Sentences with phrase «than the norm group»

We hypothesized that families confronted with parental cancer would report functioning more positively than a norm group [17].

In comparison with the norm group, parents found their family more expressive, less conflictual, better organized, less controlling and more social than the norm group (Table 2).

Not exact matches

Whereas the traditional «actives» skewed heavily to the baby boom and senior generations, this new group is driven by members of gen X and Y, and sees more males spending on luxury goods and services than has traditionally been the norm.

However, overcoming a cultural norm is quite difficult for a group of people who are not well - informed about the advantages and disadvantages of banks, but also of holding virtual money, rather than cash.

Rather than becoming heterosexual, men and women become part of a new identity group in which it is almost the norm to succumb to temptation and return to ex-gay ministry over and over again.

A legal system is generalized, Parsons says, to the degree it is «an integrated system of universalistic norms, applicable to the society as a whole rather than to a few functional or segmental sectors, highly generalized in terms of principles and standards, and relatively independent of both the religious agencies that legitimize the normative order of the society and vested interest groups in the operative sector, particularly in government.

A group more often follows a pattern of behavior because it is story - shaped than because it responds to a set of norms.

The group started by listing the some of the reasons that pumping is less than pleasant — lack of user education (on suction level, positioning, importance of having the correct size flanges), difficulty with milk let - down (no cute baby there to help, the pumping mom is often under a time crunch), too many parts to sanitize and clean, the motor is loud and mechanical, some women find the process degrading, and social norms (breast pumping is seen as something to be embarrassed by and hidden).

Indoor bounce - houses and mini water parks have become the norm, and are so much more convenient for most play date groups than large parks.

More than $ 4 million from American Action Network, the issue advocacy group headed up by former Sen. Norm Coleman, R - Minn.

This may also mean that a different group of women is getting involved in early heavy alcohol use than used to be the case; in other words, when heavy drinking occurs more frequently and tends to become the norm, women do not need to have some aberrant personal characteristic to become an early heavy user of alcohol.

My fear is that when gains for minority groups become the norm instead of the exception, resentment will build and things will become more chaotic than ever.

For example, a student scoring at the 51st percentile scored higher than 51 percent of the students in the norming group who also took the test.

Schools with fewer than 20 percent of students meeting norms were defined as low achieving; those with 20 to 30 percent meeting norms were moderate achieving; and those with at least 30 percent of students» meeting norms were high achieving (this created three groups of equal size).

Although the underwriting fee of $ 99 is somewhat lower than the average for mortgage lenders as a group, you'll probably find that other closing costs like the origination fee and appraisal fall in line with the norm for direct lenders.

In the realities of the 21st century, different forms of transnational existence is becoming increasingly common and among some groups of people, even the norm rather than the exception.

Nicholas Faraclas, a linguistics scholar on the Houma, wrote that like other ethno - linguistic groups, the Houma tribe are a community in which «contact between groups with different languages and cultures is the norm, rather than the exception, and in many cases integrated formally into traditional marriage, trading, and ceremonial patterns.»

Right - wing groups simply claim the «cure» (taxes, norms, or restrictions) is worse than the cure.

Because the univariate effect of the representativeness of the sample was lost in multivariate analysis, we conclude that this effect was based on a confounding variable (the use of control groups rather than test norms in community - based studies with representative samples).

Behaviour problems are three times higher than national norms among children from families that have been sanctioned and left welfare.7 A Kaiser Family Foundation Issue Brief by Levin - Epstein and Hutchins describes what is currently known about the PRWORA impact on three different groups of adolescents: teen parents, teenagers living in TANF households, and teens who are involved in TANF funded initiatives.8 Evidence on the policies» impact on teens is limited and results are mixed.

And even if a Christian group (like Celebrate Recovery or a L.I.F.E. Group or similar program) is available, recovering people need meetings more frequently than once a week, which is the norm for faith - based grgroup (like Celebrate Recovery or a L.I.F.E. Group or similar program) is available, recovering people need meetings more frequently than once a week, which is the norm for faith - based grGroup or similar program) is available, recovering people need meetings more frequently than once a week, which is the norm for faith - based groups.

Collaboration occurs when a group of autonomous stakeholders, sharing a problem domain, interact using shared rules, norms and structures to address issues related to that domain.23 Inherent in collaboration is the notion that the outcomes achieved are more effective, efficient and / or sustainable than what would have been achieved if organizations were working alone.24, 25,26,27,28 Researchers28, 29,30 have found that collaboration and integration of services for vulnerable populations are more effective, efficient and less costly than narrowly focused initiatives.