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Title: Alcohol Abuse, PTSD, and Officer-Committed Domestic Violence.
Creator: Oehme, Karen, Donnelly, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne), Martin, Annelise
Abstract/Description: In a unique prevention project in a large US state, researchers explored how alcohol abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rates influence rates of self-reported domestic violence committed by law enforcement officers. Survey methodology with a cross-sectional design was used, and multiple measures and instruments were analyzed. Because of the novel nature of the online curriculum and resources, there was no comparison group. A strong association—not a cause/effect relationship—was...
Show moreIn a unique prevention project in a large US state, researchers explored how alcohol abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rates influence rates of self-reported domestic violence committed by law enforcement officers. Survey methodology with a cross-sectional design was used, and multiple measures and instruments were analyzed. Because of the novel nature of the online curriculum and resources, there was no comparison group. A strong association—not a cause/effect relationship—was found: officers who had PTSD were four times more likely to report using physical violence, officers who had hazardous drinking were four times more likely to report violence, and dependent drinkers were eight times more likely to report being physically violent with an intimate partner. The findings suggest new opportunities for agency action and have resulted in new recommendations for training and policies to help support healthier law enforcement officers. No previous study has explored the link between PTSD, alcohol use, and domestic violence within this population.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0021, 10.1093/police/pas023
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Title: Green Infrastructure and Public Health in the Florida Communities Trust Public Land Acquisition Program.
Creator: Coutts, Christopher
Abstract/Description: The Florida Communities Trust (FCT) program provides grants to local governments to preserve open space. In doing so, this program plays an important role in supporting public health. A total of 617 FCT applications submitted between 2001-2006 were examined to determine in what ways the FCT is supporting public health. Results revealed that the FCT is supporting health most notably through the provision of park and greenway settings for physical activity and the protection of water quality....
Show moreThe Florida Communities Trust (FCT) program provides grants to local governments to preserve open space. In doing so, this program plays an important role in supporting public health. A total of 617 FCT applications submitted between 2001-2006 were examined to determine in what ways the FCT is supporting public health. Results revealed that the FCT is supporting health most notably through the provision of park and greenway settings for physical activity and the protection of water quality. These findings are important because they reveal that programs such as the FCT have a latent ability to support public health. Making the important social benefit of public health more explicit can provide further justification for public land acquisition.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0009, 10.1080/02697459.2010.511017
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Title: Greenway Accessibility and Physical Activity Behavior.
Creator: Coutts, Christopher
Abstract/Description: Public health initiatives have made important but relatively modest gains with individual-level and non-ecological health promotion efforts aimed at increasing physical activity. The previously overlooked built environment is now being considered as facilitating or hindering one's ability to be active. The multi-use greenway is an example of a facility which can support physical activity, but its level of use may be influenced by the accessibility characteristics of areas surrounding the...
Show morePublic health initiatives have made important but relatively modest gains with individual-level and non-ecological health promotion efforts aimed at increasing physical activity. The previously overlooked built environment is now being considered as facilitating or hindering one's ability to be active. The multi-use greenway is an example of a facility which can support physical activity, but its level of use may be influenced by the accessibility characteristics of areas surrounding the greenway. In this study, an unobtrusive methodology using GPS and GIS technology was employed to test whether two variables used to measure accessibility, proximity (population density) and opportunities (land use mixture), predicted the use of greenway segments. The results presented here allow us to confirm that smaller walking and biking scales of analysis are better predictors of physical activity behavior. The results also suggest that solely bringing environmental supports for physical activity closer to concentrated areas of population does not necessarily equate to more use. It is important that areas with increased population density also have increased levels of land use mixture if increasing use is the goal.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0004, 10.1068/b3406
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Title: Greenways as green magnets: The relationship between the race of greenway users and race in proximal neighborhoods.
Creator: Coutts, Christopher, Miles, Rebecca
Abstract/Description: Although advances have been made in research examining race and the use of public parks, there has been little attention paid to urban greenways. Using Geographic Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, this exploratory study examines whether the racial composition of neighborhoods surrounding two urban greenways in Michigan acts as a barrier to trail use or whether these urban greenways operate as "green magnets" facilitating links between neighborhoods...
Show moreAlthough advances have been made in research examining race and the use of public parks, there has been little attention paid to urban greenways. Using Geographic Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, this exploratory study examines whether the racial composition of neighborhoods surrounding two urban greenways in Michigan acts as a barrier to trail use or whether these urban greenways operate as "green magnets" facilitating links between neighborhoods of varied racial composition. The results of this study revealed that the racial composition of the neighborhoods greenway users passed through did not predict the race of users on a given segment. These findings suggest that greenways might facilitate racial comingling in urban public space.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0013, FSU_2015fall_greenways
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Title: Examining the Influence of Multidestination Service Orientation on Transit Service Productivity: A Multivariate Analysis.
Creator: Brown, Jeffrey, Thompson, Gregory
Abstract/Description: Between 1990 and 2000,U.S.transit agencies added service and increased ridership, but the ridership increase failed to keep pace with the service increase. The result was a decline in service effectiveness (or productivity). This marks the continuation of a long-running and often-studied trend. The scholarly literature attributes this phenomenon, at least in part, to transit agency decisions to decentralize their service rather than focus on serving the traditional CBD market. Many scholars...
Show moreBetween 1990 and 2000,U.S.transit agencies added service and increased ridership, but the ridership increase failed to keep pace with the service increase. The result was a decline in service effectiveness (or productivity). This marks the continuation of a long-running and often-studied trend. The scholarly literature attributes this phenomenon, at least in part, to transit agency decisions to decentralize their service rather than focus on serving the traditional CBD market. Many scholars argue that a decentralized service orientation is both ineffective and inefficient because it attracts few riders and requires large per-rider subsidies. This research tests whether a non-traditional, decentralized service orientation, called multidestination service, results in reduced service productivity. Contrary to what the literature suggests, we find that MSAs whose transit agencies pursued a multidestination service orientation did not experience lower productivity. These results indicate that policies that have encouraged the growth of decentralized transit services have not necessarily been detrimental to the industry.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0015, 10.1007/s11116-007-9140-x
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Title: Factorial and Construct Validity of the Italian Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS).
Creator: Terracciano, Antonio, McCrae, Robert R., Costa, Paul
Abstract/Description: This study provides evidence that an Italian version of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) is a reliable and valid self-report measure. In an Italian sample (N = 600), the PANAS showed solid psychometric properties, and several American findings with the PANAS were replicated. The replicability of the PANAS factor structure was confirmed by high congruence coefficients between the American and Italian varimax solutions. Alternative models were tested with Confirmatory Factor...
Show moreThis study provides evidence that an Italian version of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) is a reliable and valid self-report measure. In an Italian sample (N = 600), the PANAS showed solid psychometric properties, and several American findings with the PANAS were replicated. The replicability of the PANAS factor structure was confirmed by high congruence coefficients between the American and Italian varimax solutions. Alternative models were tested with Confirmatory Factor Analysis; as in previous studies, the two-factor model achieved the best fit, but absolute fit indices varied with the estimation methods used. The independence/bipolarity issue was also explored: Positive and negative affect scales remain substantially independent after accounting for measurement error and acquiescence. Some predictions from the tripartite model of anxiety and depression were confirmed, and external correlates of the PANAS replicated those found in other languages and cultures. These analyses offer strong support for the construct validity of the Italian PANAS.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0035, 10.1027//1015-5759.19.2.131
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Title: Evaluating the Productivity of Social Work Scholars Using the H-index.
Creator: Lacasse, Jeffrey R., Hodge, David R., Bean, Kristen
Abstract/Description: Objectives: This article reports the first estimated h-index values for social work faculty. Methods: Multiple raters blindly assessed two samples of faculty (1) tenure-track faculty at institutions listed in the U.S. News and World Report top 10 (n=337) and (2) tenure track editorial board members of 5 highly ranked social work journals (n=215). Results: Intraclass correlation coefficients for h-index values among the multiple raters ranged from .83 to .92, indicating good reliability. For...
Show moreObjectives: This article reports the first estimated h-index values for social work faculty. Methods: Multiple raters blindly assessed two samples of faculty (1) tenure-track faculty at institutions listed in the U.S. News and World Report top 10 (n=337) and (2) tenure track editorial board members of 5 highly ranked social work journals (n=215). Results: Intraclass correlation coefficients for h-index values among the multiple raters ranged from .83 to .92, indicating good reliability. For faculty at top 10 institutions, mean estimated h-index values were 3.97 (SD=2.87) for assistant professors; 8.59 (SD=3.72) for associate professors; and 16.14 (SD=8.35) for full professors. Values for editorial board members were generally similar. Conclusions: These are the first such published data; further research is needed.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0040, 10.1177/1049731511405069
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Title: Evaluating Journal Quality: Is the H-index a Better Measure than Impact Factors?.
Creator: Hodge, David R., Lacasse, Jeffrey R.
Abstract/Description: Objectives: This study evaluates the utility of a new measure—the h-index—that may provide a more valid approach to evaluating journal quality in the social work profession. Methods: H-index values are compared with Thomson ISI five-year impact factors and expert opinion. Results: As hypothesized, the h-index correlates highly with ISI five-year impact factors; but exhibits closer agreement with expert opinion, particularly with high familiarity disciplinary journals. Conclusions: This...
Show moreObjectives: This study evaluates the utility of a new measure—the h-index—that may provide a more valid approach to evaluating journal quality in the social work profession. Methods: H-index values are compared with Thomson ISI five-year impact factors and expert opinion. Results: As hypothesized, the h-index correlates highly with ISI five-year impact factors; but exhibits closer agreement with expert opinion, particularly with high familiarity disciplinary journals. Conclusions: This evidence of convergent and discriminatory validity suggests that the h-index may have some utility in assessing social work journals. Notable advantages of the h-index include its compatibility with the profession's applied research culture and its ability to be used with essentially all journals in which social workers publish.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0038
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Title: Florida's Planning Requirements and Affordability for Low-Income Households.
Creator: Aurand, Andrew
Abstract/Description: Growth management states in the USA, such as Florida, Oregon, and Washington, require their local jurisdictions to plan for an adequate supply of housing for all current and future residents, including low-income households. This research uses regression analysis to test the relationship between the strength of local comprehensive plans toward affordable housing and subsequent changes in housing affordability for low-income households. Semi-structured interviews with local planners about...
Show moreGrowth management states in the USA, such as Florida, Oregon, and Washington, require their local jurisdictions to plan for an adequate supply of housing for all current and future residents, including low-income households. This research uses regression analysis to test the relationship between the strength of local comprehensive plans toward affordable housing and subsequent changes in housing affordability for low-income households. Semi-structured interviews with local planners about their perceptions of the efficacy of local plans provide insight into the quantitative findings. The initial plans passed after Florida's Growth Management Act were not associated with subsequent changes in housing affordability, but more recent plans were. Planners in a number of jurisdictions indicated that Florida's planning mandate increased awareness among public officials of affordable housing issues and the tools available to address them, despite the state's weak oversight.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0023, 10.1080/02673037.2014.882497
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Title: Ethnicity, Education, and the Temporal Stability of Personality Traits In the East Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study.
Creator: Löckenhoff, Corinna, Terracciano, Antonio, Bienvenu, O. Joseph, Patriciu, Nicholas, Nestadt, Gerald, McCrae, Robert R., Eaton, William W., Costa, Paul
Abstract/Description: We examined the influence of age, gender, Black vs. White ethnicity, and education on five indices of personality stability and change across an average interval of 8 years in the East Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. In the full sample (n = 505, aged 30-88), examination of structural, rank-order, ipsative, and mean level stability, as well as indices of reliable change suggested that NEO-PI-R personality traits showed moderate to high levels of stability over time. There were...
Show moreWe examined the influence of age, gender, Black vs. White ethnicity, and education on five indices of personality stability and change across an average interval of 8 years in the East Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. In the full sample (n = 505, aged 30-88), examination of structural, rank-order, ipsative, and mean level stability, as well as indices of reliable change suggested that NEO-PI-R personality traits showed moderate to high levels of stability over time. There were few age and gender effects on temporal stability but rank-order, ipsative, and mean level stability were lower among Blacks and individuals with lower education. Future research should explore additional demographic predictors of temporal plasticity in a diverse range of samples, and employ observer ratings to assess personality.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0028, 10.1016/j.jrp.2007.09.004
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Title: Five-Factor Model Personality Traits and the Retirement Transition: Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Associations.
Creator: Löckenhoff, Corinna, Terracciano, Antonio, Costa, Paul
Abstract/Description: The authors examined associations between 5-factor personality traits and retirement in a diverse community sample. Longitudinal analyses (n = 367) compared personality trajectories of participants who remained employed and participants who retired. Personality at baseline did not predict future retirement, but compared to participants who remained employed, retirees increased in Agreeableness and decreased in Activity, a facet of Extraversion. In cross-sectional analyses among retirees (n =...
Show moreThe authors examined associations between 5-factor personality traits and retirement in a diverse community sample. Longitudinal analyses (n = 367) compared personality trajectories of participants who remained employed and participants who retired. Personality at baseline did not predict future retirement, but compared to participants who remained employed, retirees increased in Agreeableness and decreased in Activity, a facet of Extraversion. In cross-sectional analyses among retirees (n = 144), those low in Neuroticism and high in Extraversion reported higher retirement satisfaction, and those high in Extraversion reported higher postretirement activity levels. Findings suggest that the trait perspective contributes to the understanding of the retirement process.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0024, 10.1037/a0015121
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Title: Five-Factor Model Personality Profiles of Drug Users.
Creator: Terracciano, Antonio, Löckenhoff, Corinna, Crum, Rosa, Bienvenu, O. Joseph, Costa, Paul
Abstract/Description: BACKGROUND: Personality traits are considered risk factors for drug use, and, in turn, the psychoactive substances impact individuals' traits. Furthermore, there is increasing interest in developing treatment approaches that match an individual's personality profile. To advance our knowledge of the role of individual differences in drug use, the present study compares the personality profile of tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin users and non-users using the wide spectrum Five-Factor...
