Objectives: To examine quantity of exercise and motives for exercise as predictors of men in the military’s health and fitness level. Design: Participants completed a survey to address research questions of interest. Methods: One-hundred and fourteen men who were active duty Air Force members, with a mean age of 31.43 years (SD 1⁄4 7.43) and an average military time in service of 10.66 years (S...

Higgins’ Regulatory Focus Theory hypothesizes that chronic regulatory focus develops from caretaker-child interactions. Consistent with this theory, previous studies have found that parenting style during childhood predicts whether one later develops promotion focus (eager strategies to achieve success) or prevention focus (vigilant strategies to avoid failure). The present study revises this h...

In the research reported here, we investigated the debiasing effect of mindfulness meditation on the sunk-cost bias. We conducted four studies (one correlational and three experimental); the results suggest that increased mindfulness reduces the tendency to allow unrecoverable prior costs to influence current decisions. Study 1 served as an initial correlational demonstration of the positive re...

How does detection of correlational structure affect mathematical thinking and learning? When does correlational information lead to erroneous problem solving? Are experienced students susceptible to misleading correlations? This work attempts to answer these questions by examining a source of systematic errors termed the spurious-correlation effect. This effect is hypothesized to occur when a ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the pain experience of Chinese American patients with cancer and to examine the relationships among pain characteristics, demographic characteristics, performance status, self-reported analgesic use, mood disturbances, and patients' acculturation levels. DESIGN Descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional study. SETTING Three community-based oncology facilities...

This article describes the development and initial empirical testing of a theoretical formulation of social support, family, health, and child health derived from Imogene King's conceptual framework for nursing. A correlational design was used to test the formulation with 103 families who have children with diabetes mellitus. Three hypotheses were supported: parents' social support had a direct...

The aims of this study were to examine differences in medication management between older and younger adults living with HIV and to examine the relationship between age and cognitive ability, depressive symptoms, and self-efficacy on medication management. This research utilized a descriptive-correlational, cross-sectional design to compare medication management between older and younger adults...

Adherence to treatment regimens were investigated in eighty-three individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease. Personality traits of conscientiousness and agreeableness, necessity and concern medication beliefs and health locus of control were examined. This quasiexperimental, cross-sectional, correlational, quantitative and qualitative design consisted of an anonymous online survey with measures i...