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Implicit theories, goal orientations, and perceived competence: Impact on students' achievement behavior
(2002)The present study was designed to explore relations between implicit theories of intelligence, goal orientations. perceived competence. and school achievement, It was assumed that implicit theories of intelligence orient ... -
Incidence and teachers' perceived causation of depression in primary school children in Greece
(2006)Emotional difficulties, and especially depressive symptomatology, constitute a serious and relatively frequent childhood problem which are often overlooked. Teachers' responses to pupils' depression seem to be related to ... -
Longitudinal modeling of adiposity in periadolescent Greek school children
(2005)Purpose: Obesity has an etiology that is multidimensional in nature. Given the dearth of longitudinal data, we examined changes in adipose tissue (Ad) in relation to physical activity levels (PA), aerobic fitness (AF), and ... -
Low-grade albuminuria in children with obstructive sleep apnea
(2013)Small urinary protein loss (low-grade albuminuria or microalbuminuria) may reflect altered permeability of the glomerular filtration barrier. In the present study, it was hypothesized that children with obstructive sleep ... -
Nonverbal communication, play, and language in Greek young children with Williams syndrome
(2011)This study investigated nonverbal communicative abilities, functional play, and symbolic play in 11 toddlers with Williams syndrome (WS) during spontaneous communication. The WS group was compared with a group of typically ... -
Obesity and Persisting Sleep Apnea After Adenotonsillectomy in Greek Children
(2008)Background: The relative importance of obesity and adenotonsillar hypertrophy in the pathogenesis of obstructive sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in childhood is unclear. Adenotonsillectomy (AT) for SDB is not always ... -
Prevalence of obesity in children aged 6-12 years in Greece: nutritional behaviour and physical activity
(2012)Introduction: During the last two decades, obesity has proved to be one of the most important problems of public health, and it is considerably more frequent in developed countries, not only in adults, but in children, ... -
The prevalence of selected modifiable coronary heart disease risk factors in 12-year-old Greek boys and girls
(2001)The prevalence of 14 selected modifiable coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors was determined in randomly selected adolescent boys (n = 117) and girls (n = 93) from provincial Greece. Based on published criteria ... -
Relations between family structure and students' health-related attitudes and behaviors
(2004)This study examined the relations between family structure and students' health-related behaviors. Participants were 6,130 Greek students, ages 11 to 16 years. They responded to questionnaires based on the Planned Behavior ... -
The role of educational experiences in the development of deaf identity
(2006)In this study, the analytical educational experiences of 25 deaf adults are explored in relation to their identity. The qualitative analysis indicated that the most critical educational experiences for the participants' ... -
Seroepidemiology of hepatitis B in Greek children 6 years after the implementation of universal vaccination
(2008)The seroepidemiology of hepatitis B in children living in Greece 6 years post-implementation of universal infant immunization (1998) was studied. We collected 90-100 sera/year of age, stratified by geographic region. The ... -
Social preference, perceived popularity and social intelligence - Relations to overt and relational aggression
(2006)Relations among social preference, perceived popularity, social intelligence and two types of aggressive behaviour were studied. Peer-estimation techniques were used to measure all major variables. Altogether, 403 Greek ... -
Spirometric values in Gypsy (Roma) children
(2008)Values of spirometry indices vary among subjects of similar age, gender and somatometrics but of different ethnic origins. Low socioeconomic status in childhood is inversely related to lung growth. The aim of this investigation ... -
The stigmatization of obesity in children. A survey in Greek elementary schools
(2009)This study investigates elementary school children's prejudice towards obesity. A sample of 1861 underweight, normal, overweight and obese children from Central Greece were instructed to rank 6 drawings of same sex children ...