Stephan R Bollman

Biographic Data

ID147097
NAMEStephan R Bollman
GIVEN NAMESStephan R
FAMILY NAMEBollman
SIGNATUREBOLLMAN S R
AFFILIATIONSKansas State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS25
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Testing Bernard’s Thesis of His and Hers Marriage Using Marital Satisfaction Research Published Between 1929 and 1950

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Stephan R Bollman et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2026

    Results from 17 studies published between 1929 and 1950 with 36 effect sizes for marital adjustment, happiness, or satisfaction were subjected to a meta-analysis to test Jessie Bernard’s thesis about “his” and “hers” marriage as it may have applied to early family research in the USA. While the meta-analysis did not support the hypotheses that wives would report lower levels of or greater variation in marital adjustment, it was found that wives a…

  • Predicting Self-Reported Exposure to Nerve Agents by Reserve Component Personnel during the First Persian Gulf War

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Farrell J Webb et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2004

    Approximately 13% of 654 Reserve Component Gulf War veterans (18% women, 65% ground forces, between 24 and 61 years of age, average 40.2 yr.) surveyed in the Ohio Desert Storm Research Project reported that they had probably been exposed to nerve or mustard gas agents, while another 32% thought such exposures were possible. Reports of exposure were found, through ordinary least squares regression analysis, to be associated with membership in grou…

  • Pyridostigmine Bromide and the Long-Term Subjective Health Status of a Sample of over 700 Male Reserve Component Gulf War Era Veterans

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Earl J Reppert et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2002

    Data from a 1996-1997 survey of approximately 700 Reserve Component male veterans indicate that the consumption of pyridostigmine bromide pills, used as a pretreatment for potential exposure to the nerve agent Soman, was a significant predictor of declines in reported subjective health status after the war, even after controlling for a number of other possible factors. Reported reactions to vaccines and other medications also predicted declines i…

  • Self-Reported Changes in Subjective Health and Anthrax Vaccination as Reported by over 900 Persian Gulf War Era Veterans

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Earl J Reppert et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2002

    A 1999 study of United Kingdom servicemembers by Unwin, et al. recently found significant relationships between anthrax and other vaccinations, reactions to those vaccines, and later health problems for male current or former active military Gulf War veterans. Likewise, in 2000 Steele and in 1998 Gilroy found possible adverse effects of vaccinations on Gulf War veterans. However, the role of such vaccinations remains controversial; more recent go…

  • Family Strengths and the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale: A Factor Analytic Study

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Stephan R Bollman et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2001

    20 new items were developed to measure six concepts of family strengths and were administered, along with the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale, to over 266 married subjects as part of a larger survey of current and former members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). A common factor analysis suggested that most of the items were associated with their expected factors, while reliability analyses indicated that most of the scales had acce…

  • Pyridostigmine Bromide and the Long-Term Subjective Health Status of a Sample of Female Reserve Component Gulf War Veterans: A Brief Report

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Earl Jay Reppert et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2001

    The role of pyridostigmine bromide (PB) pills in explaining the long-term subjective health status of a sample of over 100 female Reserve Component Gulf War veterans was examined through regression analysis. Results fell just short of significance (p < .06) for the prediction of subjective health approximately six years after the war and were clearly not significant for the prediction of subjective health at previous times. Results parallel Golom…

  • Understanding Mail Survey Response Rates among Male Reserve Component Gulf War Era Veterans

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Stephan R Bollman et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2000

    In this study of current and former male Reserve and National Guard members from the State of Ohio, it was expected that veterans who were older, had more years of military service, who had participated in the Persian Gulf War, who were Euro-Americans, who were higher in rank, who had higher residential stability in Ohio, who belonged to the Air Force, who had higher formal education, and who belonged to the National Guard would have a greater in…

  • Understanding Mail Survey Response Rates among Female Reserve Component Veterans Serving during the Persian Gulf War

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Anthony P Jurich et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1999

