Mckee J Mcclendon
Biographic Data
| ID | 263889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mckee J Mcclendon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mckee J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcclendon |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLENDON M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Akron |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Long-Term-Care Placement and Survival of Persons With Alzheimer's Disease
Although long-term-care (LTC) placement may shorten the survival of persons with Alzheimer's disease, studies have not examined whether the timing of placement matters. A sample of 258 persons with Alzheimer's disease and their family caregivers was used in a Cox survival model that included care-recipient impairments, caregiver characteristics, and LTC placement as covariates. Placement was associated with shortened survival, but the later the p…
A Longitudinal Study of the Relationship Between Levels of Depression Among Persons With Alzheimer's Disease and Levels of Depression Among Their Family Caregivers
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects, over time, of depressive symptoms in persons with Alzheimer's disease on depression in their family caregivers. In a sample of 353 patients and caregivers, multilevel longitudinal analysis was used to accommodate an observational design in which the number of observation points and the intervals between points varied across caregivers. The rate of change (increase) in caregiver depression was …
Modeling Acquiescence in Measurement Models for Two Balanced Sets of Items
This article concerns a number of conditions that must be met before reaching a conclusion about the existence of the agreement component of a response style called acquiescence. The focus is on the specification of a common style factor behind at least 2 independent theoretical concepts, each measured by a balanced set of items. The proposed approach is explored with a random subsample (N = 986) from a large-scale survey, and subsequently confir…
The Buffering Effect of a Computer Support Network on Caregiver Strain
ComputerLink was a computer support network for family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease. In a 12-month experiment, 102 caregivers were randomly assigned to an experimental group that had access to ComputerLink or to a control group that did not. This investigation examined whether caregivers in the experimental group had greater reductions in four types of care-related strain by the end of the 1-year study. ComputerLink reduced certa…
No-Opinion Filters and Attitude Measurement Reliability
Many survey researchers believe that the quality of answers to attitude questions may be improved by using no-opinion filters to remove those responses that are not based on true opinions. The authors investigate whether reliability, one aspect of data quality, is greater for filtered questions. Split-ballot experiments from two telephone surveys of the Akron, Ohio metropolitan area are used to estimate the effect of filtered questions on the rel…
Acquiescence and Recency Response-Order Effects in Interview Surveys
Split-ballot experiments for three sets of items measuring attitudes towards lawyers, anomia, and self-esteem were included in a telephone survey to test for both acquiescence and response-order effects. The experimental design also investigated whether these response effects would be reduced by giving respondents an explicit opportunity to say “don't know” (a filtered question form). Extensive evidence for both acquiescence and recency response-…
Response Effects in Mail Surveys
A variety of response effects that had been found previously in interview surveys were tested in a mail survey of a heterogeneous local population. These included experiments on question order response order, no-opinion filters, middle-response alternatives, and acquiescence. The results generally supported earlier findings based on student samples which had shown that order efects were eliminated in self-administered surveys but that question-fo…
Family Socioeconomic Status and Adolescent Sex-Typing
Question-Order Effects on the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being
Journal Article QUESTION-ORDER EFFECTS ON THE DETERMINANTS OF SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING Get access MCKEE J. MCCLENDON, MCKEE J. MCCLENDON Professor Department of Sociology at the University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID J. O'BRIEN DAVID J. O'BRIEN Professor Department of Community Development at the University of Missouri-Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Unanticipated Effects of No Opinion Filters on Attitudes and Attitude Strength
Previous research has found that the use of no opinion filters not only increases the proportion of 'don't know' responses but they may also affect substantive response distributions. The latter effect was assumed to occur because the filter removed persons (floaters) from the substantive response distributions who had attitudes different from nonfloaters. This study serendipitously finds that DK filters may affect the substantive responses of no…
Racism, Rational Choice, and White Opposition to Racial Change
