scholarly journals Perceptions of epilepsy among black students at a University in South Africa

Curationis ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
K Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Traditional Treatment ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Class Room ◽  
Age Range ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Source Of Information

The present study sought to investigate the relationship between familiarity, attitudes, causative and treatment beliefs about epilepsy in a sample of black young adults (university students) in South Africa. The sample included a convenient sample of 253 second year social science students, 98 (38.7%) males and 155 (61.3%) females in the age range from 18 to 42 years (M=25.0 years, (SD=4.2). The questionnaire administered to students in a class room situation included sociodemographic data, and sections on familiarity, beliefs about cause and treatment, sources of information, attitudes about epileptics, and prevention of epilepsy. Results showed that the majority of students, in particular from a rural background, were familiar with epilepsy. Health care institutions were the most important source of information on epilepsy, especially for women. Those who believed in traditional causes of epilepsy also endorsed traditional treatment for it, though they did not see such treatment as curative. Those who believed in a medical treatment did however see such treatment as curative. Although the majority of the students had a positive attitude towards epileptics through sharing a meal or room and willingness to marry an epileptic, 17% thought that epileptics can infect others with their saliva during a seizure, 12% felt an epileptic is a witch or wizard, and about 10% said an epileptic must be isolated. Findings should be included in educational programmes for young adults.

scholarly journals An Investigation on Well-being and Emotional Intelligence among Young Adults

YMER Digital ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 456-467
Author(s):  
Dr. Sandeep Panchal ◽  
◽  
Dr. Sanjeev Kumari ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Emotional Management ◽  
Age Range ◽  
The Relationship

Subjective well-being is a psychological aspect of life satisfaction. An individual’s psychological well-being affects how a person thinks and feels. There are numerous factors which can influence the subjective well-being of an individual. One of the most important factors is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence has been preoccupying a significant place in well-being literature. Goleman (1998) defines it as “emotional awareness and emotional management abilities give the ability to balance emotion and reason in order to maximise long-term enjoyment". It entails recognising one's own and others feelings, managing one's own emotions, and adapting to others emotions. The objective of this study was to examine the nature of the relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological well-being among young adults who are following bachelor degrees from recognized national universities. The sample consists of 200 participants both male and female of age range 19 to 23 years mean age is 21, included in this study. Well-being Inventory and Multidimensional Measures of Emotional Intelligence were administered to measure the subjective well-being and emotional intelligence. Results showed that selfawareness, managing emotions, motivating oneself, handling relations dimension of emotional intelligence evidenced strong positive associations with well-being positive affect, well-being negative affect and well-being total dimensions of well-being. Stepwise regression analysis disclosed two predictors of well-being i.e. managing emotions and motivating oneself. These results have important implications with regard to our current understanding of the relationships between well-being and emotional intelligence.

scholarly journals Association of Optimism and Perceived Stress among Young Adults

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ritika Joshi ◽  
Pragya Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Life Orientation Test ◽  
Life Orientation ◽  
Spss Software ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Age Range ◽  
The Relationship

Optimism is a part of positive psychology which leads to better adaptive and coping skills and reduced stress level in an individual. The aim of the present research was to study the association of optimism and perceived stress among young adults. The sample consisted of 170 young adults (79 males and 91 females) within the age range of 18 to 25 years. Purposive sampling technique was employed for collecting the data. The Perceived stress scale-10 (PSS; Cohen, Kamarack & Marmelstein, 1983) and Life Orientation Test- Revised (Scheir, Carver, & Bridges, 1994) was used for measuring perceived stress and optimism respectively. Correlation and t-test was found using IBM SPSS software. Findings suggested that optimism was negatively correlated with perceived stress. Females were found to score significantly higher on perceived stress levels than males. While the gender difference in optimism level was reported to be insignificant. Future research needs to be conducted on the relationship between gender and levels of optimism.

scholarly journals Relationship between Transversus Abdominis Strength and Lumbar Lordosis in Young Adults

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
Niketa Patel ◽  
Deepali Dinesh Patil ◽  
Lata Parmar
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Lumbar Lordosis ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Transversus Abdominis ◽  
Abdominal Muscles ◽  
Transverse Abdominis ◽  
Pressure Biofeedback ◽  
Age Range ◽  
The Relationship

Background: The researchers and clinicians are emphasizing on function of Transverse Abdominis (TrA) which is a deepest abdominal muscles because there is an evidence that TrA is recruited independently of the other abdominal muscles in many different tasks and plays an important role in lumbar stability. Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between TrA muscle strength and lumbar lordosis in young adults. Methods: Total 394 subjects were recruited from the constituent institutions of Sumandeep Vidyapeeth with the age range 18-35years. All the subjects, Lumbar lordosis angle and their TrA strength were measured with the Flexicurve and Pressure Biofeedback Unit respectively. Lumbar lordosis angle was calculated using established formula. Average of 03 trials was considered for TrA strength. Results: Pearson correlation coefficient was -0.18 on correlating Lumbar lordosis angle with TrA strength, -0.09 for age with TrA strength and 0.11 for age with lumbar lordosis angle. Conclusion: This study concludes that there is negative relationship between lumbar lordosis and TrA i.e. as the lumbar lordosis angle increases, the strength of TrA muscle decreases.

