Longitudinal study Essays

  • Longitudinal Study Essay

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    stronger bonds that also benefit the workers and the organization. There are many theorists out there with their own models, ideas, and studies in the area of person-environment fit. Some of these touch on culture (O’Reilly et. al., 1991) while others have developed a separate framework

  • Comparison of Breast- Fed and Formula-Fed Children

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    is “Sibling Study Shows Little Difference between Breast- and-Bottle-Feeding” written by Alexandra Stifferlin published in TIME Magazine on February 25, 2014. Summary of the Popular Press Article The article shortly summarizes new findings of a study published in the scholarly journal Social Science & Medicine, conducted by Assistant Professor of sociology at the Ohio State University Cynthia Colen. The Times Magazine article describes the research done by Colen as a longitudinal study using three

  • Jerome Kagan Understanding The Anxious Mind Summary

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    first longitudinal study at the school to challenge the idea that children are more than just “difficult” or “easy” based on temperament, and recorded the findings and analyzations of over 400 preschoolers exposed to new stimuli and their reactions. Over the years 107 returned to be reexamined in which he found that very few showed signs of change over a period of 5 years and therefore, not much could be determined due to nature vs. nurture being a factor. Kagan conducted a second longitudinal study

  • How Does Birth Order Affect Psychological and Social Development?

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    (Hartshorne et al., 2009). Trying to find support that birth order can be used to predict future traits is common in studies of birth order effects, but because many factors other than birth order may affect personality, intellectual, creative, and relationship development (Santrock, 2011), it is difficult to study birth order effects. Confounding variables are common in birth order studies, which makes it a debatable topic (Hartshorne et al., 2009). How Does Birth Order Affect Personality? Personality

  • Literature Review: Poverty and Juvenile Delinquency

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    safety affects the life chances of low-income girls. Urban Affairs Review, 45(6), 715- 744. doi:10.1177/10780874103 61572 Reynolds, A. J., Temple, J. A., & Suh-Ruu, O. (2003). School-based early intervention and child well-being in the Chicago longitudinal study. Child Welfare, 82(5), 633-656. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. Wildeman, C., & Western, B. (2010). Incarceration in fragile families. Future of Children, 20(2), 157-177. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. U.S. Government Printing Office (U.S. GPO). (2005)

  • Freudenberg Burnout

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    first introduced by Herbert J. Freudenberg who made use of clinical observation to arrive at symptoms which were related to burnout (Paris & Hoge, 2010). Even though such method was not adopted to assess burnout, it has definitely given rise to more studies being conducted to assess burnout in various professions and fields (Paris & Hoge, 2010). Currently, burnout could be defined in various ways but the most common one was based on the work of Maslach and Jackson in 1986 who suggested that burnout could

  • Longitudinal Study Essay

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    Why the Longitudinal Study is best in Helping Children with Divorce When parents divorce one of the main concerns is the child. Worrying about what kind of impact it will have on them has always been a concern for psychologists and parents alike. Having parent’s divorce can cause stressful situations with the child and their surroundings while trying to adjust to this new situation (Felner Terre & Rowlison 1994). There have been two different studies to research the impact on children and divorce

  • child neglect

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    The domains explored in this qualitative study help provide a wider, general understanding of the children’s broad ideas and assumptions about neglect of children. The researcher follows an interview guide consisting of specific questions addressing the domains to be explored, with probing questions used where appropriate to explore responses in more depth. Many qualitative studies use Ice-breaker activities to help children enter the theme of the study more easily (Harris, Doyle and Greene, 2011)

  • Quantitative Research Article Review

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    Quantitative Research Article Review The quantitative research article that I chose to review was a study completed by Dougherty and Thompson (2009), found in Research in Nursing & Health. Very few researchers have focused their study on the impact of cardiac arrest and ICD implantation on a patient’s intimate partner. What little is known about caregiving responsibilities and caregiver burden after a cardiac illness or event has previously been focused on the spousal experiences following an

  • Social Privacy: The Negative Impact Of Social Media

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    The more social media we have, the more we think we 're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other. – JR The dictionary defines social media as websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. To society, we recognize social media as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. Social media is a global phenomenon that can be recognized all around the world by people of different ages. We have gotten to the point where

  • Early Intervention and Juvenile Delinquency Prevention: Evidence from the Chicago Longitudinal Study

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    Early Intervention and Juvenile Delinquency Prevention: Evidence from the Chicago Longitudinal Study (CLS) (Mann, E. A., & Reynolds, A. J., 2006). The Chicago Longitudinal Study (CLS) was a quasi-experimental design study which investigated the role of Child-Parent Center (CPC), early education intervention (independent variable) and child, family, peer and school-level predictors on court-reported juvenile delinquency (dependent variable). The predictor variables used have been supported through

  • Four Year Longitudinal Study

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    Abstract In reviewing the literature of sexual attitudes and behaviors amongst college students, there is a lack of research on the evolution of sexual attitudes of students throughout the time they are in college. This paper proposes a four-year longitudinal study with 4,800 students from 48 four-year colleges in Illinois examining the changes in sexual behaviors and sexual attitudes, the beliefs and information that a person has towards a specific sexual topic, whether it is sexual orientation, gender

  • How Should Teachers Address Students?

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    should address their students, to see whether the correct route to follow is through open and or closed questions. A study conducted by Siraj-Blatchford et al (2003, 2004) which extended the analysis concerned with adult questioning carried out in the Research Effective Pedagogy in the Early Years (REPEY) study, which further drew out quantitative data to the five-year longitudinal study The Effective Provision of Pre-School Education (EPPE) (Sammons et al. 2002, 2003), looking at the progress of 3000

  • self esteem

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    adulthood. There are many longitudinal studies that have been done on the development of self – esteem. One such article is “Cherish Yourself: Longitudinal Patterns and Conditions of Self- Esteem Change in the Transition to Young Adulthood” the researcher wanted to see the change in self –esteem between secondary school and young adulthood, they also wanted to see if gender played a role in the change of self-esteem, this study is explained in the article. In another study, “Self- Esteem Development

  • Critique of Research Design

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    critique is to analyze the design of a research study conducted by; Donna Kazemi, Maureen Levine, Jacek Dmochowski, Mary Nies, and Linman Sun called “Effects of Motivational Interviewing Intervention on Blackouts Amoung College Freshman”. It was accepted in January 21st, 2013 and was published in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship. This study was conducted on 188 volunteer freshmen at a southern university. Kazemi et al. (2013) state the goals of the study were to see if motivational interviewing (MI)

  • Civic Engagement through Community Problem Solving

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    community e... ... middle of paper ... ...cts are unknown. Preliminary data indicates the Youth Advisory Council model, one example of the community problem-solving approach, may be a promising avenue for engaging young people. Additional longitudinal research in coming years will be crucial in developing more definitive conclusions. Anecdotally, many students find great value in the program, indicating it develops leadership skills and provides motivation for further community participation

  • Case Study: Longitudinal Aortic Aneurysm

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    In this paper, I am complying all of the skills I have learned throughout this course and applying them to a case study using a caring response from Putrilo and Dougherty’s six-step decision-making process for ethical dilemmas. An ethical dilemma is___________. In Case Study 1, a woman needs a surgery to correct an abdominal aortic aneurysm. The risk of surviving the surgery is 50%, yet the woman is concerned about the potential scar which would result from the surgery and it negatively affecting

  • A Longitudinal Study On The Children Of The Island Of Kauai ( The Garden Island )

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    Werner conducted a longitudinal study on the children of the island of Kauai (the garden island) in Hawaii. This study consisted of two objectives: to seek the long term effects of prenatal or perinatal stress and record the early nurturing adversities effects on a child’s physical, cognitive and psychosocial development. She used a sample of 698 infants out of 1963 live births to carry out this study. The study looked at these infants at the ages of one, two, 10, 18, 31 and 32. She enlisted members

  • The Effects of Media on the Body-Image of Preadolescent Girls

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    negative body image for many women and girls (Harrison & Hefner, 2006). Whether it’s the influence on their choice of friends, school, or their self image, media has played an important role in affecting those decisions. A growing number of experimental studies have demonstrated a causal link between acute exposure to "thin-ideal" images (i.e., images of impossibly thin and attractive female beauty) and increased body dissatisfaction (Hargreaves & Tiggemann, 2003). It has recently been brought up that media

  • Peer Pressure and Adolescent Delinquency

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    state that social environment in which a person is embedded is essential in the study of their behavior. The theoretical framework of developmental and life course theories of crime allow for the addition of the dynamic element of time and places an emphasis on the longitudinal processes of how the interaction between the individual and his or her social environments constrain and influence behavior. This longitudinal perspective opens up the possibility that the peer social environment is one that