BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to analyze the four-factor structure (advertising, information, family environment and friendship setting) of the Cuestionario de Influjos Socioculturales sobre el Autoconcepto Físico (CIAF) [Sociocultural Influences on Physical Self-concept Questionnaire] and its invariance in relation to sex, age and physical activity. METHOD Participants were 579 student...

This paper presents new results obtained from investigating the data from a 2015 Vietnamese entrepreneurs' survey, containing 3071 observations. Evidence from the estimations using multinomial logits was found to support relationships between several sociocultural factors and entrepreneurship-related performance or traits. Specifically, those relationships include: (a) Active participation in e...

The risk factors for compulsive exercise are unknown. This study aims to explore longitudinal sociocultural risk factors for compulsive exercise, using a 12-month prospective design. A sample of 332 male and female adolescents (aged 13-15 years at baseline) completed self-report measures of sociocultural risk factors and compulsive exercise at baseline and eating disorder psychopathology and co...

The present study examined roles that perceived English fluency and sociocultural adaptation difficulty play in predicting self-efficacy beliefs for teaching in a sample of 119 international teaching assistants (ITAs) from East Asian countries of China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Results showed that a positive relationship between perceived English fluency and teaching self-efficacy was not appar...

A sociocultural framework for understanding partner preferences of women and men: Integration of concepts and evidence Marcel Zentner & Alice H. Eagly To cite this article: Marcel Zentner & Alice H. Eagly (2015) A sociocultural framework for understanding partner preferences of women and men: Integration of concepts and evidence, European Review of Social Psychology, 26:1, 328-373, DOI: 10.1080...

Differences in the prevalence and natural history of diseases between races have been well recognised. The prevalence of Hepatitis B infection, nasopharyngeal carcinoma and systemic lupus erythematosus for instance, is relatively high among the Chinese as compared to the Malays and Indians living in apparently the same community. Black Americans have a higher prevalence of hypertension than Whi...

Short Description Epilepsy is a chronic medical condition with many social aspects, documentations of which exist since earliest historical times. This chapter looks at a selection of topics comprising religion and superstitions, work and mobility, family, and legislation. In the broad public, superstitions and stigma have been slow to react to medical progresses. The many evolutions that moder...