Sentences with phrase «parent tests hypotheses»

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The hypothesis could be tested by examining epigenetic marks in parents of kids with gay versus straight offspring, Rice said.

«We thought this was a very interesting set up and when we tested these two competing hypotheses in this adoptive - based research design, we found there was no association between parenting and the child's intelligence later in life once we accounted for genetic influences,» Beaver said.

Researchers tested a number of hypotheses, among them whether more unexpected births and larger families might be associated with parents being less happy than child - free people.

Students and parents, for example, tested different paper airplane designs to determine which model flew best; tried various ways to illuminate a light bulb; predicted which items would stick to magnets and then tested their hypotheses; and attempted to make a paper clown balance on a finger by taping pennies to different sides.

A path analytical model based on an extended twin - family design was used to test hypotheses about parent — offspring similarity for conduct disorder symptomatology.

Because we used a longitudinal research design to test hypotheses regarding the effects of parenting on health, we identified protective parenting as a predictor of pro-inflammatory processes and so strengthened its claim to play a causal role in young adult health.

In future intervention research, it will be important to obtain deeper and broader coverage of parenting behaviors, life stress, and strategies like shift and persist, so these mediator hypotheses can be tested formally.

This hypothesis is also suggested by the negative relationship between number of nights per week parents prepared quick and easy suppers and the frequency of children's vegetable consumption (r = −.27; P =.01, Pearson's 2 - tailed test).

To test the hypothesis that audible television is associated with decreased parent and child interactions.

We tested the hypothesis that randomised allocation to the FLNP would be associated with significant advantages over a waiting list control condition, in terms of parenting and child and parental well - being in the short and medium term.

A mediation analysis was performed to test the hypothesis that the association between parent restriction of R - rated movies and lower risk of adolescent smoking is mediated by lower exposure to movie smoking.

Objective To test the hypothesis that audible television is associated with decreased parent and child interactions.

We tested the hypothesis that participation in the parenting intervention would be associated with significant advantages over a waiting list control condition, in terms of parenting and child and parental well - being in the short and medium term.

The aim was to see if the instrument was able to differentiate between groups known to differ in exposure to IPV.19 The following hypotheses were postulated: women who are exposed to physical and / or sexual IPV (lifetime exposure, «yes / no») would have poorer self - perceived health2, 20 — 24 and have grown up in a home where they witnessed physical violence between their parents.10, 25 — 27 The Mantel - Haenszel test was used to control for age, income, civil status, education and country of birth.

Moderation hypotheses were tested by investigating whether the statistical interaction of maladaptive parenting or abuse during childhood or early adolescence and interpersonal difficulties during middle adolescence predicted suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood.

In this study we tested the hypothesis that parents» differential treatment of their children would be associated with differences in siblings» negative emotionality.

Using bias - corrected bootstrapping procedures, we tested the hypothesis that longitudinal associations between maternal BE and nonresponsive parent feeding practices would be mediated by parents» unsupportive responses to children's negative emotion.

To test the hypothesis that married parents provide a better environment for children's development, we can not assign some single parents to the «get married» group and others to the «remain single» controls.

The hypothesis could be tested whether mindful parenting works primarily through changing attentional processes in parents, whereas behavioral parent training works primarily through changing parental behaviors.

Namely, the use of multiple informants (i.e., mother, father, teacher) to rate child CU traits and behavior, unique methods (i.e., self - reports and direct observations) to assess two distinct dimensions of parents» emotion socialization style, and the use of independent and heterogeneous samples (i.e., community and clinic children) to test our hypotheses.

Descriptive Statistics for Variables of Interest Variables (available range) ACEs Total Score (0 — 10) ACEs total score for sample with high ACEs (4 — 10) Mothers» parenting behaviors Positive parenting (12 — 60) Negative / inconsistent parenting (7 — 35) Punitive parenting (5 — 25) Parental reflective functioning High - low reflective functioning (1 — 7) Low - high reflective functioning (1 — 7) Middle reflective functioning (1 — 7) Total reflective functioning (1 — 7) ACEs = adverse childhood experiences M 2.21 5.61 SD 2.44 1.61 Actual Range 0 — 10 4 — 10 41.88 20.41 13.89 4.65 2.46 2.61 26 — 56 11 — 30 6 — 21 Relationship Between ACEs and Reflective Functioning Mediation analyses then were conducted to test the hypothesis that reflective functioning mediated the relationship between mothers» ACEs and their negative parenting behaviors.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaParent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaparent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

Perception of early parenting by patients diagnosed avoidant personality disorder: A test of the over-protection hypothesis

Drawing from conceptual links, we tested the hypothesis that familism and culture values about family contributes to parental role and family perception in parents.

To test our first hypothesis, that married / partnered and White mothers would show higher levels of positive parenting and lower levels of negative parenting than single / divorced mothers, we conducted Wilcoxon rank - sum tests to analyze the differences in observed collaborative and overinvolved parenting by marital status and race / ethnicity.

To test our final hypothesis, that parenting would mediate the effects of marital status on adolescent adjustment, we first calculated bivariate correlations to determine the associations between parenting behaviors and adolescent adjustment variables (CBCL and YSR composite score, quality of life, and HbA1c).

OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that family intervention to promote effective parenting in early childhood affects obesity in preadolescence.

In line with our hypothesis, the Wilcoxon rank - sum test revealed significant differences in observed parenting related to race / ethnicity, such that non-White mothers exhibited higher levels of overinvolved parenting and lower levels of collaborative parenting than White mothers (Table II).

Based on mixed findings of research on differences between Latinos and Caucasians in parenting, we tested ethnic differences in acceptance and conflict but did not have specific hypotheses regarding mean levels.

Differential susceptibility to parenting among African American youths: Testing the DRD4 hypothesis

Stattin and Kerr tested their hypotheses by evaluating (a) the parent's knowledge of the youth's daily activities, (b) two methods by which the parent might obtain information about youth activities — the youth's spontaneous disclosure of information to the parent and parental solicitation of information from the youth or other people, (c) the degree of parental (behavioral) «control» or limit setting that occurred, and (d) the youth's involvement in delinquent activities.

Parent and Child ADHD Symptoms in Relation to Parental Attitudes and Parenting: Testing the Similarity - Fit Hypothesis.

An integrative structural equation model tested hypotheses that mothers» parenting (i.e., low levels of inductive discipline and maternal warmth) would mediate adverse effects of early maternal distress on child effortful control, which in turn would mediate effects of maternal parenting on child externalizing behavior.

Two hypotheses were tested: the similarity - fit hypothesis, which predicted that parent and child similarity will improve parenting, and the similarity - misfit hypothesis, which predicted the opposite.