This study aims at investigating the effects of cooperative language learning on learning active and passive structures among Iranian EFL students. The participants of the study were 60 high school students that were selected from third grade of Barikbin high school in Qazvin. All of the participants were male. Their level of proficiency was intermediate. Then the participants were divided into...

Perfectionism in sports has been shown to predict longitudinal changes in athlete burnout. What mediates these changes over time, however, is still unclear. Adopting a self-determination theory perspective and using a three-wave longitudinal design, the current study examined perfectionistic strivings, perfectionistic concerns, autonomous motivation, controlled motivation, and athlete burnout i...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of a dietary reference intake (DRI) predictive equation for estimated energy requirements (EER) in female college tennis athletes and non-athlete students using doubly labeled water (DLW) as a reference method. MATERIALS/METHODS Fifteen female college students, including eight tennis athletes and seven non-athlete subj...

the aim of this study was to compare the effect of a session of aerobic and anaerobic exercise on changes of iga/salivary total protein ratio in non-athlete girls. 36 non-athlete girls were randomly divided into three groups: anaerobic (n =12) with mean age of 23±1.91 years, aerobic (n =12) with mean age of 21±1.45 years and the control group (n =12) with mean age 23.25±2.09 years. salivary sam...

energy drink consumption by athletes has become increasingly popular. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of phantom and dragon energy drinks on female athlete students. for this purpose, twelve female athlete students of tehran university (age 22+0.63 years, height 162.1+5.8 cm, weight 56.91+6.79 kg) volunteered to participate in this study and performed three sessions of a bruce...

Previous studies have shown that even elementary school-aged children (7 and 11 years old) experience visually induced perception of illusory self-motion (vection) (Lepecq et al., 1995, Perception, 24, 435-449) and that children of a similar age (mean age = 9.2 years) experience more rapid and stronger vection than do adults (Shirai et al., 2012, Perception, 41, 1399-1402). These findings imply...

BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) has been associated with reduced blood pressure in observational epidemiologic studies and individual clinical trials. Since PA is considered as a key component for the prevention and treatment of hypertension in children and adolescents, the purpose of this study was to assess blood pressure changes in athletic and non-athletic students before, during and afte...

this study investigated the importance of the coach-athlete relationship within a physical education environment. the study aimed to explore the factors of the relationship between students and their teachers which might influence their engagement in the subject. Following semi-structured interviews with secondary school female students (n = 6, age range 13-14 years) the data was thematically a...

objective: the objective of the present study is to investigate the relationship of perceived social selfefficacy (psse) with depression in students. methods: the sample of the present study consisted of 216 adolescent students including 120 males and 96 females randomly selected from different educational institutes of karachi, pakistan. the age of the participants ranged from 16 to 19 years o...

The aim of the study was to assess HIV/AIDS knowledge and sexual behaviour among junior Secondary School students in South Africa using a cross-sectional survey design. The sample consisted of 3150 students, with 44.1% were male and 55.9% female students. Their mean age was 15.75 yrs (SD=1.61) ranging from 13 to 24 years chosen from 150 schools in South Africa. Results indicate that 46% of the ...