Allen M Omoto
Biographic Data
| ID | 207944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen M Omoto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Omoto |
| SIGNATURE | OMOTO A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont Graduate University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8815-0377 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 413 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
When sexual identity and sexual behaviors do not align: The prevalence of discordance and its physical and psychological health correlates
Although scholarly work on the complexity of human sexuality has increasingly been a focus of scholarship, comparatively little research has focused on the phenomenon of mismatch, or discordance, between different aspects of sexuality. This study used secondary data of sexually active adults ( N =116,950) from a statewide representative survey which included both a measure of sexual identity (i.e., identifying as "heterosexual", "bisexual", etc.)…
Normative substance use antecedents among sexual minorities: A scoping review and synthesis
Although sexual minority stress remains the dominant perspective for understanding disproportionate substance use among lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) populations, social norms are among the most predictive and commonly targeted substance use antecedents in other high-risk groups. This scoping review seeks to bring clarity to the body of norms-focused alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) research conducted with LGBs over the past 20 years, id…
Absorption: How Nature Experiences Promote Awe and Other Positive Emotions
Research indicates that contact with nature elevates positive emotions; however, relatively less work examines the mechanisms responsible for these effects. The present study experimentally tested whether a brief experience in nature promotes specific positive emotions, such as happiness, joy, and feelings of awe because of feeling absorbed and fully involved in its natural features. Participants (N = 100) were randomly assigned to either sit in …
Natural History Museums May Enhance Youth's Implicit Connectedness with Nature
The present research examines the impact of visiting natural history museums on implicit connectedness with nature among youth. FlexiTwins, a computer-based game version of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), was used to measure implicit connectedness with nature among youth visitors to two natural history museums in the Los Angeles area of Southern California. Overall, there was a marginally significant difference between pretest and posttest F…
Getting to know nature: Evaluating the effects of the Get to Know Program on children’s connectedness with nature
People in industrialized countries may be losing their connection with nature. The Get to Know Program (Get to Know) is a multi-faceted program aimed at encouraging direct connection with nature through a variety of activities (observations of wildlife, hiking, creative arts, and special events), specifically among youth. Three studies assessed the effects of three Get to Know program activities on youth’s implicit connectedness with nature (meas…
Human rights: The role of psychological sense of global community
Despite progress in addressing human rights, abuses and violations persist around the world. This research attempts to gain a better understanding of the psychological determinants that lead people to be concerned about and take action to promote human rights issues. In particular, it tests a model in which self-transcendence values predict attitudes and behaviors supportive of human rights, largely mediated by people’s feeling that they are part…
Community Connectedness, Challenges, and Resilience Among Gay Latino Immigrants
To date, relatively little psychological research has focused on the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Latino/a immigrants to the United States. This qualitative study used face‐to‐face semi‐structured interviews to explore the unique sources of stress, challenges, as well as opportunities and factors related to resilience among 13 gay Latino first‐ and second‐generation immigrants. Iterative coding of interview transc…
Lesbian Community Oughts and Ideals: Normative Fit, Depression, and Anxiety Among Young Sexual Minority Women
Our study investigated the importance of the lesbian community and the perceived fit of personal characteristics and behavior with the norms of this community as predictors of depression and anxiety among Young Sexual Minority Women (YSMW) aged 18–35 years. YSMW ( n = 504) completed an online survey in which they reported their degree of identification with the lesbian community, described their sexual minority selves, and rated how far away thes…
Environmentalism and Community: Connections and Implications for Social Action
This qualitative study explored conceptualizations of environmentalism and community, as well as the connections of ethnicity to these concepts in a small but diverse sample. Semistructured interviews were conducted with eight participants and included a conceptual content cognitive mapping procedure. The resulting maps were examined for themes and ideas about the key concepts and the connections between them. Participants' ideas about environmen…
