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Physical activity among Chinese international students in American higher education : from quantitative and qualitative perspectives

Creator:

Yan, Zi

Abstract:

Chinese international students in American colleges and universities report low levels of physical activity involvement, which may limit them in terms of realizing their full human potential (i.e., cognitively, physically, socially). The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the psychosocial mechanisms as well as the sociocultural influences to understand...

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Dissertation
Awareness of Aging in Taiwan and the United States : An Examination of Ageism among College Students using Stereotypes and Future Self-views

Creator:

Allen, Pamela M.

Abstract:

Ageism in the context of global population aging could lead to increasing human and economic costs. Age stereotypes tend to be negative (Hummert, 1990) and ubiquitous (Nelson, 2002) there are a variety of well documented detrimental consequences of negative age stereotypes on older adults' physical, cognitive and psychological outcomes (Hummert,...

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Dissertation

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CCPA study. Undergraduate research assistants Erica Cabibbo, Megan Gordon, Briana Laird, Anna Le