Stewart Jh Mccann
Biographic Data
| ID | 2266530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stewart Jh Mccann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stewart Jh |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccann |
| SIGNATURE | MCCANN S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cape Breton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4123-448X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
State rates of multiple chronic conditions among older Americans
The relation of implicit age bias based on negative age stereotypes to the American state prevalence of older adult Alzheimer’s disease
This study determined the relation of Implicit Age Bias among respondents aged 20-59 years of age to the 2020 Alzheimer's disease (AD) prevalence among residents 65 years and over with the 48 contiguous American states as analytic units. This implicit measure of state ambient ageism correlated .69 with state AD prevalence and persisted in multiple regression equations considering several controls including older adult poverty rate, high school gr…
US state death rates
Structural equation modeling (SEM) tested the plausibility of a causal model with neuroticism, openness to experience, socioeconomic status (SES), and race as predictors of a composite of six health risks and age-adjusted all-cause mortality in 2020 using the 48 contiguous American states as analytic units. In the final model, neuroticism, openness, and SES accounted for 80% of the health risk composite variance. These three variables and composi…
Personality and Money Matters
Frequent mental distress among those 65 and over in the 50 American states
Does diversity foster individualism? The relation of racial-ethnic diversity to individualism-collectivism across the 50 American States
Recent longitudinal research by others analyzing the relation between racial-ethnic diversity and individualism-collectivism in the 50 American states over the period 2000–2018 suggests that racial-ethnic diversity promotes individualism. The present study used a cross-sectional approach based on 2013 data to determine whether a relation mirroring the longitudinal pattern exists between racial-ethnic diversity and individualism-collectivism acros…
State Resident Handedness, Ideology, and Political Party Preference
Pearson correlation, partial correlation, and multiple regression strategies determined the degree to which estimates of the level of left-handedness in each of the 48 contiguous American states related to citizen political ideology and to Democratic-Republican presidential popular vote over the past 60 years. Higher state levels of left-handedness were associated significantly with liberal ideology in each of the presidential election years from…
Ultraviolet sunlight, personality, and cancer incidence
Neuroticism, urbanization, and the state prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in the USA
The relation of geek culture engagement to narcissism and self-esteem
State resident volunteering and health are unrelated when neuroticism is controlled
This research challenges the claim that engaging in formal volunteering improves health. Using data for the 50 American states pertaining to 2015-2016, multiple regression equations with differing control and entry order demonstrated the capacity of state resident neuroticism to eliminate relations between state volunteering rates and state health outcomes. In Study 1, with state SES, White population percent, urban population percent, and health…
U.S. State Resident Big Five Personality and Work Satisfaction
Two studies determined relations between state resident Big Five personality scores and state work satisfaction for the 50 states in the United States. Study 1 and 2 personality profiles were based on responses of 619,397 residents to the 44-item Big Five Inventory. For Studies 1 and 2, state work satisfaction scores were respectively taken from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index based on 353,039 phone interviews in 2008 and on 353,564 in 201…
State Resident Neuroticism Accounts for Life Satisfaction Differences Between Conservative and Liberal States of the USA
Past research indicates associations between higher conservatism and higher life satisfaction, lower neuroticism and higher life satisfaction, and higher conservatism and lower neuroticism. Qualified deduction led to the following hypothesis: Neuroticism can account for the association between higher conservatism and higher life satisfaction. The 50 American states served as the units of analysis. Responses of 619,397 residents to the 44-item Big…
Comparing American State Resident Neuroticism and State Tightness-Looseness as Predictors of Annual State Residential Mobility
State resident neuroticism and the Harrington and Gelfand state tightness-looseness dimension were compared as predictors of state levels of residential mobility from 2004 to 2005 in the 50 American states. Hierarchical multiple regression controlled for state SES, white population percent, urban population percent, home ownership percent, and percent of home owners or renters paying 30 percent or more of household income for housing. Not moving …
American state gun law strength and state resident differences in neuroticism levels