scholarly journals How we can Improve Students Interest in Asking and Answering Questions in the Classroom, The Case of Second Year Social Science Students of BHU in 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 125-130
Author(s):  
Mengesha Robso Wodajo ◽  
Bayisa Hailu ◽  
Tanase Tasente
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Evaluation Strategies ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Class Room ◽  
Answering Questions

This education research tries to look at student’s low interest in asking and answering questions in social science courses and teacher’s efforts, mechanisms and hard workings to improve students’ interest and participation in a class room and other project works. Likewise, the paper also assess and examine the causes of some students being silence in class room when they are addressed different individual and group class works in their session; and results that has been occur, after teachers tried to used and applied different evaluation strategies and pedagogical systems to motivate and initiate pupils to be active participant.

scholarly journals Association of Optimism and Perceived Stress among Young Adults

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ritika Joshi ◽  
Pragya Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Life Orientation Test ◽  
Life Orientation ◽  
Spss Software ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Age Range ◽  
The Relationship

Optimism is a part of positive psychology which leads to better adaptive and coping skills and reduced stress level in an individual. The aim of the present research was to study the association of optimism and perceived stress among young adults. The sample consisted of 170 young adults (79 males and 91 females) within the age range of 18 to 25 years. Purposive sampling technique was employed for collecting the data. The Perceived stress scale-10 (PSS; Cohen, Kamarack & Marmelstein, 1983) and Life Orientation Test- Revised (Scheir, Carver, & Bridges, 1994) was used for measuring perceived stress and optimism respectively. Correlation and t-test was found using IBM SPSS software. Findings suggested that optimism was negatively correlated with perceived stress. Females were found to score significantly higher on perceived stress levels than males. While the gender difference in optimism level was reported to be insignificant. Future research needs to be conducted on the relationship between gender and levels of optimism.

scholarly journals An examination of developmental assets and academic performance in higher education sport students

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Ian Jones
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Developmental Assets ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Exercise Science ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Sport And Exercise ◽  
Individual Asset ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Domain Level

The purpose of this research was to explore the magnitude and direction of the relationship between developmental assets (subcategories and domain levels) and academic achievement in British students. Based on the existing theory I hypothesized that total asset score, individual asset groups (i.e., internal and external assets), and the eight asset subcategories would have a moderate to a large positive relationship with academic achievement. 232 participants were recruited from a second-year compulsory research methods module for undergraduate sport and exercise science students at a UK based university. The participants completed the Developmental Assets Profile (DAP) at the beginning of the course, and their final module grade was recorded after the course had finished. Pearson's correlation between assets and grade score revealed several significant relationships. The strongest subcategory correlation was between commitment to learning and grade score. The strongest domain level correlation was between internal assets and grade score. The current study provides evidence that developmental assets are positively associated with grade score in university students; however, the size of the relationship is smaller than previously suggested.

A Study of the Credibility Factor in Drug Education Programs

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro J. Pascale ◽  
Fred Streit
Keyword(s):  
Educational Level ◽  
Human Organism ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Critical Periods ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
Drug Problems ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Source Of Information

There are certain critical periods in the development of the human organism. The years of schooling coincide with several of these critical periods. One of the psycho-educational implications of these critical periods is the degree to which students will believe their source of information and indeed to what source they will turn for information and help. This empirical study has examined by chi-square procedures, the relationship between educational level of students, and the degree to which they will endorse various sources of information concerning drug problems.

The relationship of bovine rostral tooth development to age determined by post-mortem radiographic examination of cattle aged between 12 and 24 months

1981 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Age Estimation ◽  
Tooth Development ◽  
Permanent Teeth ◽  
Radiographic Examination ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Second Year Of Life ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

SUMMARYResults of rostral tooth development determined both visually and by post-mortem radiographic examination were used to provide age ranges and median ages for stages which could be seen between 1 and 2 years old. These showed that intra-oral eruption of the permanent rostral teeth was of little value in age estimation during the second year of life. However, utilizing the stages of tooth development which could be seen radiographically the maximum age range before differentiation was 5 months (1 year 1 month from 1 year 6 months and 1 year 5 months from 1 year 10 months). Thus it appeared that rostral tooth radiography was of more use in age estimation than intraoral eruption of the permanent teeth.

Body Dissatisfaction, Perfectionism, and Media Exposure Among Adolescents

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (Spring 2019) ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Asma Nigar ◽  
Irum Naqvi
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Age Range ◽  
The Relationship

The present study was planned to explore the relationship between body dissatisfaction, perfectionism, and media exposure among adolescents. Sample of young adults (N = 376) students including boys (n = 174) and girls (n = 202) of age range from 16 to 21 years (M = 18.2; SD = 1.24) took part in the research. Multidimensional Self-Relations Questionnaire Appearance Scale (Cash, 2000), Perfectionism Inventory (Hill et al., 2004) and Media Exposure list (Hayee, 2012) were used to assess study variables. The outcomes demonstrated that body areas satisfaction has negative connection while appearance orientation has positive association with perfectionism. Young ladies scored high on appearance orientation, overweight preoccupation, self-classified weight, and perfectionism while scored low on appearance evaluation and body areas satisfaction when contrasted with young men. Media exposure moderates the relationship between body areas satisfaction and perfectionism. These results have essential ramifications for future counteractive action and intercession endeavors which need to target teenagers’ particularly young ladies at early age when convictions and worries about weight and shape are less fortified.

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