The risk factors for compulsive exercise are unknown. This study aims to explore longitudinal sociocultural risk factors for compulsive exercise, using a 12-month prospective design. A sample of 332 male and female adolescents (aged 13-15 years at baseline) completed self-report measures of sociocultural risk factors and compulsive exercise at baseline and eating disorder psychopathology and co...

Background Eating disorders (EDs) are now often approached as biopsychosocial problems. But it has been suggested by scholars interested in sociocultural factors that all is not equal within this biospsychosocial framework, with the 'social' aspects of the equation relegated to secondary factors within ED treatment contexts. Although sociocultural influences are well-established as risk factors...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the value of viewing the pediatric transplant experience through a sociocultural lens and to offer an organized framework for identifying influential sociocultural variables in pediatric transplantation. METHODS A conceptual model is presented which organizes sociocultural factors that may influence the transplant process. A review of the pediatric and adult transplan...

The purpose of the research is to describe sociocultural factors that emerge in times global crisis. study qualitative. Netnography used as a method and Twitter data collection instrument. In order analyze flow messages published on Twitter, model describes proposed by Perez-Cepeda Arias-Bolzmann used. Tweets crisis around crowdfunding are categorized classified based structure content, which m...

Health and Behavior Lifestyles, Risk Factors, and Health Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Preventing Illness Problems in Promoting Wellness What Determines People’s Health-Related Behavior? General Factors in Health-Related Behavior The Role of Beliefs and Intentions The Role of Less Rational Processes Developmental, Gender, and Sociocultural Factors in Health Development and Health Gender and...

Philosophers have devoted a great deal of discussion to the question of whether an inverted spectrum thought experiment refutes functionalism. (For a review of the inverted spectrum and its many philosophical applications, see Byrne, 2004.) If Hoffman is correct the matter can be swiftly and conclusively settled, without appeal to any empirical data about color vision (or anything else). Assumi...

BACKGROUND Studies are increasingly examining the role of sociocultural values, beliefs, and attitudes in cancer prevention. However, these studies vary widely in how sociocultural constructs are defined and measured, how they are conceived as affecting cancer beliefs, behaviors, and screening, and how they are applied in interventions. METHODS To characterize the current state of this resear...

BACKGROUND The influence of sociocultural factors on human reliability within an open sociotechnical systems is highlighted. The design of such systems is enhanced by experience feedback. METHODS The study was focused on a survey related to the observation of working cases, and by processing of incident/accident statistics and semistructured interviews in the qualitative part. In order to con...