Relations between state gun law strength and state-aggregated levels of Republican leaning, gun ownership, and resident Big Five neuroticism (based on 619,397 residents nationally) were determined in a state-level analysis of the 50 American states using multiple regression strategies with state socioeconomic status, white population percent, and urban population percent statistically controlled. In a standard hierarchical model with state gun la…
Student personality differences are related to their responses on instructor evaluation forms
The relation of student personality to student evaluations of teaching (SETs) was determined in a sample of 144 undergraduates. Student Big Five personality variables and core self-evaluation (CSE) were assessed. Students rated their most preferred instructor (MPI) and least preferred instructor (LPI) on 11 common evaluation items. Pearson and partial correlations simultaneously controlling for six demographic variables, Extraversion, Conscientio…
Happy Twitter Tweets are More Likely in American States with Lower Levels of Resident Neuroticism
Relations between Big Five personality scores aggregated at the American state level and the happiness of Twitter tweet content emanating from each of the 50 American states were explored with the 50 states as the units of analysis. Tweet happiness correlated negatively with Neuroticism, and the relation remained when partial correlation and multiple regression adjusted and controlled for state socioeconomic status, white population percent, and …
Neuroticism and State Differences in Partisanship in the USA
Relations between Neuroticism, Republican-Democrat preference, and conservative-liberal ideological orientation were examined with the states of the USA as units of analysis. State-aggregated Neuroticism scores were based on 1999-2005 responses of 619,397 residents to the 44-item Big Five Inventory. State Republican-Democrat preference was based on the 2002 occupancy of the U.S. Presidency, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, state House, state Senate, and …
Higher Resident Neuroticism Is Specifically Associated With Elevated State Cancer and Heart Disease Mortality Rates in the United States
Relations between state-aggregated responses of 619,397 residents to the neuroticism items of the Big Five Inventory and 2005-2007 age-adjusted state cancer, heart disease, total all-cause, other-disease, and non-disease mortality rates for the 50 states were examined. Partial correlations controlling for four state demographic variables and three risk variables showed neuroticism correlated significantly only with cancer mortality (.34) and hear…
Societal threat, authoritarianism, conservatism, and U.S. state death penalty sentencing (1977-2004)
On the basis of K. Stenner's (2005) authoritarian dynamic theory, it was hypothesized that the number of death sentences and executions would be higher in more threatened conservative states than in less threatened conservative states, and would be lower in more threatened liberal states than in less threatened liberal states. Threat was based on state homicide rate, violent crime rate, and non-White percentage of population. Conservatism was bas…
Height, Societal Threat, and the Victory Margin in Presidential Elections (1824-1992)
Based on the idea that height serves as a heuristic for judgments about status, dominance, and leadership potential, two hypotheses were tested: (1) Heights of U.S. presidential election winners are positively correlated with estimates of social, economic, and political threat in election years. (2) Height and victory margin are positively correlated regardless of the magnitude of estimates of social, economic, and political threat in election ye…
Height, Societal Threat, and the Victory Margin in Presidential Elections (1824–1992)
Based on the idea that height serves as a heuristic for judgments about status, dominance, and leadership potential, two hypotheses were tested: (1) Heights of U.S. presidential election winners are positively correlated with estimates of social, economic, and political threat in election years. (2) Height and victory margin are positively correlated regardless of the magnitude of estimates of social, economic, and political threat in election ye…
Birth Order of past Presidents and Schlesinger's History Cycles
Stewart's hypothesis (1992) that adults who were only-children and first-born children are most suited to lead communities in more turbulent times while adults who were later-born children are most suited to lead in more tranquil times was tested by relating the male birth order of elected presidents to Schlesinger's 1986 public purpose and private interest periods. Consistent with Stewart's hypothesis, candidates who were only-children and first…
The Extended American Social, Economic, and Political Threat Index (1788–1992)
A carefully selected sample of 24 U.S. history professors serving as expert judges indicated the degree to which they considered each of the years from 1788 to 1919 and 1987 to 1992 threatening to the established order and way of life in America. The results were pooled to form an extension to the social, economic, and political threat index (SEPT; McCann & Stewin, 1990). Interrater reliability was high: Correlations between the resulting index a…
