Rudolf H Moos
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 116695 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rudolf H Moos |
| NOMBRES | Rudolf H |
| APELLIDO | Moos |
| FIRMA | MOOS R H |
| AFILIACIONES | Stanford University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 98 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 637 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 98 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1962 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
History of drinking problems diminishes the protective effects of within-guideline drinking on 18-year risk of dementia and Cind
For older adults, consuming alcohol at levels within validated guidelines for low-risk drinking may offer moderate long-term protection from dementia and CIND, but this effect is diminished by having a history of drinking problems. Efforts to predict and prevent dementia and CIND should focus on older adults' history of drinking problems in addition to how much alcohol they consume
Substance abuse and batterer programmes in California, USA
The association between substance abuse and intimate partner violence is quite robust. A promising area to improve treatment for the dual problems of substance abuse and violence perpetration is the identification of client characteristics and organisational and programme factors as predictors of health outcomes. Therefore, we examined associations of client, organisational and programme factors with outcomes in community health settings. Directo…
Receipt of Cervical Cancer Screening in Female Veterans
Age-Related Concomitants of Obtaining Mental Health Care in Adulthood
Middle-aged men and middle-aged adults with depression may not be obtaining needed mental health care
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans’ Experiences Living with their Parents after Separation from the Military
Step Self-Help Group Participation as a Predictor of Marijuana Abstinence
This study examined the associations between 12-step self-help group participation following substance abuse treatment and abstinence from marijuana use at 1-, 2-, and 5-years post-treatment. These associations were examined among 1288 male patients of the Department of Veterans Affairs who used marijuana within the 3 months prior to admission to treatment and discontinued use at treatment discharge. Consistent with expectation, 12-step self-help…
Violence victimization, help-seeking, and one- and eight-year outcomes of individuals with alcohol use disorders
We examined the associations of recent victimization with subsequent participation in alcohol-related treatment and mutual help, and with short- and long-term drinking and health outcomes. Treatment-naïve men and women having an alcohol use disorder with (n = 73) or without (n = 491) recent violence victimization were assessed at baseline and 1 and 8 years later. Victimized individuals had more days intoxicated, drinking problems, symptoms of dep…
Parental Depression as a Moderator of Secondary Deficits of Depression in Adult Offspring
Culture
Stress Generation, Avoidance Coping, and Depressive Symptoms
This study examined (a) the role of avoidance coping in prospectively generating both chronic and acute life stressors and (b) the stress-generating role of avoidance coping as a prospective link to future depressive symptoms. Participants were 1,211 late-middle-aged individuals (500 women and 711 men) assessed 3 times over a 10-year period. As predicted, baseline avoidance coping was prospectively associated with both more chronic and more acute…
Justice in Health Care Decision-Making
High-Risk Alcohol Consumption and Late-Life Alcohol Use Problems
Objectives. We used several different guidelines for appropriate alcohol use to identify patterns of high-risk alcohol consumption among older women and men and examined associations between these patterns and late-life alcohol use problems. Methods. A sample of 1291 older adults participated in a survey of alcohol consumption and alcohol use problems and was studied again 10 years later. Results. Depending on the guideline, 23% to 50% of women a…
Social Contexts
For more than four decades, my colleagues and I have examined how social contexts and individuals influence each other. To provide a perspective on this work, I describe some lessons we have learned: situational influence exemplifies both the power and fragility of social contexts; common aspects of settings underlie their power, for better and for worse; individuals' health and well‐being is affected by powerful forces in eight domains; and inte…
Children of Parents with Unipolar Depression
Invited Address
Community and clinical psychology share a fundamental focus: to understand the interplay between human contexts, coping, and adaptation. To highlight recent progress in this area, I offer a guiding conceptual framework and discuss 8 propositions about environment and coping. The propositions consider such issues as patterns of social climate and coping and their links to personal development and dysfunction, the connections between ongoing life c…
Individual and Contextual Predictors of Involvement in Twelve‐Step Self‐Help Groups After Substance Abuse Treatment
Drawing on ecological and narrative theories of self‐help groups, this study tests a multilevel model predicting self‐help group involvement among male veterans who received inpatient substance abuse treatment. Following K. Maton (1993), the study moves beyond the individual‐level of analysis to encompass variables in the treatment and post‐treatment social ecology. Surveys administered to patients ( N = 3,018 ) and treatment staff ( N = 329 ) as…
Predictors and Outcomes of Outpatient Mental Health Care