Show moreBACKGROUND: Personality traits are considered risk factors for drug use, and, in turn, the psychoactive substances impact individuals' traits. Furthermore, there is increasing interest in developing treatment approaches that match an individual's personality profile. To advance our knowledge of the role of individual differences in drug use, the present study compares the personality profile of tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin users and non-users using the wide spectrum Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality in a diverse community sample. METHOD: Participants (N = 1,102; mean age = 57) were part of the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) program in Baltimore, MD, USA. The sample was drawn from a community with a wide range of socio-economic conditions. Personality traits were assessed with the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), and psychoactive substance use was assessed with systematic interview. RESULTS: Compared to never smokers, current cigarette smokers score lower on Conscientiousness and higher on Neuroticism. Similar, but more extreme, is the profile of cocaine/heroin users, which score very high on Neuroticism, especially Vulnerability, and very low on Conscientiousness, particularly Competence, Achievement-Striving, and Deliberation. By contrast, marijuana users score high on Openness to Experience, average on Neuroticism, but low on Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. CONCLUSION: In addition to confirming high levels of negative affect and impulsive traits, this study highlights the links between drug use and low Conscientiousness. These links provide insight into the etiology of drug use and have implications for public health interventions.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0027, 10.1186/1471-244X-8-22
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Title: Local Environment of Neighborhood Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORC) in a Mid-Sized U.S. City.
Creator: Aurand, Andrew, Miles, Rebecca, Usher, Kareem
Abstract/Description: As the U.S. population ages, almost half of elderly householders have lived in their current home for more than twenty years and a significant majority wish to remain in their current residence or community for as long as possible as they age. Concern with how communities will cope with these trends has led to a growing interest in naturally occurring retirement communities (NORC), i.e. neighborhoods or housing complexes that house a concentration of older adults, and their potential to...
Show moreAs the U.S. population ages, almost half of elderly householders have lived in their current home for more than twenty years and a significant majority wish to remain in their current residence or community for as long as possible as they age. Concern with how communities will cope with these trends has led to a growing interest in naturally occurring retirement communities (NORC), i.e. neighborhoods or housing complexes that house a concentration of older adults, and their potential to enhance efforts to support aging-in-place. In this paper, we examine the local built and social environment of neighborhood NORCs in Tallahassee, Florida, a low-density mid-sized city. We find that a large proportion of NORCs are located in neighborhoods with an urban form, or physical design, that is presumed to be less supportive of active aging and with poor access to amenities, such as grocery stores, pharmacies, and parks. Another substantial portion of NORCs are located in neighborhoods with some aspects of a supportive urban form. We also find that NORCs are over-represented in neighborhoods featuring low residential turnover and above average homeownership rates. This suggests a potential for collective action to facilitate aging-in-place even in neighborhoods thought not to have supportive physical environments.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0026, FSU_2015fall_local
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Title: Locational influence of land use type on the distribution of uses along urban river greenways.
Creator: Coutts, Christopher
Abstract/Description: This descriptive case study examines the influence of the land use type on the level of use of greenways for physical activity, and is intended to inform the construction or expansion of multi-use greenway systems. Greenway use data was collected through direct observation, making multiple passes over two city greenways and recording the location of users with a Global Positioning System device. The distribution of uses was then examined with land use data using Geographic Information Systems...
Show moreThis descriptive case study examines the influence of the land use type on the level of use of greenways for physical activity, and is intended to inform the construction or expansion of multi-use greenway systems. Greenway use data was collected through direct observation, making multiple passes over two city greenways and recording the location of users with a Global Positioning System device. The distribution of uses was then examined with land use data using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to determine if use was heaviest on segments of the greenway adjacent to areas with distinct land use characteristics. The study reveals that use is heaviest on sections of the greenway that intersect parks and in downtown areas where there is a concentration of commercial land use. Use is also significant on segments that connect parks to the downtown when these two land uses are separated by relatively short distances.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0008
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Title: The Limits of Evidence Based Medicine and Its Application to Mental Health Evidence-Based Practice. (Part One).
Creator: Gomory, Tomi
Abstract/Description: The present article outlines the major limitations of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and through a close review demonstrates that the three component EBM process model is a pseudo-scientific tool. Its "objective" component is the collection, systematic analysis, and listing of "effective" treatments applying a research hierarchy from most rigorous (systematic reviews of randomized control trials) to least rigorous (expert opinion). Its two subjective components are the clinical judgment of...
Show moreThe present article outlines the major limitations of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and through a close review demonstrates that the three component EBM process model is a pseudo-scientific tool. Its "objective" component is the collection, systematic analysis, and listing of "effective" treatments applying a research hierarchy from most rigorous (systematic reviews of randomized control trials) to least rigorous (expert opinion). Its two subjective components are the clinical judgment of helping professionals about which "evidence-based" treatment to select and the specific and unique relevant personal preferences of the potential recipients regarding treatment. This procedural mishmash provides no more rigor in choosing "best practice" than has been provided by good clinical practitioners in the past since both turn out to be subjective and authority based. The article also discusses EBM's further methodological dilution in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) endorsed Evidence Based Mental Health Practice (EBP) movement. In EBP the allegedly rigorous EBM protocol is altered. Instead of systematic expert protocol driven EBM reviews of randomized controlled trials, NIMH sanctioned expert consensus panels decide "evidence-based practices." This further problematizes the development of best practices in mental health by converting it to a political process. The article concludes with some observations on these issues. In a second article (part two) forthcoming, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is examined as an example of an EBP that fails as a scientifically effective treatment despite its EBP certification and general popularity among practitioners.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0031
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Title: The Limits of Evidence Based Medicine and Its Application to Mental Health Evidence-Based Practice. (Part Two): Assertive Community Treatment assertively reviewed.
Creator: Gomory, Tomi
Abstract/Description: This article is the second of two published in EHPP, the first appeared in the current spring 2013 volume. The first article argued the very serious limitations of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and its very popular mental health offshoot Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)(Gomory, in press). The present article is meant to be a consolidation and update of a 1999 analysis of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), the best "validated" mental health EBP according the National Institute of Mental Health ...
Show moreThis article is the second of two published in EHPP, the first appeared in the current spring 2013 volume. The first article argued the very serious limitations of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and its very popular mental health offshoot Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)(Gomory, in press). The present article is meant to be a consolidation and update of a 1999 analysis of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), the best "validated" mental health EBP according the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and academic researchers. The present analysis reconfirms the failure of ACT as a treatment modality and a platform for successfully reducing hospitalization its touted consistent effect accept when ACT can apply administrative coercion to keep its clients out of the hospital or quickly discharge them. When ACT fails to have such administrative coercive control it does no better than other community mental health delivery systems. The use of ACT coercion begun over forty-years ago, the article further argues, set the table for conventionalizing psychiatric coercion as evidence-based best practice.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0033
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Title: Madness or Mental Illness?: Revisiting Historians of Psychiatry.
Creator: Gomory, Tomi, Cohen, David, Kirk, Stuart A.
Abstract/Description: Is madness medical disease, problems in living, or social labeling of deviance? Does the word merely refer to behavior peculiar enough to be disturbing? Are the mad mad because of mental, physical, or environmental vulnerabilities? No one knows the answers to these questions because there is no scientific validation for any theory or specific causes of madness. Nonetheless, a view of madness as medical/bodily disease has been receiving concrete and rhetorical support from the government...
Show moreIs madness medical disease, problems in living, or social labeling of deviance? Does the word merely refer to behavior peculiar enough to be disturbing? Are the mad mad because of mental, physical, or environmental vulnerabilities? No one knows the answers to these questions because there is no scientific validation for any theory or specific causes of madness. Nonetheless, a view of madness as medical/bodily disease has been receiving concrete and rhetorical support from the government mental health bureaucracy, Big Pharma, mental health lobby groups, the organized profession of psychiatry, hundreds of thousands of providers of mental health services and countless books and articles. This article explores the role that medicalized language and its use by seven noted historians of psychiatry (Norman Dain, Albert Deutsch, Gerald Grob, Roy Porter, Charles Rosenberg, Andrew Scull, and Edward Shorter) might have played in shaping the contemporary view of madness as mental illness. The evidence we uncover suggests that historical "facts" about madness, much as psychiatric "facts" supporting the disease model, are shaped by belief, bias, error or ambiguous rhetoric rather than the facts of the matter.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0041, 10.1007/s12144-013-9168-3
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Title: Individual Difference Variables, Affective Differentiation, and the Structures of Affect.
Creator: Terracciano, Antonio, McCrae, Robert R., Hagemann, Dirk, Costa, Paul
Abstract/Description: Methodological arguments are usually invoked to explain variations in the structure of affect. Using self-rated affect from Italian samples (N=600), we show that individual difference variables related to affective differentiation can moderate the observed structure. Indices of circumplexity and congruence coefficients to the hypothesized target were used to quantify the observed structures. Results did not support the circumplex model as a universal structure. A circular structure with axes...
Show moreMethodological arguments are usually invoked to explain variations in the structure of affect. Using self-rated affect from Italian samples (N=600), we show that individual difference variables related to affective differentiation can moderate the observed structure. Indices of circumplexity and congruence coefficients to the hypothesized target were used to quantify the observed structures. Results did not support the circumplex model as a universal structure. A circular structure with axes of activation and valence was approximated only among more affectively differentiated groups: students and respondents with high scores on Openness to Feelings and measures of negative emotionality. A different structure, with unipolar Positive Affect and Negative Affect factors, was observed among adults and respondents with low Openness to Feelings and negative emotionality. The observed structure of affect will depend in part on the nature of the sample studied.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0036
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Title: Rater Wealth Predicts Perceptions of Outgroup Competence.
Creator: Chan, Wayne, McCrae, Robert R., Rogers, Darrin, Weimer, Amy, Greenberg, David, Terracciano, Antonio
Abstract/Description: National income has a pervasive influence on the perception of ingroup stereotypes, with high status and wealthy targets perceived as more competent. In two studies we investigated the degree to which economic wealth of raters related to perceptions of outgroup competence. Raters' economic wealth predicted trait ratings when 1) raters in 48 other cultures rated Americans' competence and 2) Mexican Americans rated Anglo Americans' competence. Rater wealth also predicted ratings of...
Show moreNational income has a pervasive influence on the perception of ingroup stereotypes, with high status and wealthy targets perceived as more competent. In two studies we investigated the degree to which economic wealth of raters related to perceptions of outgroup competence. Raters' economic wealth predicted trait ratings when 1) raters in 48 other cultures rated Americans' competence and 2) Mexican Americans rated Anglo Americans' competence. Rater wealth also predicted ratings of interpersonal warmth on the culture level. In conclusion, raters' economic wealth, either nationally or individually, is significantly associated with perception of outgroup members, supporting the notion that ingroup conditions or stereotypes function as frames of reference in evaluating outgroup traits.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0012, 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.08.001
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Title: Intra-Individual Change in Personality Stability and Age.
Creator: Terracciano, Antonio, McCrae, Robert R., Costa, Paul
Abstract/Description: The stability of individual differences in personality traits is typically examined at the group level with test-retest correlations across two assessments. For 684 subjects (age range 17-76) we computed individual coefficients from three sequential assessments to evaluate intra-individual (i.e., within-person) change in stability over time. For both trait and profile (ipsative) stability, results indicate that intra-individual stability increases up to age 30 and then plateaus. Neither...
Show moreThe stability of individual differences in personality traits is typically examined at the group level with test-retest correlations across two assessments. For 684 subjects (age range 17-76) we computed individual coefficients from three sequential assessments to evaluate intra-individual (i.e., within-person) change in stability over time. For both trait and profile (ipsative) stability, results indicate that intra-individual stability increases up to age 30 and then plateaus. Neither demographic variables (sex, ethnicity, education, and secular trends), nor the standing on the five major dimensions of personality, were predictors of change in trait stability. Contrary to results from studies of adolescents, personality "maturity" was unrelated to personality stability in adulthood. These findings support the notion that personality stability plateaus early in adulthood.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0019, 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.09.006
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Title: Histories of Childhood Victimization and Subsequent Mental Health Problems, Substance Use, and Sexual Victimization for a Sample of Incarcerated Women in the US.
Creator: Tripodi, Stephen, Pettus-Davis, Carrie
Abstract/Description: Women are entering US prisons at nearly double the rate of men and are the fastest growing prison population. Current extant literature focuses on the prevalence of the incarceration of women, but few studies exist that emphasize the different trajectories to prison. For example, women prisoners have greater experiences of prior victimization, more reports of mental illness, and higher rates of illicit substance use. The purpose of this study was to understand the prevalence of childhood...
Show moreWomen are entering US prisons at nearly double the rate of men and are the fastest growing prison population. Current extant literature focuses on the prevalence of the incarceration of women, but few studies exist that emphasize the different trajectories to prison. For example, women prisoners have greater experiences of prior victimization, more reports of mental illness, and higher rates of illicit substance use. The purpose of this study was to understand the prevalence of childhood victimization and its association with adult mental health problems, substance abuse disorders, and further sexual victimization. The research team interviewed a random sample of 125 women prisoners soon to be released from prison to gather information on their childhood physical and sexual victimization, mental health and substance abuse problems as an adult, and sexual victimization in the year preceding incarceration. Results indicate that women prisoners in this sample, who were both physically and sexually victimized as children, were more likely to be hospitalized as an adult for a psychological or emotional problem. Women who were sexually victimized or both physically and sexually victimized were more likely to attempt suicide. Women who experienced physical victimization as children and women who were both physically and sexually victimized were more likely to have a substance use disorder and women who were sexually abused as children or both physically and sexually victimized were more likely to be sexually abused in the year preceding prison. This article ends with a discussion about prisons' role in providing treatment for women prisoners and basing this treatment on women's trajectories to prison, which disproportionately include childhood victimization and subsequent mental health and substance use problems.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0011, 10.1016/j.ijlp.2012.11.005
Format: Citation