Threatening times, "strong" presidential popular vote winners, and the victory margin, 1824-1964
The Rational Public
Threatening times, "strong" presidential popular vote winners, and the victory margin, 1824–1964
Based on theory linking heightened authoritarianism to threat, 2 studies tested the hypothesis that the strength of presidential popular vote winners and the degree of societal threat are interactively related to the popular vote victory margin. In Study 1, strength was a composite of power motive, forcefulness, strength, and activeness, threat was gauged by an election year threat level index based on historians' opinions, and victory margin was…
The Extended American Social, Economic, and Political Threat Index (1788–1992)
A carefully selected sample of 24 U.S. history professors serving as expert judges indicated the degree to which they considered each of the years from 1788 to 1919 and 1987 to 1992 threatening to the established order and way of life in America. The results were pooled to form an extension to the social, economic, and political threat index (SEPT; McCann & Stewin, 1990). Interrater reliability was high: Correlations between the resulting index a…
Presidential Candidate Age and Schlesinger's Cycles of American History (1789-1992)
Based on Simonton's (1994) conclusion that in politics the young are the heralds of change, the old the protectors of stability, two hypotheses were tested : (I) winning presidential candidates are older in Schlesinger's (1986) private interest election years than in his public purpose election years ; (2) winners are relatively older than corresponding second-place finishers in private interest election years than in public purpose election year…
Threatening times, "strong" presidential popular vote winners, and the victory margin, 1824-1964
Higher Resident Neuroticism Is Specifically Associated With Elevated State Cancer and Heart Disease Mortality Rates in the United States
Relations between state-aggregated responses of 619,397 residents to the neuroticism items of the Big Five Inventory and 2005-2007 age-adjusted state cancer, heart disease, total all-cause, other-disease, and non-disease mortality rates for the 50 states were examined. Partial correlations controlling for four state demographic variables and three risk variables showed neuroticism correlated significantly only with cancer mortality (.34) and hear…
Neuroticism, urbanization, and the state prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in the USA
American state gun law strength and state resident differences in neuroticism levels
Relations between state gun law strength and state-aggregated levels of Republican leaning, gun ownership, and resident Big Five neuroticism (based on 619,397 residents nationally) were determined in a state-level analysis of the 50 American states using multiple regression strategies with state socioeconomic status, white population percent, and urban population percent statistically controlled. In a standard hierarchical model with state gun la…
Neuroticism and State Differences in Partisanship in the USA
Relations between Neuroticism, Republican-Democrat preference, and conservative-liberal ideological orientation were examined with the states of the USA as units of analysis. State-aggregated Neuroticism scores were based on 1999-2005 responses of 619,397 residents to the 44-item Big Five Inventory. State Republican-Democrat preference was based on the 2002 occupancy of the U.S. Presidency, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, state House, state Senate, and …
The Interactive Relationship of Dogmatism and Attitude Discrepancy-Congruency to Attitude Change
On the basis of dissonance research findings it was hypothesized that dogmatism and attitude discrepancy-congruency would be interactively related to attitude change such that dogmatism and change would be inversely related when the attitudinal positions of the communicator and the receiver were congruent, and positively related when the positions were discrepant. In a pretestposttest design, either an affirmative or a negative speech on the issu…
Ability, Anxiety, and Conceptual Level
To explore the interactive relationship of anxiety and ability to conceptual level, data were obtained for 90 boys and 134 girls in nonvocational Grades 11 and 12 English classes. Ability and conceptual level correlated .25, anxiety and conceptual level correlated –.18, and ability and anxiety correlated –.20. Regression analysis showed that the interaction of ability and anxiety, which was disordinal, accounted for 1.6% of the variance in concep…
Authoritarianism and Canadian Voting Preferences for Political Party, Prime Minister, and President
Research was initiated to determine whether authoritarianism was related to preferences for political party and leader in the 1984 Canadian federal election, whether more authoritarian Canadians would show a preference for Reagan over Mondale, and whether dogmatism would also discriminate between conservative and liberal selections. A questionnaire was completed by 106 introductory psychology students which contained an F scale, a dogmatism scale…
Threat, Power, and Presidential Greatness