BACKGROUND: Many elderly inpatients have substance use disorders; recent treatment guidelines suggest that they should receive regular outpatient mental health care after discharge from hospital. OBJECTIVE: The prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of outpatient mental health care obtained by elderly Medicare patients with substance use disorders were examined. RESEARCH DESIGN: A longitudinal prospective follow-up was performed. SUBJECTS: Data fro…
Improving the Quality of VA Care for Patients With Substance-Use Disorders
Substance-use disorders are costly in both human and economic terms and are highly prevalent among patients in the VA Health Care System. The Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) Substance Abuse Module (SAM) seeks to enhance identification and management of patients with substance-use disorders seen in primary care and other medical settings; bolster specialized substance-abuse treatment practices; improve care for patients with multip…
Gender Differences in Problem Drinking and Depression
This study examines the relationship between stressors and resources and the functioning of a sample of 515 men and women who had a drinking problem. At a one‐year follow‐up, both women and men had improved on three functioning measures: alcohol consumption, days intoxicated, and depression. There were no gender differences at Time 2 on alcohol consumption, but men had more days intoxicated and women had more symptoms of depression. The impact of…
Resource loss, resource gain, and depressive symptoms
Life Circumstances and Personal Resources as Predictors of the Ten‐Year Course of Depression
A 10‐year naturalistic study of 313 patients who entered treatment for unipolar depression and a community comparison group of 284 nondepressed adults was conducted. We compared life stressors, social resources, personal resources, and coping among patients who were remitted ( N = 76), partially remitted ( N = 146), or nonremitted ( N = 91). Compared with the controls and the remitted patients, the partially remitted and nonremitted patients cons…
Social context, coping strategies, and depressive symptoms
This research broadened and refined a resources model of coping to encompass negative as well as positive aspects of social relationships and examined this expanded conceptualization in a 4-year prospective model with 183 cardiac patients (140 men and 43 women). Social support and social stressors in the family and extrafamily domains contributed significantly to a common social context latent construct. In addition, this conceptualization of soc…
Understanding environments
The contributions to this Special Issue illustrate research on several important types of environmental units, including psychiatric and substance abuse treatment programs, neighborhood block groups, and entire communities. They also exemplify alternative methodologies, such as assessing environments by relying on participants' appraisals, external observers' ratings, historical archives, and direct observation. I draw on these contributions and …
Acute and Chronic Stressors, Social Resources, and Functioning Among Adolescents With Juvenile Rheumatic Disease
This study examined the relations of acute and chronic life stressors and stable social resources to disease-related and psychosocial functioning among 94 adolescents with a chronic physical illness—juvenile rheumatic disease. It also examined whether parental resources moderate the relation of acute and chronic stressors to adolescents' functioning. Life stressors and social resources were unrelated to disease outcomes. According to both self-re…
Issues in social ecology
Conceptualizations of human environments
Personal and contextual determinants of coping strategies
Coping, stress, and social resources among adults with unipolar depression
Context and coping
After offering a conceptual framework to unify the domains of context and coping, some conclusions are drawn about the underlying patterns of social climate and the characteristics of growth-promoting environments. New directions of research on the dynamics of the environmental system are described. The conceptual framework is used to exemplify ways to explore the stress and coping process in regard to such issues as stress and resource predictor…
The Role of Predisposing and Moderating Factors in the Stress-Illness Relationship
Longitudinal data on 267 married couples are used to examine the interrelationships among predisposing factors, stress, moderating factors, and subsequent functioning. A model of the stress process that considers spouse symptoms and coping was estimated separately for three functioning criteria (depressed mood, physical symptoms, and alcohol, consumption) and across gender groups. Predisposing factors such as low social status and poor initialfun…
Personal correlates of contrasting environments
Social support and adjustment
This study estimates the relationship between social support and physical and psychological adjustment, using measures that afford a qualitative assessment of social support. Qualitative indices of social support in family (Family Relationships Index) and work (Work Relationships Index) environments were derived from available social climate measures. Respondents were a randomly selected community sample of 267 male and 267 female adult family me…
Psychological environments
Personal, Situational, and Contextual Correlates of Coping in Adolescence
In this study, we used cross-sectional and longitudinal data to examine the personal, situational, and contextual correlates of coping in a sample of 315 adolescents. Participants completed questionnaires at two points in time (1 year apart) that assessed approach and avoidance coping in response to the mast important focal stressor experienced in the previous year. We also assessed temperament, perceived characteristics of the focal stressor, ch…
