Sentences with phrase «significant psychosocial stress»

BACKGROUND Children in northern Uganda have undergone significant psychosocial stress during the region's lengthy conflict.

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Other reviews have suggested that parenting programmes can have a significant impact on parent psychosocial well - being including stress and self - esteem [58], and that there may be some benefit of such programmes irrespective of ethnic group [59].

Although all new fathers, regardless of their youngest child's age, experienced a significant reduction in AM and / or PM T compared with nonfathers (Fig. 2 and Tables S5 and S6), fathers with newborns (1 mo old or less) at the time of follow - up hormone assessment showed significantly greater declines in AM (P = 0.023) and PM (P = 0.003) T compared with fathers whose youngest child was older than 1 y of age, which was not accounted for by reports of psychosocial stress, sleep quality, or involvement in caregiving (Tables S7 and S8).

Membership in a single - parent family or stepfamily is associated with increased levels of significant behavioral, emotional, and academic problems in children.1, 2 The mechanisms underlying this connection are likely to involve, among other factors, financial adversity, increased stress directly related to family transitions, and increased exposure to additional psychosocial risks.3, 4 Compared with the extensive research base connecting family type (ie, membership in a 2 - parent biological family, stepfamily, or single - parent family) and children's psychological adjustment, little is known about the physical health consequences of membership in diverse family types.

ANOVAs revealed significant differences among groups, reporting adolescents not involved a general better psychosocial adjustment; they had higher levels of self - esteem and satisfaction with life, and lower levels of depressive symptomatology, perceived stress and feeling of loneliness.

They also only reviewed psychosocial risk factors, e.g. those associated with increased (di) stress levels, and did not include any positive emotional outcome measures of emotional adjustment such as well - being, positive affect, happiness or life satisfaction, which are just as significant to health and for quality of life as the prevalence of negative emotions (Folkman and Moskowitz, 2000; Steptoe and Wardle, 2005; Rutten et al., 2013).