Sentence examples for predictive of behaviour from inspiring English sources

This is known to be a consistent individual trait in carp that is predictive of behaviour in other contexts and of metabolic and stress physiology.

We have investigated whether IGF-1 is involved in mediating the effects of the experience provided by EE on postnatal visual cortical development using visual acuity development, a sensitive index of visual cortical development and predictive of behaviour [29], [30], [11].

Other studies have demonstrated that beliefs about the importance of antenatal care are not always predictive of behaviour and do not account significantly for lack of use [ 37].

Individual doctor attitudes and interest have been demonstrated to influence patient outcomes in some instances [ 2, 3] and it has been argued that specific attitudes are more predictive of behaviour than general attitudes[ 4].

Moderation tests (conducted in 24 studies; see Supplemental Table 2) have tended to show intention to become less predictive of behaviour as habit strength increases, so that, where intention is weak and habit strong, behaviour corresponds with habit and not intention (18 studies, 75% of moderation tests; Gardner et al., 2011).

Yet, four tests (17%) found no habit intention interaction (e.g., Gardner et al., 2012), and three (13%) showed intention to be more predictive of behaviour at stronger levels of habit (de Bruijn, Rhodes, & van Osch, 2012; Gardner, de Bruijn, & Lally, 2012; Rhodes & de Bruijn, 2010).

We will conduct longitudinal regression analysis using baseline measures of intrapersonal, social and neighbourhood environmental factors to test predictive models of behaviour and investigate the effect of changes in nutrition and physical activity behaviours on weight status and quality of life.

However other evidence reveals that religious commitment is not necessary for religious environments to enhance cooperative sentiments and behaviours, that religious belief is not independently predictive of cooperative behaviour, and that circumstantial variables easily swamp expressed religious intentions.

First, perceptions of peer engagement in academic dishonesty was not found to be predictive of student behaviour in the current study, despite the research literature frequently reporting peer behaviour as one of the main predictors of academic dishonesty (Brimble and Stevenson-Clarke 2005; McCabe and Trevino 1997; Tibbetts 1998).

Although the present research only focused on risk behaviours, some of the most promising intervention programme approaches for reducing multiple risk behaviours simultaneously address multiple domains of risk and protective factors predictive of risk behaviour [ 21].

Most individual differences in temperament observed in infants up to 12 months in age do not endure over time and are not predictive of later behaviour.