middle School Campus
… or hinder development in regards to learning and behaviors. These relationships are critical at the middle school level when adolescents are beginning to form their own personal identities, personalities, values, and behaviors. Much of the prevailing research indicates there is a strong …
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Individual case study: verbalizing emotions to reduce aggressive outbursts in an autistic adult
… study were to (a) to decrease the maladaptive behaviors displayed by the participant and (b) have the participant verbalize his feelings before they build up to cause the maladaptive behavior. The study used positive reinforcement and rewards to reinforce the positive behaviors displayed by the …
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Emotional disturbance in schools : a qualitative case study exploring best practices for serving students with severe social and emotional needs.
… that students with an ED can exhibit dangerous behaviors and fail to succeed in their transition to adulthood (Cullinan et al., 2023; Lambert et al., 2021). While some research exists around supporting students with an ED, there is an opportunity for more research on the experiences of the …
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Emotional disturbance in schools : a qualitative case study exploring best practices for serving students with severe social and emotional needs.
… that students with an ED can exhibit dangerous behaviors and fail to succeed in their transition to adulthood (Cullinan et al., 2023; Lambert et al., 2021). While some research exists around supporting students with an ED, there is an opportunity for more research on the experiences of the …
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Impact of character education on a third grade inclusion classroom
… moral conduct in schools in order to encourage positive behaviors. Several benefits to character education programs include reduced negative behaviors, a more positive school environment conducive to learning, and higher academic achievement. This study conducted discusses the impacts of a …
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Impact of the Growing Healthy Curriculum on Health Promotion Behaviors of South Dakota Children
… of Growing Healthy on the health promotion behaviors of fourth grade students in South Dakota. The self-report questionnaire "How Often Do You" (Stember, 1984) was utilized to assess frequency of selected behaviors in 116 fourth grade students enrolled in schools implementing Growing Healthy …
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The effects of character education on the behavior of 5th grade students
… education lessons to (a) decrease negative behaviors and (b) increase positive behaviors. Three character education lessons were taught over the period of one school week. Students completed reading, writing, and listening activities both collaboratively and independently. The focuses of …
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THE INTERACTION OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FOCUS IN SOCIAL ANXIETY: CLARIFYING COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL MODELS
… to demonstrate either mostly negative or mostly positive behaviors. Rapee and Heimberg's predictions were supported, but only on a measure of anxious participants' cognitions and in exploratory correlational analyses. Overall, the evidence was not sufficient to support one model over another. …
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COMPROMISING EFFECTS OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE ON COLLEGE WOMEN'S HEALTH PROMOTING BEHAVIORS
… violence on college women's health promoting behaviors such as physical exercise. Data were collected from 375 college women and 122 male students at a large Midwestern university. Examination of demographic variables and other background factors in both the female and male sample suggested …
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Relationship of the Pillars of Character and At-Risk Behaviors in Middle School Students
… scores on the four character pillars and risk behaviors on the YRBS in middle-school students. Another question asked if there were differences in the character pillars based on four risk factors.</p> <p>Significant differences were found between the student scores in 2001 and 2003. Flowever, …
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A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY INTO THE EXPERIENCES OF INTROVERTED TEACHERS
… and skills of introverted teachers to facilitate positive behaviors in their classrooms, as well as challenges they encountered. In a semi-structured interview, five teachers from a school district in the Central Upper Peninsula of Michigan were presented with a specific set of questions (See …
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A comparison of two interventions in a response to intervention (RtI) framework across student problem type
… require evidence-based intervention to increase positive behaviors. This study examined the effectiveness of two tier two behavior interventions (BEP/CICO and Strong Kids small group social skills training) across two groups at the second tier of a RtI behavior framework. Specifically, student …
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