Sentences with phrase «social factors influence»

Biological, psychological and social factors all influence children's mental health.

Individuals do not exist in isolation; social factors influence individuals» health though cognitive, affective, and behavioral pathways.

He suggests that a database of human values could clarify the diversity of behavior in different cultures and help show how genetic and social factors influence ideas.

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«The search history, social network, personal preferences, geography and a number of other factors influence the information found by the searcher,» study author Harald Holone wrote in a summary of his findings.

Social - media activity does influence loan decisions, and trends suggest it will become an even more important factor in the future.

That impact, they say, is not always easy to disentangle from other economic, social and political factors that have influenced U.S. growth.

We observe the influencing factors from history and today, educate ourselves on current knowledge about health and various other issues to help form our opinions, which then may become part of collective, social opinion if we allow ourselves to be represented.

«These men set some very unfortunate examples — some men pick up on that,» said Stark, in conceding that social influences are a factor as well.

A sociologist like William Julius Wilson can underline the importance of economic factors, pointing to the precipitous decline in manufacturing, and at the same time write frankly about the destructive influence of ghetto culture which lacks a viable middle class that once served as a «social buffer.

Just as the naming of things represents a child's first act of classification and an ability to share in social conventions, the naming of factors that shape one's experience is the first step towards understanding how those factors influence one's thought and behavior.

One that was based on a survey of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served as an important plausibility structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety of other factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their thinking on racial and social questions as well.

In sum, environmental or social influences are relevant but insufficient to explain antisocial behavior, genotype must be factored in.

Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors.

So, while it is too simple to simply claim people are «born that way» (sexuality doesn't emerge until adolescence), of the potential factors — genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences — the first three are going to be determined before birth by the genetic and chemical characteristics of the individual.

With regard to war, two factors prevented international conflict from being specifically dealt with in the New Testament as a pressing problem: the apocalyptic expectation of the world's immediate end, so that the gradual reform of social institutions was not in the picture, and the further fact that the first Christians had no responsibility for governmental policies or influence in determining them.

Many of my students insisted that their political attitudes were informed by an untainted reading of Scripture and unsusceptible to bias — that is, social factors that influence our attitudes beyond our awareness.

Horwitz is surely correct that the bringing of the case, the decision, and the ferocity of discussion both before and after, have been influenced by at least two social factors.

The growth of the French packaging industry will be heavily influenced by changing demographics and social factors such as a high employment rate and a large aging population, which have a clear impact on consumer spending power and purchasing habits...

Food choices influence body weight and are shaped by environmental factors, including physical, social and policy, collectively termed the food environment (2).

«Interestingly, [our] study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports team coach or other features of a school social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing social and cultural variables such as media messages and social norms of behavior more broadly.»

Section 5.1.10 of the Rules and Regulations for School Health Programs (2009) stresses that mandated health instructional outcomes must include the emotional, behavioral, and social factors that influence both mental and physical health.

Finally, how do contextual factors (family, social and economic variables) influence child development in this context?

Stepping aside from dangerous social factors, such as adult inebriation or adult bedsharing while under the influence of drugs, or infants sleeping alongside disinterested strangers, and ignoring (for the moment) the physical - structural - furniture and bedding aspects of «safe infant sleep» always occurs in the context of, and under the supervision of, a committed, sober adult caregiver who is in a position to respond to infant nutritional needs, crises, and can exchange sensory stimuli all of which represents just what babies depend on for maximum health.

Population health recognizes the social, physical, economic and individual factors that influence a woman's decision to breastfeed, and her ultimate success with breastfeeding.

A number of factors that are associated with poverty may exert a negative influence on a child's social and emotional development: a lack of community support, single parenthood, low parental education, maternal depression, nutrition, low birth weight and infant health are just some of the variables.

9) Maternal social factors and infant temperament can significantly influence the development of infant neurobiology.

Next, Alexander and Kjerulff plan to study whether relationship and social - support factors influence child health outcomes associated with colic, such as gastrointestinal problems or food allergies, as children age.

