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The BG News August 24, 2009

The BGSU campus student newspaper August 24, 2009. Volume 100 - Issue 2https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/9104/thumbnail.jp

The effect of exposure to parodies of thin-ideal images on women’s body image, body shame and mood

This item is only available electronically.Social networking sites are abundant with thin-ideal beauty standards for women. As a result, some users are challenging these unrealistic ideals in creative, humorous ways. The aim of the present study was to experimentally investigate the effect of exposure to humorous, parody images on women’s body dissatisfaction, body shame and mood. Participants were 173 women aged between 18 and 61 years, who were randomly assigned to view either one of three sets of Instagram images: thin-ideal celebrity posts; humorous parody images of the celebrity post paired with the thin-ideal; or the humorous parody post alone. Results indicated that exposure to the parody images alone decreased body dissatisfaction, body shame and negative mood, relative to exposure of thin-ideal images alone. Moreover, exposure to the parody images alone resulted in less body dissatisfaction than exposure to parody images paired with the thin-ideal image. The findings were moderated by trait thin-ideal internalisation, whereby individuals with high thin-ideal internalisation experienced less body dissatisfaction after viewing parody images alone, compared to the paired parody and thinideal images. Overall, the findings contribute to existing literature by providing support for the use of humorous parody images for decreasing body dissatisfaction, body shame and negative mood in women.Thesis (M.Psych(Clinical)) -- University of Adelaide, School of Psychology, 202

The Impact of Human Capital on Product Innovation

This research study is focused on the influence of human capital on innovation in SMEs. The human capital factors are the independent variables: employee’s education, employee’s development, and employee’s challenge, while the dependent variable is product innovation. Data of manufacturing and service firms in the economies of Africa and the Middle-East are taken from the World Bank Enterprise Survey database through a stratified random sampling. A sampled of 33,977 firms are observed in 53 countries. The methodology employed in this study is the quantitative research approach. A pairwise correlation, regression model and forecasting model are used for the analyses of the data. The findings from the analyses show satisfactory levels of significance with pvalues below 1% even though not all the Pearson correlation coefficients of the independent variables with the dependent variable are high. The goodness-of-fit, in terms of R-squared, Root MSE, and mean percentage error, found from the regression of human capital with product innovation is slightly poor. This is due to the loose relation between independent and dependent variables in real life and partly to the data available for this research. However, human capital acquired from skilled and formal training of employees has a more positive and significant influence on SMEs to innovate products. The findings have implications on managerial decisions and governmental policies. The results also give insight into the limitations of the research and areas for further investigations

Disclosure practices of funded and non-funded religious non-profit organizations: A comparison

Social responsibility performs by religious nonprofit organizations (RNPOs) typically depend on the availability of various sources of funds available. The most basic sources of funds available are from donations, corporate giving and grants. The main objective of this study is to analyze the disclosure practices of funded and non-funded RNPOs. Through content analysis on the sample of 83 RNPOs annual returns for the year 2010, results of independent sample T-test indicated that funded RNPOs are more likely to disclose information. In addition, ANOVA findings confirmed the differences in the disclosure practices among funded organizations of government, private and non-funded RNPOs. The results of this study provide empirical evidence to the government and other resource providers in scrutinizing the decision to distribute their funds to these RNPOs