Sentences with phrase «leading predictors of»

However, those who refuse to engage in conflict, and seem to tune their partner out, or do what Dr. Gottman calls stonewalling are surprised to learn that this method of engaging is one of the leading predictors of divorce!

Interestingly, chores are considered one of the leading predictors of future success.

«We know it is the number one or number two leading predictor of academic outcomes.

A 2013 survey in the journal Family Relations found that disputes over money are the leading predictor of divorce — and the earlier these fights start, the more likely that outcome.

After examining data from more than 1,400 dams worldwide, it identifies the rate of soil erosion into a reservoir as a leading predictor of carbon dioxide emissions.

Obesity is a leading predictor of health conditions and a cause of nearly two million Americans having a heart attack or stroke according to the American Association for Critical Illness Insurance.

Despite the documented direct effects of physical abuse on the health of children, the recognition that early childhood trauma is a leading predictor of adult morbidity and early mortality, and the enormous indirect costs of funding the social and legal systems required to investigate abuse, protect children, hold perpetrators accountable and treat affected families, available public resources have not adequately addressed the problem.

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Needless to say, the rise in the «leading indicators» is not a valid indication of an upturn in my view, apart from the fact that statistically, the leading indicators are fairly poor predictors of economic turns anyway.

This also happens in financial markets as investors make decisions based only upon recent information compared to all of the available data, which can often lead to thinking current trends are the best predictors of what will happen next.

The power of the predictor grows after divorce; that is to say, parental conflict is more likely to lead to emotional and behavioral problems, and after a divorce is much more likely to result in such problems.

Terman's view led to definitions of gifted, which not only included high IQ, but also the notion that giftedness should be a predictor of adult achievement.

Note that Marco Rubio leads the pack, for what it's worth — as we've seen here more than once, raw numbers about Twitter and Facebook are no predictor of electoral success.

The latest poll points to a Labour lead in the battle for the Scottish Parliament by 7 % over the SNP in the regional votes which are normally the best predictor of the seats each party is likely to win.

But we found that measuring their skills in English, while not perfect, is a helpful predictor of future success,» said Katie Whiteside, a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, the study's lead author.

«This is important because there's a robust body of research showing that the ability to talk about sexual health with a partner, such as a willingness to talk about condoms, is one of the strongest predictors of whether a couple will engage in safer sex,» says Laura Widman, lead author of a paper describing the work and an assistant professor of psychology at NC State.

Professor Charlotte Suppli Ulrik, lead author from the Hvidovre Hospital and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, said: «Our findings present an intriguing look at the differences we see between men and women when we identify predictors of asthma among children.

In addition, we sought to identify modifiable predictors of CRC screening in non-African American and African American veterans by using a conceptual framework accounting for a wide range of clinical and demographic characteristics,» said study lead author Fola May, MD, MPhil, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.

Brain scans of war veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder have led researchers to an area of the prefrontal cortex that appears to be a good predictor of response to treatment with SSRIs — the first - line drug treatment for PTSD.

«Results from the ADAPT - DES registry definitely demonstrate that high platelet reactivity after implantation of drug - eluting stents is an independent predictor of one - year stent thrombosis and heart attack, but it is also protective against major bleeding, both of which impact mortality,» said lead investigator Gregg W. Stone, MD..

After accounting for other factors that could led to successful latch - opening, such as manual dexterity and sociality, the researchers concluded that relative brain size was the most significant predictor of success in the task.

An unexpected collaboration between bioinformatician Katherine Pollard (left) and immunology researcher Shomyseh Sanjabi (right) leads to the discovery of an early predictor of IBD.

She is also leading the Jersey Girl Study, which aims to evaluate predictors of pubertal markers in girls and the Women's Circle of Health Study, a study evaluating risk factors for breast cancer risk and survival in African American women.

The gut microbiome — a collection of bacteria and other microbes in the gut — could be a highly accurate predictor of hospitalizations for patients with cirrhosis, according to a recently published study led by a researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, 8 June 2015 — A study led by scientists at deCODE genetics and published today demonstrates at population scale that variations in the sequence of the genome that increase risk of mental illness characterized by psychosis are also predictors of creativity.

But for kids who kept using e-cigarettes, «the most robust predictors were the low cost and trying e-cigarettes to quit smoking,» said lead researcher Krysten Bold, a postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.

