Joseph L Rodgers
Biographic Data
| ID | 74571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph L Rodgers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph L |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodgers |
| SIGNATURE | RODGERS J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8615-6713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 343 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Destruction, delay and déjà vu
During the opening phase of the Irish civil war, Dublin’s O’Connell Street was subjected to large-scale destruction of properties and businesses for the second time since the 1916 Rising. Utilizing newly available compensation claims as well as state and local government records, this article examines four aspects of the post-civil war restoration of O’Connell Street for the first time: the scale of the destruction; the compensation scheme devise…
Inter-cohort shifts in chronic disease, dementia, and mortality
18,528). In addition to exploring shifts in disease incidence we also examine shifts in disease mortality. Both general and sex-related differences are examined. Disease incidence has increased for later-born cohorts in England, replicating similar trends in the U.S. Not all diseases showed differences between men and women, but when differences were identified, women had lower risks for disease. In comparison to the U.S. sample, disease trends i…
A novel approach to model cumulative stress
Cohort Changes and Sex Differences After Age 50 in Cognitive Variables in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
These cohort effects generally favored later-born cohorts. Implications and future directions are discussed
A Tribute to the Mind, Methodology and Mentoring of Wayne Velicer
Wayne Velicer is remembered for a mind where mathematical concepts and calculations intrigued him, behavioral science beckoned him, and people fascinated him. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin on March 4, 1944, he was raised on a farm, although early influences extended far beyond that beginning. His Mathematics BS and Psychology minor at Wisconsin State University in Oshkosh, and his PhD in Quantitative Psychology from Purdue led him to a fruitful an…
Social Contagion and General Diffusion Models of Adolescent Religious Transitions
Epidemic Models of the Onset of Social Activities (EMOSA) describe behaviors that spread through social networks. Two social influence methods are represented, social contagion (one-to-one spread) and general diffusion (spread through cultural channels). Past models explain problem behaviors-smoking, drinking, sexuality, and delinquency. We provide review, and a tutorial (including examples). Following, we present new EMOSA models explaining chan…
Cohort and Period Effects as Explanations for Declining Dementia Trends and Cognitive Aging
Studies have reported that the age-adjusted incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia have decreased over the past two decades. Aging is the predominant risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and for neurocognitive decline. However, aging alone cannot explain changes in the overall age-adjusted incidence of dementia. The objective of this position paper was to describe the potential for cohort and period effects in cogniti…
The impact of having children on domain-specific life satisfaction
3,370), longitudinal multilevel models revealed heterogeneous effects of childbirth on different domains of satisfaction: Both mothers' and fathers' satisfaction with family life increased temporarily in a similar fashion to life satisfaction before going back to baseline within five years after childbirth. However, only mothers experienced drastic losses to satisfaction with sleep and satisfaction with personal income. For the remaining domains,…
The Corrosive Influence of the Flynn Effect on Age Normed Tests
"The Corrosive Influence of the Flynn Effect on Age Normed Tests." Multivariate Behavioral Research, 54(1), p. 155
Decomposing the causes of the socioeconomic status-health gradient with biometrical modeling
The consistent relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health has been widely covered in the media and scientific journals, which typically argue that physical-health inequalities are caused by material disadvantage directly or indirectly (e.g., chronic environmental-stress, health care resources, etc.). Such explanations do not explain the finely stratified health differences across the entire range of SES. Recent theories have helpe…
Psychology, Science, and Knowledge Construction
Psychology advances knowledge by testing statistical hypotheses using empirical observations and data. The expectation is that most statistically significant findings can be replicated in new data and in new laboratories, but in practice many findings have replicated less often than expected, leading to claims of a replication crisis. We review recent methodological literature on questionable research practices, meta-analysis, and power analysis …
Decomposing the Causes of the Socioeconomic Status–Health Gradient with Biometrical Modeling
S. Mason Garrisona* & Joseph Lee Rodgersaa Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University
Double Decomposition of Level-1 Variables in Multilevel Models
This paper introduces an extension of cluster mean centering (also called group mean centering) for multilevel models, which we call “double decomposition (DD).” This centering method separates between-level variance, as in cluster mean centering, but also decomposes within-level variance of the same variable. This process retains the benefits of cluster mean centering but allows for context variables derived from lower level variables, other tha…
