Sentences with phrase «social level variables»

It is evident from the correlation and regression results that romantic inclination is associated with key individual, interpersonal and social level variables.

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After controlling for as many variables as they were able, the researchers again found a negative correlation between social class — this time on a national level — and the percentage of Facebook friends from other countries.

Coyne discusses the limits of self reported distress among college students as an analogue for clinical depression.5 Secondly, participants in analogue studies differ from clinical populations in important sociodemographic variables such as age, social class, and educational level.

SLA - level predictor variables will include: accessibility (ARIA +), 33 socioeconomic status (using Socio Economic Status for Areas (SEIFA) indexes, four indexes that summarise different aspects of the socioeconomic conditions of people living in an area based upon sets of social and economic information from the Australian Census35); full - time equivalent GPs; medical workers, nurses, pharmacists, Aboriginal health workers and community services workers per 10 000 population; rates of unemployment and labour force participation.

Within this highly variable and multidimensional context, the AAP and others have encouraged pediatric providers to develop a screening schedule that uses age - appropriate, standardized tools to identify risk factors that are highly prevalent or relevant to their particular practice setting.29, 66,67 In addition to the currently recommended screenings at 9, 18, and 24/36 months to assess children for developmental delays, pediatric practices have been asked to consider implementing standardized measures to identify other family - or community - level factors that put children at risk for toxic stress (eg, maternal depression, parental substance abuse, domestic or community violence, food scarcity, poor social connectedness).

Area - level explanatory variables will include: accessibility and remoteness, as measured by the Accessibility / Remoteness Index of Australia Plus (ARIA +); 54 socioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA); 55 presence of Aboriginal Medical Services; presence of an AMIHS; proportion of Aboriginal pregnancies / births in an area managed by an AMIHS; numbers of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children attending preschool; numbers of full - time equivalent health workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each area.57

Hierarchical linear regressions were conducted in which each social relationship variable at Wave 2 (parent connectedness and supportive friendships) was regressed on its Wave 1 levels, age, gender, race, and Wave 1 sexual risk in the first step.

Contrary to hypotheses, different levels of the perceived social support variables did not modify the effects of risky neighborhood conditions on adolescent's perceived school engagement.

Our finding that the severity of depressive symptoms was a significant but relatively smaller contributor to physical disability in this sample (after controlling for the possible effects of age, sex and duration of pain) is consistent with findings of some previous studies of patients with chronic pain, but not with some treatment studies, which found that depression level contributed to less significant improvement in pain - related disability.11, 27 It is not surprising that cognitive, pain and behavioural variables accounted for more physical disability than depressive symptoms but it is notable that social support (as measured by the MPI), sense of control over life, and catastrophising did not significantly contribute to physical disability.

In the current study, statistical analyses evaluated the main and moderating effects of variables measured repeatedly at the within - person level (stress, social support, and unsupportive interactions) and variables measured at the between - person level (disruptive child behaviors, and support services) on daily positive and negative mood.

In order to assess the unique contribution of the level of relationship satisfaction, multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed with the following independent control variables: stressful life events, maternal age, level of education, income, marital status, social support, breastfeeding, smoking during pregnancy, maternal depression and the sex of the offspring.

This suggests that one or more of the social competence variables acts as suppressor on gender and that with social competence level kept constant differences between boys and girls in trajectory group membership do occur.

Loneliness was found to be a correlate of depressive symptoms at the cross-sectional level, independent of gender, other demographic factors, multiple psychosocial variables, and social desirability.

In their frequently cited review of the literature on social phobia (or Social Anxiety Disorder, SAD), Rapee and Spence (2004) opened with the message that whilst the field has moved forward in understanding factors that may maintain social phobia, it is still relatively unclear which variables bring about individual differences in social anxiety levels in the populsocial phobia (or Social Anxiety Disorder, SAD), Rapee and Spence (2004) opened with the message that whilst the field has moved forward in understanding factors that may maintain social phobia, it is still relatively unclear which variables bring about individual differences in social anxiety levels in the populSocial Anxiety Disorder, SAD), Rapee and Spence (2004) opened with the message that whilst the field has moved forward in understanding factors that may maintain social phobia, it is still relatively unclear which variables bring about individual differences in social anxiety levels in the populsocial phobia, it is still relatively unclear which variables bring about individual differences in social anxiety levels in the populsocial anxiety levels in the population.

This longitudinal study is the first to examine developmental trajectories of social anxiety in a nonclinical sample aged 9 to 21 years and simultaneously test whether conceptually relevant individual level variables assessing cognition, social competence, and temperament discriminated between the trajectories.

In contrast, the social competence variables did not differentiate the low from the moderate trajectory, suggesting a comparable level of social skills and social problems in these two trajectories.

The level of Impairment in quality of life within families of children with these severe chronic conditions is likely to be moderated by a complex matrix of environmental as well as genetically - based variables such as socio - economic status, social support, parental and child characteristics and coping strategies [22, 23].

Thus, we controlled for three level 1 variables (age, pubertal status, and treatment delivery method), two level 2 variables (baseline social status and baseline BMI), and the interaction between age and BMI in cross-sectional multilevel models.

It is important to identify potential subgroups of adolescents with differing levels of social anxiety over time because with this information a richer analysis of potential variables that are associated with continuity or emergence of social anxiety during adolescence is possible.

In this study we examined three individual level variables, namely cognition, social competence, and temperament, which are theoretically and empirically related to social anxiety and may discriminate between social anxiety trajectories.