The transition to high school coincides with an increase in the prevalence of depressive symptoms. Could this be due in part to increasing beliefs about the fixedness of personal traits at a time of frequent social setbacks? And could teaching adolescents that people can change help prevent the increase in depressive symptoms? A longitudinal intervention experiment involved three independent sa...

Low Global Self-Esteem (GSE) is a well-established risk factor for eating disorders. Whilst GSE may be defined as an overall evaluation of oneself, evidence suggests that self-esteem is a multidimensional construct involving the evaluation of specific facets of oneself. It is proposed that a Specific Self-Esteem will have stronger associations with a relevant behaviour than GSE. One example of ...

This paper examines how and why consumers develop, enter into, and maintain relationships in a sports marketing context. This paper presents a framework for understanding how and why consumers engage in relationship marketing. Based on Kelman's functional approach to attitude change, this framework presents three qualitatively different levels for understanding relationship formation and mainte...

Cultural differences in questionnaire response styles have been reported in a number of studies. Compared to those of European-heritage, responses from individuals of East-Asian heritage tend to be more ambivalent and moderate. These stylistic differences warrant attention because they may contaminate substantive conclusions about cultural differences. One possible source of these stylistic dif...

Measuring the well-being of employees through questionnaire measures can give a useful indication of the positive or negative mental health of a workforce along with their satisfaction with their circumstances. Furthermore, measuring the antecedents of these outcomes provides a basis for reducing negative outcomes and promoting positive mental health and satisfaction within an organization. Thi...

We examined a theoretical model of global self-esteem that incorporated constructs from achievement goal and selfdetermination theories. The model hypothesized that self-determined or autonomous motives would mediate the influence of achievement goal orientation on global self-esteem. The adapted version of the Behavioural Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (Mullan et al., 1997), the Percepti...

Objectives: A plethora of studies has confirmed that several cognitive biases (e.g., attributional style, jumping to conclusions, bias against disconfirmatory evidence, theory of mind, over-confidence in errors, need for closure, and low selfesteem) may play a pathogenetic role in the emergence and/or maintenance of the disorder, particularly delusions. The present study explored the safety, ac...

Title of thesis: BEING SINGLE IN LATE-LIFE: SINGLE STRAIN, MODERATING RESOURCES, AND DISTRESS Tetyana Pudrovska, Master of Arts, 2004 Thesis directed by: Dr. Scott Schieman Department of Sociology Using a sample of 532 nonmarried adults over age 65 residing in the District of Columbia and two adjoining Maryland counties, this study examines “single strain”––the strain of not being married or no...

*Corresponding author at: Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center, CIMCYC, Spain, Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n, 18011 Granada, Spain. E-mail address: [email protected] (M.T. Ramiro). Abstract Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV are important health problems that affect adolescents. The aim of the present study was to analyze the relationship between 1) depression, self-esteem a...

The aim of this paper is to show how young Norwegian women's fib1ess practices are interwoven with cultural ideals about how the body should look and be exercised (Young 1980; Bordo 1990; Markula 1995). Specifically, we discuss how young women at a Norwegian fitness centre deal with current societal demands for doing exercise. A central theme is how young women's performance is embedded in cont...