Publications by authors named "R J Robins"
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- Warm and supportive parenting is linked to better emotion regulation in children, but less is understood about its impact on adolescents, especially during a time when mental health issues often emerge.
- The study focused on how maternal and paternal warmth from ages 10 to 16 affects adolescents' respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), a measure related to emotion regulation, at age 17 in a sample of 229 Mexican-origin youths.
- Results indicated that increases in maternal warmth during adolescence were connected to higher RSA in youths, suggesting that positive maternal interactions can enhance emotional regulation capabilities in teens.
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- The study examines how family and peer stressors affect alcohol use patterns in Mexican-origin adolescents over time, utilizing longitudinal data from 674 participants.
- Results indicate that early adolescent stressors are more effective as predictors of alcohol use trajectories when analyzed as growth trajectories rather than as individual instances of stress.
- The findings highlight the importance of developing strategies to reduce the long-term impact of stressors on alcohol consumption among Latinx youth.
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- Loneliness tends to increase as kids move from childhood into their teenage years, partly due to the body's natural stress response changes during puberty.
- Different individuals react to stress in varying ways, leading some to withdraw socially ("fight-or-flight") and others to seek social support ("tend-and-befriend").
- The authors suggest a model that explains these reactions and propose interventions aimed at improving social relationships, personality traits, and managing stress to reduce loneliness in adolescents.
Background Blood transfusion services are crucial for modern medical care, particularly for surgical interventions, chronic diseases, pregnancy complications, and malignancies. There is an increasing demand for blood products in India; hence, optimizing resource utilization in blood banks is essential. This study aims to evaluate the crossmatch-to-transfusion (C/T) ratio as a tool for analyzing and optimizing the utilization of blood bank resources.
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