Journal Article Racism, Rational Choice, and White Opposition to Racial Change: A Case Study of Busing Get access MCKEE J. MCCLENDON MCKEE J. MCCLENDON McKee J. McClendon is Professor of Sociology at the University of Akron, Ohio. Ohio. This paper is a revised version of a paper presented at the 1983 meetings of the American Sociological Association in Detroit, August 31 -September 4. The author wishes to thank Fred P. Pestello and the anonymous …
Self-Interest and Public Policy Attitude Formation
The importance of self-interest as a factor in human behavior has generated considerable study and controversy among social scientists. This study attempts to clarify the roles of self-interest and a concern for the welfare of others by focusing on attitude formation about an important public policy issue, busing. Subjective expected utility theory is utilized to specify a model for estimating self-interest and public interest effects. The model …
The Missing Link in the Process of Getting Ahead
Occupational Mobility and Economic Development
Previous studies of the relationship between exchange mobility and economic development have produced conflicting results. This paper resolves the conflicting findings through a critical examination of the measures of exchange mobility used in these studies and a reanalysis of one of the data sets. It is concluded that development is positively related to exchange mobility among the nonfarm male labor force but not to the occupational inheritance…
Structural and Exchange Components of Occupational Mobility
Using data from 16 nations, this paper examines the effects of the occupational structure, the intergenerational change in the structure and exchange mobility on the observed mobility rates of males. The intergenerational change in the occupational structure has a strong effect on mobility due primarily to the decline of the proportion of men in agricultural occupations. The proportion of men in farming, the most important aspect of the shape of …
Kinometrics
Father's Occupation and Son's Personality
In the past decade an impressive body of research has accumulated on the association between social structure and personality. An important development in that literature has been the emergence of a linkage hypothesis relating the personality of the child to the characteristics of the father's occupation through the intervening linkages of father's personality and family socialization. This study uses survey data from senior males in twenty high …
Structural and Exchange Components of Vertical Mobility
This paper focuses on the measurement of structural and exchange components of vertical mobility, with primary emphasis on occupational status mobility. The shortcomings of the study of vertical mobility are discussed. Then, assuming the use of interval scales, absolute, exchange and structural mobility are defined and measured at the individual level. Aggregate measures of each mobility component are also presented which can be computed easily f…
The Occupational Status Attainment Processes of Males and Females
The NORC General Social Surveys of 1972-1974 are utilized to compare white working males and females with respect to the process of occupational status attainment. The occupational status of each sex is quite similar, although males are somewhat more likely to have high and low status jobs. The process of status attainment is also the same for males and females. Education is the strongest determinant of status for each sex, with family background…
Interracial Contact and the Reduction of Prejudice
The idea that interracial can be effective in reducing racial pre judice, often referred to as the contact hypothesis, has long been of in terest to researchers and other students of race relations. Studies which have attempted to test the hypothesis date back to at least 1943 (Smith, 1943) and are too numerous to be reviewed here.1 Suffice it to say that these studies have shown that does not always improve racial attitudes. This fact has long b…
Family Planning Services and the Distribution of Black Americans
By 1968 about 40 percent of all U.S. counties were providing some family plan-, ning services. Judging from the aims of the family planning movement, one would expect that family planning services would be available most often where the levels of poverty and fertility were highest. Black Americans, however, often feel that the family planning movement is directed specifically at them to keep their population from growing. Using data from a 1968 P…
The Occupational Status Attainment Processes of Males and Females
The NORC General Social Surveys of 1972-1974 are utilized to compare white working males and females with respect to the process of occupational status attainment. The occupational status of each sex is quite similar, although males are somewhat more likely to have high and low status jobs. The process of status attainment is also the same for males and females. Education is the strongest determinant of status for each sex, with family background…
Response Effects in Mail Surveys
A variety of response effects that had been found previously in interview surveys were tested in a mail survey of a heterogeneous local population. These included experiments on question order response order, no-opinion filters, middle-response alternatives, and acquiescence. The results generally supported earlier findings based on student samples which had shown that order efects were eliminated in self-administered surveys but that question-fo…
