The present paper is aimed at understanding the importance of motivation (perceived qualitatively) in ensuring the success of the dietary change process. This study expands on previous research by confronting the perspective of persons dieting to lose weight with the perspective of professionals providing support (dietitians). We interviewed 13 respondents (six patients, seven dietitians) and performed a thematic analysis. The study’s results show that understanding motivational mechanisms is a prerequisite for a consistent narrative in the patient–dietitian dyad. The research results could help in developing effective dietary interventions that could facilitate effective and permanent dietary change.
The aim of the study was to determine whether the level and structure of young adults' materialism varied depending on parental attitudes toward upbringing and whether a negative assessment of the family of origin's material situation and a low level of meeting material needs in childhood contributed to the formation of materialistic attitudes. The sample comprised 453 individuals: 335 women (74%) and 118 men (26%). The results indicated that parental attitudes toward upbringing played an important role in forming materialistic orientations in young people. Materialism is associated with parental attitudes of rejection and over-protection. A hierarchical cluster analysis was performed to determine whether the level and structure of young adults' materialism varied depending on their parents' attitudes toward upbringing. The analysis revealed that groups with different perceptions of these parental attitudes viewed them solely within the scope of variables describing materialism as the importance of possessing and acquiring money to fulfill one's main goals in life (that being the case for all its dimensions). The "traditional" understanding of materialism (and the most common one in specialist literature), that is, regarding the possession of material goods as a source of happiness and an indicator of success in life, was non-differentiating.
Agresja pomiędzy rodzeństwem to jedna z najbardziej rozpowszechnionych i najczęściej bagatelizowanych form agresji w rodzinie. Jest traktowana jako zjawisko naturalne i nieszkodliwe. Tymczasem, jak pokazują badania, pozostawia trwały ślad w psychice dziecka i wpływa na jego funkcjonowanie w dorosłym życiu. Cel: W badaniu poszukiwano związków pomiędzy spostrzeganą jakością środowiska rodzinnego, doświadczaniem agresji w rodzinie i w rodzeństwie oraz poziomem agresji w dorosłości. Metoda: Przebadano 201 osób, 167 kobiet i 34 mężczyzn, w wieku 19–36 lat. Do pomiaru badanych zmiennych wykorzystano autorską ankietę zawierającą pytania dotyczące: agresji i przemocy między rodzicami, agresji rodziców wobec dzieci, dyscyplinowania w procesie oddziaływania wychowawczego, Skalę Oceny Rodziny (FACES-IV) Dawida H. Olsona w adaptacji Margasińskiego (2009, 2015) oraz Kwestionariusz Agresji Bussa i Perry’ego (1992) w adaptacji Aranowskiej, Rytel, Szmar, (2005). Wyniki: Wykazano istnienie związków pomiędzy doświadczaniem przemocy w rodzinie i oceną jej funkcjonalności na czterech wymiarach: spójności, elastyczności, komunikacji i zadowolenia. Przeprowadzone analizy pokazały także, że rozwijaniu agresji sprzyja modelowanie agresji, czyli obserwowanie przemocy pomiędzy rodzicami oraz doświadczanie przemoc ze strony rodziców, a w szczególności ojca. Nieoczekiwanie skorelowane istotnie ze wszystkimi wymiarami oceny rodziny okazały się kary – związane dodatnio z każdym z analizowanych przejawów agresji. Ujawniono także, że o ile określone rodzaje kar wiążą się z konkretnymi przejawami agresji u dzieci (np. kary fizyczne z agresją fizyczną, nagany słowne z agresją werbalną etc.), o tyle jeden rodzaj kar – krzyk/straszenie/wyzwiska – wykazuje znaczące związki z każdym z analizowanych wymiarów agresji i jako jedyny powiązany jest ze skłonnością do reagowania agresją w relacjach z rodzeństwem.
The article presents the construction and validation process of the Health Behavior Motivation Scale (HBMS), which measures the motivation toward pro-health behaviors in population of healthy adults. The tool is conceptually based on Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and more precisely on one of its subtheories—Organismic Integration Theory (OIT). In the first stage of the construction, the linguistic validation with competent judges procedure allowed to eliminate the items which were not correctly formulated. Next, the psychometric properties of the HBMS were assessed in three studies. In Study 1 (N = 323, Mage= 31), the factorial structure of the HBMS was assessed with CFA. Since the preliminary structure was rejected, in order to identify the dimensionality of the items, EFA and Horn's Parallel Analysis were performed. The results showed that the HBMS scale has 5–dimensional structure (intrinsic regulation, integrated and identified regulation, introjected regulation, external regulation and amotivation). In Study 2 (N = 342, Mage= 33), the structure of the HBMS has been confirmed by conducting CFA analysis. Analyses preformed in this study provided good evidence for convergent and discriminant validity as well as the internal reliability of the HBMS subscales. Finally, in the LPA analysis two classes with distinct regulatory profiles have been extracted, which showed differences in the extend of health-related behaviors. In Study 3 (N = 60, Mage= 30) the test–retest reliability of the HBMS was confirmed. The scale can be therefore successfully used in future basic and applied studies as it possesses robust psychometric properties.
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