Sentences with phrase «analysis of social behaviour»

The research found that spouses with particular personality styles, as assessed using a structural analysis of social behaviour, are more likely to be paired together.

Not exact matches

Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture: Robert Gerlai Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Alcohol, dopamine and social behaviour: The first steps towards a neurobehavioural genetic analysis

Benefits of arts education In addition to economic benefits of investment in arts education for students in the primary and secondary sectors there are a plethora of social and intellectual benefits: • encouraging self expression and self awareness • building confidence and self esteem • thinking creatively and conceptually • problem solving • increasing motivation and improving behaviour • developing organisational skills • being able to work collaboratively and independently • developing multiple learning styles • building maturity and appreciation • developing observational skills • raising global awareness and respect for other cultures • promoting literacy through analysis and interpretation • increasing enjoyment and fun in learning • developing spatial and visual skills • encouraging qualitative awareness • seeing different perspectives • openness to subtlety, nuance, flexibility and imagination

Considered to be two of the most influential artists of their generation, Cvijanovic and Moudov provide a critical and corrosive analysis of political and social conventions, as well as individual behaviour.

Factor analyses of ASD traits in children with and without ASD indicate the presence of social and restrictive — repetitive behaviour (RRB) factors.

Still at an early stage, but negotiations are underway for a premier league university to produce a cost - benefit analysis of proactive, early interventions to reduce later violent behaviour (as opposed to the conventional reactive strategies, which absorb most of the local and central government spending in this social problem area).

Four out of five domains (adaptive behaviour, fine motor, language and personal - social behaviour), showed significant differences favouring the intervention group (Analysis 2.30).

A logistic regression analysis was carried out with the age of the eldest child, sex, social class, housing tenure, age at leaving education, ethnicity, and the presence of behaviour problems to assess the relative power of these variables in predicting parental interest in attending a parenting group.

Regression analyses revealed that the type of prime (morality vs. might) mediated the moderating relationship of participants» social value orientation on PDG behaviour.

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.

It is scored on social competence and behaviour problem scales.14 The scales were originally constructed from analyses of parent ratings of 2300 clinically referred children and normed on 1300 non-referred children.