Browsing by Subject "Cross-Cultural Comparison"
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Cross-cultural variability of component processes in autobiographical remembering: Japan, Turkey, and the USA.
(Memory, 2007-07)Although the underlying mechanics of autobiographical memory may be identical across cultures, the processing of information differs. Undergraduates from Japan, Turkey, and the USA rated 30 autobiographical memories on 15 ... -
Do You Want to Hear the Bad News? The Value of Diagnostic Tests for Alzheimer's Disease.
(Value Health, 2016-01)OBJECTIVE: The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains difficult. Lack of diagnostic certainty or possible distress related to a positive result from diagnostic testing could limit the application of new testing ... -
Relational Mobility Predicts Faster Spread of COVID-19: A 39-Country Study.
(Psychological science, 2020-10)It has become increasingly clear that COVID-19 is transmitted between individuals. It stands to reason that the spread of the virus depends on sociocultural ecologies that facilitate or inhibit social contact. In particular, ... -
Sex differences in health and mortality in Moscow and Denmark.
(Eur J Epidemiol, 2014-04)In high income countries females outlive men, although they generally report worse health, the so-called male-female health-survival paradox. Russia has one of the world's largest sex difference in life expectancy with a ... -
The normative and the personal life: individual differences in life scripts and life story events among USA and Danish undergraduates.
(Memory, 2009-01)Life scripts are culturally shared expectations about the order and timing of life events in a prototypical life course. American and Danish undergraduates produced life story events and life scripts by listing the seven ... -
Validation and application of a needs-based segmentation tool for cross-country comparisons.
(Health services research, 2021-12)<h4>Objective</h4>To compare countries' health care needs by segmenting populations into a set of needs-based health states.<h4>Data sources</h4>We used seven waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe ... -
Vitamin D levels and cognition in elderly adults in China.
(Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2014-11)<h4>Objectives</h4>To evaluate the association between vitamin D level and cognitive impairment in individuals aged 60 and older.<h4>Design</h4>Cross-sectional cohort study.<h4>Setting</h4>Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity ...
