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Socioeconomic pathways to depressive symptoms in adulthood: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979
Quesnel-Vallée, Amélie; Taylor, Miles - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 5, pp. 734-743
and indirect pathways linking early SEP, respondents' education and adult household income, with a particular focus on … growth curves of household income and depressive symptoms. We found that the effect of parents' education was entirely … mediated by respondent's education. In turn, the effect of respondent's education was largely mediated by household income. In …
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Secondhand Effects of Student Alcohol Use Reported by Neighbors of Colleges: The Role of Alcohol Outlets
Wechsler, Henry; Lee, Jae Eun; Hall, John; Wagenaar, … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2002
This is a study of the secondhand effects of student alcohol use experienced by residents of neighborhoods near college campuses. We examined the relationship of a college's level of binge drinking and the number of alcohol outlets in the immediate area, to lowered quality of neighborhood life...
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USING LATENT PROFILE MODELS AND UNSTRUCTURED GROWTH MIXTURE MODELS TO ASSESS THE NUMBER OF LATENT CLASSES IN GROWTH MIXTURE MODELING
Liu, Min - 2011
Growth mixture modeling has gained much attention in applied and methodological social science research recently, but the selection of the number of latent classes for such models remains a challenging issue. This problem becomes more serious when one of the key assumptions of this model, proper...
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Regularized Finite Mixture Models for Probability Trajectories
Shedden, Kerby; Zucker, Robert - In: Psychometrika 73 (2008) 4, pp. 625-646
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Robust growth mixture models with non-ignorable missingness: Models, estimation, selection, and application
Lu, Zhenqiu; Zhang, Zhiyong - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 71 (2014) C, pp. 220-240
Challenges in the analyses of growth mixture models include missing data, outliers, estimation, and model selection. Four non-ignorable missingness models to recover the information due to missing data, and three robust models to reduce the effect of non-normality are proposed. A full Bayesian...
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Families of children with special needs in Flanders: their vulnerability within the citizenship paradigm
Sebrechts, Leen; Breda, Jef - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2012
Although societies, as a reaction to the social model of disability, try to integrate and empower people with impairments and disadvantaged families through inclusive policies, these population groups continue to experience integration difficulties. Besides negative changes in health, a weak...
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Health Measurement in Population Surveys: Combining Information from Self-reported and Observer-Measured Health Indicators
Ploubidis, George; Grundy, Emily - In: Demography 48 (2011) 2, pp. 699-724
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Sociodemographic and cultural determinants of sleep deficiency: Implications for cardiometabolic disease risk
Knutson, Kristen L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 79 (2013) C, pp. 7-15
Sleep is a biological imperative associated with cardiometabolic disease risk. As such, a thorough discussion of the sociocultural and demographic determinants of sleep is warranted, if not overdue. This paper begins with a brief review of the laboratory and epidemiologic evidence linking sleep...
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The association of adolescent socioeconomic position and adult height: Variation across racial/ethnic groups
Richmond, Tracy K.; Walls, Courtney E.; Subramanian, S.V. - In: Economics & Human Biology 11 (2013) 2, pp. 178-184
maternal report of household income) and measured adult height in a diverse cohort of US adolescents/young adults. We found a … income positively associated with height. These findings emphasize the need to recognize differential effects of …
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Socioeconomic Position and Low Birth Weight: Evaluating Multiple and Alternative Measures Across Race in Michigan
Taylor, Cedric A. L.; Sarathchandra, Dilshani - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 3, pp. 549-564
conventional SEP measures, such as income and education, without regard to how other indicators could influence findings. This …
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