Previous studies, conducted mainly in Asian countries, have shown that women‘s empowerment is associated with contraceptive use, lower fertility, and longer birth intervals. Yet little is known about the association of women‘s empowerment with fertility desires in subSaharan African countries where overall fertility levels remain high. This study tries to fill this gap, exploring whether women‘...

This study examined demographic and psychosocial correlates of elevated depressive symptoms among African-Americans and Whites from comparable socioeconomic and neighborhood backgrounds. 851 African-Americans and 597 Whites from adjacent census tracts were interviewed using previously validated indicators of depressive symptoms, social support, religious practices and various demographic charac...

Absenteeism findings published by Steel and Rentsch (1995) were replicated and extended by correlating attitudinal, personal-demographic, and job stress variables with 34 months of work group absenteeism scores obtained on employees of a U.S. federal mint. Attitudinal and job stress results were consistent with previous findings, but results involving personal-demographic variables were not.

Work performance and duration of stay of 79 mentally handicapped persons attending a day care centre was evaluated and correlated with demographic and clinical variables. Work performance was below average in 37% and average in 30%. No definite relationship was established between duration of stay or work performance with any of the demographic or clinical variables.

OBJECTIVES To assess the accuracy with which clinicians estimate premorbid IQ from demographic variables and compare it with a regression equation which uses the same information. DESIGN Repeated measures and correlational. METHODS Sixty participants were administered the WAIS-R and had their demographic variables recorded (age, sex, years of education and occupation). Eight clinical psycho...