Brian Mccormick
Biographic Data
| ID | 271653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Mccormick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccormick |
| SIGNATURE | MCCORMICK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1017-8868 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Shared Decision Making Interventions for Parents of Children on the Autism Spectrum: A Systematic and Scoping Review
Parents of children on the autism spectrum face challenging treatment-related decisions, often with limited knowledge about available options. Shared Decision Making (SDM), a process where clinicians, patients, and families collaborate to make decisions based on evidence and preferences, can assist parents in navigating these choices. However, little is known about the use of SDM interventions for autism-related parental decisions. A systematic a…
Undercounts of people with serious mental illness using the Washington Group Short Set questions
Results indicate that the WG-SS questions miss large percentages of even those with the most severe mental illnesses, who therefore may be substantially undercounted in US federal surveys using these questions. In turn, public mental health programs may be substantially underfunded
Housing and loneliness among individuals with serious mental illnesses
BACKGROUND: People with serious mental illnesses (SMI) have higher levels of loneliness than the general population. Furthermore, people with SMI tend to be less satisfied with their housing and tend to move more frequently. AIM: This study aims to examine relationships between housing variables (whom they live with, duration of residence, and satisfaction) and loneliness among individuals with SMI. METHODS: Data were collected from 188 adults wi…
The Role of Acceptance in Everyday Loneliness Among Adults with Serious Mental Illness
Community participation as a predictor of depressive symptoms among individuals with serious mental illnesses
BACKGROUND: People with serious mental illnesses have elevated levels of depressive symptoms. Limited engagement in meaningful activities, such as work, social interactions, volunteering, and participation in faith, are one plausible explanation for this. Increased community participation over time may be associated with decreased depressive symptoms. AIM: Examine whether an increase in participation over time predicts a decrease in depression af…
The Impact of Decreased Capacity to Experience Pleasure on Leisure Coping Strategies among Individuals with Major Depressive Disorder
Anhedonia is a key clinical feature of major depressive disorder (MDD) and affects one's capacity to experience pleasure. This study examined the extent to which anhedonia disrupts the use and the effect of leisure coping strategies. A cross-sectional online survey design was used to recruit individuals with MDD (n = 155). Structural equation modeling was performed to test the models of relationships among perceived stress, anhedonia, leisure cop…
Emotional states associated with being in the community and being with others among individuals with serious mental illnesses
Individuals with serious mental illnesses generally spend extensive amounts of time at home and alone. The aim of the current study was to examine differences in emotional states between being at home and being in the community, and between being alone and being with others. Ecological momentary assessment was utilized 3 times per day over 14 days with 91 individuals with serious mental illnesses to assess where they were, who they were with, and…
Depressive symptoms and community participation among individuals with serious mental illnesses
Community participation is important to the well-being of people with serious mental illnesses. While theories suggest that depressive symptoms can negatively impact community participation, evidence from previous studies was inconclusive. This study analyzed the relationship between severity of depressive symptoms and various participation constructs including number of days of participation in various community activities, breadth of interests …
Community Mental Health Center Visits and Community Mobility of People with Serious Mental Illnesses: A Facilitator or Constraint
Leisure behavior and sense of coherence in the context of depression
AIMS: Improved sense of coherence (SOC) can protect health among individuals with depression. Literature suggests that leisure behavior can improve SOC, yet empirical studies are lacking. The current study aimed to examine whether leisure behavior was associated with SOC and depression. METHODS: A cross-sectional online survey method was used with a sample of community-living adults (62% female, age 18-75 years) with a self-reported current or hi…
Examining the relationship between community mobility and participation using GPS and self-report data
The relationship among motivational environment, autonomous self-regulation and personal variables in refugee youth: Implications for mental health and youth leadership
This study examined the influence of motivational conditions and personal variables of refugee youth on self-regulation to perform roles in a leadership programme designed for refugee youth. Eighteen refugee youth participated in this study, selected from those previously engaged in a pilot study (veterans, n = 4) and those newly recruited (novices, n = 14). Data for self-regulation were collected using the Situational Self-Regulation Questionnai…
Development of a Scale to Measure Memorable Tourism Experiences
The quality experiences provided to customers, which are indeed memorable, directly determine a business’s ability to generate revenue (Pine and Gilmore 1999). However, the extant tourism literature has provided limited explanation of the factors that characterize memorable tourism experiences. Thus, the goal of the present study was to develop a valid and reliable measurement scale that will assist in understanding the concept and in improving t…
