Mary R Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 347805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary R Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary R |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tampa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4140-2626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 690 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Spiritual Growth and Mental Health Gains
Previous research has documented broad benefits of spiritual intervention programs, including improved spirituality and ameliorated mental health symptoms. However, long-term follow-up examinations of such interventions have yet to be conducted. This study reports on changes in psychological and spiritual variables from posttest to 3-month follow-up in a sample of U.S. undergraduate students. N = 84 undergraduate students ages 18–25 (M = 19.75, S…
Supporting sexual and gender minority college student wellness
Not just the nation's hostess
The position of First Lady is typically viewed as ceremonial and a reflection of marital and maternal roles: some combination of “the president's wife,” the “nation's social hostess,” and the “Mom‐in‐Chief.” Yet modern First Ladies often develop their own policy priorities and programs, and the Office of the First Lady is integral to modern presidential administrations. We make a case for studying First Ladies as policy actors by systematically m…
Community, Civic Engagement and Democratic Governance in Africa
Inner Peace in a Global Crisis
Emerging-adult undergraduates (ages 18-25) are at increased risk for mental illness, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Simultaneously, emerging adults face developmental tasks including identity development, finding meaning and purpose, and spiritual individuation. A case study approach is used to elucidate processes of undergraduates coping with collective trauma as a potential pathway to trauma-related spiritual growth via Awakened Awarenes…
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy during the Perinatal Period
Community, Civic Engagement and Democratic Governance in Africa
Personal, Public and Political Impacts of a New District
In June 2012 the government of Ghana added 42 new districts to the country's system of local governance. This paper measures the impact of one new district in terms of private wealth accumulation, access to public services and political engagement. Data analysed comes from a panel survey of residents of the new district capital and two similarly sized villages, one in the new district and one just outside. Proponents of government fragmentation p…
Ghana’s Swing Voters
Ghana is a country where presidential election results are not a foregone conclusion and parties can count on very few safe seats in the legislature. This lack of electoral predictability suggests that a significant block of Ghanaian voters are persuadable. But how are these persuadable voters different from their unpersuadable counterparts? We comb through the swing voter literature for potential answers to this question and weigh these answers …
A Spirituality Mind-Body Wellness Center in a University Setting; A Pilot Service Assessment Study
Increasing rates of mental illness among college students over the past 10 years suggest a collective deficit in meaning and purpose unattended to by many university campuses. Psychopathology among young adult college students is associated with developmental tasks such as spiritual individuation, suggesting that interventions aimed at spiritual wellbeing may support the stated need for comprehensive mental health services. The aim of this pilot …
Spiritual Decline as a Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress
Many college students in the United States arrive on campus with exposure to both traumatic events and typical negative life events, as well as varying levels of emotional wellness. One way that students may seek out help is through spiritually supportive wellness programming. The current study examines the prevalence of and relationship between traumatic life events, typical negative life events, and spiritual growth and decline as predictors of…
The Spiritual Heart
The heart has been a symbol within ancient philosophy and spiritual practice for personal consciousness, wisdom, intuition and love. In recent decades, scientists with growing interest in spirituality have built a strong case for the beneficial relationship between religiosity/spirituality and physical health. Explanations for this connection have included associated health behaviors that negatively impact cardiovascular health but have failed to…
Religiosity and Depression at Midlife
Objectives: Previously, authors found high personal importance of religion/spirituality (R/S) in early adulthood to predict a 75% decreased risk of recurrence of major depression in middle adulthood. Here, the authors follow up the original study sample to examine the association between R/S and major depression from middle adulthood into midlife. Method: Participants were 79 of 114 original adult offspring of depressed and non-depressed parents.…
Beyond the media's explanation
The question of what constitutes torture has perhaps never held as prominent a place in US political discourse as it has since the attacks on 9/11. This has fueled a national conversation that causes us to consider to what extent do our actions as a nation reflect our values as a nation? In a post 9/11 world in which the country will confront terrorism at home and abroad and our values will be tested we should strive for a better understanding of…
