• 2023). Gender based adolescent self-compassion profiles and the mediating role of nonattachment on psychological well-being. (edu.au)
  • 2023). The World Trade Center Health Program: Cancer screening and cancer care best practices. (cdc.gov)
  • This project will combine several methods to investigate the development and 'spread' of self-harm through social networks during adolescence, with a particular focus on the role of social media. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • With support from the NIH and CDC over the past 30+ years, she studies changes in the behavioral phenotype of specific neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism, fragile X syndrome (FXS), and Down syndrome during adolescence, adulthood, and old age. (wisc.edu)
  • Her current research includes a 22-year longitudinal study of autism during adolescence and adulthood, a decade-long study of family adaptation to FXS, and several research projects on demographically-representative samples of parents of individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. (wisc.edu)
  • 2002. "Academic and Health-Related Trajectories in Adolescence: The Intersection of Gender and Athletics. (albanica.al)
  • This study examined whether sex-related health disparities that emerge during adolescence are linked to social norms and social connections within three primary social contexts: families, friendships, and schools. (bsl.nl)
  • Currently, little is understood about how changing friendship networks shape weight gain behaviors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This paper describes the recruitment, data collection, and data analytic protocols for the SPARC (Social impact of Physical Activity and nutRition in College) study, a longitudinal examination of the mechanisms by which friends and friendship networks influence nutrition and physical activity behaviors and weight gain in the transition to college life. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Having a better scientific grasp of the pathways by which friendship networks impact weight-related behaviors and outcomes is crucial for designing effective behavioral and obesity prevention interventions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Strong epidemiological data are needed on the changes (e.g., new friendships, activities/behaviors done together) that occur among friends to better understand the mechanisms impacting friends' health behaviors/outcomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The literature presents inconsistent findings about what portion of the relationship between friends' weight-related behaviors and outcomes can be attributed to different mechanisms such as shared routines, social learning, social pressure, friend selection, friendship ideals, shared access, norms, and influence. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This longitudinal study, SPARC (Social impact of Physical Activity and nutRition in College), aims to describe the mechanism(s) by which friends' and freshmen's eating/PA behaviors and weight are related and to examine contextual factors related to behaviors among friendship networks over time (see conceptual framework in Fig. 1 ). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Studies by Nicholas A. Christakis and Fowler suggested a variety of individuals' attributes like obesity, smoking cessation, and happiness rather than being individualistic, are causally correlated by contagion mechanisms that transmit these behaviors over long distances within social networks. (wikipedia.org)
  • Emerging adults' cultural values, prosocial behaviors, and mental health in 14 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. (uni-osnabrueck.de)
  • This exploratory study aims to examine how sexual minorities in middle school use social media, who they are connected to and for what purposes, and the associations between these behaviors and mental well-being compared with their heterosexual peers. (jmir.org)
  • Dating someone whose friends are big drinkers is more likely to cause an adolescent to engage in dangerous drinking behaviors than are the drinking habits of the adolescent's own friends or romantic partner," said Derek Kreager, lead author of the study and an associate professor of crime, law, and justice at Pennsylvania State University. (myrecovery.com)
  • Additionally, 2.3 million 12- to 17-year-olds used alcohol for the first time in 2019, averaging approximately 6,200 adolescents who began using alcohol daily. (addictionhelp.com)
  • 11 Another study saw loneliness in U.S. adults jump from 54% to 61% in just 1 year (2018 to 2019). (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • And even more recently, a large-scale study of Israeli men has shown how average testosterone levels have dropped between 2006 and 2019 [7] - by over 10% across almost every age category. (medichecks.com)
  • 2019 research indicates that social support and friendship can improve cognitive functioning. (psychcentral.com)
  • According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), 15% began using alcohol before they were 13. (addictionhelp.com)
  • King's Centre for Society & Mental Health announces new PhD studentships in three areas. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • The Centre for Society & Mental Health is proud to announce three new PhD studentships! (kcl.ac.uk)
