For example, while psychological ill-being seems to have negative effects on the health of African-Americans, positive factors like religious faith, optimism, and social support are hypothesized to protect against cardiovascular disease, says Sims.
Social support is hypothesized to affect health mainly by providing resources that can be used to avoid the risk of disease, minimize their consequences, or influence health-promoting or health-damaging behaviors (31).
In the current study, we used path analysis to test a model in which physical activity, spirituality, and social support were hypothesized to influence global quality of life in paths mediated by self-efficacy and health status.
Type of tenancy was hypothesized to be a determinant of HSP adoption in Stockholm, and the results of this study show strong support for this idea.
Decreased material in situ was hypothesized to enhance comfort.
In this study, the donor and recipient lineages could be inferred in one putative eukaryote-to-eukaryote gene transfer event with reasonable support; ciliates were hypothesized to have acquired a gene from an Amoebozoa lineage.
Purpose: Although the forearm support band has been hypothesized to reduce force and thus inflammation and degeneration at the extensor carpi radialis brevis (ECRB) origin, little evidence exists to support an actual effect.
In support, premature aging, that is hypothesized to be elementary connected to misregulated autophagy [58], represents a known mechanism involved in PD pathogenesis [59].
The perirhinal cortex (PrC) has been hypothesized to support nonassociative item encoding that contributes to later familiarity, whereas the hippocampus supports associative encoding that selectively contributes to later recollection.
