The aim of this study was to examine the effect of trauma experience severity on borderline personality characteristics and to examine as well the mediation effect of self-esteem. To measure traumatic experience severity, the Trauma Experience Questionnaire-Revised (TEQ-R) was developed and validated. The TEQ-R, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and the personality assessment inventory-borderline fe...

Background: The main objective of this study is the Predictive role of personality traits with mediation of affective control in conjunction with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (ABS) among the students of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences (2013-2014) Materials and Methods: This research is co relational studies with sample size of 384 (252 females and 132 males) who were selected by stratified r...

The research entitled Effect of Goods Quality and Sales Promotion on Purchase Decisions with Satisfaction as a Mediation Variable in Alas Coffee, Tembarak District, Temanggung Regency, aims to determine the effect goods quality consumer purchasing decisions, sales promotion product together decisions at Coffee satisfaction mediation. method used descriptive quantitative methods. population this...

A dynamic relationship between the gut microbiota and brain is pivotal in neonatal development. Dysbiosis of the microbiome may result in altered neurodevelopment; however, it is unclear which specific members of microbiota are most influential and what factors might mediate the relationship between the gut and the brain. Twenty-four vaginally-derived male piglets were subjected to magnetic res...

The aim of this study is to understand the mediation effects of teachers’ depression levels on the relationship between emotional labor and burnout. The study group in this research consists of 163 teachers working at Gaziantep schools during 20132014 academic year. Since the research aims to analyze mediation effect of teachers’ depression levels on the relationship between emotional labor and...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To test whether sleep disturbance mediates the effect of pain on fatigue. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Radiation therapy clinic, oncology ambulatory clinic, and inpatient oncology unit in an urban teaching hospital. SAMPLE 84 patients with cancer with multiple primary diagnoses who were experiencing pain. Fifty-three percent were female and 92% were Caucasian, with a...

Whilst estimation of the marginal (total) causal effect of a point exposure on an outcome is arguably the most common objective of experimental and observational studies in the health and social sciences, in recent years, investigators have also become increasingly interested in mediation analysis. Specifically, upon evaluating the total effect of the exposure, investigators routinely wish to m...

The Health Belief Model (HBM) posits that messages will achieve optimal behavior change if they successfully target perceived barriers, benefits, self-efficacy, and threat. While the model seems to be an ideal explanatory framework for communication research, theoretical limitations have limited its use in the field. Notably, variable ordering is currently undefined in the HBM. Thus, it is uncl...

MOTIVATION High-dimensional DNA methylation markers may mediate pathways linking environmental exposures with health outcomes. However, there is a lack of analytical methods to identify significant mediators for high-dimensional mediation analysis. RESULTS Based on sure independent screening and minimax concave penalty techniques, we use a joint significance test for mediation effect. We demo...

The authors used cross-sectional data (2001-2003) to consider the pathway through which past occupational lead exposure impacts cognitive function. They were motivated by studies linking cumulative lead dose with brain volumes, volumes with cognitive function, and lead dose with cognitive function. It was hypothesized that the brain regions associated with lead mediate a portion of the relation...