Based on the current research trends and academic applications, which suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned enhanced through education training, this project coded analyzed patterns of 46 undergraduate students who attended an 18-week course management. A paired-sample t-test showed a significant increase from pre-course to post-course scores, suggesting importance designing in for...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the patterns of socio-economic inequalities in leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) in the different member states of the European Union. METHODS Comparable data on subjects aged 16-64 years derived from national health interview surveys from 15 European countries were used for the analysis. We used log-binominal regression to assess prevalence ...

BACKGROUND Relationships among feelings of depression, smoking behavior, and educational level during pregnancy have been documented. Feelings of depression may contribute to persistent smoking during pregnancy. No longitudinal studies assessing feelings of depression in women with different antepartum and postpartum smoking patterns are available. OBJECTIVES The aim was to determine relation...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the impact of an automated decision support tool (DST) on clinicians' ability to identify glycemic abnormalities in structured self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) data and then make appropriate therapeutic changes based on the glycemic patterns observed. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In this prospective, randomized, controlled, multicenter study, 288 clinicians (39.6%...

Clustering techniques have been used on educational data to find groups of students who demonstrate similar learning patterns. Many educational data are relatively small in the sense that they contain less than a thousand student records. At the same time, each student may participate in dozens of activities, and this means that these datasets are high dimensional. Finding meaningful clusters f...

The present study used multidimensional and person-centered approaches to identify subgroups of adolescents characterized by unique patterns of behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement and examined whether adolescent developmental outcomes varied as a function of different combinations of engagement components. Data were collected on 1,025 youths (57% African American, 43% European Ameri...

We previously reported on the success of a psychological intervention implemented to reduce gender differences in achievement in an introductory college physics course. In this prior study, we found that the gender gap on exams and the FMCE among students who completed two 15-minute self-affirmation writing exercises was significantly reduced compared to the gender gap among students who comple...

High school course-taking plays a critical role in shaping K-12 and post-secondary educational outcomes. Previous educational research often quantifies coursework in a qualitative manner. This research introduces institutional researchers to the use of a profile analysis method with an application of Profile Analysis via Multidimensional Scaling (PAMS) for identifying high school coursework pat...