George Domino
Biographic Data
| ID | 605757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Domino |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Domino |
| SIGNATURE | DOMINO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Psychological Testing
This book is an introductory text to the field of psychological testing primarily suitable for undergraduate students in psychology, education, business, and related fields. This book will also be of interest to graduate students who have not had a prior exposure to psychological testing and to professionals such as lawyers who need to consult a useful source. Psychological Testing is clearly written, well-organized, comprehensive, and replete wi…
Psychological Testing
Attitudes Toward Physician Assisted Suicide
A scale to measure attitudes toward physician assisted suicide was administered to a sample (N=246) of Polish citizens and a sample (N=246) of U.S. citizens equated on gender, marital status, religion, and socioeconomic level. In both samples the reliability was substantial (Cronbach's alphas of .93 and .89), and the factor structure identical (one major factor). Significant ethnic differences were found for 10 of the 12 scale items, but no diffe…
Community Attitudes Toward Physician Assisted Suicide
Attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide (PAS) were assessed in a sample of 400 community adults, stratified as to gender and socioeconomic class, using a 12-item psychometric scale rather than the more typical survey question. The results indicate that the Domino scale, currently the only psychometric instrument of attitudes toward PAS, is factorially homogeneous and shows considerable internal stability. There were no gender differences, but…
Psychosocial Correlates of Suicide Ideation
China is the only country in the world where the suicide rate for women is higher than that for men. In particular there is current concern about a high suicide rate for women living in rural areas. In this study, two samples of young women ages 20 to 35, one from rural China ( n=52) and one from rural United States ( n=52) were interviewed as to suicide ideation and suicide risk, as related to psychosocial variables of self-esteem, coping, socia…
Psychosocial Aspects of Suicide in Young Chinese Rural Women
A sample of 90 rural Chinese women were interviewed and tested to assess a theoretical model that assumes suicide ideation is a function of four broad theoretical variables: 1) psychological aspects such as self-esteem and personal adjustment; 2) coping aspects; 3) environmental aspects, specifically the degree of support found in the family and in the community; and 4) attitudes toward suicide. The data were analyzed first for reliability, which…
Acceptability of Suicide
The Suicide Opinion Questionnaire was administered to two samples, one from Taiwan ( n = 291) and one from the United States ( n = 218). Mean scores on the Acceptability scale were significantly higher for the Taiwanese sample, indicating greater acceptance. A chi-square analysis indicated significant response rates for ten of the eleven items, with eight of the eleven items showing greater agreement in the Taiwanese sample. Taiwanese are less ac…
Cross-Cultural Investigation of a New Set of Scales for the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire
There are a number of alternate ways to score the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire (SOQ). Two methods were compared in this study, a set of eight scales developed by content analysis, and a set of five scales developed by factor analysis; two samples, one from the United States ( N=218), and one from Taiwan ( N=291) were assessed. On all SOQ scales, significant mean differences were obtained between U.S. and Taiwanese samples. The patterns of interc…
Reliability and Validity of the D-48 with Mexican American College Students
The D-48, a nonverbal test of general intelligence, is widely used in Europe and other areas of the world, but virtually unknown in the United States. In this study, the D-48 and the School and College Ability Tests (SCAT) were administered to a sample of 250 community college students who were continuing their studies at a large state university. Of the 250 students, 145 were Mexican American and 105 were Anglo. The results indicate no significa…
Attitudes toward Suicide
The Suicide Opinion Questionnaire (SOQ) was administered to two samples of adult volunteers: 172 Germans and 172 U.S. nationals. An analysis of the results indicated five major findings: 1) statistically significant gender differences in attitudes toward suicide were obtained in both samples. 2) These gender differences showed consistency across the two samples. 3) Statistically significant differences between German and United States samples wer…
Physician Assisted Suicide
A twelve-item scale to measure attitudes toward physician assisted suicide is presented. The scale was developed by considering the existing literature and consulting with both professionals and lay persons. An initial version of the scale was pilot tested on three samples (physicians, elderly medical patients, and graduate students in a geriatrics program). An initial pool of thirty-seven items were administered to college students and twelve it…
Attitudes toward Suicide in Patients with HIV/Aids
This study investigated the attitudes toward suicide of HIV positive patients, a population at substantial risk for suicide. Such attitudes have not been studied, and it is quite possible that the depression and stress associated with HIV may be mediated by such attitudes. The Suicide Opinion Questionnaire, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Hopelessness Scale, and a demographic questionnaire were administered to three male samples ( n = 36 each)…
