background: incivility among nursing students is a common academic problem. knowing the causes of students’ incivility will enable the faculty members and academic institutions to select correct strategies to deal with this problem. this study was conducted to explore the causes of incivility among nursing students from both educators’ and students’ points of view. methods: this qualitative con...

College students, especially females, gain weight their freshman year. Yet, what happens after this first year? This study’s purposes were to compare changes and rates of change in weight, body mass index (BMI), body composition (percent body fat, fat mass, fat free mass) and waist circumference between the freshman academic year and the following summer among female college students. Summer we...

The present three-wave longitudinal study provides empirical evidence for the mechanisms of the bright and dark sides of identity development in the academic context. First, we investigated the patterns of stability and change in educational identity and academic achievement among adolescents. Second, we examined the reciprocal associations between identity processes (i.e., commitment, in-depth...

In the article " Associations between Nighttime Traffic Noise and Sleep: The Finnish Public Sector Study, " by Halonen et al. " [Environ Health Perspect 120:1391–1396 (2012)], the last sentence of the " Conclusions " was incorrect: The nighttime traffic noise level associated with insomnia symptoms in the total study population should have been " > 55 dB " instead of " > 50 dB. " EHP regrets th...