The objective of the study was to evaluate the impact of a program based on the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) on the variables of responsibility, basic psychology needs, motivation, satisfaction with life and the intention to be physically active, as well as the differences of gender. The participants were 85 students (experimental group n = 35, 17 girls and control group n = 50, 28 girls). The students of the experimental group received the TPSR for 8 months within the physical education subject. The findings indicated an improvement in the experimental group in terms of personal responsibility and in the case of female students, in basic psychological needs and intrinsic motivation. In conclusion, the TPSR program can be integrated into the physical education curriculum in order to improve the personal responsibility of students and fulfill their motivation and satisfaction of basic psychological needs.
1 August 2009 in Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Virality on Twitter is catching the attention of researchers, trying to identify factors which increase or decrease the probability of retweeting. We study how terms expressing sentiments affect retweeting frequencies by means of a regression model on the number of retweets, which is specially accurate to deal with virality. We focus on the Spanish political situation during the pseudo-referendum held in Catalonia on 1 October 2017. We have found that the use of negativity in a tweet increases the probability of retweeting and that iSOL lexicon is the one that better determines the relationship between polarity and virality.
1 August 2007 in Computational Statistics & Data Analysis