Alexander Segall
Biographic Data
| ID | 277587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Segall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Segall |
| SIGNATURE | SEGALL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Age, Relative Autonomy and Change in Health Locus of Control Beliefs: A Longitudinal Study of Members of a Health-promotion Facility
Health locus of control (HLC) describes an individual's characteristic attribution of health outcomes to internal or external causes. This four-year longitudinal study examined changes in HLC beliefs among 124 members of a health-promotion facility, related to their age (22-81) and relative autonomy toward health-related goals. HLC beliefs changed with age as developmental theories of control striving would predict. Holding age aside, the pursuit…
Two views of self-rated general health status
Perceived control in relation to socioeconomic and behavioral resources for health
Seniors' Attributions for Task Performance Difficulties: Implications for Feelings of Task Efficacy
Some seniors face difficulties carrying out simple everyday tasks such as opening containers and turning doorknobs. This study began with the premise that seniors' appraisals about such difficulties may have consequences for feelings of task efficacy (e.g., feelings of control and optimism). Attributions to poor product design (an external/environmental factor) and to limitations (an internal/personal factor) were considered in addition to joint …
Gender differences in health related behaviour: Some unanswered questions
A Community Survey of Self-Medication Activities
The objectives of this research were to explore lay medication activities as an aspect of self-managed health care in the Canadian context and to identify the sociodemographic and sociomedical characteristics of those who engage in self-medication. Interview data were collected in 1983 from a random cross-sectional sample of 524 adult residents living in Winnipeg, Canada. Respondents were questioned about the types of medicines they keep in their…
Maybe on my Street: The Politics of Community Placement of the Mentally Disabled
The increasing deinstitutionalization of the mentally disabled has instigated research on neighborhood receptivity to this group. Using a random household sample from a midwestern Canadian city, we investigate the contribution of neighborhood types and individual characteristics in predicting the likelihood of supportive or opposing political responses from residents. Overall, twice as many respondents consider the placement of community mental h…
Health, helping networks and well-being
Exploring the correlates of self-provided health care behaviour
The Handbook of Pathological Gambling
Canadian Medicine: A Study in Restricted Entry
A Test of the Explanatory Value of Alternative Models of Child Abuse
Four models (designated as the psychopathology model, the social psychology model, the social situational model, and the cultural model) which have implicitly or explicitly guided the bulk of research on child abuse are described. Hypotheses were derived from each model and then tested using data on 106 abusive parents in Winnipeg, Manitoba. While none of the models received strong empirical support, the social psychology and cultural models had …
Psychiatric Labelling and the Imputation of Mental Illness by Jurors
Previous research suggests that jurors in defense-of-insanity trials are influenced significantly more by defendent behavior than by professional psychiatric diagnoses. This finding would appear to refute labelling theory's emphasis on societal reaction as equally or more important in the development of a deviant career. These earlier studies of jury decision making, however, were not designed as tests of the labelling perspective and the results…
Patient evaluation of physician role performance
A comparative analysis of physician estimates and levels of medical knowledge among patients
This study compares the level of medical knowledge among patients with physician estimates of patient comprehension of medical information. Further, the paper evaluates the accumulated body of knowledge pertaining to patient-physician communication and extends the available research evidence without ascribing culpability to either the patient for a failure to comprehend or to the physician for a failure to explain.A number of propositions derived…
Sociocultural variation in sick role behavioural expectations
The Sick Role Concept: Understanding Illness Behavior
Two views of self-rated general health status
Gender differences in health related behaviour: Some unanswered questions
Perceived control in relation to socioeconomic and behavioral resources for health
The Sick Role Concept: Understanding Illness Behavior
A comparative analysis of physician estimates and levels of medical knowledge among patients
This study compares the level of medical knowledge among patients with physician estimates of patient comprehension of medical information. Further, the paper evaluates the accumulated body of knowledge pertaining to patient-physician communication and extends the available research evidence without ascribing culpability to either the patient for a failure to comprehend or to the physician for a failure to explain.A number of propositions derived…
Exploring the correlates of self-provided health care behaviour
Sociocultural variation in sick role behavioural expectations
Age, Relative Autonomy and Change in Health Locus of Control Beliefs: A Longitudinal Study of Members of a Health-promotion Facility
