Exposure to media images of thin-and-beautiful women negatively affects the body image and mood states of young women. However, not all women are equally susceptible to these effects. The present experimental investigation with 123 young college women evaluated the moderating effects of the extent of internalization of media ideals. It also examined the preventative impact of two brief interven...

A long and yet unfinished history of investigating how individual capabilities and social processes explain or predict health indicates that poor education, low literacy, poor health and early death are strongly linked around the world. However, the complexity of those relationships is not fully understood. In this article, we propose an expanded model of health literacy characterized by four d...

Teachers play a critical role in helping to ensure that students leave school with the skills needed not only be consumers of media, but also thoughtful and knowledgeable producers mediated messages. Despite important teachers media literacy education, we still know very little about teachers’ knowledge experiences classroom. This information is piece understanding how best support as they inte...

In this paper, the author explores prospect of, and rationale for, critical workplace information literacy (CWIL) construct, by situating it at junction of (CIL) (WIL), two hitherto discrete frameworks subdomains (IL). This preliminary attempt conceptualisation a new construct was guided question what role CIL can play in empowering workers to attain decent work. The frames around ‘decent work’...

Civic literacy is an area of the field of literacy’s that libraries should develop. In Portugal, in the Seixal Municipal Library, we have also focused, for several years, on the development of textual literacy and other specific literacy’s (as is the case of digital, media, visual and historic literacy’s). In 2007, we started a program of literacy for citizenship, “Rights for Right?” (“Direitos...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which functional, interactive and critical health literacy are associated with patients' perceived control over care and frequency of GP visits. METHODS Data from the Dutch 'National Panel of People with Chronic Illness or Disability' was used (N=2508). Health literacy was assessed by the Functional, Communicative and Critical Health...

There are a range of barriers precluding patients from fully engaging in and benefiting from the spectrum of eHealth interventions developed to support patient access to health information, disease self-management efforts, and patient-provider communication. Consumers with low eHealth literacy skills often stand to gain the greatest benefit from the use of eHealth tools. eHealth skills are comp...