Sentences with phrase «control than boys»

The authors note that girls showed higher levels of good self - control than boys.

Not exact matches

Certainly few stories are more calculated to hold the interest of boys and girls than those of this Hebrew strong man who, though singularly lacking in desirable moral and spiritual qualities, is a most excellent example of what not to be — selfish, wilful, lustful, proud, lacking in loyalty, weak in self - control.

Iwobi has football sense than Him and boy» he has some cool control..

Tests revealed that during their fetal development, boys with autism were exposed to even higher levels of sex steroid hormones than the control group of boys.

Data collected from 2,135 children aged 3 - 9 years from schools across China reveal that good self - control behaviours improve with age, and girls performed better than boys in tests of self - control.

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.

However, on measures of fine motor skills and self - control, girls usually perform better than boys, and these skills clearly contribute to early school success.

Black students, the study conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control found, were more likely than white or Hispanic students to have had sex, and boys were more likely than girls to have done so.

is it that boys require more oversight than girls in learning how to control their emotions?

The effect of the Nurse - Family Partnership on African - American boys specifically has not been isolated, but in one study in Memphis — where the participants were overwhelmingly African - American (though not all boys)-- the children whose parents participated in the program performed significantly better during their first years at school than did those in the control group.

That's partly user error, as it takes more self - control than we had to keep one's boot out of the throttle, but we'd know going into buying a Hemi - equipped 300 that just like boys will be boys, V8s will consume gas like V8s.

Yes, it's sub-par on a lot of fronts, but Astro Boy has the best flying controls of all time — making aimlessly gliding around the impressive reconstruction of future Tokyo much more fun than actually following the game's path.

Cecilia Saulters - Tubbs found that district attorneys were less likely to file charges against female drug offenders than against male offenders, while Donna Bishop and Charles Frazier found, similarly, that boys were treated more punitively than girls for delinquency offenses and that girls were less likely than boys to receive a sentence involving incarceration.10 Such studies suggest that the system treats girls as less criminally dangerous than boys.11 Other research, however, notes that once legal variables are controlled, girls are treated similarly to boys in the early stages of court processing but more harshly in the later stages.12 Earlier studies pointing toward more «chivalrous» treatment of girls may thus have failed to consider differences in the underlying seriousness of the offenses involved.

Some observers have argued that female offenders can, in theory, be either adolescent - limited or life - course - persistent and that the relative scarcity of early - onset aggression in females indicates that they are generally less likely to follow the latter pathway.56 Others, however, have argued that the relative prevalence of adolescent - onset aggression in girls (compared with childhood - onset) indicates that persistent delinquency simply manifests at a later age in girls than it does in boys.57 In Persephanie Silverthorn and Paul Frick's model, girls and boys are influenced by similar risk factors during childhood, but the onset of delinquent behavior in girls is delayed by the more stringent social controls imposed on them before adolescence.

Additionally, some studies even show that parents use more autonomy - supportive strategies with boys than with girls (e.g., [45], [46]-RRB-, and are more controlling of girls than of boys (e.g., [46], [47]-RRB-.

Although aggressive behaviors were significantly reduced for girls and boys in both the experimental and control groups, experimental group girls assessed themselves to be significantly more aggressive than control group girls.

Other versions of PMTO have been evaluated in randomized controlled trials, but these versions were substantively different than the model described above because they were designed to serve different populations — e.g., two - parent families or stepfamilies of children exhibiting conduct problems (in contrast to the above study's focus on separated, single mothers of boys who did not necessarily have conduct problems).

Throughout the study, boys in the experimental group spent significantly less time in institutional settings than did boys in the control group.

Unexpectedly, drive for thinness was more strongly related to poor metabolic control among boys than girls.

Also as expected, we found that eating disturbances were associated with poor metabolic control, and noted that on one occasion this relation was stronger among boys than girls, suggesting that future research ought not overlook boys when studying disturbed eating behavior among those with diabetes.