Willard L Rodgers
Biographic Data
| ID | 104240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Willard L Rodgers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Willard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodgers |
| SIGNATURE | RODGERS W L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 446 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Types of prayer, optimism, and well-being of middle-aged and older patients undergoing open-heart surgery
To specify the psychological mechanism through which faith factors may influence health-related well-being, we followed a sample of middle-aged and older patients for their experiences associated with open-heart surgery. Structural equation modeling analysis in an earlier report demonstrated a parallel-pathway explanatory model in which preoperative optimism and acute stress response functioned as positive and negative mediators, respectively, of…
Prevalence of Dementia in the United States
Aim: To estimate the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias in the USA using a nationally representative sample. Methods: The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study sample was composed of 856 individuals aged 71 years and older from the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study (HRS) who were evaluated for dementia using a comprehensive in-home assessment. An expert consensus panel used this information to assign a …
The Influence of Prayer Coping on Mental Health among Cardiac Surgery Patients
To address the inconsistent findings and based on Hegel's dialectic contradictive principle, this study tested a parallel mediation model that may underlie the association of using prayer for coping with cardiac surgery outcomes. Three sequential interviews were conducted with 310 patients who underwent open-heart surgery. A structural equation model demonstrated that optimism mediated the favorable effect of prayer coping. Prayer coping was also…
Solving Problems of Disclosure Risk in an Academic Setting
THE HEALTH AND RETIREMENT STUDY collects a vast amount of information about a sample of the U.S. population over age 50 from biennial interviews, supplemental questionnaires, and through linkages with administrative data including Social Security earnings and benefits records and Medicare claims records. To h onor i ts p ledge to t he r espondents that their data will be kept confidential, but at the same time meet its objective of providing usef…
The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study
Objective: We describe the design and methods of the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS), a new national study that will provide data on the antecedents, prevalence, outcomes, and costs of dementia and ‘cognitive impairment, not demented’ (CIND) using a unique study design based on the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We also illustrate potential uses of the ADAMS data and provide information to interested re…
Faith Factors and Internal Health Locus of Control in Patients Prior to Open-heart Surgery
This study explored the relationships between faith factors and internal health locus of control (IHLC) beliefs. Based on a review of different relationships of perceived control, spiritual surrender and faith factors in the liberation, we assumed a multivariate association among them. Using data from two sequential interviews and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' Adult Cardiac Database, we tested these associations in a final sample of 202 middl…
Trends in Scores on Tests of Cognitive Ability in the Elderly U.S. Population, 1993
Trends in Scores on Tests of Cognitive Ability in the Elderly U.S. Population, 1993-2000
There appears to have been little improvement of cognitive functioning across recent cohorts of older Americans. However, the study points out the complexities of using panel data to study cohort differences, particularly when the measures of interest are likely influenced by prior wave participation. Future studies based on other data sources are needed
Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old
This chapter provides background information for the study of Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD), a prospective panel survey of persons born in 1923 or earlier who were residing in the community at the time of the 1993 baseline. Interviews were sought with both spouses in married households, and an overall total of 8,222 were completed. We review the interdisciplinary scientific issues that motivated the study, describe the fu…
Patterns of In-Home Care Among Elderly Black and White Americans
This study examines the use of informal and formal sources of care by elderly Black and White Americans (n = 2,847) who are functionally impaired and noninstitutionalized. The data are from the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study. Detailed baseline characteristics are provided and logistic regressions are used to assess the likelihood of (a) receiving in-home assistance from any source, (b) using any informal sources of i…
Mother, Child, and Family Factors Related to Employment of Single Mothers With LBW Preschoolers
The purpose of this study was to identify maternal, child, and family factors related to the employment status and employment history of single mothers of low-birth-weight (LBW) and full-term preschoolers. A sample of 121 female-headed, single-parent families with 3-, 4-, and 5- year-old LBW and full-term children was recruited through admission records to three Level III neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and birth records of two normal newbo…
