How Does Testing Young Children Influence Educational Attainment and Well-Being?

Poverty, Educational Attainment, and Livelihoods: How Well Do Young People Fare in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa?

Societal transformations in South Africa and elsewhere have contributed to lengthening the period between puberty and marriage, particularly for girls, and have led to greater opportunities for youth to extend their education and skills development. But they have also increased adolescents’ exposure to sexual activity, with its attendant health and social consequences, including unwanted pregna...

How Does Selfishness Affect Well-Being?

Is selfishness always a bad thing, in the sense that people can only be better off when everyone is concerned with the well-being of others as well as with his own, or are there situations in which altruism can actually make things worse for all people involved? This paper tackles this question in the context of two-person symmetric games, which are modified by making the payoff of each player ...

Does a woman's educational attainment influence in vitro fertilization outcomes?

The association between educational level and cycle outcomes was quantified by applying multivariable logistic and linear regression within a prospective cohort of 2,569 women commencing their first in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle. Although a woman's educational attainment was not associated with the likelihood of implantation failure, chemical pregnancy, spontaneous abortion, or live birth,...

Early childhood: Health and well-being of Iowa’s young children

Goal striving, goal attainment, and well-being: adapting and testing the self-concordance model in sport.

Grounded in self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985) and the self-concordance model (Sheldon & Elliot, 1999), this study examined the motivational processes underlying goal striving in sport as well as the role of perceived coach autonomy support in the goal process. Structural equation modeling with a sample of 210 British athletes showed that autonomous goal motives positively predicted ...