Robert D Caplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 331652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert D Caplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert D |
| FAMILY NAME | Caplan |
| SIGNATURE | CAPLAN R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Person-Environment Fit Theory: Conceptual Foundations, Empirical and Directions Future Research
Theories of stress have long recognized the importance of both the person and environment in understanding the nature and consequences of stress. Person constructs relevant to stress research include Type-A behavior (Friedman and Rosenman, 1959), locus of control (Rotter, 1966), hardiness (Kobasa, 1979), and coping styles (Menaghan, 1983). The environment has been construed as stressful life events (Rabkin and Struening, 1976), daily hassles (DeL…
Hard times and hurtful partners: How financial strain affects depression and relationship satisfaction of unemployed persons and their spouses
The process linking unemployment and economic hardship to depression and marital or relationship satisfaction in couples was examined. Using structural equation modeling, the authors tested models in which financial strain and partners' symptoms of depression influence the behavioral exchange of the couples in terms of social support and social undermining and, in turn, the effects of support and undermining on relationship satisfaction and depre…
Person‐Environment Fit Theory: Some History, Recent Developments, and Future Directions
In honor of John R. P. French, Jr., recipient of the 1992 Kurt Lewin Award, this article traces French's contribution to the development of person‐environment (PE)fit theory. The text examines recent extensions of PE fit theory. Extensions include the introduction of response surfaces to examine the homogeneity of effects of PE fit on indicators of mental health across all levels of P or of E and research examining the antecedents of PE fit. The …
From field experiments to program implementation: Assessing the potential outcomes of an experimental intervention program for unemployed persons
Demonstrated a procedure suggested by Bloom (1984) to provide estimates for the effects of an intervention on its actual participants compared to global effects on study participants in the intervention group, whether or not they showed up. Analyses were based on data collected in a field experiment that tested a preventive intervention for unemployed persons (Caplan, Vinokur, Price & van Ryn, 1989). Effect size estimates were two to three times …
Job seeking, reemployment, and mental health: A randomized field experiment in coping with job loss.
Cognitive theories of adherence to difficult courses of action and findings from previous survey research on coping with a major life event--job loss--were used to generate a preventive intervention, tested by a randomized field experiment. The aim was to prevent poor mental health and loss of motivation to seek reemployment among those who continued to be unemployed and to promote high-quality reemployment. Ss were 928 recently unemployed adults…
Person-environment fit theory and organizations: Commensurate dimensions, time perspectives, and mechanisms
Determinants of perceived social support: Interpersonal transactions, personal outlook, and transient affective states
During the last decade, the study of social support has relied heavily on recipients' reports of perceived support. However, such reports of support may reflect not only actual supportive interpersonal transactions but also the recipients' own personal and perceptual dispositions and comparatively transient mood states. This study examines these factors' independent effects on perceived support. Interpersonal transactions of social support were a…
Cognitive and affective components of life events: Their relations and effects on weil‐being
A model of how five key facets of life events are related to one another and influence mental health and functioning was examined. The facets are the experience of control over, anticipation of, pleasantness from, stress generated by, and adjustment to life events. Multivariate analyses of data from 420 adult male respondents yielded results that were largely consistent with the hypothesized model. The results suggested that control over and anti…
Accepting Advice: A Modifier of Social Support's Effect on Well-Being
Advice is not always wanted or correct. Nevertheless, it is sometimes difficult for the provider of advice to judge the quality of advice. Giving recipients the freedom to reject advice (and reducing their feeling of being obliged to accept it) may increase the chances that other forms of intended aid, such as social support, will continue to be accepted and to have beneficial effects on well-being. This may be particularly the case in obligatory…
Effects of Different Sources of Social support and Social Conflict on Emotional Well-Being
Three questions regarding social support and social conflict are examined in this article: (a) Which sources of social support are most strongly related to emotional well-being?, (b) What is the relationship between social support and social conflict?, and (c) Which sources of social conflict are most strongly related to emotional well-being? Three versions of a questionnaire were developed and examined with data from 168 undergraduates. Each ver…
Subjective past, present, and future fit: Effects on anxiety, depression, and other indicators of well-being
Hypotheses were tested regarding the effects of subjective current, retrospected, and anticipated person-environment fit on affective and somatic strain and well-being. Two-hundred seven university students preparing for annual academic examinations at an Indian university completed self-administered questionnaires measuring parameters of the hypotheses. A distinction was made between cognitive (e.g., meeting demands for intelligence, good memory…
Social effects of diazepam use: A longitudinal field study
The Mechanisms of Job Stress and Strain
The mechanisms of job stress and strain
Coping and Defense: Constellations vs. Components
Hard times and hurtful partners: How financial strain affects depression and relationship satisfaction of unemployed persons and their spouses
The process linking unemployment and economic hardship to depression and marital or relationship satisfaction in couples was examined. Using structural equation modeling, the authors tested models in which financial strain and partners' symptoms of depression influence the behavioral exchange of the couples in terms of social support and social undermining and, in turn, the effects of support and undermining on relationship satisfaction and depre…
Determinants of perceived social support: Interpersonal transactions, personal outlook, and transient affective states
During the last decade, the study of social support has relied heavily on recipients' reports of perceived support. However, such reports of support may reflect not only actual supportive interpersonal transactions but also the recipients' own personal and perceptual dispositions and comparatively transient mood states. This study examines these factors' independent effects on perceived support. Interpersonal transactions of social support were a…
Person‐Environment Fit Theory: Some History, Recent Developments, and Future Directions
