Sentences with phrase «highest adversity»

Families with the highest adversity score had less optimal parenting practices, with lower connection, greater negativity and less control.

Participants with the highest adversity scores tended to have higher levels of leptin, irisin and the inflammatory marker C - reactive protein in their blood.

They found that the most successful ones have a higher adversity quotient, or a higher tolerance for failure.

In the context of low adversity, children who have a high reactivity to stress are actually more social and successful academically than their peers who have a low reactivity to stress.21 However, in the context of high adversity, children who have high reactivity to stress fair worse than their peers who have low reactivity to stress.21 Hence, the consequences of high stress reactivity are contextual, with high reactivity promoting adaptive responses in the context of low adversity, but maladaptive responses in the context of high adversity.

The higher adversity the lower connection and control, and the greater negativity in parenting, although there were no clear associations between adversity and the mother - infant attachment or smacking measures.

Compared to children in families with a zero family adversity score, levels of limiting long - term illness were greater in children with a family adversity score of one or more, but did not show a clear increase with a higher adversity score.

Parents in families with higher adversity scores were less likely to have a warm relationship with their child, to share joint activities, to have low conflict and avoid smacking and to exercise control over their child's behaviour.

Not exact matches

Entrepreneurs tend to be an action - oriented, onwards - and - upwards lot — a longitudinal study published by the Journal of Economic Psychology in 2014 associated successful entrepreneurs with higher - than - normal levels of hardiness, resourcefulness and optimism — meaning that when their venture fails, there's a pretty good chance they'll be able to rebound quickly, with a nifty second - act tale of adversity to slot into their narrative.

then we are into polemical adversity and getting on high horses with what is akin to high school playground behaviour.

Each season the NFL awards the Comeback Player of the Year Award to an individual who has overcome adversity to achieve at the highest level.

How does adversity at home affect their success in the classroom, from preschool to high school?

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

He argues that toxic stress and instability on one end of the spectrum vs. overprotectiveness and lack of opportunities to overcome adversity on the opposite can lead to a deficit in developing the character traits «especially likely to predict life satisfaction and high achievement.»

So candidate David Watts is battling on against adversity but not with the highest hopes.

Our moments of great adversity must inspire a higher sense of unity,» Miner said.

Scientific evidence has consistently shown us that a high number of individuals are able to overcome stress and adversity and to continue on with productive lives.

«This study helps illuminate why people who have dealt with childhood adversity face a higher risk of developing excess belly fat and related health conditions,» said one of the study's authors, Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, DSc, PhD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the VA Boston Healthcare System, both affiliated with Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.

Even after researchers adjusted for differences in diet, exercise and demographic variables among the participants, high levels of leptin and irisin continued to be associated with childhood adversity.

Adversity is commonly defined as anything children perceive as a threat to their physical safety or that jeopardizes their family or social structure, including emotional, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, bullying by peers, violence at home, parental divorce, separation or death, parental substance abuse, living in a neighborhood with high crime rates, homelessness, discrimination, poverty and the loss of a relative or another loved one.

Overall, they say «our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that increased risk of non-affective psychotic disorders among immigrants is due to a higher frequency of exposure to social adversity before migration, including the effects of war, violence, or persecution.»

Socioeconomic adversity during childhood increases the likelihood of both depression and higher body mass index (BMI) in early adolescence, which can worsen and lead to illness for young adults, according to a new report in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

They found that adolescents with more socioeconomic adversities had more depressive symptoms and higher BMIs initially and had worse trajectories over time.

They found that the death rate among the group which had suffered the adversity - related injuries was twice as high as the youngsters who had suffered the accidental injuries.

Men and women who have served in the military have a higher prevalence of adverse childhood events (ACEs), suggesting that enlistment may be a way to escape adversity for some.

In a recent study, participants who reported the highest levels of adversity also reported the highest levels of personal growth and self - development.

Specifically, the amount of stress encountered in early life sensitizes an organism to a certain level of adversity; high levels of early life stress may result in hypersensitivity to stress later, as well as to adult depression.

Sir Edmund Hillary's incredible achievement remains one of the greatest adventure stories of all time; the epic journey of a man from modest beginnings who overcame adversity to reach the highest point on Earth.

by Melissa Wellham «Attack the Block is a genre film of the highest order, combining «sci fi,» «thriller,» «coming - of - age,» and «teen film where plucky youngsters triumph over adversity.

Dean Kathleen McCartney spoke last week at the Children Defense Fund's 2006 Annual Beat the Odds Awards dinner, where five Washington, D.C. high school seniors, who have overcome tremendous adversity, received college scholarship awards.

Schools are not just places where students acquire academic skills, they also help students become more resilient in the face of adversity, feel more connected with the people around them, and aim higher in their aspirations for their future.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

2:30 p.m. Supporting Children and Families Experiencing Adversity Through High - Quality Early Education

It is possible, she says, that these issues could be symptomatic of a disregulated stress response resulting from high doses of adversity; in other words, toxic stress.

This compelling knowledge base underscores three significant, unmet needs: (1) valid and reliable biological and bio-behavioral measures (or «biomarkers») of «toxic stress» to identify children who are at higher risk of chronic disease in adulthood; (2) more effective intervention strategies to prevent, reduce, or mitigate the long - term health consequences of significant adversity in early childhood; and (3) biomarkers that are sensitive to change and can thus be used to assess the short - term and medium - term effects of intervention strategies whose ultimate impacts on physical and mental health may not be apparent until decades later.

They are more academically successful, able to persevere through adversity, and more likely to graduate from high school.

The charter high school specializes in serving students who are facing extreme adversity.

While all of our schools faced funding adversity, many now show achievement scores comparable to the highest performing states.

Find out how, with the support of his charter school family, Erik overcame adversity to graduate high school, attend college and become the legal guardian of his brothers.

And this early adversity, if experienced in high enough doses, «literally gets under our skin, changing people in ways that can endure in their bodies for decades...

The foundation of Acknowledge Alliance started with the belief, that when a child has a caring adult in their life who holds high expectations and believes in them, they can succeed despite adversities.

Meeting the developmental needs of middle school and high school learners who have faced adversity and trauma

Several Excel Academy Charter High School students learn to fly airplanes through Above the Clouds» program for students facing adversity.

«Market Higher in 2007 Series: Handling Adversity Main Oil Prices and Gasoline Prices: An Interesting Divergence»

Still, juries in Maryland and in most states are not told about a cap and I think, just symbolically if nothing else, the award should be higher for a 25 year - old girl who overcomes such adversity to survive and thrive.

By sharing kudos, high - fives, and being positive in the face of adversity, you will be the kind of person everyone wants on their team - the Lighthouse person.

Recognized for creating a loyal, high - energy workforce and stepping into sales roles under great adversity, even without the benefit of specific ind...

seek purpose seek change, internally, externally, not about to let the adversities distract us from our divine selves, reaching the highest of highs despite fear and the parts we can't control... reaching, grabbing, clawing in faith... it shall be where we shine divinely as we.

Kind and empowering leader, perserverance in adversity, engaging and persuasive communicator, crtical thinker, remains focused on high - yield results, ethics and integrity dominate all final decisions.

The trial regions are selected for their high prevalence of families experiencing socioeconomic and psychosocial adversity, a mix of metropolitan and regional areas, and interest from the universal CFH services in participating in the trial.

Additionally, it appears that resilience is reflected strongly on mental health (Tugade & Fredrickson, 2004), since individuals with higher level of resilience are dealing with adversity more effectively (Bonanno et al., 2007), they are also more protected against depressive symptomatology and they can improve their psychosocial function (Pietrzak et al., 2010).