Die vak Teorie en Praktyk van Gesondheidsvoorligting word vir gemeenskapsverpJeegstudente aan Medunsa aangebied. ’n Vraelys is aan hierdie studente versprei om hulle houding teenoor verskeie aspekte van die vakgebied te bepaal. Response het onder andere getoon dat dit 'n interessante en belangrike vak is en dat die studente se motivering om gesondheidsvoorligting te doen oor die algemeen verhoo...

In the present study, the author investigated the role of thinking styles in university students' preferences for teaching styles and their conceptions of effective teachers. Students (121 men and 134 women) from the University of Hong Kong responded to 3 self-report tests: the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised (R. J. Sternberg, R. K. Wagner, & L-F. Zhang, 2003), the Preferred Thinking Styles i...

The Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al., 2003) is one of the most frequently used questionnaires in humor research and has been adapted to several languages. The HSQ measures four humor styles (affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating), which should be adaptive or potentially maladaptive to psychosocial well-being. The present study analyzes the internal consistenc...

Learning styles are considered as an important factor in education, however, often students have to learn from material or in courses which do not support their learning styles. A challenge in the area of adaptivity is not only to provide learners with courses that fit the students’ learning styles but can also veer towards supporting students to learn in courses that does not match their learn...