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News release prepared by: Kristin Hodges, 785-532-6415, khodges2@k-state.edu
Thursday, July 30, 2009
K-STATE PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCHERS STUDY HOW CHILDREN VIEW AND TREAT THEIR 1xbet sports betting WHO HAVE UNDESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS
MANHATTAN -- A study by Kansas State University researchers is looking at how children perceive and interact with 1xbet sports betting who have various undesirable characteristics, such as being overweight or aggressive.
The researchers' study explored children's perceptions of the ability of the 1xbet sports betting to control or change such traits.
The K-State research team included Mark Barnett, professor of psychology; Rachel Witham, graduate student in counseling and student development, Hutchinson; and Jennifer 1xbet sports betting , Wamego, Natalie (Brown) Barlett, Ames, Iowa, and Tammy Sonnentag, Edgar, Wis., all graduate students in psychology. Their research was presented in May at the Association for Psychological Science annual convention in San Francisco, Calif.
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The researchers found that children who perceive themselves or a friend as similar to a peer with an undesirable characteristic might experience heightened empathy for that peer, and then might respond in a positive manner toward the peer. The findings also showed that boys, more than girls, tended to have negative attitudes toward 1xbet sports betting with undesirable characteristics.
The study included third-graders and sixth-graders who completed questionnaires that had descriptions of hypothetical 1xbet sports betting . The 1xbet sports betting included a poor student, nonathletic student, obese student, aggressive student, shy student, asthmatic student and a student with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
When the children read a brief description of a hypothetical peer, 1xbet sports betting were asked to rate statements regarding the peer's personal control and change over the characteristic, and how 1xbet sports betting would respond to such a person. The children also were asked to indicate if 1xbet sports betting or a friend were similar to the peer.
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The study showed that the aggressive and asthmatic 1xbet sports betting tended to receive the most extreme ratings. The aggressive peer was rated high on having fault for the characteristic and low on having a desire to change. The asthmatic peer was rated high on having the characteristic caused by something in the peer's body or brain and low on having fault for the characteristic.
The children's ratings showed that 1xbet sports betting consistently anticipated treating the asthmatic peer more favorably than the aggressive peer. The researchers said it appeared that the children perceived the highly aggressive peer's behavior as under personal control, and the asthmatic peer was perceived as suffering a medical condition that was largely out of personal control to cause or change. The obese peer also was rated high on having fault for the characteristic.
The children agreed more strongly that girls would improve more than boys with the help of adults to alter an undesirable 1xbet sports betting . The researchers said since girls tend to seek assistance from adults and comply with directives from adults more frequently than boys, the children might have anticipated that girls would respond more favorably than boys.
