Gordon L Bultena
Biographic Data
| ID | 142244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon L Bultena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bultena |
| SIGNATURE | BULTENA G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Soil Erosion as a Community Issue: Public Perceptions of Off-Site Impacts
Impacts of national economic reforms upon urban households in an African society
Stress on the Farm: A Test of the life‐Events Perspective Among Iowa Farm Operators
Although a great deal is known about the nature and severity of the recent financial crisis in agriculture, there has been little systematic study of the social and psychological effects of this crisis upon farm operators and their families. Using data from a statewide sample of Iowa farmers, this study tests some hypotheses about correlates of psychological stress. The findings suggest that many farm operators find their situations to be stressf…
Preserving topsoil: A study of U.S. farmers’ commitments to resource conservation
Analysis is made of the success of a 50‐year experiment in the United States to control soil erosion. Findings are reported from a 13‐state study of farmers’ adoptions of conservation plans prepared by the Soil Conservation Service (SCS). The study sites have some of the highest rates of soil erosion found in the United States, yet only about a third of the farm operators have conservation plans. Furthermore, many of these plans are outdated and …
Constituency of the Antigrowth Movement: A Comparison of the Growth Orientations of Urban Status Groups
This study tested the "status-growth hypothesis," which holds that antigrowth values are more pervasive among middle- and upper-class persons than those in blue-collar positions. Businessmen, however, were expected to be an exception to this pattern by displaying a strong attachment to progrowth orientations. The respondents were metropolitan residents in Iowa. Contrary to expectations, antigrowth sentiment was most pervasive among blue-collar re…
Freedom versus control: A study of backpackers’ preferences for wilderness management
The rationing of public access to wildlands frequently is used by land management agencies to protect both physical resources and the quality of visitors’ experiences. Establishing and enforcing optimum use levels, however, presents a dilemma in that wilderness often is perceived in the public mind as permitting spontaneity of behavior and escape from bureaucratic regimentation. We studied the receptivity of backpackers to use limitations at Moun…
Closing the gates: A study of backcountry use‐limitation at Mount McKinley National Park
Findings are reported from a study of recreational carrying capacity at Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska. Hikers in the park were questioned about: (1) their expectations and preferences for sightings of other parties in the backcountry, (2) the number of parties seen daily, (3) sightings of human‐use impacts upon the environment, and (4) trip satisfaction. Whether or not hikers felt crowded was found to be a function of their expectations an…
Structural effects in national parkgoing
Studies of outdoor recreation commonly mobilize "individual‐level" variables, such as personal characteristics (e.g., age, sex, socioeconomic status), personality, psychological needs, life experiences, and attitudes in testing for explanations of different participation styles. Seldom is attention directed to the explanatory importance for these studies of "system‐level" or contextual variables, such as structural and cultural patterns. Structur…
The four‐day workweek: An assessment of its effects on leisure participation
The 4‐day workweek is emerging as an alternative to the 5‐day schedule. Its effect on leisure participation is examined here. Using a sample of 226 4‐and 5‐day workers, three types of change in leisure participation are examined. Activity change provides a measure of net change in the number of different leisure activities pursued and reflects the degree of diversity in the respondents’ leisure participation. Frequency change provides a measure o…
Visitors to national parks: A test of the elitism argument
It frequently has been assumed that the poor and some minority groups largely lack the financial wherewithal to travel to America's national parks. Data showing an underrepresentation of the poor among visitors at some parks has spurred charges of “elitism” in national park use, and has been an often‐used argument to justify more development (especially the provision of low‐cost facilities) in the national parks. This study tested for relationshi…
Sex Differences in Intimate Friendships of Old Age
Voluntary Associations and Political Equality: An Extension of Mobilization Theory
Voluntary Association Membership and Political Participation: An Exploration of the Mobilization Hypothesis
Survey data from 390 respondents was analyzed to determine the relative effects of organizational involvement, socioeconomic status, and political attitudes on political participation. Two theoretical perspectives were investigated: mobilization theory and selection theory. Both the mobilization and selection perspectives were supported by the data; however, organizational involvement was shown to explain more of the variance in political partici…
Correspondence between Anticipated and Actual Uses of Public Services by the Aged
Rising public concern for ameliorating social problems in American society has produced many social surveys. These surveys typically seem to demonstrate, through verbal or written statements obtained from samples of individuals representing particular target populations, both the nature of existing needs and the desire for public services. Needs of client systems usually have been identified by asking individuals what they consider their own and/…
An Inventory of Research Findings. Volume 1 of Aging and Society
Leisure Orientation and Recreational Activities of Retirement Community Residents
