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Wade, Tracey; George, Wing Man; Atkinson, Melissa – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
The authors examined the relative effectiveness of 3 different approaches to the experience of body dissatisfaction compared to a control and ruminative attention control condition, with respect to increasing weight and appearance satisfaction. One hundred female undergraduates (mean age = 24.38, SD = 9.39) underwent a body dissatisfaction…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Attention Control, Psychological Patterns, Eating Disorders
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George, Goldy C.; Hoelscher, Deanna M.; Nicklas, Theresa A.; Kelder, Steven H. – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2009
Objective: To examine diet- and body size-related attitudes and behaviors associated with supplement use in a representative sample of fourth-grade students in Texas. Design: Cross-sectional data from the School Physical Activity and Nutrition study, a probability-based sample of schoolchildren. Children completed a questionnaire that assessed…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Self Concept, Food, Human Body
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Kennedy, Tay; Thomas, David G.; Woltamo, Tesfaye; Abebe, Yewelsew; Hubbs-Tait, Laura; Sykova, Vladimira; Stoecker, Barbara J.; Hambidge, K. Michael – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2008
Speed of information processing and recognition memory can be assessed in infants using a visual information processing (VIP) paradigm. In a sample of 100 infants 6-8 months of age from Southern Ethiopia, we assessed relations between growth and VIP. The 69 infants who completed the VIP protocol had a mean weight z score of -1.12 plus or minus…
Descriptors: Infants, Recognition (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Cognitive Processes
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Clark, Levina; Tiggemann, Marika – Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study investigated the prospective predictors of body image in 9- to 12-year-old girls. Participants were 150 girls in Grades 4-6 with a mean age of 10.3 years. Girls completed questionnaire measures of media and peer influences (television/magazine exposure, peer appearance conversations), individual psychological variables (appearance…
Descriptors: Psychological Characteristics, Body Weight, Intervention, Females
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Moore, Chris; Mealiea, Jennifer; Garon, Nancy; Povinelli, Daniel J. – Infancy, 2007
Two experiments examined toddlers' performance on a new task designed to examine the development of body self-awareness. The new task was conceived from observations by Piaget (1953/1977) and theoretical work from Povinelli and Cant (1995) and involved a toy shopping cart to the back of which a small mat had been attached. Children were asked to…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Toddlers, Age Differences, Human Body
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Faraone, Stephen V.; Giefer, Eldred E. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: To examine the long-term effects of the methylphenidate transdermal system (MTS) on the growth of children being treated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Method: Height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) were measured in 127 children ages 6 to 12 at longitudinal assessments for up to 36 months of treatment with MTS. These…
Descriptors: Pharmacology, Body Composition, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders
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French, Karen E.; Spurgeon, John H.; Nevett, Michael E. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2007
The purpose of this study was to compare measures of body size in two samples of youth baseball players with normative data from the United States National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) growth charts. One sample of youth baseball players participated in a local little league. The second sample of youth baseball players were members of eight…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Maturity (Individuals), Body Composition, Body Height
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Thompson, Sharon H. – Journal of American College Health, 2007
The Female Athlete Triad is a life-threatening syndrome defined by disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis. Objective and Participants: The author's purpose in this study was to examine female cross-country runners' (N = 300) calcium consumption, along with the prevalence of 2 components of the triad: disordered eating and menstrual…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Athletes, Measures (Individuals), Student Characteristics
Girandola, Robert N. – Research Quarterly, 1977
It is recommended that when obtaining measures of body density by hydrostatic weighing, the subjects normal level of hydration be ascertained, since variance in body fat calculation from the hyperhydrated to the hydrated state can amount to twenty percent (two percent in actual body fat). (MB)
Descriptors: Body Weight, Human Body, Measurement Techniques, Physical Characteristics
Little, Mildred J.; Jessup, George T. – Research Quarterly, 1977
Descriptors: Body Weight, Human Body, Measurement Instruments, Measurement Techniques
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Powell, Lynda H.; Calvin, James E., III; Calvin, James E., Jr. – American Psychologist, 2007
To curb the epidemic of obesity in the United States, revised Medicare policy allows support for efficacious obesity treatments. This review summarizes the evidence from rigorous randomized trials (9 lifestyle trials, 5 drug trials, and 2 surgical trials) on the efficacy and risk-benefit profile of lifestyle, drug, and surgical interventions aimed…
Descriptors: Obesity, Physical Fitness, Human Body, Health Promotion
Johnson, Robert E. – Research Quarterly, 1977
Descriptors: Biology, Body Weight, Human Body, Motor Reactions
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Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1986
Four experts discuss body composition, what it is, why it is assessed, how it is measured, and how to measure it in children and the aged. Standards of fatness, both overfat and underfat, and bone and muscle assessment are covered in the discussion. (MT)
Descriptors: Body Weight, Human Body, Measurement Techniques, Obesity
Gold, Ellen; Katch, Victor – Research Quarterly, 1976
Application of only Dempster's data on problems in human motion studies to living subjects is at best a rough approximation, in light of apparent differences between Dempster's data and the grand mean calculated for all data, with respect to volume and weight. (MB)
Descriptors: Biomechanics, Body Weight, Databases, Human Body
Corbitt, Richard W.; And Others – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1975
Descriptors: Athletics, Body Weight, Coeducation, Females
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