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Educational Attainment and Egalitarian Attitudes toward Women in the MENA Region: Insights from the Arab Barometer
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Auletto, Amy; Kim, Taeyeon; Marias, Rachel – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2017
Despite increasingly egalitarian attitudes toward women in the Middle East and North Africa, nations in this region continue to rank among the lowest in measures of gender equality. Using survey data, we examine the relationship between educational attainment and support for women. We find that increased educational attainment is predictive of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Females, Social Bias
Diet Pills, Powders, and Liquids: Predictors of Use by Healthy Weight Females
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Thorlton, Janet; Park, Chang; Hughes, Tonda – Journal of School Nursing, 2014
About 35% of healthy weight adolescent females describe themselves as overweight, and 66% report planning to lose weight. Body weight dissatisfaction is associated with unhealthy weight loss practices including diet pill/powder/liquid (PPL) use. Few studies have examined diet PPL use in healthy weight adolescent females; therefore, Youth Risk…
Descriptors: Dietetics, Body Weight, Females, Adolescents
A Gendered Perspective on Student Involvement in Collegiate Clubs and Organizations in Christian Higher Education
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Case, Kimberly F. – Christian Higher Education, 2011
The theory of student involvement (Astin, 1984) acknowledges that as students devote time and energy to educationally purposeful activities, they can expect to make cognitive and affective gains throughout the college years. Participation in clubs and organizations is one form of involvement associated with a host of learning and developmental…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Surveys, On Campus Students, Models
Relations among Body Size Discrepancy, Gender, and Indices of Motivation and Achievement in High School Physical Education
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Lodewyk, Ken R.; Gammage, Kimberley L.; Sullivan, Philip J. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2009
Increasing dropout rates in senior high school physical education, particularly among females, and unhealthy activity and obesity levels in youth have led to recommendations to assess potential contributing factors in physical education participation. Drawing from gender, body image, and social-cognitive theory, this study investigated relations…
Descriptors: High Schools, Physical Education, Obesity, Females
Differential Social Comparison Processes in Women with and without Eating Disorder Symptoms
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Corning, Alexandra F.; Krumm, Angela J.; Smitham, Lora A. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2006
On the basis of predictions from social comparison theory (L. Festinger, 1954) and informed by findings from the social comparison and eating disorder literatures, hypotheses were tested regarding the social comparison behaviors of women with eating disorder symptoms and their asymptomatic peers. Results indicated differentiating social-cognitive…
Descriptors: Females, Eating Disorders, Social Cognition, Self Esteem
Cognitive-Affective Predictors of Women's Readiness to End Domestic Violence Relationships
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Shurman, Lauren A.; Rodriguez, Christina M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
A model of women's readiness to terminate an abusive relationship was examined, using cognitive and emotional factors to predict readiness to change as conceptualized in the transtheoretical model. Factors previously identified in the domestic violence literature were selected to represent cognitive predictors (attribution and attachment style)…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Females, Family Violence, Models