Australia's Adonis: Understanding what motivates young men's lifestyle choices for enhancing their appearance

Understanding How Lifestyle Choices Affect Chronic Disease

Primary care doctors often treat patients with different cultural backgrounds and who have come from other countries. The immigrant population in the United States continues to grow and, in March 2003, there were 33.5 million people who were born in other countries (foreignborn) but were now living in the United States. Living conditions, income levels, and jobs deeply affect immigrant women at...

What Motivates Employees?

The purpose of this paper is to deepen the discussion about what motivates employees. This paper briefly describes the seven stages of psychological development and the corresponding levels of motivation. These are linked to Harvard Professor Robert Kegan’s work on the three types of mind (socialized mind, self‐authoring mind, and self‐transforming mind). Each of the three types of mind has dif...

What Motivates Youth Civic Involvement?

The topic of youth civic engagement is increasingly popular in social science research; however, the question of why some youth are civically involved while others are not is not well understood. This article addresses the following questions: What motivations and barriers do youth report for civic involvement? How do motivations and barriers differ across school contexts? A qualitative study u...

Telomeres and Lifestyle Choices

What Motivates a Musical Query?