Some Psycho-Social Correlates of US Citizen Support for Torture
We use an original survey to both ascertain US citizens’ attitudes about the use of torture, and to begin to explore why they have these views. While there exists widely-agreed-upon findings regarding the state-level determinants of government respect for human rights such as torture, much less is understood about either the distribution or formation of individual citizens’ attitudes about human rights. Our investigation of the formation of citiz…
Punishment or Reward? An Experiment on the Effects of Sex and Gender Issues on Candidate Choice
Gender stereotyping plays a prominent role in American politics. Voters transfer their stereotypes of women and men to candidates seeking office. In this article, we look at vote choice as it relates to sex differences and gender-related issues in several different contexts. First, we replicate previous experiments in which sex is the sole cue in low information contexts. Second, we vary the context of the contest by adding issue cues, thus creat…
Personality and Political Discussion
Community Psychology, Political Efficacy, and Trust
Much attention has been paid to the effects of political efficacy and trust on political participation. Most studies tend to use efficacy or trust as an independent variable to explain political actions such as voting, campaign involvement, and the like. Despite their importance in explanations of political behavior, relatively little is known regarding mechanisms through which social involvement may influence trust and efficacy. If efficacy and …
Personality and Civic Engagement
People's enduring psychological tendencies are reflected in their traits. Contemporary research on personality establishes that traits are rooted largely in biology, and that the central aspects of personality can be captured in frameworks, or taxonomies, focused on five trait dimensions: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability. In this article, we integrate a five-factor view of trait struc…
Beyond Membership
The Knowledge Gap
A considerable body of data suggests that men know more about politics than do women. Although gender gaps exist in other aspects of political behavior, the unusual magnitude of the gender gap makes it particularly perplexing. In this paper, we advance and test the hypothesis that the knowledge gap is partly an artifact of how knowledge is measured. If men are disproportionately more likely to guess than are women, then observed gender disparitie…
Accountability and Performance in Charter Schools in Florida
This paper utilizes the framework of program theory evaluation to assess the operation of charter schools in Florida in the 1999-2000 school year. Charter school theory is modeled and a series of hypotheses are developed about the linkages expected to produce the primary program outcomes, improved student academic performance and change in the operations of regular public schools. The hypotheses are evaluated with quantitative and qualitative dat…
Deconstruction and the teaching historian
Faculty Women's Association
The faculty women at Arizona State University (ASU) who participate in the Faculty Women's Association (FWA) are a viable and respected group, an instrument for change in faculty affairs and governance. This was not always the case. Five major problem areas were identified by the organization during the last decade. The five problem areas were how to (1) persuade administrators to make salary information available; (2) determine whether inequitie…
Predictors of Freshman Achievement at Fort Hays Kansas State College
Personality and Civic Engagement
People's enduring psychological tendencies are reflected in their traits. Contemporary research on personality establishes that traits are rooted largely in biology, and that the central aspects of personality can be captured in frameworks, or taxonomies, focused on five trait dimensions: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability. In this article, we integrate a five-factor view of trait struc…
The Knowledge Gap
A considerable body of data suggests that men know more about politics than do women. Although gender gaps exist in other aspects of political behavior, the unusual magnitude of the gender gap makes it particularly perplexing. In this paper, we advance and test the hypothesis that the knowledge gap is partly an artifact of how knowledge is measured. If men are disproportionately more likely to guess than are women, then observed gender disparitie…
Community Psychology, Political Efficacy, and Trust
Much attention has been paid to the effects of political efficacy and trust on political participation. Most studies tend to use efficacy or trust as an independent variable to explain political actions such as voting, campaign involvement, and the like. Despite their importance in explanations of political behavior, relatively little is known regarding mechanisms through which social involvement may influence trust and efficacy. If efficacy and …
Personality and Political Discussion
Beyond Membership
Punishment or Reward? An Experiment on the Effects of Sex and Gender Issues on Candidate Choice
Gender stereotyping plays a prominent role in American politics. Voters transfer their stereotypes of women and men to candidates seeking office. In this article, we look at vote choice as it relates to sex differences and gender-related issues in several different contexts. First, we replicate previous experiments in which sex is the sole cue in low information contexts. Second, we vary the context of the contest by adding issue cues, thus creat…
