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We examined the influence of age, gender, Black vs. White ethnicity, and education on five indices of personality stability and change across an average interval of 8 years in the East Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. In the...
Despite improvements over time and within most areas of the world, there remain large variations in birth outcomes worldwide. While prior research has examined the health and individual level social factors that influence birth outcomes...
Over the past few decades, U.S. communities have become increasingly unequal in terms of aggregate educational composition. Extant research shows that educational composition predicts community prosperity and community wellbeing...
Certain demographic factors have long been cited to confer risk or protection for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. However, many studies have found weak or non-significant effects. Determining the effect strength and clinical utility of...
The reconcilability of actions and beliefs in inter-country relationships, either in business or politics, is of vital importance as incorrect beliefs on foreigners' behavior can have serious implications. We study a typical inter...
An Assessment of the Relationship Between Health Behaviors, Physiological Dysregulation, and Mortality for Black, White, and Mexican Americans in the U.S.
In recent decades, the influence of negative health behaviors on physical health and mortality has garnered a great deal of attention (Institute of Medicine 2001). Research suggests that these negative health behaviors, such as smoking, ...
The link between socioeconomic status (SES) and health and mortality has been well-established, but evidence continues to suggest that this relationship begins in early life with parental SES. There is evidence that allostatic load (AL)...
National character stereotypes are widely shared, but do not reflect assessed levels of personality traits. In this article we present data illustrating the divergence of stereotypes and assessed personality traits in north and south...
Health outcomes within the United States continue to widen showing an ever-growing gap between states when it comes to population health. Over the past three decades research conducted on population health primarily focused on individual...
The homicide rate in Chicago nearly tripled between 1965 and 1992, and subsequently declined by more than 50% through 2005. But is this trend representative of all areas in the city? Drawing on the social disorganization and concentrated...
With national statistics indicating burgeoning student debt loads among emerging adults, but fewer studies analyzing the consequences of student borrowing, the purpose of this dissertation was to examine the association between student...
A true understanding of urbanism means acknowledging the paradoxical relationship that exists between established community and constant development. Originally, an approach to balancing the growing congestion of overpopulated suburbs, ...
India has the greatest maternal and child health burden in the world, having more stunted and wasted children, neonatal deaths, and deaths of children under age five than any other nation (Paul et al. 2011; UNICEF 2013; 2018; Hug, ...
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