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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"sociocultural influences"”.
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Sociocultural Influences on Body Image Across the Lifespan
… image concerns are prevalent in Western society. Sociocultural theories posit that the media are largely responsible for body image dissatisfaction because they have an omnipresent influence which consistently portrays unrealistically thin females and hyper-muscular males, which are then …
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Reader-Reported Influences on a Fifth Grader's Transaction With Extended Text
… theory. Conclusions were that there are numerous sociocultural influences on a reader's transaction with text and that these influences must be taken into account in the classroom.
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A Narrative Exploration of 'Unhealthy' Attitudes Towards 'Healthy' Eating.
… attention was paid to the impact of broader sociocultural influences on the narratives. Implications for therapeutic practice with eating disordered individuals are subsequently explored and suggestions are made for the direction of future research.
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Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-4-Revised in Asian Americans
… symptoms related to eating disorders because of sociocultural stigma and the desire to uphold cultural values, such as interdependence, harmony within the community, humility, and emotional restraint. The SATAQ-4R is a widely-used measure of sociocultural influences on body image and eating …
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Body Dissatisfaction and Other Sociocultural Factors as Predictors of Body Image Perceptions in Sorority and Non-Sorority Women
… was to explore body dissatisfaction and other sociocultural factors as predictors of body image perceptions in college-aged sorority and non-sorority women. The Social Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire (SATAQ-3) (Thompson et al, 2004), the Body Dissatisfaction subscale of the Eating …
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Investigating the Role of Appearance-Based Factors in Predicting Sunbathing and Tanning Salon Use
… and intentions mediate the relationship between sociocultural influences and tanning behaviors, and appearance reasons not to tan and intentions mediate the role of perceived threat on behaviors. The implications of these findings yield important information relevant to the understanding of …
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Opening the Black Box: Understanding Adult Inpatient Falls
… the hospital setting. These findings and their sociocultural influences have implications for nursing practice, administration, and education.</p>
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There are many paths of healing: Narratives and themes from Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color sexual violence and assault survivors
… Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color; attend to sociocultural influences on personal healing; and expand conceptualization of personal healing beyond trauma symptom reduction (RAINN, n.d.; Walensky et al., 2022). Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) was used to glean two themes: (1) Healing as a …
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Similarities Between Etiological Models of Eating Disorder Symptomatology and Muscle Dysmorphia Symptomatology
… In both models, it was hypothesized that sociocultural influences on appearance (SIA) would predict body dissatisfaction (BD), and that this relationship would be mediated by self-esteem (SE) and perfectionism (P); that BD would predict negative affect (NA); and that NA would predict MD …
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Biocultural strength: Understanding sex, gender, and performance in Olympic weightlifting
… creatures,” this study contributes to the sociocultural study of sport, gender, sex, and bodily difference by exploring the intertwining of biological, environmental, and sociocultural influences in women’s strength. Positioned within the field of feminist Science Technology Studies (STS), …
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Media Effects on the Body Shape Ideal and Bulimic Symptomatology in Males
This study investigates the impact of sociocultural mediators in relation to eating disorders among male undergraduates. Literature on eating disorders has demonstrated that a thin body shape ideal depicted in the media directly contributes to eating pathology among females, but little research has …
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Body Dissatisfaction, Verbal Commentary, Social Influences and Cigarette Smoking
… and smoking, and the relationship between sociocultural influences (perceived family, peer, media, and significant other pressures) and smoking, while controlling for body mass index. Participants included 397 female undergraduates (Mean age = 20.32) recruited from universities and online …
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Variables involved in the uptake or downfall of studies related to technological subjects : a case study in Maltese state secondary schools
… than gender being a primary factor of influence; sociocultural influences, and future job objectives, appear to be the core elements influencing and driving students' decisions (Stellini & Pulé, 2019). Results indicate that there is a dire need for research relating to the uptake and content of …
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An Ecological Model of Mexican Immigration and Mental Health
… Watson, & Thompson, 2008). This study explored sociocultural influences as well as engagement with macro systems influencing mental health symptoms. An ecological framework was used to examine the relations among immigration status vulnerability, deportation fear, U.S. acculturation, active …
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Quilted Narratives: Patchworking Rural Appalachian Cultural Influence and Identities through the Storied Experiences of Women Educational Leaders
… Appalachian region to determine how their sociocultural backgrounds or Appalachian identity structures influenced their leadership practices in K-12 educational settings. Using the metaphor of quilting, my research study considered the storied narratives of rural Appalachian women …
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Effects of Acculturation on Mammography Utilization among Korean American Women
… rate in KA women may be an indication of sociocultural influences from the host country. A descriptive correlational study using a cross sectional design was conducted. A convenience of sample of 215 KA women was recruited from local Korean churches in LA County. The participants completed …
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The Role of Mathematics in Engineering Practice and in the Formation of Engineers
… a career; (ii) teachers, affective factors and sociocultural influences are the main contributors to engineers’ interest in and learning of mathematics; (iii) while almost two thirds of engineers use high level curriculum mathematics in engineering practice, mathematical thinking has a greater …
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Resilience of EFL Teachers in Chinese Higher Education: Institutional Factors and Strategies
… Notably, mentorship, peer collaboration and sociocultural influences emerged as significant factors in fostering and sustaining teacher resilience. Institutional support, including stress management workshops, wellness programmes rooted in traditional Chinese medicine and access to …
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The Meaning and Cultural Context of Physical Activity as Perceived by Physically Active, Rural African American Women
… researcher to better understand the meaning and sociocultural influences that the participants associated with physical activity participation. Analysis of verbatim transcriptions of the focus group interviews involved immersion, coding, categorizing, and identifying themes that emerged from the …
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