Sentences with phrase «age as a protective factor»

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When we focus on building protective factors in families, such as nurturing, knowledge of child development and age - appropriate expectations, parental resilience and concrete family supports, we can reduce or eliminate the risk of maltreatment.

«However, further mechanistic studies are required to investigate whether irisin could act as a protective factor for the development of cardiovascular disease and age - related disorders.

Several modifiable risk or protective factors have been identified, such as infant feeding mode (bottle vs breastfeeding), parental responsiveness to infant feeding cues and infant distress, the age of bottle weaning, timing of the introduction of solid food, sweetened beverage consumption and lack of physical activity.84 — 88 Inactivity can delay motor development and further increases the risk for early childhood obesity.85 89 — 91

A recent investigation from the UK Millennium Cohort Study found that a variety of parenting, home learning, and early education factors explained a small portion of the socioeconomic status (SES) gradients in children's cognitive ability by age 5.2 Although some US studies have examined selected factors at different stages of childhood, 24 — 27 few have had comprehensive data to examine the socioeconomic distribution of a wide variety of risk and protective factors across early childhood and their role as potential independent mediators of the SES gradients in cognitive ability at kindergarten entry.

This study examined a cumulative model of risk / protective factors at the individual level (child's sense of coherence; attachment with father) and family level as manifested by fathers» emotional resources (fathers» negative / positive affect; attachment avoidance / anxiety), to explain socioemotional adjustment among children age 8 — 12 years with or without learning disabilities (LD).

Besides these protective factors, age and gender were additionally considered as moderating factors.

The procedure of our second hierarchical analysis was identical, but instead of gender, age was integrated as a dummy variable (0 = middle school students, 1 = senior high school students) in order to investigate the influences of peer - victimization and protective factors in the context of different age groups.

High autonomic arousal and electrodermal orienting at age 15 years as protective factors against criminal behavior at age 29 years