Measuring the value of theatre for Tyneside audiences

What values do theatre and dance hold for audience members? And how do these values differ between subsidised, amateur, and commercial performance? This paper addresses these questions through a survey of over 1800 spectators for theatre and dance in Tyneside in northeastern England, as well as a parallel set of focus groups, in the spring of 2014. These methods, which are designed for comprehensiveness and comparability, are being used across Europe by the Project on European Theatre Systems, a working group of theatre sociologists. Our research showed two sets of values which performances achieved; one was a common measure of performance quality, while the other described the values particular to subsidised work. This allows us to articulate both the general value of the arts and the particular values which subsidy (attempts to) facilitate. This has implications for both understandings of cultural value and for cultural policy, as the distinction between the two groups was not clean. We also found that amateur theatre participated in the same value system, but with an increased emphasis on loyalty and community cohesion. The paper concludes a methodological reflection on the use of quantitative methods in theatre studies.     

Psychometric Properties of a Parental Questionnaire for Assessing Correlates of Toddlers’ Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior

This study examined the psychometric properties of a questionnaire developed with the guidance of the socialization model of child behaviour to understand modifiable correlates of toddlers’ physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Findings are based on 118 parents (33.7 ± 4.9 years; 86% female) of toddlers (19.3 ± 2.7 months; 48% female) from Edmonton, Canada in The Parents’ Role in Establishing healthy Physical activity and Sedentary behaviour habits study (PREPS). The PREPS questionnaire encompassed 21 variables across the constructs of the socialization model of child behaviour. Of the nine variables assessed for internal consistency reliability, eight had good (α ≥ 0.70) reliability. Of the 15 continuous variables assessed for 1-week test–retest reliability, 10 had moderate (intra-class correlation = 0.50–0.74) and 5 had good (intra-class correlation ≥ 0.75) reliability. Of the six categorical variables assessed for 1-week test–retest reliability, two had fair (К = 0.21–0.40), one had moderate (К = 0.41–0.60), one had substantial (К = 0.61–0.80), and two had almost perfect (К = 0.81–1.00) reliability. Of the 12 sedentary behaviour variables assessed for convergent validity, 7 were significantly correlated with children’s screen time, of which three were small (r ≤ 0.29), two were medium (r = 0.30–0.49), and two were large (r ≥ 0.50) effect sizes.     

湖北省高职院校大学生心理健康现状

调查研究湖北省高职大学生心理健康状况及特点,为全省高职院校心理健康教育指导工作提供可参考的实践依据。采用校园网络版心理测验软件,选择症状自评量表(SCL-90),对湖北省10所职业技术学院2 084名学生进行了心理健康测验。心理症状表现为中度到非常严重(3～5分)的大学生,人均在90个因子项目中占17.29%项。其中人际敏感、抑郁和强迫三因子项目中存在的心理健康问题最严重,分别占61.768%、52.887%和51.53%。高职院校要高度重视大学生的心理健康问题,利用多种形式开展心理健康教育及咨询工作,对高职生中度以上的心理问题做好危机干预工作。     

体力活动与健康:研究及应用

规律性体力活动对健康的益处已经被既往的研究所证实。多种慢性疾病,包括心脏病、2型糖尿病、高血压、中风、肥胖、骨质疏松以及某些癌症的发病都与缺乏规律性的体力活动有关。权威机构已明确提出了关于体力活动的参与指引。大量的研究致力于体力活动干预措施的制定。本文总结了体力活动与健康的研究证据、体力活动在人群中的评价、以及体力活动干预研究的进展,为中国下一步相关研究的开展提供借鉴。     

关于徐州高校学生习武兴趣的研究

文章运用问卷调查法、访谈法、文献资料法、数理统计法、逻辑分析等研究方法,对徐州市五所大学500名学生武术兴趣的现状进行了调研分析。结果表明:徐州市大学生对武术很感兴趣,然而选修武术课的人数很少,选修过武术课的学生对武术课的兴趣程度不高。     

江苏省城市群众业余足球比赛调查及地区比较

运用文献资料法、逻辑推理法、问卷调查法、数理统计法、比较研究法等方法,对江苏省6个城市的群众业余足球比赛进行了初步的调查和地区比较。提出江苏是中国的经济发达地区,同时也是体育大省,然而足球水平却一直不高,成绩始终在中下游徘徊,这与江苏经济、体育大省的身份很不相称。     

手机电视发展的受众因素分析

手机电视被称为新媒体先锋,一路走来,受到了业界的青睐,北京、上海和广州等地的媒体纷纷上马手机电视业务,以期抢占潮头,争夺先机。其实,任何一种媒体的诞生及其生命力,都要通过传播效果来反观,受众作为影响传播效果的重要因素,向来受到传播学者关注。手机媒体想在媒体生态中获得一席之地,并求得更好的发展,必须从受众因素分析入手,探求其必要性和可行性。     

厦门市体育人口现状调查与对策研究

通过对厦门市18～60岁劳动力人口的抽样调查,进而推论出厦门市体育人口的基数;根据“参加体育活动”和“不参加体育活动”不同群体中存在的问题,提出“准体育人口”的理论设想,并在实施分析与理论探讨的基础上提出了对策性的建议。     

对文献资源共享服务的调研与分析

文章通过对海南省5所高校图书馆读者调查中反映出的共性的问题,对目前高校图书馆读者服务中存在的文献资源老化、电子资源利用低等问题进行探讨,并提出相应的解决方法。     

General and Specific Factors in Reading Comprehension

One explanation for why many students routinely choose to do their homework with a radio or TV operating is that this distraction facilitates studying. To investigate the validity of this explanation, the authors carried out two experiments with sixth-grade students who worked on two difficulty levels of individualized mathematics assignments (N = 12) and reading assignments (N = 9) under three distraction conditions: quiet; self-selected, self-regulated radio; and self-selected, self-regulated TV. The data yielded no evidence of sizable distractor effects on students' time spent studying, computational accuracy, reading comprehension, or reading rate. These results generally are consistent with the theoretical conceptualization of attention as flexible and adaptable.