Title: Influential Publications in Social Work Discourse: The 100 Most Highly Cited Articles in Disciplinary Journals: 2000-2009.
Creator: Hodge, David R., Lacasse, Jeffrey R., Benson, Odessa
Abstract/Description: Examinations of highly cited articles are common in professions such as medicine as a way to enhance professional self-reflection. Yet, little research has examined influential articles in social work. In light of the emergence of a distinct disciplinary knowledge base over the past few decades, this study identifies the 100 most cited articles in disciplinary social work journals (N = 79) published during 2000-2009. Analysis revealed twelve citation classics spanning a relatively diverse...
Show moreExaminations of highly cited articles are common in professions such as medicine as a way to enhance professional self-reflection. Yet, little research has examined influential articles in social work. In light of the emergence of a distinct disciplinary knowledge base over the past few decades, this study identifies the 100 most cited articles in disciplinary social work journals (N = 79) published during 2000-2009. Analysis revealed twelve citation classics spanning a relatively diverse array of subjects. Among the various topics that appeared among the 100 most cited articles, the results suggest that evidence-based practice/social work research plays a particularly important role in professional discourse. Also notable is the fact that some two-thirds of the most highly cited articles were published in just four journals.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0039
Format: Citation

Title: The Influence of Social Bonds on Recidivism: A Study of Texas Male Prisoners.
Creator: Tripodi, Stephen
Abstract/Description: The present study examines the influence of social bonds on recidivism for a random sample of 250 male offenders released from Texas prisons since 2001. Recidivism is a continuous variable, in which the researcher measured months between release from prison and reincarceration. Based on life-course theory, the researcher hypothesized that offenders released from prison who become employed or were married would have lower hazard ratios than offenders who were not employed or married. Results...
Show moreThe present study examines the influence of social bonds on recidivism for a random sample of 250 male offenders released from Texas prisons since 2001. Recidivism is a continuous variable, in which the researcher measured months between release from prison and reincarceration. Based on life-course theory, the researcher hypothesized that offenders released from prison who become employed or were married would have lower hazard ratios than offenders who were not employed or married. Results from survival analyses indicate recidivists who obtained employment upon release had longer crime-free periods before recidivating than recidivists who did not obtain employment. This is potentially important when considering desistance from crime as a process, since the offenders exhibited initial motivation, commitment, and behavioral change.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0013, 10.1080/15564886.2010.509660
Format: Citation