Personality and Motivational Antecedents of Activism and Civic Engagement
This article conceptually links theory and research on volunteerism to different forms of political activity, specifically activism and civic engagement. Multiple perspectives and measures of personality as antecedents of volunteerism, activism, and civic engagement are outlined, including individual differences in motivations, interpersonal orientations, and traits. Next, self‐report data from 624 people involved in AIDS service organizations (a…
Volunteerism: Social Issues Perspectives and Social Policy Implications
This analytic review focuses on theory and research on volunteerism. First, we define volunteerism as freely chosen helping activities that extend over time and that are often performed through organizations and on behalf of receptive causes or individuals. Next, we link these definitional features to the Volunteer Process Model, which depicts volunteerism as a process with three sequential and interactive stages (antecedents, experiences, and co…
How Do 'Religion' and 'Spirituality' Differ? Lay Definitions Among Older Adults
Research and public interest in religion and spirituality is on the rise. Consequently, there is an increasing need for rigorously obtained information on what individuals mean when they use these terms. This study examined how 64 older adults living in three retirement communities (including one Christian-based community), a relatively understudied population, conceptualize religion and spirituality. Participants defined 'religion' and 'spiritua…
Prosocial Emotions and Helping: The Moderating Role of Group Membership
In this article, the authors introduce and test a group-level perspective on the role of empathy and interpersonal attraction in helping. In line with our predictions, Study 1, a longitudinal field study of 166 AIDS volunteers, confirmed that empathy was a stronger predictor of helping when the recipient of assistance was an in-group member than when that person was an out-group member. Also as hypothesized, attraction was a stronger predictor of…
Considerations of Community: The Context and Process of Volunteerism
In this article, the authors examine the role of community in understanding volunteerism. First, the authors present a model of the volunteer process that identifies three stages (antecedents, experiences, consequences) and three levels of analysis (individual, organization, social system). Next, the authors propose two features of community-community as context for volunteerism and psychological sense of community-and articulate the implications…
Volunteerism and the Life Course: Investigating Age-Related Agendas for Action
Combining a life course perspective with recent theorizing on motivationally related agendas for social behavior, this study investigated the purposes, expectations, and outcomes of adult hospice volunteers of varying ages. Specifically, support was found for the hypothesis that younger volunteers tend to be motivated by and to achieve outcomes related to interpersonal relationships, whereas older volunteers tend to be motivated to a greater exte…
Punished for their Good Deeds: Stigmatization of Aids Volunteers
This research investigated the impact of AIDS-related stigma on the antecedents, experiences, and consequences stages of AIDS volunteerism. Coordinated cross-sectional and longitudinal field studies and laboratory analogs are reviewed and reveal that volunteers and nonvolunteers consider AIDS volunteerism more stigmatizing than other forms of volunteerism. Potential stigmatization also prevented nonvolunteers from helping an AIDS organization, wh…
Sustained helping without obligation: Motivation, longevity of service, and perceived attitude change among Aids volunteers
The Psychology of Jealousy and Envy
I. Jealous and Envious Thoughts and Feelings 1. The Emotional Experiences of Envy and Jealousy, Parrott 2. The Organization of Jealousy Knowledge: Romantic Jealousy as a Blended Emotion, Sharpsteen 3. A Cognitive Theory of Jealousy, Mathes 4. Envy and the Sense of Injustice, Smith II. The Experience of Jealousy in Close Relationships 5. Psychosocial Aspects of Jealousy: A Transactional Model, Bringle 6. Developmental Correlates of Jealousy, Clant…
The Relationship Closeness Inventory: Assessing the closeness of interpersonal relationships
This article describes the development of the Relationship Closeness Inventory (RCI), which draws on the conceptualization of closeness as high interdependence between two people's activities proposed by Kelley et al. (1983). The current relationship of individuals (N = 241) drawn from the college student population served as the basis for RCI development, with the closest relationship found to encompass several relationship types, including roma…
Guess who might be coming to dinner: Personal involvement and racial stereotyping
