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Direct linkWeiyu Zeng; Yi-jun Luo; Hong Chen – Youth & Society, 2024
Eight percent of adolescent girls were found to be engaged in problematic social media use. Problematic social media use is associated with serious physical and mental consequences. This study aimed to explore the effects of thin-ideal internalization on problematic social media use and the role of selfie-related behaviors and friendship quality.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Social Media, Adolescents
Alesondra Christmas Stapleton; Jazelynn Goudy; Davianna Griffin – Dance Education in Practice, 2024
Dance educators, as the face of dance education, are responsible for teaching and promoting dance equitably regardless of whose body executes the movement. Sizeism and racism have often been the unspoken standards used by dancers and educators to judge the development and proficiency of professional and aspiring dancers. Although seeing these as…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Racism, Body Weight, Social Discrimination
Randall, Ken; Kwon, Kyong-Ah; Ford, Tim G.; Malek-Lasater, Adrien – Early Education and Development, 2023
Early care and education (ECE) teachers are constantly moving throughout their day with varying physical demands akin to those of athletes. Teachers are continuously bending, stooping, and squatting to lift and carry children as well as sitting on the floor or in child-sized furniture--all activities that require substantial fitness. This said,…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Well Being, Early Childhood Teachers, Human Body
Lanuza, Fabián; Morales, Gladys; Hidalgo-Rasmussen, Carlos; Balboa-Castillo, Teresa; Ortiz, Manuel S.; Belmar, Carlos; Muñoz, Sergio – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To estimate the association between eating habits and quality of life (QOL) in Chilean university students. Participants: 1,212 students from the Universidad de La Frontera, Chile (mean age 18.7 ± 2.15) were surveyed in January-March 2018. Methods: Participants completed a cross-sectional self-report survey to evaluate QOL using the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Eating Habits, Quality of Life, Food
Wilson, Oliver W. A.; Bopp, Christopher M.; Papalia, Zack; Duffey, Michele; Bopp, Melissa – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Examine differences in physical activity (PA) constraints experienced as freshmen among college upperclassmen based on sex, race/ethnicity, adiposity, and fitness. Participants and methods: Upperclassmen (n = 524) from self-reported demographics, PA, subjective changes in PA, and freshman PA constraints via an online survey, and had…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, College Freshmen, Health Behavior, Barriers
Atasoy, T.; Pekel, Aydin – Physical Educator, 2021
This study investigated the relationship between quality of life level and social appearance anxiety levels of physically disabled boccia athletes. The population of 2018-2019 Boccia Championships for the Physically Disabled Turkey was invited to participate (N = 97 athletes), and sampling was determined by simple random sampling (n = 83); data…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Anxiety, Physical Disabilities, Athletes
Download full textShin, Yongyun; Sun, Shumei S.; Bandyopadhyay, Dipankar – Grantee Submission, 2020
We analyze adolescent BMI and middle-age systolic blood pressure (SBP) repeatedly measured on women enrolled in the Fels longitudinal study (FLS) between 1929 and 2010 to address three questions: Do adolescent-specific growth rates in BMI and menarche affect middle-age SBP? Do they moderate the aging effect on middle-age SBP? Have the effects…
Descriptors: Obesity, Adolescents, Adults, Females
G. C. Nobre; F. S. S. Nobre; N. C. Valentini – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2024
Background: Children living in poverty often are exposed to situations that negatively affect various aspects of their development. So, it is important to propose interventional programs that minimize the negative effects of living in poverty on these children. Objective: To verify the impact of a mastery climate cognitive-motor skills…
Descriptors: Poverty, Low Income Students, Intervention, Psychomotor Skills
Simantov, Tslil; Pohl, Alexa; Tsompanidis, Alexandros; Weir, Elizabeth; Lombardo, Michael V; Ruigrok, Amber; Smith, Paula; Allison, Carrie; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Uzefovsky, Florina – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
The sex bias in autism diagnosis suggests the involvement of sex-specific endocrine mechanisms during prenatal development, but these hormones affect health throughout life. Therefore, the current study examined the association of autism and autistic traits with conditions and symptoms related to the sex-steroid system in adult women. In total,…
Descriptors: Females, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Gast, David A. A.; de Wit, Gabriela L. C.; van Hoof, Amber; de Vries, Jeanne H. M.; van Hemert, Bert; Didden, Robert; Giltay, Erik J. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Background: We sought to assess diet quality among people with intellectual disabilities or borderline intellectual functioning, living in residential facilities or receiving day care. Methods: We measured diet quality using the Dutch Healthy Diet Food Frequency Questionnaire (DHD) and compared this between participants with (n = 151) and controls…
Descriptors: Mild Intellectual Disability, Dietetics, Day Programs, Residential Programs
Ergin, Ridvan; Marangoz, Irfan – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Aim: This research aimed to analyze the vocational adjustment of paramedic students in health sciences in terms of some anthropometric and motoric features. Material and Method: The research is a cross-sectional study, which is one of the quantitative research methods aimed at paramedic students. The study group consisted of 60 (n[subscript…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Allied Health Occupations Education, First Aid, Student Characteristics
Baptista, Fátima; Zymbal, Vera; Janz, Kathleen F. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2022
This study examined the predictive validity of musculoskeletal fitness tests for identifying sarcopenia in youth. The sample was 529 participants age 10 to 18 years. Indices included: total lean body mass (LBM) normalized for height (LBM index, LBMI, kg/m2), appendicular LBMI (aLBMI, kg/m[superscript 2]), and LBM to fat body mass (FBM) ratio…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Physical Fitness, Tests, Preadolescents
Campbell, Stephanie McCullough – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
Despite their negative effects on the emotional, physical, and social wellbeing of students, weight stigma and anti-fat attitudes are rarely systematically addressed in schools or within school psychology. Weight-based oppression is regarded differently than other domains of prejudice. Therefore, implicit and explicit bias continue unimpeded, even…
Descriptors: Human Body, Body Weight, Social Bias, Body Composition
Dustin Moore; Jesse Stabile Morrell – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To assess differences in dietary quality among college men reporting high, moderate, and non-video game usage. Participants: College men aged 18-24. Methods: Cross-sectional data were collected between 2012 and 2020. Participants (n = 1259) were categorized according to self-reported video game usage: non-users (NVG), <1 h/day (MVG),…
Descriptors: Video Games, Gender Differences, Males, Eating Habits
Rahaman, Md. Ashiquir; Lopa, Maksuda; Uddin, K. M. Furkan; Baqui, Md. Abdul; Keya, Selina Parvin; Faruk, Md. Omar; Sarker, Shaoli; Basiruzzaman, Mohammed; Islam, Mazharul; AlBanna, Ammar; Jahan, Nargis; Chowdhury, M. A. K. Azad; Saha, Narayan; Hussain, Manzoor; Colombi, Costanza; O'Rielly, Darren; Woodbury-Smith, Marc; Ghaziuddin, Mohammad; Rahman, Mohammad Mizanur; Uddin, Mohammed – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
This study explored the physical and clinical phenotype of Bangladeshi children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A totally of 283 children who were referred for screening and administered Module 1 of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) were included. Overall, 209 met the ADOS algorithmic cutoff for ASD. A trend for greater weight…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Genetics, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
