OBJECTIVE Early adverse experiences have been associated with disordered eating, but the mechanisms underlying that association are not well understood. The purpose of this study is to test a structural equation model in which early adversity is associated with disordered eating via intrapersonal resources, interpersonal resources, and body dissatisfaction. METHOD Female university students (...

X iv :c on dm at /0 20 83 98 v1 [ co nd -m at .d is -n n] 2 1 A ug 2 00 2 Growth and Fluctuations of Personal Income Yoshi Fujiwara, Wataru Souma, Hideaki Aoyama, Taisei Kaizoji & Masanao Aoki Keihanna Center, Communications Research Laboratory, Kyoto 619-0289, Japan, ATR Human Information Science Laboratories, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto ...

In this chapter, the twin concepts of personal growth and professional development will be examined. In many ways this is timely since governments worldwide are devising largely regulatory ways of ‘driving up’ and sustaining the quality of health care that health professionals provide.(1) However, a theme running throughout the discussion here will be that political pressure for what has been t...

The world in which teachers are working is one, thanks to collaborative technologies, in which high levels of interactions among colleagues and the wider educational community can be facilitated. The question, then, is about how to prepare new entrants to the profession to be effectively engaged in this professional reality. In this paper, we report on our initiative to redesign a pre-service p...

Society & Culture[1] Society & Culture[1]Trauma [2]Norway [3]Forskning.no [4] Follow-up support can make the difference between post-traumatic growth and post-traumatic stress. Recognition from work colleagues is all-important for what happens afterwards. It is well known that many people who have experienced tragic events suffer post-traumatic stress reactions later. And paradoxically, many al...

This study focuses on consumers’ perception of control over personal information disclosure on the Internet. Specifically, we examine how consumers perceive controlling their personal data that online companies collect for marketing and customer relationship management purposes. We aim to answer this research problem by clarifying 1) how do consumers express the perception of control over their...

The initiative came from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidade Federal of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and the Cardiology Clinical Department and of the Committe de Epidemiology and Public Health of the Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC), under the auspices of the Coordination of Higher Education for Personal Development (CAPES), the World Heart Federa...

Personal information privacy is arguably the most important issue facing the growth and prosperity of the Internet, especially of e-commerce. Protecting personal information privacy has ignited a debate that pits privacy advocates against technology growth enthusiasts. This paper explores personal information privacy on the Internet in terms of the technological challenges to personal informati...

Digital information literacy (DIL) is a vital capability in the changing spaces of tertiary education. In this paper the approach taken in a collaborative research initiative investigating how teaching staff and students acquire digital information literacy skills through action learning and the development of personal learning environments is described. The methodology is outlined, and as this...

One in five Americans reports no usual source of health care, and the number of Americans reporting that they have a personal relationship with a usual source of care has declined steadily over the past 15 years. Given the positive association between having a usual source of care and the nation’s Triple Aim initiative of lower health care costs, improved population health outcomes, and better ...