A number of physiological responses to the psychological stress of an oral academic examination were observed, including heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, urinary 17-oxogenic steroid excretion, and plasma corticosteroid concentration. The results were related to body-build and to four psychological tests: Eysenck Personality Inventory, Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, IPAT Anxiety Sca...

Background: Adolescence is a transition from childhood to adulthood, along with physical and emotional changes. One significant difference appearance. Adolescents tend be afraid of negative evaluations others for their appearance or social physique anxiety. Objective: This study aimed determine the anxiety in female adolescents at Bandung Middle School. Methods: study's method was descriptive q...

Introduction Social physique anxiety (SPA) and Obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) are highly correlated and have been considered to be important in understanding eating problems. However SPA and OCD have not been directly studied with respect to eating problems. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between SPA and OCD and measures of eating problems. Materials and Metho...

Objectives: To examine the effects of a 6-month exercise intervention programme (EIP) on physical selfperceptions (PSP) and social physique anxiety (SPA) of non-physically active adolescent Swedish girls. Methods: A true experimental design with randomization into an intervention or control group was used. The empowerment based EIP, offered to the intervention group twice a week for 6 months, c...

Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships body dissatisfaction and self-esteem with social physique anxiety in students pursuing different subjects study. A total 219 aged 22 ± 1.9 years age participated; 78 were men 141 women. participants divided into two groups according their subject Group consisted 123 (56.2%) Department Physical Education & Sport Science,...

objective: the purpose of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of the persian version of templer death anxiety scale-extended (das-e) in veterans of iran–iraq warfare. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 211 male veterans of iran–iraq warfare completed the 51 item dase. principal components analysis with varimax rotation was used to assess domain structure of the das-e. ...

At least 60 min of daily physical activity (PA) are recommended for weight control, a target achieved by only 3% of obese (OB) women. The purposes of this study were to examine (i) the affective responses of normal-weight (NW), overweight (OW), and OB middle-aged sedentary women to exercise of increasing intensity and (ii) the relationship of affective responses to self-efficacy and social phys...

BACKGROUND A lot of evidence showed that boys and girls are at high risk of developing major or minor depression in adolescence. Increases in physical fitness have been associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms, yet the mechanisms that underlie (or mediate) this relationship have not been thoroughly examined. METHODS 528 boys (mean age = 12.33 years) and 507 girls (mean age = 12.32 ...