  • 1+3: the student will complete a LISS DTP MSc in Mental Health Studies, including training in advanced quantitative, longitudinal social network analyses, and qualitative analyses to fully equip him/her to complete this project. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • The prevalence of mental health problems is high among food bank users, affecting over 35% of this population. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • The causal mechanisms linking mental health disorders, household food insecurity and use of food banks remain poorly understood. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Poor mental health conditions may be the result of poverty and economic disadvantage,which are also linked to food insecurity and food bank use. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • But poor mental health may also increase risk of food insecurity, sometimes independent of income. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • This project will examine the relationship and underlying causal mechanisms between welfare reform, food insecurity and mental health, with a particular focus on the rise in the use of food banks since 2010 in the UK. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • It can have a positive impact on your physical and mental health, and it can improve your well-being. (psychcentral.com)
  • Having close friends during adolescent and teenage years can promote mental health during adulthood. (psychcentral.com)
  • Loneliness can lead to depression and other mental and physical health issues, so alleviating the situation promotes your mental health. (psychcentral.com)
  • Utilizing a case-study approach, this paper addresses the role of civil society disability and mental health organizations as social innovators in Italy during the economic crises. (aps.pt)
  • Since the 1960s, civil society organizations (CSOs) [1] and activists in Europe have a crucial role in defining mental health and disability issues, and in the development of reforms of mental health policies and services (Gardien, 2012). (aps.pt)
  • Web-based interventions enhanced with social media components offer a novel approach to intervening on key mechanisms which may increase adolescent use of mental health services. (jmir.org)
  • These key mechanisms include addressing parents' and adolescents' health beliefs [ 1 , 2 ], offering emotional support [ 3 , 4 ], and facilitating communication about mental health with other adolescents and other parents. (jmir.org)
  • Background: Youth experiencing homelessness are at risk for sex trafficking and mental health concerns. (suicideinfo.ca)
  • Objective Prior research has found disclosure of concealable stigmatized statuses, including suicide attempt survivorship, to be associated with positive mental health outcomes. (suicideinfo.ca)
  • Recurrent victimization was significantly associated with higher odds of reporting internalized heterosexism, efforts to conceal gender and sexual orientation, languishing mental health, social anxiety, loneliness, and post-traumatic stress symptoms. (ijcar-rirea.ca)
  • One of the benefits of friendship is that it can decrease feelings of loneliness. (psychcentral.com)
  • Studies indicated that maintaining friendships during the early stages of recovery encourages a sense of companionship, alleviating loneliness and improving life satisfaction. (psychcentral.com)
  • SAMSHA reports that among adolescents ages 12 to 17, 2.3 million reported using alcohol in the past month, and 29,000 reported using alcohol daily. (addictionhelp.com)
  • The National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA) discovered that while underage youth drink less than adults overall, they consume much larger quantities than their adult counterparts in a single sitting. (addictionhelp.com)
  • Journal Of Studies On Alcohol , Supplement 13 , 103-111. (iastate.edu)
  • Social network effects in alcohol consumption among adolescents. (bsl.nl)
  • Exposure to Specific Types of Alcohol-Related SNS Content and Adolescents'(Underage) Drinking: A Two-Wave Daily Diary Study. (ccam-ascor.nl)
  • An extensive amount of research has been conducted on the psychological functioning of children of alcohol abusers, although relatively few studies have addressed these children's school adjustment. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study investigates school adjustment, reported by a population based sample of adolescents, in relation to alcohol use reported by parents, while controlling for possible confounding or mediating psychosocial factors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The Scale of Social Representations of the Consumption of Alcohol and Drugs in Adolescents was used. (bvsalud.org)
  • Early adolescent years are marked by pervasive self- and peer-regulation regarding gender and sexuality norms, which can affect the mental well-being of sexual minority youth. (jmir.org)
  • These results support the idea that the peer contexts of dating expose adolescents to new opportunities and norms that influence their own drinking behavior, while also increasing opposite-gender friendship ties and expanding early adolescent mixed-gender peer groups, according to the authors. (myrecovery.com)