Intelligence, income, and education as potential influences on a child’s home environment
The quality of the home environment, as a predictor, is related to health, education, and emotion outcomes. However, factors influencing the quality of the home environment, as an outcome, have been understudied-particularly how children construct their own environments. Further, most previous research on family processes and outcomes has implemented between-family designs, which limit claims of causality. The present study uses kinship data from…
Moving in Parallel Toward a Modern Modeling Epistemology
The Bayesian-frequentist debate typically portrays these statistical perspectives as opposing views. However, both Bayesian and frequentist statisticians have expanded their epistemological basis away from a singular focus on the null hypothesis, to a broader perspective involving the development and comparison of competing statistical/mathematical models. For frequentists, statistical developments such as structural equation modeling and multile…
Clarifying the Associations between Age at Menarche and Adolescent Emotional and Behavioral Problems
Rowe, David
David Christian Rowe (1949–2003) contributed seminal work across multiple behavioral science disciplines. His important research includes studies demonstrating genetic influences on temperament and forms of parenting, especially dimensions of warmth and affection. He directly contributed to criminology by publishing the first twin study demonstrating the heritability of adolescent self‐reported delinquent behavior, and, along with Wayne Osgood, d…
Model Conditioned Data Elasticity in Path Analysis
Much research has been directed at the validity of fit indices in Path Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (e.g., Browne, MacCallum, Kim, Andersen, & Glaser, 2002 Browne, M.W., MacCallum, R.C., Kim, C.T., Andersen, B.L., & Glaser, R. (2002). When fit indices and residuals are incompatible. Psychological Methods, 7, 403–421.[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Heene, Hilbert, Draxler, Ziegler, & Bühner, 2011 Heene, M.…
Biodemographic modeling of the links between fertility motivation and fertility outcomes in the NLSY79
In spite of long-held beliefs that traits related to reproductive success tend to become fixed by evolution with little or no genetic variation, there is now considerable evidence that the natural variation of fertility within populations is genetically influenced and that a portion of that influence is related to the motivational precursors to fertility. We conduct a two-stage analysis to examine these inferences in a time-ordered multivariate c…
Fertility Motivations of Youth Predict Later Fertility Outcomes
We examine how the motivational sequence that leads to childbearing predicts fertility outcomes across reproductive careers. Using a motivational traits-desires-intentions theoretical framework, we test a structural equation model using prospective male and female data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Specifically, we take motivational data collected during the 1979-1982 period, when the youths were in their teens and early twentie…
Education and Cognitive Ability as Direct, Mediating, or Spurious Influences on Female Age at First Birth
The authors study education and cognitive ability as predictors of female age at first birth (AFB), using monozygotic and dizygotic female twin pairs from the Middle-Aged Danish Twin survey. Using mediated regression, they replicate findings linking education (and not cognitive ability) to AFB. But in a behavior genetic model, both relationships are absorbed within a latent variable measuring the shared family environment. Two interpretations are…
Did fertility go up after the oklahoma city bombing? An analysis of births in metropolitan counties in Oklahoma, 1990–1999
Political and sociocultural events (e.g., Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the German reunification in 1989) and natural disasters (e.g., Hurricane Hugo in 1989) can affect fertility. In our research, we addressed the question of whether the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995, a man-made disaster, influenced fertility patterns in Oklahoma. We defined three theoretical orientations—replacement theory, community influence theory, and terror…
Did Divorces Decline After the Oklahoma City Bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995 was an act of terrorism that had many potential influences on the city and state, including influences on families. We analyzed divorce data from 1985 to 2000 for all 77 counties in Oklahoma to assess the divorce response to the Oklahoma City bombing. Our prediction was that divorce rates in Oklahoma would decrease in response to the bombing, a prediction derived from two different theoretical orientations,…
Did births decline in the United States after the enactment of no-fault divorce law
Previous research has demonstrated that U.S. no-fault divorce laws implemented between 1953 and 1987 resulted in more divorces in some states than would have occurred otherwise. In other states, divorce patterns appeared to follow prevailing trends even after implementation of no-fault divorce legislation. A more distal question is whether implementation of no-fault divorce laws had an effect on birth rates. We analyzed state-level birth data fro…
Does Education Mediate the Relationship Between Iq and Age of First Birth? A Behavioural Genetic Analysis
