Sentences with phrase «in correlational studies»

One of the major areas scientists have been investigating under the program is the link between BPA and diabetes, which has shown up in correlational studies.

In a correlational study lower average regional intelligence was found to be linked with higher infectious disease rates.

In Experiment 1 they tested 169 Black and 186 White seventh graders in a correlational study.

Altogether, three sets of variables were examined in the correlational study, as indicated in Figure 1.

In another correlational study, Lance Long and William Christenson studied the relationship between readability and outcome in appellate briefs.126 They sampled 882 appellate briefs from the Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and state supreme courts.

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For example, a correlational study of two American subgroups — one from La Leche League and one control group — found that frequent feedings reduced crying in babies who were two months old but did not make a difference for four - month - old babies.

But, these studies are all correlational, so it could be that parents who breastfeed are somehow different from parents who don't breastfeed in systematic ways that lead to positive health outcomes.

In addition, increasingly sophisticated statistical modeling techniques were applied to correlational studies to aid understanding of the results.

The study is correlational and can't identify the mechanism underlying this relationship, but one can imagine that it «could be that beliefs about the role of women in science change as more women enter science, that more women enter science when these beliefs change, or a combination.

Now this is a correlational study; future studies will try to see whether taking up coffee drinking can ward off dementia in someone who otherwise might develop it.

Young adults with thinner cortex in particular brain regions are more impulsive during a decision - making task than teens with thicker cortex, according to a large correlational study of adolescents from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort.

To follow up this correlational data with experimental evidence, the researchers conducted a second study in which they presented participants with the same pictures used in Study 1, but this time one of the pictures was manipulated to have either a smile or a neutral expresstudy in which they presented participants with the same pictures used in Study 1, but this time one of the pictures was manipulated to have either a smile or a neutral expresStudy 1, but this time one of the pictures was manipulated to have either a smile or a neutral expression.

«This study provides correlational evidence for active anti-interferon antibodies providing protection from type 1 diabetes, but more research is needed to prove causation in humans.

In addition, the new study is the first to provide information on self - reported aggression of drivers in the Republic of Ireland and is also the first to support the proposed relationship between impulsivity and driving anger with more than correlational analysis, which provides only limited information about the relationships between variableIn addition, the new study is the first to provide information on self - reported aggression of drivers in the Republic of Ireland and is also the first to support the proposed relationship between impulsivity and driving anger with more than correlational analysis, which provides only limited information about the relationships between variablein the Republic of Ireland and is also the first to support the proposed relationship between impulsivity and driving anger with more than correlational analysis, which provides only limited information about the relationships between variables.

This study of 1,159 seventh graders, using both a correlational and quasi-experimental approach, compared students participating in the Concept - Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) program who also had traditional instruction to students in only a traditional reading / language arts program.

Over the past decade, we have started to see studies that are suggesting either experimentally or through correlational data that students often do better in harder text.

A trove of correlational studies have also demonstrated benefits for high school athletes, including higher grades, increased graduation and college completion rates, and a decrease in various antisocial behaviors.

Recent studies have used correlational methods that compare outcomes for children in child - centered and content - centered classrooms in which teachers have self - selected their instructional approaches and children's parents have self - selected their preschools.

In contrast, ESSA defines four levels of «evidence - based» practices: «strong,» with at least one well - designed and well - implemented experimental study with a statistically significant, positive effect; «moderate,» with at least one well - designed and well - implemented quasi-experimental study such as a matched - comparison group; «promising,» with at least one well - designed and well - implemented correlational study with statistical controls for selection bias.

«There are correlational studies that show kids enrolling in high school arts programs are more likely to graduate and go to college.»

-- Dorothy Smit, A correlational study between length of tenure and MI of expatriates in Qatar.

The researchers noted, however, that «the relationships here are correlational, not causal,» and the finding could be at odds with another finding from the study.13 Separately, the VAL - ED principal performance assessment (developed with support from The Wallace Foundation) measures principals on community and parent engagement.14 Vanderbilt researchers who developed the assessment are undertaking further study on how important this practice is in affecting students, achievement.

Findings from a large number of correlational studies on language have shown that frequency of exposure strongly predicts word learning and seems to have long - range consequences for later language and reading levels.35 Although this finding is often mentioned in the literature, what is new is that we may have underestimated the frequency required to learn words.

