Browsing by Subject "Health promotion"

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    Does control of rheumatic disease raise the standard of living in developing countries?
    (2009) Wigley, R.; Chopra, A.; Wigley, S.; Akkoyunlu-Wigley, A.
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    The role of sense of coherence and physical activity in positive and negative affect of Turkish adolescents
    (Libra Publishers, Inc., 2009) Öztekin, C.; Tezer, E.
    This study investigated the role of sense of coherence and total physical activity in positive and negative affect. Participants were 376 (169 female, 206 male, and 1 missing value) student volunteers from different facilities of Middle East Technical University. Three questionnaires: Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC), Physical Activity Assessment Questionnaire (PAAQ), and Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) were administered to the students together with the demographic information sheet. Two separate stepwise multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to examine the predictive power of sense of coherence and total physical activity on positive and negative affect scores. Results revealed that both sense of coherence and total physical activity predicted the positive affect whereas only the sense of coherence predicted the negative affect on university students. Findings are discussed in light of sense of coherence, physical activity, and positive and negative affect literature.
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    The things they carry: characterizing the biggest problems in the lives of emerging adults
    (Guilford Publications, 2016) North, R. J.; Lewis, D. M. G.; Capecelatro, M. R.; Sherrill, B. N.; Ravyts, S. G.; Fontan, G.
    Drawing on the writings of 315 undergraduate participants who wrote for four consecutive days, 20 minutes each day, about the biggest problem in their lives (North, Pai, hixon, & holahan, 2011), the present study analyzes the text of the writings to characterize the biggest problems in the lives of emerging adults. Specifically, we used two analytic strategies-content coding by raters and linguistic analysis- to address four questions: (1) what were the biggest problems in participants' lives?; (2) were there gender differences in the types of problems that men and women reported?; (3) what was the relative level of emotional distress between individuals with different types of problems?; and (4) were there gender differences in the level of emotional distress associated with the biggest problem in individuals' lives? Findings confirm some existing ideas about major problems facing emerging adults and spotlight new ideas. Findings also challenge longstanding assumptions about gender differences.