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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Race Differences"”.
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Race differences in infant mortality
… live birth cohorts. The primary focus is on race differences in the effects of maternal age, education, marital status, and prenatal care on the probability of an infant death and the likelihood of death due to a specific cause. Prenatal care and birthweight are included as intervening …
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Do beliefs about race differences in pain contribute to actual race differences in experimental pain response?
… than 100 million people in the United States. Race differences exist in the way that pain is experienced and in how it is treated. Many biopsychosocial factors contribute to race differences in pain tolerance. Beliefs about race differences in pain sensitivity may be one of these factors. …
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Race differences in self-assessed health: The role of job strain
… research has examined the relationships between race and health many questions pertaining to the processes that lead to such persistent disparities remain. There is accumulating evidence showing that the psychosocial environment at work affects the mental and physical health of workers. …
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Using Working Memory to Address the Validity-Diversity Dilemma: Incremental Validity and Subgroup Differences Compared to GMA
… practitioners because of the large Black-White race differences associated with GMA tests. The use of GMA tests, therefore, results in adverse impact when basing decisions on predicted performance. In order to address this validity-diversity tradeoff, a more specific cognitive ability is …
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Measuring values for environmental public goods: incorporating gender and ethnic social effects into stated-preference value-elicitation methods
… perceptions of risk, specifically with regard to race and gender effects. While a review of the contingent valuation literature shows no systematic gender or race differences in willingness to pay to reduce risks associated with nonmarket goods and services, the risk aversion literature finds …
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Adolescent sexual behavior and early childbearing: Empirical tests of social control and strain theories
… control theory and strain theory, to explain race differences in these phenomena. Causal models are tested using panel data from the first two waves of the National Youth Survey for adolescent male and female sexual behavior, while panel data from the sophomore cohort of High School and Beyond …
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Individual differences in work behaviour of blue-collar workers : a study of rubber tappers in Malaysia
This thesis examines individual differences in work behaviour of rubber tappers. The study examined sex, age, experience and race differences and their interactions with terrain on job performance, absenteeism, and job satisfaction of 1053 rubber tappers. Rubber tappers are unskilled blue-collar …
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Racial Differences in Wives' Labor Force Participation
… early life-course events of the family on racial differences in wives' labor force participation. Previous research had been unable to identify determinants of black wives' labor force participation. Variables that have a large significant effect on the labor force status of white wives--their …
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Pursuing a Deeper Understanding of the Black-White Mental Health Paradox: A Sequential, Mixed Methods, Three-Article Dissertation
… presents three empirical studies of Black-White differences in mental health and their determinants. Based on the known gender differences in mental health and the unique ways in which Black and White men and women are socialized to express distress, we also took an intersectional approach in …
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Essays in Labor and Education Economics
… integrated schools during earlier grades. Differences in school choice by race contribute to unequal access to effective schools and exacerbate school segregation. Conditional on test score and district of residence, Black and Hispanic families consistently opt for schools with fewer white …
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An analysis of the effects of race and gender in scoring extension agent performance standards
… this research effort focused on the effects of race and gender in assessing the level of performance described in the PRAP standards and the relevancy of the standards to the job of an Extension agent. Also studied were the effects of program area, position, and employment location of the rater. …
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Considering vocational interests in adverse impact: a meta-analysis of race, cognitive ability, and vocational interests
… levels of cognitive ability. In Study 1, differences between African Americans and Caucasian Americans on vocational interests were estimated via meta-analysis. It was found that Whites have stronger realistic, investigative, and artistic interests, while African Americans have stronger …
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Career maturity amongst first year university students in a commerce faculty at a tertiary institution in the Western Cape
… biographical variables such as age, gender and race were examined. Career maturity refers generally to the individual’s readiness to make informed, ageappropriate career decisions and deal with career development tasks (Savickas, 1984). In order to establish what the career maturity level is, a …
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The wage gap revisited: An investigation of salary request differences among Black-White and male-female workers
… exist. Specifically, this study investigated the differences between men and women and Blacks and Whites in the amount of salary requested for a new job. Current worker data from an international job board was examined. Workers were Black or White males or females, who were at least 25 years of …
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The Discourse of Racial Violence: Chicago, 1914--1923
… elites, initially responded to the 1919 Chicago race riot by mobilizing elements of dominant discourses of race, gender, and class. Middle-class and elites whites, who largely did not participate in the violence, drew on these discourses because these narratives reinforced their own claims to …
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The Effects of Math Recovery on the Low-Performing Mathematics Student
… tenth-grade MAP scores. In addition, gender and race differences were investigated in this study to determine the impact, if any, on academic achievement. The students in this study attended one of three large high schools belonging to a large suburban school district. The students in the …
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The Effects of Combat Exposure on Post-Deployment Coping Deficits in OEF/OIF/OND Veterans
… to the development of PTSD symptoms. Gender and race differences, as well as the effects of education and the limitations of the present study and its implications for future research are discussed.</p>
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Physical activity and health-related quality of life among elementary students: an integrated perspective
… purpose was to examine gender and racial differences in students’ motivation in physical education, intention, HRQOL and PA. Participants were 336 elementary school physical education students from three schools in the southeast US. They completed surveys and wore pedometers during three …
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The Effect of Pull-Out Programs on the Academic Achievement of Sixth Grade Students In South Bend, Indiana
… analyzed by pull-out and non-pull-out status, by race, and by gender.</p> <p>A two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the hypotheses. When there was a significant interaction effect, a test of simple effects was performed. Pairwise Comparison was tested using the …
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The Effect of Weight Misperception and Contextual Factors on Weight Control Among Young Adults
… weight loss. Objective: To determine if observed differences in weight control by race and sex are due to differences in weight status perception accuracy among black and white young adults with overweight/obesity. The associations between contextual factors and weight loss attempts are also …
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