The effects of an educational electronic book (e-book) on 149 fiveto six-year-old kindergarteners’ emergent literacy levels were researched in two SES groups: low (LSES) (79 children) vs. middle (MSES) (70 children). In each SES group, children were randomly assigned to four groups. Three groups were assigned to work individually in one of three e-book activity modes: ‘‘Read story only’’, ‘‘Rea...

PURPOSE This paper examined proximal and distal effects of protective factors specified in the social development model (SDM) on youth violence among high-risk youth. METHODS Data come from the Seattle Social Development Project, a longitudinal study of development from childhood into adulthood. A community sample of 808 participants from the Seattle Public School District was surveyed from t...

Psychosocial resources may serve as an important link to explain socioeconomic differences in health. Earlier studies have demonstrated that education, income and occupational status cannot be used interchangeably as indicators of a hypothetical latent social dimension. In the same manner, it is important to disentangle the effect of measuring different constructs of psychosocial resources. The...

One of the most timeless and universal activities, in which human beings across cultures participate, is speaking to children. This study investigated the differences between child-directed speech (CDS) and adult-directed speech (ADS) on measures of mean length of utterance (MLU), number of utterances, number of different words (NDW), and total number of words (TNW). In addition to examining th...

Recent studies in Australia have found that bachelor's degree participation vocational institutions tends to skew towards students from high and middle socioeconomic status (SES) ba...

BACKGROUND The influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on cardiovascular diseases and risk factors is widely known, although the role of different SES indicators is not fully understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of different SES indicators for cardiovascular disease risk factors in a middle and old aged East German population. METHODS Cross-sectional data of an East G...

BACKGROUND The users' satisfaction is a method for evaluating the efficacy of healthcare system. We aimed to evaluate the association between the users' socioeconomic status (SES) and satisfaction with the healthcare system in Shiraz, Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted from December, 2013 to March, 2014, in Shiraz, Iran. 3400 households were recruited by multi-stage cluste...

BACKGROUND Although the associations between specific socioeconomic status (SES) indicators and overweight or obesity (OWOB) have been studied in different countries, fewer evidence exists for these associations when multiple SES indicators are considered simultaneously. Furthermore, there are few studies investigating time trends in OWOB and their relation with SES in upper-middle income count...

INTRODUCTION The effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on stroke mortality at population level has been controversial. This study explores the association of SES in childhood and adulthood with stroke mortality, as well as variations in this association among countries/regions. METHODS Sex-specific stroke mortality at country level with death registry covering ≥ 70% population was obtained fro...

Finding meaning in life helps improve undergraduates’ well-being, hope, and adaptation to life. To investigate the relationship between future socioeconomic status (future SES) sense of life, 333 undergraduates were surveyed using Meaning Life Scale, Basic Psychological Needs Scales, Social Ladder Scale. Results showed that (1) was at middle level, their current SES low, but high. (2) The signi...