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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Cumulative risk"”.
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Asymptotic cumulative risk and Bayes risk under entropy loss, with applications
In many areas of application of statistics one has a relevent parametric family of densities and wishes to estimate the density from a random sample. In such cases one can use the family to generate an estimator. We fix a prior and consider the properties of the predictive density as an estimator …
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The role of infant sleep in the relationship between cumulative risk and infant social-emotional development
… current study aimed to understand the effect of cumulative risk on the social-emotional functioning of infants. Additionally, this study examined sleep as a potential protective factor, which may promote healthier social-emotional outcomes despite risk. A sample of 325 caregiver-infant dyads …
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The Influence of cumulative risk factors on the cognitive abilities of low-income, African- American preschool children
… large number of children are exposed to multiple risk factors within the first 3 years of life, resulting in poorer child developmental outcomes. Additionally, exposure to multiple risks is especially prevalent in low-income populations. Several studies have found that multiple maternal and …
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Association of Maternal Cumulative Risk during Pregnancy and IQ in Preschoolers: Role of Glucocorticoids and their Receptors
There may be a cumulative effect of social and environmental risk factors which lead to chronic, elevated levels of stress. Constant elevations of maternal stress hormones during pregnancy disrupt developing fetal brain chemistry and architecture, resulting in later memory and learning …
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Cumulative risk as a moderator of the association between intimate partner violence and maternal parenting behaviors with infants
… examined an accumulation of social-contextual risk factors as a moderator between the chronicity and severity of IPV experiences and observed maternal parenting behaviors with infants. Very few studies have examined this particular model, and almost no research has examined these associations …
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Developmental Trajectories of Physical Aggression in Low-Income African American and Hispanic Children: Relations to Household Risk and Child Inhibitory Control
… the low physical aggression group. Additionally, cumulative risk was measured at all four time points and more cumulative risk was expected to be characteristic of the high physical aggression group. Data from the Dallas Preschool Readiness Project (DPReP), a longitudinal study of 407 low-income …
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An Integrated Thesis Examining Risk Factor Profiles, Vascular and Neurodegenerative Brain Changes, and Cognitive Outcomes
… health concern linked to co-occurring modifiable risk factors. However, risks are often studied in isolation, with limited attention to how exposure timing affects brain and cognitive outcomes. This thesis examined how modifiable risk factors relate to structural brain changes and cognitive …
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Contextual Risk and the Association Between Sensitive Parenting and Social Competence During Early Childhood
<p>Both contextual risk and sensitive parenting have been associated with children’s social skills in early childhood (Brody, Stoneman, Smith & Gibson, 1999; Connell & Prinz, 2002; Oravecz, Koblinsky & Randolph, 2008, Trentacosta, 2008). However, it is not clear how sensitive parenting might impact …
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Difficulties among children exposed to multiple risks and the protective role of social support
… by children exposed to multiple family-level risk factors, and examined the possibility that having one or more supportive relationships in their lives buffered the negative effects of these risks. Data from an ongoing longitudinal study, the MAKE IT! (Mother’s and Kids’ Experiences in …
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An Examination of a Process Model of Physical Child Abuse: Considering Direct, Indirect, and Interactive Effects of Cumulative Socio-Contextual Risk on Markers of Physical Child Abuse in Mothers of Young Children
… that increase the presence of four proximal risk factors, or markers, which have been linked to increased risk for physical child abuse in mothers of young children. The four markers of physical child abuse include: child abuse potential, over-reactive discipline, spanking acceptance, and …
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Parenting and child competence: A longitudinal investigation of the moderating influences of ethnicity, family socioeconomic status, and neighborhood quality
… quality (i.e., crime and median income), and cumulative risk (i.e., composite of family socioeconomic status and neighborhood quality) were modeled as potential moderators of associations between parenting (i.e., maternal sensitivity and traditional values) and four child outcomes (i.e., …
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The Risk of Seizure Recurrence Following a First Unprovoked Seizure in Childhood: An Extended Follow-Up
… a first unprovoked seizure and the predictors of risk factor of seizure recurrence are important for the decision of rational AEDs treatment. Therefore, we performed a long-term prospective study to evaluate the recurrence risk and risk factors after a first unprovoked seizure in children. …
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Defining Success: The Perspective of Emerging Adults with Foster Care Experience
… in adulthood due to their high levels of cumulative risk. The present study sought out to re-define the concept of “success” from the perspective of emerging adults with experience in the foster care system and to identify patterns among the characteristics and behaviors of foster families …
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Intensive Mothering Attitudes and Children's Executive Function: The Role of Parenting Stress
… a theoretical framework guided by ecological and risk and resilience theories to test a holistic model which positioned IM as having indirect associations with children's executive functioning (EF) through two pathways: positive parenting strategies and parenting stress. Contrary to the …
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… is also made to apply the idea of multiple risk and cumulative risk for the analysis of the problem of children-parents separation: to identify the factors that may comprise the multiple risk of such children and to evaluate their importance interpreting children’s psychological adjustment.
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Healthy hearts in family child care: what is the current state of provider health?
… children. As child care has been identified as a risk factor for childhood obesity (Geoffroy et al., 2013), there have been a few efforts to create quality interventions targeting children in family child care (Mann et al., 2015; Trost, Messner, Fitzgerald, & Roths, 2011). However, little is known …
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A Study Of Stability: Maternal Reflective Functioning From Pregnancy To Seven Months Postpartum
… attachment avoidance or anxiety, or demographic risk. Significant differences in prenatal reflective functioning were found based on mothers’ education and marital status. There were also differences in the relationship between prenatal and postnatal reflective functioning scores for mothers who …
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Within the red lines: a qualitative case study of food insecurity among homeless people in one of Kansas City’s historically redlined districts
… homelessness in the United States is guided by cumulative risk and stress process theories. Both theories shed light on the individual and community-level factors that influence variations in food insecurity among homeless populations; however, food justice researchers criticize such models for …
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Neurocognitive resilience in children born late and moderate preterm (LAMP): Predictors of outcomes in attention, working memory, and executive functioning
… GA and ADHD, including consideration of other risk factors and potential symptom-mitigating factors. The final sample for this study included 169 patients between the ages of 8 and 12 years who had completed an outpatient neuropsychological evaluation. GA was not related to ADHD diagnostic …
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