Effect of Height on Motor Coordination in College Students Participating in a Dancesport Program

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Xiaoxin Li ◽  
Huazhuo Wang ◽  
Yaohua Yang ◽  
Chunying Qi ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Basic Skills ◽  
Body Height ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Screening Tools ◽  
Single Sex ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Relationship

OBJECTIVE: Athlete screening tools combine measures of physical performance and morphometric parameters unique to each sport. Given the increasing competitiveness of dancesport, we designed the present quasi-experimental study to analyze the relationship between body height and motor coordination in college students. METHODS: Six hundred eighty-six students were randomly selected to participate in a dancing sport program that consisted of 16 weeks (32 hrs) of training. The program included an assessment of basic skills (rhythm, movement specificity, intensity, expressive force, and action coherence) and skills related to a doubles dance routine. Male and female students were divided into four single-sex groups based on their heights (each group had a 5-cm range), and the average scores for each performance indicator were analyzed. RESULTS: A one-way ANOVA revealed significant differences in performance scores for each indicator of basic skills and double routine skills between the different height groups. Male in the 175–179 cm group and female students in the 165–169 cm group had the best performance scores on each indicator, while the shortest students had the worst performance scores. CONCLUSION: The height of students participating in sport dancing training had an impact on dancesport performance and motor coordination, counter to the traditional belief that shorter people have better coordination.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Classroom type (Single-Sex or Mixed-Sex) and the Academic Achievements in Mathematics among Students belonging to the National-Religious Society in Israel

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
Ezri Skital ◽  
Laurenţiu-Gabriel Ţîru
Keyword(s):  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Religious Schools ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Single Sex ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Study Population ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Achievements In Mathematics

Abstract Many studies have indicated that single-sex classrooms promote female students’ self-confidence and achievement in various professions, including professions where their rate of employment is low, such as mathematics and other exact sciences. The purpose of the present study is to examine the relationship between single-sex classrooms and math achievements among both female and male students. The study population included 608 students learning in the fifth-ninth grades, who attended state-religious schools in the southern region of Israel and came from families who had similar socioeconomic status. The students answered a short demographic questionnaire and their math teacher filled out each student’s score achieved in the regional math summative assessment. The findings showed no relationship between classroom type and boys’ achievement in mathematics, while a significant relationship was found between learning in single-sex classroom and higher math achievements among girls in elementary school. In middle school, however, no significant difference was found.

scholarly journals The mediating effect of cognitive appraisal on the relationship between sleep habits and the stress response among Japanese female college students

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noriko Aizawa ◽  
Mika Omori
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Cognitive Appraisals ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Sleep Habits ◽  
Japanese Female ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background Undergraduate students tend to develop “evening-type” sleep patterns. Recent research has reported that evening-type and irregular sleep habits are related to physical and mental stress responses, particularly in female students. Although the connection between sleep habits and the stress response has been well documented, the mechanism behind this relationship is currently unknown. Using the transactional model as a framework and female students as our target population, we examined whether sleep habits predict the stress response through the mediation of cognitive appraisals of one’s own sleep habits. Methods Three hundred twenty-one Japanese female college students participated in this study. Participants completed measures of their sleep habits (sleep patterns and sleep irregularity), cognitive appraisals of their sleep habits (including four subscales: commitment, appraisal of influence, appraisal of threat, and controllability), stress responses (depression and anxiety), and control factors. The reliability and validity of the scales used in this study, except for sleep pattern and sleep irregularity, were confirmed in previous studies. Results Multiple-mediation-model analysis indicated that commitment mediates the relationship between sleep pattern and anxiety. Meanwhile, cognitive appraisals, as a whole, were found to have a mediating effect on the relationship between sleep irregularity and depression. Conclusions Our study revealed that cognitive appraisals mediated the relationship between sleep habits and the stress response. The findings also suggest that maintaining a low level of commitment might be effective for reducing anxiety, especially considering the difficulty associated with changing lifestyles. The findings of the present study should be useful for health education related to lifestyle.

