Sentences with phrase «than young adults from»

Similarly, Dion and Dion (1996) indicated that young Chinese adults in Canada endorsed the friendship style of love more than young adults from European backgrounds.

Furthermore, research indicates that father involvement declines after divorce (Agar, Cioe, & Gorzalka, 2010; Amato, 1994; Harris, Furstenberg, & Marmer, 1998; Schwartz & Finley, 2005; van Schaick & Stolberg, 2001), and that young adults from divorced families report a greater desire for father involvement than young adults from intact families (Finley & Schwartz, 2007).

Not exact matches

Older adults (67 % of respondents) are more likely than younger readers (23 % of respondents) to have received election news regularly from local daily papers.

In a startup or any company that employs young adults, those direct commands from on high, usually from the bossiest or angriest person, fall flatter than a pancake.

The film, which is less than two minutes long, tracks a young girl's transition from child to adult via key moments in her life.

Living with hundreds of other young adults getting their first (or fourth) year away from home out of their system is even more cluttered and messy than it seems.

Older adults (aged ≥ 51 y) obtained a significantly greater proportion of added sugars from stores than did younger adults.

Teens are more sensitive to other people than are younger children or adults, and could benefit from more skills for handling their greater depth of feeling.

The percentage of SIDS infants bed - sharing at the time of death increased from 19.2 percent to 37.9 percent, especially among infants younger than 2 months, and the percentage found in an adult bed increased from 23.4 percent to 45.4 percent.

Today's figures confirm a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO), which finds that in a sample of 115 young people and adults given Asbos, more than half (55 per cent) breached the conditions of their order.

A Home Office spokesperson said the UK's approach to drugs was to prevent use and help individuals recover, while also enforcing laws: «We have seen a reduction in drug misuse among adults and young people over the last 10 years and more people are recovering from their dependency now than in 2009 - 10.

If you're a transgender young adult who's been evicted from your home by your own parents, going into a single adult shelter could do more harm than good.

Even though scholars say technology could considerably increase independence for older adults, they are still less likely to adopt new technology than their younger counterparts for reasons ranging from doubts of its benefits to a general lack of comfort.

A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13 different cancers in young adults.

Jews whose great - grandparents were chased from their Russian shtetls; Chinese whose grandparents lived through the ravages of the Cultural Revolution; young immigrants from Africa whose parents survived massacres; adults of every ethnicity who grew up with alcoholic or abusive parents — all carry with them more than just memories.

Young adults with thinner cortex in particular brain regions are more impulsive during a decision - making task than teens with thicker cortex, according to a large correlational study of adolescents from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort.

Contrary to some hypotheses, adult - onset offenders in this study were not found to come from significantly wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds, nor were they any more intelligent than those who were caught younger.

Young animals recover from tissue damage better than adults, and from Charles Darwin's time until now, scientists have puzzled over why this is the case.

A recent study from the University of Waterloo found that seniors have a harder time distinguishing the order of events than younger adults.

From 2006 to 2008, researchers tested the hearing of more than 2,200 young adults.

But children with those same genotypes from a high - income home would actually fare better economically as young adults than their brother or sister, said Emily Rauscher, a KU assistant professor of sociology.

Physical activity among children and teens is lower than previously thought, and, in another surprise finding, young adults after the age of 20 show the only increases in activity over the lifespan, suggests a study conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Overweight young adults may have poorer episodic memory — the ability to recall past events — than their peers, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge, adding to increasing evidence of a link between memory and overeating.

Researchers conducted a unique linkage of more than 52,000 electronic health records (EHR) of children born from 1987 to 1995 and New Jersey driver licensing data to determine current rates and patterns of licensure among adolescents and young adults with ASD (without intellectual disability) and those without ASD.

Studying data from 2,871 smoking and nonsmoking young adults, ages 18 - 34, Dr. Olivia A. Wackowski and Dr. Cristine D. Delnevo found that a quarter of young adults believed hookah to be less risky than cigarettes — a belief shared by current cigarette smokers and those who had never smoked cigarettes before.

«For the older group, the ACA made health insurance much more affordable, because the law limits insurers from charging older adults no more than triple the cost for the same health insurance plans as younger adults,» said Vivian Ho, the chair in health economics at the Baker Institute and director of the institute's Center for Health and Biosciences, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

They found that young adults who come from adverse backgrounds — but also show resilience to break that pattern and achieve a higher social status — are more likely to be unhealthy later in life than those not motivated to change their circumstances.

