Sentences with phrase «risk behavior index»

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Because students with adult arrest records can be tracked all the way back to kindergarten in some cases, I use all of the potential predictors of criminal behavior — test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics — to calculate an index of crime risk.

The study examines the impact of winning a school choice lottery on dropout rates and crime for groups of students with different propensities to commit crimes, using an index of crime risk that includes test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics to identify the highest - risk group.

A temperamental disposition toward the avoidance of novel and uncertain situations together with a set of behaviors that indicate shyness and discomfort in social interactions are comprehensively named childhood shyness, or behavioral inhibition (BI).14 Children with high indexes of shyness - BI are at a heightened risk of developing anxiety disorders, in particular social phobia, 15 and subjects who fall within the BI — social phobia developmental continuum show specific patterns of neurophysiologic responses to pictures of facial expressions.

The Authoritative Parenting Index: predicting health risk behaviors among children and adolescents.

OBJECTIVE: To test the a priori hypothesis that this genetic variant predicts early - onset antisocial behavior in a high - risk sample and further examine the effects of birth weight, an environmentally influenced index of prenatal adversity previously linked to childhood disruptive behaviors and genotype x birth weight interaction.

CONCLUSIONS: Early - onset antisocial behavior in a high - risk clinical group is predicted by a specific COMT gene variant previously linked with prefrontal cortical function and birth weight, and those possessing the val / val genotype are more susceptible to the adverse effects of prenatal risk as indexed by lower birth weight.

Today, credit scores are used by employers, utility companies, and automobile insurers to index high - risk behavior.

Research has also documented the stability of behavior and temperament for infants who presented with extremes of such behavioral tendencies or where there are other objective indices of risk (Anderson et.al., 1989; Worobey & Lewis, 1989).

The Authoritative Parenting Index: Predicting health risk behaviors among children and adolescents