Some Psycho-Social Correlates of US Citizen Support for Torture
We use an original survey to both ascertain US citizens’ attitudes about the use of torture, and to begin to explore why they have these views. While there exists widely-agreed-upon findings regarding the state-level determinants of government respect for human rights such as torture, much less is understood about either the distribution or formation of individual citizens’ attitudes about human rights. Our investigation of the formation of citiz…
Accountability and Performance in Charter Schools in Florida
This paper utilizes the framework of program theory evaluation to assess the operation of charter schools in Florida in the 1999-2000 school year. Charter school theory is modeled and a series of hypotheses are developed about the linkages expected to produce the primary program outcomes, improved student academic performance and change in the operations of regular public schools. The hypotheses are evaluated with quantitative and qualitative dat…
Beyond the media's explanation
The question of what constitutes torture has perhaps never held as prominent a place in US political discourse as it has since the attacks on 9/11. This has fueled a national conversation that causes us to consider to what extent do our actions as a nation reflect our values as a nation? In a post 9/11 world in which the country will confront terrorism at home and abroad and our values will be tested we should strive for a better understanding of…
Faculty Women's Association
The faculty women at Arizona State University (ASU) who participate in the Faculty Women's Association (FWA) are a viable and respected group, an instrument for change in faculty affairs and governance. This was not always the case. Five major problem areas were identified by the organization during the last decade. The five problem areas were how to (1) persuade administrators to make salary information available; (2) determine whether inequitie…
Predictors of Freshman Achievement at Fort Hays Kansas State College
Faculty Women's Association
The faculty women at Arizona State University (ASU) who participate in the Faculty Women's Association (FWA) are a viable and respected group, an instrument for change in faculty affairs and governance. This was not always the case. Five major problem areas were identified by the organization during the last decade. The five problem areas were how to (1) persuade administrators to make salary information available; (2) determine whether inequitie…
Deconstruction and the teaching historian
Accountability and Performance in Charter Schools in Florida
This paper utilizes the framework of program theory evaluation to assess the operation of charter schools in Florida in the 1999-2000 school year. Charter school theory is modeled and a series of hypotheses are developed about the linkages expected to produce the primary program outcomes, improved student academic performance and change in the operations of regular public schools. The hypotheses are evaluated with quantitative and qualitative dat…
The Knowledge Gap
A considerable body of data suggests that men know more about politics than do women. Although gender gaps exist in other aspects of political behavior, the unusual magnitude of the gender gap makes it particularly perplexing. In this paper, we advance and test the hypothesis that the knowledge gap is partly an artifact of how knowledge is measured. If men are disproportionately more likely to guess than are women, then observed gender disparitie…
Beyond Membership
Personality and Political Discussion
Community Psychology, Political Efficacy, and Trust
Much attention has been paid to the effects of political efficacy and trust on political participation. Most studies tend to use efficacy or trust as an independent variable to explain political actions such as voting, campaign involvement, and the like. Despite their importance in explanations of political behavior, relatively little is known regarding mechanisms through which social involvement may influence trust and efficacy. If efficacy and …
Personality and Civic Engagement
People's enduring psychological tendencies are reflected in their traits. Contemporary research on personality establishes that traits are rooted largely in biology, and that the central aspects of personality can be captured in frameworks, or taxonomies, focused on five trait dimensions: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability. In this article, we integrate a five-factor view of trait struc…
Punishment or Reward? An Experiment on the Effects of Sex and Gender Issues on Candidate Choice
Gender stereotyping plays a prominent role in American politics. Voters transfer their stereotypes of women and men to candidates seeking office. In this article, we look at vote choice as it relates to sex differences and gender-related issues in several different contexts. First, we replicate previous experiments in which sex is the sole cue in low information contexts. Second, we vary the context of the contest by adding issue cues, thus creat…
Some Psycho-Social Correlates of US Citizen Support for Torture
