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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Sociodemographic variables"”.
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Adolescent Attitudes Toward Obesity in Women: A Study of Sociodemographic Variables
Obesity is a physical condition of complex etiology with serious psychological and medical consequences. The purpose of this study was to examine adolescents' attitudes toward obesity in women. Attitudes were analyzed with particular attention to the factors of race, age, sex, social status and …
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Socioeconomic Status and Access to Resources as Predictors of Sibling Hope and Sibling Coping with Pediatric Cancer-Related Stressors
… This study will examine the degree to which sociodemographic variables (i.e., socioeconomic status and access to resources) predict pediatric cancer patients' siblings' hope and coping. Data were obtained from siblings of pediatric oncology patients and their parents at a large pediatric …
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An Examination of Perceptions for Family Acculturation, Family Leisure Involvement, and Family Functioning among Mexican-Americans
… and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES II). Sociodemographic variables such as age, gender, generation, family size, income, and education were also used to help predict levels of acculturation for family perspectives. The sample was obtained from communities in Texas and Utah and consisted …
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Oral Health Education of Dental Hygienist on Medically Compromised Patients.
… in the dental office and comparing the sociodemographic variables with the actual condition of oral hygiene education, this study aims to provide basic research data to improve the quality of the oral health education for medically compromised patients. Respondents were total 252 dental …
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Women Receiving Genetic Counseling for Breast Cancer Risk: Cancer Worry, Psychological Distress, and Risk Recall Accuracy
… breast cancer risk, and to investigate the role sociodemographic variables on cancer worry, psychological distress, or risk recall for these women. Results for this sample of women with a family history of breast cancer found that there were consistent relationships between cancer worry, …
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Attitudes toward socially responsible consumption: development and validation of a scale and investigation of relationships to clothing acquisition and discard behaviors
… both groups on clothing consumption behaviors. sociodemographic variables, and media usage variables. Stepwise discriminant analysis and correlation coefficients were also used to examine the relationship between attitudes and sociodemographic variables. The CAD scale was found to be a …
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Public Religious Participation: A Comparison Of Three Distinct Birth Cohorts
… framework to examine religious involvement. Sociodemographic variables that are associated with religiosity are included in the analysis. Directions for future research on variations in religiosity measures are discussed.
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Street Credit: Neighborhood Level Predictors of Financial Inclusion in Four U.S. Metropolitan Areas
… services, mortgage lending activity, and sociodemographic variables. Four metropolitan study areas in the United States—Las Vegas, Nevada; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—are examined in order to address a range of question related to the …
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The relationship between employee benefit satisfaction and organizational commitment
… with benefit satisfaction. Only few of the sociodemographic variables were found to be significantly related to benefit satisfaction, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. Based on the research findings practical implications for industry are discussed and suggestions for future …
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Religious and Socio-Demographic Determinants of Marital Satisfaction
… Multiple hypotheses on possible links between variables are tested, and the relationships between marital satisfaction and many religious and sociodemographic variables are upheld; however, the relation between the salience of religious homogamy and marital satisfaction is most prevalent.</p>
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The Relationship between Race and Ethnicity and Serious Safety Events in Hospitalized Patients
… study explored the association between patient sociodemographic characteristics and the occurrence of serious safety events (SSE) in hospitalized patients. Specific aims were to describe among patients who have experienced an SSE: 1) patient sociodemographic variables (age, gender, race, …
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Development of a tool to investigate factors related to job satisfaction in geriatric nurses
… questionnaire developed consisted of four parts: Sociodemographic data, and three semantic differential scales assessing, Attitudes toward geriatric nursing, Attitudes toward the work environment, and Attitudes toward the administrator. Descriptive statistics were compiled for sociodemographic …
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Preferences for Emotional Dependence and Togetherness in Romantic Relationships: The Impact of Cohort, Race, Gender, and Gender Ideology
… Gender, gender ideology, cohort, and specific sociodemographic variables, such as education and marital status were found to impact preferences for mutual emotional dependence, however, no racially distinct patterns were found. The variables in the models explain less of the differences in …
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Do You Have A Friend?: The Impact Of Personal Knowledge Of Someone With Aids On Attitudes Towards Aids
… about the AIDS virus and other attitudinal variables on four dimensions of social and behavioral concern for those with AIDS in American society. Sociodemographic variables, which prior studies have demonstrated as important predictors of attitudes toward AIDS, are included as controls in …
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Evaluation of the Associations between Prenatal Cannabis Use and Infant Developmental Outcomes at 12 Months of Age
… fail to control for important confounding variables, and many are becoming outdated. Using data from the Pregnancy During the Pandemic cohort, the current project evaluated prenatal cannabis use and its association with increased risk of developmental delay across five domains: …
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The Effect of Maternal Traumatic Life Events and Social Support on Maternal-Child Interaction at Child Age 3 Years
… of social support and their relationship with sociodemographic factors of mothers and their 3-year-olds. It will examine the relationship between maternal TLEs, and maternal-child interaction measured by the NCAST Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) Teaching scale at child age 3 years; maternal …
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Modeling the Efficacy of the 15-Minute City Using Large-Scale Mobility Data from the Perspective of Accessibility and User Choice: A Case Study on the Urban Food Environment
… grocery store, and the extent to which certain sociodemographic variables contribute to their choice. Using logistic regression models on ∼ 7𝑀 grocery store visits from ∼ 72, 000 people in the Greater Boston area, we show that proximity is not a good proxy for accessibility, and that peoples’ …
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Trypophobia: An investigation of clinical features
… survey was conducted to gather information on sociodemographic variables, course and duration, severity, associated features, comorbid psychiatric diagnoses and levels of psychological distress and impairment in individuals with trypophobia. The survey also explored whether such individuals …
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The impact of married women's employment on household expenditures for clothing
… when controlling for income and various sociodemographic variables. The sample consisted of 2,285 households selected from the public use tapes of the Quarterly Interview component of the 1980-81 Consumer Expenditure Survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A four-stage …
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Comorbid Depression and Anxiety as Predictors of Adolescent Substance Use in a Rural and Ethnically Diverse Community Sample
… depression and anxiety above and beyond relevant sociodemographic variables (SES, gender, ethnicity, and grade level) in predicting lifetime substance use among this unique population. Findings extend previous research and suggest the need for early prevention initiatives aimed at both adolescent …
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