The Relationship Closeness Inventory: Assessing the closeness of interpersonal relationships
This article describes the development of the Relationship Closeness Inventory (RCI), which draws on the conceptualization of closeness as high interdependence between two people's activities proposed by Kelley et al. (1983). The current relationship of individuals (N = 241) drawn from the college student population served as the basis for RCI development, with the closest relationship found to encompass several relationship types, including roma…
Sustained helping without obligation: Motivation, longevity of service, and perceived attitude change among Aids volunteers
Considerations of Community: The Context and Process of Volunteerism
In this article, the authors examine the role of community in understanding volunteerism. First, the authors present a model of the volunteer process that identifies three stages (antecedents, experiences, consequences) and three levels of analysis (individual, organization, social system). Next, the authors propose two features of community-community as context for volunteerism and psychological sense of community-and articulate the implications…
Volunteerism: Social Issues Perspectives and Social Policy Implications
This analytic review focuses on theory and research on volunteerism. First, we define volunteerism as freely chosen helping activities that extend over time and that are often performed through organizations and on behalf of receptive causes or individuals. Next, we link these definitional features to the Volunteer Process Model, which depicts volunteerism as a process with three sequential and interactive stages (antecedents, experiences, and co…
Prosocial Emotions and Helping: The Moderating Role of Group Membership
In this article, the authors introduce and test a group-level perspective on the role of empathy and interpersonal attraction in helping. In line with our predictions, Study 1, a longitudinal field study of 166 AIDS volunteers, confirmed that empathy was a stronger predictor of helping when the recipient of assistance was an in-group member than when that person was an out-group member. Also as hypothesized, attraction was a stronger predictor of…
Punished for their Good Deeds: Stigmatization of Aids Volunteers
This research investigated the impact of AIDS-related stigma on the antecedents, experiences, and consequences stages of AIDS volunteerism. Coordinated cross-sectional and longitudinal field studies and laboratory analogs are reviewed and reveal that volunteers and nonvolunteers consider AIDS volunteerism more stigmatizing than other forms of volunteerism. Potential stigmatization also prevented nonvolunteers from helping an AIDS organization, wh…
Community Connectedness, Challenges, and Resilience Among Gay Latino Immigrants
To date, relatively little psychological research has focused on the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Latino/a immigrants to the United States. This qualitative study used face‐to‐face semi‐structured interviews to explore the unique sources of stress, challenges, as well as opportunities and factors related to resilience among 13 gay Latino first‐ and second‐generation immigrants. Iterative coding of interview transc…
Getting to know nature: Evaluating the effects of the Get to Know Program on children’s connectedness with nature
People in industrialized countries may be losing their connection with nature. The Get to Know Program (Get to Know) is a multi-faceted program aimed at encouraging direct connection with nature through a variety of activities (observations of wildlife, hiking, creative arts, and special events), specifically among youth. Three studies assessed the effects of three Get to Know program activities on youth’s implicit connectedness with nature (meas…
Lesbian Community Oughts and Ideals: Normative Fit, Depression, and Anxiety Among Young Sexual Minority Women
Our study investigated the importance of the lesbian community and the perceived fit of personal characteristics and behavior with the norms of this community as predictors of depression and anxiety among Young Sexual Minority Women (YSMW) aged 18–35 years. YSMW ( n = 504) completed an online survey in which they reported their degree of identification with the lesbian community, described their sexual minority selves, and rated how far away thes…
How Do 'Religion' and 'Spirituality' Differ? Lay Definitions Among Older Adults
Research and public interest in religion and spirituality is on the rise. Consequently, there is an increasing need for rigorously obtained information on what individuals mean when they use these terms. This study examined how 64 older adults living in three retirement communities (including one Christian-based community), a relatively understudied population, conceptualize religion and spirituality. Participants defined 'religion' and 'spiritua…
Human rights: The role of psychological sense of global community
