These data suggest that self-reported impulsivity is a more consistent predictor of problematic behaviours than behavioural measures in a sample of people with significant levels of substance use and psychopathology.
The results suggest that externalizing psychopathology is a more consistent predictor of early and risky sexual behavior than is internalizing psychopathology.
In fresh water, (Italic Escherichia /Italic) coli was a more consistent predictor of GI illness than are enterococci and other bacterial indicators.
Oxyhemoglobin desaturation, a marked feature of the 6MWT in ILD, is a more consistent predictor of reduced survival than distance walked [ 2, 15, 16].
Despite the fact that many persons recall discontinuing antimicrobial prophylaxis because of adverse events, our analysis showed that risk perception is a stronger and more consistent predictor of adherence across the six exposed cohorts.
Education, however, seems to be a more consistent predictor of increased alcohol use in South Asia with a number of studies showing an association between lower education levels and alcohol use [ 9, 11].
There is indeed some evidence to suggest that stress-reactive rumination, in combination with negative cognitive style, contributes to the onset of depression in adults, and that stress-reactive rumination may be an even more consistent predictor of the onset and duration of depressive symptoms than emotion-focused rumination in adults (Alloy et al. 2000; Robinson and Alloy 2003).
In this respect, a more consistent predictor of distress and clinical need appears to be emotional responses to, and negative beliefs about, the voices one hears rather than objective presence alone [ 86], which, at least in some cases, may be influenced by exposure to trauma and social adversity [ 88– 92].
Debray et al. [ 16] show that a model's performance is likely to be more consistent if there is little or no heterogeneity in the effect of the predictors included.
