Understanding local news consumption and community participation via the lens of information repertoires and media multiplexity by Lai, Chih-Hui, Tang, Tang

“…A path analysis was conducted on the data gathered by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The results showed that four variables—habits of information seeking, diverse community interests, access to technology, and local information repertoires—were associated with each other. …”
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Scholarly solutions: the development of American political science from the Gilded Age to the Great Society by Hotson, L

“…The development of the discipline was also shaped by the rising lot of the ‘expert’ in American life more generally – although their claims never went unchallenged. …”

Does School Racial Composition Explain Why High Income Black Youth Perceive More Discrimination? A Gender Analysis by Shervin Assari

“…Using data from the National Survey of American Life-Adolescent supplement (NSAL-A), the current study included 810 African American and 360 Caribbean Black youth, with a mean age of 15. …”
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Perceived Effectiveness of COVID-19 Preventive Practices and Behavioral Intention: Survey of a Representative Adult Sample in the United States by Anisah Bagasra, Christopher T Allen, Sara Doan

“…MethodsIn October 2020, a representative sample of 506 US adults completed a web-based survey through the RAND American Life Panel. ResultsThe study primarily found that participants who perceived that CDC-recommended health practices were effective had stronger intentions to engage in those practices. …”
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The Localized Hero And Escape From Freedom In The Music Of Chance By Paul Auster by Faruk Kalay

“…In this sense, Auster blends the history into modern American life which is focused on the same problems and contradictions in life. …”
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The Environment of Birthplace and Self-Reported Mental Health Conditions: Findings from the American Panel of Life by Hans Oh, Jessica Goehring, Louis Jacob, Lee Smith

“…We analyzed data collected in 2019 from the RAND American Life Panel (<i>n</i> = 2554), which were representative of the general adult population of the United States. …”
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Does Discrimination Explain High Risk of Depression among High-Income African American Men? by Shervin Assari, Maryam Moghani Lankarani, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell

“…Methods: The National Survey of American Life (NSAL), 2003, included 4461 American adults including 1271 African American men. …”
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Ethnic and Gender Differences in Family Social Support among Black Adolescents by Christina J. Cross, Robert Joseph Taylor, Linda M. Chatters

“…Data for this study are from the National Survey of American Life Adolescent Supplement (NSAL-A), a national, probability sample of African American and Black Caribbean youth (ages 13–17). …”
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Correlates of Spirituality among African American and Black Caribbean Emerging Adults by Meredith O. Hope, Ann W. Nguyen, Robert Joseph Taylor, Linda M. Chatters

“…Data from the National Survey of American Life were used to identify the demographic correlates of two indicators of spirituality (e.g., self-rated spirituality and subjective spirituality) among African American and Black Caribbean emerging adults using linear regression. …”
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The Association Between Marijuana Usage and Discrimination Among Adult Black Men by Lauren J. Parker PhD, MPH, Troyana Benjamin BA, Paul Archibald DrPH, MSW, LICSW-C, Roland J. Thorpe PhD

“…Using the National Survey of American Life, logistic regression analyses was used to determine the association between recent marijuana use and everyday discrimination, major discrimination, and a fully adjusted model that include everyday and major discrimination among adult Black men ( n = 1,833). …”
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The Behavior Formation of an Isolated Boy in American Rural Society as Depicted in David Wroblewski�s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by , NESTIANI HUTAMI, , Prof. Dr. C. Soebakdi Soemanto., SU.

“…American family has become the most important part of American life since the era of colonies. Family is a part of certain society, thus the familyâ��s way of life becomes the reflection of the societyâ��s lifestyle. …”

Disruptive children: desegregation, student resistance, and the carceral turn in New York city schools by Remnick, N

“…Drawing from more than 40 different archives as well as 20 original oral histories, it maintains that school policing and student discipline have historically served as tools of social control and racial dominance, emerging with the very founding of organized education in America, and expanding most rapidly and dramatically as a direct response to the prospect of desegregated schooling and the attendant rupture in American life. In the wake of this conflict, the carceral apparatus was not only linked with, but institutionalized into, the public education system. …”

Ethnic Variation in the Cross-sectional Association between Domains of Depressive Symptoms and Clinical Depression by Shervin eAssari, Ehsan eMoazen Zadeh

“…MethodsData came from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL), 2001–2003. We included 3,570 Black (African Americans), and 891 Non-Hispanic Whites. …”
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Life of Russian Orthodox Clergy in the United States at the End of the 19th Century (Reflected in the correspondence of the Ober-Procurator of the Holy Synod Konstantin Pobedonosts... by V. V. Pechatnov

“…The author’s main methodological approach consisted in text analysis of the archival documents juxtaposed against the context of Russian-American relations and the realities of American life.…”
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Association between Arthritis and Migraine: A US Nationally Representative Study Including 2649 Adults by Louis Jacob, Jae Il Shin, Guillermo F. López-Sánchez, Josep Maria Haro, Ai Koyanagi, Jong Yeob Kim, Jae Han Kim, Hans Oh, Lee Smith

“…The study used data from adults who participated in the RAND American Life Panel (ALP). Arthritis (excluding rheumatoid arthritis) and migraine were self-reported. …”
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Lobbying for the Unborn: The American Catholic Church and the Abortion Issue by Lanouar BEN HAFSA

“…Originally a mere medical procedure which aims at delivering a woman from an unwanted pregnancy, abortion has become one of the most controversial issues of American life today. Actually, two opposing forces are constantly fighting to win legitimacy and impose their own views: on the one hand, the pro-abortion proponents who defend the right of women to control their own bodies and who believe that abortion is a fundamental right which should be protected by the Constitution; on the other, the pro-life advocates who, supported by the American Catholic Church, claim the sacredness of prenatal life from the moment of conception and urge legal and constitutional protection for unborn children. …”
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THE CONCEPT OF IMAGINARY HOME IN JHUMPA LAHIRI`S “MRS. SEN`S” by Olha V. Yalovenko

“…Symbolically, she imitates “her” and does not want to accept American life which is identified with aggression. The theme of communication (the story shows friendship between two people of different age and origin) is no less important. …”
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The role of subjective, interpersonal, and structural social isolation in 12-month and lifetime anxiety disorders by Ann W. Nguyen, Harry Owen Taylor, Robert Joseph Taylor, Alexis Z. Ambroise, Tyrone Hamler, Weidi Qin, Linda M. Chatters

“…Methods The sample includes 6082 individuals from the National Survey of American Life. This study examined whether three different dimensions of social isolation—subjective, interpersonal, and structural—were associated with 12-month and lifetime anxiety disorders (any anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder (PD), social anxiety disorder (SAD), and agoraphobia (AG). …”
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Lifetime Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among African Americans and Black Caribbeans by Sex and Ethnicity by Sophia Maria Gran-Ruaz, Robert Joseph Taylor, Grace Jacob, Monnica T. Williams, Monnica T. Williams

“…This study aims to characterize sex and ethnic differences in lifetime trauma exposure, lifetime PTSD diagnosis and symptoms, and help-seeking among the African Americans and Black Caribbeans in the U.S.MethodThis study relied on data from the National Survey of American Life 2001–2003 (NSAL) to investigate the lifetime exposure to traumatic events and prevalence of a clinical PTSD diagnosis based on the DSM-IV among African American (n = 3,570) and Black Caribbean (n = 1,623) adults. 44.5% of respondents were men and 55.5% were women. …”
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Afterlives of extinction : the politics of display in the modern United States by Laurence, Alison(Alison G.)

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