Aims Recent empirical studies investigating "study addiction" have conceptualized it as a behavioral addiction, defined within the framework of work addiction. This study is the first attempt to examine the longitudinal relationship between study addiction and work addiction. Methods The Bergen Study Addiction Scale (BStAS), the Bergen Work Addiction Scale (BWAS), and the Ten-Item Personality I...

PURPOSE This paper describes methodological procedures involving execution of a large-scale, multi-site longitudinal study of language and reading comprehension in young children. Researchers in the Language and Reading Research Consortium (LARRC) developed and implemented these procedures to ensure data integrity across multiple sites, schools, and grades. Specifically, major features of our a...

OBJECTIVES Comprehensive epidemiologic data for multiple sclerosis (MS) in Spain are limited. The aim of this study was to collect epidemiologic data on MS in the Northern Seville District of Spain. MATERIALS AND METHODS This longitudinal study identified possible MS cases every year from nine centres between 1 January 1991 and 31 December 2011. Patients with a confirmed diagnosis of MS were ...

The ONS Longitudinal Study (LS) includes information from the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2011 censuses. This article explains definitional differences over time, and their implications for household and family classifications.List of tables, 65.

This article describes the new synthetic England and Wales Longitudinal Study 'spine' dataset designed for teaching and experimentation purposes. In the United Kingdom, there exist three Census-based longitudinal micro-datasets, known collectively as the Longitudinal Studies. The England and Wales Longitudinal Study (LS) is a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales (around 500,000 indi...

This article uses data for members of the ONS Longitudinal Study (LS) from both Census 2001 enumeration and patient registrations "frozen" on census day 2001 from the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) to examine potential sources of difference in area of usual residence.Overall 95.7 per cent of ONS LS members enumerated at census resided in the same area as recorded on the NHSCR ...

Both worry and metacognitive beliefs have been found to be related to the development of anxiety, but metacognitive theory (Wells and Matthews, 1994; Wells, 2009) suggest that metacognitive beliefs may play a more prominent role. The aim of the present prospective study was to examine whether worry, metacognitive beliefs or the interaction between worry and metacognitive beliefs, were the best ...

in many area of medical research, a relation analysis between one response variable and some explanatory variables is desirable. regression is the most common tool in this situation. if we have some assumptions for such normality for response variable, we could use it. in this paper we propose a nonparametric regression that does not have normality assumption for response variable and we focus ...

background: there is a controversy about exact time of bone healing. the aim of this study was evaluation of bone formation and change of density after mandibular third molar extraction.     methods: radiographs were taken from 16 empty tooth sockets immediately after extraction of mandibular third molars and 2, 4 and 6 months later under similar condition. the radiographs were digitized and th...