Young adults fall more frequently than expected, and most falls occur during everyday activities such walking and talking, according to new research from Purdue University.

Young animals are able to recover from tissue damage much better than adults and can even regenerate tissues in the womb.

MS is the most common neurological disorder afflicting young adults in Canada, with more than 50,000 people suffering from this debilitating disease.

Young sea stars from the Baltic Sea suffer more from the effects of ocean acidification than adults.

Additionally, males, young adults and the elderly, and people from the U.S., Canada, or Europe are more likely to develop Hodgkin lymphoma than women, children, or people from other geographic locations.

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health tested the hearing of more than 2,200 young adults in Nepal who had taken part in a nutrition study when they were children.

Older adults also tend to have lower magnesium levels than younger people in part because they are more likely to have developed chronic disease or be taking meds that could mess with magnesium levels, but also because magnesium absorption from the gut decreases as we age.

That's the finding of Canadian researchers who analyzed muscle samples from young adults with and without type 1 diabetes who did more than the weekly amount of exercise recommended by Diabetes Canada.

But Tucker can only speculate about the reasons for poor absorption of the vitamin from meat among younger adults or why B12 appears to be better absorbed from dairy products than from meats.

Debilitating brain disorders are on the rise - from children diagnosed with autism and ADHD to adults developing dementia at younger ages than ever before.

About 10,000 infants, most of them younger than four months of age, are treated in US ERs each year because of car seat - related injuries unrelated to car accidents: falling out of a seat because they were not properly strapped in; falling with the seat from an elevated surface such as a kitchen counter; seats accidentally tipped over by an adult or older child; older infants wiggling sufficiently — even when properly strapped in — to topple the seat over.

To the extent that individuals become more certain of and perhaps more fixed in their tastes as they age or learn from experience (i.e., failed relationships) what they want or need in a romantic partner, older adults may be attracted to Internet dating sites and online personals ads to a greater extent than younger adults precisely because such sites offer opportunities to restrict their search to prospective partners who meet particular criteria and to filter out those who possess traits or qualities they deem undesirable.2

Not too far off from Theron's Mavis Gary in «Young Adult,» Marlo has a prickly, sardonic side that is more welcome than off - putting, referring to her body as a «relief map for a war - torn country» or telling someone that she feels «like an abandoned trash barge.»

The story could have been a recipe for cheeseball schmaltz, but with a script from Diablo Cody (Juno) and direction from Young Adult director Jason Reitman, Tully is a much darker and incisive story than I anticipated.

There is more to appreciate than to despise in The Spectacular Now, largely due to the outstanding performances from the two leads that transcend the film beyond just an ordinary young adult drama.

What You Need to Know: «Labor Day» will be Jason Reitman's fifth film, and for the first time, seems to mark a move away from the comedy genre, calling for a more sincere tone than «Up in the Air» or «Young Adult ``.

This is a fairy tale for adults, and there's a good reason: Young children aren't born with prejudice; they have to learn it, and they learn from watching their elders treating those who are different like they are less - than.

Though Marlo is less caustic and unpleasant than Young Adult's Mavis, Theron remains a master of tiny reactions burrowing out from beneath more normal, socially acceptable ones, conveying disgust or defeat with little twitches of the eye or recoiling body language.

Some decisions were easy: to provide a program from 7th grade through graduation; to move students through the program on an individual basis; to ask our teachers to be well educated, but to act more as generalists than specialists; to keep teachers» student loads down, and to offer advisories instead of more formal and distant «guidance counseling»; to offer only one foreign language, but to expect all to learn it; to put our money into more adults, some of them young adults, rather than into high rents or new furniture.

For me this has to be about more than exams and more about creating a culture within which students can learn, grow and develop into young adults, equipped with the skills, attributes and confidence that life will demand from them.»

Ninety - seven percent of young adults from families with high incomes completed high school; more than 90 percent of them earned a regular diploma and 4 percent followed an equivalency test alternative.

Young adults who had participated in sports activities when they were in high school report higher levels of civic engagement than those who did not participate, according to a study from the University of Maryland College Park.

From one - fourth to more than a third of young adults take and pass high - level exams in those subjects in other industrialized countries, says the report, which was released here last week by the American Federation of Teachers and the National Center for Improving Science Education.