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Tobacco use among middle and high school students--New Hampshire, 1995-2001.

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Because 80% of adult smokers began smoking as minors, efforts to prevent smoking initiation have focused on adolescents. To examine trends in smoking prevalence among ...
(MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, 200301)
tobacco-middle-high-school-students-new-hampshire.asp

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Health behaviors, self-rated health, and quality of life: a study among first-year Swedish university students.

The authors conducted a baseline investigation of male and female university students health behaviors and self-rated health and quality of life (QOL). The study population consisted of all full-time, first-year students registered in a comprehensive ...
Marjan Vaez, Lucie Laflamme (J Am Coll Health, 200301)
health-behaviors-self-rated-health-quality-life-study-first-year.asp

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The Japanese version of the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist-Revised: development and validation.

In order to develop a Japanese version of the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist-Revised (MAACL-R), the 66 scored adjectives were translated into Japanese and translated back into English as recommended by Werner and Campbell (1971). Confirmatory factor ...
Tomoyuki Yasuda, Bernard Lubin, Juhu Kim, Rodney Van Whitlock (J Clin Psychol, 200301)
japanese-version-multiple-affect-adjective-checklist-revised.asp

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The effects of dietary fat and caloric content on the body-size estimates of Anorexic Profile and normal college students.

Anorexic-Profile (AP) and Normal-Profile (NP) college-womens body-size estimates of a fictitious female student (target) consuming a regular diet of high- vs low-fat/calorie foods were compared. Participants initially were divided into four groups based ...
Wendy D Hoyt, Scott B Hamilton, Kathryn M Rickard (J Clin Psychol, 200301)
effects-dietary-fat-caloric-content-body-size-estimates-anorexic.asp

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Determinants of posttraumatic adjustment in adolescents from Sarajevo who experienced war.

The purpose of this study was to examine risk and protective factors of postwar adjustment among adolescents from Sarajevo who have been exposed to war traumas during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. More specifically, we wanted to examine differential ...
Elvira Durakovic-Belko, Alija Kulenovic, Renko Dapic (J Clin Psychol, 200301)
determinants-posttraumatic-adjustment-adolescents-sarajevo-who.asp

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Gender differences in physical activity in older children and adolescents: the central role of organized sport.

Previous studies have generally had limited success in accounting for gender differences in leisure time physical activity. Based on a representative national survey of 3270 Icelandic 6th, 8th and 10th grade students, the study found that girls lower ...
Runar Vilhjalmsson, Gudrun Kristjansdottir (Soc Sci Med, 200301)
gender-differences-physical-activity-older-children-adolescents.asp

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Children in classrooms: peer status, status distribution and mental well-being.

This study focuses on social relations in school classes and their importance for mental well-being in middle childhood in a Scottish city. The aspect of social relations under study is peer status and both the individuals own status position and the ...
Viveca Ostberg (Soc Sci Med, 200301)
children-classrooms-peer-status-status-distribution-mental-well-being.asp

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Functional representation of 3D space in endogenous attention shifts.

The aim of this study was to explore whether the attentional system, as far as an endogenous orienting is concerned, allocates resources along the sagittal plane and whether such a process is affected by, and is likely to be based on, different ...
Alessandro Couyoumdjian, Francesco Di Nocera, Fabio Ferlazzo (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200301)
functional-representation-d-space-endogenous-attention-shifts.asp

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Naïve and experienced judgments of stimulus-response compatibility: implications for interface design.

Many design guidelines encourage maintaining stimulus-response compatibility whenever possible. Payne found that naïve judgments for different stimulus-response (S-R) mappings were not very accurate, and suggested that designers may not be able to ...
Kim-Phuong L Vu, Robert W Proctor (Ergonomics, 200301)
naïve-experienced-judgments-stimulus-response-compatibility.asp

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The use of control groups in artificial grammar learning.

Experimenters assume that participants of an experimental group have learned an artificial grammar if they classify test items with significantly higher accuracy than does a control group without training. The validity of such a comparison, however, ...
Rolf Reber, Pierre Perruchet (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200301)
control-groups-artificial-grammar-learning.asp