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Effects of health education on prevention of smoking among eighth-grade students.

This paper reports on the effects of health education intervention on the smoking knowledge, attitudes, decision-making capabilities, and intentions not to smoke of eighth-grade students. The study selected one intervention and two control groups. The ...
Fang-Hsin Lee, Hsiu-Hung Wang (Kaohsiung J Med Sci, 200206)
effects-health-education-prevention-smoking-eighth-grade-students.asp

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A possible selves intervention to enhance school involvement.

We developed a 9-week after-school, small group, activities-based intervention focused on enhancing youths abilities to imagine themselves as successful adults and connecting these future imagines to current school involvement. We describe and evaluate ...
Daphna Oyserman, Kathy Terry, Deborah Bybee (J Adolesc, 200206)
possible-selves-intervention-enhance-school-involvement.asp

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Loneliness, self-disclosure, and ICQ ("I seek you") use.

This study investigated the relationships between self-disclosure in ICQ ("I seek you") chat, level of loneliness, and ICQ usage. The Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale and the Revised Self-Disclosure Scale (RSDS) were administered to a multistaged stratified ...
Louis Leung (Cyberpsychol Behav, 200206)
loneliness-self-disclosure-icq-seek-use.asp

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Classroom goal structure and student disruptive behaviour.

BACKGROUND: Achievement goal theory suggests that the emphasis on mastery and performance goals in the classroom (the classroom goal structure) is related to students patterns of learning and behaviour. This theory can offer a preventative holistic ...
Avi Kaplan, Margaret Gheen, Carol Midgley (Br J Educ Psychol, 200206)
classroom-goal-structure-student-disruptive-behaviour.asp

555.

Attitudes toward vaccination: a survey of Canadian chiropractic students.

BACKGROUND: Although the Canadian Chiropractic Association and the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) endorse vaccination, the prevalence of anti-vaccination attitudes among Canadian chiropractors is unknown. This study describes the ...
Jason W Busse, Abhaya V Kulkarni, James B Campbell, H Stephen Injeyan (CMAJ, 200206)
attitudes-toward-vaccination-survey-canadian-chiropractic-students.asp

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The academic achievement of African American students during early adolescence: an examination of multiple risk, promotive, and protective factors.

This study examined the effects of multiple risk, promotive, and protective factors on three achievement-related measures (i.e., grade point average, number of absences, and math achievement test scores) for African American 7th-grade students (n = 837). ...
Leslie Morrison Gutman, Arnold J Sameroff, Jacquelynne S Eccles (Am J Community Psychol, 200206)
academic-achievement-african-american-students-early-adolescence.asp

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The latent structure of analogue depression: should the Beck Depression Inventory be used to classify groups?

Research on depression is often conducted with analogue samples that have been divided into depressed and nondepressed groups using a cutoff score on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Although the relative merits of different cut scores are frequently ...
Ayelet Meron Ruscio, John Ruscio (Psychol Assess, 200206)
latent-structure-analogue-depression-beck-depression-inventory.asp

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Comparative accuracy of the MMPI-2 and the MMPI-A in the diagnosis of psychopathology in 18-year-olds.

Both the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--2 (MMPI-2) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--Adolescent (MMPI-A) may be administered to 18-year-olds. Each test was administered to 18-year-old participants classified as ...
Timothy M Osberg, Danielle L Poland (Psychol Assess, 200206)
comparative-accuracy-mmpi-mmpi-diagnosis-psychopathology-year-olds.asp

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Nursing exploration summer camp: improving the image of nursing.

Improving the image of nursing and finding ways to encourage young people to enter the nursing field are two areas that need attention from nurse executives. That concept was turned into reality with Inova Nursing Exploration Summer Camp 2001, a camp for ...
Karen Drenkard, Ellen Swartwout, Stephanie Hill (J Nurs Adm, 200206)
nursing-exploration-summer-camp-improving-image-nursing.asp

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An epilepsy questionnaire study of knowledge and attitudes in Canadian college students.

PURPOSE: Controversy exists about the relation of societal knowledge and attitudes regarding epilepsy. We conducted a survey to examine knowledge and attitudes, to note gender and occupational influences, and to examine the effect of an informational ...
G Bryan Young, Paul Derry, Ingrid Hutchinson, Verity John, Suzan Matijevic, Lisa Parrent, Samuel Wiebe (Epilepsia, 200206)
epilepsy-questionnaire-study-knowledge-attitudes-canadian-college.asp