The science of teaching could best be advanced by taking the findings on effective teaching behaviors uncovered through correlational studies and putting them to the test in true experimental studies where the causal relationships are fully revealed.

Carrick «Keep in mind the estimates for the half - life of CO2 emissions is on the order 800 years (based on correlational studies)» niclewis September 24, 2014 at 3:00 pm I'm not sure that is supported by good observational evidence.

Carrick «Keep in mind the estimates for the half - life of CO2 emissions is on the order 800 years (based on correlational studies)»

Researchers might conduct correlational studies of existing cases, as Long and Christenson did in their study of readability and success on appeal241 or as Moss did in his mixed - methods study of employment discrimination summary judgment motions.242 Or they might conduct an experiment asking participants to simulated cases, as in the proposed modification of Chestek's study of preferences for narrative elements in briefs.243 Alternatively, researchers could conduct qualitative studies of decision - makers believe that legal writing influences their decisions.

Thus, this body of work moves beyond correlational studies that have shown associations between social class and outcomes and instead provides causal evidence linking increased income in poor families to improvements in outcomes in a number of domains.

In addition, due to the correlational nature of the study, we can not truly say whether the first sexual experience actually affected subsequent experiences.

The present study is an applied research in terms of purpose and a descriptive and correlational research in terms of the method of data collection, which has been conducted to examine the relationship between attachment styles and the manner of using the mobile phone.

One descriptive and one correlational question were addressed in Study 4.

In terms of purpose, the present study is an applied research and in terms of the method of data collection, it is a descriptive and correlational studIn terms of purpose, the present study is an applied research and in terms of the method of data collection, it is a descriptive and correlational studin terms of the method of data collection, it is a descriptive and correlational study.

Although most studies in the field of aggressive behavior, violence and delinquency are correlational, there is some prospective evidence that low self - esteem is a risk factor in the development of problem behavior.

Most of the behaviors thought of as socialized (or unsocialized) are influenced by genetic factors as well as by learning, so correlational studies that provide no control for genetic factors can produce results — correlations between a child's behavior in different contexts — that look like generalization.

First, a causal - relationship is not deduced in this study due to the correlational nature of analysis.

The path analysis turned an experimental study into a correlational study and showed, as correlational studies almost always do, that the «better» parents in the group had «better» children.

It is important to keep in mind that the results of such studies are correlational.

Although correlational in nature, this study has some clinical relevance.

Because this study was correlational, we can not conclude that low levels of depression and high levels of optimism resulted in those individuals being better emotion regulators; however, these results still propose a possible profile of someone who would be successful during online emotion regulation.

And finally, our correlational study can not address issues of causality; that is, we can not know whether perceptions of balance versus imbalance in relationship work contribute to feelings of satisfaction and commitment, or whether feelings of satisfaction and commitment influence perceptions of mutuality with respect to relationship work.

Nevertheless, the other correlational studies I referred to above illustrate how NCLB has overlooked the importance non-cognitive abilities and the accountability of student misbehaviors, which have an effect on students» academic and non-academic lives in the long - run.

Our studies include experiments on attractiveness in which we manipulate the expression of personality traits, correlational studies on relationship satisfaction, and use of implicit measures.

Since correlational analyses revealed that the dependent variables in the current study were in general quite strongly correlated with each other, a MANOVA was conducted with pregnancy as a factor and participants» satisfaction with the relationship, satisfaction with the partner, relationship satisfaction, partner's mate value, own mate value, and mean self - esteem as dependent variables.

In sum, we have shown through correlational studies that the quality of the parent - child and couple relationships is related to the children's early school adaptation.

Moreover, a key problem in understanding the impacts of fathers on children is methodological: most studies are correlational and of unclear generalizability.

In the Hong Kong context, studies on life satisfaction among adolescents have commonly used the correlational method (e.g., Shek 1998a, 1998b; Shek et al. 2006a).

These findings are consistent with previous correlational studies in similar populations, 20 but the small effect of depressive symptoms on disability is interesting, given previous findings that patients with both depression and pain are more recalcitrant to rehabilitative treatment than those without depression.

In particular, literature focused primarily on correlational studies, with a less intense focus on experimental manipulations.

First, the present study was correlational in nature.

The most stringent test of differential susceptibility theory is provided by randomized control trials examining the moderating role of genetic markers of differential susceptibility in experimental manipulations of the environment (Gene × Experimental Environment interactions), being at least 10 times more powerful than correlational Gene × Environment interaction studies.