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Showing 1 to 20 of 680 for “"enjoyment"”.
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A Multi-Dimensional Model of Enjoyment: Development and Validation of an Enjoyment Scale (Enjoy)
<p>Enjoyment of an activity is central to positive experiences and can determine future behavior toward the activity or object of interest. In the literature there has been no consensus on the definition and dimensionality of enjoyment. In this dissertation, to provide clarity to the construct, a …
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Young children's enjoyment of physical activity
… understudied in the area of physical activity enjoyment. Since young children lack the cognitive skills which motivate many adults to participate in physical activity, they have a unique need for specialized intervention programs. The present study explores how enjoyment of physical activity in …
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Cruel Sorority, Or, Feminizing Enjoyment in American Romance
<p>"Cruel Sorority, or, Feminizing Enjoyment in American Romance" analyzes the often-overlooked anti-social figures and affects found on the margins of American Romanticism. Symptomatically registering dissatisfaction and rage at the foreclosure of democratic possibility and public life, these …
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The Fear Enjoyment Hypothesis: Psychopathic Traits and Invincibility
… between psychopathic traits and fear enjoyment. Brock University undergraduate student participants (N = 81) viewed either a neutral video or a video intended to decrease feelings of invincibility and then played a horror game in Virtual Reality. Participants rated the videogame on a …
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Blood, Enjoyment and Belonging in Selected Vampire Fiction
… used blood as the definitive object of vampiric enjoyment. Combining Lacanian psychoanalytic understandings with medical history and the close reading of a range of vampire texts, this thesis traces how premodern beliefs about blood as individual and collective essence never fully disappeared, …
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Measuring The Effect Of Weighted Devices On Exercise Enjoyment
… Participants completed the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale (PACES) after each condition. Three, paired-sampled t-tests with the Bonferroni Correction (.05 / 3 = .017) to help counteract the issues of having multiple comparisons were conducted. A significant difference was found (t(31)= …
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Cardiovascular Effects and Enjoyment of Exer-Gaming in Older Adults
… To quantify the cardiovascular responses, the enjoyment, and the untoward physical discomforts to a 15 minute trial of EG (Nintendo Wii Tennis) in healthy, older adults. Methods: A quasi-experimental design using a convenience sample of 34 self-reported healthy older adults from an independent …
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Effect of differing intensities of exercise on affect and enjoyment
… is an intuitive connection between exercise enjoyment and increasing adherence to exercise programs. Exercise intensity may influence affect and enjoyment during exercise, which may help in prescribing exercise programs and increasing adherence rates. Purpose: To examine the intensity-affect …
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The relationship between enjoyment and ongoing participation in A Grade dancesport
To date no studies have considered enjoyment in Dancesport. Scanlan, Stein and Ravizza, (1989a, 1989b & 1991) have extensively studied enjoyment and recommended further studies be conducted in individual sports. Past research has tended to identity enjoyment as a one off momentary experience termed …
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Midlife women's lived experience : their patterns of health, leisure and enjoyment
… undertaken to access women's lived experience of enjoyment, their lifeworld, and also to determine participants understanding of the concept of leisure and their experience of menopause. All interviews were transcribed and subjected to a systematic content analysis, as advocated by …
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The Effect of Task Versus Ego Oriented Feedback on Exercise Enjoyment
… different levels of intrinsic motivation (i.e., enjoyment, tension, effort and competence during exercise). Participants (N= 114) rode on an exercise bike for 24 minutes at a moderate intensity. A MANCOVA factorial design was used to examine differences in intrinsic motivation. The results of the …
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Nurses’ experience of professional enjoyment of nursing: a qualitative descriptive study
… To explore nurses’ experience of professional enjoyment and to understand the factors that enhance or diminish professional enjoyment in nursing. Methods: This qualitative study explored professional enjoyment of nursing using semi-structured interviews with 25 registered nurses in England. The …
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Effects of self-selected music on exercise enjoyment, duration, and intensity
… for those who do not exercise. Many cite lack of enjoyment as a reason why they fail to continue an exercise program once started. Music has been used to enhance affect and positive feelings in therapy, classrooms, and, more recently, during exercise. If music can positively influence the exercise …
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Repeated Readings in Poetry Versus Prose: Fluency and Enjoyment for Second-graders
This study examined the effectiveness of repeated readings in four second-grade classrooms in two urban elementary schools in Northwest Ohio. As determined by the Ohio Department of Education, 75% of the students in each building must score at or above the proficient level. For the 2008-2009 school …
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Repeated Readings in Poetry Versus Prose: Fluency and Enjoyment for Second-graders
<p>This study examined the effectiveness of repeated readings in four second-grade classrooms in two urban elementary schools in Northwest Ohio. As determined by the Ohio Department of Education, 75% of the students in each building must score at or above the proficient level. For the 2008-2009 …
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Mastery Motivational Climate: The Key to Vocational Students' Enjoyment of Physical Activity
… on vocational students’ physical activity enjoyment levels. Participants were 84 ninth graders (boys=53 and girls=31) aged 14 to 16 years from eight different school districts, who attended a vocational-technical school in New England. Surveys were used pre- and post-mastery climate …
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The Effects of Music Preference and Exercise Intensity on Exercise Enjoyment and Perceived Exertion
… exercise adherence. Past research has shown that enjoyment is an essential factor in exercise adherence. Additionally, music has been shown to influence exercise enjoyment. The music and enjoyment literature has generally included most preferred and no music conditions, yet no one has considered a …
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Towards a South African pedagogy of play for autistic learners: exploration, enjoyment, and empowerment
… exploration (making learning concrete), enjoyment (encouraging happiness), and empowerment (following children’s interests). Trusting relationships and structures underlined all three indicators. Creating safe spaces, developing trusting bonds, and adhering to structured routines made …
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The politics of enjoyment: the media viewing preferences and practices of young higher-educated Chinese
… so, it analyses how the social organisation of enjoyment among aspirational urban and educated youth relates to the Chinese political order as the country integrates into the global market economy. Using observation, interviews and written responses, supplemented by journalistic and online …
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