OBJECTIVE To examine the relationships between body weight perceptions, estimated body mass index, gender, and weight control behaviours. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Three secondary schools in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1132 secondary school forms 1 and 3 students. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The strength of agreement between perceived weight and estimated body mass index, ...

UNLABELLED Background For children with diabetes, metabolic control typically declines across the adolescent years. OBJECTIVE The longitudinal interplay between supportive relationships with parents and metabolic control were investigated in families that differ in parents' restrictiveness. METHOD The time-dependent links between perceived parental social support and metabolic control were ...

This study provided an initial test of a theoretical model which emphasizes patterns of actual and perceived control. The model suggests that profiles of actual and perceived control are differentially related to emotional and behavioral problems. We examined whether anxiety and depression symptoms and aggressive behavior would differ among diverse patterns of actual (caregiver reported compete...

Objective: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Lazarus Multimodal Psychotherapy (MMT) on perceived stress in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Methods: Through a quasi-experimental design, forty patients in Qazvin city in Iran were selected by convenient sampling and then divided into two groups: experimental and control groups. After group assignme...

OBJECTIVES Although an association between psychosocial distress (depression, anxiety, somatization, and perceived stress) and voice disorders has been observed, little is known about the relationship between distress and patient-reported voice handicap. Furthermore, the psychological mechanisms underlying this relationship are poorly understood. Perceived control plays an important role in dis...

aim and background: this study seeks the effect of teaching problem solving on self-efficacy and perceived self-efficacy in adolescents.   methods and materials: in this quasi-experimental study using three group with pre-test and post-test, on hundred sixty students were randomly selected via multi-stage sampling, and were divided into 64 students of experimental group and 62 students of place...

Background: Perceived control is strongly linked to healthy outcomes, mental healthiness and psychological wellbeing. This is particularly important when people have little control over things that are happening to them. Perceived control studies have been performed extensively in laboratory settings and show that perceived control can be enhanced by experimental manipulations. Although these s...