Resource loss, resource gain, and depressive symptoms
Work stress and the stress‐buffering roles of work and family resources
This paper describes the development of the Work Environment Scale, which includes measures of perceived stressful and supportive aspects of the job milieu. This scale is used to examine stressful effects of the work environment on personal functioning and the stress‐buffering value of work and family social resources among a representative community group of men and women. Work stressors had a greater impact on men, but supportive social resourc…
Assessing Life Stressors and Social Resources among Adolescents
A growing body of evidence points to the importance of life stressors and social resources in adolescent functioning. This article describes the Life Stressors and Social Resources Inventory-Youth Form (LISRES-Y), which provides an integrated assessment of life stressors and social resources in eight domains: physical health, home/money, parent, sibling, extended family, school, friend, and boy/girlfriend. The indices were developed on data obtai…
Life stressors, resistance factors, and improved psychological functioning
This study applied a set of factors previously identified as being linked with stress resistance to the prediction of both stable and improved psychological functioning over a 1-year interval with more than 400 community-resident adults. Stable psychological functioning under high stressors is predicted at the beginning of the year by personal and social resources that are linked to functioning through their influence on increased approach coping…
Personality, coping, and family resources in stress resistance
Earlier cross-sectional analyses have made causal inferences about stress-resistance variables problematic. This study used a longitudinal analysis where stress-resistance factors in the areas of personality, coping, and family support assessed at an initial testing were used to predict psychological and physical adjustment one year later, controlling for initial adjustment. The study involved a survey of 245 men and 248 women in randomly selecte…
Social Contexts
For more than four decades, my colleagues and I have examined how social contexts and individuals influence each other. To provide a perspective on this work, I describe some lessons we have learned: situational influence exemplifies both the power and fragility of social contexts; common aspects of settings underlie their power, for better and for worse; individuals' health and well‐being is affected by powerful forces in eight domains; and inte…
Invited Address
Community and clinical psychology share a fundamental focus: to understand the interplay between human contexts, coping, and adaptation. To highlight recent progress in this area, I offer a guiding conceptual framework and discuss 8 propositions about environment and coping. The propositions consider such issues as patterns of social climate and coping and their links to personal development and dysfunction, the connections between ongoing life c…
Social support and coping
This paper examined the interrelation between social support and coping in a longitudinal study of 380 clinically depressed individuals. A two-wave, two-variable panel analysis revealed that connections between support and coping varied by gender and across the specific sources of support and modes of coping examined. In the family context, increases in support were related to increases in problem-solving coping among women and to a decline in em…
The Community-Oriented Programs Environment Scale
Individual and Contextual Predictors of Involvement in Twelve‐Step Self‐Help Groups After Substance Abuse Treatment
Drawing on ecological and narrative theories of self‐help groups, this study tests a multilevel model predicting self‐help group involvement among male veterans who received inpatient substance abuse treatment. Following K. Maton (1993), the study moves beyond the individual‐level of analysis to encompass variables in the treatment and post‐treatment social ecology. Surveys administered to patients ( N = 3,018 ) and treatment staff ( N = 329 ) as…
Social support, appraisals of event controllability, and coping
An integrative model of mediating and moderating mechanisms in the coping process was examined in a 2-year prospective framework with 175 college students using both single-group and multigroup LISREL analyses. Consistent with the hypothesized model, initial parental support was associated with subsequent changes in psychological adjustment both directly and indirectly through adaptive coping strategies. Moreover, as predicted, appraisals of even…
Orgasmic frequency and plasma testosterone levels in normal human males
Understanding environments
The contributions to this Special Issue illustrate research on several important types of environmental units, including psychiatric and substance abuse treatment programs, neighborhood block groups, and entire communities. They also exemplify alternative methodologies, such as assessing environments by relying on participants' appraisals, external observers' ratings, historical archives, and direct observation. I draw on these contributions and …
Deficiencies in Social Support Among Depressed Patients
Roger E. Mitchell, Rudolf H. Moos, Deficiencies in Social Support Among Depressed Patients: Antecedents or Consequences of Stress?, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 438-452
Alcohol use among college students
Social context, coping strategies, and depressive symptoms
