Sentences with phrase «independent longitudinal study»

First, the key findings emerged (i) across two independent longitudinal studies, (ii) in an analysis that combined the data across both studies, and (iii) controlling for numerous potential confounds.

Not exact matches

There are scant longitudinal studies on independent men and women who prefer to live alone, live apart together for the long term or cohabit, and until there are, we really won't know whether marriage is still the best arrangement for couples.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

«Although this wasn't an experiment, it was a well - controlled longitudinal study in a racially diverse sample — so it provides a strong clue that being socially integrated early in life is good for our health independent of a number of other factors such as personality, weight in childhood, and the family's social status in childhood,» she explains.

The team also found the same pattern of results in an independent cohort of almost 1,500 people who were part of the Brisbane Longitudinal Twin Study, suggesting the genetic association in females is a reliable finding.

But the report — an independent analysis of the U.S. Education Department's National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 — also found shortcomings in Catholic education.

The National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS), conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, confirms what independent school families have known for years: larger percentages of students in independent schools are enrolled in advanced courses than in public, parochial, and other private schools.

This study uses nationally representative data from the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS - B) to examine the magnitude of SES gradients in reading and math ability at kindergarten entry and the independent contribution of factors in the family background, health, home learning, parenting, and early education domains to these gradistudy uses nationally representative data from the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS - B) to examine the magnitude of SES gradients in reading and math ability at kindergarten entry and the independent contribution of factors in the family background, health, home learning, parenting, and early education domains to these gradiStudy, Birth Cohort (ECLS - B) to examine the magnitude of SES gradients in reading and math ability at kindergarten entry and the independent contribution of factors in the family background, health, home learning, parenting, and early education domains to these gradients.

In the realm of trait variables, in a longitudinal study of stable outpatients involving an initial assessment and a 9 - mo follow - up session, 24 those who scored high on a self - report measure of trait anxiety at the initial assessment and who experienced one or more «independent» stressful life events (ie, events not caused by patient behavior) during the month prior to the follow - up session showed significant increases in psychotic symptoms compared with those who either were low in trait anxiety or had no independent stressful life events.