The Prediction of Ego Integrity in Older Persons
This study examined the extent to which the resolution of the Eriksonian final stage-related crisis of ego integrity versus despair is predicted by the resolution of earlier stage-related crises and by non-Eriksonian personality constructs. Subjects were administered an Eriksonian life stage measure called the Inventory of Psychosocial Balance, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Purpose-in-Life Scale, and the Self-Realization Scale. A series of…
Test-Retest Reliability of the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire
Test-retest reliabilities for the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire are presented for eight samples across seven countries, representing both Eastern and Western cultures. Despite the variability of the samples and of the test-retest intervals, values fully support the reliability of the subscales
Attitudes toward Suicide and Conservatism
The Suicide Opinion Questionnaire and the Conservatism Scale were administered to two samples of respondents: seventy-three mainland Chinese adults and seventy-three United States adults of comparable age, gender, and socioeconomic level. The results indicated significant mean differences on all eight SOQ scales and on Conservatism. Chinese mean scores reflected higher agreement on the SOQ scales of mental illness, cry for help, and aggression, a…
Conservatism and Attitudes toward Suicide
The Suicide Opinion Questionnaire and the Conservatism scale were administered to two samples of respondents: Eighty-two Taiwanese-Americans and eighty-two United States adults, of comparable gender, age, and geographical location. The results indicated significant differences on seven of the eight SOQ scales, as well as significant differences in conservatism. In both samples, the pattern of correlations between conservatism and attitudes toward…
Attitudes toward suicide among english-speaking urban canadians
The study of suicide must take place within a specific cultural context. Despite Canada's high rate of suicide, compared to that of the United States, there has been little research on the topic, including attitudes toward suicide among Canadians. The purpose of this study is to examine attitudes toward suicide in a Canadian English-speaking urban sample. A sample of 196 Canadian adults residing in six major cities were administered the Suicide O…
Attitudes toward Suicide
The Suicide Opinion Questionnaire (SOQ), a measure of attitudes toward suicide, was administered to two samples of university students, one from Singapore ( n = 100) and one from Australia ( n = 82). Of the fifteen SOQ factors, ten showed statistically significant mean differences, with Singaporean students endorsing greater disagreement on the factors of Acceptability and Demographic aspects, and Australian students endorsing greater disagreemen…
Acting and Personality Change
Attitudes toward Suicide
The Suicide Opinion Questionnaire was administered to 100 Italian and 100 United States physicians, comparable in age, gender, and medical field. Significant differences were obtained on seven of the eight SOQ scales, with Italian physicians showing greater agreement on the mental illness, right to die, religion, impulsivity, normality, aggression, and moral evil scales. Gender differences were obtained in both samples, with males scoring higher.…
Attitudes toward Cancer
The Cancer Metaphors Test, a measure designed to assess the imagery of cancer, was administered to samples of Nepalese (n = 228) and U.S. (n = 184) graduate students. For both samples, no significant age, gender, or field of study differences were obtained, but Nepalese students scored higher than U.S. students on both Terminal Pessimism and Future Optimism. Within each sample, scores on pessimism were higher than scores on optimism. An analysis …
Religiosity and Attitudes toward Suicide
The relationship between religiosity and attitudes toward suicide was assessed in a sample of 186 Christian adults, most affiliated with churches or church-related organizations. A significant correlational pattern was obtained, such that persons higher on religiosity tended to perceive suicide as reflective of mental illness, as less of a cry for help, as not being an individual's prerogative, as highly related to a lack of religious influence, …
Cooperation and Competition in Chinese and American Children
The hypothesis that Chinese children would be more cooperative than American children was tested in a group of 76 Chinese children and 76 American children by use of the Social Values Task, a game-like choice task where each child selects a number of tokens for him- or herself and an unspecified other. Six patterns of outcome preferences are possible. Chinese children gave equality responses most often, followed by group enhancement responses, wh…
Cross-Cultural Investigations of the Imagery of Cancer in Mexican Nationals
Two studies are presented, both using the Cancer Metaphors Test (CMT) as a measure of the imagery of cancer. In Study 1, the responses of 75 Mexican students were compared with those of 135 United States students, and statistically significant differences were obtained on all four CMT scales, with Mexican students scoring higher on Terminal Pessimism, Natural Disaster, and Foreign Intruder, but lower on Future Optimism. Substantial similarities w…
Clergy's Knowledge of Psychopathology
Although the literature suggests that clergy provide a substantial amount of psychotherapeutic counseling, and that potential clients seek out the clergy as a primary source of psychotherapeutic assistance, little is known about the degree of knowledge that clergy have about basic psychopathology. A 120-item multiple choice test was developed to assess knowledge about psychopathology, based on the material covered in Abnormal Psychology courses. …
