OBJECTIVE To examine whether psychosocial factors play a more important role than biomedical risk factors in predicting adolescent adaptation to sickle cell disease (SCD); to determine whether psychosocial factors moderate the relationship between biomedical risk factors and adaptation. METHODS Ninety African American adolescents from the multisite Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease wer...

Objective: To examine whether psychosocial factors play a more important role than biomedical risk factors in predicting adolescent adaptation to sickle cell disease (SCD) ; to determine whether psychosocial factors moderate the relationship between biomedical risk factors and adaptation. Methods: Ninety African American adolescents from the multisite Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease we...

background: patients with schizophrenia can experience a deteriorated performance in many of the skills needed in daily life, the workplace, the family circle, or in social interactions.objective: this definitive study used comparison to evaluate the functionality, treatment compliance to therapy, and styles of coping with stress of schizophrenic patients who work and are members of an associat...

I n the target article, I tried to make several points. The most important of these are: 1) adaptations sometimes can be illuminated by studies of current reproductive consequences; 2) studies of current reproductive consequences (adaptiveness) can help us understand the extent to which psychological mechanisms are general purpose; 3) environmental novelty can foul-up the development of psychol...

5 As a consequence of the rising interest in longitudinal social networks and their 6 analysis, there is also an increasing demand for tools to visualize them. We argue 7 that similar adaptations of state-of-the-art graph-drawing methods can be used to 8 visualize longitudinal networks and the fit of actor-based models, the most promi9 nent approach for analyzing such networks. The proposed met...

Climate change puts pressure on existing health vulnerabilities through higher frequency of extreme weather events, changes in disease vector distribution or exacerbated air pollution. Climate change adaptation policies may hold potential to reduce societal inequities. We assessed the role of public health and social justice in European climate change adaptation using a three-fold approach: a d...

Adaptation, as a strategy to respond to climate change, has limits: there are conditions under which adaptation strategies fail to alleviate impacts from climate change. Research has primarily focused on identifying absolute bio-physical limits. This paper contributes empirical insight to an emerging literature on the social limits to adaptation. Such limits arise from the ways in which societi...