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Personality Attributes of Malaysian Youth: Age Differences in Big Five Domains From 15 To 39
Andi, Hari Krishnan - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 2 (2012) 11, pp. 1998-2008
The present study investigated age and gender differences in Big Five in a Malay speaking Malaysian youth (N=1036 … age of the youth and for female is great drops in the mean levels as they reach pre adulthood stage. Gender differences …
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Sources of somatization: Exploring the roles of insecurity in relationships and styles of anger experience and expression
Liu, Liang; Cohen, Shiri; Schulz, Marc S.; Waldinger, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 9, pp. 1436-1443
Research in the U.S. has shown strong connections between insecure attachment in close relationships and somatization … insecure attachment and somatization was partially mediated by anger proneness for men and by anger suppression for women … turn fosters somatization. For women, findings suggest that insecure attachment may influence adult levels of somatization …
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Time Allocation between Work and Family over the Life-Cycle: A Comparative Gender Analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States
Anxo, Dominique; Pailhé, Ariane; SOLAZ, Anne; Flood, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This article analyses the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …), we show large discrepancies in the gender division of labour at the different life stages. This gender gap exists in all …
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Exploring antecedents of SMS-based mobile advertising perceptions
Coursaris, Constantinos K.; Sung, Jieun; Swierenga, Sarah J. - In: International Journal of Electronic Finance 6 (2012) 2, pp. 143-156
advertisement, as well as cultural, gender or age differences. A PLS data analysis indicates positive effects of mobile ads' message …
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The Development of Capability Indicators
Anand, Paul; Hunter, Graham; Carter, Ian; Dowding, Keith; … - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 10 (2009) 1, pp. 125-152
quantitative, but no qualitative, gender and age differences in the capabilities-life satisfaction relationship. Furthermore, we …
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Aging and choice: Applications to Medicare Part D
Tanius, Betty E.; Wood, Stacey; Hanoch, Yaniv; Rice, Thomas - In: Judgment and Decision Making 4 (2009) 1, pp. 92-101
We examined choice behavior in younger versus older adults using a medical decision-making task similar to Medicare Part D. The study was designed to assess age differences in choice processes in general and specifically designed to examine the effect of choice set size on performance. Data are...
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Individual quality and age affect responses to an energetic constraint in a cavity-nesting bird
Ardia, Daniel R.; Clotfelter, Ethan D. - In: Behavioral Ecology 18 (2007) 1, pp. 259-266
Individual variation in life-history trade-offs can be caused by differences in quality and age. We tested for individual variation in parental investment in incubating tree swallows (Tacyhcineta bicolor) subjected to a feather-clipping manipulation. Individual quality influenced how females...
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Aging and decision making: How aging affects decisions under uncertainty
Sproten, Alec; Diener, Carsten; Fiebach, Christian; … - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2010
In an aging society, it becomes more and more important to understand how aging affects decision making. Older adults have to face many situations that require consequential financial decisions. In the present study, we examined the effects of aging on decisions in two domains of uncertainty:...
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Intergenerational Cooperation: an Experimental Study on Beliefs
Kulesz, Micaela M.; Dittrich, Dennis A. V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We report on an experiment in which subjects older than 55 years old and subjects younger than 26 years old play repeatedly 4 versions of the centipede game. For each game we define four treatments that allow us to study cooperation and belief formation of these two age groups. We find that...
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Age Differences in Women's Perceptions of Their Health Problems and Concerns
Denton, Margaret; Walters, Vivienne - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 1997
This paper addresses age differences in women's perceptions of their health problems and concerns. The data are drawn from interviews with a stratified random sample of 356 women in Hamilton, Canada. The data show that women of all ages are concerned or worried about the major causes of death...
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