Stanley A Murrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 104200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stanley A Murrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stanley A |
| FAMILY NAME | Murrell |
| SIGNATURE | MURRELL S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Positivity and Well-being Among Community-Residing Elders and Nursing Home Residents
Although we expected the positivity ratio to perform less well among nursing home residents, we found that it differentiated residents with high well-being just as well as in the community sample. The ability to regulate positive affect to maintain a relative ratio of positive over negative affect appears to be an important aspect of successful adjustment in late life. Further research is needed on objective indicators of quality of life and on w…
Educational Attainment, Positive Psychological Mediators, and Resources for Health and Vitality in Older Adults
Higher education level appears to increase the likelihood of being serene and happy, and healthy and vital, in later years; positive psychological states appeared to have both a promotion function (for vitality) and protective function (against health symptoms); self-esteem showed promise as a possible mediator of the effects of psychological states on health
Psychological, Economic, and Social Mediators of the Education-Health Relationship in Older Adults
Low-energy aspects of health may be more likely to be mediated by variables of a more psychological nature. Overall, educational attainment is a good investment for successful aging
Contribution of Education to Health and Life Satisfaction in Older Adults Mediated by Negative Affect
Education appears to confer a lifelong advantage for healthy aging. Part of this advantage is accounted for by the relationship between education and trait negative affect. Higher educational attainment is related to lower levels of trait negative affect; lower negative affect results in better health and life satisfaction
Prior experience as a moderator of disaster impact on anxiety symptoms in older adults
As participants in a panel study, 234 older adults were interviewed before, as well as after, serious flooding occurred in southeastern Kentucky. Floods are not uncommon in this area, but these were more widespread than most, and resulted in both previously exposed and newly exposed subsamples of disaster victims. Flood impact was measured at both personal and community levels. With preflood symptoms controlled, there were modest flood effects on…
Transitory Impact of Life-Event Stress on Psychological Symptoms in Older Adults
A probability sample of 1,429 adults aged 55 and older was interviewed in their homes three times at six-month intervals. Measures of symptoms, social support, and education were obtained before measures of life-event stress. A LISREL analysis of three waves and two intervals of data yielded a goodness offit of .989 between the data and the model. For both intervals, increases in stress led to increases in symptoms, which supported the Dohrenwend…
The social policy process and community psychology training
Resources, life events, and changes in positive affect and depression in older adults
Hypotheses from a prospective conceptual framework were tested on a sample of 1,166 adults, age 55 and older, who were interviewed three times at 6-month intervals. Older adults with stronger resources had significantly more positive psychological states initially than those with weaker resources, and this advantage was maintained regardless of the levels of life events. There were significant main effects for desirable events and for undesirable…
Community psychology and older adults
Protective Function of Resources Related to Life Events, Global Stress, and Depression in Older Adults
Fran H. Norris, Stanley A. Murrell, Protective Function of Resources Related to Life Events, Global Stress, and Depression in Older Adults, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 424-437
Respondent characteristics in citizen evaluation of municipal services
Reliability and Validity of Five Mental Health Scales in Older Persons
Five scales were assessed as mental health measures for older persons: Affect Balance, The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, General Well-Being, LSI-Z Life Satisfaction, and Trait-Anxiety Inventory. These scales were administered to a community sample of 279 older persons and a clinical sample of 109 older persons who were in psychiatric inpatient units. In both samples, the internal consistency reliabilities for the anxiety, d…
Quality of life and patterns of unmet need for resource decisions
Resources, life events, and changes in psychological states
Concluding Comments As researchers, we are intrigued by the complexities and questions involved in the study of resources and life events. As community psychologists, we hope this framework will contribute to improving the well‐being of human groups. We believe that knowing those resources most likely to be effective in buffering or boosting a particular event should guide the planning of programs for groups likely to experience that event. Moreo…
Quality of life as the criterion for need assessment and community psychology