    In this study of current and former female reservists and National Guard members from the state of Ohio, veterans who were older, who had more years of military service, who had participated in the Gulf War, who were Euro-Americans, who were or had been married, and who were higher in rank tended to have more valid addresses and higher response rates, thus biasing sample outcomes in those directions. Educational attainment, branch of service, com…

  • Attitudes of Reserve Component Servicemembers regarding the Consequences of Frequent Overseas Deployments

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Anthony P Jurich et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1998

    The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that it will use Reserve component units more frequently for overseas deployments, for humanitarian and peacekeeping missions. Approximately one thousand Reserve component veterans, most from Ohio, were surveyed regarding their perceptions of the effects of increased overseas deployment requirements for Reserve servicemembers. Approximately half of those surveyed reported that the new requirements woul…

  • Gender and Marital Satisfaction: Data from the National Survey of Families and Households

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Farrell J Webb et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1998

    In 1972, Bernard argued that marriage was good for men and bad for women. Subsequent research noted that wives, on average, reported lower marital satisfaction than husbands. Furthermore, when differences within couples existed on marital satisfaction, the wife was usually the less satisfied spouse; however, most previous studies of the gender/marital satisfaction relationship had not been based on nationally representative samples. A nationally …

  • Gender Effects and Marital Satisfaction: A Brief Report From a Sample of Dual Military Couples From the 1992 Department of Defense Worldwide Survey of Members and Spouses

    W R Schumm, Gary Resnick et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1998

    Among 1,320 dual military couples who responded to the 1992 Department of Defense Worldwide Survey of Military Members and Spouses, female spouses reported lower marital satisfaction than male spouses (effect size = .14), a result comparable to previous research on sex differences in marital quality. However, no differences were observed for parental satisfaction, but female spouses were more satisfied with time their partners had available for f…

  • Gender and Marital Satisfaction: A Replication Using a Seven-Point Item Response Version of the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Stephan R Bollman et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1997

    In a subsample of married individuals, 97 married men and 154 married women, who had participated in a larger study of retention of church members, an effect size of 0.28 was found between gender and marital satisfaction as measured by the standard 21-point, three-item Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale. The results are consistent with previous reports of a gender effect associated with marital satisfaction, including an analysis of another subsam…

  • Predicting Marital Satisfaction from Ideal and Actual Maternal Roles

    Open AccessStephan R Bollman, W R Schumm et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1997

    This study analyzed marital satisfaction of husbands and wives as a function of the ideal and actual gender roles that they reported. As predicted, the interaction of ideal versus actual roles for wives as reported by the husbands was significant for both husbands and wives, but, contrary to our expectations, the interaction of wives' ideal and actual roles as reported by wives did not predict marital satisfaction for either set of spouses. The r…

  • Dimensionality of Brief Family Interaction and Satisfaction Scales among Couples from Eight Western and Midwestern States

    Open AccessLi‐wen Chang, LI-WEN CHANG et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1994

    The Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale, the Kansas Parental Satisfaction Scale, a version for couples of the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES III), and three subscales from the Marital Communication Inventory were subjected to common factor analysis using data from 1222 rural, heterosexual couples, husbands and wives from eight western and midwestern states in the United States. The analysis supported the expected dimensio…

  • Self-Reported Marital Instability as Correlated with the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale for a Sample of Midwestern Wives

    Open AccessGyung Ja Jeong, Stephan R Bollman et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1992

    Family theory predicts a strong relationship between marital quality and marital stability; however, relatively little research with the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale has concerned marital stability as a correlate. In a random sample of 130 wives from a midwestern community, a moderate correlation obtained between the satisfaction scale and marital stability, as measured by the Marital Status Inventory. The magnitude of the correlation did no…

  • Mobility Effect Models: A Comment on Glenn, McRae, and Brody

    W R Schumm, George H Milliken et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1990

  • Teachers' Base Pay, Student/Teacher Ratio, and Per-Student Expenditures as Predictors of Communities' Average Satisfaction with Local School Systems

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Anthony P Jurich et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1988