Title: An Introduction to Using Multidimensional Item Response Theory to Assess Latent Factor Structure.
Creator: Osteen, Philip
Abstract/Description: This study provides an introduction to the use of multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) analysis for assessing latent factor structure, and compares this statistical technique to confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in the evaluation of an original measure developed to assess students' motivations for entering a social work community of practice. The Participation in a Social Work Community of Practice Scale (PSWCoP) was administered to 506 masters of social work students from 11...
Show moreThis study provides an introduction to the use of multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) analysis for assessing latent factor structure, and compares this statistical technique to confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in the evaluation of an original measure developed to assess students' motivations for entering a social work community of practice. The Participation in a Social Work Community of Practice Scale (PSWCoP) was administered to 506 masters of social work students from 11 accredited graduate programs. The psychometric properties and latent factor structure of the scale are evaluated using MIRT and CFA techniques. Although designed as a 3-factor measure, analysis of model fit using both CFA and MIRT do not support this solution. Instead, analyses using both methods produce convergent results supporting a 4-factor solution. Discussion includes methodological implications for social work research, focusing on the extension of MIRT analysis to assessment of measurement invariance in differential item functioning, differential test functioning, and differential factor functioning.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0030, 10.5243/jsswr.2010.6
Format: Citation

Title: Measuring the Impact of Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.
Creator: Lacasse, Jeffrey R., Schelbe, Lisa, Thyer, Bruce A.
Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0085, 10.1007/s10560-015-0416-2
Format: Citation

Title: Motivations, Values, and Conflict Resolution: Students' Integration of Personal and Professional Identities.
Creator: Osteen, Philip
Abstract/Description: Edicts within the Council on Social Work Education's 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards address the importance of understanding the intersection of personal and professional values. Twenty MSW students, chosen on the basis of diverse cultural and personal characteristics, were interviewed about their motivations for pursuing a MSW degree and their personal and professional values. Thematic analysis yielded an emergent model relating the intersection of multiple forms of...
Show moreEdicts within the Council on Social Work Education's 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards address the importance of understanding the intersection of personal and professional values. Twenty MSW students, chosen on the basis of diverse cultural and personal characteristics, were interviewed about their motivations for pursuing a MSW degree and their personal and professional values. Thematic analysis yielded an emergent model relating the intersection of multiple forms of motivation, encountering and resolving value conflicts, and integrating personal and professional identities. Implications for education and practice are (1) the intersection of personal and professional identities should be explicit components of curriculum; (2) strategies for managing value conflicts should be an integral part of the curriculum; and (3) the relationship between identity integration and practice needs to be delineated.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0025
Format: Citation

