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Goal orientations, perceived self-efficacy and study results amongst beginners and advanced students.

BACKGROUND: On the basis of previous research, it was expected that perceived self-efficacy and social comparison would contribute to pursued goals and that these goals would influence course grades. It was further expected that a task orientation would ...
Anneke Vrugt, Frans J Oort, Caroline Zeeberg (Br J Educ Psychol, 200209)
goal-orientations-perceived-self-efficacy-study-results-amongst.asp

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Eating attitudes in high school students in the Philippines: a preliminary study.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of abnormal eating attitudes among high school students from Pasig Catholic College in the Philippines. METHODS: Two survey questionnaires, the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) and Becks ...
C R Lorenzo, P W Lavori, J D Lock (Eat Weight Disord, 200209)
eating-attitudes-high-school-students-philippines-preliminary-study.asp

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The relationship of family income, family size, age and circumferences with blood pressure in the female students of the Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.

In a randomly selected sample of 600 female students of the Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan, belonging to different socioeconomic groups, age, family income and family size were recorded and measurements were made of arm, waist, neck and ...
T H Khan, U Manzoor (Anthropol Anz, 200209)
relationship-family-income-family-size-age-circumferences-blood.asp

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For all these reasons, I do...drink: a multilevel analysis of contextual reasons for drinking among Canadian undergraduates.

OBJECTIVE: Student drinking is largely related to the setting of the drinking occasion as well as to individual psychosocial characteristics. This article assesses the effect of the reasons for drinking on situational alcohol use above and beyond other ...
Sylvia Kairouz, Louis Gliksman, Andrée Demers, Edward M Adlaf (J Stud Alcohol, 200209)
reasons-drink-multilevel-analysis-contextual-reasons-drinking.asp

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Mailed personalized normative feedback as a brief intervention for at-risk college drinkers.

OBJECTIVE: The current study examined the efficacy of mailed personalized normative feedback (PNF) as a brief alcohol intervention for at-risk college drinkers, and investigated discrepancy as a possible mediator of the intervention effect. METHOD: ...
Susan E Collins, Kate B Carey, Martin J Sliwinski (J Stud Alcohol, 200209)
mailed-personalized-normative-feedback-brief-intervention-risk.asp

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Relation between breakfast food choices and knowledge of dietary fat and fiber among Swedish schoolchildren.

PURPOSE: To investigate dietary knowledge and beliefs of schoolchildren, in relationship to breakfast choices, with specific attention to fat and fiber content. METHODS: Food choice and perceptions were studied by interviews using the "stacking box ...
M Christina Berg, Inger Jonsson, Mark T Conner, Lauren Lissner (J Adolesc Health, 200208)
relation-breakfast-food-choices-knowledge-dietary-fat-fiber-swedish.asp

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Reliability and factorial structure of the taoist-orientation scale for samples of Kuwaiti and American students.

In a sample of 460 Kuwaiti undergraduates and 273 American students, the Taoist-Orientation scale had different factor patterns in an item-analysis but had good internal consistency reliability for both ...
David Lester, Ahmed Abdel-Khalek (Psychol Rep, 200208)
reliability-factorial-structure-taoist-orientation-scale-samples.asp

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Secondhand effects of student alcohol use reported by neighbors of colleges: the role of alcohol outlets.

This is a study of the secondhand effects of student alcohol use experienced by residents of neighborhoods near college campuses. We examined the relationship of a colleges level of binge drinking and the number of alcohol outlets in the immediate area, ...
Henry Wechsler, Jae Eun Lee, John Hall, Alexander C Wagenaar, Hang Lee (Soc Sci Med, 200208)
secondhand-effects-student-alcohol-reported-neighbors-colleges-role.asp

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Multilevel analysis of situational drinking among Canadian undergraduates.

Using a multi-level approach, we examined the contribution of drinking setting characteristics and of individual characteristics on the alcohol intake per drinking occasion. The data are drawn from the Canadian Campus Survey, a national mail survey ...
Andrée Demers, Sylvia Kairouz, Edward M Adlaf, Louis Gliksman, Brenda Newton-Taylor, Alain Marchand (Soc Sci Med, 200208)
multilevel-analysis-situational-drinking-canadian-undergraduates.asp

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Sexual and nonsexual dating violence perpetration: testing an integrated perpetrator typology.

The present study tested the validity of an integrated sexual and nonsexual violence perpetrator typology outlined by Monson and Langhinrichsen-Rohling (1998) in a sample of 670 dating individuals. Two-hundred-and-sixty-five of the participants (87 men, ...
Candice M Monson, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling (Violence Vict, 200208)
sexual-nonsexual-dating-violence-perpetration-testing-integrated.asp