Racism, Rational Choice, and White Opposition to Racial Change
Journal Article Racism, Rational Choice, and White Opposition to Racial Change: A Case Study of Busing Get access MCKEE J. MCCLENDON MCKEE J. MCCLENDON McKee J. McClendon is Professor of Sociology at the University of Akron, Ohio. Ohio. This paper is a revised version of a paper presented at the 1983 meetings of the American Sociological Association in Detroit, August 31 -September 4. The author wishes to thank Fred P. Pestello and the anonymous …
Question-Order Effects on the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being
Journal Article QUESTION-ORDER EFFECTS ON THE DETERMINANTS OF SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING Get access MCKEE J. MCCLENDON, MCKEE J. MCCLENDON Professor Department of Sociology at the University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID J. O'BRIEN DAVID J. O'BRIEN Professor Department of Community Development at the University of Missouri-Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Acquiescence and Recency Response-Order Effects in Interview Surveys
Split-ballot experiments for three sets of items measuring attitudes towards lawyers, anomia, and self-esteem were included in a telephone survey to test for both acquiescence and response-order effects. The experimental design also investigated whether these response effects would be reduced by giving respondents an explicit opportunity to say “don't know” (a filtered question form). Extensive evidence for both acquiescence and recency response-…
Structural and Exchange Components of Vertical Mobility
This paper focuses on the measurement of structural and exchange components of vertical mobility, with primary emphasis on occupational status mobility. The shortcomings of the study of vertical mobility are discussed. Then, assuming the use of interval scales, absolute, exchange and structural mobility are defined and measured at the individual level. Aggregate measures of each mobility component are also presented which can be computed easily f…
Interracial Contact and the Reduction of Prejudice
The idea that interracial can be effective in reducing racial pre judice, often referred to as the contact hypothesis, has long been of in terest to researchers and other students of race relations. Studies which have attempted to test the hypothesis date back to at least 1943 (Smith, 1943) and are too numerous to be reviewed here.1 Suffice it to say that these studies have shown that does not always improve racial attitudes. This fact has long b…
Father's Occupation and Son's Personality
In the past decade an impressive body of research has accumulated on the association between social structure and personality. An important development in that literature has been the emergence of a linkage hypothesis relating the personality of the child to the characteristics of the father's occupation through the intervening linkages of father's personality and family socialization. This study uses survey data from senior males in twenty high …
No-Opinion Filters and Attitude Measurement Reliability
Many survey researchers believe that the quality of answers to attitude questions may be improved by using no-opinion filters to remove those responses that are not based on true opinions. The authors investigate whether reliability, one aspect of data quality, is greater for filtered questions. Split-ballot experiments from two telephone surveys of the Akron, Ohio metropolitan area are used to estimate the effect of filtered questions on the rel…
Self-Interest and Public Policy Attitude Formation
The importance of self-interest as a factor in human behavior has generated considerable study and controversy among social scientists. This study attempts to clarify the roles of self-interest and a concern for the welfare of others by focusing on attitude formation about an important public policy issue, busing. Subjective expected utility theory is utilized to specify a model for estimating self-interest and public interest effects. The model …
Structural and Exchange Components of Occupational Mobility
Using data from 16 nations, this paper examines the effects of the occupational structure, the intergenerational change in the structure and exchange mobility on the observed mobility rates of males. The intergenerational change in the occupational structure has a strong effect on mobility due primarily to the decline of the proportion of men in agricultural occupations. The proportion of men in farming, the most important aspect of the shape of …
Long-Term-Care Placement and Survival of Persons With Alzheimer's Disease
Although long-term-care (LTC) placement may shorten the survival of persons with Alzheimer's disease, studies have not examined whether the timing of placement matters. A sample of 258 persons with Alzheimer's disease and their family caregivers was used in a Cox survival model that included care-recipient impairments, caregiver characteristics, and LTC placement as covariates. Placement was associated with shortened survival, but the later the p…
A Longitudinal Study of the Relationship Between Levels of Depression Among Persons With Alzheimer's Disease and Levels of Depression Among Their Family Caregivers
