Joseph A Olsen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 112451 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joseph A Olsen |
| NOMBRES | Joseph A |
| APELLIDO | Olsen |
| FIRMA | OLSEN J A |
| AFILIACIONES | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9472-2669 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 447 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Measuring inequality in quality of life
This paper provides new insights into the use of EQ-5D in health inequality studies by suggesting an additional underlying education gradient in HRQoL than what is revealed through the EQ-5D-5L values. Broader psychosocial domains and aspects of adaptation should be considered when monitoring health inequalities
Explaining subjective social status and health
Subjective measures of social status often explain variations in health better than the typical objective measures of education, occupation, and income. This raises the question: if status affects health, then what affects status? To answer this, we ran a survey using representative samples of adult populations in the UK, US and Canada (n = 3,431) to gather data on respondents' subjective social status (SSS) and health-related quality of life (HR…
The influence of parents' and partner's education on own health behaviours
The link between educational attainment and multiple health behaviours has been explained in various ways. This paper provides new insights into the social patterning in health behaviours by investigating the influence of parents' and partners' educational attainments on a composite indicator that integrates the four commonly studied lifestyle behaviours (smoking, alcohol, physical activity and BMI). Two key outcome indicators of interests were c…
Inequality in quality-adjusted life expectancy by educational attainment in Norway
Health inequalities by educational attainment become wider when measured in QALE rather than LE, and the degree of this widening is larger when measuring HRQoL by EQ-VAS than by EQ-5D-5L. We find a sizable educational gradient in lifetime health in Norway, one of the most developed and egalitarian societies in the world. Our estimates provide a benchmark against which other countries can be compared
The relative importance of education and health behaviour for health and wellbeing
Background Indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP) and health behaviours (HB) are widely used predictors of health variations. Their relative importance is hard to establish, because HB takes a mediating role in the link between SEP and health. We aim to provide new knowledge on how SEP and HB are related to health and wellbeing. Methods The analysis considered 14,713 Norwegians aged 40–63. Separate regressions were performed using two outcome…
Amplified disparities
Positive associations between own educational attainment and own health have been extensively documented. Studies have also shown spousal educational attainment to be associated with own health. This paper investigates the extent to which spousal education contributes to the social gradient in health, net of own education; and whether parts of a seeming spousal education effect are attributable to differences in early-life human capital, as measu…
Combining education and income into a socioeconomic position score for use in studies of health inequalities
We provide new insights into the relative contribution of education and income as sources of SEP, both separately and in combination. Combining education and income into a composite SEP score produces more comprehensive estimates of the social gradient in health. A similar approach can be applied in any cohort study that includes education and income data
Inequality of opportunity in a land of equal opportunities
We provide evidence for the presence of the lasting effect of early life circumstances on adult health that persists even in one of the most egalitarian countries in the world. This suggests that there may be an upper limit to how much a generous welfare state can contribute to equal opportunities
Extending the EQ-5D
We provide evidence that further complementing the current EQ-5D-5L health state classification system with a coherent set of four bolt-on dimensions that will fill its psycho-social gap
How is your life? understanding the relative importance of life domains amongst older adults, and their associations with self-perceived Covid-19 impacts
Explaining subjective social status in two countries
In the literature on social inequalities in health, subjective socioeconomic position (SEP) is increasingly applied as a determinant of health, motivated by the hypothesis that having a high subjective SEP is health-enhancing. However, the relative importance of determinants of subjective SEP is not well understood. Objective SEP indicators, such as education, occupation and income, are assumed to determine individuals' position in the status hie…
Filling the psycho-social gap in the EQ-5D
We provide empirical support for complementing the current EQ-5D-5L descriptive system with a coherent set of four bolt-on dimensions that will fill its psycho-social gap. Such an extended health state classification system would in particular be relevant for programme evaluations within the expanding fields of mental health and community care
Measuring the Multidimensional Construct of Pornography
Health and wellbeing in Norway
A conceptual map of health-related quality of life dimensions
Our visual comparison provides useful insights to assess the suitability of different instruments for particular purposes. Following on from this comparative analyses, we extract some important lessons for a new instrument that cover the domains of physical, mental and social aspects of health, i.e. it is in alignment with the seminal 1948 WHO definition of health
