Emerging adulthood is a transitional stage between late adolescence and young adulthood
in life-span development that requires significant changes in people's lives. Therefore …

Purpose Eating disorders (ED) and social anxiety disorder are highly comorbid with
potentially shared symptoms like social appearance anxiety (SAA) referring to a fear of …

Introduction Evaluating signs of anxiety related to body appearance is becoming
increasingly important in contemporary society and, in this sense, the Social Appearance …

Works of literature for children are supposed to give prominence to the child's self. In other
words, the level of the works is expected to be appropriate to the characteristics of this …

Objectives To perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the Social Appearance Anxiety Scale
(SAAS) to the Portuguese language and estimate its internal consistency in a sample of …

The aim of this study was to explore the effect of metacognitive strategy in improving reading
comprehension skills through children's literature of literary quality. A quasi-experimental …

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, activities involving a large part of life have started to
be carried out via videoconferencing. Videoconferencing can be disadvantageous for …

Children's books of literary quality may affect gender perception, self-perception, and the
social roles of children through the illustrations, main characters, and situations that they …

Background: Social appearance anxiety refers to the fear of negative evaluation and
judgment about appearance in social situations. Previous scales have focused more on …

Problem Preventive and supportive nursing care interventions of school nurses are very
important in the early adolescence period, in which the significant physical and sexual …