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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"WAVE-1"”.
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Dietary diversity and food security in South Africa: an application using NIDS Wave 1
… Diet quantity is captured by food expenditure in Wave 1 of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). To capture diet quality I use dietary diversity, which is not directly available in NIDS. I build and test a food group dietary diversity score and a food variety dietary diversity score using …
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The psychological mechanism underlying the effects of cancer information on screening intention: focusing on cancer-related affect and cognition
… aged 40 or older, and they participated in a two-wave survey about stomach cancer (N = 1,130 at Wave 1 and N = 813 at Wave 2). Given that conceptualization and operationalization of cancer-related affect and cognition has not been consistent in previous cancer literature, Study 1 developed a …
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Early Head Start and Early Intervention: A Collaborative Approach to Serving Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities in Natural Environments
… served by Early Head Start programs (funded in Wave 1 and 2). In addition, the settings that Wave 1 and Wave 2 Early Head Start programs use to serve infants and toddlers were examined. Finally, this study explored the types of collaboration that were reported to occur between Early Head Start …
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Siblings In Foster Care
… of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), Waves 1-5, was conducted to examine the life circumstances and developmental trajectories of foster children. Three comparison groups were drawn based on Wave 1 placement status, consisting of foster children partially separated from siblings (n …
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Gender and life-cycle differentials in the correlates of adult ill health in South Africa
… from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study wave 1 survey.
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Investigating the relationship between social capital and self-rated health in South Africa
… in NIDS. Self-rated health was collected at Wave 1 in 2008, and Wave 2 in 2010 - 2011. The final sample consisted of 8866 respondents. Mixed effects models were fitted to predict self-rated health in Wave 2, using lagged covariates (from Wave 1). The results indicated that individual …
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Investigating the relationship between social capital and self-rated health in South Africa
… in NIDS. Self-rated health was collected at Wave 1 in 2008, and Wave 2 in 2010 - 2011. The final sample consisted of 8866 respondents. Mixed effects models were fitted to predict self-rated health in Wave 2, using lagged covariates (from Wave 1). The results indicated that individual …
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Examining the Social Investment Hypothesis: The Relationship of Social Role Investment and Personality Trait Development in Adulthood
… stability across adulthood during the first wave of assessment. In addition, for middle aged participants, investment in work concurrently related to both conscientiousness and emotional stability during Wave 1. Cross-lagged models showed that, during midlife and older adulthood, personality …
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The Implementation of Support Calls in a Pilot Childhood Obesity Intervention
… Research partners (n=2) delivered all calls in Wave 1. During Waves 2 and 3, community staff (n=5) delivered a majority of calls with training and support from research staff. ). Average completion rate across calls was 62% and did not differ according to participant health literacy level. …
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New onset, recurrence, and persistence of alcohol dependence criteria : maturing out at the symptom level
… decompose the prevalence of each AD criterion at wave 2 as a function of new onset, recurrence, and persistence from wave 1. In addition, the predictive association between each criterion at wave 1 and the new onset, recurrence, and persistence of syndromal AD was investigated. Results indicated …
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Sociodemographic Homophily Within Friendship and Sequential Peer Victimization: A Longitudinal Dyadic Perspective
… over time. The data were extracted from a two-wave longitudinal study. The analytic sample included 207 Grade 5-9 participants (female 62.8%, Mage = 11.88, SD = 1.18), creating 424 friendship dyads. Regression analyses suggested that a higher level of similarity in peer victimization at Wave 1 …
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Success in reading… what’s the meaning? The relationship between changes in children’s aerobic fitness and language processing
… in aerobic fitness were observed among the wave 1 control group (albeit unexpectedly). Interestingly, compared to other participants, greater improvements in academic achievement and sentence performance were witnessed among children in wave 1, with larger increases in academic composite …
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Evaluating the impact of higher education on income poverty in South Africa
… Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) spanning from Wave 1 to Wave 5.
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Corruption and police recruits in Ghana: A qualitative longitudinal study
… police recruits in Africa. It was based on two waves of interviews. Wave 1, which combined interviews with participant observation, took place during a period of classroom training at a police training school in Ghana. Wave 2 focused on the experiences of fresh constables, shortly after …
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Children's Adaptive Psychological Functioning In The Face Of Adversity
… a subsample of 406 children with CBCL scores at Wave 1 and Wave 4 was extracted from the original sample of 1,582. Overall, children in both the full and subsample had CBCL internalizing and externalizing behavior scores almost twice as high as the general population of children in the same age …
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Comparative Models of the Impact of Social Support on Psychological Distress in Cancer Patients
… was based on archival data obtained from the Wave 1 of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). The HRS provides a nationally representative sample of individuals aged 51 to 61 in 1992 and their spouses. The study sample was limited to cancer patients with a spouse or partner (n = 503). A …
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Cultural stressors, internalizing symptoms, and parent-child alienation among Mexican-origin adolescents
… Method: The current study used a three-wave longitudinal dataset of 604 Mexican-origin adolescents (Wave 1: Mage = 12.41, SD = 0.97, 54% female) and conducted multilevel analysis. At the between-person level, overall low parent-child alienation buffered the adverse effects of ethnic …
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Coping styles of African American youth living in poverty: Understanding the role of coping in resiliency
… differ based on risk assessment and outcomes at Wave 1. However, coping group membership was associated with future externalizing symptoms based on parent report. The importance of coping strategies in resilient outcomes in the short-term and long-term is evaluated. Limitations, strengths and …
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Psychosocial determinants of post-traumatic stress among cancer survivors
… cancer survivors in Tayside. In initial “wave 1” cross-sectional analyses of this data, I found that social support was not an independent predictor of post-traumatic stress in multivariate analyses. However, group constraints consistently and independently predicted post-traumatic stress. …
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