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects, over time, of depressive symptoms in persons with Alzheimer's disease on depression in their family caregivers. In a sample of 353 patients and caregivers, multilevel longitudinal analysis was used to accommodate an observational design in which the number of observation points and the intervals between points varied across caregivers. The rate of change (increase) in caregiver depression was …
Unanticipated Effects of No Opinion Filters on Attitudes and Attitude Strength
Previous research has found that the use of no opinion filters not only increases the proportion of 'don't know' responses but they may also affect substantive response distributions. The latter effect was assumed to occur because the filter removed persons (floaters) from the substantive response distributions who had attitudes different from nonfloaters. This study serendipitously finds that DK filters may affect the substantive responses of no…
The Buffering Effect of a Computer Support Network on Caregiver Strain
ComputerLink was a computer support network for family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease. In a 12-month experiment, 102 caregivers were randomly assigned to an experimental group that had access to ComputerLink or to a control group that did not. This investigation examined whether caregivers in the experimental group had greater reductions in four types of care-related strain by the end of the 1-year study. ComputerLink reduced certa…
Interracial Contact and the Reduction of Prejudice
The idea that interracial can be effective in reducing racial pre judice, often referred to as the contact hypothesis, has long been of in terest to researchers and other students of race relations. Studies which have attempted to test the hypothesis date back to at least 1943 (Smith, 1943) and are too numerous to be reviewed here.1 Suffice it to say that these studies have shown that does not always improve racial attitudes. This fact has long b…
Family Planning Services and the Distribution of Black Americans
By 1968 about 40 percent of all U.S. counties were providing some family plan-, ning services. Judging from the aims of the family planning movement, one would expect that family planning services would be available most often where the levels of poverty and fertility were highest. Black Americans, however, often feel that the family planning movement is directed specifically at them to keep their population from growing. Using data from a 1968 P…
The Occupational Status Attainment Processes of Males and Females
The NORC General Social Surveys of 1972-1974 are utilized to compare white working males and females with respect to the process of occupational status attainment. The occupational status of each sex is quite similar, although males are somewhat more likely to have high and low status jobs. The process of status attainment is also the same for males and females. Education is the strongest determinant of status for each sex, with family background…
Structural and Exchange Components of Vertical Mobility
This paper focuses on the measurement of structural and exchange components of vertical mobility, with primary emphasis on occupational status mobility. The shortcomings of the study of vertical mobility are discussed. Then, assuming the use of interval scales, absolute, exchange and structural mobility are defined and measured at the individual level. Aggregate measures of each mobility component are also presented which can be computed easily f…
Kinometrics
Father's Occupation and Son's Personality
In the past decade an impressive body of research has accumulated on the association between social structure and personality. An important development in that literature has been the emergence of a linkage hypothesis relating the personality of the child to the characteristics of the father's occupation through the intervening linkages of father's personality and family socialization. This study uses survey data from senior males in twenty high …
The Missing Link in the Process of Getting Ahead
Occupational Mobility and Economic Development
Previous studies of the relationship between exchange mobility and economic development have produced conflicting results. This paper resolves the conflicting findings through a critical examination of the measures of exchange mobility used in these studies and a reanalysis of one of the data sets. It is concluded that development is positively related to exchange mobility among the nonfarm male labor force but not to the occupational inheritance…
Structural and Exchange Components of Occupational Mobility
Using data from 16 nations, this paper examines the effects of the occupational structure, the intergenerational change in the structure and exchange mobility on the observed mobility rates of males. The intergenerational change in the occupational structure has a strong effect on mobility due primarily to the decline of the proportion of men in agricultural occupations. The proportion of men in farming, the most important aspect of the shape of …
Self-Interest and Public Policy Attitude Formation
The importance of self-interest as a factor in human behavior has generated considerable study and controversy among social scientists. This study attempts to clarify the roles of self-interest and a concern for the welfare of others by focusing on attitude formation about an important public policy issue, busing. Subjective expected utility theory is utilized to specify a model for estimating self-interest and public interest effects. The model …
