Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic status sample»

In this middle to upper socioeconomic status sample, 58 students responded no and 31 responded yes.

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Some of these studies involved large representative samples from the United States; 2 some studies controlled for potential confounders, such as parental stress3 and socioeconomic status; 4 and some studies examined the potential of parental reasoning to moderate the association between physical punishment and child aggression.5 Virtually without exception, these studies found that physical punishment was associated with higher levels of aggression against parents, siblings, peers and spouses.

Researchers used a dataset of 346,660 people from the American Institutes of Research, which tracked a representative sample of Americans over 50 years, looking at personality traits and vocational interests in adolescence, along with intelligence and socioeconomic status.

Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Albert Einstein College of Medicine studied the link between food allergy and childhood anxiety and depression among a sample of predominantly low socioeconomic status minority children.

And in fact, research suggests that there are no significant personality differences between online and offline daters.5 There is some evidence that online daters are more sensitive to interpersonal rejection, but even these findings have been mixed.6, 7 As far as the demographic characteristics of online daters, a large survey using a nationally representative sample of recently married adults found that compared to those who met their spouses offline, those who met online were more likely to be working, Hispanic, or of a higher socioeconomic status — not exactly a demographic portrait of desperate losers.8

The resources available for this study ($ 500,000, or roughly $ 8,000 per teacher) would certainly have been more than enough to perform a rigorous analysis of the performance of National Board teachers vis - à - vis unsuccessful candidates, using a random sample of the two groups and adjusting for students» socioeconomic status and previous achievement levels.

However, it turns out that the black children in our sample were less responsive to changes in socioeconomic status than the white children: a one - standard - deviation improvement in socioeconomic status for a black child was associated with a 0.18 standard deviation increase in math scores, compared with 0.32 among white children.

A picture of achievement: Socioeconomic status, dialect use, and standard measures of language sampling.

Its validity and sensitivity as an indicator of socioenvironmental influences on development have been demonstrated by evidence that it explains significant variance in childhood cognitive functioning over and above that attributable to socioeconomic status (SES) and maternal education.40, 41 Its validity for use with black samples has also been established.42 Because of safety considerations, the HOME was administered in the laboratory.

Previous research from the former waves of the Bergen Child Study (a longitudinal study nested within youth@hordaland) has also identified psychological problems as a predictor for non - participation.70 As the current sample may be skewed towards better socioeconomic status and psychological health, the results may be a conservative estimate of the number of adolescents growing up in poor families and their associated mental health problems.

The sample was diverse with respect to socioeconomic status, with 26 % reporting household income less than $ 20000 and 33 % reporting more than $ 100000.

The sample was predominantly female (n = 53 [84 %]-RRB-, Hispanic (n = 45 [71 %]-RRB-, and of low socioeconomic status.

Eighty five percent of the sample originally recruited to the Elmira programme had at least 1 to 3 sociodemographic risk factors, and Olds et al emphasise that most of the positive findings were concentrated among women who were from low socioeconomic status households and unmarried.

Lower socioeconomic status was associated with smaller hippocampal gray matter volumes bilaterally in a small sample of healthy 10 - year - old children.10

Moreover, after accounting for the attrition of the 45 participants, the overall distribution of the sample with respect to gender, socioeconomic status, or race was unrelated to intervention condition.

We also could not control for or analyze socioeconomic factors in the present analyses due to the absence of measures of familial socioeconomic status; however, the National American Indian Adolescent Health Survey is the largest and most comprehensive database available on rural, reservation - based American Indian and Alaska Native youth, and there is little reason to believe that a representative sample of school - based, rural American Indian adolescents would yield findings substantially different from those presented here.18

Demographic characteristics of the baseline sample were nationally representative of the US population 10 to 14 years of age regarding gender, socioeconomic status, and Census region but with a slight overrepresentation of Hispanic adolescents and underrepresentation of black adolescents.

Eighty - five percent of the final sample had at least 1 of the 3 risk characteristics used for recruitment: 47 % were younger than age 19 years, 62 % were unmarried, and 61 % came from households classified as of low socioeconomic status.

The relationship between depressive symptoms and step count has only been assessed in specific populations with small sample sizes, such as low - socioeconomic status Latino immigrants, 16 elderly Japanese people17 or patients with chronic conditions such as heart failure18 19 or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.20 21 Studies yield contradictory results, with some observing no association between depressive symptoms and daily step count, 19 21 while others report a negative correlation.16 — 18 20 In one cross-sectional sample of healthy older adults, an inverse association between depressive symptoms (using the Goldberg Depression Scale - 15) and accelerometer measured daily step count disappeared after controlling for general health and disability.22 While a systematic review suggests reduced levels of objectively measured PA in patients with depression, 23 it is not known whether this association is present in those at high risk of CVD and taken into account important confounding such as gender and age.

Although the current dataset collected little demographic data on individual cases, information from the practices showed a very high percentage of suburban practices in the current sample, suggesting the possibility that the overall socioeconomic status of these subjects might be much higher than it was in the original PSC - 17 sample.1 As noted in previous studies with the PSC43 and other measures, 9,13,44,45 the rate of positive screening, especially for externalizing problems, is usually higher in lower — socioeconomic status populations.

The purpose of the proposed study is to examine the association of substance use, including nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, and other illicit drugs, and IPV for a sample of 160 generally lower socioeconomic status women studied over a number of years with the same male partner in the OYS - Couples study.

Limitations include possible expectancy bias on the self - report measures, lack of assessment immediately post-intervention, small sample size and generalizable to lower socioeconomic status or more culturally diverse populations.

Limitations include small sample size, generalizability due to ethnicity and socioeconomic status of participants, and length of follow - up.

We have investigated the extent to which interest in attending parenting programmes is determined by factors such as socioeconomic status, educational level, and the presence of behaviour problems among the children, in a survey of a representative sample of parents of 2 — 8 year olds in Oxford.

This study uses longitudinal population - based samples of young siblings to examine the effects of two hypothesized moderators of early externalizing behaviors: parental emotional support and family socioeconomic status.

Differences in ages, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and IQ between the included and excluded samples were analyzed by using parametric tests if normality and homogeneity assumptions were satisfied; otherwise, the non-parametric Mann — Whitney U test was used.

Another drawback is that our findings may not be representative of the whole Singaporean population, as the socioeconomic status in our sample was slightly higher as compared to the national sample and the children had generally a higher IQ.

Although the above studies were conducted with primarily Caucasian, middle - class samples, there is also evidence to suggest that among low socioeconomic status (SES) samples with poor metabolic control externalizing symptoms may be more highly linked to the development of poor health outcomes than internalizing symptoms.

In Switzerland, where we conducted the study, most fathers in middle to high socioeconomic status families work full time — or close to full time — whereas the mothers at 3 months postpartum are mostly still on maternity leave, which may explain why a father's depressive state is less closely related to family functioning than is that of the mother in the first months, especially in cases of a mild or moderate depressive state, as we were able to measure in the present low - risk sample.

Family socioeconomic status is low in 11 % of the sample, and the majority of participants (97 %) had a Dutch - Caucasian background.