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Changes in Pre-Service Teacher Personal and Professional Attitudes Following a Comprehensive School Health Course
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Nutter, Sarah; Saunders, Jessica F.; Brun, Isabel; Exner-Cortens, Deinera; Russell-Mayhew, Shelly – Canadian Journal of Education, 2022
Comprehensive school health (CSH) is a framework that can support teachers in the delivery of health-related content as well as supporting health promotion within the school community. In this study, 222 Bachelor of Education students completed surveys at the beginning and end of a mandatory six-week course on CSH with a body weight-neutral focus.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Comprehensive School Health Education
The Efficacy of Comprehensive School Health Course in Changing Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes and Reactions toward Weight-Related Teasing
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Saunders, Jessica F.; Nutter, Sarah; Brun, Isabel; Exner-Cortens, Deinera; Russell-Mayhew, Shelly – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2021
Teachers view overt expressions of weight stigma, such as weight-related teasing, as troublesome but are often ill-prepared to address instances of weight-related teasing when they arise in the classroom. Comprehensive school health is an emerging framework that aims to better prepare teachers to address issues of health and wellness in the…
Descriptors: Comprehensive School Health Education, Body Weight, Vignettes, Student Attitudes
Identity and the Body: Trajectories of Body Esteem from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood
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Nelson, Sarah C.; Kling, Johanna; Wängqvist, Maria; Frisén, Ann; Syed, Moin – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Although Erikson (1968) originally conceptualized identity development as a process of becoming at home in one's body, little work has been done linking identity development and research on the body. This study examines how trajectories of the development of body esteem over time are related to young people's sense of identity and psychological…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Human Body, Self Esteem, Preadolescents
Students Opinions and Attitudes towards Physical Education Classes in Kuwait Public Schools
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Mohammed, Heyam Reda; Mohammad, Mona Ahmad – College Student Journal, 2012
The aim of study was to investigate student opinion and attitude toward physical education classes. Two thousand seven hundred (2700) students answered the survey: 1239 (45.3%) were male students and 1497 (54.7%) were female from Kuwait six districts: Al_Hawalli, Al_Asimah, Al_Jahra, Al_Mobarak, Al_Farwniah, Al_Ahmadi. Weight Status was determined…
Descriptors: Health Education, Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Body Composition
Applying Motivational Interviewing (MI) in Counselling Obese and Overweight Children and Parents in Swedish Child Healthcare
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Soderlund, Lena L.; Malmsten, Janna; Bendtsen, Preben; Nilsen, Per – Health Education Journal, 2010
Objective: To evaluate how a motivational interviewing (MI) training course for child healthcare nurses in Sweden affected their work with children's weight issues and their attitudes to MI. Design: Cross-sectional survey, descriptive design. Setting: Nurses were recruited from 33 different child healthcare centres in Ostergotland, Sweden. Method:…
Descriptors: Obesity, Nurses, Interviews, Foreign Countries
Predictors of Changes in Body Image Concerns of Chinese Adolescents
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Chen, Hong; Jackson, Todd – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
This nine-month prospective study tested the extent to which risk factors implicated in recent accounts of body dissatisfaction predicted changes in body image concerns of adolescent boys and girls in China. A sample of 593 Chinese adolescents (217 boys, 376 girls) completed measures of weight esteem, appearance esteem and physical stature concern…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Risk, Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship