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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Middle adulthood"”.
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Regulation of skeletal muscle strength adaptations by dietary protein and resistance training in middle adulthood
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Canadian Women's Perceptions, Perspectives, and Experiences Navigating the Transformative Pathway to Long-Term Recovery from an Eating Disorder
… disorder within a developmental context of early-middle adulthood. Both resilience theory (Luthar et al., 2000; Masten, 2014) and ecological systems theory (Bronfenbrenner 1975, 1979) were the frameworks of this study, grounding women’s experiences in both the factors that were helpful/harmful …
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Influence of Age on Auditory Gating
… study showed amplitude decreased with age to middle adulthood, where it increased slightly to later adulthood. Latencies decreased with age. Suppression ratios decreased from childhood to adolescence, with an increase from early adulthood to later adulthood. Sensory gating would appear to be a …
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The lived experiences of awe and connectedness: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… the lived experiences of awe amongst people in middle adulthood (age 35-65). The research project intends to examine how awe is experienced and made sense of in the immediate term and beyond, and to understand what facilitates the experiences of awe. Seven participants were interviewed using …
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Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Neurocognitive Performance in Dementia Patients
… batteries to participants in early or middle adulthood who have not been yet diagnosed with dementia.</p>
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Vocational interest development from adolescence to adulthood: a meta-analysis on mean-level change
… age periods spanning early adolescence to middle adulthood. Results showed that mean-level interest scores increase slightly with age (d = .04). This age effect primarily involved interest in People orientation (d = .09) rather than Things orientation (d = .00). Patterns of change also …
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Comorbidity of disordered eating and depression: Examining intersectional inequities and cardiometabolic health consequences across the life course
… their comorbidity (assessed in adolescence/young adulthood) were prospectively associated with incident risk of diabetes, hypertension, and/or hyperlipidemia (assessed in middle adulthood). Using intersectional groups defined by race/ethnicity, gender identity, and weight status, effect …
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Understanding Older Adults' Perceptions of Participation in Physical Exercise: A Life Course Approach
… and altered opportunities during young and middle adulthood. Fifth, retirement provided the older adults with a great deal of freedom and opportunity to participate in physical exercise. Finally, the older adults' participation in physical exercise contributed to their quality of life.
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Midlife development and disability onset in a family context: a qualitative integration
… consider how individuals who become disabled in adulthood and their family members develop an understanding of what disability means, beyond consideration of medical care and physical treatment. Qualitative data were collected from a purposive sample of 9 intimate couples in which one of the …
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Criminal Offending and Mental Disorders: Long-term bidirectional and intergenerational effects between mental health problems and offending behaviour
… to developing internalising problems in middle adulthood, (2) that certain personality disorder symptoms, specifically cluster A and cluster B disorders, are associated with lifetime violent behaviour, and (3) that early life paternal offending is associated with adult children’s …
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The Assessment Of Remote Memory
… Task. The tests were administered to a sample of middle-aged and older-aged participants. The test items were revised based on the participants' responses. The Revised Public Events Recall and Recognition Tasks were then administered to a group of young participants to determine whether the items …
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Ecological influences on the developmental status of parents of adolescents
… examination of developmental status of adults in middle adulthood, with a focus on parents of adolescents, investigating adults' developmental statuses with respect to their children's development. Hypotheses predicted ecological variables would related with middle adult development, defined in …
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Mothers’ experiences of their adult child’s interethnic relationship
… progress with the parenting task associated with middle adulthood; letting go. The experiences of mothers were also varied in that some mothers described change over the course of their child’s relationship. Specifically, a number of mothers experienced personal growth in the context of their …
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Exploring the Relationships Between Measures of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Adiposity, and Blood Pressure
… least active, least fit, or most sedentary); 2) Middle 40%; and 3) Most desirable 40% (i.e. most active, most fit, or least sedentary). Survey adjusted observed agreements, expected agreements, Kappas, and observed:expected agreements ratios were used to evaluate the agreement between all four …
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The independent and interactive influence of lutein and choline on cognitive control
… concentrations of these components in a young-to-middle aged sample of adults with overweight or obesity. Aim 1 utilized a cross-sectional sample as well as a randomized controlled trial to examine the impact of dietary, serum, and retinal lutein concentrations on cognitive control. Aim 2 examined …