Sentences with phrase «as variable social»

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Apart from skills and experience, the algorithm will attempt to match job - seekers and employers based on such variables as personality - as on the eHarmony site - as well as work and social and cultural values.

It is also particularly prevalent on social media, functioning as a reinforcing variable of social divisions.

For many people, it's helpful to start by grouping potential sources of income into 2 basic buckets: guaranteed income from sources such as Social Security, pensions, and annuities, and variable income from a job, retirement savings, and other sources such as rental real estate.

Public institutions also get little attention because one can not analyze them quantitatively as easily as social and economic variables.

Considering all three sets of variables as well as the relations among them enables the analyst to look at the possible effects of very general social conditions on ideas and yet to identify some plausible intervening links between these conditions and the specific ideas that result.

Andrew M. Greeley, «Religious Imagery as a Predictor Variable in the General Social Survey,» paper presented at a plenary session of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Chicago, 1984.

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

«Interestingly, [our] study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports team coach or other features of a school social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing social and cultural variables such as media messages and social norms of behavior more broadly.»

The solutions to the challenges we face are still social and behavioral, and neuroscience is distracting us from tackling the big variables, such as nutrition, inequality and poverty.

While facial complexity was related to social variables, such as group size and the number of closely related species in the same habitat, facial pigmentation was best explained by ecological and spatial factors.

Even when we control for such variables as occupation, numbers of hours worked, education, and social capital, the income gap does not decrease by much.

«Although a number of variables can contribute to relationship infidelity and separation, social networking site usage, such as Twitter and Facebook use, can be damaging to relationships,» Clayton said.

After controlling for as many variables as they were able, the researchers again found a negative correlation between social class — this time on a national level — and the percentage of Facebook friends from other countries.

Unlike other studies that have looked at the influence of social media on election outcomes, their study, «More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior,» took into account such variables as incumbency, partisanship, media coverage, and socio - demographic makeup of the electsocial media on election outcomes, their study, «More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior,» took into account such variables as incumbency, partisanship, media coverage, and socio - demographic makeup of the electSocial Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior,» took into account such variables as incumbency, partisanship, media coverage, and socio - demographic makeup of the electorate.

He'd like to see the work expanded to include more variables that are already known to increase depression risk — such as family history, previous episodes of major depression, and social factors.

As described in the main text, ordered logistic regression analyses were carried out for each brain region in which social network distances were modeled as a function of local neural response similarities and dyadic dissimilarities in control variables (gender, ethnicity, nationality, age, and handednessAs described in the main text, ordered logistic regression analyses were carried out for each brain region in which social network distances were modeled as a function of local neural response similarities and dyadic dissimilarities in control variables (gender, ethnicity, nationality, age, and handednessas a function of local neural response similarities and dyadic dissimilarities in control variables (gender, ethnicity, nationality, age, and handedness).

To account for demographic differences that might impact social network structure, our model also included binary predictor variables indicating whether subjects in each dyad were of the same or different nationalities, ethnicities, and genders, as well as a variable indicating the age difference between members of each dyad.

Models were specified either as ordered logistic regressions with categorical social distance as the dependent variable or as logistic regression with a binary indicator of reciprocated friendship as the dependent variable.

There are many other variables such as sleep, stress, and social factors.

However, Rajan (2009) debates this breaking down of the financial model while underestimating the political, social and economic risks should not have been very much of a surprise while the models relied entirely on hard information and ignored soft control variables such as the incentives of lenders to collect information about borrowers, which was one of the fundamental causes for their failure (Rajan et all., 2009).

This is not to say that such variables as neighborhood characteristics have no effect, only that the effect of such variables is already captured by the handful of social background characteristics, such as WIC participation, that we incorporated into our analysis.

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.

For many people, it's helpful to start by grouping potential sources of income into 2 basic buckets: guaranteed income from sources such as Social Security, pensions, and annuities, and variable income from a job, retirement savings, and other sources such as rental real estate.

If estimated Social Security income won't meet retirement needs, you can consider a variable or fixed - index annuity as a part of your income strategy.

To the US Academy, graduates» blood is on your hands — yours and all your minions», in their infinitely variable guises (the loan officers and administrators, high school advisors who push - push - push college, university faculty and administrators who ply with spoken promises of a far better tomorrow post-graduation, and the online «experts» who keep parroting the hackneyed, specious line that college grads earn more (that, I'm confident, is an illusion of the social backgrounds of those who're employed, as the immensely wealthy father of a good friend of mine pointed out when he recently commented when I shared with him about the job insecurity - college degree paradox that he'd simply «manage my children's trust funds and get them placed at friends» companies.»

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As more data and research around responsible investing has become available — along with a rise in the popularity of value investing — studies indicate that ESG (environmental, social, and governance, a common acronym for responsible investing variables) investing isn't just investing with your values, it can actually be smarter investing.

