The present article provides an alternative framework for evaluating mediated relationships.
From this perspective. a mediated process is a chain reaction, beginning with an …

Often quantities of interest in psychology cannot be observed directly. These unobservable
quantities are known as latent variables. By using multiple items as indicators of the latent …

Patterns of time use are tangible representations of individual identity and the meaning of
age groups in the life course. How do young people allocate their time to multiple domains of …

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between metabolic control and self-assessed quality of
life in adolescents with IDDM. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The Diabetes Quality …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the progression of tobacco use and the patterns of comorbidity of
tobacco use and psychiatric disorders. METHOD: The authors conducted analyses of …

The shifting nature of employment in recent decades has not been adequately examined
from a public health perspective. To that end, traditional models of work and health research …

Analysing the use of marijuana is challenging in part because there is no widely accepted
single measure of individual use. Similarly, there is no single response variable that effectively …

The effect of time-related mean differences on estimates of association in cross-sectional
studies has not been widely recognized in developmental and aging research. Cross-sectional …

Individual and age-related differences in the patterning of adolescents’ beliefs about the
legitimacy of parental authority were examined in a sample of 3425 Chilean adolescents (Mage …

Gender-based violence (GBV) is common among female sex workers (FSWs) and is associated
with multiple HIV risk factors, including poor mental health, high-risk sexual behavior, …