Universities

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Race/ethnicity and depressive symptoms: a cross-cultural/ethnic comparison among university students in East Asia, North and South America.

To examine manifestations of depressive symptomatology among undergraduate students in East Asia, North and South America, responses to the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) were compared across Japanese (n = 310), Anglo-American ...
Noboru Iwata, Stephen Buka (Soc Sci Med, 200212)
race-ethnicity-depressive-symptoms-cross-cultural-ethnic-comparison.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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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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Binge drinking in Jewish and non-Jewish white college students.

BACKGROUND: In the United States, religious commitment, as measured by service attendance, has an inverse relationship with alcohol consumption, heavy use, and problem use. This association, however, has not been found consistently in Jewish Americans. ...
Susan E Luczak, Shoshana H Shea, Lucinda G Carr, Ting-Kai Li, Tamara L Wall (Alcohol Clin Exp Res, 200212)
binge-drinking-jewish-non-jewish-white-college-students.asp

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A comparison of two measures of low response to alcohol among heavy drinking male college students: implications for indicated prevention.

Low response (LR) to alcohol is a risk factor that strongly predicts later problems. This study compares subjective measures of high tolerance (HT) to measures of LR, using the Self-Rating of Effects of Alcohol (SRE) form. First-year heavy drinking ...
Ray Daugherty, Norm Van Tubergen (Prev Sci, 200212)
comparison-two-measures-low-response-alcohol-heavy-drinking-male.asp

126.

Promoting political empowerment: evaluation of an intervention with university students.

The aim of this research is to examine the effects of an intervention, focusing on the development of political empowerment, with university students. Undergraduates were randomly assigned to one of two conditions (intervention/ control) and were ...
Holly Lizotte Angelique, Thomas M Reischl, William S Davidson (Am J Community Psychol, 200212)
promoting-political-empowerment-evaluation-intervention-university.asp

127.

The searchers, II: How consumers can find cost-effective, quality health care.

The original "Searchers" article appeared in the March 2000 issue of Employee Benefits Journal. It described the use of a patient satisfaction survey at Southwest Texas State University (SWT) to assist employees at the annual open enrollment period to ...
Oren Renick, Joseph Hale, Leanne Metzler (Empl Benefits J, 200212)
searchers-ii-consumers-find-cost-effective-quality-health-care.asp

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Mentoring nursing career pathways: the Maryvale High School Student Nurse Academy.

The health care system faces a critical challenge in recruiting younger and more ethnically diverse students into the nursing profession. The innovative Maryvale High School Student Nurse Academy was developed as a collaborative partnership among the ...
Randall M Peterson (J Sch Nurs, 200212)
mentoring-nursing-career-pathways-maryvale-high-school-student-nurse.asp

129.

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

130.

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