Title: A National Survey of Graduate Education in Psychopharmacology: Advancing the Social Work Perspective on Psychiatric Medication.
Creator: Hughes, Shannon, Narendorf, Sarah, Lacasse, Jeffrey R.
Abstract/Description: Social workers' unique skills and professional perspective can contribute to improved practices in psychopharmacology, yet it is unclear how social work programs prepare students for this area of practice. This study examined instruction of psychopharmacology through a national web-based survey of MSW program directors and instructors of psychopharmacology content (n=171). Nearly two-thirds (63.7%) reported their program integrates psychopharmacology usually into one or two existing courses,...
Show moreSocial workers' unique skills and professional perspective can contribute to improved practices in psychopharmacology, yet it is unclear how social work programs prepare students for this area of practice. This study examined instruction of psychopharmacology through a national web-based survey of MSW program directors and instructors of psychopharmacology content (n=171). Nearly two-thirds (63.7%) reported their program integrates psychopharmacology usually into one or two existing courses, while 20.5% indicated their program offers a standalone course. Lack of faculty expertise and having no room in the current curriculum structure were identified as the top barriers for programs not offering any psychopharmacology content. The profession's critical, social justice, empowerment, client-centered, systems perspective appears to ground the teaching of psychopharmacology in social work programs.
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Date Issued: 2016
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0086
Format: Citation

Title: A Meta-analysis of Interventions to Reduce Adolescent Cannabis Use.
Creator: Bender, Kimberly, Tripodi, Stephen, Sarteschi, Christy, Vaughn, Michael G.
Abstract/Description: Objective: This meta-analytic review assesses the effectiveness of substance abuse interventions to reduce adolescent cannabis use. Method: A systematic search identified 15 randomized controlled evaluations of interventions to reduce adolescent cannabis use published between 1960 and 2008. The primary outcome variables, frequency of cannabis use, and quantity of cannabis use, were measured between 1 month and 1 year posttreatment completion. Results: Analyses of random effects models...
Show moreObjective: This meta-analytic review assesses the effectiveness of substance abuse interventions to reduce adolescent cannabis use. Method: A systematic search identified 15 randomized controlled evaluations of interventions to reduce adolescent cannabis use published between 1960 and 2008. The primary outcome variables, frequency of cannabis use, and quantity of cannabis use, were measured between 1 month and 1 year posttreatment completion. Results: Analyses of random effects models revealed similarly moderate effects for individual (g = -.437; 95% CI = [-.671, -.203]) and family-based treatments (g = -.404; 95% CI = [-.613, -.195]). Substance abuse treatments are associated with moderate reductions in cannabis use although effect sizes tended to wane with greater length of time posttreatment. Discussion: Substance abuse treatment programs should consider implementing evidence-based interventions highlighted in this meta-analysis that fit the needs and characteristics of their client base and agency setting.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0016, 10.1177/1049731510380226
Format: Citation

Title: Narrating Resilience: Transforming Urban Systems Through Collaborative Storytelling.
Creator: Goldstein, Bruce Evan, Wessells, Anne, Lejano, Raul P., Butler, William
Abstract/Description: How can communities enhance social-ecological resilience within complex urban systems, and what role can planners play? Drawing on a new urbanist proposal in Orange County, CA, we suggest that a resilience planning strategy that ignores diverse ways of knowing can undermine the experience and shared meaning of those living in a city. We then offer two cases to suggest that resilience narratives can help bridge knowledge practices while binding people together within a partially shared...
Show moreHow can communities enhance social-ecological resilience within complex urban systems, and what role can planners play? Drawing on a new urbanist proposal in Orange County, CA, we suggest that a resilience planning strategy that ignores diverse ways of knowing can undermine the experience and shared meaning of those living in a city. We then offer two cases to suggest that resilience narratives can help bridge knowledge practices while binding people together within a partially shared understanding of the social and natural world, allowing for a diversity of perspectives on possible ways forward. These cases examine an informal social network that reintegrates the Los Angeles River into the life of the city, as well as the U.S. Fire Learning Network, which aims to address the root causes of the nation's wildfire crisis. In both cases, participants tie their diverse experiences into a coherent logical or temporal thread that allows them to identify their place in an alternative future and a pathway for getting there, moving beyond the goal of persistence that characterizes urban sustainability thinking. This emplotment fosters critical learning and encourages creative self-organization, facilitating coordination across sites without imposing one particular set of views and interests on everyone. We suggest that narratives are a way to express the subjective and symbolic meaning of resilience, enhancing our ability to engage multiple voices and enable self-organizing processes in order to decide what should be made resilient and for whose benefit.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0020
Format: Citation

Title: Neighborhood urban form, social environment, and depression.
Creator: Miles, Rebecca, Coutts, Christopher, Mohamadi, Asal
Abstract/Description: We examined whether neighborhood urban form, along with the social environment, was associated with depressive symptoms in a sample of Miami residents. Using a validated measure of depressive symptoms, we found that living in neighborhoods with higher housing density was associated with fewer symptoms. A larger acreage of green spaces was also linked to fewer depressive symptoms but did not reach significance in the full model. Our results suggest that how residents use the environment...
Show moreWe examined whether neighborhood urban form, along with the social environment, was associated with depressive symptoms in a sample of Miami residents. Using a validated measure of depressive symptoms, we found that living in neighborhoods with higher housing density was associated with fewer symptoms. A larger acreage of green spaces was also linked to fewer depressive symptoms but did not reach significance in the full model. Our results suggest that how residents use the environment matters. Living in neighborhoods with a higher density of auto commuters relative to land area, an indicator of chronic noise exposure, was associated with more symptoms.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0011, FSU_2015fall_neighbor
Format: Citation

Title: Non-fatal Suicide Behavior Among Women Prisoners: The Predictive Roles of Childhood Victimization, Childhood Neglect, and Childhood Positive Support.
Creator: Tripodi, Stephen, Onifade, Eyitayo, Pettus-Davis, Carrie
Abstract/Description: Women entering prison report high rates of childhood victimization. Women in prison also report higher rates of nonfatal suicidal behavior (self-reported suicide attempts) than women in the general population and similar rates to their male counterparts despite having significantly lower suicide rates than males in the general population. Yet, there is a dearth of research that addresses the relationship between childhood victimization and suicidality for women prisoners in the United States....
Show moreWomen entering prison report high rates of childhood victimization. Women in prison also report higher rates of nonfatal suicidal behavior (self-reported suicide attempts) than women in the general population and similar rates to their male counterparts despite having significantly lower suicide rates than males in the general population. Yet, there is a dearth of research that addresses the relationship between childhood victimization and suicidality for women prisoners in the United States. The purpose of this study is (a) to assess the relationship between childhood victimization and nonfatal suicidal behavior for a random sample of women prisoners; (b) to investigate predictive differences between childhood physical victimization, childhood sexual victimization, childhood neglect, and childhood support; and (c) to determine whether women prisoners with higher frequencies of childhood victimization and neglect are more likely to have attempted suicide than women prisoners with lower frequencies. Results indicate that childhood victimization, neglect, and lack of support are all significantly associated with nonfatal suicidal behavior among women prisoners. Frequency of childhood neglect had a larger effect size than frequency of childhood physical victimization, childhood sexual victimization, and lack of support. The results of this study add to the growing body of literature on childhood victimization and suicidality in general, and nonfatal suicidal behavior for prisoner populations in particular. The article ends with a discussion on clinical implications; particularly the finding that frequency of childhood victimization, childhood neglect, and lack of childhood support matters when determining the risk of suicidality.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0007, 10.1177/0306624X12472879
Format: Citation

Title: Multicultural Curriculum and MSW Students' Attitudes about Race and Diversity.
Creator: Osteen, Philip, Vanidestine, Todd, Sharpe, Tanya L.
Abstract/Description: Methods of incorporating culturally competent practice and social justice curricula often are addressed in a required course or across courses using an infusion model. This research explored multicultural curricula and MSW students' attitudes about race and diversity. Data were collected from 297 MSW students enrolled at two universities. Multivariate analysis of variance revealed significant differences between students in programs with required multicultural coursework and those utilizing...
Show moreMethods of incorporating culturally competent practice and social justice curricula often are addressed in a required course or across courses using an infusion model. This research explored multicultural curricula and MSW students' attitudes about race and diversity. Data were collected from 297 MSW students enrolled at two universities. Multivariate analysis of variance revealed significant differences between students in programs with required multicultural coursework and those utilizing an infusion model, with respect to attitudes toward African Americans but not on measures of diversity or social equality and justice. The results indicate the differential outcomes based on curriculum models and support the need for further research in this area.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0027, 10.1080/08841233.2013.775211
Format: Citation

Title: Antidepressants and the Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression: A Reflection and Update on the Discourse.
Creator: Lacasse, Jeffrey R., Leo, Jonathan
Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0084
Format: Citation

