Long-term and short-term psycho-social predictors of early-adulthood depression: role of childhood trauma, neuroticism, social-support, resilience, and life-events

Resilience is important for people to maintain mental health after negative life-events. However, its longitudinal psychological and social predictors are poorly revealed. Based on the ecological system theory model, the current study aimed to determine the longitudinal temporal mechanism underlying the development of early-adulthood resilience using long-term (early-life trauma and personality), medium-term and short-term (life-events, social support, and depression) psychosocial predictors. A total of 505 university students were recruited at baseline (T1), 433 of whom took part in a three-year longitudinal investigation (T2). The results showed that at T1 and T2, the resilience scores of individuals were identically high (72.98 and 73.21, respectively). Pearson correlation analysis showed that early-adulthood resilience was negatively correlated with early-life trauma, psychoticism and neuroticism, depression, ad life-events, and positively correlated with extraversion, social-support, and resilience. Regression and structural equation models showed that extraversion had a direct positive effect on T1 resilience through the mediation of T1 life-events, depression, and social-support, while childhood emotional neglect (EN) had indirect negative effect and extraversion had direct positive effect on T2 resilience through the mediation of T1 resilience, and T2 depression and social-support. In conclusion, this study is among the first to reveal the longitudinal temporal process of the development of early-adulthood resilience using remote and adjacent psychosocial predictors. The findings confirm that childhood EN and extraversion have a remote impact on early-adulthood resilience through recent and current depression and social-support. Our results imply that early-life trauma does not hinder the development of early-adulthood resilience in a linear trend.

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Role of Social Support and Life Events Stress in Depression of Managerial Personnel

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e670282012-102 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

A. P. Singh ◽

Amish

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Life Events

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Impact of FII’s and FDI’s on Indian Stock Market

Adhyayan A Journal of Management Sciences ◽

10.21567/adhyayan.v1i1.10220 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Shukla

Keyword(s):

Stock Market ◽

Financial Markets ◽

Global Economy ◽

Short Term ◽

Earnings Growth ◽

The Past ◽

Bull Market ◽

Indian Stock Market

FIIs are companies registered outside India. In the past four years there has been more than $41 trillion worth of FII funds invested in India. This has been one of the major reasons on the bull market witnessing unprecedented growth with the BSE Sensex rising 221% in absolute terms in this span. The present downfall of the market too is influenced as these FIIs are taking out some of their invested money. Though there is a lot of value in this market and fundamentally there is a lot of upside in it. For long-term value investors, there’s little because for worry but short term traders are adversely getting affected by the role of FIIs are playing at the present. Investors should not panic and should remain invested in sectors where underlying earnings growth has little to do with financial markets or global economy.

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Introduction: Kinship Bereavement in Later Life

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.2190/bd9q-rqyb-1x18-9evp ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Brian De Vries

Keyword(s):

Adult Child ◽

Later Life ◽

Short Term ◽

Traumatic Grief ◽

Death Of A Parent ◽

De Vries ◽

Longitudinal Effects ◽

Analysis Of Variation

This article introduces a volume devoted to the examination of later-life bereavement: an analysis of variation in cause, course, and consequence. Six articles address and represent this variation and comprise this volume: 1) Prigerson et al. present case histories of the traumatic grief of spouses; 2) Hays et al. highlight the bereavement experiences of siblings in contrast to those spouses and friends; 3) Moss et al. address the role of gender in middle-aged children's responses to parent death; 4) Bower focuses on the language adopted by these adult children in accepting the death of a parent; 5) de Vries et al. explore the long-term, longitudinal effects on the psychological and somatic functioning of parents following the death of an adult child; and 6) Fry presents the short-term and longitudinal reactions of grandparents to the death of a grandchild. A concluding article is offered by de Vries stressing both the unique and common features of these varied bereavement experiences touching on some of the empirical issues and suggesting potential implications and applications.

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Shades between Black and Green Investment: Balance or Imbalance?

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13095024 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. 5024

Author(s):

Vítor Manuel de Sousa Gabriel ◽

María Mar Miralles-Quirós ◽

José Luis Miralles-Quirós

Keyword(s):

Risk Factor ◽

Oil Prices ◽

Oil Price ◽

Short Term ◽

Environmental Indices ◽

Long Run ◽

Green Investment ◽

Bounds Test

This paper analyses the links established between environmental indices and the oil price adopting a double perspective, long-term and short-term relationships. For that purpose, we employ the Bounds Test and bivariate conditional heteroscedasticity models. In the long run, the pattern of behaviour of environmental indices clearly differed from that of the oil prices, and it was not possible to identify cointegrating vectors. In the short-term, it was possible to conclude that, in contemporaneous terms, the variables studied tended to follow similar paths. When the lag of the oil price variable was considered, the impacts produced on the stock market sectors were partially of a negative nature, which allows us to suppose that this variable plays the role of a risk factor for environmental investment.