Health promotion practice must acknowledge that health behaviour is influenced by a wide range of personal, social and cultural factors, as Hepworth argues, health promotion practice involves «social phenomena, wide - reaching cultural, psychological, political and ideological problems and issues» as well as biomedical and clinical ones -LSB-(Hepworth, 1997), p. 233].

Maternal social class, maternal weight, and low birthweight are all factors that may influence both the likelihood of breastfeeding and the risk of later diabetes.

«In judging our progress as individuals, we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... but internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being: humility, purity, generosity, absence of vanity and readiness to serve our fellow men — qualities within the reach of every human soul.»

An impending Brexit and issues surrounding concerns over social care, health care and education could all be influencing factors when it comes to an early election vote.

«While it is understandable that unemployment, illiteracy, radicalization, negative peer group influence, substance abuse and erosion of family and moral values are social factors that underline criminal tendency, the reality remains that the task of addressing these challenges is that of parents, community and the state».

To address this, the research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), led by Professor Charles Alderson at Lancaster University, set out to identify the factors that determine how this skill develops in a number of different languages and what factors in people's first language influence progress in reading.

The major personality factors that influence support for human rights either negatively (e.g., ethnocentrism, the authoritarian personality, the social dominance orientation) or positively (e.g., «identification with all humanity,» dispositional empathy, principled moral reasoning) are reviewed.

Today the study of social psychology explores in much greater depth how cultural influences, social status and other factors contribute to a person's mind - set and behaviors.

In addition to social attitudes and socially determined behaviors, other factors might be at work influencing people in the same social networks.

In contrast, evidence for the most commonly hypothesized social causes of homosexuality — sexual recruitment by homosexual adults, patterns of disordered parenting, or the influence of homosexual parents — is generally weak in magnitude and distorted by numerous confounding factors.»

Garfin notes that political, social, and economic factors can influence how communities respond to threats such as droughts, wildfires, and heat - related illnesses.

But the extensive data from Rwanda tell a different story: An individual's willingness to take part in genocidal violence depends on many personal and social factors that influence whether and how deeply a person participates, says sociologist and Rwanda genocide researcher Hollie Nyseth Brehm of Ohio State University in Columbus.

Citations are typically used as a measure of influence, but they reflect a complicated set of factors besides quality and time — for example, visibility, size of citing community, and integration into social and professional networks (Ward et al., 1992).

During more than two decades at Rockefeller, Peter Marler, a leader in the field, examined the interplay between the inborn program for song in young birds and the influence of social factors, uncovering parallels to speech acquisition in human babies.

Other caveats to the method's predictive power include the social factors that influence what kinds of messages people choose to share on Twitter.

In this set of studies, lead researcher Oliver Sheldon, a specialist in organizational behavior at Rutgers University, and co-author Ayelet Fishbach, a social psychologist at the University of Chicago, set out to understand the factors that influence self - control in ethical decision - making.

The scientists noted that they were unable to quantify some factors which could help influence medical charges for blood tests: «For example, many quality hospitals may choose to invest in higher quality facilities, supplementary services and social services than others,» they wrote in their report.

The team chose to work with these healthy subjects to minimize the influence of other factors, either genetic or social, that might also alter the brain.

«To date, research into resilience has tended to take into account a very extensive range of social, psychological, and even genetic factors that positively influence mental flexibility, such as social support, certain personality traits, and typical behavior patterns,» explained Professor Raffael Kalisch, one of the authors of the current publication and the director of the Neuroimaging Center, a central research platform of the Mainz University Medical Center and the Research Center on Translational Neurosciences.

We know heart disease and diabetes can be influenced, but we don't often recognize how much rates of infectious disease can be influenced by social factors.»

«Decision - making competence is known to be influenced by lifestyle factors, such as social engagement, diet and physical activity,» Talukdar said.

This contributes to a growing body of evidence suggesting that social factors have had a significant influence on the evolution of facial expression.»

«The research shows that social factors are a powerful influence on consumption.