Identity Negotiating: Redefining Stigmatized Identities through Adaptive Sports and Recreation Participation among Individuals with a Disability
The purpose of this study was to investigate the meanings and outcomes of adaptive sport and recreation participation among individuals with disabilities. In-depth open-ended interviews were conducted with 17 individuals. Analysis of the data followed qualitative data analysis and classical grounded theory utilizing line by line coding, identification of emergent themes, and identification of a core category grounded in the data. Results indicate…
Daily experience of serious leisure, flow and subjective well‐being of older adults
The purpose of this study was to investigate how serious leisure and flow contribute to subjective well‐being (SWB) in the daily lives of older adults. Twenty‐two older adults were recruited from a local aging agency in a midwestern city in the USA. Experience Sampling Method was used to collect data on the daily experiences of the older adults. Hierarchical Linear Modelling was used to predict levels of SWB from experience variables (i.e. seriou…
Predicting Transitory Mood From Physical Activity Level Among People With Severe Mental Illness in Two Cultures
Background: Previous studies have indicated that physical activity (PA) is positively related to health-related quality of life and well-being among people with severe mental illness (SMI). Physical activity is broadly defined in this research as any skeletal muscle movement resulting in energy expenditure, including common daily activities such as housework and gardening, as well as walking for transportation and formal exercise. Although the ph…
Examining the Role of Self-Monitoring and Social Leisure in the Life Quality of Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
The level of social leisure for the high self-monitors with spinal cord injury (SCI) was hypothesized to be related to life quality, while the level of social leisure would not be related to life quality for the low self-monitors with SCI. A total of 206 individuals with SCI who reside in community responded to the questionnaire that measured life quality, self-monitoring, and social leisure participation along with demographics. Three blocks of …
Activity Characteristics and Emotional Experience: Predicting Boredom and Anxiety in the Daily Life of Community Mental Health Clients
Little is known about the day-to-day experience of people with mental illness. The research that has been conducted has characterized the lives of people with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) as largely solitary and little meaningful activity. In addition, mood states of boredom and anxiety have been implicated in the functioning of clients with mental illness in community treatment settings. The purpose of this study was to examine th…
Parent and Child Perspectives of Family Leisure Involvement and Satisfaction with Family Life
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between family leisure involvement and satisfaction with family life. The sample consisted of 179 families. Data were analyzed at the parent, child, and family level. Findings indicated that family leisure involvement was the strongest multivariate predictor of family satisfaction from the parent perspective, but was not a significant multivariate predictor from the child's perspective. At…
The Influences of Family Leisure Patterns on Perceptions of Family Functioning
This study conducted a preliminary test of a model of family leisure functioning by examining the relationship of core and balance family leisure patterns to family cohesion and adaptability. We hypothesized that core family leisure patterns address family needs for stability, facilitate the development of cohesive relationships, and are related to perceptions of family cohesion, whereas balance family leisure patterns address family needs for ch…
Toward An Engagement in Social Support: A Key to Community Integration in Rehabilitation
Community integration is one of the most important as well as most frequently identified goals of rehabilitation and habilitation for people with disabilities. Although rehabilitation professionals have identified community integration as an important goal, the role of community leisure service providers in this process has not been as clear. This article offers the core ideas associated with community integration. In addition, using Duck's (1994…
Engineering careers and technology transfer: Japanese companies in the UK
This article examines two issues: first how Japanese companies recruit, train and utilise engineers in their UK transplants; secondly, how technology transfer between British and Japanese engineers is affected by career structures. It draws on questionnaire responses from 88 companies and interviews at a small number of sites
N = 1: What can be learned from the single case
Leisure in community life of older rural residents
Much of the research on leisure among older people has focused on the impact of leisure on psychological well‐being. However, there appears a need to examine leisure from a more sociological level in terms of its impact on the social structures in which elderly people are embedded. The purpose of this study was to examine leisure as a context for interaction within the community lives of two subgroups of older residents in one rural region of Sou…
Self-Experience as Leisure Constraint: The Case of Alcoholics Anonymous
Previous research has yielded a variety of models and conceptual frameworks of leisure constraints that have focused on describing various dimensions or categorizations of constraints, as opposed to examining the operation and interrelationship of the categories and dimensions. This paper seeks to explicate how experience of self among members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) constrains their experience of leisure. Findings were generated from an eig…
Parent and Child Perspectives of Family Leisure Involvement and Satisfaction with Family Life
