Browsing Publikasjoner fra CRIStin - BI 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, 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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) ... -
Personality Traits and Socio-Demographic Variables as Predictors of Political Interest and Voting Behavior in a British Cohort
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This study examines the associations between socio-demographic variables, the Big Five personality traits, and the extent of political interest as well as voting behavior, in a large, nationally representative sample in ... -
Personality traits neuroticism and openness as well as early abnormal eye conditions as predictors of the occurrence of eye problems in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article, 2017)This study set out to examine the associations between psychological, biomedical and socio-demographic factors in childhood and adulthood associated with the occurrence of self-reported eye conditions in adulthood. In ... -
The role of parents, teachers, and pupils in IQ test scores: Correlates of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) from 74 countries
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study reports the associations between the intelligence of over half a million 15-year-olds in 74 countries, assessed by the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and their socio-economic and ... -
Socio-Demographic Indicators, Intelligence,and Locus of Control as Predictors of Adult Financial Well-Being
Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The current study investigated a longitudinal data set of 4790 adults examining a set of socio-demographic and psychological factors that influence adult financial well-being. Parental social status (at birth), childhood ... -
Teenage locus of control, psychological distress, educational qualifications and occupational prestige as well as gender as independent predictors of adult binge drinking
Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Our objective was to investigate various psychological and socio-demographic factors in childhood and adulthood that relate to alcohol intake and binge drinking at age 42 years. Data were drawn from the 1970 British ... -
The associations between personality traits, education, occupation and the occurrence of eczema in adulthood
Cheng, Helen; Treglown, Luke; Montgomery, Scott; Kornilaki, Ekaterina N.; Tsivrikos, Dimitrios; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)There were 5,834 participants with complete data on parental social class at birth, childhood cognitive ability tests scores at 11 years, educational qualifications at 33 years, the Big-Five Factor personality traits, ...