Sentences with phrase «for socioeconomic status»

In my research, the factor most predictive was coming from a single - parent family (even after controlling for socioeconomic status).

On the importance of setting high expectations, analysis shows students in schools where teachers have low expectations are 1.2 times more likely to perform poorly in mathematics, after accounting for socioeconomic status.

Multiple risk exposure as a potential explanatory mechanism for the socioeconomic status - health gradient.

The association held even after the researchers controlled for socioeconomic status, depression, anxiety and substance abuse disorders.

Hence, it was not until 2007 that Michaeline Bresnahan, Ezra Susser and their colleagues at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health cautiously published data from a cohort of 12,000 Californians enrolled in the Kaiser Permanente health plan, which showed that the rate of hospital admission for schizophrenia was twice as high for African - Americans as for whites, even after controlling for socioeconomic status of the parents.

And while mental health issues occur with relative stability across racial and ethnic lines, when adjusted for socioeconomic status, low - income individuals face higher hurdles and higher risks of their existing issues transitioning into crisis.

We used percentage of students eligible for free or reduced lunch as a proxy for socioeconomic status (SES).

«Specifically, after we equate for socioeconomic status, we find that the sheer number of words spoken by an adult was not related to children's neural processing of language, but that the number of conversational turns was,» says Romeo.

The matrix converts scores on standardized tests — the Stanford Achievement Test for English - speaking students and the Aprenda exam for Spanish - speaking students with limited English proficiency — scores on the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT), average course grades, teacher recommendations, and indicators for socioeconomic status into an overall index score.

After adjusting the data for socioeconomic status, family history and lifestyle factors, heart disease risk factors and body mass, the researchers concluded that women who had not breast - fed were five times more likely to have aortic calcifications than women who consistently breast - fed.

This work was supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grants R01 MH41256 and P50 MH58911, the MacArthur Foundation Research Network for Socioeconomic Status and Health, and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.

Controlling for socioeconomic status was not feasible with the notification data available.

In this chapter, two primary hypotheses are explained about the reasons for socioeconomic status differences in rates of psychopathology and problem behavior of adolescents, namely the social selection and social causation hypothesis.

Discussing the impact of teacher morale, the report says»... students who attend schools where teacher morale is lower are more likely to perform poorly in mathematics, compared with students who attend schools where teacher morale is high... even after accounting for the socioeconomic status of students and schools.»

Mackinac uses a regression analysis accounting for the socioeconomic status of a school's students to predict academic performance, and grades schools by comparing the school's actual results to its predicted performance.

The researchers tracked nearly 400 babies at ages 3, 6, 9, and 12 months, and while adjusting for socioeconomic status, mother's age and IQ, gestational age, gender, birth weight, head circumference, race, age, and diet history, all soy formula - fed infant scores were within established normal ranges.

School lunch eligibility status (free, reduced price, and full price) also served as a proxy for socioeconomic status.

The study controlled for socioeconomic status and other potentially confounding factors.

Diane: I did wonder if the researchers controlled for socioeconomic status, since children are more likely to eat school lunch when their parents can't afford anything else, and those economically disadvantage home environments may also contribute to obesity.

However, even after controlling for socioeconomic status, the difference remained: black women were 1.84 times as likely to be diagnosed with the triple negative subtype.

«Previous research tends to be polarized between the argument that students of color are overrepresented in special education due to racial bias in schools, and the argument that they are actually underrepresented in special education once you account for socioeconomic status and other related factors.

So the researchers did a second analysis — by looking only at Facebook and non-Facebook users on the California voter rolls, a sort of proxy control for socioeconomic status.

To control for socioeconomic status, their study looked only at siblings born to the same mother.

Professor Terrie Moffitt, a co-author on the paper at the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King's College London, said: «There has been some criticism of earlier studies about breastfeeding and IQ saying that they didn't properly control for socioeconomic status, or the mother's IQ or other factors, but our findings give a fresh perspective different from those arguments by showing a physiological mechanism that could account for the difference.»

Although the researchers controlled for socioeconomic status and other characteristics, it's possible that social and financial difficulties during childhood could play a role in adult emotional distress.

Dix, a Senior Research Fellow in ACER's Australian Surveys research program, says this data analysis suggests that even after controlling for socioeconomic status (SES), students in single - sex schools are significantly more likely to outperform their co-ed counterparts in reading and numeracy achievement over time.

«For example, it has the highest proportion of resilient students (19.2 per cent), that is, disadvantaged students who perform among the top 25 percent of students across all participating countries and economies after controlling for socioeconomic status.»

Critics of Sweden's private schools point to the fact that public school students outperformed students at private schools (after controlling for socioeconomic status) as proof that free schools contribute disproportionately to the lagging results.

Translation: After controlling for socioeconomic status, white students essentially had the same test scores whether they went to a school that was overwhelmingly white or one that was overwhelmingly black.

Gaps between the reading and math skills of White and minority children shrink when adjusting for socioeconomic status.

However, these studies did not control for socioeconomic status or parenting style and failed to formally link exposure with behavior by testing for mediation processes between attitudes and reckless driving.

Overall IQ was highly predictive of schizophrenia, and this association persisted after controlling for socioeconomic status, behavioral adjustment in childhood, drug misuse, urban upbringing, family history of psychiatric disorder, and psychiatric disturbance at the time of testing.

These correlations remained significant even after controlling for socioeconomic status, English skills, math achievement, and the rigor of high school science courses (Schwartz et al 2009).

Studies that control for socioeconomic status have found that parenting mediates stress - linked health consequences, like shortened telomeres (which I refer to in my post as damage to DNA).

Two articles found that African American parents held significantly higher expectations than European American parents after controlling for socioeconomic status (SES)(Glick and White 2004; Hao and Bonstead - Burns 1998), while one study reported no significant difference between the two groups after SES was controlled (Suizzo and Stapleton 2007).

Although we controlled for socioeconomic status, our data may not be representative of parents and children with a very low socioeconomic status.