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between family leisure involvement and satisfaction with family life. The sample consisted of 179 families. Data were analyzed at the parent, child, and family level. Findings indicated that family leisure involvement was the strongest multivariate predictor of family satisfaction from the parent perspective, but was not a significant multivariate predictor from the child's perspective. At…
Daily experience of serious leisure, flow and subjective well‐being of older adults
The purpose of this study was to investigate how serious leisure and flow contribute to subjective well‐being (SWB) in the daily lives of older adults. Twenty‐two older adults were recruited from a local aging agency in a midwestern city in the USA. Experience Sampling Method was used to collect data on the daily experiences of the older adults. Hierarchical Linear Modelling was used to predict levels of SWB from experience variables (i.e. seriou…
Identity Negotiating: Redefining Stigmatized Identities through Adaptive Sports and Recreation Participation among Individuals with a Disability
The purpose of this study was to investigate the meanings and outcomes of adaptive sport and recreation participation among individuals with disabilities. In-depth open-ended interviews were conducted with 17 individuals. Analysis of the data followed qualitative data analysis and classical grounded theory utilizing line by line coding, identification of emergent themes, and identification of a core category grounded in the data. Results indicate…
Leisure in community life of older rural residents
Much of the research on leisure among older people has focused on the impact of leisure on psychological well‐being. However, there appears a need to examine leisure from a more sociological level in terms of its impact on the social structures in which elderly people are embedded. The purpose of this study was to examine leisure as a context for interaction within the community lives of two subgroups of older residents in one rural region of Sou…
Self-Experience as Leisure Constraint: The Case of Alcoholics Anonymous
Previous research has yielded a variety of models and conceptual frameworks of leisure constraints that have focused on describing various dimensions or categorizations of constraints, as opposed to examining the operation and interrelationship of the categories and dimensions. This paper seeks to explicate how experience of self among members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) constrains their experience of leisure. Findings were generated from an eig…
The Impact of Decreased Capacity to Experience Pleasure on Leisure Coping Strategies among Individuals with Major Depressive Disorder
Anhedonia is a key clinical feature of major depressive disorder (MDD) and affects one's capacity to experience pleasure. This study examined the extent to which anhedonia disrupts the use and the effect of leisure coping strategies. A cross-sectional online survey design was used to recruit individuals with MDD (n = 155). Structural equation modeling was performed to test the models of relationships among perceived stress, anhedonia, leisure cop…
Examining the Role of Self-Monitoring and Social Leisure in the Life Quality of Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
The level of social leisure for the high self-monitors with spinal cord injury (SCI) was hypothesized to be related to life quality, while the level of social leisure would not be related to life quality for the low self-monitors with SCI. A total of 206 individuals with SCI who reside in community responded to the questionnaire that measured life quality, self-monitoring, and social leisure participation along with demographics. Three blocks of …
Community Mental Health Center Visits and Community Mobility of People with Serious Mental Illnesses: A Facilitator or Constraint
Examining the relationship between community mobility and participation using GPS and self-report data
Activity Characteristics and Emotional Experience: Predicting Boredom and Anxiety in the Daily Life of Community Mental Health Clients
Little is known about the day-to-day experience of people with mental illness. The research that has been conducted has characterized the lives of people with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) as largely solitary and little meaningful activity. In addition, mood states of boredom and anxiety have been implicated in the functioning of clients with mental illness in community treatment settings. The purpose of this study was to examine th…
N = 1: What can be learned from the single case
Toward An Engagement in Social Support: A Key to Community Integration in Rehabilitation
Community integration is one of the most important as well as most frequently identified goals of rehabilitation and habilitation for people with disabilities. Although rehabilitation professionals have identified community integration as an important goal, the role of community leisure service providers in this process has not been as clear. This article offers the core ideas associated with community integration. In addition, using Duck's (1994…
Managerial Unionism in the Coal Industry
r NHE RAPID GROWTH in trade unionism among wageearners since I938 has received adequate documentation, but there has been little speculation about future developments. It would now appear that unionism among wage-earners is reaching its limits. Probably the only major areas left for organizing are the service trades and in these areas the unions seem quite content to rely on minimum wage legislation.2 Future growth of trade unionism must therefor…
Hours of Work in British Industry
Reductions in the hours of work have been a characteristic phenomenon of advancing industrialization and are generally regarded as a significant indicator of increases in social welfare. The movement of hours, however, has not been uniform through time or for workers in different countries, industries, and occupations. In this article, the author traces the course of British experience since the end of the nineteenth century. The main facets of h…