A "QOL-Contribution" model for resource allocation decisions is proposed that integrates concepts and values from community psychology, need assessment, and quality of life (QOL) studies. QOL is taken as the criterion for establishing the goodness-of-fit between a population and its environment. It is assumed that the characteristics of a given human group interact with the resources and the stressors of its environment, with its level of QOL as …
The Kentucky elderly need assessment
The purpose was to examine the concurrent criterion-based validity of different measures used in a statewide in-home need assessment survey of a representative sample of 570 older persons. Need was measured and defined in four different ways in six problem areas. The criterion measure was a life satisfaction scale. The set of four need measures yielded a significant multiple R, indicating that the set would generally be related to life satisfacti…
A procedure for systematic citizen input to community decision‐making
Measuring citizen evaluations of services amidst community change
Citizen surveys are increasingly being used by communities to evaluate services; however, previous work suggests that such evaluations of specific services may be influenced by generalization from other attitudes. Surveys repeated annually for 4 years allowed an examination of such possible "contagion" effects since they were done before, during, and after a highly visible, extensive change--court-ordered busing--which engendered intense negative…
Utilization of needs assessment for community decision‐making
Interaction patterns in families of autistic, disturbed, and normal children
Six families with autistic children were compared with six families with disturbed children and six with normal children by means of a family interaction task. No differences were found between families with autistic children and those with normal children. Families with disturbed children were found to have less agreement between father and mother than did autistic or normal families
Community Psychology and Social Systems
An open system model for psychotherapy evaluation
Community involvement in mental health programs
The Family Group
The family group is discussed with respect to developmental and structural characteristics. Some basic propositions are presented which it is hoped will serve as guidelines for more precise formulations. The major assumptions derived from these propositions and their implications for conducting family group therapy are discussed. Disturbed families are viewed as being unable to adopt a flexible approach to solving problems and as being highly res…
Contribution of Education to Health and Life Satisfaction in Older Adults Mediated by Negative Affect
Education appears to confer a lifelong advantage for healthy aging. Part of this advantage is accounted for by the relationship between education and trait negative affect. Higher educational attainment is related to lower levels of trait negative affect; lower negative affect results in better health and life satisfaction
Protective Function of Resources Related to Life Events, Global Stress, and Depression in Older Adults
Fran H. Norris, Stanley A. Murrell, Protective Function of Resources Related to Life Events, Global Stress, and Depression in Older Adults, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 424-437
Prior experience as a moderator of disaster impact on anxiety symptoms in older adults
As participants in a panel study, 234 older adults were interviewed before, as well as after, serious flooding occurred in southeastern Kentucky. Floods are not uncommon in this area, but these were more widespread than most, and resulted in both previously exposed and newly exposed subsamples of disaster victims. Flood impact was measured at both personal and community levels. With preflood symptoms controlled, there were modest flood effects on…
Transitory Impact of Life-Event Stress on Psychological Symptoms in Older Adults
A probability sample of 1,429 adults aged 55 and older was interviewed in their homes three times at six-month intervals. Measures of symptoms, social support, and education were obtained before measures of life-event stress. A LISREL analysis of three waves and two intervals of data yielded a goodness offit of .989 between the data and the model. For both intervals, increases in stress led to increases in symptoms, which supported the Dohrenwend…
Resources, life events, and changes in positive affect and depression in older adults
Hypotheses from a prospective conceptual framework were tested on a sample of 1,166 adults, age 55 and older, who were interviewed three times at 6-month intervals. Older adults with stronger resources had significantly more positive psychological states initially than those with weaker resources, and this advantage was maintained regardless of the levels of life events. There were significant main effects for desirable events and for undesirable…
Resources, life events, and changes in psychological states
Concluding Comments As researchers, we are intrigued by the complexities and questions involved in the study of resources and life events. As community psychologists, we hope this framework will contribute to improving the well‐being of human groups. We believe that knowing those resources most likely to be effective in buffering or boosting a particular event should guide the planning of programs for groups likely to experience that event. Moreo…
A procedure for systematic citizen input to community decision‐making