Evidence on the Validity of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Labor Market Data
This article investigates error properties of survey reports of labor market variables. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Validation Study, a two-wave panel survey of workers employed by a large firm that shared its detailed payroll records. Individuals' reports of annual earnings are fairly accurate. Errors are negatively related to true earnings, reducing bias due to measurement error when earnings are used as an independent vari…
Les familles monoparentales aux États-Unis. Dynamique, niveau de vie et conséquences sur le développement de l'enfant
Duncan (Greg J.), Yeung (Jean W.), Rodgers (Willard). - Les familles monoparentales aux États-Unis. Dynamique, niveau de vie et conséquences sur le développement de l'enfant Plus du tiers des enfants nés aux États-Unis au milieu des années 1970 ont passé au moins une partie de leur enfance avec leur mère seule. Une telle situation familiale est souvent transitoire, en particulier pour les enfants blancs. Le niveau de vie est fortement réduit pend…
Has Children's Poverty Become More Persistent
Iffood-stamp benefits are counted as income, there is little change in estimates ofpersistent povertyfor children between the late 1960s and early 1980s. However, the absence of change in persistent poverty masks a number of important changes in the demographic and statistical structure ofpersistent poverty. These changes include increasing inequality in the distribution of permanent socioeconomic position, greater dependence on social assistance…
Interpreting the Components of Time Trends
Procedures for decomposing differences between two populations--for example, into the part that is due to differences in age-specific rates and the part that is due to differences in age distributions--have been used to decompose time trends into the part that is due to changes occurring within cohorts and the part that is due to the gradual replacement of older by younger cohorts. It is not clear what is accomplished by such a decomposition of a…
The Subjective Well-Being of Young Adults
Interviewing Older Adults
A face-to-face survey conducted in 1984 with a sample of 1491 residents of the Detroit metropolitan area (including an oversample of older adults) and a reinterview of a random subset of these respondents by telephone were used to compare the two modes of data collection across two age levels. Except for a tendency toward a disproportionately large number of DK answers and a disproportionately large amount of interviewer assistance on the telepho…
Longitudinal Aspects of Childhood Poverty
The influence of individual and historical time on marital dissolution
This paper examines the influence of individual development and historical change on marital dissolution. Data from the vital statistics system of the United States and from the June 1980Current Population Survey are used to examine the experience of marriage cohorts from 1905 through 1975 and the periods from 1922 through 1979. The historical patterns can best be explained as effects of period rather than of birth or marriage cohort, and the ind…
Changing patterns of first marriage in the United States
In this paper, we have traced changes in the patterns of first marriage in the United States for cohorts of men and women born in 1880 through 1965 and for the years from 1900 through 1983. There were striking changes in marriage rates associated with each of the world wars and with the depression of the 1930s. In addition to these short-term fluctuations, a long-term shift in marriage rates is observed over the period from after World War II unt…
An Evaluation of Statistical Matching
The validity of findings based on statistically matched data sets depends on the accuracy of underlying assumptions about relationships between variables that are unique to each input file. Simulations of statistical matching procedures on samples from populations with known characteristics provide the basis for an evaluation of the usefulness of statistical matching, and for choosing among various matching techniques. In three such simulations f…
Interviewing Older Adults
Journal Article Interviewing Older Adults: A Comparison of Telephone and Face-to-Face Modalities Get access A. REGULA HERZOG, A. REGULA HERZOG A. Regula Herzog is Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research and the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Willard L. Rodgers is Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michig…
Reply to Comment by Smith, Mason, and Fienberg
Estimable Functions of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
The main and interactive effects of age, period, and cohort are not estimable, although certain combinations of those effects are. A method used to obtain estimates of the effects of these variables involves the assumption of additivity and the imposition of one or more constraints on the relative effects of particular age levels, periods, or cohorts. This method can rarely if ever be justified for three reasons: first, the possibility of interac…
Trends in Reported Happiness within Demographically Defined Subgroups, 1957-78
