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Winning In Weight-Loss: The Interaction Of Conscientiousness And Perceived Autonomy, Jason M. Curtis, Marc Lochbaum
Winning In Weight-Loss: The Interaction Of Conscientiousness And Perceived Autonomy, Jason M. Curtis, Marc Lochbaum
Journal for Sports Neuroscience
ABSTRACT
Background
Understanding determinants for weight-loss is a national priority. Obesity is an epidemic with serious health consequences. Most of today’s obesity and overweight problems are being attributed to poor diets and not enough physical activity. These problems show no signs of slowing down with the behaviors of most Americans. The phenomenon of “The Biggest Loser” (different variants of weight-loss programs that consist of group exercise participation and nutrition therapy to elicit weight-loss, and hopefully behavior change) has spawned many variants in commercial health clubs. This prospectus study examined the direct and interactive or moderated effects of known determinants of …
The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence And Performance Among Executive Coaches, Valerie Elizabeth Charles
The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence And Performance Among Executive Coaches, Valerie Elizabeth Charles
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Although there is research on the correlation between emotional intelligence (EI) and performance in areas such business, education, and nursing, a significant gap existed in the literature regarding research on the relationship between executive coaches EI and their performance. As a result, I focused on the lack of empirical evidence regarding the relationship between EI and performance among executive coaches, with performance defined as the number of coaching clients secured in 2015.The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if there is a statistically significant relationship between EI and performance among executive coaches. Through convenience sampling, 50 executive coaches …