Background: Many institutions have reported a reduction in disruptive and violent behavior, chronic school absences, disciplinary referrals suspensions. These conflict resolution programs also given the young increased self-esteem, self-confidence, self-respect. Adults play an important part making sure kids exercise their newly found skills. Therefore, it remains vitally for personnel to set e...

Based on the social cognitive theory, this paper employs variables of exercise duration and frequency to construct a mechanism model influence fair play (FP) awareness student’s related attitudes behaviors when participating in sports. Students (n = 317) aged from 10 - 18 years 17 different schools filled questionnaires regarding FP variables. Factors which may have impacts students’ were measu...

BACKGROUND Attitudes toward body shape and food play a role in the development and maintenance of dysfunctional eating behaviors. Nevertheless, they are rarely investigated together. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the interrelationships between implicitly assessed attitudes toward body shape and food and to investigate the moderating effect on these associations of interindividual diffe...

Research suggests that prenatal testosterone exposure may masculinize (i.e., lower) disordered eating (DE) attitudes and behaviors and influence the lower prevalence of eating disorders in males versus females. How or when these effects become prominent remains unknown, although puberty may be a critical developmental period. In animals, the masculinizing effects of early testosterone exposure ...

organizational spirituality is a new paradigm that has emerged in organizational behavior district and finds very advocates. spirituality in workplace is referred to an individual attempts for seeking purpose in working life, sense of solidarity with coworkers and alignment with organization's mission and values. spirituality could involve religion viewpoint or not, however, historically i...

Although much attention has been devoted to understanding employee resistance to change, relatively little research examines the impact that positive employees can have on organizational change. To help fill this need, the authors investigate whether a process of employees’ positivity will have an impact on relevant attitudes and behaviors. Specifically, this study surveyed 132 employees from a...

The interplay among motivation, ability, attitudes, behaviors, homework, and learning is unclear from previous research. We analyze data collected from 687 students enrolled in seven economics courses. A model explaining homework and exam scores is estimated, and separate analyses of ability and motivation groups are conducted. We find that motivation and ability explain variation in both homew...

This study aims to investigate the direct and indirect associations between physical self-subdomains, physical self-worth, global self-worth, and disturbed eating attitudes and behaviors among French non-elite athlete and non-athlete adolescent girls. A sample of adolescent girls including 50 ballet dancers, 41 basketball players, and 47 non-athletes was used in this study. Data obtained from t...

Firefighters are exposed to carcinogens such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) during fires and from their personal protective equipment (PPE). Recent research has shown that decontamination processes can reduce contamination on both gear and skin. While firefighter cultures that honor dirty gear are changing, little is known about current attitude...

Up to now, many studies have been done to show the origin of attitudes and their relationships with behaviors or actions. Some of those works have focused on students' attitudes and some have introduced the various contexts of language teaching and learning. These studies were enough to give a new impetus for conducting the present investigation. This paper investigated the teachers' attitudes ...