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   The Optimism Bias: Is It Adaptive In Academic Settings?

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Caryl Ochse --- University of South Africa,

   This study investigated whether optimism was adaptive or maladaptive in an academic context. Participants were 715 psychology students with a large open and distance education university in South Africa (age range 20 to 61, average age 31 years, women =...

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   Estimated burden of aggregate anthropometric failure among Malawian children

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: M Ziba --- Faculty of Food and Human Sciences, Malawi AA Kalimbira --- Faculty of Food and Human Sciences, Malawi Z Kalumikiza --- Faculty of Food and Human Sciences, Malawi

   Background: The prevalence and trends of undernutrition among children below the age of five in Malawi are well known from a conventional (stunting, wasting and underweight) but not aggregate indicator perspective.

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