Sentences with phrase «social vulnerability factors»

These maps measure and illustrate the convergence of social vulnerability factors (such as economic standing and age, among others) and four environmental hazards: flooding, hurricane force winds, sea - level rise, and drought.

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In a new paper published this week, Dr Sealey - Huggins finds that discussion of climate change has failed to pay enough attention to the social, political and historic factors which increase the vulnerability of Caribbean societies, and calls for a new approach focused on understanding and addressing these historic inequalities.

In addition to environmental factors, such as stress and social relationships, a person's genetic make - up can also contribute to their vulnerability to drug use and misuse as well as mental health problems.

Overlaying social factors, levels of agricultural runoff, local pollution and upwelling, a natural ocean process that brings more corrosive deep ocean water to the surface, helps tease out regional differences in vulnerability.

The researchers discovered that social factors, such as limitations on networks and mobility, were the primary contributors to vulnerability to food shortage.

Moreover, risk factors may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due largely to a strong family history of mental illness (e.g. a high level of genetic risk), someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a more significant combination of prepregnancy factors, pregnancy stress, other prenatal factors, social stress, family stress or environmental factors that they experience during their childhood, teen or early adult years.

This analytical report, using the city of Semarang, argues for the necessity of a more localized response that takes into account the ways in which exposure to climate hazards overlap with the social and demographic factors that influence vulnerability.

Although immigrant women are a heterogeneous group, factors related to their premigration and postmigration contexts, such as economic insecurity, family separation, social isolation, language barriers, availability of social supports, discrimination and gendered - migration policies8 — 15 may increase their vulnerability to abuse.

Risk for negative outcomes may be modified by both genetic and environmental factors, with the quality and availability of social supports among the most important environmental factors in promoting resiliency in maltreated children, even in the presence of a genotype expected to confer vulnerability for psychiatric disorder.

Although the other two factors did not increase vulnerability to interpersonal NLEs or dysphoric mood, «lack of social self - confidence» worsened general functioning, and «assertion of autonomy» led to poor functioning in close relationships, both directly.

The results of the correlational analyses indicated that behavioral inhibition was associated with higher symptom levels of social anxiety, other anxiety disorders, and SM, which is in agreement with a vast amount of literature showing that this temperament characteristic is a vulnerability factor for the development of anxiety pathology in children [16, 25].

Any number of factors — physical vulnerability, social skill challenges, or intolerant environments — may increase the risk.

It is the short version of the Parent Stress Index, an instrument greatly used to value the parenting stress that is defined by the Authors like the constellation of biological, psychological and social factors distorting the adaptive reaction to parental stressors and predispose the parent to psychological vulnerability.

It has long been believed that these types of sociocultural factors have buffered Chinese individuals from experiencing depression (Lee et al. 2007), however, as China continues to experience social change, younger generations have begun to embrace more individualistic and materialistic values potentially increasing vulnerability to experience negative affect (Auerbach et al. 2009a, b).

Thus, there appears to be a paradoxical relationship between socioeconomic factors and cognitive status: poor social cognitive status can contribute to psychosocial and biological vulnerability, which can then serve to further deteriorate supportive social resources [57].