An exploration of the body pride experiences of young Aboriginal men and women in canada
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Abstract
The purpose of this qualitative description was to explore how Aboriginal youth in an urban center experience body pride. Body pride may be a predictor of health for Aboriginal youth and has been described as being connected to culture. Eight participants (four men, four women) that self-identified as Aboriginal and were between the ages of 20-25 years, participated in one-on-one interviews to describe their meanings and experiences of body pride. A qualitative content analysis highlighted five themes representing body pride: (a) the body as a changing "vessel," (b) body pride as a practice, (c) traditional activities that foster body pride, (d) challenging westernized body stereotypes and the marginalization of native peoples, and (e) body pride and male views of masculinity. This research contributes to the literature by highlighting Aboriginal youth's meanings of body pride and describing how to foster body pride while affirming Aboriginal cultures and identities.Acknowledgments: The project described in this paper was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC, grant number 430-2012-0239) of Canada and a Research Award by the Office of the Vice President (Research) Special Fund, University of Alberta. The authors would like to thank the participants who shared their knowledge and contributed their time and effort to this project.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".