BACKGROUND Age and education have been found to affect the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale (MDRS) score of elderly normals, but there have been no studies assessing the influence of environmental and behavioral factors on this scale. Their role as potential predictors of the MDRS total score was investigated. METHODS The MDRS was administered to 1,927 normal elderly subjects in the setting of a ...

Detecting the underlying socioeconomic and behavioral determinants is essential for reducing oral health disparities in children. OBJECTIVE To test a conceptual model in children to explore the interaction amongst social, environmental, behavioral factors and oral health outcomes. METHODS This analytic cross-sectional study was performed in 2014-2015 in Shiraz, Iran. The sampling was conduc...

The effects of environmental and biopsychosocial factors on financial risk tolerance is analyzed. The research is premised on Irwin’s (1993) risk-taking behavioral model. Findings from an OLS regression, using a sample of faculty and staff from two universities (N = 406), indicate that education, marital status, net worth, financial knowledge, and household income, as environmental factors, are...

mental health problems including emotional and behavioral problems during puberty may be under influence of different risk factors including cultures, living in urban or rural areas and ethnic factors which may vary between different countries. the main aim of this study is to investigate the profile of emotional and behavioral problems and the role of factors such as age, stage of puberty, eth...

Parental divorce is associated with a number of emotional and behavioral problems in young-adult offspring, but theoretical and empirical considerations suggest that the relation may be partially or fully accounted for by passive gene-environment correlation or environmental selection characteristics. The current study used the Children of Twins Design to explore whether shared environmental or...

Parental divorce is associated with a number of emotional and behavioral problems in young-adult offspring, but theoretical and empirical considerations suggest that the relation may be partially or fully accounted for by passive gene–environment correlation or environmental selection characteristics. The current study used the Children of Twins Design to explore whether shared environmental or...

Resemblance between parents and their children with respect to certain behaviors (e.g., alcohol use) may result from shared genes or from environmental influences that affect all members of a family similarly. Behavioral geneticists have used adoption, twin, and genetic marker studies to investigate the contributions of genetic as well as shared and nonshared environmental influences to the inc...