This research broadened and refined a resources model of coping to encompass negative as well as positive aspects of social relationships and examined this expanded conceptualization in a 4-year prospective model with 183 cardiac patients (140 men and 43 women). Social support and social stressors in the family and extrafamily domains contributed significantly to a common social context latent construct. In addition, this conceptualization of soc…
Group compatibility and productivity
The Relationship of Personality to the Presence of Rheumatoid Factor in Asymptomatic Relatives of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Two groups of asymptomatic female relatives of patients with rheumatoid arthritis were compared psychologically by means of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. The results indicated a greater incidence of emotional decompensation in those relatives lacking rheumatoid factor. It is speculated that emotional disturbance in conjunction with rheumatoid factor may lead to rheumatoid disease
Psychologic Comparisons Between Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Their Nonarthritic Sisters
Sixteen female patients with classic or definite rheumatoid arthritis were compared with their closest-aged, same-sexed healthy siblings on a variety of personality trait dimensions specifically hypothesized as important in arthritics by previous investigators. Both personality tests and interview ratings were utilized to measure the dimensions. Results indicated that arthritics consistently showed more compliance and subservience, nervousness an…
Psychologic Comparisons Between Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Their Nonarthritic Sisters
The content of semi-structured interviews with rheumatoid arthritic patients and their healthy same-sexed siblings was analyzed. Results showed clear and striking differences between patients and siblings in their self-descriptions; in the extent of their masochism, self-sacrifice, and denial of hostility; in the amount of rejection they perceived from their mothers; and in the degree of strictness they perceived from their fathers. No difference…
Response biases in the MMPI
The Development of a Menstrual Distress Questionnaire
The development of a Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ) is described. Each of 839 women rated their experience of 47 symptoms on a six-point scale separately for the menstrual, premenstrual, and intermenstrual phases of her most recent menstrual cycle and for her worst menstrual cycle. The 47 symptoms were intercorrelated and factor analyzed separately for each phase, and eight basically replicated factors were extracted from each of these an…
Satisfaction with the correctional institution environment
The Community-Oriented Programs Environment Scale
Evaluating descriptions of psychiatric treatment programs
Five published descriptions of community-based psychiatric treatment programs were evaluated by ten judges using the Community-Oriented Programs Environment Scale (COPES). Their judgments were compared to the responses of actual program members and staff to assess the accuracy and completeness of the articles. Six types of program variables are outlined as a guide to the range of information that should be included in complete program description…
Conceptualizations of human environments
Physiological Effects of Social Environments
The social environment has important effects on physiological processes. One can distinguish different dimensions of social environmental stimuli. These dimensions can have distinctive influences on physiological processes. The effects may differ from one individual to another. This review surveys some of the evidence supporting these assumptions, presents a model for conceptualizing social environment, and discusses implications for person-envir…
Personal correlates of contrasting environments
Patient expectations and attendance in community treatment programs
Psychological environments
Negative Affect and Plasma Testosterone
The association between mood and plasma testosterone was investigated. Every second day for 2 months, a Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist was filled out by 20 young men. Blood samples taken at the same time were analyzed for testosterone concentration. Relationships between hostility, anxiety, and depression and plasma testosterone levels were tested both within and across individuals. Intrasubject correlation coefficients between affects and h…
A Typology of Family Social Environments
A sample of 100 families measured on ten dimensions of their social environments was subjected to cluster analysis to develop an empirically based taxonomy of families. Six distinctive clusters of families were identified: Expression‐Oriented, Structure‐Oriented, Independence‐Oriented, Achievement‐Oriented, Moral/Religious‐Oriented and Conflict‐Oriented. The clusters showed systematic differences in background characteristics such as size, ethnic…
Evaluating Treatment Environments
Community Treatment and Social Control
Evaluating and changing community settings
Monitoring change in community-oriented treatment programs
Changes in the social climate of two alcoholism treatment programs were evaluated by repeated assessments with the Community-Oriented Programs Environment Scale (COPES). The programs were similar in size and treatment orientation, but differed in physical and organizational setting, program length, and patient and staff characteristics. Specific and unique changes occurring within the treatment programs resulted in corresponding changes in releva…
College-student abstainers, moderate drinkers, and heavy drinkers
Orgasmic frequency and plasma testosterone levels in normal human males
Evaluating Correctional and Community Settings
Environment and Utopia
Utopias and Utopian Thought
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