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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 140 in total

Current search: 'Psychology'

  1. Maternal separation in childhood and hair cortisol concentrations in late adulthood

    Kristopher Bevan and Meena Kumari

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Child Development
    4. Family Formation And Dissolution
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Biology

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Community spirit in the age of Covid

    Magda Borkowska and James Laurence

    1. Social Groups
    2. Area Effects
    3. Social Networks
    4. Psychology
    5. Geography
    6. Demography
    7. Social Change
    8. Households
    9. Poverty
    10. Public Policy
    11. Ethnic Groups
    12. Well Being
    13. Societies
    14. Social Capital
    15. Health
    16. Life Course Analysis
    17. Social Attitudes
    18. Social Stratification
    19. Social Behaviour
    20. Social Psychology
    21. Covid 19

  5. 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

  6. Mental health of mothers more negatively affected by Covid school closures than fathers, research finds

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

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Caregiving
    9. Covid 19

  7. Coming together or coming apart? Changes in social cohesion during the Covid-19 pandemic in England

    Magda Borkowska and James Laurence

    1. Social Groups
    2. Area Effects
    3. Social Networks
    4. Psychology
    5. Geography
    6. Demography
    7. Social Change
    8. Households
    9. Poverty
    10. Public Policy
    11. Ethnic Groups
    12. Well Being
    13. Societies
    14. Social Capital
    15. Health
    16. Life Course Analysis
    17. Social Attitudes
    18. Social Stratification
    19. Social Behaviour
    20. Social Psychology
    21. Covid 19

  8. Lockdown school closures hit mental health of mums but not dads, study claims

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

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Caregiving
    9. Covid 19

  9. Covid lockdown school closures ‘hit mothers’ mental health but left fathers unaffected’

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

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Caregiving
    9. Covid 19

  10. Covid school closures damaged mothers’ mental health

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

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Caregiving
    9. Covid 19

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. School closures and parents’ mental health

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

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Caregiving
    9. Covid 19

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Housing and health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in England

    Amy Clair and Adam Tinson

    1. Psychology
    2. Poverty
    3. Living Standards
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Housing Market
    8. Covid 19

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. Weather, psychological wellbeing and mobility during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Ashley Burdett, Apostolos Davillas, and Ben Etheridge

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  26. Weather, psychological wellbeing and mobility during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Ashley Burdett, Apostolos Davillas, and Ben Etheridge

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

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