Health locus of control (HLC) describes an individual's characteristic attribution of health outcomes to internal or external causes. This four-year longitudinal study examined changes in HLC beliefs among 124 members of a health-promotion facility, related to their age (22-81) and relative autonomy toward health-related goals. HLC beliefs changed with age as developmental theories of control striving would predict. Holding age aside, the pursuit…
Canadian Medicine: A Study in Restricted Entry
A Test of the Explanatory Value of Alternative Models of Child Abuse
Four models (designated as the psychopathology model, the social psychology model, the social situational model, and the cultural model) which have implicitly or explicitly guided the bulk of research on child abuse are described. Hypotheses were derived from each model and then tested using data on 106 abusive parents in Winnipeg, Manitoba. While none of the models received strong empirical support, the social psychology and cultural models had …
Seniors' Attributions for Task Performance Difficulties: Implications for Feelings of Task Efficacy
Some seniors face difficulties carrying out simple everyday tasks such as opening containers and turning doorknobs. This study began with the premise that seniors' appraisals about such difficulties may have consequences for feelings of task efficacy (e.g., feelings of control and optimism). Attributions to poor product design (an external/environmental factor) and to limitations (an internal/personal factor) were considered in addition to joint …
Sociocultural variation in sick role behavioural expectations
The Sick Role Concept: Understanding Illness Behavior
Patient evaluation of physician role performance
A comparative analysis of physician estimates and levels of medical knowledge among patients
This study compares the level of medical knowledge among patients with physician estimates of patient comprehension of medical information. Further, the paper evaluates the accumulated body of knowledge pertaining to patient-physician communication and extends the available research evidence without ascribing culpability to either the patient for a failure to comprehend or to the physician for a failure to explain.A number of propositions derived…
Psychiatric Labelling and the Imputation of Mental Illness by Jurors
Previous research suggests that jurors in defense-of-insanity trials are influenced significantly more by defendent behavior than by professional psychiatric diagnoses. This finding would appear to refute labelling theory's emphasis on societal reaction as equally or more important in the development of a deviant career. These earlier studies of jury decision making, however, were not designed as tests of the labelling perspective and the results…
A Test of the Explanatory Value of Alternative Models of Child Abuse
Four models (designated as the psychopathology model, the social psychology model, the social situational model, and the cultural model) which have implicitly or explicitly guided the bulk of research on child abuse are described. Hypotheses were derived from each model and then tested using data on 106 abusive parents in Winnipeg, Manitoba. While none of the models received strong empirical support, the social psychology and cultural models had …
Canadian Medicine: A Study in Restricted Entry
The Handbook of Pathological Gambling
Maybe on my Street: The Politics of Community Placement of the Mentally Disabled
The increasing deinstitutionalization of the mentally disabled has instigated research on neighborhood receptivity to this group. Using a random household sample from a midwestern Canadian city, we investigate the contribution of neighborhood types and individual characteristics in predicting the likelihood of supportive or opposing political responses from residents. Overall, twice as many respondents consider the placement of community mental h…
Health, helping networks and well-being
Exploring the correlates of self-provided health care behaviour
A Community Survey of Self-Medication Activities
The objectives of this research were to explore lay medication activities as an aspect of self-managed health care in the Canadian context and to identify the sociodemographic and sociomedical characteristics of those who engage in self-medication. Interview data were collected in 1983 from a random cross-sectional sample of 524 adult residents living in Winnipeg, Canada. Respondents were questioned about the types of medicines they keep in their…
Gender differences in health related behaviour: Some unanswered questions
Seniors' Attributions for Task Performance Difficulties: Implications for Feelings of Task Efficacy
Some seniors face difficulties carrying out simple everyday tasks such as opening containers and turning doorknobs. This study began with the premise that seniors' appraisals about such difficulties may have consequences for feelings of task efficacy (e.g., feelings of control and optimism). Attributions to poor product design (an external/environmental factor) and to limitations (an internal/personal factor) were considered in addition to joint …
Perceived control in relation to socioeconomic and behavioral resources for health
Two views of self-rated general health status
Age, Relative Autonomy and Change in Health Locus of Control Beliefs: A Longitudinal Study of Members of a Health-promotion Facility
Health locus of control (HLC) describes an individual's characteristic attribution of health outcomes to internal or external causes. This four-year longitudinal study examined changes in HLC beliefs among 124 members of a health-promotion facility, related to their age (22-81) and relative autonomy toward health-related goals. HLC beliefs changed with age as developmental theories of control striving would predict. Holding age aside, the pursuit…
Psychology (15 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works)