An Epidemic Hits Campus: The Challenge of Obesity for Future Students and Campus Recreation

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Arterberry
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Leisure Time Physical Activity ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Campus Recreation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adolescent Overweight ◽  
Recreation Programs ◽  
To Come ◽  
Recreation Professionals

Campus recreation programs and the national professional organization expect continued growth in the years to come, however, the future of the health of college students is troublesome. With the increase in childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity, attracting the nonuser to campus recreation programs could become more challenging than in the past. Campus recreation professionals will need to raise their awareness of the factors that influence overweight and obesity, and leisure-time physical activity in college students. This knowledge can subsequently be used to increase programming and service options to attract nonusers, create a culture of healthy living on campus, and increase the likelihood of future student participation.

Sport Club Participation and Health-Related Outcomes in College Students: Comparisons by Sex and Academic Classification

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsz Lun (Alan) Chu ◽  
Tao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Grade Point Averages ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Campus Recreation ◽  
Sport Club ◽  
Subjective Vitality ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Optimal Health ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Recreation Professionals

Using the theory of student involvement, the purpose of this study was to compare sport club participation and health-related outcomes, as well as the association between these two variables by sex and academic classification among college students. Participants were 127 sport club members recruited from a university in the southwestern United States. MANOVA analyses indicated that males reported more recreation center visits, greater sport club satisfaction, and lower subjective vitality than females; freshmen reported more recreation center visits and higher grade point averages (GPAs) than nonfreshmen. Canonical correlation analyses revealed that sport club satisfaction was positively related to GPA and subjective vitality, and sport club memberships were positively related to body mass index in the overall sample. Group differences were found in the direction and magnitude of these relationships. Thus, campus recreation professionals should consider sex and freshman status of sport club participants to target their diverse needs for optimal health-related outcomes.

Promoting Moral Growth through Campus Recreation

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip A. Theodore
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Campus Recreation ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Moral Growth ◽  
Recreation Programs ◽  
Recreation Professionals

This article explores the role of moral development education in campus recreation programs. The focus is upon two primary issues. The first is concerned with the question of whether or not educators, including campus recreation professionals, should he involved in moral development education. After concluding that campus recreation administrators are obliged to help students grow morally, the second issue of how professionals in the field can become effective moral educators is examined.

scholarly journals Higher Academic Stress Was Associated with Increased Risk of Overweight and Obesity among College Students in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (15) ◽  
pp. 5559
Author(s):  
Yonghua Chen ◽  
Xi Liu ◽  
Ni Yan ◽  
Wanru Jia ◽  
Yahui Fan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Academic Stress ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Moderation Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
College Type ◽  
Learning Event ◽  
Science Subject

This study examined associations between academic stress and overweight and obesity, and moderation effects of gender, grade, and types of college on such associations. Data on academic stress, negative learning events, weight, and height were self-reported by 27,343 college students in China in 2018. About 23% and 91% of students perceived high academic stress and suffered from at least one negative learning event during the past six months, respectively, especially for females, undergraduates, and students major in humanities and social science subject groups. Perceived academic stress was associated with increased risk of overweight and obesity among all students (OR = 1.05, 95%CI: 1.00–1.10), male (OR = 1.09, 95%CI: 1.03–1.15), undergraduate (OR = 1.06, 95%CI: 1.00–1.11), and students from subordinate universities (OR = 1.13, 95%CI: 1.01–1.26). Negative learning events were associated with increased risk of overweight and obesity among all students (OR = 1.05, 95%CI: 1.01–1.09), undergraduates (OR = 1.05, 95%CI: 1.01–1.09), and students from local universities (OR = 1.07, 95%CI: 1.00–1.14). Interventions are needed to reduce the high academic stress of college students, considering the modifying effects of gender, grade, and college type. Such interventions may further contribute to the prevention of overweight and obesity among college students.

Assessing Satisfaction with Campus Recreation Facilities among College Students with Physical Disabilities

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taeho Yoh ◽  
Mike Mohr ◽  
Brian Gordon
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Campus Recreation ◽  
Recreation Facilities ◽  
Recreation Programs ◽  
College Students With Disabilities

The purpose of this study was to investigate satisfaction with campus recreation facilities among college students with physical disabilities. One hundred twenty-two college students with various physical disabilities participated in the study. This study found that use of and satisfaction with campus recreation facilities were significantly low among college students with disabilities. Specifically, 68% of college students with physical disabilities used campus recreation facilities less than 5 time per semester, and 37% of participants never used the facilities. The personnel in the area of campus recreation programs and facilities for students with disabilities should use the findings and suggestions of this study to provide better accessibility and accommodation of campus recreation facilities to students with disabilities.