Educational Attainment, Positive Psychological Mediators, and Resources for Health and Vitality in Older Adults
Higher education level appears to increase the likelihood of being serene and happy, and healthy and vital, in later years; positive psychological states appeared to have both a promotion function (for vitality) and protective function (against health symptoms); self-esteem showed promise as a possible mediator of the effects of psychological states on health
Respondent characteristics in citizen evaluation of municipal services
The Kentucky elderly need assessment
The purpose was to examine the concurrent criterion-based validity of different measures used in a statewide in-home need assessment survey of a representative sample of 570 older persons. Need was measured and defined in four different ways in six problem areas. The criterion measure was a life satisfaction scale. The set of four need measures yielded a significant multiple R, indicating that the set would generally be related to life satisfacti…
Psychological, Economic, and Social Mediators of the Education-Health Relationship in Older Adults
Low-energy aspects of health may be more likely to be mediated by variables of a more psychological nature. Overall, educational attainment is a good investment for successful aging
Quality of life and patterns of unmet need for resource decisions
Utilization of needs assessment for community decision‐making
Positivity and Well-being Among Community-Residing Elders and Nursing Home Residents
Although we expected the positivity ratio to perform less well among nursing home residents, we found that it differentiated residents with high well-being just as well as in the community sample. The ability to regulate positive affect to maintain a relative ratio of positive over negative affect appears to be an important aspect of successful adjustment in late life. Further research is needed on objective indicators of quality of life and on w…
Measuring citizen evaluations of services amidst community change
Citizen surveys are increasingly being used by communities to evaluate services; however, previous work suggests that such evaluations of specific services may be influenced by generalization from other attitudes. Surveys repeated annually for 4 years allowed an examination of such possible "contagion" effects since they were done before, during, and after a highly visible, extensive change--court-ordered busing--which engendered intense negative…
The Family Group
The family group is discussed with respect to developmental and structural characteristics. Some basic propositions are presented which it is hoped will serve as guidelines for more precise formulations. The major assumptions derived from these propositions and their implications for conducting family group therapy are discussed. Disturbed families are viewed as being unable to adopt a flexible approach to solving problems and as being highly res…
The social policy process and community psychology training
An open system model for psychotherapy evaluation
The Family Group
The family group is discussed with respect to developmental and structural characteristics. Some basic propositions are presented which it is hoped will serve as guidelines for more precise formulations. The major assumptions derived from these propositions and their implications for conducting family group therapy are discussed. Disturbed families are viewed as being unable to adopt a flexible approach to solving problems and as being highly res…
Community involvement in mental health programs
An open system model for psychotherapy evaluation
Interaction patterns in families of autistic, disturbed, and normal children
Six families with autistic children were compared with six families with disturbed children and six with normal children by means of a family interaction task. No differences were found between families with autistic children and those with normal children. Families with disturbed children were found to have less agreement between father and mother than did autistic or normal families
Community Psychology and Social Systems
Utilization of needs assessment for community decision‐making
A procedure for systematic citizen input to community decision‐making
Measuring citizen evaluations of services amidst community change
Citizen surveys are increasingly being used by communities to evaluate services; however, previous work suggests that such evaluations of specific services may be influenced by generalization from other attitudes. Surveys repeated annually for 4 years allowed an examination of such possible "contagion" effects since they were done before, during, and after a highly visible, extensive change--court-ordered busing--which engendered intense negative…
The Kentucky elderly need assessment
The purpose was to examine the concurrent criterion-based validity of different measures used in a statewide in-home need assessment survey of a representative sample of 570 older persons. Need was measured and defined in four different ways in six problem areas. The criterion measure was a life satisfaction scale. The set of four need measures yielded a significant multiple R, indicating that the set would generally be related to life satisfacti…
Reliability and Validity of Five Mental Health Scales in Older Persons