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The key role of contact time in elucidating the mechanisms of enhanced decontamination by Fe0/MnO2/sand systems

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-91475-x ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Viet Cao ◽

Ghinwa Alyoussef ◽

Nadège Gatcha-Bandjun ◽

Willis Gwenzi ◽

Chicgoua Noubactep

Keyword(s):

Contact Time ◽

Diffusive Transport ◽

Iron Hydroxides ◽

Iron Corrosion ◽

Short Term ◽

Batch Studies ◽

Water Decontamination ◽

Co Precipitation

AbstractMetallic iron (Fe0) has shown outstanding performances for water decontamination and its efficiency has been improved by the presence of sand (Fe0/sand) and manganese oxide (Fe0/MnOx). In this study, a ternary Fe0/MnOx/sand system is characterized for its discoloration efficiency of methylene blue (MB) in quiescent batch studies for 7, 18, 25 and 47 days. The objective was to understand the fundamental mechanisms of water treatment in Fe0/H2O systems using MB as an operational tracer of reactivity. The premise was that, in the short term, both MnO2 and sand delay MB discoloration by avoiding the availability of free iron corrosion products (FeCPs). Results clearly demonstrate no monotonous increase in MB discoloration with increasing contact time. As a rule, the extent of MB discoloration is influenced by the diffusive transport of MB from the solution to the aggregates at the bottom of the vessels (test-tubes). The presence of MnOx and sand enabled the long-term generation of iron hydroxides for MB discoloration by adsorption and co-precipitation. Results clearly reveal the complexity of the Fe0/MnOx/sand system, while establishing that both MnOx and sand improve the efficiency of Fe0/H2O systems in the long-term. This study establishes the mechanisms of the promotion of water decontamination by amending Fe0-based systems with reactive MnOx.

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Reform in the international food aid regime: the role of consensual knowledge

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818300001491 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 225-264 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Raymond F. Hopkins

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

International Organizations ◽

Epistemic Community ◽

Food Aid ◽

Local Production ◽

Short Term ◽

The 1950S ◽

Food Imports

The principles and norms adopted by the regime governing food aid in the 1950s have changed substantially during the subsequent three decades. Explaining the changes necessarily includes analyzing the efforts of an international epistemic community consisting of economic development specialists, agricultural economists, and administrators of food aid. According to the initial regime principles, food aid should be provided from donors' own surplus stocks, should supplement the usual commercial food imports in recipient countries, should be given under short-term commitments sensitive to the political and economic goals of donors, and should directly feed hungry people. As a result of following these principles, the epistemic community and other critics argued, food aid often had the adverse effects of reducing local production of food in recipient countries and exacerbating rather than alleviating hunger. The epistemic community (1) developed and proposed ideas for more efficiently supplying food aid and avoiding “disincentive” effects and (2) pushed for reforms to make food aid serve as the basis for the recipients' economic development and to target it at addressing long-term food security problems. The ideas of the international epistemic community have increasingly received support from international organizations and the governments of donor and recipient nations. Most recently, they have led to revisions of the U.S. food aid program passed by Congress in October 1990 and signed into law two months later. As the analysis of food aid reform demonstrates, changes in the international regime have been incremental, rather than radical. Moreover, the locus for the change has shifted from an American-centered one in the 1950s to a more international one in recent decades.

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Mother, baby and Facebook makes three: does social media provide social support for new mothers?

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x18783016 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 168 (1) ◽

pp. 122-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Catherine Archer ◽

Kai-Ti Kao

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Social Media ◽

Media Use ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

New Mothers ◽

Social Media Use ◽

Extreme Stress ◽

Ability To Act

Many mothers can find themselves increasingly isolated and overwhelmed after giving birth to a new baby. This period can be a source of extreme stress, anxiety and depression, which can not only have an economic impact on national health services, but can also have long-term effects on the development of the child. At the same time, social media use among most new mothers has become ubiquitous. This research investigates the role of social media, potentially as a mechanism for social support, among Australian mothers of young children aged from birth to 4 years. The findings indicate that participants had mixed responses to their social media use. While social support was deemed a benefit, there were also some negative aspects to social media use identified. The findings highlight the need to critically interrogate social media’s ability to act as a source of social support for new mothers.

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Economic valuation and the commodification of ecosystem services

Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment ◽

10.1177/0309133311421708 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 35 (5) ◽

pp. 613-628 ◽

Cited By ~ 295

Author(s):

Erik Gómez-Baggethun ◽

Manuel Ruiz-Pérez

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Environmental Policy ◽

Biodiversity Conservation ◽

Economic Valuation ◽

Short Term ◽

Valuation Of Ecosystem Services ◽

Equity Of Access ◽

The Way

In the last decade a growing number of environmental scientists have advocated economic valuation of ecosystem services as a pragmatic short-term strategy to communicate the value of biodiversity in a language that reflects dominant political and economic views. This paper revisits the controversy on economic valuation of ecosystem services in the light of two aspects that are often neglected in ongoing debates. First, the role of the particular institutional setup in which environmental policy and governance is currently embedded in shaping valuation outcomes. Second, the broader economic and sociopolitical processes that have governed the expansion of pricing into previously non-marketed areas of the environment. Our analysis suggests that within the institutional setup and broader sociopolitical processes that have become prominent since the late 1980s economic valuation is likely to pave the way for the commodification of ecosystem services with potentially counterproductive effects in the long term for biodiversity conservation and equity of access to ecosystem services benefits.

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