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Humberstone, Barbara; Stan, Ina – Sport, Education and Society, 2011
This paper examines the findings from part of a larger project concerned with well-being and outdoor pedagogies. It considers data collected from interviews with primary teachers of 8- to 9-year-old pupils, who had recently attended a three-day residential at an outdoor education centre and these children's parents. It draws upon aspects of the…
Descriptors: Health, Self Concept, Human Body, Well Being
Taylor, Amanda; Wilson, Carlene; Slater, Amy; Mohr, Philip – Clinical Psychologist, 2012
Background: Parenting style has been associated with weight-related outcomes in children, but relationships between parenting, weight, and overweight-related psychological outcomes remain largely unstudied. The aim of the present study was to determine whether parenting was a moderator of the relationship between overweight and psychological…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Caregivers, Child Rearing
Chung, Sung Suk; Joung, Kyoung Hwa – Journal of School Nursing, 2012
Suicidal trends and related characteristics such as sociodemographic factors, psychological factors, and health behaviors can differ between countries. This study investigated the predictors of suicidal ideation and attempted suicide including health behaviors among American and Korean youth from two national representative data sets. In both…
Descriptors: Risk, Health Behavior, Youth, Drinking
Welch, Rosie; Wright, Jan – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Contemporary notions of childhood overweight and obesity have become increasingly influential in curriculum and pedagogy in school-based Health and Physical Education (HPE). Teachers' delivery of HPE subject matter and related school practices are likely to have a considerable impact on the attitudes and beliefs of the children they teach,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Obesity, Discourse Analysis, Beginning Teachers
Nkansah-Amankra, Stephen; Walker, Ashley Dawn – Health Education Journal, 2012
Objective: Self-rated health (SRH) has become a key organizing construct for assessing multiple dimensions of populations' physical and psychosocial health functioning. However, it is unclear how adolescents' subjective self assessment of health reflects health risk exposures, co-occurring health risks (problem behaviours) and other pre-existing…
Descriptors: Mentors, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Health Behavior, Parent Role
Napolitano, Melissa A.; Lloyd-Richardson, Elizabeth E.; Fava, Joseph L.; Marcus, Bess H. – Behavior Modification, 2011
Smoking among young adults is a significant public health problem. Despite the negative health effects, many young women smoke for weight and body image reasons. Understanding the factors that prompt young women to initiate and continue smoking is important for designing smoking cessation interventions. The aim of the current article is to outline…
Descriptors: Smoking, Females, Self Concept, Public Health
Hutchinson, Delyse M.; Rapee, Ronald M.; Taylor, Alan – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2010
This study tested five proposed models of the relationship of negative affect and peer factors in early adolescent body dissatisfaction, dieting, and bulimic behaviors. A large community sample of girls in early adolescence was assessed via questionnaire (X[overbar] age = 12.3 years). Structural equation modeling (SEM) indicated that negative…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Eating Disorders, Early Adolescents, Prediction
Leone, James E.; Partridge, Julie A.; Maurer-Starks, Suanne – Health Educator, 2011
Introduction: Understanding and assessing behavioral risk factors, particularly among college populations, is challenging for health educators. Similarly, issues affecting mental health remain unclear in terms of how body image evolves year to year in college students. A better understanding of how students perceive their bodies and to what extent…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Self Concept, Risk, Human Body
Lasker, Denise Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The goal of this dissertation was to investigate the impact of changing dietary carbohydrate (CARB) intakes within recommended dietary guidelines on metabolic outcomes specifically associated with glycemic regulations and carbohydrate metabolism. This research utilized both human and animal studies to examine changes in metabolism across a wide…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Obesity, Diabetes, Dietetics
Geier, Andrew B.; Rozin, Paul – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2009
College students estimated the weight of adult women from either photographs or a live presentation by a set of models and estimated the calories in 1 of 2 actual meals. The 2 meals had the same items, but 1 had larger portion sizes than the other. The results suggest: (a) Judgments are biased toward transforming the example in question to the…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Females, Models, Visual Aids
Fox, Claire L.; Farrow, Claire V. – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
Research has found evidence of a link between being overweight or obese and bullying/peer victimisation, and also between obesity and adjustment problems such as low self-esteem and body dissatisfaction. Studies have also found that adjustment problems can put children at an increased risk of being bullied over time. However, to date the factors…
Descriptors: Obesity, Bullying, Self Concept, Victims of Crime
Wheeler, Sharon; Twist, Craig – European Physical Education Review, 2010
Body mass index (BMI) is increasingly recognized as an inadequate measure for determining obesity in children. Therefore, the aim within this study was to investigate other indirect methods of body fat assessment that could potentially be used in place of BMI. Twenty-four children (boys: 13.8 [plus or minus] 0.8 yr; girls: 13.3 [plus or minus] 0.5…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, Measurement Techniques, Comparative Testing
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
McMahon, Jenny; DinanThompson, Maree – ACHPER Australia Healthy Lifestyles Journal, 2008
Australian Swimming functions on meritocratic principles as athletes are immersed in a culture that focuses on achievement. Meritocratic principles are accompanied by a technocentric ideology where a "swimmer body" is a commodity "viewed as an instrument and object for manipulation" (Baine, 1990, p. 29) in order to achieve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aquatic Sports, Athletes, Achievement
Kelmanson, I. A.; Adulas, E. I. – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
This study aimed at evaluating possible effects of massage interventions on developmental progress in the infants born with low birth weight (LBW). Forty infants (17 boys, 23 girls) who were born in St. Petersburg in 2000 through 2002 and met a conventional definition of LBW (less than 2500 g at birth) entered the study. Of these, 36 (17 boys, 19…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Body Weight, Intervention, Infants