The Relation of Acculturation and Values in Mexican Americans
The correspondence between degree of acculturation and values was studied in a sample of first generation Mexican Americans, 42 identified as highly acculturated and 42 as low acculturated, by administration of the Rokeach Value Survey in either English or Spanish. The obtained protocols were compared with national norms provided by Rokeach, and with a local group of 62 Anglos. The results show considerable variability across groups for specific …
A Comparative Analysis of Social Values of Chinese and American Children
A set of 701 stories generated by 80 Chinese and 80 American children was content analyzed, and submitted to a factor analysis that yielded four factors common to both groups, one unique factor for the Chinese sample and two for the American sample. A stepwise discriminant function analysis of the common factors indicated significant differences between Chinese and American children, and significant sex differences in the American sample only. Th…
Cooperation and Competition in Chinese and American Children
The hypothesis that Chinese children would be more cooperative than American children was tested in a group of 76 Chinese children and 76 American children by use of the Social Values Task, a game-like choice task where each child selects a number of tokens for him- or herself and an unspecified other. Six patterns of outcome preferences are possible. Chinese children gave equality responses most often, followed by group enhancement responses, wh…
Clergy's attitudes toward suicide and recognition of suicide lethality
Five groups of clergy (Protestant ministers, Catholic priests, Jewish rabbi, Eastern religious leaders, and nontraditional ministers; N = 112) were administered a scale to assess their knowledge of suicide lethality (the Recognition of Suicide Lethality) and a suicide attitudinal questionnaire (the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire), scored on 15 factors. Significant group differences were obtained for the RSL scale and seven of the SOQ factors, and …
Attitudes toward suicide among english-speaking urban canadians
The study of suicide must take place within a specific cultural context. Despite Canada's high rate of suicide, compared to that of the United States, there has been little research on the topic, including attitudes toward suicide among Canadians. The purpose of this study is to examine attitudes toward suicide in a Canadian English-speaking urban sample. A sample of 196 Canadian adults residing in six major cities were administered the Suicide O…
Cross-Cultural Investigations of the Imagery of Cancer in Mexican Nationals
Two studies are presented, both using the Cancer Metaphors Test (CMT) as a measure of the imagery of cancer. In Study 1, the responses of 75 Mexican students were compared with those of 135 United States students, and statistically significant differences were obtained on all four CMT scales, with Mexican students scoring higher on Terminal Pessimism, Natural Disaster, and Foreign Intruder, but lower on Future Optimism. Substantial similarities w…
Sleep Habits in the Elderly
Little information is available on the normal aspects of sleep in the elderly, and almost none from a cross-cultural perspective. The subjects of this study consisted of 562 elderly from Mexico, Spain, Venezuela, and the United States, who completed a 55-item Sleep Questionnaire, yielding scores on nine scales. Statistically significant differences between cultural groups on five scales and significant sex differences on three scales were obtaine…
Homosexuality and Creatively
Despite heightened interest in both homosexuality and creativity, as well as theoretical and anecdotal evidence linking the two, there are virtually no empirical data relevant to this hypothesized relationship. Four groups of homosexuals (activists, social homosexuals, clients of a college counseling center, and artistic homosexuals) and four groups of control heterosexuals matched on age, educational level, and verbal intelligence were administe…
Reliability and Validity of the D-48 with Mexican American College Students
The D-48, a nonverbal test of general intelligence, is widely used in Europe and other areas of the world, but virtually unknown in the United States. In this study, the D-48 and the School and College Ability Tests (SCAT) were administered to a sample of 250 community college students who were continuing their studies at a large state university. Of the 250 students, 145 were Mexican American and 105 were Anglo. The results indicate no significa…
Attitudes toward Cancer
The Cancer Metaphors Test, a measure designed to assess the imagery of cancer, was administered to samples of Nepalese (n = 228) and U.S. (n = 184) graduate students. For both samples, no significant age, gender, or field of study differences were obtained, but Nepalese students scored higher than U.S. students on both Terminal Pessimism and Future Optimism. Within each sample, scores on pessimism were higher than scores on optimism. An analysis …
Attitudes toward suicide among mental health professionals
The Suicide Opinion Questionnaire (SOQ) and the Recognition of Suicide Lethality (RSL) scale were administered to 141 mental health professionals representing seven groups: family practice physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses and aides, social workers, crisis line workers, and clergy. The results indicate significant differences among groups on 5 of the 15 SOQ factors, on a clinically derived empathic understanding scale, …
Attitudes Toward Suicide Among Mexican American and Anglo Youth
