This study addressed the role of chronic exercise to enhance physical self-description as measured by self-estimated percent body fat. Accuracy of physical self-description was determined in normal-weight, regularly exercising and non-exercising males with similar body mass index (BMI)'s and females with similar BMI's (n=42 males and 45 females of which 23 males and 23 females met criteria to b...

Implicit self-esteem (ISE), which is often defined as automatic self-evaluations, fuses research on unconscious processes with that on self-esteem. As ISE is viewed as immune to explicit control, it affords the testing of theoretical questions such as whether cultures vary in self-enhancement motivations. We provide a critical review and integration of the work on (a) the operationalization of ...

ôbjective: self-efficacy beliefs determine how people feel, think, motivate themselves and behave. regarding to similar findings it is supposed that concept of self efficacy has a general role on mental health. the present study focused on examining the relationships between self-efficacy and symptoms of depression, anxiety, worry and social avoidance in a large sample of normal students (n=549...

UNLABELLED Limitation in daily physical activity is one of the reasons for total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, studies of the effects of THA or TKA generally do not determine actual daily activity as part of physical functioning. We determined the effect of THA or TKA on patients' actual physical activity and body function (pain, stiffness), capacity to perfo...

Self-interaction corrected density functional theory was used to determine the self-interaction error for dissociating one-electron bonds. The self-interaction error of the unpaired electron mimics nondynamic correlation effects that have no physical basis where these effects increase for increasing separation distance. For short distances the magnitude of the self-interaction error takes a min...

We illustrate and emphasize the relevance of hyperbolic theories of dissipation in different physical scenarios. Particular attention is paid to self–gravitating systems where the relaxation time may become large enough as to require a description of the transient regime. It is argued that even outside that regime, hyperbolic theories may be needed to provide an accurate description of dissipat...

Meaningful comparison of physical self-concept among racial or ethnic groups requires that the measurement instruments used have equivalent measurement properties. We tested the factorial validity and invariance of the Physical Self-Description Questionnaire (PSDQ) among Black (n = 658) and White (n = 479) adolescent girls in the 12th grade. Construct validity was examined by estimating correla...

Theoretical psychology, broadly conceived, is the study of all mind-like behavior wherever it may arise. In this sense, the subject matter of theoretical psychology includes artificial mental mechanisms as well as those mental mechanisms which have arisen naturally (or may yet so arise). Automaton theory is the abstract and precise study of all discrete deterministic devices and processes. In s...

The objective of the study was to examine psychometric characteristics of the short form of the Physical-Self Description Questionnaire (PSDQ-S) in a Slovenian adolescent sample and to examine the differences in multidimensional physical selfconcept in relation to age and gender. Participants were 362 elementary and high school students (189 girls, 173 boys, Mage=15.28). Confirmatory factor ana...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the impact of childhood physical abuse on self-concept and social competency of older adolescents and assessed perception of parental relationships as a mediator for consequences of abuse on social adjustment. METHOD College undergraduates (n = 660) completed: (a) the Social Skills Inventory (SSI), a measure of social competence, (b) the Self-Description Question...