Five scales were assessed as mental health measures for older persons: Affect Balance, The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, General Well-Being, LSI-Z Life Satisfaction, and Trait-Anxiety Inventory. These scales were administered to a community sample of 279 older persons and a clinical sample of 109 older persons who were in psychiatric inpatient units. In both samples, the internal consistency reliabilities for the anxiety, d…
Quality of life and patterns of unmet need for resource decisions
Resources, life events, and changes in psychological states
Concluding Comments As researchers, we are intrigued by the complexities and questions involved in the study of resources and life events. As community psychologists, we hope this framework will contribute to improving the well‐being of human groups. We believe that knowing those resources most likely to be effective in buffering or boosting a particular event should guide the planning of programs for groups likely to experience that event. Moreo…
Quality of life as the criterion for need assessment and community psychology
A "QOL-Contribution" model for resource allocation decisions is proposed that integrates concepts and values from community psychology, need assessment, and quality of life (QOL) studies. QOL is taken as the criterion for establishing the goodness-of-fit between a population and its environment. It is assumed that the characteristics of a given human group interact with the resources and the stressors of its environment, with its level of QOL as …
The social policy process and community psychology training
Resources, life events, and changes in positive affect and depression in older adults
Hypotheses from a prospective conceptual framework were tested on a sample of 1,166 adults, age 55 and older, who were interviewed three times at 6-month intervals. Older adults with stronger resources had significantly more positive psychological states initially than those with weaker resources, and this advantage was maintained regardless of the levels of life events. There were significant main effects for desirable events and for undesirable…
Community psychology and older adults
Protective Function of Resources Related to Life Events, Global Stress, and Depression in Older Adults
Fran H. Norris, Stanley A. Murrell, Protective Function of Resources Related to Life Events, Global Stress, and Depression in Older Adults, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 424-437
Respondent characteristics in citizen evaluation of municipal services
Transitory Impact of Life-Event Stress on Psychological Symptoms in Older Adults
A probability sample of 1,429 adults aged 55 and older was interviewed in their homes three times at six-month intervals. Measures of symptoms, social support, and education were obtained before measures of life-event stress. A LISREL analysis of three waves and two intervals of data yielded a goodness offit of .989 between the data and the model. For both intervals, increases in stress led to increases in symptoms, which supported the Dohrenwend…
Prior experience as a moderator of disaster impact on anxiety symptoms in older adults
As participants in a panel study, 234 older adults were interviewed before, as well as after, serious flooding occurred in southeastern Kentucky. Floods are not uncommon in this area, but these were more widespread than most, and resulted in both previously exposed and newly exposed subsamples of disaster victims. Flood impact was measured at both personal and community levels. With preflood symptoms controlled, there were modest flood effects on…
Contribution of Education to Health and Life Satisfaction in Older Adults Mediated by Negative Affect
Education appears to confer a lifelong advantage for healthy aging. Part of this advantage is accounted for by the relationship between education and trait negative affect. Higher educational attainment is related to lower levels of trait negative affect; lower negative affect results in better health and life satisfaction
Psychological, Economic, and Social Mediators of the Education-Health Relationship in Older Adults
Low-energy aspects of health may be more likely to be mediated by variables of a more psychological nature. Overall, educational attainment is a good investment for successful aging
Educational Attainment, Positive Psychological Mediators, and Resources for Health and Vitality in Older Adults
Higher education level appears to increase the likelihood of being serene and happy, and healthy and vital, in later years; positive psychological states appeared to have both a promotion function (for vitality) and protective function (against health symptoms); self-esteem showed promise as a possible mediator of the effects of psychological states on health
Positivity and Well-being Among Community-Residing Elders and Nursing Home Residents
Although we expected the positivity ratio to perform less well among nursing home residents, we found that it differentiated residents with high well-being just as well as in the community sample. The ability to regulate positive affect to maintain a relative ratio of positive over negative affect appears to be an important aspect of successful adjustment in late life. Further research is needed on objective indicators of quality of life and on w…
Psychology (23 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Gerontology (9 works) · Community Health and Development (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Health psychology (7 works) · Library science (7 works)