Journal Article Trends in Reported Happiness Within Demographically Defined Subgroups, 1957–78 Get access Willard Rodgers Willard Rodgers University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 60, Issue 3, March 1982, Pages 826–842, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/60.3.826 Published: 01 March 1982
Estimable Functions of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
The main and interactive effects of age, period, and cohort are not estimable, although certain combinations of those effects are. A method used to obtain estimates of the effects of these variables involves the assumption of additivity and the imposition of one or more constraints on the relative effects of particular age levels, periods, or cohorts. This method can rarely if ever be justified for three reasons: first, the possibility of interac…
Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old
This chapter provides background information for the study of Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD), a prospective panel survey of persons born in 1923 or earlier who were residing in the community at the time of the 1993 baseline. Interviews were sought with both spouses in married households, and an overall total of 8,222 were completed. We review the interdisciplinary scientific issues that motivated the study, describe the fu…
The influence of individual and historical time on marital dissolution
This paper examines the influence of individual development and historical change on marital dissolution. Data from the vital statistics system of the United States and from the June 1980Current Population Survey are used to examine the experience of marriage cohorts from 1905 through 1975 and the periods from 1922 through 1979. The historical patterns can best be explained as effects of period rather than of birth or marriage cohort, and the ind…
Has Children's Poverty Become More Persistent
Iffood-stamp benefits are counted as income, there is little change in estimates ofpersistent povertyfor children between the late 1960s and early 1980s. However, the absence of change in persistent poverty masks a number of important changes in the demographic and statistical structure ofpersistent poverty. These changes include increasing inequality in the distribution of permanent socioeconomic position, greater dependence on social assistance…
Longitudinal Aspects of Childhood Poverty
Changing patterns of first marriage in the United States
In this paper, we have traced changes in the patterns of first marriage in the United States for cohorts of men and women born in 1880 through 1965 and for the years from 1900 through 1983. There were striking changes in marriage rates associated with each of the world wars and with the depression of the 1930s. In addition to these short-term fluctuations, a long-term shift in marriage rates is observed over the period from after World War II unt…
Measures of the perceived overall quality of life
Interviewing Older Adults
A face-to-face survey conducted in 1984 with a sample of 1491 residents of the Detroit metropolitan area (including an oversample of older adults) and a reinterview of a random subset of these respondents by telephone were used to compare the two modes of data collection across two age levels. Except for a tendency toward a disproportionately large number of DK answers and a disproportionately large amount of interviewer assistance on the telepho…
Density, crowding, and satisfaction with the residential environment
Interviewing Older Adults
Journal Article Interviewing Older Adults: A Comparison of Telephone and Face-to-Face Modalities Get access A. REGULA HERZOG, A. REGULA HERZOG A. Regula Herzog is Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research and the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Willard L. Rodgers is Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michig…
Trends in Scores on Tests of Cognitive Ability in the Elderly U.S. Population, 1993-2000
There appears to have been little improvement of cognitive functioning across recent cohorts of older Americans. However, the study points out the complexities of using panel data to study cohort differences, particularly when the measures of interest are likely influenced by prior wave participation. Future studies based on other data sources are needed
Reply to Comment by Smith, Mason, and Fienberg
Residential Satisfaction in Relationship to Size of Place
Evidence from a national sample confirms the expectation that much of the dissatisfaction expressed by residents of large cities can be explained in terms of a set of economic factors. A competing explanation for which little supporting evidence was found is that compositional differences account for the greater dissatisfaction of urban residents. The primary mediating variable related to economic conditions is expressed level of satisfaction wit…
Patterns of In-Home Care Among Elderly Black and White Americans
This study examines the use of informal and formal sources of care by elderly Black and White Americans (n = 2,847) who are functionally impaired and noninstitutionalized. The data are from the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study. Detailed baseline characteristics are provided and logistic regressions are used to assess the likelihood of (a) receiving in-home assistance from any source, (b) using any informal sources of i…
The Influence of Prayer Coping on Mental Health among Cardiac Surgery Patients
