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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Female undergraduates"”.
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English-mediated oral presentations in pharmacy : exploring literacy practices among Saudi female undergraduates
… case study to examine how eight year-five undergraduates in a Pharmacy College in Saudi Arabia engage with seminar presentations. The study adopts a social view of literacy to explore its complexity in this context (Barton & Hamilton, 1998; Pahl & Rowsell, 2006; Street, 1984). It also …
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Use of the health belief model to understand HPV vaccine behavior in female undergraduates
… do not. An emailed link was sent to 8,889 EMU female undergraduate students. Chi-Square Tests for Independence were used to determine relationships between variables. Data from 1,126 female undergraduates ranging in age from 18 to 26 were analyzed. Participants’ intention to receive HPV …
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Correlates of Disordered Eating Behavior in Female Undergraduates: Development and Validation of a Structural Model
… eating behaviors are relatively common among female undergraduates, many questions about their etiology remain unanswered. In the current study, structural equation modeling was used to investigate some of the potential mediating relationships among variables previously found to be associated …
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The monoamine oxidase A gene as a potential moderator of the relationship between parental rearing and symptoms of borderline personality disorder in female undergraduates
<p>Borderline Personality Disorder is characterized by intense emotional lability, resistance to treatment, interpersonal problems, and high rates of suicide. All of these result in extensive costs to individuals diagnosed with BPD, their loved ones, and to society in general. Yet there is still no …
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Negative Consequences of Undergraduate Alcohol Usage : a Multivariate Gender Comparison
… While the literature indicates that many male undergraduates suffer numerous negative consequences from alcohol usage, little is known about what, if any, consequences female undergraduates experience. Therefore, this study empirically tested if female undergraduates, ages 17-24, who share …
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Potential relations between extraversion and cardiovascular reactivity during laboratory stressors
… task. In this study, 32 extraverted male and female undergraduates and 32 introverted male and female undergraduates participated in a social and a non-social task. Heart rate and blood pressure measures, as well as measures of self reported arousal, were obtained during both tasks and …
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Interracial Aggression: Behavioral and Attitudinal Variables.
… aggression. Forty black and forty white female undergraduates were used as subjects. Subject race, target race, and anonymity served as the independent variables. Shock intensity, shock duration, and anticipated intensity and duration served as the behavioral dependent variables, while …
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Effects of Tenderness on Problem Solving.
… of tenderness on problem solving. Thirty-four female undergraduates participated. In the experimental condition, participants received instructions to reproduce a specific respiratory-posturo-facial pattern that had induced tenderness in previous studies. Participants in the control condition …
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Psychological correlates of eating disorders: Exploring the continuum perspective.
Psychological and behavioral characteristics of female undergraduates with varying levels of disordered eating, as measured by the Questionnaire for Eating Disorder Diagnoses (Q-EDD; Mintz, O'Halloran, Mulholland, & Schneider, 1997), were investigated. Results suggest that the Q-EDD is an …
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Skill mastery and self-esteem : a comparison of physical conditioning with other skills
… groups were utlized as Ss. Eighty-five male and female undergraduates from physical conditioning skills classes and ninety-three male and female undergraduates from industrial arts skills classes participated. Both groups participated in their respective skills for one hour a day, four days a …
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An Examination of a Potential Moderator of the Relationship Between Thought Suppression and Preoccupation with Previously Suppressed Thoughts
… use of positive thoughts (Study 1). Eighty-one female undergraduates were assigned to one of three experimental conditions (suppress-worry, suppress-positive, control). Those in the suppression groups were asked to distract themselves from target thoughts using minor worries vs. positive …
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THE IMPACT OF EXPOSURE TO WEIGHT-BASED DEROGATORY MEDIA ON BODY IMAGE AND ANTI-FAT ATTITUDES
… negative affect, and anti-fat attitudes. Female undergraduates (N=240) were randomly assigned to view tabloid-style pictures and accompanying articles about average-size female celebrities that either derogated each celebrity for gaining weight, or provided neutral information about her …
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Intra- and inter-personal predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder and sexual risk-taking behaviors
… and sexual risk-taking using a sample of 229 female undergraduates. Results suggest that enhancing self-esteem, as opposed to bolstering social support, may have a greater relative impact on PTSD symptoms even after accounting for the impact of sexual victimization history. Moreover, the …
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Undergraduate Prescription Stimulant Misuse: The Impact of Academic Strain, Social Norms, and Gender
… the misuse of prescription stimulants among undergraduates for a variety of different purposes, including: academic, other instrumental, and recreational. This research is important as existing literature as well as national level surveillance data indicates a substantial increase in this …
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Alcohol Consumption and Unwanted Sexual Experiences Among College Females: The Mediating Role of Protective Behavioral Strategies
… in more alcoholrelated consequences specific to females. Compared to males, females report more sexual consequences, such as doing something they later regret, as a result of alcohol consumption. For this reason, there is a vital need for researchers to identify active methods that females can …
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Cardiac slowing as a function of biofeedback and sensory deprivation or biofeedback alone
… to obtain money.</p> <p>Seven male and seven female undergraduates participated in a study designed to test the hypothesis that visual focusing on meaningless stimulation and biofeedback would produce larger heart rate decreases than biofeedback alone. Each subject attended three baseline …
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The Effects of Media Exposure on Body Satisfaction, Beliefs About Attractiveness, Mood and Bulimic Symptomatology Among College Women
… assignment to the experimental conditions. Female undergraduates aged 18 to 25 years participated in premeasure (N = 198) and post measure (N = 164) conditions. Results from repeated mulitvariate analysis indicated media exposure to ideal-body images demonstrated no significant changes in …
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The effects of experimentally-induced anxiety on the report of pain: a signal detection analysis
… taking these problems into account. Thirty-six female undergraduates were assigned to one of three experimental conditions. Subjects in the two anxiety groups received negative feedback on a vocabulary test and saw a neutral film or a gory film. Control subjects were given positive feedback on …
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Taking the Victim Out of Sexual Assault: The Effect of Self-Compassion on Sexual Assault Survivors
… to an imagined sexual assault scenario. Female undergraduates (N = 141) were randomly assigned to a self-compassion condition or a control. All participants imagined a vivid sexual assault scenario and rated how they anticipated they would feel following the scenario (i., e emotion, less …
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Body Dissatisfaction, Verbal Commentary, Social Influences and Cigarette Smoking
… for body mass index. Participants included 397 female undergraduates (Mean age = 20.32) recruited from universities and online communities, who completed an online survey. Participants were primarily Hispanic (33.4%), followed by Asian/Pacific Islander (28.2%), and White (20.1%). Results …
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