  • homophily on body mass index, BMI) and the strength of peer influence would increase or decrease the proportion of network member (agents) becoming overweight over a simulated year, and that peer influence would operate differently in social networks with greater overweight. (isiarticles.com)
  • making peer influence negative (i.e., doing the opposite of friends) increased overweight. (isiarticles.com)
  • when BMI was increased overall, stronger peer influence increased proportion of overweight. (isiarticles.com)
  • Peer influence may be a viable target in overweight interventions, but the distribution of body size in the population needs to be taken into account. (isiarticles.com)
  • In low-obesity populations, strengthening peer influence may be a useful strategy. (isiarticles.com)
  • Getting under the skin: Long-term links of adolescent peer relationship difficulties to adult vagal tone. (utah.edu)
  • large city in northern Jordan, which is courage healthy behaviour, such as ap- Trained health-workers provide the the second largest in the district was se- propriate self-management of chronic initial training of the peer leaders and lected. (who.int)
  • The Supporting Our Valued Adolescents (SOVA) intervention aims to use a moderated social media website to encourage peer discussion about negative health beliefs, which may prevent treatment uptake. (jmir.org)
  • Web moderators with a background in behavioral health are used to facilitate peer conversation to promote a sense of community, provide social support, and ensure safety. (jmir.org)
  • This study sought to describe interactions between moderators and peer users and understand moderator experiences through individual interviews. (jmir.org)
  • Given the predominance of social network homophily for behavioural, personality and cognitive traits, we can reasonably expect that this extends to similarities in brain function. (nature.com)
  • The first case-study concerns social housing for people with mental/cognitive impairment. (aps.pt)
  • Multilevel models revealed that boys high in cognitive empathy attracted an average of 1.8 more girl friendship nominations than did their low empathy counterparts, whereas empathic girls did not attract a greater number of opposite‐sex friends. (edu.au)
  • I believe that the study of social cognitive development will pave the way for producing real change in adult behavior, especially in the domain of intergroup cognition where attitudes and stereotypes are known to have a profound influence. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Inspired by her decades of engagement and service, at the University of British Columbia I established a community-based research laboratory at Science World, a public science center where visitors have an opportunity to observe cutting-edge science in action and can engage directly with researchers studying cognitive development to learn more about the scientific method (see www.scienceworld.ca/lab ). (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Children Dancing for Social Cognitive Skills: A Mixed Methods Study. (gmu.edu)
  • Ethnic differences in social networks and support: Measurement considerations, and implications for disparities research. (utah.edu)
  • Multiple early victimization experiences as a pathway to explain physical health disparities among sexual minority and heterosexual individuals. (ijcar-rirea.ca)
  • Mailick's research incorporates epidemiological methods, biomarkers, and genetics, as well as social and psychological approaches, and analyzes electronic health records to advance knowledge about the health phenotype of FXS and autism. (wisc.edu)
  • Methods: Based on a national survey on asthma control and disease perception (CARN 2015 study), we analysed the impact of comorbidities on annual incidence and frequency of H-AX in China. (researchsquare.com)
  • METHODS: This study aimed to examine the role of internalized weight stigma as a mediator in the relationship between perceived weight stigma and changes in body mass index (BMI). (bvsalud.org)
  • METHODS: Population-based, case-control study of 1,396 cases of melanoma diagnosed before age 30 in 1988-2013 and 27,920 controls, obtained by linking cancer registry data to birth records in California. (cdc.gov)
  • 2017. "Sources of Segregation in Social Networks: A Novel Approach Using Facebook. (frankvantubergen.nl)
  • 2011. "Acquisition of Cross-Ethnic Friends by Recent Immigrants in Canada: A Longitudinal Approach. (frankvantubergen.nl)
  • A novel iOS data donation approach: Automatic processing, compliance, and reactivity in a longitudinal study. (ccam-ascor.nl)
  • 2016). An adolescent substance prevention model blocks the effect of CHRNA5 genotype on smoking during high school . (iastate.edu)
  • 2016. "Ethnic Composition and Friendship Segregation: Differential Effects for Adolescent Natives and Immigrants. (frankvantubergen.nl)
  • Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health ( N = 18,921), we assessed links between social norms and social connections with parents, friends, and schools and depressive symptoms and substance use separately for males and females. (bsl.nl)
  • Results suggested that links between social norms and adolescent health were stable across the sex of the recipient but varied by sex of the provider, whereas links between social connections and adolescent health varied across the sex of both provider and recipient. (bsl.nl)