Title: Artículos Escritos por la Industria o Mayoritariamente por la Industria (Ghostwriting) y Firmados por Académicos.
Creator: Lacasse, Jeffrey R., Leo, Jonathan
Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0044
Format: Citation

Title: Benefits and Challenges of Service-learning in Accredited Baccalaureate Social Work Programs.
Creator: Schelbe, Lisa, Petracchi, Helen E., Weaver, Addie
Abstract/Description: Service-learning is a pedagogical approach that integrates students' classroom instruction with community experiences. This paper discusses qualitative results of a national survey examining service-learning in Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accredited baccalaureate programs. Almost 80 percent of the 202 respondents required service-learning. Respondents reported benefits of incorporating service-learning in baccalaureate social work curriculum include assisting students in building...
Show moreService-learning is a pedagogical approach that integrates students' classroom instruction with community experiences. This paper discusses qualitative results of a national survey examining service-learning in Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accredited baccalaureate programs. Almost 80 percent of the 202 respondents required service-learning. Respondents reported benefits of incorporating service-learning in baccalaureate social work curriculum include assisting students in building community connections; applying theory and skills; socializing to the social work profession; and increasing self-awareness and exposure to diverse populations. Cited challenges include securing agency sites, time, and, logistics. Findings support existing research suggesting that service-learning benefits social work students.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0003, 10.1080/08841233.2014.954689
Format: Citation

Title: Coercion: The Only Constant In Psychiatric Practice?.
Creator: Gomory, Tomi, Cohen, David, Kirk, Stuart A.
Abstract/Description: In the Western world, since at least the 15th century, state-sanctioned force has been employed to control those who disturb others by their violent or existentially destabilizing behaviors such as threatening or inflicting self-harm. Coercing the mad into madhouses, separating and detaining them from the rest of society, and forcing them to comply with their keepers' wishes, occurred before physicians became involved in theorizing about the meaning or origins of madness, and it continues to...
Show moreIn the Western world, since at least the 15th century, state-sanctioned force has been employed to control those who disturb others by their violent or existentially destabilizing behaviors such as threatening or inflicting self-harm. Coercing the mad into madhouses, separating and detaining them from the rest of society, and forcing them to comply with their keepers' wishes, occurred before physicians became involved in theorizing about the meaning or origins of madness, and it continues to distinguish psychiatric practice to this day. It is widely recognized that the mad used to be confined, beaten, tied, shocked or whirled into submission, but it seems less appreciated today by scholars, practitioners, and the general public that the physical control of "dangerous" mental patients remains a central function, and perhaps the only constant function, of public mental health systems.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0042
Format: Citation

Title: Community Built Environment Factors and Mobility Around Senior Wellness Centers: The Concept of "Safe Senior Zones".
Creator: Shendell, Derek, Johnson, Matthew, Sanders, Danna, Nowakowski, Alexandra, Yang, Jianhua, Jeffries, Carla, Weisman, Janet, Moulding, Megan
Abstract/Description: The authors investigated built environment (BE) factors in urban neighborhoods in DeKalb County, Georgia. Each volunteering, consenting senior was placed into one of two groups: walking tours outside, then discussions (n=37); and focus group discussions indoors about photographs of BE conditions potentially influencing mobility (n=43). The authors sought to identify BE factors-both real and perceived by participating seniors-related to their ability to walk around senior wellness centers in a...
Show moreThe authors investigated built environment (BE) factors in urban neighborhoods in DeKalb County, Georgia. Each volunteering, consenting senior was placed into one of two groups: walking tours outside, then discussions (n=37); and focus group discussions indoors about photographs of BE conditions potentially influencing mobility (n=43). The authors sought to identify BE factors-both real and perceived by participating seniors-related to their ability to walk around senior wellness centers in a healthy and safe manner. The authors focused specifically on available literature and pilot study data for their concept of "safe senior zones" around senior wellness centers serving urban communities in this article. They also characterized their study population regarding sociodemographic variables and doctor-diagnosed chronic diseases, and types of walking aids reported used to help prevent falls. Their results can inform future applied practice and research on traffic-related exposures and BE factors concerning seniors, and support policy and planning to benefit community environmental public health.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_mhs-0042
Format: Citation

Title: Collaboration at Arm's Length: Navigating Agency Engagement in Landscape Scale Ecological Restoration Collaboratives.
Creator: Butler, William
Abstract/Description: In 2010, the USDA Forest Service (USFS) created the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) to fund implementation of landscape scale ecological restoration strategies. The program requires landscape projects to engage in collaboration throughout implementation over a ten-year period. A central tension in the program is the extent to which the USFS can engage in the collaborative process while retaining authority for management decisions on USFS lands and adhering to...
Show moreIn 2010, the USDA Forest Service (USFS) created the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) to fund implementation of landscape scale ecological restoration strategies. The program requires landscape projects to engage in collaboration throughout implementation over a ten-year period. A central tension in the program is the extent to which the USFS can engage in the collaborative process while retaining authority for management decisions on USFS lands and adhering to statutory guidance on collaboration. Drawing on comparative research of the first ten projects enrolled in the CFLRP, this paper describes how USFS personnel navigated this tension and played roles in each collaborative categorized as leadership, membership, involvement and intermittence. It concludes by suggesting that agency staff engage in collaborative dialogue on substantive issues while operating from an "arm's length" posture procedurally. This approach can minimize time and energy spent dealing with procedural concerns while allowing agency employees and collaborators to share knowledge, information, ideas and perspectives to make better informed decisions as they undertake landscape scale ecological restoration work.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0019, 10.5849/jof.13-027
Format: Citation

Title: Child Maltreatment Reporting Patterns and Predictors of Substantiation: Comparing Adolescents and Younger Children.
Creator: Raissian, Kerri, Dierkhising, Carly, Mullins Geiger, Jennifer, Schelbe, Lisa
Abstract/Description: Adolescents, and especially male adolescents, make up a disproportionately smaller portion of maltreatment reports compared to younger children. This study used the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) to better understand the characteristics of adolescents reported to Child Protective Services (CPS), to examine if these characteristics changed over time, and to determine if certain child or CPS report characteristics predicted CPS involvement. Whereas adolescents were the...
Show moreAdolescents, and especially male adolescents, make up a disproportionately smaller portion of maltreatment reports compared to younger children. This study used the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) to better understand the characteristics of adolescents reported to Child Protective Services (CPS), to examine if these characteristics changed over time, and to determine if certain child or CPS report characteristics predicted CPS involvement. Whereas adolescents were the focal group, younger children were also analyzed for comparison. Between 2005 and 2010, reports of neglect and the proportion of children of Hispanic and unknown racial/ethnic origins increased. Concurrently, the proportion of cases resulting in CPS involvement declined. Although race/ethnicity predicted CPS involvement, this pattern was not consistent across all age groups or races/ethnicities. The type of alleged maltreatment did not typically predict CPS involvement; however, allegations of sexual abuse among school-age children and adolescents, particularly among girls, were more likely to result in CPS involvement. These findings can assist child welfare professionals in determining appropriate services tailored to families and developing prevention programs targeting adolescents.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0001, 10.1177/1077559513518096
Format: Citation

Title: Childhood Abuse and Postpartum Psychosis: Is There a Link?.
Creator: Kennedy, Stephanie, Tripodi, Stephen
Abstract/Description: Postpartum psychosis (PPP) is a serious mental health issue associated with maternal suicide and infanticide. Although a growing research base suggests that childhood abuse is predictive of psychosis, bipolar disorder, and postpartum depression, the link between abuse and PPP is less clear. Currently, prevention and treatment strategies are pharmacological and require hospitalization once symptoms arise. Unfortunately, these strategies are not ideal for affected women and their infants....
Show morePostpartum psychosis (PPP) is a serious mental health issue associated with maternal suicide and infanticide. Although a growing research base suggests that childhood abuse is predictive of psychosis, bipolar disorder, and postpartum depression, the link between abuse and PPP is less clear. Currently, prevention and treatment strategies are pharmacological and require hospitalization once symptoms arise. Unfortunately, these strategies are not ideal for affected women and their infants. Testing the relationship between experiences of childhood abuse and PPP may reveal abuse variables to be both statistically and clinically meaningful predictors of the disorder. A dose–response model suggests that women who report more severe abuse or multivictimization will be more likely to develop PPP. The authors suggest trauma screening in psychiatric, obstetrical, and community practice settings to identify women at risk for PPP and advocate for the addition of gender-responsive and trauma-focused psychotherapy to pharmacological interventions for this population.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0009, 10.1177/0886109914544719
Format: Citation