The ways in which mating is accomplished, however, are incredibly variable; study of this variability by evolutionary biologists has greatly advanced our understanding of the evolution of behavior, social evolution, and traits such as number, size of young and patterns of investment in them.

If estimated Social Security income won't meet retirement needs, you can consider a variable or fixed - index annuity as a part of your income strategy.

The other half of the group was instructed to continue on their unhealthy diet as usual but was required to attend social support sessions (to reduce the possible variable of social interaction).

This study focuses on one risk factor (daily hassles) and one resistance factor (social support) as predictors of adjustment in children with PRDs, with demographics and disease severity as control variables.

Coyne discusses the limits of self reported distress among college students as an analogue for clinical depression.5 Secondly, participants in analogue studies differ from clinical populations in important sociodemographic variables such as age, social class, and educational level.

The use of analogue studies in psychotherapy research was stimulated by experimental and social psychological research.1 Analogue research attempts to mimic real life while at the same time controlling as many extraneous variables as possible.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

It would be even better if this could be linked to other variables such as social status or ethnicity, even if numbers are low.

There are also indications that they do so in relatively complex ways that interact with family background and social context variables such as ethnicity, family structure, maternal employment status, socioeconomic status, and gender (Schiamberg & Chin, 1986; Milne, 1989; Tocci & Englehard, 1991; Zimilies & Lee, 1991; Lee & Croninger, 1994).

The results on Table 1 indicate that the data of spousal social emotional support as the dependent variable has abnormal distribution.

For example, some have found significant differences between children with divorced and continuously married parents even after controlling for personality traits such as depression and antisocial behavior in parents.59 Others have found higher rates of problems among children with single parents, using statistical methods that adjust for unmeasured variables that, in principle, should include parents» personality traits as well as many genetic influences.60 And a few studies have found that the link between parental divorce and children's problems is similar for adopted and biological children — a finding that can not be explained by genetic transmission.61 Another study, based on a large sample of twins, found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted depression in adulthood even with genetic resemblance controlled statistically.62 Although some degree of selection still may be operating, the weight of the evidence strongly suggests that growing up without two biological parents in the home increases children's risk of a variety of cognitive, emotional, and social problems.

Baumrindà cents â «¬ â «cents s typology portrays parenting as something analogous to fixed personality traits (or the fixed child social competence traits used as the outcome variables in her research).

As seen in Model 3, we then estimated a model using the identified variables as covariates, widowhood status as a fixed effect, and prior social participation as a controAs seen in Model 3, we then estimated a model using the identified variables as covariates, widowhood status as a fixed effect, and prior social participation as a controas covariates, widowhood status as a fixed effect, and prior social participation as a controas a fixed effect, and prior social participation as a controas a control.

Perceived social support and alexithymia are psychosocial variables identified by previous studies as predictive of depression in normal controls and CKD patients.

These were then compared to the more specific styles of problem focused and seeks social support variables (positive coping) and blame self, wishful thinking, and avoidance variables (negative coping), as well as the combined group scores of these variables.

Characteristics of Four Kinship Placement Outcome Groups and Variables Associated With These Kinship Placement Outcome Groups Chang & Liles Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 24 (6), 2007 Investigates factors that might be associated with the disruptions in kinship care of abused and neglected children, characteristics of the children such as their health status, ages, and the extent to which they were getting into «trouble» were significantly associated with outcomes.

[jounal] Sarason, I. G. / 1986 / Social support as an individual difference variable / Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 50: 845 ~ 855

(3) As reported in the previous analysis, no differences were found between the experimental and control groups in a wide range of social, family, and parental variables assessed at baseline.

Area - level explanatory variables will include: accessibility and remoteness, as measured by the Accessibility / Remoteness Index of Australia Plus (ARIA +); 54 socioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA); 55 presence of Aboriginal Medical Services; presence of an AMIHS; proportion of Aboriginal pregnancies / births in an area managed by an AMIHS; numbers of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children attending preschool; numbers of full - time equivalent health workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each area.57

Of the factors considered in this study in regard to the beginning stage of the relationship, the assessment that the social network perceived the partners as well - matched (i.e., positive social network reaction) and the assessment of being a compatible match were the two variables found to be associated (positively) with perceptions of similarity.

Gestalt therapy discovers patterns of awareness and contact in the individual, family, or couple s environment, including transpersonal, biological, interpersonal, intrapsychic, as well as any social variables experienced by the therapist and client.

In the current study, the latter variable included all children's behaviors related to problematic social interactions characterized by aggressiveness, deviance, and opposition, such as aggressive behavior, social problems, conduct problems, oppositional - defiant problems, and rule - breaking behavior.

In Models 5 — 8, the variables related to social ties were added to Model 1 as the fourth step in regressing depressive symptoms (dependent variable) on both marital status (independent variable) and social ties (mediator).