Sentences with phrase «vulnerability factors such»

Background A range of studies show adult attachment style is associated with depressive - vulnerability factors such as low self - esteem, poor support and childhood adversity.

At the same time, given culture - specific factors including the authoritative communist political structure and restricted educational opportunities (Fong 2006), it is likely that vulnerability factors such as a lack of perceived control regarding the self, world, and future underscores vulnerability to depression.

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Thus, a conceptuality elaborating such expansiveness and vulnerability in God may be an important factor in giving scope and flexibility to religious imagination.

The mother - baby sleep experts highlight some of the specific limitations of the meta - analysis, and note that it did not control for important risk factors, such as unsafe bedding, infant sleep position, and infant vulnerability due to prematurity or low birthweight.

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.

The first piece of Mildrexler and colleagues» effort was the creation of a forest vulnerability index that, in effect, relates climatic drivers of vulnerability, such as extreme temperature and low precipitation, directly to physiological stress factors, which reduce photosynthesis and deteriorate forest health.

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

Arachidonic acid is necessary for sperm production, and the liberal consumption of glands and other organs rich in arachidonic acid may protect the Inuit and Aleut peoples from the high levels of EPA they obtain from fatty fish and marine oils.31 There may be other components of their traditional diets that limit the vulnerability of PUFAs to oxidative stress, such as antioxidants like coenzyme Q10, lipoic acid, and preformed vitamin A found abundantly in organ meats, or other unknown factors.

We found little evidence for vulnerability to winter death associated with factors previously thought to predict such vulnerability.

All climate - related impacts will be mediated by the vulnerability of rural people living in poverty, isolation, or with lower literacy etc., but also by factors that give rural communities resilience to climate change, such as indigenous knowledge, and networks of mutual support.

Significant investments may be required to ensure that power generation keeps up with rising demand associated with rising temperatures.38, 39 Finally, vulnerability to heat waves is not evenly distributed throughout urban areas; outdoor versus indoor air temperatures, air quality, baseline health, and access to air conditioning are all dependent on socioeconomic factors.29 Socioeconomic factors that tend to increase vulnerability to such hazards include race and ethnicity (being a minority), age (the elderly and children), gender (female), socioeconomic status (low income, status, or poverty), and education (low educational attainment).

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.

For landfalling storms, the damage from winds and flooding, as well as storm surges, are especially of concern, but often depend more on human factors, including whether people place themselves in harm's way, their vulnerability and their resilience through such things as building codes.

We did not project 35 or 65 years of GDP because over that long of a period, uncertainties attributed to changing exposure concentrations in hazardous areas, changes in building codes and vulnerability, new or updated man - made defenses, and other factors including GDP itself will be significant and can not be predicted over such an extended period.

The findings make clear that vulnerability to climate change and exposure to its impacts varies in large part based on non-climatic factors, such as economic and political development.

Factors such as lack of awareness of human rights laws, age, recent immigration, uncertain employment, reliance on tips, low rates of unionization, and the prevalence of sexual harassment and sex discrimination in the restaurant industry can increase worker vulnerability.

Determining what constitutes «reasonable security» depends on factors such as the amount and sensitivity of data collected, the sensitivity of the device's functionality, and the costs of remedying the security vulnerabilities.

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.

Resilience research has identified several mechanisms by which protective and vulnerability factors operate to increase or decrease the probability of competence in contexts of adversity, respectively.11 As noted previously, sensitive caregiving engenders adaptive neurobiological, behavioural, and cognitive organization in early childhood.4, 8 Thus, positive relationships contribute to resilient adaptation by promoting resources, such as self - esteem, self - efficacy and coping capacities.

These biological «vulnerabilities» may place a person at increased risk for developing BPD given certain developmental factors such as prenatal stresses, infections, nutritional deficits or stressful events in the early family environment Other family members may often have BPD, Major Depression, Bipolar Illness, or problems with addiction.

These behaviors appeared to be explained mostly by genetic factors, suggesting that there is a genetic vulnerability for developing antisocial behaviors which may also lead to addictive behaviors such as pathological gambling (Slutske, et al., 2001).

Resiliency and vulnerability are distinctive personal characteristics influenced by environmental factors such as socio - cultural and institutional contexts.

Enduring strengths and vulnerabilities, early stressors, and aspects of relationship quality may be involved in a continual chain of factors, being associated with late dissolutions via long term associations with other risk factors, such as decreased relationship satisfaction or increased conflicts.

Finally, our data on temperament, CU traits and ODD - related problems highlight the importance of broadening the analysis of early temperamental vulnerability factors beyond fearlessness, by also considering protective factors, such as effortful control, and its subcomponents.

The effects of noise exposure on psychosocial well - being seem to be facilitated by other factors such as pre-dispositional and dispositional vulnerabilities [26].