Racism, Rational Choice, and White Opposition to Racial Change
Journal Article Racism, Rational Choice, and White Opposition to Racial Change: A Case Study of Busing Get access MCKEE J. MCCLENDON MCKEE J. MCCLENDON McKee J. McClendon is Professor of Sociology at the University of Akron, Ohio. Ohio. This paper is a revised version of a paper presented at the 1983 meetings of the American Sociological Association in Detroit, August 31 -September 4. The author wishes to thank Fred P. Pestello and the anonymous …
Unanticipated Effects of No Opinion Filters on Attitudes and Attitude Strength
Previous research has found that the use of no opinion filters not only increases the proportion of 'don't know' responses but they may also affect substantive response distributions. The latter effect was assumed to occur because the filter removed persons (floaters) from the substantive response distributions who had attitudes different from nonfloaters. This study serendipitously finds that DK filters may affect the substantive responses of no…
Question-Order Effects on the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being
Journal Article QUESTION-ORDER EFFECTS ON THE DETERMINANTS OF SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING Get access MCKEE J. MCCLENDON, MCKEE J. MCCLENDON Professor Department of Sociology at the University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID J. O'BRIEN DAVID J. O'BRIEN Professor Department of Community Development at the University of Missouri-Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Family Socioeconomic Status and Adolescent Sex-Typing
Response Effects in Mail Surveys
A variety of response effects that had been found previously in interview surveys were tested in a mail survey of a heterogeneous local population. These included experiments on question order response order, no-opinion filters, middle-response alternatives, and acquiescence. The results generally supported earlier findings based on student samples which had shown that order efects were eliminated in self-administered surveys but that question-fo…
Acquiescence and Recency Response-Order Effects in Interview Surveys
Split-ballot experiments for three sets of items measuring attitudes towards lawyers, anomia, and self-esteem were included in a telephone survey to test for both acquiescence and response-order effects. The experimental design also investigated whether these response effects would be reduced by giving respondents an explicit opportunity to say “don't know” (a filtered question form). Extensive evidence for both acquiescence and recency response-…
No-Opinion Filters and Attitude Measurement Reliability
Many survey researchers believe that the quality of answers to attitude questions may be improved by using no-opinion filters to remove those responses that are not based on true opinions. The authors investigate whether reliability, one aspect of data quality, is greater for filtered questions. Split-ballot experiments from two telephone surveys of the Akron, Ohio metropolitan area are used to estimate the effect of filtered questions on the rel…
The Buffering Effect of a Computer Support Network on Caregiver Strain
ComputerLink was a computer support network for family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease. In a 12-month experiment, 102 caregivers were randomly assigned to an experimental group that had access to ComputerLink or to a control group that did not. This investigation examined whether caregivers in the experimental group had greater reductions in four types of care-related strain by the end of the 1-year study. ComputerLink reduced certa…
Modeling Acquiescence in Measurement Models for Two Balanced Sets of Items
This article concerns a number of conditions that must be met before reaching a conclusion about the existence of the agreement component of a response style called acquiescence. The focus is on the specification of a common style factor behind at least 2 independent theoretical concepts, each measured by a balanced set of items. The proposed approach is explored with a random subsample (N = 986) from a large-scale survey, and subsequently confir…
A Longitudinal Study of the Relationship Between Levels of Depression Among Persons With Alzheimer's Disease and Levels of Depression Among Their Family Caregivers
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects, over time, of depressive symptoms in persons with Alzheimer's disease on depression in their family caregivers. In a sample of 353 patients and caregivers, multilevel longitudinal analysis was used to accommodate an observational design in which the number of observation points and the intervals between points varied across caregivers. The rate of change (increase) in caregiver depression was …
Long-Term-Care Placement and Survival of Persons With Alzheimer's Disease
Although long-term-care (LTC) placement may shorten the survival of persons with Alzheimer's disease, studies have not examined whether the timing of placement matters. A sample of 258 persons with Alzheimer's disease and their family caregivers was used in a Cox survival model that included care-recipient impairments, caregiver characteristics, and LTC placement as covariates. Placement was associated with shortened survival, but the later the p…
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