Sentences with phrase «behavior than the control»

Although long - term melanoma survivors were more likely to report healthier levels of ultraviolet radiation exposure and sun protection behaviors than controls, some still reported indoor tanning or intentionally seeking sun to tan.

Results indicated that ABC participants had significantly lower scores on total child abuse potential, parenting stress, and child internalizing and externalizing behavior than control subjects.

Mothers with eating disorders have children with more disordered eating behaviors than controls [23], however, the mechanisms for this transmission process are unclear.

Children in the BASIC parent training video modeling group were observed to have higher rates of prosocial behavior than control group children.

At the end of a 1 - year follow - up, treated children showed less teacher - rated internalizing and less parent - rated coercive and antisocial behavior than controls.

At the end of intervention, playground observations showed that treated children displayed less negative social behavior than controls.

Not exact matches

The problem is that most wellness programs are nothing more than lip service, passive - aggressive attempts to control employee behavior and not serious attempts to simplify getting, and staying, healthy.

Former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson alluded to the importance of the banking elite in maintaining control over public perception during the 2008 financial crisis, when he alluded multiple times to the public's perceived confidence in US stock markets as being infinitely and exponentially more important to US stock market behavior than any market fundamentals.

It takes greater wisdom to influence the behavior of free beings than it does to simply control their every action.

Many pastors who try to control the thinking and behavior of others with the concept of «spiritual fatherhood» are more concerned with their own position of power and prominence than they are with the spiritual wellbeing of other people.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

Putting the focus back on chastity might help us remember that repentance and redemption are always possible, as well as encourage us to view sexual behavior in a wider context of self - control, bodily respect, and patience, rather than as a simple prohibition against a particular physical action.»

They provide the organism, or, as Santayana puts it, the psyche (this being the power of the organism to develop and protect its form in a manner responsive to the environment) with its consciousness (symbolic rather than literal of what and where it is, and of what it is up to, but play no real part in controlling its behavior.

It is my belief that man's aim has always been to control the behavior of man... and there's not a more powerful and effective way than by religion.

Being a transmitter of the important values of the culture is more than a way of shoring up weak inner controls on antisocial behavior.

All the demands for unneeded preference in admissions and hiring, all the absurd litigation, all the efforts at speech control and thought control, and most important, all the programs to manage and «improve» the behavior of the men in her life, whether husband, boss, roommate, or date, have left her more disaffected and more mentally self - indulgent than before.

Rather than trying to control children's behavior with bribes, yelling, and punishments, peaceful parenting families experience more joy by

Constant cursing is a difficult habit to break, and it's easier to prevent than to redirect later, so try to help your tween get control of it now, while you still have some influence over your tween's behavior.

Conclusion: Using bribes to manipulate kids to repeat a desired behavior is a control tactic that makes kids focus on the reward rather than helping them want to repeat the behavior.

The trick is to learn how to manage these strong emotions rather than allow them to control our behavior.

Even when parents choose non-violent means to control their children such as isolation (i.e. time - outs) and behavior charts and other punishment / reward tactics, the basic truth is that they are modelling manipulation and coercion and are focused on controlling a child's behavior externally rather than working with them to help them learn to control their own behavior through an internal guidance system.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

In a recent meta - analysis of more than 1400 published studies, Martin Pinquart found that harsh control and psychological control were actually the biggest predictors of worsening behavior problems over time (Pinquart 2017).

In a study of 78 children whose doctors had recommended tonsillectomies to treat sleep - disordered breathing and 27 who were scheduled for other kinds of surgery, Chervin's group found that not only did the tonsil kids have a higher incidence of ADHD than the control group but that a year after the surgery their behavior and concentration had significantly improved.

«This shows that there are more cells that modulate signals and exert temporal control in areas regulating reproductive, social and parenting behaviors in females than in males, with one exception so far,» says CSHL Associate Professor Pavel Osten, the team leader.

«The shift in assertiveness is small — HEART participants were 5 percent more assertive than the control group — but one of the key findings here is that a short, one - time intervention can have a measureable impact on behavior,» Widman says.

