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Your Culture, My Culture!
(European Confederation of Youth Clubs, 2012-05-24)
The world population became more ethnically heterogeneous during the 21st century and this trend is likely to keep continuing (Wright & Littleford, 2002). In fact, certain reports predict that by the year 2050, the majority ...
Validation of the factor structure of the Greek adaptation of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire (SATAQ-3)
(Elsevier Ltd., 2014-06)
The current study aimed to confirm the factor structure and reliability of the newly translated Greek version of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3) among 1753 Greek-Cypriot high school ...
Cross-cultural Perceptual Differences- Among African American, Caucasian, and Greek-Cypriot College Students
(VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K., 2007-11-06)
This book examines the variables of ethnic identity, collective self-esteem, person perception, individualism, collectivism, and prejudice in Caucasian (North and South United States), African-American, and Greek-Cypriot ...
Associations between body dissatisfaction, importance of appearance, and aging anxiety with depression, and appearance-related behaviors in women in mid-life
(J Women Aging, 2021-01)
The impacts of body dissatisfaction have been widely studied among adolescent girls, but much less in women in mid-life. In this study, we evaluated the associations between body dissatisfaction, psychological health and ...
Person perception, prejudice, and hostility as influenced by the use of persuasion: A cross-cultural study.
(University of South Alabama, 2002)
The purpose of this study was to assess whether it is possible to alter the perception of similarity vs. uniqueness of people towards others and if the powerful embedded constructs of prejudice and aggression could be ...
Body Image Differences Across the Life Span of Greek-Cypriot Women: An Investigation Examining Adolescence, Early and Middle Adulthood
(The European Journal of Counselling Psychology, 2019-03)
The current study aimed to examine possible differences among females in three age groups (adolescent, early and middle adulthood) on body-image-related variables, media influences and self-esteem. The relationships between ...
Risk and Protective Factors of Disordered Eating in Adolescents Based on Gender and Body Mass Index
(Int J Environ Res Public Health., 2020-12-10)
The current study aimed to identify potential psychosocial risk and protective factors
contributing to eating disorders in adolescents, and observe any differences between genders and
Body Mass Index (BMI) categories. A ...
Editorial for the Special Thematic Section on “Body Image and Disordered Eating in Cyprus” of the European Journal of Counseling Psychology
(The European Journal of Counselling Psychology, 2019)
Dear Reader,
Both body image as a construct and eating disorders as diagnoses are complex and multidimensional. Therefore, their continuous research and in-depth assessment is a necessity in order to better understand ...
A probabilistic semantic analysis of eHealth scientific literature
(Sage, 2019)
Introduction:eHealth emerged as an interdisciplinary research area about 70 years ago. This study employs proba-bilistic techniques to semantically analyse scientific literature related to the field of eHealth in order to ...
Blockchain-Based Platform for Consent Management ofPersonal Data Processing in the IoT Ecosystem
(Wiley, 2019-10)
In the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, the volume of data generated by devices in the user’s environment is continuallyincreasing and becoming of particular value. In such an environment the average user is bound to ...