Browsing by Author "Ditton, Robert B."
Now showing items 1-20 of 25
-
Fedler, Anthony J. (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)This study developed a theoretical framework from which to address the problem of attitude-behavior consistency. Within this framework, attitude was conceptualized as the amount of affect toward a given behavior. Subjective ...
-
Philipp, Steven F. (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)A positive relationship between mental health and participation in leisure activities is a frequently encountered assumption in the leisure literature. Little empirical evidence, however, presently exists to document this ...
-
Watt, Carson Earl (Texas A&M University. Libraries, )The purpose of this study was to determine the organizational nature of Texas county park and recreation programs and conditions which have influenced county park and recreation policy. The research objectives were pursued ...
-
The effect of constraints in the use of public recreation facilities in two major metropolitan areas Blake, James Gordo (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)The purpose of this research was to identify constraints which affect the use of public park and recreation facilities by urban residents; to examine the relationships which exist among constraints, recreation participation, ...
-
Feldpausch, Andrea Marie (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)In times of heightened environmental consciousness, conservation education programming has proven useful for providing information and promoting natural resource conservation and stewardship. In a study of the 2005 Texas ...
-
Tseng, Yung-Ping (2010-01-14)The conceptualization of leisure constraints is dependent on negotiating a hierarchy of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural leisure constraints. It has become a recognizable and distinct subfield within leisure ...
-
McCarville, Ronald Edgar (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)This study considered ways in which price expectations (reference prices) might be influenced through managerial intervention so that expected prices could be made consistent with actual costs associated with service ...
-
The influence of managerial attitudes on the allocation of federal lands for off-road motorcycling Wendling, Robert Carl (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)This study analyzes the influence of informal human environmental constraints on organization output. Discussed herein are: (1) managerial attitudes toward off-road motorcycling and resource preservation/use; (2) federal ...
-
Lengel, Robert Henr (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)This research addresses one phase of managerial communication--the role which communication media play in conveying information among managers. Managers spend eighty percent of their time communicating, often working under ...
-
Crompton, John L.; Beardsley, Dennis D.; Ditton, Robert B. (Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1976)
-
Anderson, David K. (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)The primary purposes of this dissertation were understanding the nature of an attitudinal scale designed to measure the consumptive orientation of recreational anglers and filling a gap in the published literature regarding ...
-
Lindsey, Kieran Jane (Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)A self-administered questionnaire was developed using the Tailored Design Method (Dillman 2000) to assess how information about wildlife, beyond traditional hunting and fishing issues, was transferred to the public by the ...
-
Pomeroy, Caroline Macdonald (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This study explored the possibility of cooperation in social dilemmas of common pool resource (CPR) use among three fishers' organizations and their members at Lake Chapala, Mexico. Four objectives guided data collection ...
-
Auyong, Janice Sook Hin (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)Recreation research has contributed much descriptive information about the visitors to natural resource-based outdoor recreation areas. What is not clear is whether their expressed attitudinal concern for these outdoor ...
-
Graefe, Alan R. (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)This study examined the relationships between behavioral, social, and attitudinal components of recreational fishing within a conceptual framework based on recreational specialization. Specialization was viewed as a ...
-
Fisher, Mark Roy (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This research examined the effect of nonresponse bias on angler surveys, and estimated the size and number of angler specialization groups from mail surveys with incomplete response. Angler surveys can yield inaccurate ...
-
McMillen, Jay Ben (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The problem addressed in this research was: do identifiable patterns of participation in leisure activities exist among Mexican-Americans? Using data from a sample of 130 Mexican-Americans living in areas of high ethnic ...
-
Snow, Robert Gardner (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)A topic of considerable recent interest in the recreation literature is recreation activity substitutability. Substitutability is defined as the potential of a recreation activity to replace another in the participation ...
-
Baker, Troy L. (1998)Any angler can legally use a navigable Texas river or stream for recreational fishing. Often, however, the very definition of what navigability means is in question and private property boundaries are unclear. Over 98% of ...
-
Yahn, Nancy Stiles (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)This study examines community involvement in major U.S. military base closures and realignments from 1988 to 2001. There were four waves of base closures during this time. They were in 1988, 1991, 1993, and 1995. Community ...