    In an analysis of 15 rural and urban communities in the Midwest, nonsignificant relationships were found between parental satisfaction with the local school system and three presumed measures of educational quality or financing, including teachers' base pay, student/teacher ratio, and per student expenditure. Implications for the support of public education are briefly discussed

  • Differences Between Anglo and Mexican American Family Members on Satisfaction with Family Life

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Eric E Mccollum et al.ARTICLEHispanic Journal of Behavioral…1988Cited by: 6References: 30

    Previous researchers have suggested that many of the characteristics of Mexican American families compare unfavorably with those of other groups, especially Anglos. In spite of the controversy associated with such contentions, relatively little research has compared the perceptions of multiple family members in Anglo and Hispanic families regarding their satisfaction with multiple aspects of family life. In the present study, based upon random sa…

  • Characteristics of the Kansas Family Life Satisfaction Scale in a Regional Sample

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Eric E Mccollum et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1986

    In a regional sample of 620 families, the four items of the Kansas Family Life Satisfaction Scale demonstrated adequate internal consistency reliability and limited construct validity. As with other satisfaction scales, however, the scale did not manifest a normal distribution of responses. The scale's social desirability characteristics were not assessed and remain unknown

  • His and Her Marriage Revisited

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Anthony P Jurich et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues1985Cited by: 7References: 15

    Glenn (1975) and Bernard (1975) have debated the relative benefits of marriage for men and women. An analysis of data from three samples of midwestern married couples yielded partial support for both positions. While men and women were equally happy on the average, when there was an extremely wide difference in marital satisfaction, it was almost always the woman who was less satisfied-'her' marriage was quite different from 'his'-much worse

  • The “Marital Conventionalization” Argument; Implications for the Study of Religiosity and Marital Satisfaction

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Stephan R Bollman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychology and Theology1982

    The “marital conventionalization” argument set forth by Edmonds, Withers, and Dibatista (1972) claims that empirical relationships observed between measures of religiosity and marital satisfaction are spurious artifacts of the common contamination of such measures with social desirability/acquiescence response bias, identified by Edmonds (1967) as “marital conventionalization” and measured through the Marital Conventionalization Scale (MCS). More…

  • Classifying Family Violence: Whither the Woozle

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Michael Martins et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues1982Cited by: 6References: 21

    A typology of family violence was derived from the reports of 181 adolescent family members in intact rural and urban families sampled in the Midwest. Discriminant analysis was used in an attempt to differentiate nonviolent, verbally violent, and both verbally and physically violent families as a function of variables said to be significant predictors of family violence in a decade review by Gelles. Results indicate that the predictor variables f…

  • Dimensionality of an Abbreviated Version of the Relationship Inventory: An Urban Replication with Married Couples

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Stephan R Bollman et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1981

    An abbreviated version of the Relationship Inventory (Barrett-Lennard, 1962) was administered to a random sample of 98 urban married couples to replicate an earlier study involving a sample of 83 rural married couples. Principal components were analyzed to assess the dimensionality of items pertaining to empathy, congruence, and regard. In general, results of the previous study were confirmed. Although the abbreviated inventory may have limitatio…

  • Marital Conventionalization Revisited

    Open AccessW R Schumm, James L Hess et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1981

    Edmonds' (1967) recommendation of the Marital Conventionalization Scale as a control variable involved inherent violations of two statistical assumptions underlying partial correlation and multiple regression techniques. Interpretations of results from using the scale as Edmonds (1967) suggested appear to increase the probability of Type II errors. Deleting conventionalizing subjects from the analysis appears to be a better way to assess the impa…

  • Marital Communication or Marital Conventionality? A Brief Report on the Relationship Inventory

    Open AccessW R Schumm, Stephan R Bollman et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1980

    An analysis of survey data from random samples of 83 rural and 98 urban couples indicates that scores on an abbreviated version of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory and a short form of the Edmonds Marital Conventionality Scale are substantially correlated. Implications for use of the inventory in family research and intervention programs are discussed