Active versus passive participation and behavioral commitment on attitude change
File, 2013-064-001-040
- Part of
- Algoma University Archives > Algoma University Theses collection > Psychology series > Active versus passive participation and behavioral commitment on attitude change
- Creator
- Chrisitine Ward, Christine Ward
- Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 1.71 MB of textual records (PDF)
- General Material Designation
- Electronic record, Textual record
- Language(s)
- English
- Bibliographic Information
- Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.:, OSTMA-PSYC-Ward-Christine-19980402
- Descriptive Notes
- Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 1998. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for PSYC 4105. -- Includes tables. -- Contents: Literature review / Thesis.
- This study seeks to investigate the effects of active versus passive participation, and behavioral commitment, on the knowledge and attitudes of adolescents in an HIV-prevention intervention. Participants will include approximately 150 grade nine science students from four public secondary schools. One school will be randomly assigned as a control group; the remaining three will make up the experimental groups. It is hypothesized that participants in the active participation condition with the added factor of behavioral commitment will show the greatest increase in knowledge and enduring attitude change. To test this hypothesis, two passive participation conditions, video and lecture, and one active condition consisting of role-playing will be included in the experiment. The variable of behavioral commitment will be randomly assigned to half of the participants in each intervention group.