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Susceptibility to Peer Pressure as an Explanatory Variable for the Differential Effectiveness of an Alcohol Misuse Prevention Program in Elementary Schools
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1992-08)
A school-based alcohol misuse prevention program had differential effects on students' susceptibility to peer pressure, depending on prior experience with alcohol. These effects paralleled those on alcohol use and misuse, ...
Providing Spatial Data for Secondary Analysis: Issues and Current Practices Relating to Confidentiality
(2008-07-02)
Spatially explicit data pose a series of opportunities and challenges for
all the actors involved in providing data for long-term preservation and secondary
analysis—the data producer, the data archive, and the data user. ...
Social and Environmental Predictors of Maternal Depression in Current and Recent Welfare Recipients
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2000-10)
Consequences of Population Density and Size
(Sage Publications, 1980)
The classical theory about effects of high residential density is "negative," stating that high density produces negative social attitudes and undesirable behaviors. Yet empirical re search usually finds density only weakly ...
Appendices to Fomby, Paula, Joshua A. Goode, Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu, and Stefanie Mollborn (2019). “Adolescent Technology, Sleep, and Physical Activity Time in Two U.S. Cohorts.” Youth & Society.
(Sage, 2019-07-30)
The advent of Internet-enabled mobile digital devices has transformed U.S. adolescent technology use over the last decade, yet little is known about how these changes map onto other health-related behaviors. We provide a ...
Women, men, and osteoarthritis
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1995-12)
Objectives and Methods. Gender differences in the prevalence and impact of arthritis are discussed, using data and analytic results from national health surveys. Results. Most cases of arthritis are osteoarthritis, an ...
Sexual activity among older Thais: The influence of age, gender and health
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-06)
This study examines sexual activity among thepopulation aged 50 and over in Thailand inrelation to age, gender and health status. Itis the first study of older persons based on alarge nationally representative survey in ...
Studying living arrangements of the elderly: Lessons from a quasi-qualitative case study approach in Thailand
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-09)
The present study explores aspects of living arrangements of the elderly in Thailand and how they relate to intergenerational support exchanges as revealed by a quasi-qualitative case study approach. The study describes ...
Unintended Population Consequences of Policies
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-03)
Unintended population consequences of policies stem from three sources: (1) A policy overshoots its original goal; (2) different policies conflict, so that the implementation of one policy inhibits implementation of another ...