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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Differential associations"”.
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Not All Adversity is Created Equal: Differential Associations of Adversity Profiles with Adolescent Cognitive Control and Psychopathology
… of adversity in early adolescence, and examined associations with later cognitive control and psychopathology. One hundred and sixty-seven adolescents (53% male) and their primary caregivers participated in a longitudinal study, with approximately one year in between each assessment. At Time 1 …
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An empirical evaluation of Edwin H. Sutherland's theory of differential association
Edwin H. Sutherland first proposed his theory of differential association in 1939. Since that date it has been the subject of much discussion and criticism but tests of its validity or generality have been limited in nature. This thesis was designed to expand the range of empirical knowledge …
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Investigating the Conditional Adaptiveness of Adolescents’ Aggression from an Evolutionary Perspective
… in a community sample. Study 2 examined differential associations between aggression involvement and evolutionarily relevant aggressive functions, considering variations in aggressive form, the target’s power relative to perpetrator, and the perpetrator’s gender in a school-based sample. …
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Exploring Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism in Youth: An Examination of Associations with Antisocial Behavior and Aggression
This study sought to explore the differential associations of CU traits, narcissistic traits, and Machiavellian traits with overt aggression, relational aggression, delinquency, behavioral dysregulation, and emotional dysregulation in a community sample of boys and girls (ages 11-17). Results …
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The Pathways to Inflated Responsibility Beliefs Scale: A Psychometric Analysis
… validity of the PIRBS was obtained through its associations with OCD-relevant constructs, including OC beliefs domains and symptoms, trait anxiety and worry, depression, parenting styles, a measure of childhood responsibility, and religiosity. Some differential associations were observed in …
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Self-Compassion Versus Self-Esteem for an Experience of Ostracism
… unknown reasons. The present study examined the differential associations of trait self-compassion and trait self-esteem with attribution, emotion regulation, shame, and prosocial responses following an experience of ostracism using the Cyberball ostracism paradigm. Undergraduate participants …
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Growth Trajectories of Neurocognitive Self-Regulation and Adolescent Adjustment
… growth curve modeling was used to test the associations between initial levels and trajectories of both EF and adjustment. Results did not reveal any significant associations between initial levels of EF and adjustment or between growth in EF and growth in adjustment. Furthermore, there were …
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Examining trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms in relation to infant affect expression
… maternal depression across time, including the differential effects of depression on early child development during the transition to motherhood. The present study explored trajectories of maternal depression from pregnancy through 2 years postpartum and their relation to infant affect …
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Dairy products and cardio-metabolic health: aspects from nutritional, molecular and genetic epidemiology
… EPIC Norfolk (n~25,000) studies, I investigated associations of total and types of dairy consumption with markers of metabolic risk and adiposity as potential pathways to cardio-metabolic disease. The analyses showed differential associations of dairy types and groups mainly with markers of …
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Socioeconomic Neurophysiology: Exploring the relationship between a child’s environment and their neurocognitive development
… involved visual working memory task and find differential associations with objective and subjective measures. In Chapter 5 I integrate these findings with existing theories and models. I find my results support theories connecting SES, inhibition, and language processing. I also reflect on …
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Regional differences in task-related brain electrical activity and sources of variability in working memory function in early childhood
… Additional findings of interest included the differential associations demonstrated between working memory and temperament for each age group and also an increase in the strength of the relation between working memory and language across the three ages.
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Maternal postnatal health and infant development
… The current research sought to investigate the differential associations between PND, maternal-infant attachment and breastfeeding on long-term child developmental outcomes (i.e., cognitive, language, neuromotor and social-emotional development) at 12- and 24-months postnatal follow-up. While a …
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Exploring the associations between racial identity attitudes and social justice outcomes in African American college students: a mixed methods investigation
… there is a paucity of research examining these associations using qualitative and mixed methods approaches (Lyons, Bike, Johnson, & Bethea, 2012). Using an integrated, sequential, explanatory mixed methods design, the present study employed cluster analysis and online interviewing methods to …
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The Relationship between Attitudes toward Deviance and Deviant Behavior: The Influence of Science, Individualism, Social Bonds and Deviant Peers
… social control theory and Sutherland's (1939) differential association theory. The sample for this analysis is 202 students from a large research university in Southwest Virginia. The findings of this research lend support to Sutherland's (1939) differential association theory and to the …
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Development of a prognostic and predictive tool for chemotherapy response in patients with locally advanced and metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma
… achieve statistical significance, their differential associations with treatment response suggest avenues for refining therapeutic strategies in selected patients. Importantly, the analysis also included patients who did not undergo chemotherapy. In this subgroup, specific blood …
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The consideration of future consequences: scale dimensionality and domain specificity
… reviewing and synthesising existing evidence of associations between CFC and health-related behaviour, (b) examining the factor structure of the CFC-14 scale, (c) testing the concept of domain specificity in the CFC construct, and ( d) examining regulatory focus as a potential mediator of the …
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Patterns of cortisol and DHEA secretion and relationships with attachment style and psychosocial variables in female adolescents: a developmental psychopathology approach
… menarche status and body mass index (BMI) had differential associations with cortisol and DHEA secretory activity. The pattern of the cortisol awakening response (CAR) was sensitive to whether participants had experienced first menses, but not to chronological age or BMI. Those who were …