Does parenting correspond with children's defending behavior? Examining linkages in the context of peer social preference
Bullying intervention research points to the important role of children standing up for victims (defending behavior). This study provides an initial look at how certain parenting practices may be generally related to the socialization of defending behavior among children. Defenders typically enjoy significant social status, allowing them the social capital to intervene. With this in mind, we also assess how parenting and children's social prefere…
Testing alternative regression models to predict utilities
Children's hostile intent attributions and emotional distress
Traditionally, assessments of social information processing and associated emotional distress have used children's self-reports. We posit that additional informants, such as parents, may help illuminate the association between these variables and aggression. Our sample was composed of 222 dual-parent families of fourth-grade children (103 boys; 119 girls). Children responded to instrumental and relational provocations and their parents read the s…
Education and health and well-being
BACKGROUND: Previous methods for assessing mediation assume no multiplicative interactions. The inverse odds weighting (IOW) approach has been presented as a method that can be used even when interactions exist. The substantive aim of this study was to assess the indirect effect of education on health and well-being via four indicators of adult socioeconomic status (SES): income, management position, occupational hierarchy position and subjective…
Evaluating the Dimensionality of Pornography
From representing views to representativeness of views
Long-term exposure to political violence
The relative importance of health, income and social relations for subjective well-being
Health state utility instruments compared
Moral Identity and Adolescent Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors
Assessing the Transitions to Middle and High School
This study assessed patterns of change in perceived school and youth functioning, and the extent to which perceived change in the school environment predicted changed youth functioning, across four consecutive grade transitions, two of which involved the transition to a new school. Youth reported decreased quality of the school environment and decreased academic/personal/interpersonal functioning at every grade transition. This pattern was most p…
Socialization in Context
This study investigated the relation to school grades, feelings of depression, and antisocial behavior of youth perceptions of three central dimensions of socialization (connection with significantothers, regulation of behavior, andpsychological autonomy) as they are experienced infour social contexts: family, school, neighborhood, ndpeers. Analyses of a random sample of 900 fifth and eighth-grade youth included both descriptive accounts of youth…
Feeling disrespected by parents
This study investigated parental psychological control of adolescents when construed as disrespect of individuality. First, 120 adolescents from 5 cultures were interviewed and asked to identify specific parental behaviors that communicated to them that they were disrespected as individuals. The interview data were coded and 8 new survey items were constructed to reflect key content. These items were then administered to 2100 adolescents in the s…
The role of adaptation to disability and disease in health state valuation
Moral identity as moral ideal self
The purposes of this study were to conceptualize moral identity as moral ideal self, to develop a measure of this construct, to test for age and gender differences, to examine links between moral ideal self and adolescent outcomes, and to assess purpose and social responsibility as mediators of the relations between moral ideal self and outcomes. Data came from a local school sample (Data Set 1: N = 510 adolescents; 10-18 years of age) and a nati…
Marital Quality and Health Over 20 Years
Although there is substantial evidence linking marital quality to physical health, few studies have been longitudinal. This study examined data from the Marital Instability Over the Life Course Study; 1,681 married individuals followed for 20 years were included in these analyses. In order to control for life course effects, participants were divided into 2 cohorts: early life and midlife. On the basis of latent growth curve analysis, the results…
Moral Identity and Adolescent Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors
Helicopters, hearts and hips
Toward Disentangling Fathering and Mothering
This study employed dominance analysis to assess the relative importance of maternal and paternal support, behavioral control, and psychological control in explaining depression, antisocial behavior, and social initiative within 644 adolescents. We noted the lack of replicated findings concerning differential effects of mothers and fathers and employed an approach that considered mothers' and fathers' overlapping predictive abilities in determini…
Long-term exposure to political violence
The relative importance of health, income and social relations for subjective well-being
Adolescents’ Self-Disclosure to Parents Across Cultures
Much attention has been given to self-disclosure as an important component of parent—adolescent relationships. The authors address gaps in the current literature via a multimethod, multicultural design, interviewing 120 adolescents in Costa Rica, Thailand, and South Africa about their reasons for disclosing to parents, and then constructing items to represent the essence of the interview data and administering these items (along with measures of …
A Multi-National Study of Interparental Conflict, Parenting, and Adolescent Functioning
This study assessed the associations between interparental conflict (IPC), parenting, and individual functioning among data gathered from school-going adolescents in Bangladesh, China, India, Bosnia, Germany, Palestine, Colombia, United States and three ethnic groups within South Africa. Specifically, we tested the validity of the spillover dynamic found in much research in the U.S., whereby marital conflict spills over into parenting and into th…
The moral relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities
From representing views to representativeness of views
The impact of pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives for attracting young doctors to rural general practice
Political Activism of Palestinian Youth
The growing literature on youth and political conflict has not included an adequate focus on youth activism. To address this deficit, this study used youth- and parent-reported data (N = 6,718) from the 1994-1995 Palestinian Family Study to test an ecological model of family influence (parents' activism, expectations for their adolescents' activism, support, psychological control), youth characteristics (self-evaluation), and elements of the broa…
Production gains from health care
Media depictions of physical and relational aggression
Various studies have found that viewing physical or relational aggression in the media can impact subsequent engagement in aggressive behavior. However, this has rarely been examined in the context of relationships. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to examine the connection between viewing various types of aggression in the media and perpetration of aggression against a romantic partner. A total of 369 young adults completed a variety of qu…
Family and School Socialization and Adolescent Academic Achievement
This study investigates the socialization conditions of connection, regulation, and respect for psychological autonomy within the family and school contexts as predictors of adolescent academic achievement across 10 national/ethnic groups. We assess the extent to which these socialization dimensions in the family and school can be similarly measured within these samples. The correlations are evaluated for unique contributions, and the relative im…
Amplified disparities
Positive associations between own educational attainment and own health have been extensively documented. Studies have also shown spousal educational attainment to be associated with own health. This paper investigates the extent to which spousal education contributes to the social gradient in health, net of own education; and whether parts of a seeming spousal education effect are attributable to differences in early-life human capital, as measu…
Measuring the Multidimensional Construct of Pornography
Health and wellbeing in Norway
Evaluating the Dimensionality of Pornography
Adolescent Naturalistic Conceptions of Moral Maturity
Understanding lay conceptions of morality is important not only because they can guide moral psychology theory but also because they may play a role in everyday moral functioning. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine adolescent conceptions of moral maturity. Study 1 (200 adolescents 12–18 years) involved a free‐listing procedure to generate traits descriptive of a moral person. In Study 2, involving 100 early (11–14 years) and 99 late (…
Another Cautionary Note on Interpreting Regression Results in Family Research
Alan J. Hawkins, Joseph A. Olsen, Another Cautionary Note on Interpreting Regression Results in Family Research: A Comment on Peterson and Gerson (1992), Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 55, No. 2 (May, 1993), pp. 505-507
Production Gains
The extent to which production gains should be taken into account in economic analyses of health care depends on how the social welfare function is defined. Two welfare criteria are discussed; the utilitarian and the Pareto-criterion. According to the former there is a relevant production gain which is a welfare gain. If welfare gains are defined in terms of potential Pareto-improvements, the inclusion of production gains depends on whether any i…
The Family Profile Ii
Socialization in Context
This study investigated the relation to school grades, feelings of depression, and antisocial behavior of youth perceptions of three central dimensions of socialization (connection with significantothers, regulation of behavior, andpsychological autonomy) as they are experienced infour social contexts: family, school, neighborhood, ndpeers. Analyses of a random sample of 900 fifth and eighth-grade youth included both descriptive accounts of youth…
Helicopters, hearts and hips
Production gains from health care
The role of adaptation to disability and disease in health state valuation
A Multi-National Study of Interparental Conflict, Parenting, and Adolescent Functioning
This study assessed the associations between interparental conflict (IPC), parenting, and individual functioning among data gathered from school-going adolescents in Bangladesh, China, India, Bosnia, Germany, Palestine, Colombia, United States and three ethnic groups within South Africa. Specifically, we tested the validity of the spillover dynamic found in much research in the U.S., whereby marital conflict spills over into parenting and into th…
The moral relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities
Assessing the Transitions to Middle and High School
This study assessed patterns of change in perceived school and youth functioning, and the extent to which perceived change in the school environment predicted changed youth functioning, across four consecutive grade transitions, two of which involved the transition to a new school. Youth reported decreased quality of the school environment and decreased academic/personal/interpersonal functioning at every grade transition. This pattern was most p…
