Attitudes and Scholastic Behavior

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between scholastic behavior and attitudinal variables and the interrelationship of scholastic behavior variables. Seventy-two students of general psychology answered a sentence completion attitude scale which measured attitudes toward two specific factors'-instructor and the course, and two general factors,-college and life. Scholastic behavior measures were absences, tardiness, and course grades. Attitudes toward life were identified as a suppressor and its variances statistically removed. Significant partial correlations were found between absences and both of the attitudes toward college and the composite of the four factors (p > .05). Significant relationships were also found for course grades with the attitudes toward the course and the composite scores. While tardiness scores were significantly negatively correlated with course grades, absence scores were not.

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