maternal characteristic

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meanings of maternaland characteristic

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maternal
adjective
uk /məˈtɜː.nəl/ us /məˈtɝː.nəl/
behaving or feeling in the way that a mother does towards her child, especially in a kind, ...
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characteristic
noun[C]
uk /ˌkær.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/ us /ˌker.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/
a typical or noticeable quality of someone ...
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Examples of maternal characteristic

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It may be that attachment disorganization is so heterogeneous that a consistent association with any single maternalcharacteristic is less likely.
Father's conviction history was the only maternalcharacteristic to account for a substantial portion of the variance in unemployment that was previously explained by maternal age at first birth.
Our results add to the growing body of literature showing the influence of maternal characteristics and environmental factors on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis patterns in children.
Maternal characteristics at 8 and 12 months did not contribute additional significant variance.
This suggests that maternal characteristics and family circumstances may have accounted for overlapping variance in the teen childbearing effect.
Maternal characteristics and risk of severe neonatal thrombocytopenia and intracranial hemorrhage in pregnancies complicated by autoimmune thrombocytopenia.
Results indicate that families experiencing poverty or welfare are highly diverse and that early childhood experiences and maternal characteristics are powerful determinants of children's outcomes.
There were indications of a stronger association between the maternal characteristics and developing withdrawal 0 fear in irritable infants.
Because children's capacities are evolving, maternal characteristics irrelevant at one age might facilitate growth at another.
Across outcomes, maternal characteristics and family circumstances together accounted for approximately 39% of the effect of teen childbearing on offspring outcomes.
Predicting the development of infant emotionality from maternal characteristics.
Results suggest that researchers and clinicians should consider both infant and maternal characteristics when examining early relationships.
Second, teen and later childbearers differed on the maternal characteristics and family circumstance variables included in our study.
These residualized scores represent the portion of each family circumstance variable that could not be predicted from the maternal characteristics.
To test this hypothesis, we regressed each of the 11 family circumstance variables on the set of maternal characteristics.
However, maternal characteristics and family circumstances together accounted for only 49.8% of the teen childbearing effect.
Second, maternal characteristics explained approximately 14 - 21% of the teen childbearing effect on offspring outcomes.
The maternal characteristics associated with their children's lexical growth changed with development.
The analysis did not control for maternal characteristics.
In the subgroup of highly negative infants the relation between maternal characteristics and subsequent withdrawal 0 fear was stronger than in the subgroup of infants low in negative emotionality.
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