Hours of Work in British Industry
Reductions in the hours of work have been a characteristic phenomenon of advancing industrialization and are generally regarded as a significant indicator of increases in social welfare. The movement of hours, however, has not been uniform through time or for workers in different countries, industries, and occupations. In this article, the author traces the course of British experience since the end of the nineteenth century. The main facets of h…
Managerial Unionism in the Coal Industry
r NHE RAPID GROWTH in trade unionism among wageearners since I938 has received adequate documentation, but there has been little speculation about future developments. It would now appear that unionism among wage-earners is reaching its limits. Probably the only major areas left for organizing are the service trades and in these areas the unions seem quite content to rely on minimum wage legislation.2 Future growth of trade unionism must therefor…
Self-Experience as Leisure Constraint: The Case of Alcoholics Anonymous
Previous research has yielded a variety of models and conceptual frameworks of leisure constraints that have focused on describing various dimensions or categorizations of constraints, as opposed to examining the operation and interrelationship of the categories and dimensions. This paper seeks to explicate how experience of self among members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) constrains their experience of leisure. Findings were generated from an eig…
Engineering careers and technology transfer: Japanese companies in the UK
This article examines two issues: first how Japanese companies recruit, train and utilise engineers in their UK transplants; secondly, how technology transfer between British and Japanese engineers is affected by career structures. It draws on questionnaire responses from 88 companies and interviews at a small number of sites
N = 1: What can be learned from the single case
Leisure in community life of older rural residents
Much of the research on leisure among older people has focused on the impact of leisure on psychological well‐being. However, there appears a need to examine leisure from a more sociological level in terms of its impact on the social structures in which elderly people are embedded. The purpose of this study was to examine leisure as a context for interaction within the community lives of two subgroups of older residents in one rural region of Sou…
The Influences of Family Leisure Patterns on Perceptions of Family Functioning
This study conducted a preliminary test of a model of family leisure functioning by examining the relationship of core and balance family leisure patterns to family cohesion and adaptability. We hypothesized that core family leisure patterns address family needs for stability, facilitate the development of cohesive relationships, and are related to perceptions of family cohesion, whereas balance family leisure patterns address family needs for ch…
Toward An Engagement in Social Support: A Key to Community Integration in Rehabilitation
Community integration is one of the most important as well as most frequently identified goals of rehabilitation and habilitation for people with disabilities. Although rehabilitation professionals have identified community integration as an important goal, the role of community leisure service providers in this process has not been as clear. This article offers the core ideas associated with community integration. In addition, using Duck's (1994…
Parent and Child Perspectives of Family Leisure Involvement and Satisfaction with Family Life
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between family leisure involvement and satisfaction with family life. The sample consisted of 179 families. Data were analyzed at the parent, child, and family level. Findings indicated that family leisure involvement was the strongest multivariate predictor of family satisfaction from the parent perspective, but was not a significant multivariate predictor from the child's perspective. At…
Activity Characteristics and Emotional Experience: Predicting Boredom and Anxiety in the Daily Life of Community Mental Health Clients
Little is known about the day-to-day experience of people with mental illness. The research that has been conducted has characterized the lives of people with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) as largely solitary and little meaningful activity. In addition, mood states of boredom and anxiety have been implicated in the functioning of clients with mental illness in community treatment settings. The purpose of this study was to examine th…
Examining the Role of Self-Monitoring and Social Leisure in the Life Quality of Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
The level of social leisure for the high self-monitors with spinal cord injury (SCI) was hypothesized to be related to life quality, while the level of social leisure would not be related to life quality for the low self-monitors with SCI. A total of 206 individuals with SCI who reside in community responded to the questionnaire that measured life quality, self-monitoring, and social leisure participation along with demographics. Three blocks of …
Predicting Transitory Mood From Physical Activity Level Among People With Severe Mental Illness in Two Cultures
Background: Previous studies have indicated that physical activity (PA) is positively related to health-related quality of life and well-being among people with severe mental illness (SMI). Physical activity is broadly defined in this research as any skeletal muscle movement resulting in energy expenditure, including common daily activities such as housework and gardening, as well as walking for transportation and formal exercise. Although the ph…
