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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"adversities"”.
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Latent Class Analysis of Health Risk Behaviors Among Survivors of Childhood Adversities
This study examined the clustering of health risk behaviors among young adults who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACE). Data were collected from young adults attending a four-year university in the Midwest using online surveys. Results from a Latent Class Analysis (LCA) indicated …
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The Association of Childhood Adversities and Abuse on Marital Functioning: A Longitudinal Secondary Analysis Study
… hypotheses that the association of childhood adversities with marital functioning would be mediated by personality traits, perceived control, and self-acceptance measured during adulthood. Outcome marital functioning variables included perceived risk of marriage ending (marital risk), …
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The Association Between Exposure to Childhood Adversities and Later-Life Mental Health Symptoms of Survivors of Human Trafficking in Ghana: the Moderating Role of Perceived Social Support
… and trafficking experiences and childhood adversities are culturally unique. The present study used secondary data obtained from the Lifeline in Ghana study. The study sample constituted 98 female survivors of human trafficking who had participated in the Lifeline program between 2010 and …
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Toward Christian-Identity Response Theory : Exploring Identity, Spirituality, and Response to Adversity Among African American Males Placed at Risk
… data collection.</p> <p>Results: A framework of adversities, self-constructs, adversity response strategies, positive and negative influences to adversity response strategies, and spiritual development components work cyclically to form Christian-Identity Response Theory. Spiritual development …
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The Effects of Refugeedom on Adolescents in Greece and the UK: Negative Responses, Resilience and Adversity-activated Development.
Adolescent refugees may endure multiple adversities, experiencing pain and suffering and occasionally more severe psychological distress or psychopathology as a response to their circumstance. At the same time, they may prove incredibly resilient or develop positively exactly because of these …
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The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Behavioral Outcomes
… interaction plot indicated that the effects of adversities can be more detrimental to those who are younger in age. Targeted preventions and interventions are needed to help reduce exposure to adversities, reduce the long-term negative health impact, and provide mental health services to those …
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THE RESILIENCE OF FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS IN LAGOS, NIGERIA
… entrepreneurs to overcome and bounce-back from adversities and setbacks; and suggest that the process of developing resilience can be developed or encouraged. This research advances current understanding in the literature by exploring the entrepreneurial resilience of female entrepreneurs in …
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Relationships between psychological factors and immune dysregulation in context: a life-course approach
… to disease onset. After adjustment for material adversities, social adversities predict onsets of each disease. Chronic as opposed to acute adversities are salient for rheumatoid arthritis onset, which is consistent with existing theory that chronic stress contributes to immune dysregulation. …
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'It's more than a game': Young women's experiences with physical activity as a means for resilience throughout adolesence
… to achieving wellness despite growing up with adversities collectively deemed as adverse. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was the methodology utilized to investigate the data generated through several semi-structured in depth interviews with the participants. The analyzed data …
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Childhood and Adolescent Adversity and Chronic Pain
… to examine the relationship between early life adversities and chronic pain later in life, with a focus on the temporal nature of the relationship and proposed moderating factors, such as the type, timing, and intensity of the adverse experience, whether or not it resulted in physical harm, and …
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Prevalence of adverse childhood experiences in an undergraduate student population : associations with health, education and social services
… were most likely to have experienced no further adversities. Eighty-six per cent of those who witnessed domestic violence, however, had experienced at least three additional adversities. Those in the 4+ACE group were 23 times more likely to have been in contact with social services than those who …
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Experiences of African-American teenage mothers in pursuit of higher education
… all of the five women’s ability to overcome many adversities; 3. Determination served as a protective factor for all of the participants in attaining their post-secondary degrees and coping with adversities; 4. All five participants possessed a desire to help other individuals. Recommendations …
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Household capacity and "coping up" in rural Zambia : dealing with AIDS, other illness and adversity in Chiawa
… capacity of households to deal with a series of adversities and changes over a period of four years. The influence of locality and, at another level, national trends are taken into account, but the focus is on how and how well each household has coped in the face of four separate adverse events, …
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Understanding the resilience of local seed systems: a case study of Uzumba-Maramba Pfungwe and Chimanimani Districts, Zimbabwe
… of how local seed systems persist in the face of adversities. In this nexus, local seed systems are seen as key areas for enhancing resilience as they have strong links to food security and livelihoods in smallholder farming communities. Based on case studies from Zimbabwe, a country with more …
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Development in New Orleans East: Its Past, Present, and Future Potential
… New Orleans, one that far surpasses the economic adversities and political corruption that is embedded in its history.
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Illness Dwelling in Curreré: Fleshing through Education, Pragmatism, and Spirituality
… a need for spiritual awareness when facing adversities such as illness. Currer and creation spirituality are woven together as a means of discovering a path to recovery. Perceptions of reality and education are approached, and an educational malignancy is suggested whereas unforeseen …
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Female Political Representation: A Global Analysis and a Domestic Proposal
… can hope to gain a better understanding of the adversities women in politics face and the cruciality of increasing the percentages of female politicians in the United States.
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Interesse pela leitura através do olhar dos alunos da Escola Municipal Monsenhor João Coutinho da cidade de João Pessoa - PB
… reading. We conclude that even with so many adversities students know the importance of reading, as well as the library can contribute to its development in the formation of readers. However effective incentive reading activities methods should be more intensified in schools, to arouse …
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Net neutrality repeal : another rock on the road of a suffering music genre
… just as it has done with a whole series of adversities that have kept this Texas roots music in danger of extinction.
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The impact of early life adversity on later life health
… to address this by asking how 16 early life adversities affect individuals' health over a 20 year period in adulthood. Further, the present research seeks to understand how individuals' perceptions of their health over the next few years may actually impact their health seven years later. In …
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