Title: Chronic Inflammation and Quality of Life in Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Biomarkers to Predict Emotional and Relational Outcomes.
Creator: Nowakowski, Alexandra
Abstract/Description: BACKGROUND: This study explores relationships between chronic inflammation and quality of life, making a case for biopsychosocial modeling of these associations. It builds on research from social and clinical disciplines connecting chronic conditions, and inflammatory conditions specifically, to reduced quality of life. METHODS: Data from Wave I of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project are modeled using ordinal logistic and ordinary least-squares regression techniques....
Show moreBACKGROUND: This study explores relationships between chronic inflammation and quality of life, making a case for biopsychosocial modeling of these associations. It builds on research from social and clinical disciplines connecting chronic conditions, and inflammatory conditions specifically, to reduced quality of life. METHODS: Data from Wave I of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project are modeled using ordinal logistic and ordinary least-squares regression techniques. Inflammation is measured using C-reactive protein; quality of life is conceptualized as happiness with life overall as well as intimate relationships specifically. RESULTS: For most NSHAP participants, chronic inflammation significantly predicts lower odds of reporting high QoL on both emotional and relational measures. Social structural factors do not confound these associations. Inconsistent results for participants with very high (over 6 mg/L) CRP measurements suggest additional social influences. CONCLUSIONS: Findings echo strong theoretical justification for investigating relationships between CRP and QoL in greater detail. Further research should explore possible mediation of these associations by sociomedical sequelae of chronic disease as well as social relationship dynamics. Elaboration is also needed on the mechanisms by which social disadvantage may cause chronic inflammation.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_mhs-0043, 10.1186/s12955-014-0141-0
Format: Citation

Title: Climatic Warmth and National Wealth: Some Culture-Level Determinants of National Character Stereotypes.
Creator: McCrae, Robert R., Terracciano, Antonio, Realo, Anu, Allik, Jüri
Abstract/Description: National character stereotypes are widely shared, but do not reflect assessed levels of personality traits. In this article we present data illustrating the divergence of stereotypes and assessed personality traits in north and south Italy, test hypotheses about the associations of temperature and national wealth with national character stereotypes in 49 cultures, and explore possible links to national values and beliefs. Results suggest that warmth and wealth are common determinants of...
Show moreNational character stereotypes are widely shared, but do not reflect assessed levels of personality traits. In this article we present data illustrating the divergence of stereotypes and assessed personality traits in north and south Italy, test hypotheses about the associations of temperature and national wealth with national character stereotypes in 49 cultures, and explore possible links to national values and beliefs. Results suggest that warmth and wealth are common determinants of national stereotypes, but that there are also idiosyncratic influences on the perceptions of individual nations.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0026, 10.1002/per.647
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Title: Planning for the disposal of the dead.
Creator: Basmajian, Carlton, Coutts, Christopher
Abstract/Description: Problem: Concurrent with the dramatic increase in the nation's elderly population in the coming decades will be an increased need to dispose of our dead. An issue with religious, cultural, and economic salience, disposal of the dead is not typically considered a planning problem. Deciding how to handle the deceased spans a set of public issues that planners are well equipped to confront. While cremation rates are on the rise, burial is, and is projected to remain, the preferred alternative...
Show moreProblem: Concurrent with the dramatic increase in the nation's elderly population in the coming decades will be an increased need to dispose of our dead. An issue with religious, cultural, and economic salience, disposal of the dead is not typically considered a planning problem. Deciding how to handle the deceased spans a set of public issues that planners are well equipped to confront. While cremation rates are on the rise, burial is, and is projected to remain, the preferred alternative for a majority of the US population. The reality of cemeteries competing for urban space will likely make the disposal of the dead a significant issue for many communities. Purpose: We outline the key issues related to cemeteries and burial planners are likely to face and that planning researchers should investigate. We then describe a number of alternatives to the traditional cemetery and how planners might intervene in planning for the dead. Methods: Literature review based issue discussion. Results and conclusions: Alternatives to the cemetery are emerging but remain limited. Laws and public perceptions will need to change. There is a need for detailed case studies that explore how the design of burial grounds can be transformed to better integrate the landscapes of death and burial into existing communities and research that explores how ordinances can be rewritten to permit the introduction of alternative methods of disposal. Takeaway for practice: As population demographics change and environmental concerns intensify in the coming years, demand for space that can sensitively balance a diverse set of social, cultural, and environmental expectations will make local land use decisions an important part of death and burial. Solutions to the challenge of interring the dead are found in a handful of alternatives: Natural burials, mausolea, columbaria, multiple-use cemeteries, and the reuse of existing burial sites. This paper provides planners with information about each of these alternatives, examples of how mortality and burial can be incorporated into the planning process, suggestions for avoiding environmental externalities, and ideas for better integrating the landscapes of death into community life.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0007, 10.1080/01944361003791913
Format: Citation