Even with a study of 3 million users, standard methods to improve precision by controlling for customer's past behavior and demographics were less effective than most expected.

Accelerometers recorded three percent less sedentary time than control participants, equaling about 25 minutes of time spent engaged in activity rather than in sedentary behavior on any given day.

Gore and her colleagues believe these effects are epigenetic; that is, rather than inducing genetic mutations, which would change the sequence of the rats» DNA, the fungicide is permanently silencing or reprogramming normal genes that control development and behavior.

The researchers found that mothers in the Family Spirit group were less likely to use illegal drugs, be depressed or experience behavior problems than those in the control group.

AFEx will test whether under conditions of microgravity Indy flies exhibit less change in behavior than wildtype or «normal» control flies.

The brains of the mice were smaller than normal and had fewer neurons in areas that controlled the affected behaviors.

By pairing rookies, they were more likely to see instinctive — and genetically controlled — behaviors, rather than learned fighting form.

My high school placed more emphasis on controlling student behavior rather than inspiring them to seek higher education.

Once they had achieved this precise control over the cellular interactions in the brain, they turned to exploring behavior: Mice that are less fearful are more likely to venture farther than others.

Although the researchers controlled for demographic factors such as poverty, education level, and age of childbirth, it's possible that single mothers are more likely than married moms to engage in unhealthy behaviors such as smoking and excessive drinking that could lead to poorer long - term health, Strobino says.

And when fear is motivating the behavior, the system becomes controlling rather than loving.

You have to address your internal issues rather than try to avoid them with controlling behavior.

I'm going to give it a try,» or they can say, «Well, I think I'm going to wait for a few more trials, FDA approval,» and they can sit back, but more and more, the public are ready to evaluate science simultaneously and take these very common sense, very easy... Well, behavior is not an easy thing to change, but far easier than taking chemotherapy or disease modifying drugs that are going to shut down your immune system and give you life - threatening side effects, that could let you get your life back from an autoimmune condition, or a serious psychiatric problem, or a severe diabetes, obesity, and heart disease, things that are completely under their control.

The 2008 study published in «Eating Behaviors» found that night eaters consumed less than control subjects early in the day, but their calorie intake steadily increased throughout the day into the night, and their total calorie intake was higher than the calories consumed by control subjects.

Individuals with inflammatory bowel disease, for example, show differences in their behavior from controls, trying to avoid stress rather than dealing with it, for example10.

A lot: a nation that's 70 % overweight, tired, sick, and stressed, and kids who take more drugs to control their behavior and moods than ever imagined.

However, TPH2 − / − mice were not different from wild - type controls on any of these tests and in some cases were more resistant to the development of depression - like behaviors than wild - type controls.»

David Hopkins, who Morris appointed to the key role of head of the Standards and Effectiveness Unit at the Department for Education and Skills, believes that «when students begin to take ownership of the learning behavior, you see something quite transformational taking place inside the school, because then it is the students who actually control learning rather than the teacher.»

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics as a «condition of the brain that makes it difficult for children to control their behavior,» affects an estimated 4 to 12 percent of all school - age children — about three times more boys than girls.

They then control for student - level kindergarten test scores and teacher ratings of student behavior; with those controls, they find black students are statistically significantly less likely to be in special education than whites.

Several major longitudinal studies show that preschoolers who exhibit self - regulatory behaviors go on to experience more success in school and are more likely to avoid risky behaviors in adolescence than their peers who have a hard time with self - control.

Rather than using mindfulness as a technique to control student behavior — which can never be the aim — I neutrally observe the actual experience.

The study, which followed 147 preschoolers in 21 settings, showed that children taught using the Tools method scored significantly higher than did their counterparts on tests of «executive function skills,» such as the ability to keep their behavior in check, control their impulses, and focus — skills that certainly don't hurt when it comes to learning to read.

Hehir points out that interventions for this group are more likely to focus on controlling their disruptive behaviors in school than on providing mental health help or positive interventions to improve students» mental state and behaviors.