0 a fact or situation that influences the result of something: --
informal The movie's success is largely due to its feel-good factor (= its ability to make people feel happy).
The economy is regarded as the decisive/key factor in the outcome of the election.
Price will be a major/crucial factor in the success of this new product.
Heavy snow was a contributing factor in the accident.
People's voting habits are influenced by political, social and economic factors.
1 in mathematics, any whole number that is produced when you divide a larger number by another whole number: --
2 a fact or situation that influences a result: --
3 a number or variable (= letter or symbol) that is being multiplied in a product (= result of multiplying): --
In 6×3=18, 6 and 3 are factors of the product 18.
4 one of several things that affects or influences a situation: --
a key/significant/major factor
Increasing use of online newspapers was definitely a contributing factor to the company's collapse.
5 a business that buys the right to collect debts for another company and charges for collecting them: --
Using a factor can be a good way of getting better cashflow.
Nevertheless, it seems that there is a network of different psychological factors in play, which seem to be interconnected and influencing one another.
But there are no quick-fixes: to comprehend its significance requires us to consider psychological, cultural, and political/social and economic factors.
Moreover, to ignore this combination of linguistic and sociocultural factors would degrade psychological research.
Here, the style of a pattern is defined as a semantic description of its design concepts represented by psychological factors and topology features.
For female pupils in this group this is slightly less important, but "fitting in to the group" is an additional factor for them.
This strengthens the case for work factors having a greater impact on socioeconomic inequalities in psychological distress among men.
Work factors had a greater impact on class differences in psychological distress in men.
However, it is possible that it may be mediated through other psychological factors such as hypervigilance to current well-being.