A suicide opinion questionnaire (SOQ) was administered to 76 Mexican Americans and 76 Anglos, equated on several demo graphic dimensions. An item analysis yielded statistically signifi cant differences on 35 of the 100 SOQ items. These items centered on the following themes: religion, psychopathology, aggression-impulsivity, acceptability of suicide, the "cry for help" dimension, and emotional impact. The implications of these findings are discus…
A Validation of Howard's Test of Change-Seeking Behavior
Assessment of cinematographic creativity
Compensatory aspects of dreams
Jung's hypothesis that dreams have a compensatory function is clearly stated and well-known, yet has not been empirically tested. Three dream reports for each of 62 students were rated on 15 personality dimensions and compared with scores on the same dimensions as measured by the Edwards Personality Preference Schedule and the Adjective Check List (ACL). Six EPPS scales and 10 ACL scales correlated significantly with their appropriate dream ratin…
A Factor Analysis of Creativity in Fraternal and Identical Twins
The relationship between intelligence and creativity and their factorial structure have been extensively discussed, with little empirical evidence and less agreement as to the meaning. A study of 117 pairs of like sexed fraternal and identical twins was undertaken, with each twin participating in an extensive battery of creativity tests.A factor analysis indicated three factors for the fraternal twins and two for the identical twins, the results …
Homosexuality and Creatively
Despite heightened interest in both homosexuality and creativity, as well as theoretical and anecdotal evidence linking the two, there are virtually no empirical data relevant to this hypothesized relationship. Four groups of homosexuals (activists, social homosexuals, clients of a college counseling center, and artistic homosexuals) and four groups of control heterosexuals matched on age, educational level, and verbal intelligence were administe…
Jewish and Christian attitudes on suicide
Attitudes Toward Suicide Among Mexican American and Anglo Youth
A suicide opinion questionnaire (SOQ) was administered to 76 Mexican Americans and 76 Anglos, equated on several demo graphic dimensions. An item analysis yielded statistically signifi cant differences on 35 of the 100 SOQ items. These items centered on the following themes: religion, psychopathology, aggression-impulsivity, acceptability of suicide, the "cry for help" dimension, and emotional impact. The implications of these findings are discus…
Differential Aspects of Locus of Control and Attitudes Towards Death
The relationship between locus of control and death anxiety was investigated in a sample of 99 college students. The results indicate a significant relationship between an external locus of control and concern about death. In addition, there is a specific differential patterning between various dimensions of locus of control and death anxiety items. No sex differences were found for death anxiety, but significant sex differences were found on fou…
Impact of the Film, “One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest,” on Attitudes towards Mental Illness
Films have been neglected by psychologists, yet their powerful impact is shown in a field study of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Prior to the release of this film, 146 college students were administered a questionnaire on attitudes towards mental illness. Subsequent to the release of the film, they were readministered the questionnaire, when 85 had seen the film and 39 had not. Finally, a third administration occurred after half of the subject…
Measuring Geographical Environments through Adjectives
The Environmental Check List, a 140-item adjective check list developed to measure geographical environments, is presented. The list was developed from 304 open-ended descriptions, and its utility illustrated by three studies: (1) a pre-post study over 1 yr. of 108 newcomers to Tucson, AZ; (2) a 5-yr. study of initial reaction to a desert environment as related to subsequent mobility; and (3) a comparison of responses to the check list and to the…
Attitudes toward suicide among mental health professionals
The Suicide Opinion Questionnaire (SOQ) and the Recognition of Suicide Lethality (RSL) scale were administered to 141 mental health professionals representing seven groups: family practice physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses and aides, social workers, crisis line workers, and clergy. The results indicate significant differences among groups on 5 of the 15 SOQ factors, on a clinically derived empathic understanding scale, …
Clergy's attitudes toward suicide and recognition of suicide lethality
Five groups of clergy (Protestant ministers, Catholic priests, Jewish rabbi, Eastern religious leaders, and nontraditional ministers; N = 112) were administered a scale to assess their knowledge of suicide lethality (the Recognition of Suicide Lethality) and a suicide attitudinal questionnaire (the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire), scored on 15 factors. Significant group differences were obtained for the RSL scale and seven of the SOQ factors, and …
Attitudes toward Suicide among Attempters, Contemplators, and Nonattempters
The Suicide Opinion Questionnaire (SOQ) was administered to a sample ( N=738) of undergraduate volunteers, and responses were analyzed comparing attempters ( N = 35), contemplators ( N = 131) and nonattempters ( N = 483). A factor analysis indicated seven significant factors accounting for 24.2 percent of the total variance. A discriminant function analysis, using the seven factors, yielded two significant functions that discriminated respondents…
Recognition of Suicide Lethality and Attitudes toward Suicide in Mental Health Professionals
