In Western research, self-injurious behaviors are commonly viewed as "feminine" behavior. In this present study, using the data from a survey administered to 960 first- and second-year students in Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, the self-injurious behaviors among college students are analyzed by sex. The results reported that the average prevalence of self-injurious behaviors among male stu...

Background. We describe a one-year evaluation study comparing SCIL intervention of mobile provision of integrated ANC/ HIV testing with an enhanced (SCIL+) intervention of community mobilization strategy providing conditional cash transfers (CCT) to women's SHG for identifying and accompanying pregnant women to mobile clinics. Methods. Twenty pairs of villages matched on population, socioeconom...

We may not be able to make you love reading, but helping people to help themselves self help and prevention will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In thi...

Individuals perform mate retention behaviors to minimize the risk of partner infidelity and relationship dissolution. The current study investigates whether consideration of cosmetic surgery can be conceptualized as part of a broader strategy of mate retention for women, but not men. We hypothesized that women's consideration of cosmetic surgery would be positively associated with performance f...

ing for the moment from any cost attached to learning or not learning the true ability, it is easy to see from (3) that F $ 0 if and only if

Developing a sense of agency as a learner is at the heart of Self-Regulated Learning (SLR). If students in mathematics are going to become self-regulated learners they need to be confronted with opportunities that allow them to reveal their thinking and to observe and emulate the thinking of others. In what follows we begin by introducing SRL and exploring its connection with mathematics educat...

As argued by Werner DeBondt and Richard H. Thaler (1995): “Perhaps the most robust finding in the psychology of judgment is that people are overconfident.” This paper surveys part of the vast empirical and experimental literature on overconfidence. We find broad evidence that many subjects underestimate their health and driving risk, and that this often results in underinvestment in precautions...