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Direct linkEdgar León; Marcela Tabares; José Ignacio Baile; José Guadalupe Salazar; Ana Patricia Zepeda – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Introduction: Emerging adulthood has been described as a period of risk for body weight gain. Several studies have indicated that the positive or negative health behaviors established during this stage, tend to prevail the rest of life. However, there are discrepancies in published studies on weight change in freshmen and there are disagreements…
Descriptors: College Students, Eating Habits, Body Weight, Health Behavior
Saemi Lee; Janaina Lima Fogaca; Natalie Papini; Courtney Joseph; Nikole Squires; Dawn Clifford; Jonathan Lee – Health Education, 2024
Purpose: Research shows peer health education programs on university campuses can support students in pursuing sustainable health-related behavior changes. However, few programs deliver peer health education through a nondiet, weight-inclusive framework. Research shows that health educators who challenge the status quo of diet culture and…
Descriptors: Health Education, College Students, Coaching (Performance), Peer Relationship
Tim Bogg; Phuong T. Vo – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The efficacy of effort appraisal exercise action plans was tested among underactive and inactive university students (N = 221). Methods: Students were randomized across three conditions (information, action planning, or realistic effort action planning (REAP)) and participated in psychoeducational small-group sessions. Students returned…
Descriptors: College Students, Physical Activity Level, Physical Education, Intervention
Christopher M. Bopp; Oliver W. A. Wilson – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To examine the association of CRF and adiposity with cardiometabolic risk factors and metabolic syndrome among emerging adults. Participants: 5681 (60.1% Men; 21 ± 1years) college students from a large university located in the northeast of the United States. Methods: Participants completed an objective health assessment that involved…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Obesity, At Risk Persons, Metabolism
Chen, Hao – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The current study aims to examine the mediational effects of explicit weight stigma and moral disengagement (MD) and moderating effects of empathy on the relationship between implicit weight stigma and bullying perpetration. Two hundred and twenty-eight college students (112 men, mean age of 19.89 ± 1.82 years) completed implicit (the Single…
Descriptors: College Students, Body Weight, Bullying, Attitudes
Heather A. Davis; Molly Rush; Gregory T. Smith – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Body dissatisfaction elevates the risk for disordered eating behaviors. Excessive exercise is prevalent among college women and associated with harm. Risk theory posits a bidirectional relationship between risk factors for disordered eating behaviors and the behaviors themselves. This study investigated the longitudinal, reciprocal…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Negative Attitudes, Eating Disorders, Exercise
Bin Wan; Danni Peng-Li; Juan Chen; Peilin Xu; Dong Sun; Qi Chen; Jinyue Li; Mengxin Wang; Shuyu Zheng; Liwei Fan; Xusen Wu; Junqiu Hu; Jiajie Chen; Zengjian Wang – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The present study aims to examine whether secondhand smoke exposure (SHSE) in university students can affect three indices of self-satisfaction related to depression as indiced by appearance, weight, and freedom of life choice. Participants: We collected data from 740 nonsmoking students in the summer of 2018, of which 57.84% were…
Descriptors: Smoking, College Students, Environmental Influences, Depression (Psychology)
Wilson, Oliver W. A.; Holland, Kelsey; Bopp, Christopher M.; Bopp, Melissa – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: To examine the discrepancy between 'told' and screened blood pressure (BP) category, and the association between body composition and told BP category. Methods: Between 08/2019-03/2020 college students (n = 1057) were asked what category they had previously been told their BP falls into prior to having their BP and body composition…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Hypertension, College Students, Body Weight
Reading, Jean M.; LaRose, Jessica Gokee – Journal of American College Health, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine exercise preferences of college students (CS), and explore potential gender differences to inform interventions. Participants (N = 187, 18-25 years) completed an online survey. Descriptive statistics were conducted to characterize preferences for exercise type and mode of delivery, followed by X[superscript…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Exercise, Preferences
Mohsen Saffari; Hung-Ching Wu; Ji-Kang Chen; Nadia Bevan; Jung-Sheng Chen; Hsin-Pao Chen; Mark D. Griffiths; Chung-Ying Lin – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2024
The present study aimed to validate the Chinese version of the Tendency to Avoid Physical Activity and Sport Scale (TAPAS) among university students living in Hong Kong to assess weight and body image concerns. A convenience sample of 787 students (63.5% females; 24.5% overweight) were recruited online. The factor structure of the scale was…
Descriptors: Life Style, Physical Activity Level, College Students, Health Behavior
Dalley, Simon E.; Toffanin, Paolo; Libert, Jacqueline; Vidal, Jose – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
This study placed the phenomenon of college women's fat talk within response styles theory. We predicted that with increasing trait body dissatisfaction there would be an increase in rumination leading to a greater frequency of fat talk. We also predicted that neuroticism would moderate this mediation pathway, and that these effects would occur…
Descriptors: Females, College Students, Body Composition, Self Concept
Anastasia J. Bullock; Edie M. Goldbacher – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Emotional eating is prevalent among college women. Deficits in interoceptive awareness, or the ability to perceive and identify internal sensations, are associated with emotional eating. Separately examining the specific components of interoceptive awareness, appetite and emotional awareness, in relation to emotional eating may improve…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Eating Habits, College Students, Females
Samuel Durán-Agüero; Pablo Valdés-Badilla; Macarena Valladares; Valentina Espinoza; Francisco Mena; Gloria Oñate; Macarena Fernandez; Andres Godoy-Cumillaf; Mirta Crovetto – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To explore the associations between the consumption of three categories of ultra-processed food (sugary beverages, sweet, and salty snacks) and body mass index (BMI) among Chilean university students. Methods: We conducted a multi-center, descriptive study among 2,039 students from 6 Chilean universities. Food consumption was surveyed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Eating Habits, Food
Eliana Romina Meza-Miranda; Solange Liliana Parra-Soto; Samuel Durán-Agüero; Georgina Gomez; Valeria Carpio-Arias; Israel Ríos-Castillo; Ana Gabriela Murillo; Jacqueline Araneda; Gladys Morales; Brian M. Cavagnari; Edna J. Nava-González; Jhon J. Bejarano-Roncancio; Beatriz Núñez; Karla Cordón-Arrivillaga; Saby Mauricio-Alza; Leslie Landaeta-Díaz – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Introduction: Short sleep, physical inactivity, and being locked up are risk factors for weight gain. Objective: We evaluated weight gain according to sex, age, hours of sleep and physical activity in university students from 10 Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Cross-sectional and multicenter study (n = 4880).…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Sleep, Physical Activity Level, College Students
Download full textBiber, Duke D.; Czech, Daniel R.; Donald, Ellen K.; Hassett, Anna; Tucker, Allison – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2022
In this study, we examine the relationship between sleep duration and reported levels of optimism in Generation Z (i.e., born after 1996) students aged 17 to 24. This study hypothesizes that optimism and duration of sleep will have a statistically significant positive relationship. Participants in this study are Generation Z college students…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Sleep, Psychological Patterns, Body Composition
