Weight stigma is associated with a range of negative outcomes, including disordered eating, but the psychological mechanisms underlying these associations are not well understood. The present study tested whether the association between weight stigma experiences and disordered eating behaviors (emotional eating, uncontrolled eating, and loss-of-control eating) are mediated by weight bias internalization and psychological distress. Six-hundred and thirty-four undergraduate university students completed an online survey assessing weight stigma, weight bias internalization, psychological distress, disordered eating, along with demographic characteristics (i.e., age, gender, weight status). Statistical analyses found that weight stigma was significantly associated with all measures of disordered eating, and with weight bias internalization and psychological distress. In regression and mediation analyses accounting for age, gender and weight status, weight bias internalization and psychological distress mediated the relationship between weight stigma and disordered eating behavior. Thus, weight bias internalization and psychological distress appear to be important factors underpinning the relationship between weight stigma and disordered eating behaviors, and could be targets for interventions, such as, psychological acceptance and mindfulness therapy, which have been shown to reduce the impact of weight stigma. The evidence for the health consequences resulting from weight stigma is becoming clear. It is important that health and social policy makers are informed of this literature and encouraged develop anti-weight stigma policies for school, work, and medical settings.
<p>This article examines the variety of household groupings found in a comparatively small area of the Nepalese hills, 2000 square kilometers, covered by Lumle agricultural centre's extension command area. The article aims to show that even within the Nepalese context of patrilineal kinship groups organized around the family, the concept of the household can be little more than a flexible yardstick with which to measure social organization. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-02-11)</p>
The study investigated how social and emotional learning (SEL) is reflected in the attitudes, beliefs, and practices of itinerant teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing (ITDHHs). A mixed-methods approach was taken to survey 53 ITDHHs about their comfort with teaching SEL, commitment to ongoing professional development in SEL skills, and perceptions of SEL in school cultures. Follow-up interviews with 11 ITDHHs provided a deeper perspective on how these teachers prioritize and teach SEL skills within their unique teaching role. Overall, the findings revealed that ITDHHs overwhelmingly recognized the need to provide SEL support to their students, and very often provided direct teaching of SEL skills. However, they did not necessarily feel adequately prepared, nor supported by their schools, in terms of teaching SEL. Implications of the findings for professional preparation and practice are discussed.
Domestic tourism in Asia receives little research attention, yet movements within the people's own country far outnumber overseas visits. A strong motivating factor for the Javanese is visiting sacred sites such as caves or mountain peaks to pray or meditate. The significance of many sites pre?dates modern religions, and they are linked to continuing awareness of a spiritual dimension to everyday life. While in the West, belief in an intangible cohort of active entities which can interface with humans has disappeared through scientific rationalism, in Java such beliefs retain a deep hold and influence several areas of behaviour, including choice of leisure activity. Many favoured sites are located in protected areas, and may even be responsible for the area remaining ecologically unscathed for long enough to be protected under modern planning schemes. At popular sites, large crowds can arrive ? for instance, on a particular night in the Javanese calendar when the spirits are especially cooperative ? and pose management challenges. This paper examines the relevance of Javanese spirituality for tourism.
BACKGROUND:The current study investigated the efficacy of two brief intervention programs—biofeedback and mindfulness meditation—on levels of state anxiety and perceived stress in second-year Thai nursing students as they began clinical training.
METHOD:
Eighty-nine participants from a public nursing college in Thailand were randomly assigned to one of three groups: biofeedback group, mindfulness meditation group, or a control group. All participants were given pre- and postintervention surveys, which included demographic information; the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (State Anxiety Scale); and the Perceived Stress Scale.
RESULTS:
Findings indicated that biofeedback significantly reduced anxiety and maintained stress levels in nursing students. Mindfulness meditation similarly decreased anxiety levels, while also significantly lowering stress levels. The biofeedback group exhibited significant reduction in anxiety levels among the three groups at postintervention.
CONCLUSION:
Despite stressors and demands nursing students experience as they begin clinical practice, study findings support the use of biofeedback and mindfulness meditation interventions to assist nursing students in managing stress and anxiety.
<p>This article discusses the life and teachings of the revered <em>siddha</em> Tangtong Gyalpo (Thang-stong rGyal-po). (Mark Premo-Hopkins 2004-04-13)</p>
Filling a gap in the literature, this volume explores the struggles and accomplishments of women from both past and present-day Tibet. Here are queens from the imperial period, yoginis and religious teachers of medieval times, Buddhist nuns, oracles, political workers, medical doctors, and performing artists. Most of the essays focus on the lives of individual women, whether from textual sources or from anthropological data, and show that Tibetan women have apparently enjoyed more freedom than women in many other Asian countries. The book is innovative in resisting both romanticization and hypercriticism of women's status in Tibetan society, attending rather to historical description, and to the question of what is distinctive about women's situations in Tibet, and what is common to both men and women in Tibetan society.
This chapter examines the debate about the authorship of the root text of Tibetan medicine, the <i>Four Treatises</i>, which had been attributed to the Buddha himself. Compiled in twelfth-century Tibet, the <i>Four Treatises</i> is interpreted as the “Word of the Buddha.” Some scholars have pointed to signs that cast doubt on the <i>Four Treatises</i>'s more quotidian Tibetan origins. The chapter considers these scholars' arguments using a critical approach to mythological language, while preserving the virtues of enlightened authorship. It also discusses Zurkharwa Lodrö Gyelpo's account of the true origins of the <i>Four Treatises</i> and his domestication of those origins in Buddhist ethical terms. Finally, it analyzes Zurkharwa's approach to medical learning and his essay entitled <i>Old Man's Testament</i>, in which he looks back on his life, specifically his education and his colleagues, and his rhetorical style in representing it.
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