Despite progress in addressing human rights, abuses and violations persist around the world. This research attempts to gain a better understanding of the psychological determinants that lead people to be concerned about and take action to promote human rights issues. In particular, it tests a model in which self-transcendence values predict attitudes and behaviors supportive of human rights, largely mediated by people’s feeling that they are part…
Guess who might be coming to dinner: Personal involvement and racial stereotyping
Guess who might be coming to dinner: Personal involvement and racial stereotyping
The Relationship Closeness Inventory: Assessing the closeness of interpersonal relationships
This article describes the development of the Relationship Closeness Inventory (RCI), which draws on the conceptualization of closeness as high interdependence between two people's activities proposed by Kelley et al. (1983). The current relationship of individuals (N = 241) drawn from the college student population served as the basis for RCI development, with the closest relationship found to encompass several relationship types, including roma…
The Psychology of Jealousy and Envy
I. Jealous and Envious Thoughts and Feelings 1. The Emotional Experiences of Envy and Jealousy, Parrott 2. The Organization of Jealousy Knowledge: Romantic Jealousy as a Blended Emotion, Sharpsteen 3. A Cognitive Theory of Jealousy, Mathes 4. Envy and the Sense of Injustice, Smith II. The Experience of Jealousy in Close Relationships 5. Psychosocial Aspects of Jealousy: A Transactional Model, Bringle 6. Developmental Correlates of Jealousy, Clant…
Sustained helping without obligation: Motivation, longevity of service, and perceived attitude change among Aids volunteers
Punished for their Good Deeds: Stigmatization of Aids Volunteers
This research investigated the impact of AIDS-related stigma on the antecedents, experiences, and consequences stages of AIDS volunteerism. Coordinated cross-sectional and longitudinal field studies and laboratory analogs are reviewed and reveal that volunteers and nonvolunteers consider AIDS volunteerism more stigmatizing than other forms of volunteerism. Potential stigmatization also prevented nonvolunteers from helping an AIDS organization, wh…
Volunteerism and the Life Course: Investigating Age-Related Agendas for Action
Combining a life course perspective with recent theorizing on motivationally related agendas for social behavior, this study investigated the purposes, expectations, and outcomes of adult hospice volunteers of varying ages. Specifically, support was found for the hypothesis that younger volunteers tend to be motivated by and to achieve outcomes related to interpersonal relationships, whereas older volunteers tend to be motivated to a greater exte…
Considerations of Community: The Context and Process of Volunteerism
In this article, the authors examine the role of community in understanding volunteerism. First, the authors present a model of the volunteer process that identifies three stages (antecedents, experiences, consequences) and three levels of analysis (individual, organization, social system). Next, the authors propose two features of community-community as context for volunteerism and psychological sense of community-and articulate the implications…
Prosocial Emotions and Helping: The Moderating Role of Group Membership
In this article, the authors introduce and test a group-level perspective on the role of empathy and interpersonal attraction in helping. In line with our predictions, Study 1, a longitudinal field study of 166 AIDS volunteers, confirmed that empathy was a stronger predictor of helping when the recipient of assistance was an in-group member than when that person was an out-group member. Also as hypothesized, attraction was a stronger predictor of…
Volunteerism: Social Issues Perspectives and Social Policy Implications
This analytic review focuses on theory and research on volunteerism. First, we define volunteerism as freely chosen helping activities that extend over time and that are often performed through organizations and on behalf of receptive causes or individuals. Next, we link these definitional features to the Volunteer Process Model, which depicts volunteerism as a process with three sequential and interactive stages (antecedents, experiences, and co…
How Do 'Religion' and 'Spirituality' Differ? Lay Definitions Among Older Adults
Research and public interest in religion and spirituality is on the rise. Consequently, there is an increasing need for rigorously obtained information on what individuals mean when they use these terms. This study examined how 64 older adults living in three retirement communities (including one Christian-based community), a relatively understudied population, conceptualize religion and spirituality. Participants defined 'religion' and 'spiritua…
Personality and Motivational Antecedents of Activism and Civic Engagement
This article conceptually links theory and research on volunteerism to different forms of political activity, specifically activism and civic engagement. Multiple perspectives and measures of personality as antecedents of volunteerism, activism, and civic engagement are outlined, including individual differences in motivations, interpersonal orientations, and traits. Next, self‐report data from 624 people involved in AIDS service organizations (a…