scholarly journals The Mediating Effect of Cognitive Appraisal on the Relationship Between Sleep Habits and the Stress Response Among Japanese Female College Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noriko Aizawa ◽  
Mika Omori
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Cognitive Appraisals ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Sleep Habits ◽  
Japanese Female ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background: Undergraduate students tend to develop “evening-type” sleep patterns. However, recent research has reported that evening-type and irregular sleep habits are related to physical and mental stress responses, particularly in female students. Although the connection between sleep habits and the stress response has been well documented, the mechanism behind this relationship is currently unknown. Using the transactional model as a framework and female students as our target population, we examined whether sleep habits predict the stress response through the mediation of cognitive appraisals of one’s own sleep habits.Methods: Three hundred twenty-one Japanese female college students participated in this study. Participants completed measures of their sleep habits (sleep patterns and sleep irregularity), cognitive appraisals of their sleep habits (including four subscales: commitment, appraisal of influence, appraisal of threat, and controllability), stress responses (depression and anxiety), and control factors. The reliability and validity of the scales used in this study, except for sleep pattern and sleep irregularity, were confirmed in previous studies. Results: Multiple-mediation-model analysis indicated that commitment mediates the relationship between sleep pattern and anxiety. Meanwhile, cognitive appraisals, as a whole, were found to have a mediating effect on the relationship between sleep irregularity and depression. Conclusions: Our study revealed that cognitive appraisals mediated the relationship between sleep habits and the stress response. The findings also suggest that maintaining a low level of commitment might be effective for reducing anxiety, especially considering the difficulty associated with changing lifestyles. The findings of the present study should be useful for health education related to lifestyle.

scholarly journals METACOGNITIVE AWARENESS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS: PERSPECTIVES OF AGE AND GENDER

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Satyavrata Panda
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Metacognitive Awareness ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Parental Encouragement ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

The study was conducted to determine the relationship between parental encouragement of graduate students in relation to their risk taking behaviour. The participants were 600 degree college students of Haryana state studying in different streams viz. Art, Science, Commerce, Pharmacy and Education. Parental encouragement scale by Kusum Agrawal and Risk Taking Questionnaire (RTQ) by V.N.Sinha and P.N.Arora were used for the study. Mean, Standard Deviation and ‘z’ test were used for compare the values among different groups. The result of the study shows that the female students were significantly differ in parental encouragement than the male students studying at graduate level while the male and female students studying in professional and non professional courses at graduate level does not differ in parental encouragement.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Motor Coordination and Imitation: An fNIRS Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1052
Author(s):  
Wenrui Zhao ◽  
Minqiang Hui ◽  
Xiaoyou Zhang ◽  
Lin Li
Keyword(s):  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Mirror Neuron System ◽  
Mirror Neuron ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Skill Learning ◽  
Angular Gyrus ◽  
Neuron System ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Supplementary Motor Cortex ◽  
The Relationship

Although motor coordination and imitation are important factors affecting motor skill learning, few studies have examined the relationship between them in healthy adults. In order to address this in the present study, we used fNIRS to analyze the relationship between motor coordination and imitation in college students. Our results showed that: (1) motor coordination in female students was positively correlated with the average time taken to perform an imitation; (2) the mean imitation time was negatively correlated with the activation level of the supplementary motor cortex, primary somatosensory cortex, and angular gyrus of the mirror neuron system; (3) motor coordination in female students moderated mirror neuron system (MNS) activation and imitation. For women with low rather than high motor coordination, higher MNS activation was associated with a stronger imitation ability. These results demonstrate that motor coordination in female students is closely related to action imitation, and that it moderates the activation of the MNS, as measured via fNIRS.

scholarly journals The Association between Dietary Inflammatory Index with Sleep Quality and Obesity among Iranian Female Students: A Cross-sectional Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
hadi bazyar ◽  
ahmad zarejavid ◽  
Hossein Bavi Behbahani ◽  
SHIVAPPA NITIN ◽  
JAMES HEBERT ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Dietary Inflammatory Index ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Anthropometric Indices ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Inflammatory Index ◽  
The Relationship