We use an original survey to both ascertain US citizens’ attitudes about the use of torture, and to begin to explore why they have these views. While there exists widely-agreed-upon findings regarding the state-level determinants of government respect for human rights such as torture, much less is understood about either the distribution or formation of individual citizens’ attitudes about human rights. Our investigation of the formation of citiz…
Beyond the media's explanation
The question of what constitutes torture has perhaps never held as prominent a place in US political discourse as it has since the attacks on 9/11. This has fueled a national conversation that causes us to consider to what extent do our actions as a nation reflect our values as a nation? In a post 9/11 world in which the country will confront terrorism at home and abroad and our values will be tested we should strive for a better understanding of…
Ghana’s Swing Voters
Ghana is a country where presidential election results are not a foregone conclusion and parties can count on very few safe seats in the legislature. This lack of electoral predictability suggests that a significant block of Ghanaian voters are persuadable. But how are these persuadable voters different from their unpersuadable counterparts? We comb through the swing voter literature for potential answers to this question and weigh these answers …
A Spirituality Mind-Body Wellness Center in a University Setting; A Pilot Service Assessment Study
Increasing rates of mental illness among college students over the past 10 years suggest a collective deficit in meaning and purpose unattended to by many university campuses. Psychopathology among young adult college students is associated with developmental tasks such as spiritual individuation, suggesting that interventions aimed at spiritual wellbeing may support the stated need for comprehensive mental health services. The aim of this pilot …
Spiritual Decline as a Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress
Many college students in the United States arrive on campus with exposure to both traumatic events and typical negative life events, as well as varying levels of emotional wellness. One way that students may seek out help is through spiritually supportive wellness programming. The current study examines the prevalence of and relationship between traumatic life events, typical negative life events, and spiritual growth and decline as predictors of…
The Spiritual Heart
The heart has been a symbol within ancient philosophy and spiritual practice for personal consciousness, wisdom, intuition and love. In recent decades, scientists with growing interest in spirituality have built a strong case for the beneficial relationship between religiosity/spirituality and physical health. Explanations for this connection have included associated health behaviors that negatively impact cardiovascular health but have failed to…
Religiosity and Depression at Midlife
Objectives: Previously, authors found high personal importance of religion/spirituality (R/S) in early adulthood to predict a 75% decreased risk of recurrence of major depression in middle adulthood. Here, the authors follow up the original study sample to examine the association between R/S and major depression from middle adulthood into midlife. Method: Participants were 79 of 114 original adult offspring of depressed and non-depressed parents.…
Personal, Public and Political Impacts of a New District
In June 2012 the government of Ghana added 42 new districts to the country's system of local governance. This paper measures the impact of one new district in terms of private wealth accumulation, access to public services and political engagement. Data analysed comes from a panel survey of residents of the new district capital and two similarly sized villages, one in the new district and one just outside. Proponents of government fragmentation p…
Community, Civic Engagement and Democratic Governance in Africa
Inner Peace in a Global Crisis
Emerging-adult undergraduates (ages 18-25) are at increased risk for mental illness, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Simultaneously, emerging adults face developmental tasks including identity development, finding meaning and purpose, and spiritual individuation. A case study approach is used to elucidate processes of undergraduates coping with collective trauma as a potential pathway to trauma-related spiritual growth via Awakened Awarenes…
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy during the Perinatal Period
Community, Civic Engagement and Democratic Governance in Africa
Supporting sexual and gender minority college student wellness
Not just the nation's hostess
The position of First Lady is typically viewed as ceremonial and a reflection of marital and maternal roles: some combination of “the president's wife,” the “nation's social hostess,” and the “Mom‐in‐Chief.” Yet modern First Ladies often develop their own policy priorities and programs, and the Office of the First Lady is integral to modern presidential administrations. We make a case for studying First Ladies as policy actors by systematically m…
Spiritual Growth and Mental Health Gains
Previous research has documented broad benefits of spiritual intervention programs, including improved spirituality and ameliorated mental health symptoms. However, long-term follow-up examinations of such interventions have yet to be conducted. This study reports on changes in psychological and spiritual variables from posttest to 3-month follow-up in a sample of U.S. undergraduate students. N = 84 undergraduate students ages 18–25 (M = 19.75, S…
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