Best Practices in Student Development for Campus Recreation Professionals

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Toperzer ◽  
Denise M. Anderson ◽  
Robert J. Barcelona
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Campus Recreation ◽  
Recreational Sports ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Student Employees ◽  
Recreation Programs ◽  
Recreation Professionals

Student employees play a vital role in the leadership and delivery of campus recreation programs. Therefore, campus recreation professionals have a unique opportunity to contribute to their development. The purpose of this study was to identify best practices for effective student development in campus recreation programs affiliated with the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA). Data were collected using the Delphi technique via a web-based survey. A panel of experts including five of the 2009 Regional Vice Presidents of the NIRSA organization, as well as five campus recreation professionals from each region chosen by the Regional Vice Presidents was asked to participate. Panel members advocated five general best practices and 21 specific best practices. The five general best practices were leadership opportunities, performance assessment, training and orientation, personal relationships, and professional development. The results provide a framework that campus recreation professionals can use to enhance student development of their employees.

Suicidal Behavior in Black South Africans

Crisis ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourens Schlebusch ◽  
Naseema B.M. Vawda ◽  
Brenda A. Bosch
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
South African Society ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Black South Africans ◽  
To Come

Summary: In the past suicidal behavior among Black South Africans has been largely underresearched. Earlier studies among the other main ethnic groups in the country showed suicidal behavior in those groups to be a serious problem. This article briefly reviews some of the more recent research on suicidal behavior in Black South Africans. The results indicate an apparent increase in suicidal behavior in this group. Several explanations are offered for the change in suicidal behavior in the reported clinical populations. This includes past difficulties for all South Africans to access health care facilities in the Apartheid (legal racial separation) era, and present difficulties of post-Apartheid transformation the South African society is undergoing, as the people struggle to come to terms with the deleterious effects of the former South African racial policies, related socio-cultural, socio-economic, and other pressures.

Screen Wonders of the Past: And to Come?

1957 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-393
Author(s):  
Kenneth MacGowan
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
To Come

Music and Memory: The Tlatelolco Refrain

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Kun
Keyword(s):  
State Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Octavio Paz ◽  
Mexican History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rock Bands ◽  
To Come ◽  
Musical Memory ◽  
A Current

Ever since the 1968 student movements and the events surrounding the Tlatelolco massacre, Mexico City rock bands have openly engaged with the intersection of music and memory. Their songs offer audiences a medium through which to come to terms with the events of the past as a means of praising a broken world, to borrow the poet Adam Zagajewski’s phrase. Contemporary songs such as Saúl Hernández’s “Fuerte” are a twenty-first-century voicing of the ceaseless revolutionary spirit that John Gibler has called “Mexico unconquered,” a current of rebellion and social hunger for justice that runs in the veins of Mexican history. They are the latest additions to what we might think about as “the Mexico unconquered songbook”: musical critiques of impunity and state violence that are rooted in the weaponry of memory, refusing to focus solely on the present and instead making connections with the political past. What Octavio Paz described as a “swash of blood” that swept across “the international subculture of the young” during the events in Tlatelolco Plaza on October 2, 1968, now becomes a refrain of musical memory and political consciousness that extends across eras and generations. That famous phrase of Paz’s is a reminder that these most recent Mexican musical interventions, these most recent formations of a Mexican subculture of the young, maintain a historically tested relationship to blood, death, loss, and violence.

Restoring meaning: Self-uncertainty increases subjective distance between the past and present self

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Qing Yang ◽  
Oscar Ybarra ◽  
Yufang Zhao ◽  
Xiting Huang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
The Past ◽  
Subjective Distance ◽  
Maintenance Model

Based on the meaning maintenance model and temporal self-appraisal theory, we conducted 2 experiments with Chinese college students to test how self-uncertainty salience affected the subjective distance between the past and present self. We manipulated uncertainty salience and asked participants to explicitly (Study 1) or implicitly (Study 2) indicate their subjective distance. Participants in both studies increased the subjective distance when uncertainty was made salient. In addition, this effect was moderated by dispositional self-esteem in Study 2, with participants with low self-esteem reporting greater subjective distance than did high self-esteem participants after uncertainty-salience priming. These findings suggest that the process of appraising the past self may help individuals deal with feelings of uncertainty about the present self.

Corporate Reorganization Law and Forces of Change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Paterson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Corporate Reorganization ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

This book is concerned with the way in which forces of change, from the fields of finance and non-financial corporates, cause participants in the corporate reorganization process to adapt the ways in which they mobilize corporate reorganization law. It argues that scholars, practitioners, judges, and the legislature must all take care to connect their conceptual frameworks to the specific adaptations which emerge from this process of change. It further argues that this need to connect theoretical and policy concepts with practical adaptations has posed particular challenges when US corporate reorganization law has been under examination in the decade since the financial crisis. At the same time, the book suggests that English scholars, practitioners, judges, and the legislature have been more successful, over the course of the past ten years, in choosing concepts to frame their analysis which are sensitive to the ways in which corporate reorganization law is currently used. Nonetheless, it suggests that new problems may be on the horizon for English corporate reorganization lawyers in adapting their conceptual framework in the decades to come.

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