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Matthews, Molly; Zullig, Keith J.; Ward, Rose Marie; Horn, Thelma; Huebner, E. Scott – Social Indicators Research, 2012
Research has revealed that overall life satisfaction (LS) is negatively related to disordered eating. This study examined whether specific LS domains (e.g., family, friends, etc.) were more strongly associated with eating behaviors/weight perceptions (e.g., exercising to lose weight, using laxatives to lose weight, etc.) in 723 randomly selected…
Descriptors: College Students, Life Satisfaction, Correlation, Eating Disorders
Cox, Shannon J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Nursing professionals are held to a variety of roles and responsibilities specific to their field. The success of nursing professionals in their specified roles is essential for quality of care and the success of the healthcare workforce. The current study explored the relationships between personality type, emotional intelligence, social…
Descriptors: Nurses, Personality Traits, Empathy, Interpersonal Competence
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van Gent, Tiejo; Goedhart, Arnold W.; Knoors, Harry E. T.; Westenberg, P. Michiel; Treffers, Philip D. A. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2012
Self-concept and ego development, two intertwined aspects of self-indicating well-being and social-cognitive maturation, respectively, were examined in a representative sample of deaf adolescents of normal intelligence (N = 68), using translated and adapted versions of Harter's (1988, "Manual for the self-perception profile for adolescents".…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Deafness, Adolescents, Multivariate Analysis
Zullig, Keith J.; Young, Michael; Hussain, Mohammad – American Journal of Health Education, 2010
Background: To reduce problem drinking, interventions must be directed toward those factors associated with problem drinking. Purpose: This study examined how perceptions of the role of alcohol related to problem drinking among a convenience sample of 301 college students. Methods: Fifteen items concerned with drinking behavior or perceptions…
Descriptors: College Students, Health Education, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking
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Young, Raymond W.; Cates, Carl M. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2010
This study explores the roles of mentors and proteges as they manage dialectical tensions in a professional environment. Sixty-two first-year teachers in a county school district in the southeastern USA answered a questionnaire about their mentors' empathic and directive listening, playful communication, social attractiveness, and ability to help…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Educators, Beginning Teachers, Socialization
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Henderson-King, Donna; Brooks, Kelly D. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2009
Rates of cosmetic surgery procedures have increased dramatically over the past several decades, but only recently have studies of cosmetic surgery attitudes among the general population begun to appear in the literature. The vast majority of those who undergo cosmetic surgery are women. We examined cosmetic surgery attitudes among 218…
Descriptors: Females, Self Concept, Surgery, Sociocultural Patterns
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Freng, Scott; Webber, David – Teaching of Psychology, 2009
Previous research has linked teachers' physical attractiveness and students' evaluations of teaching. We expanded on this literature by using data from RateMyProfessors.com (RMP), a database popular among college students. Additionally, we examined the unique variance that physical attractiveness explains in student evaluations of teaching while…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Attraction, College Faculty, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Web Sites
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Miloseva, Lence; Page, Tom; Lehtonen, Miika; Marelja, Jozefina; Thorsteinsson, Gisli – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2010
This study reports the findings of the several projects initiated at the Faculty of Education, Goce Delcev University, Stip, to investigate the motivation skills, but is uniquely specific to as inter, personal relationships and resources that influence the learner's participation in the teaching/learning process in the context of online-learning…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Interpersonal Relationship, Learning Motivation, Teaching Methods