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Current search: 'Psychology'

  1. Time trend analysis of social inequalities in psychological distress among young adults before and during the pandemic: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study COVID-19 waves

    Thierry Gagné, Alita Nandi, and Ingrid Schoon

    1. Social Groups
    2. Area Effects
    3. Psychology
    4. Geography
    5. Demography
    6. Young People
    7. Labour Market
    8. Poverty
    9. Ethnic Groups
    10. Well Being
    11. Health
    12. Life Course Analysis
    13. Covid 19

  2. Multimorbidity is associated with the income, education, employment and health domains of area‑level deprivation in adult residents in the UK

    Gundi Knies and Meena Kumari

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  3. Social comparison effects on academic self-concepts - which peers matter most?

    Malte Jansen, Zsófia Boda, and Georg Lorenz

    1. Psychology
    2. Migration
    3. Education
    4. Child Development

  4. Review of environmental attitudes and behaviour questions in the Understanding Society survey

    Wouter Poortinga

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Psychology
    3. Households
    4. Survey Methodology
    5. Social Attitudes
    6. Surveys
    7. Commuting
    8. Travel

  5. Text messages to incentivise response in a web-first sequential mixed-mode survey

    Pablo Cabrera Alvarez and Peter Lynn

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Survey Methodology
    4. Surveys

  6. Evaluation of the mental health impacts of Universal Credit: protocol for a mixed methods study

    Peter Craig, Benjamin Barr, Andrew J. Baxter, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Households
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Covid 19

  7. Experiments on multiple requests for consent to data linkage in surveys

    Sandra Walzenbach, Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Surveys

  8. Wellbeing in local areas: how trust, happiness, social distance and experience of discrimination differ in the perceived ethnic enclave

    Neli Demireva and Wouter Zwysen

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Demography
    4. Migration
    5. Ethnic Groups
    6. Well Being
    7. Societies
    8. Social Capital
    9. Sociology
    10. Race Relations

  9. In and out of unemployment - labour market transitions and the role of testosterone

    Peter Eibich, Ricky Kanabar, Alexander Plum, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Biology
    7. Genetics

  10. How and why does the mode of data collection affect consent to data linkage?

    Annette Jäckle, Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Survey Methodology

  11. Home carers' mental health worsened during lockdown

    Elise Whitley, Kelly Reeve, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Psychology
    4. Unpaid Work
    5. Young People
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Caregiving
    12. Covid 19

  12. Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey

    Elise Whitley, Kelly Reeve, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Psychology
    4. Unpaid Work
    5. Young People
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Caregiving
    12. Covid 19

  13. Linking Twitter and survey data: asymmetry in quantity and its impact

    Tarek Al Baghal, Alexander Wenz, Luke Sloan, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Demography
    5. Survey Methodology
    6. Social Attitudes
    7. Surveys
    8. Social Behaviour

  14. Understanding data linkage consent in longitudinal surveys

    Annette Jäckle, Kelsey Beninger, Jonathan Burton, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Surveys

  15. Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Elaine Robertson, Kelly Reeve, Claire L. Niedzwiedz, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Medicine
    3. Demography
    4. Ethnic Groups
    5. Health
    6. Covid 19

  16. The EU referendum and experiences and fear of ethnic and racial harassment: variation across individuals and communities in England

    Alita Nandi and Renee Reichl Luthra

    1. Politics
    2. Area Effects
    3. Crime And Justice
    4. Psychology
    5. Geography
    6. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    7. Demography
    8. Migration
    9. Poverty
    10. Ethnic Groups
    11. Well Being
    12. Life Course Analysis
    13. Social Attitudes
    14. Sociology
    15. Social Stratification
    16. Social Behaviour
    17. Social Psychology
    18. Race Relations

  17. Psychological distress among people with probable COVID-19 infection: analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Michaela Benzeval, Kirsten Hainey, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Covid 19

  18. Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Michael James Green, Michaela Benzeval, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Psychology
    3. Demography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  19. School closures and children’s emotional and behavioural difficulties

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  20. Vaccine hesitancy more likely in young people, women and some ethnic groups

    Elaine Robertson, Kelly Reeve, Claire L. Niedzwiedz, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Medicine
    3. Demography
    4. Ethnic Groups
    5. Health
    6. Covid 19

  21. Longitudinal effects of perinatal social support on maternal depression: a marginal structural modelling approach

    Ashley Hagaman, Katherine LeMasters, Paul N. Zivich, et al.

    1. Social Networks
    2. Psychology
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  22. New evidence shows how school closures hit children’s mental health hard

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  23. Children will need further help with mental health despite return of schools, study warns

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  24. Stressed pupils 'are more likely to bully and fight': Teachers could face an increase in bad behaviour in class after effect of pandemic on children's mental health, study warns

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  25. Back to school: 'It's nice to see my friends'

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  26. Schools return in England: Boris Johnson hails first steps to freedom

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  27. School closures negatively affected children's mental health, research suggests

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  28. The Dawkins effect? Celebrity scientists, (non)religious publics and changed attitudes to evolution

    Amy Unsworth and David Voas

    1. Public Opinion
    2. Psychology
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Religion
    5. Social Attitudes
    6. Social Psychology

  29. Peer groups, social support, and well-being: evidence from a large online maternity community

    Lingqing Jiang and Zhen Zhu

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  30. Understanding and improving data linkage consent in surveys

    Annette Jäckle, Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper, et al.

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Survey Methodology
    4. Surveys

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