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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"life-course approach"”.
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Early Life Environments and Cognitive-Behavioral Outcomes of Children: A Life Course Approach
… the relationship. The current study uses a life course approach to examine the association between maternal prepregnancy obesity and the offspring’s cognitive-behavioral development. A child’s health develops over time as his or her biological systems interact with surrounding environments. …
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Relationships between psychological factors and immune dysregulation in context: a life-course approach
… responses to them and immune dysregulation. The approach taken is informed by theories about the life-course, the stress process, the stress response and the inflammatory theory of depression. The first two empirical chapters provide evidence about the contribution of psychosocial factors to …
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Understanding Older Adults' Perceptions of Participation in Physical Exercise: A Life Course Approach
… in physical exercise throughout the life course. Using a life course perspective as the theoretical framework for this study, I identified the factors in older adults' lives that may or may not lead to continuous participation in physical exercise throughout life. Through in-depth …
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Ageing and Mobility- Making the Connections
Abstract Spatial mobility in later life has received much attention by researchers and policy makers in recent years as part of discourses around active ageing and ageing independently. Here mobility is predominantly conceptualised in terms of its function for ensuring older people’s well-being and …
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The Gender Confidence Gap: A Life Course and Intersectional Approach
… I consider the patterns of the gap across the life course and social categories of race to test theories of the gap. I adopt an intersectional and life course approach to test nature versus nurture theories of the gap. Analyzing data from the three-wave MIDUS, I provide evidence that the gap …
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On the threshold of adult life: Dis-course and life course of mental retardation in American culture
"""On the Threshold of Adult Life"" is a study of the transition to adult life of persons with mild mental retardation in American culture. The analysis combines a discourse and life course approach based on (a) ethnographic work with twelve individuals, parents and school or agency personnel, (b) …
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Pakartotinai įkalintų asmenų gyvenimo eigos ypatumai /
Based on the life-course criminology approach, the aim was to analyze the contexts of risk factors that manifest in repeat offenders in Lithuania and to identify the aspects that influenced the onset and continuity of criminal behavior by examining the life histories of individuals. The …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Policies Supporting Family Caregivers of Old Adults
… social ecological perspective, role theory, and life course approach, was used to critique the effectiveness of Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 (P.L. 103-3) and the National Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP) of 2000 (Title III-E and Title VI-C). Combined, FMLA and NFCSP are …
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A study of the Zhiqing identity
… in this study. By applying Glen H. Elder’s life course approach, the study reveals how Zhiqing’s life trajectories are embedded in the social history and identifies a series of interrelated factors that made Zhiqing into a unique generation. With the guidance of Henri Tajfel’s social …
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Pathways to independence: the experience of young homeless people
… of 'pathways' they took through homelessness. A 'life course' approach was taken in the thesis, in other words, young people's experiences of homelessness were placed in the context of their lives as a whole. There were three phases of empirical research. The initial stage involved 8 group …
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Choice, Chance, or Circumstance: A Qualitative Study of Never-Married and Once-Married Women's Marriage Beliefs in Midlife
… career women, little is known about the life experiences of non-career path single women. This study examined the core marriage beliefs of never-married and once-married child-free, midlife women and the ways in which those beliefs have evolved over time. The sample consisted of 10 women, …
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'I'd be unhealthy if nobody wanted me anymore': a sociological analysis of the relationship between ageing and health beliefs
This thesis is based upon life history and focus group interviews on the health beliefs of 26 older adults from Hull and surrounding areas. The research rationale is twofold. First, the area is relatively neglected. Second, it is posited that, whilst existing research reflects the idea that beliefs …
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Lived experiences of low-wage, working women in Texas without paid postpartum leave
… al., 2016; Winston, et al., 2019). Framed by the life course approach and socioecological model, this study explored eight women’s experiences during their postpartum year using semi-structured interviews. Coding followed Creswell’s (2013) data analysis spiral, which consists of organizing the …
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Old-age pensions and life course in rural China : the emergence of modern retirement?
… in this transformation process influencing the life chances of many peasants. This study deals with the relationship between social policy and individual life courses in the context of the Chinese reform process. By studying the rural pension policy, the study focuses on the power of social …
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It's Personal and it's Professional: The meanings women Baby-boomers attribute to their ageing and 'working-out' with a personal trainer.
… is given to the concept of active ageing, a lifestyle all individuals are encouraged to embrace as a way to facilitate ‘ageing well’. Such an ideal is in part fostered by the Baby-boomer heading into their ‘old’ age where there is a high probability many will live to eighty years and beyond. …
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A multidisciplinary approach to reconstruct the lived-experience of people with ‘leprosy’ and Hansen’s Disease in medieval England
… sufferers by using a multidisciplinary life-course approach to holistically interpret a myriad of osteologically and biomolecularly reconstructable proxies of health and social status/treatment. Osteobiographies (n=559), palaeopathological descriptions (n=554), δ13C and δ15N isotope data …
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Applying health psychology in an academic environment
… evaluate the objective conditions of their life and is widely thought to consist of both affective and cognitive appraisal components. It has been found to be associated with a wide range of outcomes, including health, functioning, mortality, income and coping. Understanding the determinants …
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Genetic Determinants of Body Weight and Physical Maturation Across the Life Course
Evidence points to early life as a critical period of heightened susceptibility to factors that alter the risk of later-life non-communicable diseases. Two early life risk factors increasingly recognised as important for adult health are early puberty timing and childhood obesity. Both factors are …
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Aetiological role of early lifestyle exposures in puberty timing
… promote earlier puberty, it is unclear whether lifestyle behaviours are determinants of puberty timing. This thesis aimed to explore whether diet and physical activity in childhood are associated with puberty timing, using a combination of robust analytical approaches. First, to understand the …
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