This study explores teenage girls' narrations of the relationship between self-presentation and peer comparison on social media in the context of beauty. Social media provide new platforms that manifest media and peer influences on teenage girls' understanding of beauty towards an idealized notion. Through 24 in-depth interviews, this study examines secondary school girls' self-presentation and...

This study examines the relationship between preschool teachers’ gender role traditionality (as measured by the Attitudes Towards Women questionnaire) and how stereotypically teachers rate toys as being appropriate for boys and girls. The female teachers with experience with three to five-year-old children rated fifteen toys on how appropriate they are for boys and girls both from a personal po...

BACKGROUND Over half of displaced civilians in humanitarian emergencies are children, and these settings pose unique threats to children's safety with long-lasting consequences. Our study broadens the limited evidence on violence against adolescent girls in emergencies by estimating prevalence and predictors of violence among adolescent girls aged 13-14 in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the...

Currently, K-pop girl groups are some of the favorite celebrities who often become ideal standard for young girls. figures displayed with body standards, such as having a slim body, white skin, thin face, and high nose, thus making fans adore want to have physical appearance like their idol. This study aimed examine relationship between celebrity worship image among female adolescents idolized ...

research article (ra) genre has been a significant area of research in academic writing over past decades. however, authors’ identity in ras has not received much attention, especially in soft sciences like applied linguistics. this paper reports a corpus analysis of iranian writers’ authorial presence markers in ras in the field of applied linguistics. the corpus comprised 30 ras (200,000 word...

The state of childhood obesity in Canada and many countries worldwide has reached epidemic proportions. The Canadian prevalence has tripled from 1981-1996. A stunning 40% of obese children and 70% of obese youth continue this trend into adulthood. This has led to higher rates of adult obesity and associated conditions such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. A chronically positive en...

Thousands of boys and girls younger than 19 years participate in boxing in North America. Although boxing provides benefits for participants, including exercise, self-discipline, and self-confidence, the sport of boxing encourages and rewards deliberate blows to the head and face. Participants in boxing are at risk of head, face, and neck injuries, including chronic and even fatal neurologic in...

In this paper, we describe a data mining study of the mental health of undergraduate Engineering students in a large Canadian university. We created a survey based on guidelines from the Canadian Mental Health Association, and applied classification and regression algorithms to the collected data. Our results reveal interesting relationships between various aspects of mental health and year of ...

Assessing applicants' personal competencies in the admission process has proven difficult because there is not an agreed-on set of personal competencies for entering medical students. In addition, there are questions about the measurement properties and costs of currently available assessment tools. The Association of American Medical College's Innovation Lab Working Group (ILWG) and Admissions...

Background. A convenient, private, and accessible HIV self-testing strategy stands to complement facility-based conventional testing. Over-the-counter oral HIV self-tests are approved and available in the United States, but not yet in Canada. Canadian data on self-testing is nonexistent. We investigated the feasibility of offering an unsupervised self-testing strategy to Canadian students. Meth...