Background: Overweight, obesity and lack of sleep quality as inflammatory states are the common problems among college students and the Association of Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) with these problems among this population is unknown. We aimed to evaluate the relationship of the DII with obesity and sleep quality among Iranian female students. Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted in 249 female college students. The Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) was calculated using a valid and reliable 147-item food frequency questionnaire (FFQ). To assess sleep quality, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used. Odds Ratio (OR) and 95% Confidence Intervals (CIs) were estimated for anthropometric indices and sleep quality according to DII score. Linear regression was used to estimate the relationship between DII score with sleep and anthropometric indices. Results: There was a significant association evident between DII and sleep quality(> 5 is considered as poor quality of sleep); i.e., the odds ratios between DII quartile 2 vs 1 (unadjusted model: OR= 0.33 (CI: 0.14-0.74), P for trend =0.002; model 1: the fully adjusted OR= 0.31(CI: 0.12-0.78), P for trend = 0.005; model 2:OR=0.30 (CI:0.12-0.78), P for trend = 0.005) to quartile 4(unadjusted model: OR= 1.13(CI: 0.45-2.80); model 1: OR= 1.11(CI: 0.44-2.79); model 2:OR=1.13(CI:0.44-2.87), P for trend = 0.005). Also, odds ratios increased significantly from quartile 2 to quartile 4 in all models for DII and sleep quality. According to the continuous score of DII, there was a significant positive association between DII and sleep quality in all 3 models: unadjusted, model 1, and model 2 (OR= 1.21 (CI: 1.05-1.40), OR= 1.21 (CI: 1.03-1.43), and OR= 1.22 (CI: 1.03-1.44), respectively. Conclusions: In this study, after removing the effect of confounding factors, participants in the highest quartile of DII score had significantly higher PSQI global score.

scholarly journals ABSTRACT INTELLIGENCE OF GRADUATE STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR RISK TAKING BEHAVIOUR

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunita Arya ◽  
Parmod Kumar
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Relationship

The study was conducted to determine the relationship between abstract intelligence of graduate students in relation to their risk taking behaviour. The participants were 600 degree college students of Haryana state studying in different streams viz. Art, Science, Commerce, Pharmacy and Education. Cattell and Cattell Culture Fair (Free) intelligence Scale by Kapoor, Rao and Singh. {Scale III(CFIS-III)} for measuring abstract intelligence and Risk Taking Questionnaire (RTQ) by V.N.Sinha and P.N.Arora were used for the study. Mean, Standard Deviation and ‘z’ test were used for compare the values among different groups. The result of the study shows that the male students were significantly differ in abstract intelligence than the female students studying at graduate level while the male and female students studying in professional courses at graduate level does not differ in abstract intelligence whereas male male students were significantly differ in abstract intelligence than the female students studying in non professional courses at graduate level

Personality, Prayer, and Church Attendance in a Sample of Male College Students in the USA

1996 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 976-978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Alan Lewis ◽  
John Maltby
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Male College ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Personal Prayer ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Male College Students

Recent studies have suggested that, within Eysenck's dimensional model of personality, psychoticism rather than extraversion or neuroticism is fundamental to both positive religious attitude and frequency of religious practice. 1995 data of Maltby were further analysed to examine the relationship between the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised-Abbreviated and frequency of personal prayer and church attendance among 100 male college students in the USA. A significant negative association was found between scores on the Psychoticism scale and frequency of personal prayer, with lower Psychoticism scores being associated with greater frequency in personal prayer. However, no significant association was found between scores on the Psychoticism scale and frequency of church attendance or between frequency of personal prayer and frequency of church attendance. These findings therefore only partly replicate those of Maltby among female students in the USA and lend some further support to the view that psychoticism is fundamental to religiosity.

scholarly journals Intolerance of Uncertainty and Mindfulness as Determinants of Anxiety and Depression in Female Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Marina Nekić ◽  
Severina Mamić
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Intolerance Of Uncertainty ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
The Relationship

Bearing in mind the characteristics of an academic setting, as well as the developmental tasks young people inevitably face, there is a need to identify and study the factors that play an important role in the development and maintenance of psychological distress among college students. One factor that has emerged as crucial for the development of both anxiety and depression is the intolerance of uncertainty. On the other hand, there appears to be mounting evidence that mindfulness is an important factor that can be beneficial for the psychological health of college students. Taking this into consideration, the purpose of the current study was to determine the contribution of the intolerance of uncertainty and mindfulness in explaining the symptoms of depression and anxiety in a sample of female college students (n = 282) whose average age was 21. The results indicated that students had moderate levels of anxiety and depression. Additionally, they were, on average, intolerant of uncertainty and mindfulness. Two hierarchical regression analyses revealed that the intolerance of uncertainty and mindfulness significantly predict both anxiety and depression in female students, and that mindfulness partially mediates the relationship between the intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety/depression. The results are discussed in the light of previous studies, and its clinical implications.

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