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Showing 1 to 20 of 165 for “"Adult participants"”.
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Food Safety Knowledge and Practices of Older Adult Participants of the Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program
… food safety knowledge and practices of older adult participants in the Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program (FSNEP) in Virginia. One hundred and sixty-five FSNEP participants were assigned to two possible intervention groups, group one received the food safety lesson from the Healthy Futures …
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Adult Participants’ Experiences of a Sport Program Implementing the Easy-Play Model: Implications for an Active Lifestyle
… for facilitating sport among a diverse group of participants of different ages and ability levels. The model’s focus on de-emphasizing competitiveness in an effort to establish an optimally competitive environment has facilitated positive play experiences. This study investigated the experiences …
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The effects of unconscious thought and domain familiarity on younger and older adults' decision making
… was to determine circumstances under which older adults could make optimal purchasing decisions using intuitive thought processes. The participants made purchasing decisions regarding cell phone and houses. There were three phases involved in the process. In the acquisition phase, younger and …
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The Efficacy of a Key Word Signing Workshop
… changes from taking part in a KWS workshop. Participants included five special education teachers, three SLPs, and four students with complex communication needs (aged 3 to 14 years) participated in the study. All eight adult participants participated in a pretest-posttest design with …
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Older adults’ experience of psychological therapy
The portfolio examines the older adult experience of psychological therapy. The research study is from the older adult perspective and it provides a rich narrative and strengthens theory and practice links. This research explored older adult service users’ retrospective accounts of Psychological …
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Examination of the Growth and Development of the Long Term Community Based Jazz Workshop Inc. Program
… Inc. program, the impact of the program on its participants will also be explored. The Jazz Workshop Inc. program is located in Homewood in the City of Pittsburgh. The study utilized interviews and focus groups, which were recorded (audio and video) under consent of all parties. This study uses …
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The brightness-weight correspondence in adults and infants
Adult participants report expecting darker objects to be heavier in weight and brighter objects to be lighter in weight (Payne, 1958; Plack & Shick, 1976; Walker, Francis & Walker, 2010; Wright 1962). Although there is evidence that young infants appreciate crossmodal correspondences between pitch …
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Ensemble Perception of Emotion: Incidental Effects of Social Identity
… Study 1 (<em>n</em> = 83) found that young adult participants’ ensemble perceptions of emotion were biased in favor of more self-relevant (younger adult) group members’ emotional expressions, compared to less self-relevant (older adult) group members’ emotional expressions, and that these …
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Death and Ethnicity: A Psychocultural Study-Twenty-Five Years Later.
… Caucasian, African, Hispanic, and Asian American adult participants in north Texas with the results of a 1976 study by Kalish and Reynolds on death attitudes and behaviors of Caucasian, African, Mexican, and Japanese American adult participants in Los Angeles, California. A modified version of …
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The Human-Canine Bond: Differential Effects of Pet Presence on Family Communication
… children in the home, and empty nest families. Adult participants also responded in written form to the Adapted Dog Attitude Inventory. The data reveal family-of-origin influences one's decision to acquire a dog and integrate it into the family system, dogs play roles in the family which are …
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The Deaf Community and Accessible Website Design: How User-Friendliness Augments Organizational Legitimacy
… population in mainstream society. Fifty adult participants, with and without documented hearing loss, were recruited from several audiology and otolaryngology practices in the southeastern United States and from community centers in the same region. Participants were instructed to …
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Amplified Voices: Art-Based Inquiry Into Elder Communication
<p>Older adults’ communication is at risk due to limitations resulting from age-related health issues and ageist stereotypes; their voices are silenced or dismissed. Elder voices need to be reintroduced into public discourse. This study investigated the experiences of those who communicate and …
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Learning by doing : adult studio activities in an art museum
… activities in an art museum as it relates to adult learners. Six adult participants in studio activities were interviewed after having taken activities at the National Gallery of Canada. Their learning experiences are detailed and analyzed, and related to appropriate museum and educational …
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Sequential lineups reduce unconscious transference and mistaken lineup identification: but at what cost?
Adult participants were shown one of two versions of a video portraying a theft. In the transference condition the video contained a scene with the bystander. The control condition did not have the bystander, but another person in his place. In Experiment 1 participants in both conditions were …
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Hypertension Prevalence Trends Among Mexican-Americans: NHANES 1999-2016
… is a grave health issue affecting millions of adults in the United States (US). Uncontrolled hypertension can lead to cardiovascular disease, including stroke, heart attack, and heart failure. Current National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2015-2016 data reports that 29% of …
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Rich or Black? Examining Attitudes Toward Children Who Differ by Wealth and Race
… of race (e.g., Olson et al., 2012). I examined adults’ (Studies 1-3) and children’s (Study 3) associations with race and wealth using a child-friendly Implicit Association Test (IAT) and explicit measures. When adult participants were asked to categorize by wealth (Study 1 and 2) or race (Study …
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Post-Bariatric surgery patients fail to exercise consistently: exploring the potential role of self-compassion
… contribute to lower appreciation for one’s body. Adult participants from an international bariatric population sample (N = 805) and an Eastern Washington University undergraduate student sample (N = 104) completed a one-time online questionnaire that included measures of self-compassion, physical …
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Family Leisure Involvement and Family Functioning in Samoa
… comparison. The sample consisted of 340 adult participants. The Family Leisure Activity Profile (FLAP) was used to measure family leisure involvement. FACES II was used to measure family functioning. Regression analyses conducted on the 340 individuals indicated a positive relationship …
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Understanding Language Gain in the Overseas Immersion Context: Multi-Modal Assessment of Young Adult Learners of Arabic, Chinese, and Russian
… students. The subjects (N = 452) comprise young-adult participants in the Russian Overseas Flagship (N = 126) from AY 2004-05 to 2014-15 and late-adolescent participants in the summer and year programs of the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) from 2013-2015 and from AY …
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