Méthode : À l’aide d’analyses de régression logistique multiniveau, nous avons étudié les caractéristiques des écoles et des élèves associées à l’activité physique modérée et élevée grâce aux données recueillies auprès d’administrateurs et d’élèves de la 5e à la 8e année dans 30 écoles primaires de l’Ontario. Les niveaux d’activité physique des élèves, leur sexe, leur classe et le nombre de cou...

measure anxiety and depression (Clark & Watson, 1991). Because of that, several authors have used factor analysis to develop anxiety and depression scales with a greater divergent validity. The most recent is that of Lovibond and Lovibond (1995a, 1995b). Their work led to the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS), each of which contains 14 items. The Depression scale assesses dysphoria, ...

this study aims to introduce the information seeking anxiety construct as a phenomenon among postgraduate students. it also presents the information seeking anxiety scale (isas) as a valid and reliable instrument. further, the current study investigates the prevalence of information seeking anxiety among postgraduate students at a research-intensive university in kuala lumpur, malaysia. results...

objectives:the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of hardiness training on test anxiety of first-grade female students of high schools in tehran.method: for this purpose sixty students, were selected by multistep cluster sampling method. tools of study were sarason test anxiety scale (s.tas) and hardiness training.results: the results indicated that the test anxiety rate of stu...

We study the problem of constructing a probability density in 2N -dimensional phase space which reproduces a given collection of n joint probability distributions as marginals. Only distributions authorized by quantum mechanics, i.e. depending on a (complete) commuting set of N variables, are considered. A diagrammatic or graph theoretic formulation of the problem is developed. We then exactly ...

conclusion we believe that active briefing of patients who need to undergo neck and bone biopsies and have high anxiety score by healthcare personnel is an effective method to control psychological mood and increase the efficiency of treatment. background ultrasound-guided biopsy procedures are the most prominent methods that increase the trauma, stress and anxiety experienced by the patients. ...

In recent years, psychological issues in body-building have received much research attention. 1–4 Given both the popularity of training with weights and the many interesting psychological issues surrounding this phenomenon , research on such issues is clearly warranted. We were pleased therefore to see a recent study by Pickett et al 5 in this journal purporting to examine muscle dysmorphia and...