According to the sociocultural approach of eating pathology, the more women perceive sociocultural pressures about body image, the more they endorse society's beliefs related to thinness and obesity which in turn, is associated with greater body dissatisfaction. Also, the more dissatisfied women are about their body image, the more they report bulimic symptoms. In the present study, the same sequence of variables was tested with the addition of a Global Self-Determination variable to examine why sociocultural pressures are associated with bulimic symptomatology in only a subset of women. Participants (N = 300) consisted of female university students. Analyses revealed that the more women were globally self-determined towards the different aspects of their life, the less they perceived sociocultural pressures about body image, the less they endorsed society's beliefs related to thinness and obesity, and the less they experienced bulimic symptoms. These findings suggest that a global self-determined motivational profile in life could possibly act as a buffer against sociocultural influences about body image and decrease women's risk of experiencing bulimic symptoms.
The authors expanded the applicability of I. Ajzen and M. Fishbein's (1980) theory of reasoned action by assessing the participants' beliefs, attitudes, and experiences related to sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and to alien abductions. The authors designed and administered a survey on UFO phenomena to 398 Canadian students. The survey contains items relating to each component of Ajzen and Fishbein's model, as well as scales that evaluate paranormal beliefs and social desirability. A majority of the sample believed in UFOs, although most had never seen one. However, only a minority believed in alien abductions--again, most without having had any reported experience. According to path analyses, UFO beliefs originated from societal forces rather than from personal experiences as the model would predict.
Ce texte fournit une introduction à l’intervention éducative, une notion aux origines « chargées », un terme qui n’est pas neutre et qui touche nécessairement à la définition du rôle et de la posture du chercheur en sciences humaines et sociales. L’intervention constitue à la fois une conception de la réalité, un rapport pluriel (à soi, à l’autre et au monde), une pratique complexe où le sujet et l’objet sont entremêlés, entrelacés et dialectisés tout au long de l’interaction qui les lie. Plusieurs auteurs (Lenoir, Larose, Deaudelin, Kalubi et Roy, 2002 ; Couturier, 2004 ; Larose, Couturier, Bédard, Larivée, Boulanger, Terrisse, 2013 ; Lenoir, 2009, 2011, 2014 ; Lenoir, Rey et Fazenda, 2001 ; etc.) ont souligné son caractère polysémique, sinon polyphonique, qui est présenté brièvement dans cette introduction. En éducation et en formation, la dialectique entre enseignement et apprentissage suppose interactions et médiations, introduit des régulations, éclaire le caractère dynamique du processus décisionnel des enseignants, produit du changement, autant de pistes qui permettent d’envisager la question de l’intervention en éducation selon trois perspectives : notionnel, épistémologique et empirique/praxique. Les problématiques qui sont développées dans les six articles du numéro thématique sont ici présentées avec pour ambition commune d’examiner des processus d’enseignement-apprentissage et de mettre en débat le concept d’intervention par le biais d’une démarche critique.
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