The insensitivity of `willingness-to-pay' to the size of the good
Family and School Socialization and Adolescent Academic Achievement
This study investigates the socialization conditions of connection, regulation, and respect for psychological autonomy within the family and school contexts as predictors of adolescent academic achievement across 10 national/ethnic groups. We assess the extent to which these socialization dimensions in the family and school can be similarly measured within these samples. The correlations are evaluated for unique contributions, and the relative im…
Response to “on the relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities
Patterns of parenting across adolescence
Patterns of change in parental support, behavioral control, and psychological control were examined longitudinally across adolescence
Toward Disentangling Fathering and Mothering
This study employed dominance analysis to assess the relative importance of maternal and paternal support, behavioral control, and psychological control in explaining depression, antisocial behavior, and social initiative within 644 adolescents. We noted the lack of replicated findings concerning differential effects of mothers and fathers and employed an approach that considered mothers' and fathers' overlapping predictive abilities in determini…
Aversive Parenting in China
This study assessed the combined and differential contributions of Chinese mothers and fathers (in terms of spouse-reported physically coercive and psychologically controlling parenting) to the development of peer-reported physical and relational aggression in their preschool-age children (mean age of 5 years). Results of the two-group (boys and girls) latent sum and difference structural equation model showed that combined parenting effects were…
Structural equation modeling with interchangeable dyads.
Structural equation modeling (SEM) can be adapted in a relatively straightforward fashion to analyze data from interchangeable dyads (i.e., dyads in which the 2 members cannot be differentiated). The authors describe a general strategy for SEM model estimation, comparison, and fit assessment that can be used with either dyad-level or pairwise (double-entered) dyadic data. They present applications illustrating this approach with the actor-partner…
Controlling for occasion-specific effects when assessing the test–retest reliability of self-report health questionnaires
Risk of malnutrition and health-related quality of life in community-living elderly men and women
HRQoL was significantly reduced in elderly men and women at risk of malnutrition. The highest HRQoL was seen in moderately overweight individuals
Adolescent Naturalistic Conceptions of Moral Maturity
Understanding lay conceptions of morality is important not only because they can guide moral psychology theory but also because they may play a role in everyday moral functioning. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine adolescent conceptions of moral maturity. Study 1 (200 adolescents 12–18 years) involved a free‐listing procedure to generate traits descriptive of a moral person. In Study 2, involving 100 early (11–14 years) and 99 late (…
Adolescents’ Self-Disclosure to Parents Across Cultures
Much attention has been given to self-disclosure as an important component of parent—adolescent relationships. The authors address gaps in the current literature via a multimethod, multicultural design, interviewing 120 adolescents in Costa Rica, Thailand, and South Africa about their reasons for disclosing to parents, and then constructing items to represent the essence of the interview data and administering these items (along with measures of …
Media depictions of physical and relational aggression
Various studies have found that viewing physical or relational aggression in the media can impact subsequent engagement in aggressive behavior. However, this has rarely been examined in the context of relationships. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to examine the connection between viewing various types of aggression in the media and perpetration of aggression against a romantic partner. A total of 369 young adults completed a variety of qu…
Feeling disrespected by parents
This study investigated parental psychological control of adolescents when construed as disrespect of individuality. First, 120 adolescents from 5 cultures were interviewed and asked to identify specific parental behaviors that communicated to them that they were disrespected as individuals. The interview data were coded and 8 new survey items were constructed to reflect key content. These items were then administered to 2100 adolescents in the s…
Religiosity and adolescent empathy and aggression
The mechanism by which adolescent religiosity might yield positive interactions with others remains unclear. This study examined moral identity as a mediator between adolescent religiosity and adolescent empathy and aggression. Participants were 502 adolescents (10 –18 years) who completed an online survey. Structural equation models assessed links between religiosity (commitment and involvement) and interpersonal relationships (aggression and em…
Political Activism of Palestinian Youth
The growing literature on youth and political conflict has not included an adequate focus on youth activism. To address this deficit, this study used youth- and parent-reported data (N = 6,718) from the 1994-1995 Palestinian Family Study to test an ecological model of family influence (parents' activism, expectations for their adolescents' activism, support, psychological control), youth characteristics (self-evaluation), and elements of the broa…
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