Daily experience of serious leisure, flow and subjective well‐being of older adults
The purpose of this study was to investigate how serious leisure and flow contribute to subjective well‐being (SWB) in the daily lives of older adults. Twenty‐two older adults were recruited from a local aging agency in a midwestern city in the USA. Experience Sampling Method was used to collect data on the daily experiences of the older adults. Hierarchical Linear Modelling was used to predict levels of SWB from experience variables (i.e. seriou…
Identity Negotiating: Redefining Stigmatized Identities through Adaptive Sports and Recreation Participation among Individuals with a Disability
The purpose of this study was to investigate the meanings and outcomes of adaptive sport and recreation participation among individuals with disabilities. In-depth open-ended interviews were conducted with 17 individuals. Analysis of the data followed qualitative data analysis and classical grounded theory utilizing line by line coding, identification of emergent themes, and identification of a core category grounded in the data. Results indicate…
Development of a Scale to Measure Memorable Tourism Experiences
The quality experiences provided to customers, which are indeed memorable, directly determine a business’s ability to generate revenue (Pine and Gilmore 1999). However, the extant tourism literature has provided limited explanation of the factors that characterize memorable tourism experiences. Thus, the goal of the present study was to develop a valid and reliable measurement scale that will assist in understanding the concept and in improving t…
The relationship among motivational environment, autonomous self-regulation and personal variables in refugee youth: Implications for mental health and youth leadership
This study examined the influence of motivational conditions and personal variables of refugee youth on self-regulation to perform roles in a leadership programme designed for refugee youth. Eighteen refugee youth participated in this study, selected from those previously engaged in a pilot study (veterans, n = 4) and those newly recruited (novices, n = 14). Data for self-regulation were collected using the Situational Self-Regulation Questionnai…
Leisure behavior and sense of coherence in the context of depression
AIMS: Improved sense of coherence (SOC) can protect health among individuals with depression. Literature suggests that leisure behavior can improve SOC, yet empirical studies are lacking. The current study aimed to examine whether leisure behavior was associated with SOC and depression. METHODS: A cross-sectional online survey method was used with a sample of community-living adults (62% female, age 18-75 years) with a self-reported current or hi…
Examining the relationship between community mobility and participation using GPS and self-report data
Emotional states associated with being in the community and being with others among individuals with serious mental illnesses
Individuals with serious mental illnesses generally spend extensive amounts of time at home and alone. The aim of the current study was to examine differences in emotional states between being at home and being in the community, and between being alone and being with others. Ecological momentary assessment was utilized 3 times per day over 14 days with 91 individuals with serious mental illnesses to assess where they were, who they were with, and…
Depressive symptoms and community participation among individuals with serious mental illnesses
Community participation is important to the well-being of people with serious mental illnesses. While theories suggest that depressive symptoms can negatively impact community participation, evidence from previous studies was inconclusive. This study analyzed the relationship between severity of depressive symptoms and various participation constructs including number of days of participation in various community activities, breadth of interests …
Community Mental Health Center Visits and Community Mobility of People with Serious Mental Illnesses: A Facilitator or Constraint
Community participation as a predictor of depressive symptoms among individuals with serious mental illnesses
BACKGROUND: People with serious mental illnesses have elevated levels of depressive symptoms. Limited engagement in meaningful activities, such as work, social interactions, volunteering, and participation in faith, are one plausible explanation for this. Increased community participation over time may be associated with decreased depressive symptoms. AIM: Examine whether an increase in participation over time predicts a decrease in depression af…
The Impact of Decreased Capacity to Experience Pleasure on Leisure Coping Strategies among Individuals with Major Depressive Disorder
Anhedonia is a key clinical feature of major depressive disorder (MDD) and affects one's capacity to experience pleasure. This study examined the extent to which anhedonia disrupts the use and the effect of leisure coping strategies. A cross-sectional online survey design was used to recruit individuals with MDD (n = 155). Structural equation modeling was performed to test the models of relationships among perceived stress, anhedonia, leisure cop…
Housing and loneliness among individuals with serious mental illnesses
BACKGROUND: People with serious mental illnesses (SMI) have higher levels of loneliness than the general population. Furthermore, people with SMI tend to be less satisfied with their housing and tend to move more frequently. AIM: This study aims to examine relationships between housing variables (whom they live with, duration of residence, and satisfaction) and loneliness among individuals with SMI. METHODS: Data were collected from 188 adults wi…
The Role of Acceptance in Everyday Loneliness Among Adults with Serious Mental Illness
Psychology (23 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Mental health (11 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works)