Title: Planning for Cars in Cities: Planners, Engineers, and Freeways in the 20th Century.
Creator: Brown, Jeffrey
Abstract/Description: Problem: One hundred years ago the First National Conference on City Planning took place inWashington,DC. While in some ways the delegates failed to foresee future trends (such as the consequences of automobility and suburbanization), in other ways they were remarkably prescient. They stressed the importance of the transportation/land use link, understood that transportation facilities must be harmoniously embedded in the urban fabric, and viewed transportation investments as a tool that...
Show moreProblem: One hundred years ago the First National Conference on City Planning took place inWashington,DC. While in some ways the delegates failed to foresee future trends (such as the consequences of automobility and suburbanization), in other ways they were remarkably prescient. They stressed the importance of the transportation/land use link, understood that transportation facilities must be harmoniously embedded in the urban fabric, and viewed transportation investments as a tool that could be used to shape the city as a whole—directing growth, revitalizing flagging areas, and linking jobs and housing. This vision was kept alive by transportation planners in subsequent decades, who envisioned a network of urban freeways which would be context-sensitive and fully integrated into their urban milieu. However, due to a lack of local funding and control, these roads were never to be built and this vision was to be abandoned. Purpose: In this paper, we consider the history ofU.S.urban transportation planning over the past 100 years. In particular, we focus on the evolution and legacy of the single most important transportation development of the past century save for the advent of automobility itself: the emergence of the urban freeway. Methods: The paper relies on an historical review of primary and secondary material, including plans, manuscripts, newspaper accounts, and scholarly articles and books. Results and conclusions: The paper argues that financial arrangements placed state and federal highway engineers in charge of interstate highway development, which affected highways' location and design. State highway engineers imposed a narrower, traffic service-oriented vision on metropolitan freeways that focused on maximizing vehicle throughput; other urban concerns were largely ignored. After a desultory planning process, overbuilt, sparse, ring-radial networks were routed through neighborhoods in cities around the country, often with great social and environmental costs. Though the system has undeniably conferred great benefits in terms of enhanced mobility, the costs have been high as well. Recent years have seen a return to a more urban planning-oriented view of transportation that stresses the land use interaction and the social, environmental, and aesthetic impacts of transportation facilities. It is a vision with which the founders of what became the American Planning Association (APA) would have sympathized. Takeaway for practice: The paper highlights 100 years of transportation planning practice, and provides an accounting of ideas that have resurfaced in transportation planning since the early 1990s. The paper stresses a century-old vision of coordinated transportation-land use planning that has returned to the fore in practice today. The paper suggests that political expediency in public finance can have profound, long-lasting, frequently unanticipated effects on projects, travel, and urban form.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0014, 10.1080/01944360802640016
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Title: Personality Traits and Sex Differences in Emotion Recognition Among African Americans and Caucasians.
Creator: Terracciano, Antonio, Merritt, Marcellus, Zonderman, Alan, Evans, Michele
Abstract/Description: This study investigated the role of personality traits and sex differences in emotion recognition. In several studies using samples with mostly young Caucasian and Asian students, Matsumoto et al.1 found strong evidence that recognition of emotional expression in faces was related to Openness to Experience and, to a lesser extent, Conscientiousness. Openness is one of the major dimensions of the five-factor model 1 found strong evidence that recognition of emotional expression in faces was related to Openness to Experience and, to a lesser extent, Conscientiousness. Openness is one of the major dimensions of the five-factor model 2 (FFM) of personality that might play an important role in the recognition of emotion. Open individuals tend to be intellectually curious, imaginative, and sensitive to aesthetics and inner feelings. The present study seeks to replicate Matsumoto et al. and extend the findings to an older African American and an older Caucasian sample. Furthermore, this study tests whether the relation between personality traits and emotion recognition can be replicated with a purely verbal task. Finally, the hypothesis that women tend to be better than men in decoding facial expressions of emotion will be tested.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0038
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Title: Personality and Career Success: Concurrent and Longitudinal Relations.
Creator: Sutin, Angelina, Costa, Paul, Miech, Richard, Eaton, William W.
Abstract/Description: The present research addresses the dynamic transaction between extrinsic (occupational prestige, income) and intrinsic (job satisfaction) career success and the Five-Factor Model of personality. Participants (N = 731) completed a comprehensive measure of personality and reported their job title, annual income, and job satisfaction; a subset of these participants (n = 302) provided the same information approximately 10 years later. Measured concurrently, emotionally stable and conscientious...
Show moreThe present research addresses the dynamic transaction between extrinsic (occupational prestige, income) and intrinsic (job satisfaction) career success and the Five-Factor Model of personality. Participants (N = 731) completed a comprehensive measure of personality and reported their job title, annual income, and job satisfaction; a subset of these participants (n = 302) provided the same information approximately 10 years later. Measured concurrently, emotionally stable and conscientious participants reported higher incomes and job satisfaction. Longitudinal analyses revealed that, among younger participants, higher income at baseline predicted decreases in Neuroticism and baseline Extraversion predicted increases in income across the 10 years. Results suggest that the mutual influence of career success and personality is limited to income and occurs early in the career.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_mhs-0036, 10.1002/per.704
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Title: Perceptions of Aging Across 26 Cultures and Their Culture-Level Associates.
Creator: Löckenhoff, Corinna, De Fruyt, Filip, Terracciano, Antonio, McCrae, Robert R., De Bolle, Marleen, Costa, Paul, Aguilar-Vafaie, Maria, Ahn, Chang-kyu, Ahn, Hyun-nie, Alcalay,...
Show moreLöckenhoff, Corinna, De Fruyt, Filip, Terracciano, Antonio, McCrae, Robert R., De Bolle, Marleen, Costa, Paul, Aguilar-Vafaie, Maria, Ahn, Chang-kyu, Ahn, Hyun-nie, Alcalay, Lidia, Allik, Jüri, Avdeyeva, Tatyana, Barbaranelli, Claudio, Benet-Martínez, Verónica, Blatný, Marek, Bratko, Denis, Cain, Thomas, Crawford, Jarret, Lima, Margarida, Ficková, Emília, Gheorghiu, Mirona, Halberstadt, Jamin, Hrebícková, Martina, Jussim, Lee J., Klinkosz, Waldemar, Knezević, Goran, de Figueroa, Nora, Martin, Thomas, Marusić, Iris, Mastor, Khairul, Miramontez, Daniel, Nakazato, Katsuharu, Nansubuga, Florence, Pramila, V., Realo, Anu, Rolland, Jean-Pierre, Rossier, Jerome, Schmidt, Vanina, Sekowski, Andrzej, Shakespeare-Finch, Jane, Shimonaka, Yoshiko, Simonetti, Franco, Siuta, Jerzy, Smith, Peter Bevington, Szmigielska, Barbara, Wang, Lei, Yamaguchi, Mami, Yik, Michelle
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Abstract/Description: College students (N=3,435) in 26 cultures reported their perceptions of age-related changes in physical, cognitive, and socioemotional areas of functioning and rated societal views of aging within their culture. There was widespread cross-cultural consensus regarding the expected direction of aging trajectories with (a) perceived declines in societal views of aging, physical attractiveness, the ability to perform everyday tasks, and new learning; (b) perceived increases in wisdom, knowledge,...
Show moreCollege students (N=3,435) in 26 cultures reported their perceptions of age-related changes in physical, cognitive, and socioemotional areas of functioning and rated societal views of aging within their culture. There was widespread cross-cultural consensus regarding the expected direction of aging trajectories with (a) perceived declines in societal views of aging, physical attractiveness, the ability to perform everyday tasks, and new learning; (b) perceived increases in wisdom, knowledge, and received respect; and (c) perceived stability in family authority and life satisfaction. Cross-cultural variations in aging perceptions were associated with culture-level indicators of population aging, education levels, values, and national character stereotypes. These associations were stronger for societal views on aging and perceptions of socioemotional changes than for perceptions of physical and cognitive changes. A consideration of culture-level variables also suggested that previously reported differences in aging perceptions between Asian and Western countries may be related to differences in population structure.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0021, 10.1037/a0016901
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Title: Perceptions of Americans and the Iraq Invasion: Implications for Understanding National Character Stereotypes.
Creator: Terracciano, Antonio, McCrae, Robert R.
Abstract/Description: This study examines perceptions of the "typical American" from 49 cultures around the world. Contrary to the ethnocentric bias hypothesis, we found strong agreement between in-group and out-group ratings on the American profile (assertive, open-minded, but antagonistic); Americans in fact had a somewhat less desirable view of Americans than did others. Within cultures, in-group ratings were not systematically more favorable than out-group ratings. The Iraq invasion had a slight negative...
Show moreThis study examines perceptions of the "typical American" from 49 cultures around the world. Contrary to the ethnocentric bias hypothesis, we found strong agreement between in-group and out-group ratings on the American profile (assertive, open-minded, but antagonistic); Americans in fact had a somewhat less desirable view of Americans than did others. Within cultures, in-group ratings were not systematically more favorable than out-group ratings. The Iraq invasion had a slight negative effect on perceptions of the typical American, but people around the world seem to draw a clear distinction between U.S. foreign policy and the character of the American people. National character stereotypes appear to have a variety of sources and to be perpetuated by both cognitive mechanisms and socio-cultural forces.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0025
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Title: Personality Plasticity After Age 30.
Creator: Terracciano, Antonio, Costa, Paul, McCrae, Robert R.
Abstract/Description: Rank-order consistency of personality traits increases from childhood to age 30. After that, different summaries of the literature predict a plateau at age 30, or at age 50, or a curvilinear peak in consistency at age 50. These predictions were evaluated at group and individual levels using longitudinal data from the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory for periods of up to 42 years. Consistency declined toward a nonzero asymptote with increasing...
Show moreRank-order consistency of personality traits increases from childhood to age 30. After that, different summaries of the literature predict a plateau at age 30, or at age 50, or a curvilinear peak in consistency at age 50. These predictions were evaluated at group and individual levels using longitudinal data from the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory for periods of up to 42 years. Consistency declined toward a nonzero asymptote with increasing time interval. Although some scales showed increasing stability after age 30, the rank-order consistencies of the major dimensions and most facets of the Five-Factor Model were unrelated to age. Ipsative stability, assessed with the California Adult Q-Set, also was unrelated to age. These data strengthen claims of predominant personality stability after age 30.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0032, 10.1177/0146167206288599
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Title: Does Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Reduce Future Physical Abuse?: A Meta-analysis.
Creator: Kennedy, Stephanie, Kim, Johnny S., Tripodi, Stephen, Brown, Samantha, Gowdy, Grace
Abstract/Description: Objective: To use meta-analytic techniques to evaluating the effectiveness of parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) at reducing future physical abuse among physically abusive families. Methods: A systematic search identified six eligible studies. Outcomes of interest were physical abuse recurrence, child abuse potential, and parenting stress.
Results: Parents receiving PCIT had significantly fewer physical abuse recurrences and significantly greater...
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Objective: To use meta-analytic techniques to evaluating the effectiveness of parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) at reducing future physical abuse among physically abusive families. Methods: A systematic search identified six eligible studies. Outcomes of interest were physical abuse recurrence, child abuse potential, and parenting stress.
Results: Parents receiving PCIT had significantly fewer physical abuse recurrences and significantly greater reductions on the Parenting Stress Index than parents in comparison groups. Reductions in child abuse potential were nonsignificant, although 95% confidence intervals suggest clinically meaningful treatment effects. The studies examining physical abuse recurrence had a medium treatment effect (g = 0.52), while results from pooled effect size estimates for child abuse potential (g = 0.31) and parenting stress (g = 0.35) were small.
Conclusions: PCIT appears to be effective at reducing physical abuse recurrence and parenting stress for physically abusive families, with the largest treatment effects seen on long-term physical abuse recurrence. Applications to social work practice are discussed.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0008, 10.1177/1049731514543024
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