Monthly Archives: February 2011

Body Image Dissatisfaction Among Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade Children. Part 3

Overall results indicated that 50.6% of the children surveyed were dissatisfied with their current body shape or size (their current figure differed from their ideal figure), 41.8% wanted to be thinner, while 8.8% wanted to be larger. Fifty percent of … Continue reading

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Body Image Dissatisfaction Among Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade Children. Part 2

In this study the researcher examines the level of body image dissatisfaction among a sample of preadolescent children. It is apparent that shape increase as children reach adolescence, therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine whether pre-adolescent children … Continue reading

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Body Image Dissatisfaction Among Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade Children

Body image dissatisfaction has become increasingly more prevalent among the preadolescent population over recent years. This study examines the level of body image dissatisfaction among 261 third, fourth, and fifth grade girls and boys. A pictorial scale was used to … Continue reading

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Perceived Impact of Regular Exercise on Sexual Satisfaction. Part 4

Finally, the limitations of this study should be noted. Such limitations included participants

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Perceived Impact of Regular Exercise on Sexual Satisfaction. Part 3

Females in the present study reported higher levels of physical sexual satisfaction regarding partner

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Perceived Impact of Regular Exercise on Sexual Satisfaction. Part 2

Sexual behaviors among college students in the present study indicated that 29% engaged in sexual activity within the past seven days, 21% within the past 30 days, 19% at some point in their life but not within the past 30 … Continue reading

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Perceived Impact of Regular Exercise on Sexual Satisfaction

Perceived impact of regular exercise on sexual satisfaction was rated on a 12 question, five point Likert-type scale that gave each respondent an overall regular exercise belief score (1 point=strongly disagree, 5 points= strongly agree). When comparing variables, results found … Continue reading

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Reported Physical Sexual Satisfaction Based on Exercise Status, BMI, and Gender

A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was conducted to examine the effect of exercise on physical sexual satisfaction. Results found that there was a significant difference between students who were sexually active and who exercised regularly and students who were … Continue reading

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Data Analysis

SPSS for Windows was used to analyze all data in the present study. A series of means, standard deviations, and frequency analyzes were conducted on demographic variables and individual subscale items. Pearson r correlations were computed to determine whether physical … Continue reading

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Methods

Participants The participants of this study consisted of students attending a Midwestern university during the Spring Quarter of 2005 (n=678). Students were enrolled in general education courses taken by the general student population (i.e., Anatomy and Physiology, Physical Conditioning, Personal … Continue reading

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