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Assessing Women's Negative Commentary on Their Own Bodies: A Psychometric Investigation of the Negative Body Talk Scale
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Engeln-Maddox, Renee; Salk, Rachel H.; Miller, Steven A. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2012
Our article details the development of the self-report Negative Body Talk (NBT) scale and five studies (all conducted with samples of U.S. undergraduate women) supporting the psychometric soundness of scores on this measure. The NBT scale measures women's tendency to engage in negatively valenced commentary about the weight and shape of their own…
Descriptors: Females, Self Concept, Measures (Individuals), Human Body
Beliefs About Rape and Women's Social Roles.
Costin, Frank; And Others – 1982
The hypothesis that views of rape which place women at a disadvantage are positively related to beliefs which restrict the rights and roles of women in our society is tested. Two scales, the R scale and the W scale, based on a survey of beliefs about rape (Hubert Feild) and the attitudes toward women's scale (Janet Spence and Robert Helmreich),…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Comparative Analysis, Females, Feminism
Expressed Values of Lower Socioeconomic Status Black American Women.
Slaughter, Diana; Walcer, Carol – 1980
The expressed individual and cultural values of two groups of urban, lower socioeconomic status black American women are contrasted, using a situational forced-choice Expressed Values scale developed especially for this purpose. Group 1 (n=67) at the time of the study was enrolled in a high school equivalency degree program at a junior college.…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Behavior Standards, Black Community, Blacks
Selected Child Behaviors Most and Least Valued by Young Adult Mexicans.
Medinnus, Gene R.; Ford, Martin Z. – 1984
A study to obtain data concerning values for child behavior from a sample of Mexican adults from Guadalajara (Jalisco, Mexico), and to compare and contrast these data with those obtained in previous research with subjects from the United States, used a sample consisting of 40 males (mean age 31.1 years) and 40 females (mean age 20.1). The subjects…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Attitude Measures, Behavior Standards
First-Year Medical Students' Knowledge of, Attitudes Toward, and Personal Histories of Family Violence.
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Cullinane, Paula M.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1997
Surveyed 370 first-year medical students concerning family violence of which 38% reported a history of personal abuse; only one-third of these were well-informed about family violence. Women felt more strongly than men about need for violence education. Students reporting a history of violence more strongly favored violence education and advocacy…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Behavior Standards, Comparative Analysis, Educational Needs
Student Satisfaction and Quality of Life Survey: Residence Halls.
Stoner, Kenneth L. – 1981
The attitudes and level of satisfaction with residence hall life of University of Tennessee students were surveyed in 1981. Responses of the 500 students to 17 satisfaction questions were correlated with six demographic variables. When academic classification was analyzed, it was found that freshmen were significantly less satisfied with the…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, College Environment, College Freshmen, College Housing