  • 1] In certain populations, such as adolescents and young adults, suicide constitutes 1 of the top 3 causes of death. (medscape.com)
  • Nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) has been used widely in the sexually active adolescent and adult populations secondary to its higher sensitivity, noninvasive sample collections, and its utility in testing for both Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis with one sample, and its lower cost compared to culture. (medscape.com)
  • Adolescent development of interethnic attitudes following a social intervention to increase intergroup contact: The moderating role of affective forecasting. (uni-osnabrueck.de)
  • To focus on health inequalities and to understand interactions between women, professionals, organisations and systems to inform policy, practice and the design of complex intervention trials to improve infant feeding outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • Adolescents and young adults aged 14 to 26 years with depression or anxiety history were recruited for a usability study of the SOVA intervention. (jmir.org)
  • Understanding the implications of the study of centrality within the social network of adolescents who engage in group sport is fundamental to the design of quality intervention strategies. (bmj.com)
  • She recently completed an epidemiological study of the premutation of FXS and a 20-year follow up of a cohort of older adults with Down syndrome, examining how the family environment predicts outcomes in midlife and old age. (wisc.edu)
  • Social connectedness and belonging can improve happiness and myriad health outcomes, in addition to workplace outcomes like engagement and performance. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • This resource examines the relationship between social connectedness and health, well-being, community and business outcomes. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • 2015. "A Longitudinal Study of Interethnic Contacts in Germany: Estimates from a Multilevel Growth Curve Model. (frankvantubergen.nl)
  • 2009 "Dynamics of Interethnic Contact: A Panel Study of Immigrants in the Netherlands. (frankvantubergen.nl)
  • James H. Fowler (born February 18, 1970) is an American social scientist specializing in social networks, cooperation, political participation, and genopolitics (the study of the genetic basis of political behavior). (wikipedia.org)
  • Connected draws on previously published and unpublished studies, including the Framingham Heart Study and makes several new conclusions about the influence of social networks on human health and behavior. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Connected, they put forward their "three degrees of influence" rule about human behavior, which theorizes that each person's individual social influence stretches three degrees before it fades out. (wikipedia.org)
  • Journal of Health & Social Behavior 43: 317- 335. (albanica.al)
  • Research from 2017 shows that having friendships can reduce stress and anxiety levels. (psychcentral.com)
  • To further explore how internalized weight stigma mediates the relationship between perceived weight stigma and the changes in body mass index (BMI), the study collected data through a longitudinal online survey with two phases by applying the Perceived Weight Stigma Scale (PWSS), Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire (WSSQ) and Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale − 21 (DASS-21) to assess perceived weight stigma, internalized weight stigma, and psychological distress. (bvsalud.org)
  • Moderators of a Web-based support site for adolescents with depression or anxiety were able to ensure safety while promoting user engagement. (jmir.org)
  • This article examines the extent to which participation in sports acts as a conditioning effect to the relationship between economic disadvantage and adolescent violent delinquency. (albanica.al)
  • Deriving hypotheses from general strain and social control theories, we use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to test if type of extracurricular activity participation diminishes the risk of economic disadvantage on violent delinquency. (albanica.al)
  • The prevalence of adolescent overweight and obesity (hereafter, simply "overweight") in the US has increased over the past several decades. (isiarticles.com)
  • Low back pain (LBP) is a significant health care problem, where the 1-year prevalence for LBP ranges from 22% to 65% [ 1 ]. (plos.org)
  • This study is the first to meta-analyze all available studies to estimate the prevalence of disclosure, to whom people disclose, and examine factors that influence disclosure. (suicideinfo.ca)
  • A separate study from 2020 focused on supporting the maintenance of friendships in persons living with aphasia . (psychcentral.com)
  • 2018 studies show that people with healthy friendships during childhood experience improved health during adulthood. (psychcentral.com)
  • Adolescent relational aggression and internalizing symptoms in adulthood: The protective role of network centrality. (gmu.edu)
