Deviant Behavior in School Setting

Socially Deviant Behavior

(Author) A. self-administered questionnaire was used to'compare Tselected driving, personality, and psychosocial variables 'of 306 convicted male drunk drivers with those of 289 alcoholics and 269 controls. She drunk driver group fell between the other,groups on many parameters but resembled the control groUp on as many others. While some 40% of the drunk drivers appeareA to be alcoholics, they...

Domestic Violence and Deviant Behavior

The role of trait emotional intelligence in academic performance and deviant behavior at school

This paper examines the role of trait emotional intelligence (‘trait EI’) in academic performance and in deviant behavior at school on a sample of 650 pupils in British secondary education (mean age 16.5 years). Trait EI moderated the relationship between cognitive ability and academic performance. In addition, pupils with high trait EI scores were less likely to have had unauthorized absences ...

Sexually deviant behavior in expectant fathers.

A group of 91 expectant fathers examined in a court psychiatric clinic is compared with a group of 91 nonexpectant married males equated for age, race, and year of arrest. The hypothesis that sexually deviant reactions are more frequent in expectant fathers is statistically substantiated. Other findings are reported and discussed including the frequent occurrence of sexual offenses during the w...

Positive deviant behavior and nutrition education.

7 Dr. Joe D. Wray, in his 1972 Tropical Pediatrics editorial, asked, “Can we learn from successful mothers?” His question had not previously appeared in a scientific journal, possibly because it may have embarrassed many professional scientific nutrition teachers to consider it seriously. Nutritional surveys often discover well-nourished children in poor families that inhabit villages where nea...