In addition, both mothers and fathers reports of relational aggression uniquely predicted internalizing behaviors, externalizing behaviors, and social problems, with fathers» reports emerging as a particularly
robust predictor.
Interviewer - rated maternal responsiveness was
a robust predictor of conduct problems, but only among infants low in fearfulness.
Finally, we controlled for the effects of socioeconomic status given that it has been found to be
a robust predictor of children's conduct problems (e.g., D'Onofrio et al. 2009).
In a 2004 study, Professor William Henderson first examined the extent to which the LSAT's predictive power for law school success relates to test - taking speed.69 He concluded that LSAT scores were «a relatively
robust predictor of performance on in - class exams but a relatively weak predictor of performance on take - home exams and paper assignments.»
After cross-referencing the answers, the researchers concluded, «General bitter taste preferences emerged as
a robust predictor for Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism and everyday sadism.
On the other hand, there is mounting evidence for a distinctive role played by motor vehicle traffic — related exposures in elevating cardiovascular risk.108, 111,268,269 Lipfert et al76, 77 interpreted the results of their analysis of the Veterans Affairs hypertensive male cohort as suggesting that traffic density was a more «significant and
robust predictor of survival in this cohort» than PM2.5.
In a longitudinal population - based study, childhood SES, assessed from fathers» occupation or education, was
a robust predictor of incident diabetes, especially among women, which had a cumulative risk effect for both childhood SES and adult BMI (98).
We show that drill - hole size is
a robust predictor of body size among modern drilling predators and that drill - hole size (and thus inferred predator size and power) rose substantially from the Ordovician to the Quaternary period, whereas the size of drilled prey remained stable.
«In this study, it was
a robust predictor of increased long - term physical health quality.»
«Our study provides further evidence that sleep - disordered breathing negatively affects attention, processing speed and memory, which are
robust predictors of cognitive decline,» said senior study author Susan Redline, MD, MPH, Peter C. Farrell Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
The scientists had expected inflammation markers in the CSF to be more
robust predictors of AD - related pathology and neuronal damage than those in the blood due to the «blood brain barrier.»
Social support is one of the most
robust predictors of resilience in the aftermath of trauma, as well.
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.
As a result, FICO has redeveloped its credit scoring models several times to make sure they remain
robust predictors of credit risk.
Preschool MDD as well as family history of affective disorders emerged as the most
robust predictors of later MDD compared with other risk factors considered simultaneously in the model.
Emotion regulation deficits have been established as
robust predictors of substance use risk [52, 53 • •, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69].
For example, mothers» positive emotional expressivity is one of the most
robust predictors of adequate social - emotional functioning in children, including adaptive self - regulation and high social competence (Eisenberg et al. 1998).
Maternal depression and parenting are
robust predictors of developmental outcomes for children with attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Not exact matches
The Super Bowl Indicator - a myth that happens to have been a pretty accurate
predictor - states that NFC winners lead to a
robust year while AFC winners lead to losses and stagnation.
«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.
The approach reflects
robust, growing scientific evidence that the number of traumatic events a person has experienced is the most important
predictor of PTSD and depression, Schauer says.
In a recent Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica study, poor academic performance, measured as grade point average (GPA) at age 16, was a
robust and strong
predictor of suicide attempt up to middle age.
However, the neutrophil count is a
robust indicator and it was shown in the EPIC Norfolk study that a raised neutrophil count in healthy middle - aged subjects was a
predictor of earlier death.
As he explains; «probably the most
robust finding to date from research on accountability policies is that the strongest initial
predictors of the impact of policy on student performance are the attributes of schools rather than the attributes of the policies themselves.»
Substantial research evidence demonstrates that CBMreading is a
robust indicator of reading development and a useful
predictor of student performance on state tests.
S1 which removed alternatively (a) all tree - ring data or (b) 7 additional long - term proxy records associated with greater uncertainties or potential documented biases (showing the temperature reconstruction was
robust to removal of either of these datasets), we here removed both data sets simultaneously from the
predictor network (Fig.
The series is only 42 data points long (equating to 126 years), so is hardly
robust, however, it may be a useful
predictor of future temps since it is gistemp that lags the SST.
manacker, the 60 - year smoothed curve is
robust over the last century or so, and, I would suggest, a good
predictor of what future smoothed temperatures would look like if extrapolated.
Other reconstructions can be considered to represent what are essentially intermediate applications between these two approaches, in that they involve regionalisation of much of the data prior to the use of a statistical transfer function, and so involve fewer, but potentially more
robust, regional
predictors (Briffa et al., 2001; Mann and Jones, 2003; D'Arrigo et al., 2006).
When running this model, we further included marital quality and subjective health as rival
predictors, expecting that the hypothesized mediated and moderated associations between shared selves and well - being would be
robust with these controls.
The mediated and moderated effects of collaboration on the relation between shared selves and well - being were
robust when marital quality and subjective health were included as rival
predictors.
One of the most
robust concurrent and prospective
predictors of depressive symptoms and episodes is the occurrence of stress (Grant et al. 2004; Shih et al. 2006).
Nevertheless, our findings did not change in terms of the
predictors involved or the direction of associations when excluding these siblings, indicating that the findings are
robust.