maternal characteristic

collocation in English

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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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(Definition ofmaternalandcharacteristicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It may be that attachment disorganization is so heterogeneous that a consistent association with any singlematernalcharacteristicis less likely.
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Father's conviction history was the onlymaternalcharacteristicto account for a substantial portion of the variance in unemployment that was previously explained by maternal age at first birth.
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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.
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Maternal characteristics at 8 and 12 months did not contribute additional significant variance.
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This suggests that maternal characteristics and family circumstances may have accounted for overlapping variance in the teen childbearing effect.
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Maternal characteristics and risk of severe neonatal thrombocytopenia and intracranial hemorrhage in pregnancies complicated by autoimmune thrombocytopenia.
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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.
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There were indications of a stronger association between the maternal characteristics and developing withdrawal 0 fear in irritable infants.
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Because children's capacities are evolving, maternal characteristics irrelevant at one age might facilitate growth at another.
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Across outcomes, maternal characteristics and family circumstances together accounted for approximately 39% of the effect of teen childbearing on offspring outcomes.
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Predicting the development of infant emotionality from maternal characteristics.
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Results suggest that researchers and clinicians should consider both infant and maternal characteristics when examining early relationships.
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Second, teen and later childbearers differed on the maternal characteristics and family circumstance variables included in our study.
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These residualized scores represent the portion of each family circumstance variable that could not be predicted from the maternal characteristics.
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To test this hypothesis, we regressed each of the 11 family circumstance variables on the set of maternal characteristics.
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However, maternal characteristics and family circumstances together accounted for only 49.8% of the teen childbearing effect.
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Second, maternal characteristics explained approximately 14 - 21% of the teen childbearing effect on offspring outcomes.
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The maternal characteristics associated with their children's lexical growth changed with development.
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The analysis did not control for maternal characteristics.
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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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