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Kirkbir, Fatih; Zengin, Samet – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
Social appearance concern is very important situation for all people's life. Recently, this situation has revealed similar situations among university students. People exist in a social environment from people's existence. For the fact that, people make an effort to impose themselves in their social environment and it is inevitable that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Anxiety, Reputation
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Raible-Destan, Nesrin; Stulz, Niklaus; Hepp, Urs; Ribeaud, Denis; Eisner, Manuel; Steinhoff, Annekatrin; Shanahan, Lilly; Sell, Aaron; Kupferschmid, Stephan – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
The goal of the current analyses was to explore associations of self-rated physical attractiveness with facets of psychological well-being across adolescence. Participants provided information on their perceived physical attractiveness, internalized distress, suicidal ideation, and self-harm at 15, 17 and 20 years of age. Male adolescents…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Aesthetics, Mental Health, Well Being
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Ekinci, Nurullah Emir; Yalcin, Hilal – Journal of Educational Issues, 2019
This study aimed to investigate the leisure involvement level of individuals 40 years and over according to various variables. The study sample consisted of 106 volunteers aged 40 years and over in Hendek district of Sakarya city. As a data collection tool "leisure involvement scale" which developed by Kyle et al. (2007) and adapted to…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Adults, Older Adults, Foreign Countries
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Flegl, Martin; Andrade Rosas, Luis Antonio – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2019
Purpose: Many higher education institutions (HEIs) have constructed their internal evaluation systems to secure teaching quality. This paper aims to analyze teaching quality, HEIs use students to evaluate their professors as they have direct contact with the professors during the whole semester. The authorities hope to receive valuable…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Gender Differences, College Faculty, Personality Traits
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Knyazeva, Tatiana N.; Semenova, Lidiya E.; Chevachina, Anna V.; Batuta, Marina B.; Sidorina, Elena V. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
In connection with socio-economic transformations taking place in our country, which caused changes in the system of values and, as a consequence, in moral-economic relationships and human behavior, the subject of money becomes one of the most significant topics in modern Russian researches in various fields of science. The main method to study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Late Adolescents, Young Adults, Adolescent Attitudes
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Roberts, Simon; Reeves, Matthew; Ryrie, Angus – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
Recent evidence suggests that the majority of the adult population fails to achieve the recommended target of 30-minutes moderate intensity exercise, days a week. This includes university students who often have the time to engage in physical activity. The aim of this study was to determine exercise motives for a UK-based student population. The…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Exercise, Athletics, Gender Differences
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Wilson, Janie H.; Beyer, Denise; Monteiro, Heather – College Teaching, 2014
Student evaluations of teaching provide valued information about teaching effectiveness, and studies support the reliability and validity of such measures. However, research also illustrates potential moderation of student perceptions based on teacher gender, attractiveness, and even age, although the latter receives little research attention. In…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Age, Sex, Teacher Characteristics
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George, Darren; Adalikwu-Obisike, Justina; Boyko, Jesse; Johnson, Jay; Boscanin, Alex – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2014
A sample of 406 subjects completed a questionnaire testing the influence of personal spirituality, education and several other factors on sexual tension in cross-sex friendships (CSF Tension). The subjects included 143 students from a Christian university (CU), 137 from a secular junior college (JC), and 127 non-students (NS). The primary…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Spiritual Development, Religious Factors, Sexuality
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Liu, Jeanny; Tomasi, Stella D. – Journal of Educators Online, 2015
Technology enabled learning is becoming more popular and pervasive in education. While the effectiveness of distance learning versus traditional classroom education is strongly debated, human factors such as students' perception of their professors can influence their desire to learn. This research examines the perceptual effect of attractive…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, College Faculty, Teacher Characteristics
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Patrick, Julie Hicks; Stahl, Sarah T.; Sundaram, Murali – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2011
The majority of our knowledge about eating disorders derives from adolescent and young adult samples; knowledge regarding disordered eating in middle and later adulthood is limited. We examined the associations among known predictors of eating disorders for younger adults in an age-diverse sample and within the context of psychological distress.…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Young Adults, Correlation, Predictor Variables
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Rinn, Anne N.; Jamieson, Kelly M.; Gross, Candace M.; McQueen, Kand S. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2009
This study examines the effects of social comparison, gender, and grade level on gifted adolescents' multidimensional self-concept. Participants include 248 gifted adolescents who had completed the sixth through tenth grade during the previous academic year. Multidimensional self-concept was measured using the Self Description Questionnaire II…
Descriptors: Gifted, Self Concept, Interpersonal Attraction, Adolescents
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Raley, R. Kelly; Bratter, Jenifer – Journal of Family Issues, 2004
Using the 1987-1988 and 1992-1994 waves of the National Survey of Families and Households, the authors measure the association between Wave 1 responses to 12 questions on whom respondents would be "most willing to marry" and the likelihood of marriage by Wave 2. Preliminary analysis indicated that some questions about partner preferences…
Descriptors: Marriage, Individual Characteristics, Gender Differences, Attitude Measures