The relationship between knowledge about suicide lethality and attitudes toward suicide was explored in a sample of 280 mental health professionals representing eight groups: physicians, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, crisis interventionists, counselors, and clergy. The results indicated significant group differences, with psychiatrists, psychologists, and crisis interventionists showing a significantly…
Sleep in Advanced Age
A sleep questionnaire (SQ) was administered to a sample of 80 Mexican American and 80 Anglo elderly, ages 60 to 96. The two samples were equated on sex, age, and occupational level. Analysis of the 18 SQ scales indicated that twelve showed statistically significant differences between ethnic groups, and six between sexes. The Mexican American sample reported a poorer quality and longer latency of sleep, greater negative affect concerning dreams, …
Sleep Habits in the Elderly
Little information is available on the normal aspects of sleep in the elderly, and almost none from a cross-cultural perspective. The subjects of this study consisted of 562 elderly from Mexico, Spain, Venezuela, and the United States, who completed a 55-item Sleep Questionnaire, yielding scores on nine scales. Statistically significant differences between cultural groups on five scales and significant sex differences on three scales were obtaine…
Children'S Attitudes toward Suicide
Suicide in children is a topic with a substantial literature, much current concern, and some areas of investigation such as attitudes virtually untouched. The participants of this study were 116 junior high school students who were administered a fifty-six item Suicide Opinion Questionnaire. The results reflect the complexity of attitudes toward suicide and a wide heterogeneity of responses, as well as substantial commonality. A content analysis …
An application of Gough's conceptual model to a measure of adolescent self-esteem
The Relation of Acculturation and Values in Mexican Americans
The correspondence between degree of acculturation and values was studied in a sample of first generation Mexican Americans, 42 identified as highly acculturated and 42 as low acculturated, by administration of the Rokeach Value Survey in either English or Spanish. The obtained protocols were compared with national norms provided by Rokeach, and with a local group of 62 Anglos. The results show considerable variability across groups for specific …
A Comparative Analysis of Social Values of Chinese and American Children
A set of 701 stories generated by 80 Chinese and 80 American children was content analyzed, and submitted to a factor analysis that yielded four factors common to both groups, one unique factor for the Chinese sample and two for the American sample. A stepwise discriminant function analysis of the common factors indicated significant differences between Chinese and American children, and significant sex differences in the American sample only. Th…
Collegiate Attitudes toward Suicide
Attitudes toward suicide, as assessed by the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire (SOQ), were evaluated in samples of New Zealand ( N = 236) and United States ( N = 248) college students. Substantial differences were found, with New Zealand students attitudinally perceiving to a greater degree a relationship between suicide and mental illness, perceiving suicide as less serious, agreeing with the right to take one's life, and seeing suicide in a more re…
Clergy's Knowledge of Psychopathology
Although the literature suggests that clergy provide a substantial amount of psychotherapeutic counseling, and that potential clients seek out the clergy as a primary source of psychotherapeutic assistance, little is known about the degree of knowledge that clergy have about basic psychopathology. A 120-item multiple choice test was developed to assess knowledge about psychopathology, based on the material covered in Abnormal Psychology courses. …
Popular Misconceptions about Suicide
This study explores the prevalence of misconceptions about suicide in a sample of 643 United States residents who were administered the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire (SOQ). Responses to the twenty SOQ items concerning various misconceptions were analyzed for percentage of endorsement and differential endorsement as related to gender, age, and ethnic background. The results indicate that misconceptions about suicide are not as prevalent as suggest…
Cross-Cultural Investigations of the Imagery of Cancer in Mexican Nationals
Two studies are presented, both using the Cancer Metaphors Test (CMT) as a measure of the imagery of cancer. In Study 1, the responses of 75 Mexican students were compared with those of 135 United States students, and statistically significant differences were obtained on all four CMT scales, with Mexican students scoring higher on Terminal Pessimism, Natural Disaster, and Foreign Intruder, but lower on Future Optimism. Substantial similarities w…
Religiosity and Attitudes toward Suicide
The relationship between religiosity and attitudes toward suicide was assessed in a sample of 186 Christian adults, most affiliated with churches or church-related organizations. A significant correlational pattern was obtained, such that persons higher on religiosity tended to perceive suicide as reflective of mental illness, as less of a cry for help, as not being an individual's prerogative, as highly related to a lack of religious influence, …
Psychology (47 works) · Social Psychology (35 works) · Clinical Psychology (33 works) · Social Psychology (26 works) · Clinical Psychology (25 works) · Medicine (25 works) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (23 works) · Psychiatry (19 works) · Poison control (16 works) · Demography (15 works)