James M. Eddy
Texas A&M University
92 Papers
699 Citations
James M. Eddy is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health education & Health promotion. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 92 publications. Previous affiliations of James M. Eddy include Pennsylvania State University & University of Alabama.
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Papers
Prospective social-psychological factors of adolescent smoking progression
Min Qi Wang,Eugene C. Fitzhugh,Bernard Lee Green,Lori W. Turner,James M. Eddy,R. Carl Westerfield +5 more
TL;DR: Data showed that social-psychological factors are less able to predict the transition from nonsmoking to experimental smoking than that from nonsMoking to regular smoking.
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A Primer on Quality Indicators of Distance Education
Beth H. Chaney,James M. Eddy,Steve M. Dorman,Linda L. Glessner,B. Lee Green,Rafael Lara-Alecio +5 more
TL;DR: The results of the study reveal common benchmarks and quality indicators that all parties deem important in designing, implementing, and evaluating distance education courses and programs.
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The influence of significant others on attitudes, subjective norms and intentions regarding dietary supplement use among adolescent athletes.
TL;DR: Attitudes were a better predictor of intentions to use dietary supplements than were subjective norms and trainers had more influence on the attitudes, subjective norms, and intentions of adolescents regarding supplement use than did parents and coaches.
Development of an Instrument to Assess Student Opinions of the Quality of Distance Education Courses
Beth H. Chaney,James M. Eddy,Steve M. Dorman,Linda L. Glessner,B. Lee Green,Rafael Lara-Alecio +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a culturally sensitive instrument to assess the quality of distance education courses offered at a university in the southern United States through evaluation of student attitudes, opinions, and perceptions.
Smoking acquisition: peer influence and self-selection.
TL;DR: It is perhaps more important to identify factors that influence adolescents' decisions in choosing friends who smoke than to teach adolescents to resist peer pressure, which could lead to more effective preventive strategies.
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