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timing-of-events model

a paradigm that describes adult psychosocial development as influenced by the expected or unexpected occurrence and timing of particular life events. See off-time life events; on-time life events. [initially described in the 1950s by Bernice Levin Neugarten]

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significant difference

significant difference

the situation in which a significance testing procedure indicates the statistical differences observed between two groups (e.g., a treatment group and a control group) are unlikely to reflect chance variation.