BACKGROUND Adolescent obesity is prevalent in Pacific region ethnic groups (European, Melanesian and Polynesian) living in both urban and rural areas. Although body perception is an important factor of weight gain or loss, little is known about the body self-perceptions of Pacific region adolescents. This study therefore evaluated adolescent perceptions of body weight according to ethnicity (Eu...

People’s fear and anxiety about doing math – over and above actual math ability – can be an impediment to their math achievement. We show that when the math anxious individuals are female elementary school teachers, their math anxiety carries negative consequences for the math achievement of their female students. Early elementary school teachers in the U.S. are almost exclusively female (> 90%...

In this study iliopsoas muscle strength was measured by portable dynamometer and it was explored to what extent independent predictors (age, body weight, body height and body mass index) affect iliopsoas strength in healthy subjects and in subjects with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. The study population was consisted of 183 girls (90 healthy girls and 93 girls with adolescent idiopathic scol...

introduction: the present study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of grasha-riechmann student learning styles scale. method: the participants included 1039 students (421 students in human and 618 students in technical sciences), selected through the stratified sampling method from tehran university. they answered the grasha-riechmann student learning style scale and the data was ...

BACKGROUND Current health literature suggests that there has been a decline in the age of pubertal onset, and that pubertal development is influenced by social context. Unfortunately, contemporary Canadian-specific data have not been available. This study examined the odds of having entered puberty at various ages during adolescence, before and after controlling for the effects of family socio-...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to describe actual measured weight and perceived weight and to explore associations with depressive, anxiety symptoms in school adolescents in China. METHODS A sample of 1144 Chinese adolescents was randomly selected from four schools in Wuhan, China, including 665 boys and 479 girls with ages ranging between 10 and 17 years. Actual measured weight and...

The purpose was to explore the educational potential accessible with the aid of international communications networks and computer-mediated communication mainly as seen by the participating Finnish students. This was associated with students’ attitudes and preferences to teaching practices and teaching tools. A more general purpose was to examine gender sensitivity of e-mail and the question of...

at 17 years. The insensible perspiration for these girls per kilogram of body weight per hour was as follows: 0.72 gram at 13 years, 0.71 gram at 14 years, and 0.77 gram at 15 years. The respiratory quotients of groups of 12 girls each, about 7 to 8 hours after a light meal, were 0.81, 0.81, 0.78, and 0.79. The basal heat production per kilogram of body weight per 24 hours decreases regularly w...

The worldwide concern about the gender gap in information technology and the lack of woman participation in computer science has been attributed to the different cultural influences to which boys and girls are subject. In The University of Hong Kong, girls achieved greater improvements in their computer skills than their male counterparts after completing one year of studies. Recognising their ...

Metabolic fitness in childhood is of increasing concern in transitional and advanced economies as the metabolic syndrome (MS) is recognized more often in this age group. As the MS appears, so also does hyperuricemia. Studies in Taiwan have identified both indigenous and Chinese with high prevalence of hyperuricemia. Data (1227 boys and 1057 girls, aged 6-12) from the Nutrition and Health Survey...