The proposition that activities of retirement community residents are consistent with their personal orientations toward leisure is explored in this study. The study was carried out in four planned retirement communities in Arizona; 322 men who migrated there subsequent to their retirement in the Midwest were interviewed.Continuity was found in the pre- and post-retirement activity levels of the retirees, the prominent pattern being for migrants …
Family Patterns of Migrant and Nonmigrant Retirees
Satisfaction in Camping: A Conceptualization and Guide to Social Research
(1969). Satisfaction in Camping: A Conceptualization and Guide to Social Research. Journal of Leisure Research: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 348-354
Voluntary Association Membership and Political Participation: An Exploration of the Mobilization Hypothesis
Survey data from 390 respondents was analyzed to determine the relative effects of organizational involvement, socioeconomic status, and political attitudes on political participation. Two theoretical perspectives were investigated: mobilization theory and selection theory. Both the mobilization and selection perspectives were supported by the data; however, organizational involvement was shown to explain more of the variance in political partici…
Satisfaction in Camping: A Conceptualization and Guide to Social Research
(1969). Satisfaction in Camping: A Conceptualization and Guide to Social Research. Journal of Leisure Research: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 348-354
Closing the gates: A study of backcountry use‐limitation at Mount McKinley National Park
Findings are reported from a study of recreational carrying capacity at Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska. Hikers in the park were questioned about: (1) their expectations and preferences for sightings of other parties in the backcountry, (2) the number of parties seen daily, (3) sightings of human‐use impacts upon the environment, and (4) trip satisfaction. Whether or not hikers felt crowded was found to be a function of their expectations an…
Sex Differences in Intimate Friendships of Old Age
Leisure Orientation and Recreational Activities of Retirement Community Residents
The proposition that activities of retirement community residents are consistent with their personal orientations toward leisure is explored in this study. The study was carried out in four planned retirement communities in Arizona; 322 men who migrated there subsequent to their retirement in the Midwest were interviewed.Continuity was found in the pre- and post-retirement activity levels of the retirees, the prominent pattern being for migrants …
Visitors to national parks: A test of the elitism argument
It frequently has been assumed that the poor and some minority groups largely lack the financial wherewithal to travel to America's national parks. Data showing an underrepresentation of the poor among visitors at some parks has spurred charges of “elitism” in national park use, and has been an often‐used argument to justify more development (especially the provision of low‐cost facilities) in the national parks. This study tested for relationshi…
Freedom versus control: A study of backpackers’ preferences for wilderness management
The rationing of public access to wildlands frequently is used by land management agencies to protect both physical resources and the quality of visitors’ experiences. Establishing and enforcing optimum use levels, however, presents a dilemma in that wilderness often is perceived in the public mind as permitting spontaneity of behavior and escape from bureaucratic regimentation. We studied the receptivity of backpackers to use limitations at Moun…
Soil Erosion as a Community Issue: Public Perceptions of Off-Site Impacts
Structural effects in national parkgoing
Studies of outdoor recreation commonly mobilize "individual‐level" variables, such as personal characteristics (e.g., age, sex, socioeconomic status), personality, psychological needs, life experiences, and attitudes in testing for explanations of different participation styles. Seldom is attention directed to the explanatory importance for these studies of "system‐level" or contextual variables, such as structural and cultural patterns. Structur…
The four‐day workweek: An assessment of its effects on leisure participation
The 4‐day workweek is emerging as an alternative to the 5‐day schedule. Its effect on leisure participation is examined here. Using a sample of 226 4‐and 5‐day workers, three types of change in leisure participation are examined. Activity change provides a measure of net change in the number of different leisure activities pursued and reflects the degree of diversity in the respondents’ leisure participation. Frequency change provides a measure o…
Impacts of national economic reforms upon urban households in an African society
Correspondence between Anticipated and Actual Uses of Public Services by the Aged
Rising public concern for ameliorating social problems in American society has produced many social surveys. These surveys typically seem to demonstrate, through verbal or written statements obtained from samples of individuals representing particular target populations, both the nature of existing needs and the desire for public services. Needs of client systems usually have been identified by asking individuals what they consider their own and/…
Family Patterns of Migrant and Nonmigrant Retirees
Satisfaction in Camping: A Conceptualization and Guide to Social Research
(1969). Satisfaction in Camping: A Conceptualization and Guide to Social Research. Journal of Leisure Research: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 348-354
Leisure Orientation and Recreational Activities of Retirement Community Residents
The proposition that activities of retirement community residents are consistent with their personal orientations toward leisure is explored in this study. The study was carried out in four planned retirement communities in Arizona; 322 men who migrated there subsequent to their retirement in the Midwest were interviewed.Continuity was found in the pre- and post-retirement activity levels of the retirees, the prominent pattern being for migrants …
