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Linda George

Professor of Sociology, Duke University
Verified email at duke.edu
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Sociological perspectives on life transitions

LK George - Annual review of sociology, 1993 - annualreviews.org
Research on life transitions highlights the normative and nonnormative changes that
individuals experience over time. During the past two decades, life course perspectives have …

One‐month prevalence of mental disorders in the United States and sociodemographic characteristics: the Epidemiologic Catchment Area study

…, M Kramer, LN Robins, LK George… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
The associations between the one‐month prevalence rates of mental disorders and
sociodemographic characteristics were investigated for 18571 people interviewed in the first‐wave …

Common markers of proliferation

ML Whitfield, LK George, GD Grant… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2006 - nature.com
When normal tissue and tumour samples are compared by microarray analysis, the biggest
differences most often occur in the expression levels of genes that control cell proliferation. …

Caregiver weil-being: a multidimensional examination of family caregivers of demented adults

LK George, LP Gwyther - The gerontologist, 1986 - academic.oup.com
The well-being of family caregivers of older memory-impaired adults was examined in four
dimensions: physical health, mental health, financial resources, and social participation. …

One-month prevalence of mental disorders in the United States: Based on five epidemiologic catchment area sites

…, M Kramer, LN Robins, LK George… - Archives of General …, 1988 - jamanetwork.com
• One-month prevalence results were determined from 18571 persons interviewed in the first-wave
community samples of all five sites that constituted the National Institute of Mental …

Depression, disability days, and days lost from work in a prospective epidemiologic survey

WE Broadhead, DG Blazer, LK George, CK Tse - Jama, 1990 - jamanetwork.com
We describe the relationship of depression and depressive symptoms to disability days and
days lost from work in 2980 participants in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study in North …

Post-traumatic stress disorder in the community: an epidemiological study

…, D Hughes, DG Blazer, LK George - Psychological …, 1991 - cambridge.org
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was studied in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.
Among 2985 subjects, the lifetime and six month prevalence figures for PTSD were 1·30 …

Explaining the relationships between religious involvement and health

LK George, CG Ellison, DB Larson - Psychological inquiry, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
There is increasing research evidence that religious involvement is associated both cross-sectionally
and prospectively with better physical health, better mental health, and longer …

Spirituality and health: What we know, what we need to know

LK George, DB Larson, HG Koenig… - Journal of social and …, 2000 - Guilford Press
Spirituality and religion have been seen as beneficial, harmful, and irrelevant to health. We
examine the recent research on this topic. We focus on (a) defining spirituality and religion …

Religious involvement, social ties, and social support in a southeastern community

CG Ellison, LK George - Journal for the scientific study of religion, 1994 - JSTOR
Although many studies suggest that religious participation enhances the social resources of
individuals, there is little empirical evidence on this issue. This study develops a theoretical …