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FACTORS THAT INHIBIT OR ENHANCE BEHAVIORAL REMEDIATION IN DEVIANT SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

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1974
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This study of one hundred subjects, selected randomly from three hundred deviant secondary school students, was conducted to determine if there was a significant difference between those subjects whose behavior was improved over the period of one year and those whose behavior remained the same or deteriorated. Variables from home relationships, peer affinities, achievement, duration of the behavior problem, enrollment in vocational education, drug usage, discipline measures and behavior types were studeid for measures of central tendency. A factor analysis was conducted to reduce the number of variables to a cluster of factors or constructs. Nine factors emerged from the original forty-two variables. They were named: Adaptability, Behavior, Maturity, Student Response, Parental Attitude, Achievement, Home, Y and E, and External Influence. Regression analyses were run to select the possible predictors of success or failure in behavior modification from the original variables and from the nine factors. Of the original variables, student attitude and response to parents were the most significant. Amongst the factors, Student Response and Parental Attitude lead the rest. A multivariate analysis of variance tested the hypothesis: there is no significant difference between those students deemed successful in behavior change and those deemed failures. The nine factors were used as dependent measures in the rejection of the null hypothesis with a P less than .01. The univariate F tests, using factors Student Response and Parental Attitude, caused the rejection of the null hypothesis of a common means with a P less than .01. The hypothesis, in a second multivariate analysis, when the dependent variables were the original variables, was also rejected by the findings with a P less than .01. The variables which contributed to the rejection of the null hypothesis of common means with P less than .01, on the univariate tests, were student attitude, response to parents, grade point average change, vocational education, counseling, home atmosphere, and parental cooperation.
Title: FACTORS THAT INHIBIT OR ENHANCE BEHAVIORAL REMEDIATION IN DEVIANT SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS.
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Name(s): KRAYER, DOROTHE MARTIN.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1974
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 133 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This study of one hundred subjects, selected randomly from three hundred deviant secondary school students, was conducted to determine if there was a significant difference between those subjects whose behavior was improved over the period of one year and those whose behavior remained the same or deteriorated. Variables from home relationships, peer affinities, achievement, duration of the behavior problem, enrollment in vocational education, drug usage, discipline measures and behavior types were studeid for measures of central tendency. A factor analysis was conducted to reduce the number of variables to a cluster of factors or constructs. Nine factors emerged from the original forty-two variables. They were named: Adaptability, Behavior, Maturity, Student Response, Parental Attitude, Achievement, Home, Y and E, and External Influence. Regression analyses were run to select the possible predictors of success or failure in behavior modification from the original variables and from the nine factors. Of the original variables, student attitude and response to parents were the most significant. Amongst the factors, Student Response and Parental Attitude lead the rest. A multivariate analysis of variance tested the hypothesis: there is no significant difference between those students deemed successful in behavior change and those deemed failures. The nine factors were used as dependent measures in the rejection of the null hypothesis with a P less than .01. The univariate F tests, using factors Student Response and Parental Attitude, caused the rejection of the null hypothesis of a common means with a P less than .01. The hypothesis, in a second multivariate analysis, when the dependent variables were the original variables, was also rejected by the findings with a P less than .01. The variables which contributed to the rejection of the null hypothesis of common means with P less than .01, on the univariate tests, were student attitude, response to parents, grade point average change, vocational education, counseling, home atmosphere, and parental cooperation.
Identifier: 11630 (digitool), FADT11630 (IID), fau:8568 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1974.
College of Education
Subject(s): Problem children--Education
School discipline
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