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Perceived control, loneliness, early-life stress, and parents’ perceptions of stress

Scientific Reports, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of understanding what contributes to individual variability in experiences of stress. Increases in stress related to the pandemic have been especially pronounced in parents, indicating a need for ...
Karen E. Smith, Eileen Graf, Kelly E. Faig, Stephanie J. Dimitroff, Frederica Rockwood, Marc W. Hernandez, Greg J. Norman   +6 more
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Out of control mortality matters: the effect of perceived uncontrollable mortality risk on a health-related decision [PDF]

PeerJ, 2014
Prior evidence from the public health literature suggests that both control beliefs and perceived threats to life are important for health behaviour. Our previously presented theoretical model generated the more specific hypothesis that uncontrollable ...
Gillian V. Pepper, Daniel Nettle
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Lesson-drawing in tobacco control: A qualitative study of stakeholder perceptions in five North-Western European countries

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2023
Introduction The theory of ‘family of nations’ posits that countries draw policy lessons predominantly from similar countries. Lesson-drawing in tobacco control has, however, been primarily studied in the ‘English-speaking’ family.
Thomas G. Kuijpers, Anton E. Kunst, Marc C. Willemsen   +2 more
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Ethnic differences and socio-demographic predictors of illness perceptions, self-management, and metabolic control of type 2 diabetes [PDF]

, 2013
OBJECTIVES: This study investigated ethnic differences in diabetes-specific knowledge, illness perceptions, self-management, and metabolic control among black-African, black-Caribbean,and white-British populations with type 2 diabetes.
Naderali, Ebrahim K., Devendra, D S, Jones, Martyn C., Lauder, William, Jones, M. C., Anderson, J., Anderson, J, Kirk, Alison, Devendra, Devasenan, Lauder, W., Anderson, John, Abubakari, A.R, Abubakari, A.-R., Devendra, D., Abubakari, Abdul-Razak, Kirk, A., Naderali, E.K.   +16 more
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What do the parents perceive, and how it affects children’s motor competence? An exploratory study in 5 to 11 years old south Brazilian children

Motricidade, 2023
The present study examines sex differences regarding children's self-perceptions and motor competence (locomotor and object control subtests), parents' perceptions about their boys’ and girls’ competence, and the associations among these variables ...
Aline Martins, Fábio Flôres, Nadia Valentini, Fernando Copetti   +3 more
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Contextual control of letter perception [PDF]

Memory & Cognition, 1977
This study examined the hypothesis that the type of list context in which a given item is embedded may affect the way in which it is perceptually processed. In the first experiment, subjects matched four types of test items inserted in four types of lists. The types of test items and the types of lists in which they were embedded were two-letter words,
R J, Petersen, D, Laberge
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Problems, perceptions and actions: An interdependent process for generating informal social control [PDF]

, 2018
Using two waves of survey data for residents in neighborhoods in Brisbane, this study explores the interdependent relationship between residents' perceptions of neighboring, cohesion, collective efficacy, neighborhood disorder, and the actions they take ...
Hipp, John R, Rebecca Wickes, John R. Hipp, Wickes, Rebecca   +3 more
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The association of illness perceptions and God locus of health control with self-care behaviours in patients with type 2 diabetes in Saudi Arabia

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2020
Objective: To investigate the associations between illness perceptions, God locus of health control (GLHC) beliefs, and self-care behaviours in Saudi patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D).
Mohsen Alyami, Anna Serlachius, Ibrahim Mokhtar, Elizabeth Broadbent   +3 more
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Manipulation of the Duration of the Initial Self-Control Task Within the Sequential-Task Paradigm: Effect on Exercise Performance

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020
Self-control exertion on an initial task has been associated with impaired performance on subsequent physical tasks also requiring self-control; an effect suggested to be mediated by changes in perceptions of pain and motivation.
Ruth Boat, Raymon Hunte, Emily Welsh, Anna Dunn, Ellen Treadwell, Simon B. Cooper   +5 more
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Longitudinal Change in the Relationship between Fundamental Motor Skills and Perceived Competence: Kindergarten to Grade 2

Sports, 2017
As children transition from early to middle childhood, the relationship between motor skill proficiency and perceptions of physical competence should strengthen as skills improve and inflated early childhood perceptions decrease.
Jeff R. Crane, John T. Foley, Patti-Jean Naylor, Viviene A. Temple   +3 more
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