Sentences with phrase «mediated by quality»

In this study focused on school aged children, we hypothesize that the impact of maternal depressive symptomatology on child social preference is mediated by the quality of mother - child interactions, particularly the emotional availability, warmth, and sensitive - responding of the parent to child.

A recent review of risk and resilience factors for military families concluded that the stressful effects of military life on child outcomes (including frequent relocation, parental deployment, and parental PTSD) are largely mediated by the quality of the parent — child relationship and interactions.

Additionally, we investigated whether the relation between SES and receptive and expressive vocabulary was mediated by the quality of the home environment as the Family Investment Model suggests.

We were able to conclude that the relationship between widowed status and depressive symptoms is mediated by the quality of relationship with children (widowed status → lower quality of relationship with children → depressive symptoms) and that a reduced quality of relationship with children may be one mechanism by which widowhood is linked with depressive symptoms of older Koreans.

In a separate examination of the data, we demonstrated that participating in MF - PEP significantly improved the quality of services used, mediated by parents» beliefs about treatment.25 Participating in MF - PEP also significantly improved the severity of children's mood symptoms, mediated by quality of services used.25 Thus, as it was originally designed to do, MF - PEP helps parents become better mental health consumers, and access to higher - quality services results in children's decreased symptom severity.

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The lab is characterizing the quantity and quality (i.e. B and T cell) of the immune responses induced or generated by these DNA plasmids in order to improve their ability to mediate virus neutralization and clearance.

Within this broad topic we are particularly interested in characterising (i) the molecular mechanism by which these photoreceptors mediate light - dependent entrainment of the circadian clock, (ii) the components mediating, in a light - quality - dependent fashion, nucleocytoplasmic partitioning of phytochromes and UVR8, (iii) how phosphorylation and sumoylation of these photorecepors and other signalling components modulate red / far - red and UVB - induced signalling, and (iv) to what extent intercellular and cell - autonomous events contribute to phytochrome and UVR8 regulated photomorphogenesis.

The negative effects seem to lie in the capacity of some foods / nutrients to stimulate proliferative pathways that in turn stimulate development of acne — suspect foods include those with a high glycaemic load and milk.11, 43, 44 Other evidence comes from several studies reporting that the prevalence of acne varies significantly between different populations and is substantially lower in non-Westernized populations that follow traditional diets, 45 a common factor among these traditional diets being a low glycaemic load.46 Various studies have provided evidence that high - glycaemic - load diets are implicated in the aetiology of acne through their capacity to stimulate insulin, androgen bioavailability and insulin - like growth factor - 1 (IGF - 1) activity, whereas the beneficial effects of low - glycaemic - load diets, apart from weight and blood glucose levels, also include improved skin quality.44 The clinical and experimental evidence does in fact suggest ways in which insulin can increase androgen production and affect via induction of steroidogenic enzymes, 47 the secretion by the pituitary gland of gonadotropin - releasing hormone and the production of sex hormone - binding globulin.48 Insulin is also able to reduce serum levels of IGF - binding protein - 1 increasing the effect of IGF - 1.49 These insulin - mediated actions can therefore influence diverse factors that underlie the development of acne such as:

The effect is mediated by numerous factors: teachers» knowledge, beliefs, and existing practices; the economic, social, philosophical, and political conditions of the school or district; the stakes attached to the policy; and the quality of the support and lines of communication provided to teachers and administrators.

has led us to the conclusion, so far, that art is not a free, autonomous activity of a super-endowed individual, «influenced» by previous artists, and, more vaguely and superficially, by «social forces,» but rather, that the total situation of art making, both in terms of the development of the art maker and in the nature and quality of the work of art itself, occur in a social situation, are integral elements of this social structure, and are mediated and determined by specific and definable social institutions, be they art academies, systems of patronage, mythologies of the divine creator, artist as he - man or social outcast.

Gehr's 1970 film Serene Velocity is frequently cited as one of the premier examples of Structural film, a movement characterized by a fascination with the material qualities of film itself and a foregrounding of the experience of seeing as mediated by the camera.

In fact, a better understanding of the possible interaction between these multidimensional aspects associated with fatigue can potentially assist clinicians in determining better therapeutic programmes for individuals with MS. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to further determine the mediating effects of depression on the association between health - related quality of life and fatigue in individuals with MS.. Since depression is the psychological disorder not intrinsically provoked by the disease, most commonly experienced by individuals with MS, 11 12 we hypothesised that the relationships between health - related qualify of life and the MS - associated fatigue would be mediated by depressive symptoms.

Is the association between health - related quality of life and fatigue mediated by depression in patients with multiple sclerosis?

The effect of shared participation in novel and challenging activities on experienced relationship quality: Is it mediated by high positive affect: In K. D. Vohs & E. J. Finkel (Eds.)

So the link between mindfulness and relationship quality might be mediated by increased levels of individual well - being.

Wachs and Cordova (2007) found that the association between mindfulness and perceived marital quality was fully mediated by skilled emotion repertoires, specifically those associated with identifying and communicating emotions, as well as the regulation of anger expression.

Our research sought to disentangle the influence of collectivism on relationship quality and mate preferences by examining the mediating roles of parental influence and family allocentrism.

This process model has been considerably elaborated by more recent research, which showed that parental personal factors, environmental factors and child factors are mediated by social support in terms of their impact on parental emotional well - being, quality of parenting, and family functioning, and also child functioning, in terms of self - esteem, competence and resilience (Armstrong 2005).

According to a cascade model, associations between early child - rearing stressors and relationship qualities and long term dissolutions should be mediated by intermediate relationship quality.

We found that the quality of relationship with children mediated the depression of both widows and widowers, similar to the findings of the study by Litwin and Shiovitz - Ezra (2011).

Of particular interest, risks associated with poverty were mediated by disruptions in the quality of the caregiving environment, particularly instability and disorganization of the family, while affectional ties within the family and within extrafamilial informal support systems acted as protective factors.

We hypothesize that demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, extent that adolescents reported engaging in sexual acts or risky behavior, as well as quality of family bonds, mediated by assignment to a coping skills intervention and level of participation in the program.

Based on tests for parallel mediating effects by sleep functioning of parental warmth on problem behaviors in the MEDIATE macro in SPSS, the findings provided evidence that both sleep quality and sleep quantity independently and cumulatively mediated the effects of parental warmth on each of the three problem behaviors in both samples, with one exception.

Using 3 years of data, we further tested the extent to which the impact of maternal depressive symptoms was mediated by the affective quality of mother - child interactions and the child's emotion regulation skills.

First, children's sustained attention and impulsivity at age 4.5 years partially mediated the relation between parenting quality (as measured by a composite index of physical and social resources in the home, observer ratings of parental sensitivity and cognitive stimulation) at 4.5 years and children's academic achievement (as measured by performance on standardized reading and mathematics tests) at age 6 (NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003).

Romantic relationship quality was able to mediate the relations between psychopathy and SWB and this mediation was moderated by gender.