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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"national sample"”.
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Dropouts from community colleges: path analysis of a national sample
The nighttime losses from an integral collector storage (ICS) system were investigated. The significance of the sky temperature, wind speed, and ambient temperature on the losses were examined. Outdoor data was taken on several nights to characterize the thermal performance of an ICS system under …
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Dropouts from community colleges: path analysis of a national sample
… model of the dropout process applied to a national sample of community college students. Strict definitions of persistence were used in applying a Tinto-based model to both 2- and 4-year student samples from the High School and Beyond (HSB) data set. The primary focus of the study was to …
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Factors influencing the mathematics-related attainment of a national sample of hispanic, black, and white women
… and family status. The data are provided by the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS), a longitudinal nationwide survey which follows the progress of high school students to adulthood. Questionnaires were administered to the subjects in 1972, 1973, 1974, and 1976; the …
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Job satisfaction among Virginia school psychologists: a ten year follow-up and comparison to a national sample
… school psychologists and to the results of a national study (Brown, 1992). Data were collected through mailed surveys consisting of a demographic data form and a modified version of the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire. A total of 351 randomly selected subjects were mailed survey …
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Relationships between binge eating, psychological and behavioral covariates, and health care utilization on college campuses: Results from a national sample of college students
… Minds Study (HMS) 2010 were utilized. Two samples of participants were analyzed: the full HMS 2010 national sample of undergraduate college students (N = 17,995) and a subsample of undergraduate students (N = 969) from Eastern Michigan University (EMU) who participated in the HMS. Results …
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Quality of Fathering and its Relationship with Family Background, Demographics, and Characteristics of Present Family : a Study of Seventh-day Adventist Fathers and Fathers from a National Sample
… fathers participated in this study. The target sample consisted of 192 fathers from the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists and a reference sample from the National Center for Fathering, comprised of 1,509 religious fathers from North America. Data were collected by means of the …
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A Comparative Study of Selected Georgia Elementary Principals' Perceptions of Environmental Knowledge
… on academic success rankings of schools and to national results. Underlying the study was the premise that today's students need to be prepared to be able and informed environmental stewards, their preparation needs to come early and will come primarily from school, educators must understand …
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Identification and Comparison of Academic Self Regulatory Strategy Use of Traditional and Accelerated Baccalaureate Nursing Students
… regulatory learning (SRL) strategies used by a national sample of students enrolled in traditional and accelerated baccalaureate nursing programs. Background: Learner focused reforms in nursing education require students to assume more responsibility for learning. Nursing student responsibility …
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An analysis of job satisfaction of school psychologists practicing in West Virginia
… jobs. However, a 1982 study on a nationwide sample of school psychologists failed to substantiate the existence of wide spread dissatisfaction, suggesting that such dissatisfaction may be localized within specific populations of school psychologists. The population of school psychologists …
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Depression And Health Among American Indian and Alaska Native Elders
… target health variables and depression in a national sample of 10,743 American Indian elders. The data suggests that depression is significantly related to self-rated health, overnight hospital stays, spiritual activities, vigorous exercise, activity limitations, chronic disease, and …
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An Examination of Black Male Success in High School Mathematics
<p>For a national sample of Black male students, what is the relative impact of instructional technology on 10th and 12th grade math scores? This dissertation employs two waves of the Education Longitudinal Study (2002 & 2004) and multivariate statistical techniques to explore the relative …
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Workplace Incivility and the Low-Status Target
… counterparts. Data come from four different samples of working adults: employees from a property management company (N = 90), employees of a northwestern university (N = 1,843), a national sample of law school faculty (N = 1,256), and employed students from a southern university (N = 243). …
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An Exploration of the Relationship between Adolescents' Characteristics and Treatment Completion for Substance Use Disorder
… and treatment completion in a large, national sample of adolescents receiving substance misuse treatment in 2011. Participants were de-identified adolescent entries between the ages of 12 and 17 in the Treatment Episode Dataset- Discharges (TEDS-D), which is a national census data …
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An analysis of the relationship between social capital and subjective well-being in four regions of Spain in the mid-1990s
… I have conducted data analysis of five samples, all part of the World Values Survey 1995-1996. The WVS 1995-1996 offers vast data for Spain and for four autonomous regions - Basque Country, Andalusia, Galicia and Valencia. For the national sample N= 1211. Regional sampling is as follows: …
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Logging in strained, logging out sustained: the utility of online support groups for caregivers of individuals with advanced-stage cancer
… groups run through CancerChatCanada, with a national sample of caregivers of individuals with advanced-stage cancers. A grounded theory analysis of the chat transcripts led to the generation of the core category, ""Logging In Strained, Logging Out Sustained"", which captures the essence of …
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School Counselors' Concerns Regarding Effective Crisis Intervention for Students of Diverse Backgrounds
… diverse students. Responses of a random national sample of school counselors (n = 276, 69% return rate) indicate that approximately half voice some sort of concern related to providing crisis intervention services to students from diverse backgrounds. The purpose of this study is to …
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Advancing Social Justice in Counseling Psychology: Enlisting Student Voices Through a Mixed-Methods Study
… In the survey portion of the study, a national sample of trainees (n = 260) completed a web-based survey assessing their commitments to social justice and related personal and training variables. A sub-sample (n = 7) of trainees who identified as social justice activists on a number of …
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Women, work, and family: ways to well-being
… the outcome variable, well-being. Data from a national sample of 277 married, employed women representing dual-employed families were subjected to path analytic analyses using LISREL 7. Findings generally supported the proposed model. Results suggest that both role strain and coping resources …
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Organizational Climate and Hospital Infection Preventionists
… Leading a Culture of Quality (LCQ) scale, in a national sample of Infection Preventionists (IPs); and 3) identify setting characteristics that predict a more positive perception of organizational climate by the IP and measured by the LCQ revised, using a national sample. Ten studies, mostly …
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Adaptive resources and helpseeking among Black Americans: A stress and coping approach
… resources and four patterns of helpseeking in a national sample of 2,107 Black Americans. A stress and coping approach offered a coherent conceptualization of the helpseeking process. Extending a stress and coping model, it was hypothesized that diminished personal resources combine additively …
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