Browsing BI Open by Author "Cheng, Helen"
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Associations between childhood biomedical factors, maternal smoking, personality traits, Body and Mass Index and the prevalence of asthma in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Montgomery, Scott; Treglown, Luke; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Objective: The study set out to investigate socio-economic, biomedical, health and behavioural and psychological factors in childhood and adulthood associated with the prevalence of asthma in adulthood, drawing data from ... -
The Big-Five personality factors, cognitive ability, health, and social-demographic indicators as independent predictors of self-efficacy: A longitudinal study
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study set out to examine to what extent a set of psychological, health and socio-demographic factors are associated with self-efficacy (SE) in a large sample of over 12,000 participants over a two-year period. We were ... -
The Big-Five personality factors, mental health, and social-demographic indicators as independent predictors of gratification delay
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This paper reports on a study testing over 12,000 adults. We were interested in the correlates of gratification delay (GD) (as criterion variable) with gender, age, education and occupation, the Big-Five personality factors, ... -
Childhood Cognitive Ability Predicts Adult Financial Well-Being
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study set out to investigate to what extent childhood cognitive ability, along with personality traits, education and occupational status, as well as marital status influence adult financial success. Data were drawn ... -
Childhood heart problems, adulthood emotional stability, and sex associated with self-report heart conditions in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Montgomery, Scott; Green, Andy; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The present study investigated biomedical, social, and psychological factors associated with self-reported heart conditions in adulthood in a British cohort. In total, 5697 (50.7% males) participants with data on parental ... -
Childhood locus of control and self-esteem, education, psychological distress and physical exercise as predictors of adult obesity
Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Objective To investigate to what extent locus of control, self-esteem, psychological distress, physical exercise, as well as socio-demographic factors are associated with obesity in 42-year-old adults in a longitudinal ... -
Childhood onset of migraine, gender, parental social class, and trait neuroticism as predictors of the prevalence of migraine in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Treglown, Luke; Green, Andy; Chapman, Benjamin P.; Kornilaki, Ekaterina N.; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This study investigated the effects of socio-demographic and psychological factors in childhood and adulthood on the prevalence of migraine in adulthood using data from The National Child Development Studies (NCDS), a birth ... -
Childhood onset of migraine, gender, psychological distress and locus of control as predictors of migraine in adulthood
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study explored a set of psychological and socio-demographic factors in childhood and adulthood associated with migraines assessed at age 42 years. Data were drawn from a large, nationally representative, prospective ... -
Conscientiousness and occupational prestige as independent predictors of the change of tobacco use in adulthood
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This study investigated the association between childhood intelligence, personality traits, parental social class, maternal smoking, educational qualifications and occupation prestige, and smoking status assessed at different ... -
Correlates of Adult Vocabulary Task Performance: Findings from a British Cohort
Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This study explored a longitudinal data set of 4361 adults (2119 males and 2239 females) to examine factors that influence adult vocabulary task performance. Data were collected at birth, in childhood (age 10 years), during ... -
Correlates of Conscientiousness: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study explored correlates of the trait Conscientiousness drawing on longitudinal data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), with a sample of 7,436 mothers. Data were collected when participants’ children were born ... -
Correlates of maternal Emotional Stability: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study
Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This study explored correlates of maternal Emotional Stability drawing on a longitudinal data, from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS): a sample of 10,925 mothers. Data were collected when children were at ages 9 months, ... -
Early indicators of self-esteem in teenagers: Findings from a nationally representative sample
Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study explored a longitudinal data set of 3096 British sixteen year olds with data collected in 1970, 1980, and 1986. It examined how parental social status at birth; intelligence, locus of control and behavioural ... -
Early Predictors of Alpha and Beta Personality Factors in Adulthood
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study examined the predictors of two higher factors of personality (Alpha and Beta) using a large nationally representative sample. In total, we had 5,476 participants data on family social status measured at birth, ... -
Educational achievement and traits emotional stability and agreeableness as predictors of the occurrence of backache in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Green, Andy; Chapman, Benjamin P.; Treglown, Luke; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study investigated the associations between psychological as well as social factors in childhood and adulthood and the occurrence of adulthood back pain in a longitudinal birth cohort study. The analytic sample comprises ... -
Emotional stability, conscientiousness, and self-reported hypertension in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Montgomery, Scott; Treglown, Luke; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objective: To investigate social and psychological factors in childhood and adulthood associated with self-reported hypertension in adulthood. Method: Using data from the National Child Development Study, a nationally ... -
Factors affecting adult trait Neuroticism in a nationally representative sample
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study explores factors in childhood and adulthood that affect adult trait Neuroticism in a large, nationally representative sample. 5785 participants provided information on family social background measured at birth; ... -
Factors influencing adult savings and investment: Findings from a nationally representative sample
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This study explored a longitudinal data set of over 5766 adults examining factors that influence adult savings and investment. Data were collected at birth, in childhood (at age 11) and adulthood (at ages 33 and 50 yrs) ... -
Factors Influencing Children’s Behavioral Problems: Results from a Longitudinal Study of British Children from Birth to Seven Years
Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This study explored a longitudinal data set of over 10,663 children at age 7 years to examine various psychological and sociological factors that possibly influenced their behavioural problems. Data were collected when ... -
GHQ score changes from teenage to young adulthood
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This study investigated the change in the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) scores from teenage years to young adulthood using a large, nationally representative sample in the UK. It took account of socio-demographic ...