This study presents a multivariate behavioural genetic analysis of the relationship between education, intelligence and age of first birth. Analyses investigated the mediational role of education in explaining the relationship between intelligence and age of first birth at both the phenotypic and behavioural genetic level. The data come from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a nationally representative survey that included genetic…
Is Fertility Behavior in Our Genes? Findings from a Danish Twin Study
This article investigates the fertility of Danish twins born during the periods 1870-1910 and 1953-64 in order to pursue two central questions for understanding human reproduction: Do genetic dispositions influence fertility and fertility-related behavior? Does the relevance of the "nature versus nurture" debate shift over time or with demographic regimes? The authors find that genetic influences on fertility exist, but that their relative magnit…
Influence of siblings on adolescent sexual behavior
Behavior genetic modeling of human fertility
Behavior genetic designs and analyses can be used to address issues of central importance to demography. We use this methodology to document genetic influence on human fertility. Our data come from Danish twin pairs born from 1953 to 1959, measured on age at first attempt to get pregnant (FirstTry) and number of children (NumCh). Behavior genetic models were fitted using structural equation modeling and DF analysis. A consistent medium-level addi…
Beyond nature versus nurture
J. C. DeFries and D. W. Fulker's (1985) regression model (since named DF analysis) used kinship pair data to separate heredity and shared environmental influences. This article extends DF analysis to include measured indicators of the nonshared environment. These indicators represent specific sources of environmental influence that cause related children to be different from one another. We present two empirical studies using twin, full-sibling, …
Did fertility go up after the oklahoma city bombing? An analysis of births in metropolitan counties in Oklahoma, 1990–1999
Political and sociocultural events (e.g., Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the German reunification in 1989) and natural disasters (e.g., Hurricane Hugo in 1989) can affect fertility. In our research, we addressed the question of whether the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995, a man-made disaster, influenced fertility patterns in Oklahoma. We defined three theoretical orientations—replacement theory, community influence theory, and terror…
Adolescent Sexual Activity and Mildly Deviant Behavior
This article addresses the relationship between two related behavioral domains in adolescents: sexual activity and mildly deviant behavior (defined as behaviors of which parents would disapprove, but which are not illegal). Previous work has demonstrated overlap between these behavioral domains. We use a unique data set - the data from the Carolina Population Center's Adolescent Sexuality (ADSEX) Project which contain linkable responses of siblin…
Did Divorces Decline After the Oklahoma City Bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995 was an act of terrorism that had many potential influences on the city and state, including influences on families. We analyzed divorce data from 1985 to 2000 for all 77 counties in Oklahoma to assess the divorce response to the Oklahoma City bombing. Our prediction was that divorce rates in Oklahoma would decrease in response to the bombing, a prediction derived from two different theoretical orientations,…
Education and Cognitive Ability as Direct, Mediating, or Spurious Influences on Female Age at First Birth
The authors study education and cognitive ability as predictors of female age at first birth (AFB), using monozygotic and dizygotic female twin pairs from the Middle-Aged Danish Twin survey. Using mediated regression, they replicate findings linking education (and not cognitive ability) to AFB. But in a behavior genetic model, both relationships are absorbed within a latent variable measuring the shared family environment. Two interpretations are…
Sexual behavior and nonsexual deviance
The Effect of No-Fault Divorce Law on the Divorce Rate Across the 50 States and Its Relation to Income, Education, and Religiosity
Paul A. Nakonezny, Robert D. Shull, Joseph Lee Rodgers, The Effect of No-Fault Divorce Law on the Divorce Rate Across the 50 States and Its Relation to Income, Education, and Religiosity, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 57, No. 2 (May, 1995), pp. 477-488
The rescission of behaviors
Fertility Motivations of Youth Predict Later Fertility Outcomes
We examine how the motivational sequence that leads to childbearing predicts fertility outcomes across reproductive careers. Using a motivational traits-desires-intentions theoretical framework, we test a structural equation model using prospective male and female data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Specifically, we take motivational data collected during the 1979-1982 period, when the youths were in their teens and early twentie…
Biodemographic modeling of the links between fertility motivation and fertility outcomes in the NLSY79
In spite of long-held beliefs that traits related to reproductive success tend to become fixed by evolution with little or no genetic variation, there is now considerable evidence that the natural variation of fertility within populations is genetically influenced and that a portion of that influence is related to the motivational precursors to fertility. We conduct a two-stage analysis to examine these inferences in a time-ordered multivariate c…
Social contagion, adolescent sexual behavior, and pregnancy
Nonlinear dynamic modeling has useful developmental applications. The authors introduce this class of models and contrast them with traditional linear models. Epidemic models of the onset of social activities (EMOSA models) are a special case, motivated by J. L. Rodgers and D. C. Rowe's (1993) social contagion theory, which predict the spread of adolescent behaviors like smoking, drinking, delinquency, and sexuality. In this article, a biological…
Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Friendship Choice
Journal Article Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Friendship Choice Get access John O. G. Billy, John O. G. Billy University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Address correspondence to John O. G. Billy, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. Richard Udry, J. Richard Udry University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by th…
Did No-Fault Divorce Legislation Matter? Definitely Yes and Sometimes No
Joseph Lee Rodgers, Paul A. Nakonezny, Robert D. Shull, Did No-Fault Divorce Legislation Matter? Definitely Yes and Sometimes No, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Aug., 1999), pp. 803-809
The Effect of No-Fault Divorce Legislation on Divorce Rates
We would be very comfortable if our original article (Nakonezny, Shull, & Rodgers, 1995) were scrutinized by careful social scientists alongside accompanying reconsideration of our findings by Glenn in this issue. In that case, arguments would stand on their own, and two sets of findings could be blended by impartial experts in proportion their value. We are certain that each article would find its share of praise and criticism. Although we are c…
Family configuration and adolescent sexual behavior
Sibling Differences in Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Joseph Lee Rodgers, David C. Rowe, David F. Harris, Sibling Differences in Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Inferring Process Models from Family Composition Patterns, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Feb., 1992), pp. 142-152
Decomposing the causes of the socioeconomic status-health gradient with biometrical modeling
The consistent relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health has been widely covered in the media and scientific journals, which typically argue that physical-health inequalities are caused by material disadvantage directly or indirectly (e.g., chronic environmental-stress, health care resources, etc.). Such explanations do not explain the finely stratified health differences across the entire range of SES. Recent theories have helpe…
Between nurture and nature
Behaviors related to fertility constitute primary candidates for investigating the relevance of evolutionary influences and biological dispositions on contemporary human behaviors. Using female Danish twin cohorts born 1870-1968, we document important transformations in the relative contributions of "nurture" and "nature" to within-cohort variations in early and complete fertility, and we point toward a systematic relation between the socioeconom…
A social contagion model of adolescent sexual behavior
Black adolescents in the United States consistently report an earlier age of first intercourse than White adolescents. Purely psychosocial explanations of this finding have been less than successful. We propose an "epidemic" model that combines social contagion (a psychosocial process) and pubertal maturation (a biological process). This epidemic model permits social contacts among adolescents of the same age and also among younger and older adol…
Does contiguity breed similarity? A within-family analysis of nonshared sources of IQ differences between siblings
Une analyse de donnees portant sur 538 enfants provenant de 173 familles renseigne sur le role des facteurs de «contiguite» des enfants a l'interieur de la structure familiale (ordre des naissances, intervalle entre les naissances, nombre de freres ou de sœurs entre deux enfants) dans les scores de QI obtenus par des enfants de la meme famille
Cohort and Period Effects as Explanations for Declining Dementia Trends and Cognitive Aging
Studies have reported that the age-adjusted incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia have decreased over the past two decades. Aging is the predominant risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and for neurocognitive decline. However, aging alone cannot explain changes in the overall age-adjusted incidence of dementia. The objective of this position paper was to describe the potential for cohort and period effects in cogniti…
The impact of having children on domain-specific life satisfaction
3,370), longitudinal multilevel models revealed heterogeneous effects of childbirth on different domains of satisfaction: Both mothers' and fathers' satisfaction with family life increased temporarily in a similar fashion to life satisfaction before going back to baseline within five years after childbirth. However, only mothers experienced drastic losses to satisfaction with sleep and satisfaction with personal income. For the remaining domains,…
Environmental Impact Assessment, Growth Management, and the Comprehensive Plan
The rescission of behaviors
Family configuration and adolescent sexual behavior
Confluence effects
Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Friendship Choice
Journal Article Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Friendship Choice Get access John O. G. Billy, John O. G. Billy University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Address correspondence to John O. G. Billy, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. Richard Udry, J. Richard Udry University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by th…