  • Using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, Understanding Society , a team of researchers supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation explored the relationship between social networks and poverty across ethnicities. (brookings.edu)
  • In a sample of young adults, Brody and Peña (2015) found that particular language, specifically positive emotional words used in text messaging were associated with greater relationship satisfaction, while negative emotional words were associated with lower satisfaction in both friendships and romantic relationships. (researchgate.net)
  • Adolescents are motivated to be more like their partner's friends in an effort to strengthen their relationship with their partner. (myrecovery.com)
  • This resource looks at the relationship between social connectedness, belonging and health and well-being. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • This study investigates the relationship between parental drinking and school adjustment in a total population sample of adolescents, with independent reports from mothers, fathers, and adolescents. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Objectives To analyse the physical activity carried out by the adolescents in the study, its relationship to being overweight (overweight+obese) and to analyse the structure of the social network of friendship established in adolescents doing group sports, using different parameters indicative of centrality. (bmj.com)
  • ABSTRACT The Adolescent Asthma Action programme (Triple A) has been used successfully to promote asthma knowledge, awareness and quality of life in adolescents with asthma in Australia. (who.int)
  • The authors concluded that adolescents with psychopathology who report psychotic symptoms are at clinical high risk for suicide attempts. (medscape.com)
  • Developing and maintaining healthy friendships can improve your overall well-being in many ways, such as reducing symptoms of stress and providing a reliable support system. (psychcentral.com)
  • Psychotic symptoms especially in adolescents - Kelleher et al reported in a prospective cohort study of 1112 school-based adolescents (aged 13-16 y), that 7% of the total sample reported psychotic symptoms at baseline. (medscape.com)
  • Psychotic symptoms in adolescents may serve as a marked for that population being at high suicidal risk. (medscape.com)
  • As a human progresses through life, they transition from a zygote to a crying infant, from a babbling toddler to a curious kindergartner, from a quick-learning grade school student to a broody adolescent, from an independence-seeking emerging adult to a mature adult, and later, to an elderly senior. (pressbooks.pub)
  • Likewise, developing healthy friendships as an adult also helps in this sense. (psychcentral.com)
  • Sexual Interaction in Digital Contexts: Opportunities and Risks for Sexual Health. (ccam-ascor.nl)
  • This proposal of an ecological risk/resilience model in special education is derived from the resilience perspective and is based on Bronfenbrenner's (1994) ecological model of development, and contributions in the study of resilience (Rutter, 1993). (scirp.org)
  • In this sense, the study of resilience in the education field has its purpose to understand why some students from adverse environmental backgrounds and communities succeed while others from equally adverse conditions do not. (scirp.org)
  • Conclusions Our findings, with limitations, underline the importance of two fundamental aspects to be taken into account in the design of future strategies: gender and the centrality within the social network depending on the intensity of contact they have with their peers. (bmj.com)
  • Social pressure is often one of the biggest influences leading to underage drinking. (addictionhelp.com)
  • Particularly, the mechanisms by which friendship networks are integral to patterns of eating and PA are very poorly described. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The codevelopment of extraversion and friendships: Bonding and behavioral interaction mechanisms in friendship networks. (uni-osnabrueck.de)
  • A longitudinal test of secondary transfer effects of negative intergroup contact and mediating processes. (uni-osnabrueck.de)
  • Secondary analyses of existing data on self-harm, social networks and other putative explanatory factors, collected from the REACH cohort of around 1,200 adolescents (aged 11 to 14 and followed to age 16) using longitudinal network analyses. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Primary and secondary outcome measures Physical Activity Questionnaire for Adolescents (PAQ-A) was used to study the level of physical activity. (bmj.com)
  • Disentangling contact and socialization effects on outgroup attitudes in diverse friendship networks. (uni-osnabrueck.de)
  • 2018. 'Making Friends across Ethnic Boundaries: Are Personal Networks of Adolescents Diverse? (frankvantubergen.nl)
  • More attention to the diverse values, meanings and emotions around infant feeding within families could help to reconcile health ideals with reality. (bmj.com)
  • White Britons are the least likely to have ethnically and geographically mixed social networks . (brookings.edu)
  • Ethnically mixed friendships are often seen as a key indicator of social integration. (frankvantubergen.nl)