To ascertain whether an earlier finding by McCann and Stewin that electoral success of U.S. presidents is positively correlated with the congruence between the president's power motivation and prevailing societal threat is transferrable to historians' estimates of presidential greatness, power scores were obtained from Winter, greatness scores were taken from Maranell, and prevailing threat through each president's administration was derived from…
Femininity and Expected Satisfaction in the Stages of the Family Life Cycle
This study focused on the relationships between femininity and expected satisfaction over the eight stages of married life listed by Duvall in 1977. Single undergraduates indicated personal expected levels of satisfaction at the stages of marriage and completed the Bem Sex-role Inventory. It was predicted that the phase before children are born and the phase after children leave home would be significantly higher in anticipated satisfaction than …
An Annual Quantitative Index of American Social,economic, and Political Threats and Stressors for 1920-1986
An Annual Quantitative Index of American Social, Economic, and Political Threats and Stressors for 1920–1986
In 1990 McCann and Stewin developed a quantitative American social, economic, and political threat (SEPT) index based on the judgements of 196 historians, who were asked to rate each of the years from 1920 to 1986 on a 7-point scale according to the degree to which they felt it could be perceived as threatening to the established order and way of life in the United States. Interrater reliability was high, test-retest reliability was adequate, and…
Crises and Schlesinger's Cycles of American History (1789–1986)
The relationship between Schlesinger's American history cycles and a crisis index was examined. The difference between the mean crisis value for private interest phases and public purpose phases approached significance, but adjustments for easily explained anomalies produced complete correspondence between cycle fluctuations and crises for the entire history of the United States
The Rational Public
Presidential Candidate Age and Schlesinger's Cycles of American History (1789-1992)
Based on Simonton's (1994) conclusion that in politics the young are the heralds of change, the old the protectors of stability, two hypotheses were tested : (I) winning presidential candidates are older in Schlesinger's (1986) private interest election years than in his public purpose election years ; (2) winners are relatively older than corresponding second-place finishers in private interest election years than in public purpose election year…
Threatening times, "strong" presidential popular vote winners, and the victory margin, 1824-1964
Threatening times, "strong" presidential popular vote winners, and the victory margin, 1824–1964
Based on theory linking heightened authoritarianism to threat, 2 studies tested the hypothesis that the strength of presidential popular vote winners and the degree of societal threat are interactively related to the popular vote victory margin. In Study 1, strength was a composite of power motive, forcefulness, strength, and activeness, threat was gauged by an election year threat level index based on historians' opinions, and victory margin was…
The Extended American Social, Economic, and Political Threat Index (1788–1992)
A carefully selected sample of 24 U.S. history professors serving as expert judges indicated the degree to which they considered each of the years from 1788 to 1919 and 1987 to 1992 threatening to the established order and way of life in America. The results were pooled to form an extension to the social, economic, and political threat index (SEPT; McCann & Stewin, 1990). Interrater reliability was high: Correlations between the resulting index a…
Height, Societal Threat, and the Victory Margin in Presidential Elections (1824-1992)
Based on the idea that height serves as a heuristic for judgments about status, dominance, and leadership potential, two hypotheses were tested: (1) Heights of U.S. presidential election winners are positively correlated with estimates of social, economic, and political threat in election years. (2) Height and victory margin are positively correlated regardless of the magnitude of estimates of social, economic, and political threat in election ye…
Height, Societal Threat, and the Victory Margin in Presidential Elections (1824–1992)
Based on the idea that height serves as a heuristic for judgments about status, dominance, and leadership potential, two hypotheses were tested: (1) Heights of U.S. presidential election winners are positively correlated with estimates of social, economic, and political threat in election years. (2) Height and victory margin are positively correlated regardless of the magnitude of estimates of social, economic, and political threat in election ye…
Birth Order of past Presidents and Schlesinger's History Cycles
Stewart's hypothesis (1992) that adults who were only-children and first-born children are most suited to lead communities in more turbulent times while adults who were later-born children are most suited to lead in more tranquil times was tested by relating the male birth order of elected presidents to Schlesinger's 1986 public purpose and private interest periods. Consistent with Stewart's hypothesis, candidates who were only-children and first…