He also stated that, «Improved aerobic fitness from the exercise was a much better predictor of psychosocial benefits than weight loss or reductions in body fat... Throw away the scale and get out there and start moving, and the activity can improve your emotional well - being even if it does not lead to any measurable change in weight or body fat.»

«Parent participation is the leading predictor that supports students» academic success, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, or cultural background.»

But we found that measuring their skills in English, while not perfect, is a helpful predictor of future success,» said Katie Whiteside, a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, the study's lead author.

If students» scores on the old tests are weak predictors of their performance on the new tests, it could lead to error in value - added.

An author of books for young adults points to research showing that strong school library programs led by a certified school librarian help ALL students do better in school, including students whose parents can't afford to provide all the resources kids need to do well in school: «[Research] tells us that even after adjusting for factors such as parental education, father's occupation, and social class, the impact of having books available in the home is as strong a predictor of school success as socioeconomic status.»

Research has shown that cost is the best predictor of future investment performance, with lower costs leading to better returns.

B vitamin deficiency can lead to accumulation of an amino acid (amino acids are the natural building blocks of protein) called homocysteine, which is a predictor of decreased cognitive function.

The new study is important because it shows that drought is a better predictor of spruce beetle outbreaks in northern Colorado than temperature alone, said lead study author Sarah Hart, a CU - Boulder doctoral student in geography.

The predictor is multi-year ice anomalies in the Beaufort Sea along the coast of the islands the previous summer (14 - month lead), which is an area of ice import into the CAA.

Because of the differing environmental influences at each site, treating the composite of all NA sites leads to multiple predictors.

Research led by cognitive psychologist Professor Stephan Lewandowsky at the University of Western Australia, to be published in the journal Psychological Science, found an important predictor for climate science denialism was a belief in free - market economics.

Habitat loss alone may be a good predictor of extinctions of threatened and endemic species in biodiversity hotspots, but this takes no account of pervasive synergistic effects of hunting, wildfires and other anthropogenic impacts on isolated populations which may lead to much higher extinction rates compared to predictions from unqualified SAR models alone.

In addition, negative entries may well not be a valid predictor of job performance especially since many job applicants have faced a long period of unemployment that may lead to larger debts.

The strong relationship of perceived control over sexual risk - taking (figure 2) with condom use led to an additional analysis of the predictors of this perceived control (table 4).

A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).

But, instead of connection, these conversations often lead to increased feelings of contempt (which is the number one predictor of divorce, according to 40 years of research by Dr. John Gottman).

Using both traditional and progressive methods based on decades of research, I teach clients predictors of breakup and how to avoid them, and how to adopt behaviors that instead are found to lead to highly satisfying, connected relationships.

This is a serious gap in our knowledge for two reasons: (1) Recent research has shown that disorganized attachment is a predictor of psychopathology, whereas insecure - avoidant and resistant attachment lead to less optimal but not pathological child adjustment.10 Therefore, it is imperative to evaluate attachment - based interventions on their potential value to prevent attachment disorganization.

Worse still, this decrease in marital satisfaction likely leads to a change in general happiness, because the biggest predictor of overall life satisfaction is one's satisfaction with their spouse.

Leading marriage researcher, John Gottman, lists contempt as one of the main predictors of divorce.

Identifying the actual predictors of healthy relationships is the next step toward helping people nurture the development of healthy dating relationships that can lead to quality, stable, and satisfying adult romantic and marriage relationships.

The pattern of results for predictors and moderators needs to be examined in the context of the overall study findings, which showed no overall difference between the minimal intervention bibliotherapy group and the therapist - led treatments, no differences in outcomes overall between the two types of therapists, nurses, and psychologists, and dose effects when parents attended a sufficient number of sessions, a number that exceeds the number of sessions that families often attend in clinic settings.

Driven to investigate the probability that a child may develop SAD as the result of an insecurely - attached parent - child dyad, Dallaire and Weinraub (2005) led a longitudinal, quantitative, empirical study in an effort to isolate the predictors of SAD by the time the child is six years old and ready to start school.

To date, research has found that stress is a strong cross-sectional and prospective predictor of depression in Chinese samples (e.g., Fong 2006; Liu et al. 2004), however, there is a paucity of research examining more complex, integrative models that delineate the mechanism through which stress leads to depression amongst Chinese adolescents.

Some trials include co-occurring mental health problems as a predictor of intervention effects, but predictor analyses fail to correct for change in the control condition and can lead to misleading results (e.g., see Halldorsdottir and Ollendick 2016, for a comparison of predictor and moderator analysis).