  • He is best known for his studies of the social spread of obesity, smoking, and happiness in the Framingham Heart Study, but he has also studied the network of legislative cosponsorships in the U.S. Congress and the network of U.S. Supreme Court precedents. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fowler also appeared during the Threatdown on his December 10, 2008 show, describing his work on the spread of happiness in social networks, and again on the January 7th, 2010 show to discuss the sociological impact of social networking. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis Over 20 Years in the Framingham Heart Study" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
  • A Cross-Sectional Survey Study of Dutch Families. (ccam-ascor.nl)
  • The small sample size (n:235), the cross-sectional nature of the study and the network definition (classroom study) are the main limitations of this work. (bmj.com)
  • Social network analysis is a tool that can help us understand the relational structure of the adolescent. (bmj.com)
  • The SPARC study aims to follow 1450 university freshmen from a large university over an academic year, collecting data on multiple aspects of friends and friendship networks. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A debate over the statistical models used to establish these three degrees of influence findings ensued, but subsequent studies have found evidence of their central claims about behavioral influence and contagion. (wikipedia.org)
  • It builds on our track record of research within the Trussell Trust Foodbank Network and the findings of our ongoing pilot study. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • According to a 2017 study , engaging in friendships can also help improve memory and recall. (psychcentral.com)
  • Studies from 2017 show that people who work out with others exercise more and experience decreased stress levels. (psychcentral.com)
  • These results provide further evidence that SCT's assumption of equal motivation to crime is untenable, as individual differences in the personality characteristic thrill seeking influence the likelihood of offending. (researchgate.net)
  • Clashes between overt or covert idealism and realism within and between families and the health service occur at pivotal points particularly in the early weeks after birth and around the introduction of solids. (bmj.com)
  • Future longitudinal studies could determine any bidirectional influences of mental well-being and social media use in sexual minorities during this difficult developmental period. (jmir.org)
  • A 2018 study shows that high quality friendships bring a sense of support and intimacy. (psychcentral.com)
  • According to 2018 research , having healthy friendships can improve life satisfaction in a few ways. (psychcentral.com)
  • Another study from 2018 indicates that those getting chemotherapy for cancer have a better prognosis when they have friends around during treatment. (psychcentral.com)
  • Journal Of Child And Adolescent Substance Abuse , 14 (3), 39-68. (iastate.edu)
  • 2005. "Participation in School-Based Extracurricular Activities and Adolescent Adjustment. (albanica.al)
  • However, few studies address which parts of school adjustment that may be impaired. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Previous research suggests that the proximity of individuals in a social network predicts how similarly their brains respond to naturalistic stimuli. (nature.com)
  • Fowler's research centers on social networks. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition to his research on social networks, Fowler has become known for his work on genopolitics, showing that genes influence voting and other forms of political participation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fowler's newest research focuses on Facebook friendship as a predictor of voter mobilization, and the use of the social network medium, to mobilize voters in American elections. (wikipedia.org)
  • Drawing on theory and research on the personality characteristic thrill seeking, we hypothesize that thrill seeking and self-control have independent influences on offending: that motivation to the process of crime matters. (researchgate.net)
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. (utah.edu)
  • The present study was based on a national survey on asthma control and disease perception conducted by China Asthma Research Network (CARN 2015 study) [ 16 ] . (researchsquare.com)
  • The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health: Research Design. (albanica.al)
  • and has received research grant support from CIHR/GACD/National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). (psychiatrist.com)
  • broader inequalities, including in education and employment, shape the networks that people have access to and also have a greater independent effect on levels of poverty. (brookings.edu)
  • But even after taking obesity into account, most studies still show a downward trend in testosterone, which means it can't be the only culprit. (medichecks.com)
  • Qualitative data using digital diaries on a sub-sample of around 40 adolescents who report self-harm to gain in-depth accounts of what factors, from the perspectives of young people, increase and decrease likelihood of self-harm, in particular the role of friendships and social media. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • A longitudinal Study of the psychological Effects of Unemployment and unsatisfactory Employment on Young Adults. (eur.nl)
