Sentences with phrase «strong predictor»

Table 5 indicates that peer and media influence emerged as strong predictors of romantic inclination.

Child problem behaviour, social support, and parent positive perceptions were identified as strong predictors of family functioning and stress levels.

A ratio over 4 is a very strong predictor of cardiovascular disease; less than 2 is ideal.

Parental divorce during childhood emerged as the single strongest predictor of early death in adulthood.

Political ideology was the second strongest predictor of view certainty and causation, and was equivalent to perceived consensus as predictor of harm / benefit.

Of these factors, the only strong predictor of gender equality was infectious disease.

We incorporated motor skills measures from 3 of the data sets and found that fine motor skills are an additional strong predictor of later achievement.

The study concluded that low HDL was the third strongest predictor of coronary events, after prior heart disease and age.

The next strongest predictor was school and teacher support.

This is a poor strategy, given that research suggests emotional intelligence is twice as strong a predictor as IQ of later success.

Indeed, poor health was a very strong predictor of several social, emotional and behavioural issues.

Despite this finding, behavioural problems were noted as strong predictors of poor maternal outcomes.

Furthermore, research has shown that emotional intelligence is the single strongest predictor of job performance overall.

«Drug use strong predictor for postpartum mental health problems.»

Measuring Academic Performance: The Case for Focusing on Grades Despite all the attention to standardized tests, a growing body of research shows that achievement test scores are not strong predictors of whether students will graduate from high school or college.

Another recent study released by the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research echoes some of these findings: Researchers found that the specific Chicago public school students attended was a much stronger predictor of whether they would be suspended or expelled than any individual student characteristic, including race or gender.

If children do not develop pre-reading skills at home or in their preschool, how are they supposed to succeed in school, given that pre-reading skills are such strong predictors of reading success?

Thus, although the Positive profile was a predictor in both genders, it was a significantly stronger predictor of marital satisfaction among women.

In addition, a 2008 study of 1,862 men ages 30 and above found that waist circumference was an even stronger predictor of low testosterone levels than BMI.

According to commission of experts who wrote a proposal asking President Obama to create a White House Council on Boys and Men, reported on by the Huffington Post, the time a dad spends with his children is a particularly strong predictor of how empathetic a child will become.

According to the Center for Public Education, «Teachers» knowledge of the content they teach is a consistently strong predictor of student performance.»

One of the most compelling reasons to try and improve non-cognitive skills is that they're often stronger predictors of performance on precisely the type of «traditional» educational metrics you mention.

This metric parses each team's efficiency and explosiveness and adjusts it for strength of opposition, and over the years, it's proved to be a very strong predictor against the Vegas spread.

««Objective» measures of achievement such as NAPLAN scores and «subjective» measures or perceptions of their achievement were both strong predictors of kids» interests.

(Mass.) New research suggests that teachers apt at boosting student test scores may not be as capable in promoting other strong predictors of lifetime success such as student attitudes toward learning.

The findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, show that increasing socioeconomic development is an especially strong predictor of increasing individualistic practices and values in a country over time.

But older participants indicated that only their friendships loomed large as reliably strong predictors of how happy and healthy they felt.

We do find, for example, that the average achievement gains in a teacher's classroom in 2002 — 03 is a modestly stronger predictor of the principal's rating than the gains in any previous year.

It's meaningful that racial and ethnic match isn't an «across - the - board strong predictor of teacher perceptions and directly assessed skills,» he said, but the study's findings also demonstrate that mismatch in pre-K classrooms «can't be completely ignored.»

Expertise and perceived conflict were both less strong predictors of global warming views.

A global study showed that there were sex differences among various risk factors for MI; besides diabetes, also hypertension, low physical activity, and high alcohol intake were stronger predictors for MI in women rather than in men (270).

These two variables proved to be strong predictors in the regression model, and the effect of conference attendance was partialed out by these two predictors (see Table 7).

Moreover, interparental hostility at age 13 was a significantly stronger predictor of insecurity

Interestingly, however, several other disorders were even stronger predictors of suicide attempts in developing countries, including: conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, intermittent explosive disorder, drug and alcohol abuse, and PTSD.

Compared to other measures of public opinion (on gay rights, capital punishment, school prayer and so forth), abortion attitudes were a particularly strong predictor of family size.

If they reach out to you to de-escalate tension, and you ignore them, or attack them, this was the single strongest predictor of divorce in Gottman's research.

Virginia Lewis and DiAnne Borders (Lewis and Borders 1995) found sexual satisfaction to be the second strongest predictor of life satisfaction for single middle - aged professional women, after job satisfaction.

Regression analyses revealed that emotional intelligence, husband's education, monthly income and family system emerged as strong predictors of marital satisfaction.

Less intuitively, they find that the development of fine motor and other «visuo - spatial» skills are also very strong predictors of later academic success.

It'll look pretty weird early on, but it's proved to be a very strong predictor against the Vegas spread over the long term.

measures from 3 of the data sets and found that fine motor skills are an additional strong predictor of later

«Longitudinal research [like this] offers insight into what factors may be the best or strongest predictors of children's development, over and above information that can be gathered at only one time point,» she said in a university news release.

Looked at another way, the single strongest predictor of someone in the survey having quit smoking was daily e-cigarette use.

That will translate into confidence, which is a strong predictor of negotiation performance,» says Kay.