To address the inconsistent findings and based on Hegel's dialectic contradictive principle, this study tested a parallel mediation model that may underlie the association of using prayer for coping with cardiac surgery outcomes. Three sequential interviews were conducted with 310 patients who underwent open-heart surgery. A structural equation model demonstrated that optimism mediated the favorable effect of prayer coping. Prayer coping was also…
Faith Factors and Internal Health Locus of Control in Patients Prior to Open-heart Surgery
This study explored the relationships between faith factors and internal health locus of control (IHLC) beliefs. Based on a review of different relationships of perceived control, spiritual surrender and faith factors in the liberation, we assumed a multivariate association among them. Using data from two sequential interviews and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' Adult Cardiac Database, we tested these associations in a final sample of 202 middl…
The Quality of American Life
Workers' Councils in Yugoslavia
Trends in Reported Happiness within Demographically Defined Subgroups, 1957-78
Journal Article Trends in Reported Happiness Within Demographically Defined Subgroups, 1957–78 Get access Willard Rodgers Willard Rodgers University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 60, Issue 3, March 1982, Pages 826–842, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/60.3.826 Published: 01 March 1982
Interpreting the Components of Time Trends
Procedures for decomposing differences between two populations--for example, into the part that is due to differences in age-specific rates and the part that is due to differences in age distributions--have been used to decompose time trends into the part that is due to changes occurring within cohorts and the part that is due to the gradual replacement of older by younger cohorts. It is not clear what is accomplished by such a decomposition of a…
Solving Problems of Disclosure Risk in an Academic Setting
THE HEALTH AND RETIREMENT STUDY collects a vast amount of information about a sample of the U.S. population over age 50 from biennial interviews, supplemental questionnaires, and through linkages with administrative data including Social Security earnings and benefits records and Medicare claims records. To h onor i ts p ledge to t he r espondents that their data will be kept confidential, but at the same time meet its objective of providing usef…
Work status and the quality of life
Workers' Councils in Yugoslavia
Measures of the perceived overall quality of life
The Quality of American Life
Measuring Work Quality for Social Reporting
The Quality of American Life
benefits require a fundamental recasting of economic and sociopolitical structures lest permanent stagflation erode the impact of present and future allocations. Clearly, when social expenditures in the United States have increased from under $9,000 million in 1940 to over $200,000 million in 1973, and when total government spending exclusive of defense now absorbs roughly 32 percent of national income, it is obvious that further advances in requ…
Work status and the quality of life
Residential Satisfaction in Relationship to Size of Place
Evidence from a national sample confirms the expectation that much of the dissatisfaction expressed by residents of large cities can be explained in terms of a set of economic factors. A competing explanation for which little supporting evidence was found is that compositional differences account for the greater dissatisfaction of urban residents. The primary mediating variable related to economic conditions is expressed level of satisfaction wit…
Reply to Comment by Smith, Mason, and Fienberg
Estimable Functions of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
The main and interactive effects of age, period, and cohort are not estimable, although certain combinations of those effects are. A method used to obtain estimates of the effects of these variables involves the assumption of additivity and the imposition of one or more constraints on the relative effects of particular age levels, periods, or cohorts. This method can rarely if ever be justified for three reasons: first, the possibility of interac…
Trends in Reported Happiness within Demographically Defined Subgroups, 1957-78
Journal Article Trends in Reported Happiness Within Demographically Defined Subgroups, 1957–78 Get access Willard Rodgers Willard Rodgers University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 60, Issue 3, March 1982, Pages 826–842, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/60.3.826 Published: 01 March 1982
An Application of James-Stein Estimation to Survey Data
A procedure is examined for adjusting observed values of a sample of entities toward the overall sample mean. This procedure provides estimators with lower expected mean square errors than the ordinary least-squares estimators, at the cost of accepting a slight bias. The procedure was applied to a variety of analysis problems, using data from two sample surveys, and the performance of the adjusted estimators was compared to that of maximum likeli…
Density, crowding, and satisfaction with the residential environment
Interviewing Older Adults
Journal Article Interviewing Older Adults: A Comparison of Telephone and Face-to-Face Modalities Get access A. REGULA HERZOG, A. REGULA HERZOG A. Regula Herzog is Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research and the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Willard L. Rodgers is Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michig…