  • For example, the study found that the odds of an adolescent binge drinking if his or her partner's friends engage in heavy drinking is more than twice as high as the likelihood of an adolescent binge drinking if his or her friends or significant other drink heavily. (myrecovery.com)
  • 2014 "Ethnic intermarriage in longitudinal perspective: Testing structural and cultural explanations in the United States, 1880-2011. (frankvantubergen.nl)
  • A social network analysis was carried out to analyse structural variables of centrality in different degrees of contact. (bmj.com)
  • A cross-national study on youth's attitudes and beliefs in times of COVID-19. (uni-osnabrueck.de)
  • It has been identified that the level of information influences non- permissive attitudes and positive beliefs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Regardless of the quantity of friendship nominations, empathy was linked to more supportive friendships for both males and females. (edu.au)
  • University databases will provide student card data, allowing integration of both time-dated data on food purchasing, use of physical activity venues, and geographical information system (GIS) locations of these activities relative to other students in their social networks. (biomedcentral.com)
  • High school and university students have been found to rearrange their local social networks to form ties and clusters with students who have similar performance levels 6 and this type of homophily has been observed even in polygenic scores for academic achievement 7 . (nature.com)
  • More recently, he has shown evidence that social networks have a partly genetic basis. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2010, he published a paper regarding the use of social networks as 'sensors' for forecasting epidemics. (wikipedia.org)
  • In September 2009, Little, Brown & Co. published Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler. (wikipedia.org)
  • Social Networks, 64 , 122-133. (uni-osnabrueck.de)
  • Social networks are only one mechanism for reducing poverty, and by no means the most direct. (brookings.edu)
  • Social networks reflect and reinforce gaps in other domains. (brookings.edu)
  • Individually-targeted prevention and treatment strategies targeting individuals have been disappointing, leading some to propose leveraging social networks to improve interventions. (isiarticles.com)
  • Social Networks , 44, 130-142. (frankvantubergen.nl)
  • Social Networks, 39, 33-45. (frankvantubergen.nl)
  • In addition, she studies how the family environment affects the development of individuals with diagnoses during these stages of life, and reciprocally how their parents and siblings are affected. (wisc.edu)
  • 2003. "Extracurricular Activities and Adolescent Development. (albanica.al)
  • 2005. "The Role of School-Based Extracurricular Activities in Adolescent Development: A Comprehensive Review and Future Directions. (albanica.al)
  • Civil society organizations play a vital role in setting the agenda in health and social rights and in the development of innovative public policies. (aps.pt)
  • The school is considered one of the main places for drugs by adolescents has increased over the last few the development of actions to prevent substance use due years. (bvsalud.org)
  • To investigate whether neural homophily between friends exists at rest we collected resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from 68 school-aged girls, along with social network information from all pupils in their year groups (total 5,066 social dyads). (nature.com)
  • Participants were asked to rate the amount of time they voluntarily spent with each person in their year group, and directed social network matrices and community structure were then determined from these data. (nature.com)
  • These hypotheses are tested using data from the Family and Community Health Study, a sample of roughly 700 African American youth and their families. (researchgate.net)
  • Relying on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a survey of U.S. adolescents enrolled in grades 7 through 12 in the 1994-1995 school year, the Kreager/Haynie study considers responses from 449 couples (898 students) in 1994, when they hadn't necessarily gotten together yet, and in 1996, after they had become a couple. (myrecovery.com)
  • We focused on a single saturation school with complete network and BMI data over two waves (n = 624). (isiarticles.com)
  • Using data from a national survey on asthma control and disease perception, we aimed to analysis the impact of comorbidities on hospitalisation for asthma exacerbation (H-AX) in China. (researchsquare.com)
  • In that study steered with approval by the Ethics Committee of China Japan Friendship Hospital, data on demography, asthma control, medical and self- management, exacerbations, and disease perception were collected during face-to-face interviews with written informed consent from the patients. (researchsquare.com)
  • These data are also vital inputs throughout the process of implementing evidence-based public health approaches to reduce the burden of chronic diseases in the United States. (cdc.gov)