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The Role of Body-Esteem in Academic Functioning Problems Associated with Eating Disturbances
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Hautala, Lea; Pekurinen, Virve; Lantta, Tella; Välimäki, Maritta; Anttila, Minna – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: To explore the role of body-esteem and self-esteem in the occurrence of academic functioning problems associated with eating disturbances. Participants: 330 university students (aged 16-53 years) in Finland in 2016. Method: Interference with academic functioning measured with the Eating and Body Image Academic Interference Scale.…
Descriptors: Human Body, Self Esteem, Academic Achievement, Self Concept
Do Professor's Age and Gender Matter or Do Students Give Higher Value to Professors' Experience?
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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
Student Inferences Based on Facial Appearance
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Mendez, Jeanette Morehouse; Mendez, Jesse Perez – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
This study extends the scope of research that examines the connection between physical attractiveness and student perception through a survey analysis. While other studies concentrate on physical attractiveness alone, we examined not only perceptions of attractiveness but its impact on students' perception of knowledge, approachability and faculty…
Descriptors: Inferences, Regression (Statistics), College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship
Disordered Eating and Psychological Distress among Adults
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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
The Acceptance Model of Intuitive Eating: A Comparison of Women in Emerging Adulthood, Early Adulthood, and Middle Adulthood
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Augustus-Horvath, Casey L.; Tylka, Tracy L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2011
The acceptance model of intuitive eating (Avalos & Tylka, 2006) posits that body acceptance by others helps women appreciate their body and resist adopting an observer's perspective of their body, which contribute to their eating intuitively/adaptively. We extended this model by integrating body mass index (BMI) into its structure and…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Females, Self Concept, Human Body
A Canonical Correlation Analysis of the Influence of Social Comparison, Gender, and Grade Level on the Multidimensional Self-Concepts of Gifted Adolescents
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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