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Miller, Wayne C.; Miller, Todd A. – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2010
Objective: To compare attitudes of overweight (OW) and normal weight (NW) adults regarding health club exercise. Design: A 46-item survey (23 pairs of attitude/value statements) measured attitudes toward exercising at a health club 30 minutes, twice a week, for a month. Setting: Survey posted on surveymonkey.com. Respondents (men = 730, women =…
Descriptors: Obesity, Exercise, Self Concept, Clubs
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Mares, Suzanne H. W.; de Leeuw, Rebecca N. H.; Scholte, Ron H. J.; Engels, Rutger C. M. E. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2010
Facial attractiveness has been associated with many (social) advantages in life, like greater popularity, acceptance, and social competence. Because social evaluations and acceptance are important factors contributing to self-esteem (SE), we hypothesized that high levels of attractiveness would be related to increased levels of SE. To test this…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, Interpersonal Competence
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Busseri, Michael A.; Willoughby, Teena; Chalmers, Heather; Bogaert, Anthony R. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
This study investigated the relation of adolescent same-sex attraction to "successful development" (Baltes, P. B., "Am. Psychol." 32:366-380, 1997). Based on a survey of high-school adolescents, four groups were defined according to the nature of self-reported sexual attraction: exclusively heterosexual (EHA; n=3594); mostly heterosexual (MHA;…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Attraction, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Student Surveys
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McDonough, Meghan H.; Crocker, Peter R. E. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2005
This study examined the factor structure of the Sport Friendship Quality Scale (SFQS; Weiss & Smith, 1999) and compared two models in which (a) self-worth mediated the relationship between physical self/friendship quality and sport commitment and (b) friendship quality and physical self-perceptions directly predicted self-worth and sport…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Early Adolescents, Females, Friendship