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From sneezes to adieux: Stages of health for American men and women
(Elsevier, 1986)
This article traces health from daily symptoms to death for American (U.S.) men and women in three age groups 17-44, 45-64, 65+. How do leading problems change as our perspective shifts from daily symptoms to annual incidence ...
Triggers of symptoms and health care
(Elsevier, 1985)
This article studies triggers of physical symptoms and health care on a daily basis. The data used are health diaries kept for 6 weeks by 589 adults in metropolitan Detroit. The results show that bad moods consistently ...
Mediators and Moderators of Parental Involvement on Substance Use: A National Study of Adolescents
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Society for Prevention Research ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2006-03)
Current social developmental theories of drug use often incorporate mediation processes, but it is generally unknown whether these mediation processes generalize across ethnicity and gender. In the present study, we developed ...
Party identification and party closeness in comparative perspective
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Agathon Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1988-09)
The present analysis uses data from 1974 and 1981 U. S. cross sections, which incorporate a panel, to compare the standard NES measure of party identification (ID) with a measure of partisanship derived from a party closeness ...
How physicians treat mentally distressed men and women
(Elsevier, 1984)
There is speculation that women receive different medical care than men because physicians have stereotyped views about women's symptoms and treatment preferences. This paper asks if men and women who visit physicians for ...
Work stress, nonwork stress, and health
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-06)
This paper examines the interface between work stress and nonwork stress and how it relates to health. Results indicate that the way people feel at work is largely a function of conditions at work. Similarly, the way people ...
Decomposition can harm the accuracy of behavioural frequency reports
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2000-07)
In survey research, the use of decomposition can lead to pronounced reporting errors as seen by overreporting and overall reporting error. A total of 87 subjects answered either decomposed or undecomposed questions concerning ...
Family organization and the wage labor transition in a Tamang community of Nepal
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-09)
This paper explores familial contexts of transition to a wage labor economy using ethnographic and survey data from Tamang communities at the northern edge of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. Historically agro-pastoralist, the ...
Comparing Models of Frailty: The Health and Retirement Study
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2009-05)
To operationalize and compare three models of frailty, each representing a distinct theoretical view of frailty: as deficiencies in function (Functional Domains model), as an index of health burden (Burden model), and as ...
Striving for unity: A conversation with Roy Rappaport
(Michigan Discussions in Anthroplogy, 2006-04)
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