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Elliot, Diane L.; Moe, Esther L.; Goldberg, Linn; DeFrancesco, Carol A.; Durham, Melissa B.; Hix-Small, Hollie – Journal of School Health, 2006
Almost one half of male and female students participate in high school-sponsored athletics, and high school also is a time when classroom health promotion curricula are less effective. The Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids is a sport team-centered drug-use prevention program for male high school athletes, which has been shown to…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Females, Risk
Granberg, Ellen – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2006
Possible selves typically are conceptualized as resources that facilitate identity development and that motivate and sustain self-change. The concept of possible selves, however, generally has not been extended to examining the aftermath of personal transformation. In this article I explore the self and social processes that operate during efforts…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Body Composition, Change, Personal Narratives
Tsou, Meng-Wen; Liu, Jin-Tan – Education Economics, 2006
This paper sets out to examine the impacts of schooling and health knowledge on the level of obesity in Taiwan. The results obtained from a sample of Taiwanese females support the hypothesis of Grossman that schooling has a direct positive effect on health by reducing the likelihood of a person being obese. The awareness of obesity-disease…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Obesity, Health Behavior
Missouri State Dept. of Health, Jefferson City. – 1995
This guide deals with various aspects of sports and nutrition. Twelve chapters are included: (1) "Sports and Nutrition"; (2) "Eat to Compete"; (3) "Fit Folks Need Fit Food"; (4) "The Food Guide Pyramid"; (5) "Fat Finder's Guide"; (6) "Pre- and Post-Event Meals"; (7) "Tips for the…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Body Weight, Eating Disorders
Gender Effects in College Students' Drinking Habits and Their Perceptions of Intoxication of Others.
Skacel, Robert K., Jr.; Merritt, Rebecca Davis – 1991
Female (N=21) and male (N=21) college students were asked to estimate their amount of daily alcohol consumption via a modified version of the Drinking Practices Questionnaire. Males reported drinking significantly more alcohol than females. However, when subjects' body weights were used to compare estimated blood alcohol levels (BAC) rather than…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Body Weight, College Students, Drinking

Lerner, Richard M.; And Others – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1975
This study assessed personal space schemata of children towards stimulus figures representing male and female body build stereotypes. Greater spatial distances were used towards the Endomorph than other physique types and significant sex differences were found. (GO)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Body Height, Body Weight, Early Childhood Education

And Others; Pueschel, Siegfried M. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
Descriptors: Body Weight, Downs Syndrome, Drafting, Exceptional Child Research

Swartz, Hillary; Leitch, Cynthia J. – Journal of School Health, 1975
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age, Blood Circulation, Body Weight
Osness, Wayne H.; And Others – 1990
This field test to assess the functional fitness of adults over 60 covers of the following areas: (1) body composition; (2) body weight; (3) standing height measurement; (4) flexibility; (5) agility/dynamic balance; (6) coordination; (7) strength; and (8) endurance. Posttest activities are suggested, and a data sheet and exercise consent form are…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Body Height, Body Weight, Exercise
Perdue, Lauren; Silverstein, Brett – 1985
Eating disorders are more common among women than men, perhaps because of the present cultural emphasis on thinness for women. Television is one potential communicator of this thin standard of attractiveness. To assess how men and women are presented on television, 139 male characters and 82 female characters from 33 popular television shows were…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Body Image, Body Weight

President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Washington, DC. – 1984
The principal addresses at this Women's Leadership Conference on Fitness were: (1) "Keynote Address" (C. Carson Conrad); (2) "Essential Nature of Fitness" (Lawrence E. Lamb); (3) "Effects of Exercise on Women from 20-50 Years Old" (Sharon Plowman); (4) "Fitness in Older Women" (Everett L. Smith); (5) "Female Musculo-Skeletal System" (Robert P.…
Descriptors: Aerobics, Body Weight, Exercise, Females
DeLucia, Janice L.; Kalodner, Cynthia R. – 1987
This study examined the effectiveness of the addition of a cognitive intervention based on individualized assessment to a behavioral intervention for obesity. Overweight subjects (N=63) were randomly assigned to either a behavioral intervention or a behavioral intervention combined with a cognitive intervention which focused on changing specific…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Body Weight
Black, David R.; And Others – 1982
Individual variability in response to behavioral weight loss programs remains an unresolved and perplexing issue for health psychologists. Determining in advance who will succeed or fail at losing weight would be useful in devising programs that produce a more homogeneous and dramatic response to treatment. In order to examine which responses to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Body Weight, Health Programs
Black, David R.; And Others – 1982
Health psychologists continue to have difficulty identifying prognostic indicators of weight loss success. Psychological, social, and demographic factors have been examined, but correlations with weight loss are disappointing. Actual behaviors or quantifications of specific actions and historical measures were examined for their validity in…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Body Weight, Health Programs, Intervention
Segurson, Jack – 1976
It has been suggested that the weight reduction practices of wrestlers results in kidney and liver problems. To observe the effect of wrestlers' weight reduction, diagnostic tests for kidney and liver problems were done on the blood and urine samples of 22 college wrestlers over the course of a wrestling season. Results obtained after reduction to…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Diagnostic Tests, Eating Habits, Human Body