An Evaluation of Statistical Matching
The validity of findings based on statistically matched data sets depends on the accuracy of underlying assumptions about relationships between variables that are unique to each input file. Simulations of statistical matching procedures on samples from populations with known characteristics provide the basis for an evaluation of the usefulness of statistical matching, and for choosing among various matching techniques. In three such simulations f…
Changing patterns of first marriage in the United States
In this paper, we have traced changes in the patterns of first marriage in the United States for cohorts of men and women born in 1880 through 1965 and for the years from 1900 through 1983. There were striking changes in marriage rates associated with each of the world wars and with the depression of the 1930s. In addition to these short-term fluctuations, a long-term shift in marriage rates is observed over the period from after World War II unt…
The influence of individual and historical time on marital dissolution
This paper examines the influence of individual development and historical change on marital dissolution. Data from the vital statistics system of the United States and from the June 1980Current Population Survey are used to examine the experience of marriage cohorts from 1905 through 1975 and the periods from 1922 through 1979. The historical patterns can best be explained as effects of period rather than of birth or marriage cohort, and the ind…
Interviewing Older Adults
A face-to-face survey conducted in 1984 with a sample of 1491 residents of the Detroit metropolitan area (including an oversample of older adults) and a reinterview of a random subset of these respondents by telephone were used to compare the two modes of data collection across two age levels. Except for a tendency toward a disproportionately large number of DK answers and a disproportionately large amount of interviewer assistance on the telepho…
Longitudinal Aspects of Childhood Poverty
The Subjective Well-Being of Young Adults
Interpreting the Components of Time Trends
Procedures for decomposing differences between two populations--for example, into the part that is due to differences in age-specific rates and the part that is due to differences in age distributions--have been used to decompose time trends into the part that is due to changes occurring within cohorts and the part that is due to the gradual replacement of older by younger cohorts. It is not clear what is accomplished by such a decomposition of a…
Has Children's Poverty Become More Persistent
Iffood-stamp benefits are counted as income, there is little change in estimates ofpersistent povertyfor children between the late 1960s and early 1980s. However, the absence of change in persistent poverty masks a number of important changes in the demographic and statistical structure ofpersistent poverty. These changes include increasing inequality in the distribution of permanent socioeconomic position, greater dependence on social assistance…
Evidence on the Validity of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Labor Market Data
This article investigates error properties of survey reports of labor market variables. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Validation Study, a two-wave panel survey of workers employed by a large firm that shared its detailed payroll records. Individuals' reports of annual earnings are fairly accurate. Errors are negatively related to true earnings, reducing bias due to measurement error when earnings are used as an independent vari…
Les familles monoparentales aux États-Unis. Dynamique, niveau de vie et conséquences sur le développement de l'enfant
Duncan (Greg J.), Yeung (Jean W.), Rodgers (Willard). - Les familles monoparentales aux États-Unis. Dynamique, niveau de vie et conséquences sur le développement de l'enfant Plus du tiers des enfants nés aux États-Unis au milieu des années 1970 ont passé au moins une partie de leur enfance avec leur mère seule. Une telle situation familiale est souvent transitoire, en particulier pour les enfants blancs. Le niveau de vie est fortement réduit pend…
Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old
This chapter provides background information for the study of Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD), a prospective panel survey of persons born in 1923 or earlier who were residing in the community at the time of the 1993 baseline. Interviews were sought with both spouses in married households, and an overall total of 8,222 were completed. We review the interdisciplinary scientific issues that motivated the study, describe the fu…
Patterns of In-Home Care Among Elderly Black and White Americans
This study examines the use of informal and formal sources of care by elderly Black and White Americans (n = 2,847) who are functionally impaired and noninstitutionalized. The data are from the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study. Detailed baseline characteristics are provided and logistic regressions are used to assess the likelihood of (a) receiving in-home assistance from any source, (b) using any informal sources of i…
Psychology (24 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Demography (10 works) · Demography (10 works) · Gerontology (10 works) · Population (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works)