Environmentalism and Community: Connections and Implications for Social Action
This qualitative study explored conceptualizations of environmentalism and community, as well as the connections of ethnicity to these concepts in a small but diverse sample. Semistructured interviews were conducted with eight participants and included a conceptual content cognitive mapping procedure. The resulting maps were examined for themes and ideas about the key concepts and the connections between them. Participants' ideas about environmen…
Lesbian Community Oughts and Ideals: Normative Fit, Depression, and Anxiety Among Young Sexual Minority Women
Our study investigated the importance of the lesbian community and the perceived fit of personal characteristics and behavior with the norms of this community as predictors of depression and anxiety among Young Sexual Minority Women (YSMW) aged 18–35 years. YSMW ( n = 504) completed an online survey in which they reported their degree of identification with the lesbian community, described their sexual minority selves, and rated how far away thes…
Getting to know nature: Evaluating the effects of the Get to Know Program on children’s connectedness with nature
People in industrialized countries may be losing their connection with nature. The Get to Know Program (Get to Know) is a multi-faceted program aimed at encouraging direct connection with nature through a variety of activities (observations of wildlife, hiking, creative arts, and special events), specifically among youth. Three studies assessed the effects of three Get to Know program activities on youth’s implicit connectedness with nature (meas…
Human rights: The role of psychological sense of global community
Despite progress in addressing human rights, abuses and violations persist around the world. This research attempts to gain a better understanding of the psychological determinants that lead people to be concerned about and take action to promote human rights issues. In particular, it tests a model in which self-transcendence values predict attitudes and behaviors supportive of human rights, largely mediated by people’s feeling that they are part…
Community Connectedness, Challenges, and Resilience Among Gay Latino Immigrants
To date, relatively little psychological research has focused on the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Latino/a immigrants to the United States. This qualitative study used face‐to‐face semi‐structured interviews to explore the unique sources of stress, challenges, as well as opportunities and factors related to resilience among 13 gay Latino first‐ and second‐generation immigrants. Iterative coding of interview transc…
Absorption: How Nature Experiences Promote Awe and Other Positive Emotions
Research indicates that contact with nature elevates positive emotions; however, relatively less work examines the mechanisms responsible for these effects. The present study experimentally tested whether a brief experience in nature promotes specific positive emotions, such as happiness, joy, and feelings of awe because of feeling absorbed and fully involved in its natural features. Participants (N = 100) were randomly assigned to either sit in …
Natural History Museums May Enhance Youth's Implicit Connectedness with Nature
The present research examines the impact of visiting natural history museums on implicit connectedness with nature among youth. FlexiTwins, a computer-based game version of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), was used to measure implicit connectedness with nature among youth visitors to two natural history museums in the Los Angeles area of Southern California. Overall, there was a marginally significant difference between pretest and posttest F…
Normative substance use antecedents among sexual minorities: A scoping review and synthesis
Although sexual minority stress remains the dominant perspective for understanding disproportionate substance use among lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) populations, social norms are among the most predictive and commonly targeted substance use antecedents in other high-risk groups. This scoping review seeks to bring clarity to the body of norms-focused alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) research conducted with LGBs over the past 20 years, id…
When sexual identity and sexual behaviors do not align: The prevalence of discordance and its physical and psychological health correlates
Although scholarly work on the complexity of human sexuality has increasingly been a focus of scholarship, comparatively little research has focused on the phenomenon of mismatch, or discordance, between different aspects of sexuality. This study used secondary data of sexually active adults ( N =116,950) from a statewide representative survey which included both a measure of sexual identity (i.e., identifying as "heterosexual", "bisexual", etc.)…
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Interpersonal communication (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Sexual minority (4 works)