Toward a general framework of family structure
Does contiguity breed similarity? A within-family analysis of nonshared sources of IQ differences between siblings
Une analyse de donnees portant sur 538 enfants provenant de 173 familles renseigne sur le role des facteurs de «contiguite» des enfants a l'interieur de la structure familiale (ordre des naissances, intervalle entre les naissances, nombre de freres ou de sœurs entre deux enfants) dans les scores de QI obtenus par des enfants de la meme famille
Dimensions Underlying Student Ratings of Instruction
Multidimensional scaling (MDS) was used to derive the dimensions underlying student ratings of instruction. A weighted MDS revealed that departmental affiliation, course structure, and intensity of teaching were particularly salient to the raters. The findings are discussed in light of the current literature on student ratings of instruction
Structural models of the American Psychological Association in 1986
Structural models of the American Psychological Association in 1986
Birth order, SAT, and confluence
Birth order, SAT, and confluence
Influence of siblings on adolescent sexual behavior
The season-of-birth paradox
There is a seasonal pattern to births in the US: they peak in August-September, peak less strongly in December-February, and show a deep valley in April. What makes this pattern paradoxical is that, as was shown by a survey of 235 undergraduates, the preferred birth months are April-May, and the least desired months are July-August and December-January. 3 hypotheses have been put forward to explain this paradox. The Bad Data Hypothesis holds that…
Sexual behavior and nonsexual deviance
An “epidemic” model of sexual intercourse prevalences for black and white adolescents
In adolescence (12-16 years), the prevalence of sexual intercourse increases each year. To explain the increasing yearly prevalences, we propose a recursive equation model of onset of adolescent sexual intercourse. The model allows for an "epidemic" process (the transmission of sexuality from a nonvirgin to a virgin) and a nonepidemic process (two virgins progressing to sexual intercourse). The model also requires that virgin females be pubertall…
Adolescent Sexual Activity and Mildly Deviant Behavior
This article addresses the relationship between two related behavioral domains in adolescents: sexual activity and mildly deviant behavior (defined as behaviors of which parents would disapprove, but which are not illegal). Previous work has demonstrated overlap between these behavioral domains. We use a unique data set - the data from the Carolina Population Center's Adolescent Sexuality (ADSEX) Project which contain linkable responses of siblin…
An ‘epidemic’ model of adolescent sexual intercourse
This paper applies models of the onset of adolescent sexual intercourse using national data from Denmark and the USA. The model gave excellent fits to data on Danish Whites and a good fit to American Whites, but the model-fits for American Blacks and Hispanics were not as good. The weakness of the latter model fits may reflect either real processes that the model does not capture or problems in the reliability of adolescent sexuality data.
Seasonality of first coitus in the United States
Recent attention to causes of seasonality of births leads to an interest in seasonality patterns in the antecedents to birth, including gestational length, conception, and coital activity. In this paper we study the beginning of the process: first intercourse among adolescents and young adults. Analysis of a small and local dataset is suggestive that loss of virginity is particularly likely during the summer. A test of this "Summer Vacation Theor…
Sibling Differences in Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Joseph Lee Rodgers, David C. Rowe, David F. Harris, Sibling Differences in Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Inferring Process Models from Family Composition Patterns, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Feb., 1992), pp. 142-152
Beyond nature versus nurture
J. C. DeFries and D. W. Fulker's (1985) regression model (since named DF analysis) used kinship pair data to separate heredity and shared environmental influences. This article extends DF analysis to include measured indicators of the nonshared environment. These indicators represent specific sources of environmental influence that cause related children to be different from one another. We present two empirical studies using twin, full-sibling, …
A social contagion model of adolescent sexual behavior
Black adolescents in the United States consistently report an earlier age of first intercourse than White adolescents. Purely psychosocial explanations of this finding have been less than successful. We propose an "epidemic" model that combines social contagion (a psychosocial process) and pubertal maturation (a biological process). This epidemic model permits social contacts among adolescents of the same age and also among younger and older adol…
The Effect of No-Fault Divorce Law on the Divorce Rate Across the 50 States and Its Relation to Income, Education, and Religiosity
Paul A. Nakonezny, Robert D. Shull, Joseph Lee Rodgers, The Effect of No-Fault Divorce Law on the Divorce Rate Across the 50 States and Its Relation to Income, Education, and Religiosity, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 57, No. 2 (May, 1995), pp. 477-488
Poverty and Behavior
Poverty and Behavior
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