Family Patterns of Migrant and Nonmigrant Retirees
An Inventory of Research Findings. Volume 1 of Aging and Society
Correspondence between Anticipated and Actual Uses of Public Services by the Aged
Rising public concern for ameliorating social problems in American society has produced many social surveys. These surveys typically seem to demonstrate, through verbal or written statements obtained from samples of individuals representing particular target populations, both the nature of existing needs and the desire for public services. Needs of client systems usually have been identified by asking individuals what they consider their own and/…
Voluntary Associations and Political Equality: An Extension of Mobilization Theory
Voluntary Association Membership and Political Participation: An Exploration of the Mobilization Hypothesis
Survey data from 390 respondents was analyzed to determine the relative effects of organizational involvement, socioeconomic status, and political attitudes on political participation. Two theoretical perspectives were investigated: mobilization theory and selection theory. Both the mobilization and selection perspectives were supported by the data; however, organizational involvement was shown to explain more of the variance in political partici…
Sex Differences in Intimate Friendships of Old Age
Visitors to national parks: A test of the elitism argument
It frequently has been assumed that the poor and some minority groups largely lack the financial wherewithal to travel to America's national parks. Data showing an underrepresentation of the poor among visitors at some parks has spurred charges of “elitism” in national park use, and has been an often‐used argument to justify more development (especially the provision of low‐cost facilities) in the national parks. This study tested for relationshi…
The four‐day workweek: An assessment of its effects on leisure participation
The 4‐day workweek is emerging as an alternative to the 5‐day schedule. Its effect on leisure participation is examined here. Using a sample of 226 4‐and 5‐day workers, three types of change in leisure participation are examined. Activity change provides a measure of net change in the number of different leisure activities pursued and reflects the degree of diversity in the respondents’ leisure participation. Frequency change provides a measure o…
Structural effects in national parkgoing
Studies of outdoor recreation commonly mobilize "individual‐level" variables, such as personal characteristics (e.g., age, sex, socioeconomic status), personality, psychological needs, life experiences, and attitudes in testing for explanations of different participation styles. Seldom is attention directed to the explanatory importance for these studies of "system‐level" or contextual variables, such as structural and cultural patterns. Structur…
Freedom versus control: A study of backpackers’ preferences for wilderness management
The rationing of public access to wildlands frequently is used by land management agencies to protect both physical resources and the quality of visitors’ experiences. Establishing and enforcing optimum use levels, however, presents a dilemma in that wilderness often is perceived in the public mind as permitting spontaneity of behavior and escape from bureaucratic regimentation. We studied the receptivity of backpackers to use limitations at Moun…
Closing the gates: A study of backcountry use‐limitation at Mount McKinley National Park
Findings are reported from a study of recreational carrying capacity at Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska. Hikers in the park were questioned about: (1) their expectations and preferences for sightings of other parties in the backcountry, (2) the number of parties seen daily, (3) sightings of human‐use impacts upon the environment, and (4) trip satisfaction. Whether or not hikers felt crowded was found to be a function of their expectations an…
Constituency of the Antigrowth Movement: A Comparison of the Growth Orientations of Urban Status Groups
This study tested the "status-growth hypothesis," which holds that antigrowth values are more pervasive among middle- and upper-class persons than those in blue-collar positions. Businessmen, however, were expected to be an exception to this pattern by displaying a strong attachment to progrowth orientations. The respondents were metropolitan residents in Iowa. Contrary to expectations, antigrowth sentiment was most pervasive among blue-collar re…
Stress on the Farm: A Test of the life‐Events Perspective Among Iowa Farm Operators
Although a great deal is known about the nature and severity of the recent financial crisis in agriculture, there has been little systematic study of the social and psychological effects of this crisis upon farm operators and their families. Using data from a statewide sample of Iowa farmers, this study tests some hypotheses about correlates of psychological stress. The findings suggest that many farm operators find their situations to be stressf…
Preserving topsoil: A study of U.S. farmers’ commitments to resource conservation
Analysis is made of the success of a 50‐year experiment in the United States to control soil erosion. Findings are reported from a 13‐state study of farmers’ adoptions of conservation plans prepared by the Soil Conservation Service (SCS). The study sites have some of the highest rates of soil erosion found in the United States, yet only about a third of the farm operators have conservation plans. Furthermore, many of these plans are outdated and …
Impacts of national economic reforms upon urban households in an African society
Soil Erosion as a Community Issue: Public Perceptions of Off-Site Impacts
Psychology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (6 works) · Law (5 works)