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Effect of teaching with mirrors on body image and locus of control in women college ballet dancers.

This preliminary study assessed the effect of mirrors in dance instruction on body image and locus of control of women college ballet dancers. With the same instructor in two beginning ballet classes 8 women were taught using mirrors and 13 women were ...
Sally A Radell, Daniel D Adame, Steven P Cole (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
effect-teaching-mirrors-body-image-locus-control-women-college-ballet.asp

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Students perceptions of being graded as a group in the college classroom: relations among students age, employment, and perceived group satisfaction.

This investigation compared and measured for different age groups of students, hours of employment, and previous grading experiences of one student cohort in relation to their perceived overall satisfaction with being graded as a group. A cohort of 230 ...
Rufus L Barfield (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
students-perceptions-graded-group-college-classroom-relations.asp

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Are undergraduate examinees perceptions of item difficulty related to item characteristics?

The present study assessed whether selected item characteristics--difficulty for the group, corrected item-total correlation, cognitive level, and difficulty for the examinee--relate to judgment of item difficulty. Undergraduate students in two classes ...
David T Morse, Linda W Morse (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
undergraduate-examinees-perceptions-item-difficulty-related-item.asp

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Test-retest reliability of the Eurofit test battery administered to university students.

The purpose of this study was to examine the test-retest reliability of the Eurofit motor fitness tests performed by university students. A total of 98 undergraduate students who were enrolled in physical education departments in Greece participated (29 ...
Nikolaos Tsigilis, Helen Douda, Savvas P Tokmakidis (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
test-retest-reliability-eurofit-test-battery-administered-university.asp

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Psychometric properties of the Spanish form of Templers Death Anxiety Scale.

The aim of this study was to translate and adapt Templers Death Anxiety Scale into Spanish and examine mean scores, internal consistency, temporal stability, and factor structure for a sample of 187 Spanish students, 147 women and 40 men, of an average ...
Joaquín Tomás-Sábado, Juana Gómez-Benito (Psychol Rep, 200212)
psychometric-properties-spanish-form-templer-s-death-anxiety-scale.asp

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Psychometric properties of the Francis Scale of Attitude Towards Christianity among Portuguese university students.

To facilitate use of the adult form of the Francis Scale of Attitude Towards Christianity in cross-cultural studies, the psychometric characteristics of the translated scale were examined among 323 university students in Portugal (130 men and 193 women). ...
Ana Veríssimo Ferreira, Félix Neto (Psychol Rep, 200212)
psychometric-properties-francis-scale-attitude-towards-christianity.asp

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Expiratory muscle training increases pressure support in high school band students.

An experiment to increase expiratory muscle strength for instrumentalists, using a high-intensity, low-repetition expiratory training method, was conducted with 40 healthy high school band players. Subjects trained five days per week for 2 weeks using ...
Christine M Sapienza, Paul W Davenport, A D Martin (J Voice, 200212)
expiratory-muscle-training-increases-pressure-support-high-school.asp

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Womens advantage on verbal memory is not restricted to concrete words.

It is well established that women perform better than men on tests of verbal memory, but the nature of this advantage is unclear. To examine whether reference to a real object is a factor, we presented several verbal memory tasks, including one ...
Doreen Kimura, Paul G Clarke (Psychol Rep, 200212)
women-s-advantage-verbal-memory-not-restricted-concrete-words.asp

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Physical fitness in young college men and women.

This study was designed to investigate fitness characteristics of college women and men (n = 427 and 423, respectively) aged 17-20 years whose values were compared to the data of the 1981 Canada Fitness Survey (CFS). Muscular fitness as revealed by the ...
Angelo Tremblay, Luc Chiasson (Can J Appl Physiol, 200212)
physical-fitness-young-college-men-women.asp

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Desired image of power, alcohol expectancies, and alcohol-related aggression.

Three hundred thirty-nine college students were surveyed regarding their usual drinking behavior, alcohol expectancies, desired identity of power, and experience with alcohol-related violence. Eight percent indicated having been in a fight in a bar, and ...
Brian M Quigley, Amy B Corbett, James T Tedeschi (Psychol Addict Behav, 200212)
desired-image-power-alcohol-expectancies-alcohol-related-aggression.asp