Societal threat, authoritarianism, conservatism, and U.S. state death penalty sentencing (1977-2004)
On the basis of K. Stenner's (2005) authoritarian dynamic theory, it was hypothesized that the number of death sentences and executions would be higher in more threatened conservative states than in less threatened conservative states, and would be lower in more threatened liberal states than in less threatened liberal states. Threat was based on state homicide rate, violent crime rate, and non-White percentage of population. Conservatism was bas…
Student personality differences are related to their responses on instructor evaluation forms
The relation of student personality to student evaluations of teaching (SETs) was determined in a sample of 144 undergraduates. Student Big Five personality variables and core self-evaluation (CSE) were assessed. Students rated their most preferred instructor (MPI) and least preferred instructor (LPI) on 11 common evaluation items. Pearson and partial correlations simultaneously controlling for six demographic variables, Extraversion, Conscientio…
Happy Twitter Tweets are More Likely in American States with Lower Levels of Resident Neuroticism
Relations between Big Five personality scores aggregated at the American state level and the happiness of Twitter tweet content emanating from each of the 50 American states were explored with the 50 states as the units of analysis. Tweet happiness correlated negatively with Neuroticism, and the relation remained when partial correlation and multiple regression adjusted and controlled for state socioeconomic status, white population percent, and …
Neuroticism and State Differences in Partisanship in the USA
Relations between Neuroticism, Republican-Democrat preference, and conservative-liberal ideological orientation were examined with the states of the USA as units of analysis. State-aggregated Neuroticism scores were based on 1999-2005 responses of 619,397 residents to the 44-item Big Five Inventory. State Republican-Democrat preference was based on the 2002 occupancy of the U.S. Presidency, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, state House, state Senate, and …
Higher Resident Neuroticism Is Specifically Associated With Elevated State Cancer and Heart Disease Mortality Rates in the United States
Relations between state-aggregated responses of 619,397 residents to the neuroticism items of the Big Five Inventory and 2005-2007 age-adjusted state cancer, heart disease, total all-cause, other-disease, and non-disease mortality rates for the 50 states were examined. Partial correlations controlling for four state demographic variables and three risk variables showed neuroticism correlated significantly only with cancer mortality (.34) and hear…
Comparing American State Resident Neuroticism and State Tightness-Looseness as Predictors of Annual State Residential Mobility
State resident neuroticism and the Harrington and Gelfand state tightness-looseness dimension were compared as predictors of state levels of residential mobility from 2004 to 2005 in the 50 American states. Hierarchical multiple regression controlled for state SES, white population percent, urban population percent, home ownership percent, and percent of home owners or renters paying 30 percent or more of household income for housing. Not moving …
American state gun law strength and state resident differences in neuroticism levels
Relations between state gun law strength and state-aggregated levels of Republican leaning, gun ownership, and resident Big Five neuroticism (based on 619,397 residents nationally) were determined in a state-level analysis of the 50 American states using multiple regression strategies with state socioeconomic status, white population percent, and urban population percent statistically controlled. In a standard hierarchical model with state gun la…
State Resident Neuroticism Accounts for Life Satisfaction Differences Between Conservative and Liberal States of the USA
Past research indicates associations between higher conservatism and higher life satisfaction, lower neuroticism and higher life satisfaction, and higher conservatism and lower neuroticism. Qualified deduction led to the following hypothesis: Neuroticism can account for the association between higher conservatism and higher life satisfaction. The 50 American states served as the units of analysis. Responses of 619,397 residents to the 44-item Big…
U.S. State Resident Big Five Personality and Work Satisfaction
Two studies determined relations between state resident Big Five personality scores and state work satisfaction for the 50 states in the United States. Study 1 and 2 personality profiles were based on responses of 619,397 residents to the 44-item Big Five Inventory. For Studies 1 and 2, state work satisfaction scores were respectively taken from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index based on 353,039 phone interviews in 2008 and on 353,564 in 201…
Psychology (36 works) · Social Psychology (30 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Demography (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Personality (16 works) · Neuroticism (15 works) · Law (14 works)