Access With Education Improves Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Preschool Children.

Objective: To compare effects of interventions aimed at increasing fruit and vegetable (FV) intake in children.

Design: Pre-post comparison and intervention study with randomly grouped classrooms.

Setting: Head Start classrooms.

Sexual temptation: substance abuse, no sex, safe sex, risky sex, and STDs.

Background University students' substance abuse and risky sex contribute to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Purpose We develop and empirically test a formative theoretical model of sexual temptation involving substance abuse (cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana), safe sexual behavior (use of condom/barrier for oral and vaginal intercourse), risky sexual behavior (unprotected sex and multiple sexual partners), and STDs: gonorrhea, HIV, and genital herpes. We simultaneously explore these constructs, controlling membership in social groups (fraternity/sorority, varsity athlete, and club sports) and perceived norm of substance abuse.

A model linking sources of stress to approach and avoidance coping styles of Turkish basketball referees.

Purpose of this study was to externally validate and test a conceptual transient model involving six paths that linked sources of acute stress to avoidance and approach coping styles among Turkish basketball referees. The sample consisted of 125 Turkish basketball referees ranging in age from 18 to 36 years (mean = 25.58.

Effect of a storyboarding technique on selected measures of fitness among university employees.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of storyboarding (i.e., participants' written narrative) on improving fitness among university employees over 10 weeks.

Racial and gender differences on sources of acute stress and coping style among competitive athletes.

The authors examined racial and gender differences on sport-related sources of acute stress that competitive athletes perceived as highly intense and experienced during the competitive event. Athletes (N = 332, 176 men, 156 women; 59 African Americans: 27 men, 32 women; 232 Caucasians: 125 men, 107 women; and 41 Hispanics: 24 men, 17 women) who competed in sport on a high school or college team participated in this study. The sources of the acute stress and the coping style in sport scales, which M.