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Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
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.
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.
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