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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"individual-level variables"”.
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Graduation rates, success and high school quality.
… a predictive variable, and the relationship that individual student characteristics have to the institution from which they graduate. Using student retention data from Baylor University and high school level institutional data from the Texas Education Agency, I assess the individual and …
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Let's Talk About Sex: The Health Belief Model and Effects of Prime Time Television Sexual Portrayals
… Model to examine the effects of viewing valenced levels of consequences of sexual decision found in prime time television programs. When exposed to portrayals of negative consequences, participants had higher levels of perceived severity than those in the positive condition. After viewing positive …
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The influence of individual and organizational variables on informal learning among nurses in Korean hospitals
… linear relationship among informal learning, individual and organizational variables of nurses in hospitals, to empirically demonstrate the personal and organizational factors influencing informal learning while considering the different organizational scales and cultures between hospitals and …
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Exploring the Health Benefits of Nature for Children in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Settings
… information system framework to examine how individual-level and environmental factors are associated with children’s health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and (b) semi-structured focus groups with children to understand how children living in a rural community define nature, experience …
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ANTECEDENTS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION: EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF GENDER IDENTITY, GRIT, THE DARK TRIAD, AND BARRIERS TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP
… the modern day economy. Knowing what causes an individual to become an entrepreneur has fostered much attention in academic literature, but not enough of the research has looked into individual level variables that could cause an individual to have an entrepreneurial intention. This study …
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Estimation of education quality: harmonization and analysis of inequalities
… skills to improve the health and well-being of individuals and economies. Previous analyses have shown that there is stark inequality in access to quality education, but estimates are hindered by a landscape of differing assessments of student achievement making comparability of education …
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Remembering where we’re from: Community and individual predictors of college students’ White privilege awareness
… investigated White privilege awareness as an individual-level variable, though evidence suggests that residential environments may also influence racial attitudes (Brittian Loyd & Gaither, 2018; Glaser, 1994; Hagerman, 2020). In this study, we combine survey and U.S. Census data to explore …
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Epidemiology of prescription drug abuse in Illinois high school students
… The purpose of this study was to identify individual, family, school and community level factors responsible for the initiation and maintenance of prescription drug abuse behaviors in Illinois 12th grade students. A cross-sectional study design was used with the secondary data on the 12th …
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POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND POLITICAL ENGAGMENT: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION PROSECUTIONS ON VOTING AND GOVERNMENT TRUST IN THE UNITED STATES
… has confirmed the importance of structural and individual-level factors in predicting voter turnout and citizen trust in the government. In international research particularly, political corruption has been shown to negatively affect citizen trust, though the effect of corruption on voter …
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Determinants of Food Insecurity Among Vulnerable White and Latino Households: Contextualizing the Impact of Sociodemographic and Household-Level Factors
<p>Household-level characteristics have been shown to be associated with food insecurity but studies among vulnerable populations are sparse. A food security assessment was developed to determine food security and collect sociodemographic and household level data across San Luis Obispo County. The …
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Geospatial analysis of preventable emergency department visits in Chicago, IL
… sociodemographic, health, and insurance status variables. While a few studies have integrated geographically-informed components into their analyses such as urban vs. rural distinction of hospital, no studies of misuse of EDs for PCED conditions were identified that utilized geographic …
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Relation Between Rejection and Women's Depression in the Context of Important *Relationships
… have examined whether re-expressing these individual-level perspectives as a dyadic-level variable would provide a richer understanding of the associations between rejection and depression. In Study 1, which had a cross-sectional design, female college students (n=183) provided self-reports …
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The Impact of the Internet on Civic and Political Participation in Local Governance: A Mulitilevel Model for Bridging Individual and Group Levels of Analysis
Politically interested individual citizens often use information and communication technology (ICT) to facilitate and augment their civic and political participation. At the local level, ICT plays an important role for communication and information sharing in order for local groups to create …
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The Disclosure of Organizational Secrets by Employees
… value of concealment) may interact with certain individual-level variables (e.g., moral identity and need for status) to influence employees’ secret disclosure intent. Using scenario-based surveys of undergraduate and EMBA students and a cross-sectional sample of working adults in the United …
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Structures Strike Back: Their Significance for Our Models of Opinion Formation
… but fail in others because of the structural level variations that are not accounted for when these models are designed only with individual level variables in mind. By structural level variations, I mean the societal conditions that affect everyone in a given society and which are typically …
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Social Contextual Influences on Consumer Behavior: The Impact of Group Composition and Coviewing Context on Recall of and Attitude toward Placed Brands
… online survey, designed to collect data on the variables in this study. Since the data were hierarchical in nature, i.e., individuals nested in groups, multilevel modeling was used to analyze the data. Results showed that friends recalled significantly more placed brands than did strangers. …
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Social determinants of comorbid depression among patients living with diabetes and/or HIV at primary healthcare settings in Western Cape Province of South Africa
… is largely shaped by the differences between individuals, communities, and provinces. Previous research highlights the influence of socioeconomic factors on the relationship between diabetes, HIV, and depression, although the focus has mainly been on the variability in health outcomes …
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Religious participation and social justice: Individual and congregational effects
… provides such an examination, offering a multilevel examination of religious individuals (n = 5,023) nested within Christian religious congregations (n = 62) with a particular focus on how individual and congregational level variables (i.e. theological orientation, frequency of religious …
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Modelling of risk factors, case-fatalities, survival and functional health status for stroke in Kelantan, Malaysia
… study design. This dataset contained individual-level variables (patient variables from hospitals) and area-level variables supplied by the Department of Statistics, Malaysia, and we utilised logistic regression to model the risk factors for stroke. In the results, we showed the …
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Three essays about housing issues in new contexts: demand for housing attributes, housing price indices, and location choices under displacement
… proposed housing price index at the community level for the city of Chicago. Same as in the case between MSAs in Illinois, the results are expected to challenge the assumption of a single price index for the city as a whole, showing the natural variation in housing prices across the different …
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