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Not exact matches
Finding a conscientious
partner in life makes the difference between career stress and career success, a
study finds.
What's more, there was a contagion effect — not only did those divulging
find themselves leaving discussions worse off, but their
partners were also adversely effected,» says Quartz of
studies focused on adolescent girls (though apparently the same thing has been observed in other contexts, too).
In a
study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak
Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and
found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.
Based on the
findings from its recent MONITOR MindBase
study, which lasted from 1997 to 2000, Yankelovich
Partners Inc. has compiled an extensive database of American consumer categories designed to help entrepreneurs analyze how their customers think and why they buy.
A recent
study from Babson College
found that venture capital firms with female
partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.
This
finding is supported by a recent Microsoft small business
study, which
found customer acquisition and retention to be the biggest challenges facing their small business
partners.
The
study also
found that 56 percent of respondents who work long hours at demanding jobs have
partners who do the same.
A
study by Nanigans, a Facebook marketing
partner,
found that while Instagram ads cost less for impressions and clicks, Facebook ads have higher click - through rate.
Based on a recent
study about the purchase drivers and skincare rituals of 300 Aspirational consumers, BBMG
founding partner Mitch Baranowski...
However, in clinical
studies 9 out of 10 (90 %)
partners did not
find this to be a problem.
Ahead of Valentines Day, SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE: STI)
found in online
study that 41 percent of Americans consider financial stability to be among the traits they
find most important in a
partner.
Our friends at B2P
Partners found that the vast majority of buyer personas (72 %) created without external research were deemed «ineffective» in a recent
study.
The
study found that only 23 of the 542
partner - level VCs identified in these firms were female, or 4.2 percent, which is even lower than the 4.6 percent of female CEOs among the Fortune 500.
The
study finds that 23 % of family
partners manage their finances independently, either partially (8 %) or completely (15 %.)
A Dutch
study of
partnered homosexuals, which was published in the journal AIDS,
found that men with a steady
partner had an average of eight sexual
partners per year.
Bell and Weinberg, in their classic
study of male and female homosexuality,
found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more
partners, with 28 percent having one thousand or more sex
partners.
Christians Against Poverty (CAP) has encouraged people to not keep their financial debt a secret from their
partner after a new
study found one in seven adults have done so.
In a 2009
study in Journal of American College Health, B.J. Willoughby and J.S. Carroll
found that «students living in co-ed housing were also more likely [than those in single - sex residences] to have more sexual
partners in the last 12 months.»
The CBN's research agency, in a
study of
partners and their giving, reported that as a result of their support of CBN and other religious organizations,
partners found that «the volume of Christian mail coming into their homes is at times overwhelming... including what is described as a «redundant theme of financial crisis.»»
A
study of former
partners of CBN
found that 42 percent of those interviewed said that the greatest amount of their financial support went to their local church: only II percent said that CBN receives the greatest share of their giving.
The CBN
study of its
partners found that only 2 percent of its
partners reported becoming less involved in their local church because of their viewing of CBN programs.
We
found that the
Partners study focused exclusively on congregations housed in properties of historical and architectural significance.
This was an excellent social opportunity and I met the lion's share of great friends,
found some great
study partners including an honorable mention for a graduate student and Mensa member that taught me some great
study habits.
Her odds of having a preemie or stillbirth double if her
partner is 45 + and one
study found her odds of having a child with Downs Syndrome quadruple if he is 50 +.
A 2008 U.K.
study found that contraceptives can make a woman desire the «wrong» man, a men whose genetic makeup is similar to hers when a better
partner is one whose genetic makeup is different.
• A review of nine cohort
studies published in international peer - reviewed journals
found «
partner's smoking habit» to be one of the key determinants of a pregnant woman's smoking (Lu et al, 2001).
• And an integrated review of 20 research
studies found 24 - 50 % of new fathers with depressed
partners affected by depression themselves (Goodman, 2004).
But what his
study addresses for the first time is that we shouldn't view all «never married» people as the same; some unmarried men and women are unable to
find a
partner and some are actually choosing to be «marriage - free,» as single mom Shonda Rhimes and Oprah have.
In addition to the Beyond Breakfast blog, and the
Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom website, we also have an extensive Breakfast - in - the - Classroom Resource Center where you can
find detailed case
studies, as well as information on feasibility, research, menu planning, and more.
One
study which examined births to 15 ¬ 17 year old girls in the US
found only 8 % with a
partner five or more years older and few of those males obviously predatory (Duberstein et al, 1997).
The most interesting
finding of the
study, however, was that all three forms of support — social support, relationship support, and
partner support with the baby — were all associated with lower rates of reported colic.
Another
study found that men think they are spending much more time on child - related and household responsibilities than their female
partners say they are.
In one recent
study, researchers
found marital disagreements tended to result in hostility far more often when one or both
partners were consistently skipping needed sleep.
A
study found that men's testosterone levels fell by around a third in the days and months after their
partner gave birth.
High testosterone levels could be linked with the chances of
finding a sexual
partner, but once a man becomes a father for the first time, his testosterone levels fall significantly, a
study of 624 young men
found.
This
study found informing men about potential problems (like engorgement and mastitis) and giving them strategies to problem solve, increased the level of support their breastfeeding
partner perceived they received at 6 weeks post-birth.
A 2009
study conducted as part of
Partners for Child Passenger Safety
found that kids between 4 and 8 were 45 percent less likely to sustain moderate to serious injuries in crashes when they were restrained in high - back or backless booster seats to lap - and - shoulder seat belts alone — and this reduction in injury risk went up to 67 percent for kids in post-1998 car models.
A systematic review of 22
studies [40]
found women who had continuous support in labour (either from a nurse, midwife, doula, childbirth educator, family member,
partner, or stranger) were more likely to have a spontaneous vaginal birth, a shorter birth, and to be satisfied with their birth.
This
finding is consistent with a previous cross-sectional
study in which fathers of newborns were
found to have lower T compared with a group of expectant fathers, whose T had been measured during their
partners» pregnancies (39).
In a
study, Italian researchers reviewed the data on whether couple therapy was a better way to treat depression in one
partner and
found no difference between couple therapy and individual therapy on the symptoms of depression.
In one landmark
study that evaluated the effects of doulas and fathers working together, researchers
found that combining a supportive
partner and a doula significantly lowered the mother's risk of Cesarean compared to just having a supportive
partner alone.
Within the subgroup of
studies which specifically focused on social support, they
found that 14
studies showed no association between marital or
partner status and depressive symptoms or diagnosis whilst 13
studies showed that women who were married or cohabiting with the baby's father had fewer depressive symptoms or a lower risk of postpartum depression compared to women separated from their
partner or not in a relationship during the first postpartum year.
Following men through their
partner's pregnancy and over the first year of fatherhood, the
study found that men appeared to be particularly anxious about money.
The agency has a good understanding of some risk factors for teen dating violence, such as family background, she said, and it is now
studying the relationship between teen
partners to see what additional risk factors can be
found.
A 2014
study, for example,
found that 5 - year - olds didn't show an urge to intervene when another child split candy unevenly with their
partner.
Men may not go on a hormonal rollercoaster with their pregnant
partners, but once the baby shows up, their bodies biologically transition into «daddy mode,» suggests a new
study finding that levels of testosterone, the «macho» sex hormone, drop in new fathers.
These are key
findings of a
study, in which Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was one of the
partners and which is now published in the journal Science.