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Information disclosure and smoking risk perceptions. Potential short-term impact on Spanish students of the new European Union directive on tobacco products.

BACKGROUND: The Directive 1999/0244 (COD), recently approved by the European Parliament, proposed that the content and presentation of health warnings on cigarette packets be modified. The aim of the present study was to analyse the potential effect of ...
Fabiola Portillo, Fernando Antoñanzas (Eur J Public Health, 200212)
information-disclosure-smoking-risk-perceptions-potential-short-term.asp

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Factors associated with smoking progression among Spanish adolescents.

Smoking onset takes place in the early years of adolescence, and can be seen as a progression through stages of preparation, trying, experimentation, regular smoking and nicotine dependence or addiction. The objective of this study is to identify 1-year ...
Carles Ariza-Cardenal, Manel Nebot-Adell (Health Educ Res, 200212)
factors-associated-smoking-progression-spanish-adolescents.asp

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Students learning through hypermedia.

This study assessed the effectiveness of hypermedia software in the learning and retention, association, and structuring of biological knowledge by using fifth grade students (ages 9 to 11 years) from three urban schools in Southern Chile. Four groups of ...
Lucio Rehbein, Enrique Hiinostroza, Miguel Ripoll, Isabel Alister (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
students-learning-hypermedia.asp

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Examination of relations between the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised and the Temperament and Character Inventory.

The present investigation examined the relation of the Five Factor Model of personality as measured by the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised to the seven-factor model of temperament and character as tapped by the Temperament and Character Inventory by ...
Douglas A MacDonald, Daniel Holland (Psychol Rep, 200212)
examination-relations-neo-personality-inventory-revised-temperament.asp

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Test-retest stability of body-image scores in a sample of 12- to 14-yr.-olds.

The present study investigated test-retest variation in Body Image Questionnaire scores among a sample of British school children. 112 participants from three different school years (aged 12 to 14 years) completed the Body Image Questionnaire on two ...
Michael J Duncan, Lorayne A Woodfield, Stephen J ONeill, Yahya Al-Nakeeb, Alan M Nevill, Andrew M Lane (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
test-retest-stability-body-image-scores-sample--yr-olds.asp

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Predictive validity of an Implicit Association Test for assessing anxiety.

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) was adapted to measure anxiety by assessing associations of self (vs. other) with anxiety-related (vs. calmness-related) words. Study 1 showed that the IAT-Anxiety exhibited good internal consistency and adequate ...
Boris Egloff, Stefan C Schmukle (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200212)
predictive-validity-implicit-association-test-assessing-anxiety.asp

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Individual differences in faking integrity tests.

The present study assessed whether success at faking a commercially available integrity test relates to individual differences among the test takers. We administered the Reid Report, an overt integrity test, twice to a sample of college students with ...
Reagan D Brown, Christopher M Cothern (Psychol Rep, 200212)
individual-differences-faking-integrity-tests.asp

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Depression among university students in South Africa.

Of 129 first-year students at an historically Black university students in psychology reported significantly less depression than nonpsychology students, and younger students reported significantly lower scores on depression than older students on the ...
A L Pillay, S D Edwards, S Q Gambu, R M Dhlomo (Psychol Rep, 200212)
depression-university-students-south-africa.asp

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Intercessory prayer in psychological well-being: using a multiple-baseline, across-subjects design.

Undergraduates from an upper-level psychology course were volunteer participants in the study. The 8 participants were to be prayed for in a Multiple Baseline Across Subjects research design, which included a 1-week minimum baseline period for all ...
Joseph Tloczynski, Sonja Fritzsch (Psychol Rep, 200212)
intercessory-prayer-psychological-well-multiple-baseline-across.asp

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Moral judgment and drivers behavior among Brazilian students.

It is well known that lifestyle, social deviance, and criminal background are related to involvement in road accidents. This study addressed the connection between moral judgment and driving behavior, especially deliberate violations of the traffic law. ...
Alessandra Bianchi, Heikki Summala (Psychol Rep, 200212)
moral-judgment-drivers-behavior-brazilian-students.asp