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Alyssa A. Sceppaguercio – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Notwithstanding significant privilege and benefits, research suggests that collegiate student-athletes experience higher rates of mental exhaustion, depression, anxiety, and risk-taking behaviors compared to non-athletic peers. Student-athletes have been found to compartmentalize and manage academic and athletic responsibilities by engaging in a…
Descriptors: Student Athletes, Mental Health, Well Being, Risk
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Abitov, Ildar R.; Gorodetskaya, Inna M. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The research addresses the peculiarities of self-regulation of loneliness experience of elderly people living in care homes. The population of the study consisted of 60 elderly people (65-80 years old). 30 of them live in families with spouses and children and 30 persons live in the State residential social service institution. It was found that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Control, Social Isolation, Psychological Patterns
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Thompson, Suzanne C.; Ting, Sarah A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2012
Two distinctly different denial-based threat orientations (avoidance denial and optimistic denial) were examined using a message about the future risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) for young adults. Participants (N = 101) completed measures of denial-based dispositional threat orientations, current eating, comparative risk, and objective risk…
Descriptors: Diseases, Young Adults, Defense Mechanisms, Heart Disorders