Other problems associated with excessive television viewing are poor sleep quality and a greater likelihood of taking up smoking.
Previous studies had suggested that social rejection leads to lower self-esteem, increased likelihood of taking up smoking, and lower levels of educational attainment.
Marking what he called a "juncture in the cultural evolution of human understanding of twins," Evans concluded that "parents who choose to reduce twins to a singleton may have a higher likelihood of taking home a baby than pregnancies remaining with twins".
Generally, consumer age links to the likelihood of taking prescription medications and grapefruit consumption.
Some public respondents estimated low likelihoods of flash flooding given a flash flood warning; these were associated with lower anticipated likelihood of taking protective action given a warning.
Additionally, high interactivity increased the salience of the credibility manipulations with regards to their impact on the likelihood of taking action.
The likelihood of taking adaptation practice decreases by 58.84 % as the household becomes female headed as compared to the male headed households.
To investigate people's views about the efficacy and specific risks of herbal, over-the-counter (OTC) conventional, and prescribed conventional medicines, and their likelihood of taking a second (herbal or OTC conventional) product in addition to a prescribed medicine.
Results indicated that individuals preferred the liberal ideology, that violent websites led to higher negative affect and lowered perceptions of credibility than the non-violent websites, and that violence decreased the likelihood of taking action.
As shown in Table 5 below, the likelihood of taking adaptation practice found to be statistically significant for the factor variable of the sex of the household head at the 1 % level of significance.
Nhemachena and Hassan (2007) reported that farming experience increases the likelihood of taking up adaptation strategies as experienced farmers have much knowledge and also information on best crop management and livestock practices to adapt.
