OBJECTIVE To examine the associations among physical activity, weight criticism during physical activity, and body dissatisfaction in a sample of pre-adolescent children. METHODS A community sample of 376 fifth- and sixth-grade students (M age = 10.8, SD = 0.65) completed measures of physical activity, weight criticism during physical activity, and body dissatisfaction. RESULTS Girls who re...

background : almost two thirds of iranians eligible for using contraceptive methods use these methods. their dissatisfaction with the methods would directly and indirectly affect the quality of family planning services and would bring about detrimental results for the service recipients and consequently for other family members. therefore, identification and evaluation of the factors leading to...

This study was aimed to identify the body dissatisfaction among female athletes and in nonfemale athletes. This present study also examined ideals body size, and media influence towards body dissatisfaction perception among female recreational athletes and nonathletes. Participants were 40 women age ranged between 21 and 30 years: 20 recreational athletes who regularly go to the gym, do running...

OBJECTIVE To track within-individual change during late life in the sense of personal control and God-mediated control (the belief that one can work collaboratively with God to achieve one's goals and exercise control over life events) and to evaluate the hypothesis that this element of religion is related to declining personal control. METHOD A longitudinal survey representative of older Whi...

A Christian liberal arts education seeks to explore several fundamental questions: What does it mean to be human? For what purpose did God create us? How do we develop to our full human potential? What sets us free, liberates us, to be all that God intends us to be? In Genesis, we learn that to be human is to be created in the image of God; to bear the image of God. To be human is to rule over ...

OBJECTIVES Correlational research has found associations between magazine and television exposure and body dissatisfaction. However, this relation is not direct, and various psychological variables may moderate and/or mediate this relation, such as awareness and internalization of the thin ideals, comparing oneself with ideal body image or self-esteem, as well as the patient's body mass index (...

One of unpleasant features in human being is boredom which can affect all steps of individual and social life of people such as act of worship, religious, military, social relationship and so on. As a result of this, an individual or society will encounter with a crisis. Some of reasons of boredom such as lack of remembrance of God, lack of knowledge of himself/herself, love of this world, envy...