In honor of John R. P. French, Jr., recipient of the 1992 Kurt Lewin Award, this article traces French's contribution to the development of person‐environment (PE)fit theory. The text examines recent extensions of PE fit theory. Extensions include the introduction of response surfaces to examine the homogeneity of effects of PE fit on indicators of mental health across all levels of P or of E and research examining the antecedents of PE fit. The …
From field experiments to program implementation: Assessing the potential outcomes of an experimental intervention program for unemployed persons
Demonstrated a procedure suggested by Bloom (1984) to provide estimates for the effects of an intervention on its actual participants compared to global effects on study participants in the intervention group, whether or not they showed up. Analyses were based on data collected in a field experiment that tested a preventive intervention for unemployed persons (Caplan, Vinokur, Price & van Ryn, 1989). Effect size estimates were two to three times …
Accepting Advice: A Modifier of Social Support's Effect on Well-Being
Advice is not always wanted or correct. Nevertheless, it is sometimes difficult for the provider of advice to judge the quality of advice. Giving recipients the freedom to reject advice (and reducing their feeling of being obliged to accept it) may increase the chances that other forms of intended aid, such as social support, will continue to be accepted and to have beneficial effects on well-being. This may be particularly the case in obligatory…
Subjective past, present, and future fit: Effects on anxiety, depression, and other indicators of well-being
Hypotheses were tested regarding the effects of subjective current, retrospected, and anticipated person-environment fit on affective and somatic strain and well-being. Two-hundred seven university students preparing for annual academic examinations at an Indian university completed self-administered questionnaires measuring parameters of the hypotheses. A distinction was made between cognitive (e.g., meeting demands for intelligence, good memory…
Social effects of diazepam use: A longitudinal field study
Cognitive and affective components of life events: Their relations and effects on weil‐being
A model of how five key facets of life events are related to one another and influence mental health and functioning was examined. The facets are the experience of control over, anticipation of, pleasantness from, stress generated by, and adjustment to life events. Multivariate analyses of data from 420 adult male respondents yielded results that were largely consistent with the hypothesized model. The results suggested that control over and anti…
Coping and Defense: Constellations vs. Components
The Mechanisms of Job Stress and Strain
The mechanisms of job stress and strain
Coping and Defense: Constellations vs. Components
Effects of Different Sources of Social support and Social Conflict on Emotional Well-Being
Three questions regarding social support and social conflict are examined in this article: (a) Which sources of social support are most strongly related to emotional well-being?, (b) What is the relationship between social support and social conflict?, and (c) Which sources of social conflict are most strongly related to emotional well-being? Three versions of a questionnaire were developed and examined with data from 168 undergraduates. Each ver…
Subjective past, present, and future fit: Effects on anxiety, depression, and other indicators of well-being
Hypotheses were tested regarding the effects of subjective current, retrospected, and anticipated person-environment fit on affective and somatic strain and well-being. Two-hundred seven university students preparing for annual academic examinations at an Indian university completed self-administered questionnaires measuring parameters of the hypotheses. A distinction was made between cognitive (e.g., meeting demands for intelligence, good memory…
Social effects of diazepam use: A longitudinal field study
Cognitive and affective components of life events: Their relations and effects on weil‐being
A model of how five key facets of life events are related to one another and influence mental health and functioning was examined. The facets are the experience of control over, anticipation of, pleasantness from, stress generated by, and adjustment to life events. Multivariate analyses of data from 420 adult male respondents yielded results that were largely consistent with the hypothesized model. The results suggested that control over and anti…
Accepting Advice: A Modifier of Social Support's Effect on Well-Being
Advice is not always wanted or correct. Nevertheless, it is sometimes difficult for the provider of advice to judge the quality of advice. Giving recipients the freedom to reject advice (and reducing their feeling of being obliged to accept it) may increase the chances that other forms of intended aid, such as social support, will continue to be accepted and to have beneficial effects on well-being. This may be particularly the case in obligatory…
Person-environment fit theory and organizations: Commensurate dimensions, time perspectives, and mechanisms
Determinants of perceived social support: Interpersonal transactions, personal outlook, and transient affective states
During the last decade, the study of social support has relied heavily on recipients' reports of perceived support. However, such reports of support may reflect not only actual supportive interpersonal transactions but also the recipients' own personal and perceptual dispositions and comparatively transient mood states. This study examines these factors' independent effects on perceived support. Interpersonal transactions of social support were a…
Job seeking, reemployment, and mental health: A randomized field experiment in coping with job loss.
Cognitive theories of adherence to difficult courses of action and findings from previous survey research on coping with a major life event--job loss--were used to generate a preventive intervention, tested by a randomized field experiment. The aim was to prevent poor mental health and loss of motivation to seek reemployment among those who continued to be unemployed and to promote high-quality reemployment. Ss were 928 recently unemployed adults…
From field experiments to program implementation: Assessing the potential outcomes of an experimental intervention program for unemployed persons
Demonstrated a procedure suggested by Bloom (1984) to provide estimates for the effects of an intervention on its actual participants compared to global effects on study participants in the intervention group, whether or not they showed up. Analyses were based on data collected in a field experiment that tested a preventive intervention for unemployed persons (Caplan, Vinokur, Price & van Ryn, 1989). Effect size estimates were two to three times …
Person‐Environment Fit Theory: Some History, Recent Developments, and Future Directions
In honor of John R. P. French, Jr., recipient of the 1992 Kurt Lewin Award, this article traces French's contribution to the development of person‐environment (PE)fit theory. The text examines recent extensions of PE fit theory. Extensions include the introduction of response surfaces to examine the homogeneity of effects of PE fit on indicators of mental health across all levels of P or of E and research examining the antecedents of PE fit. The …
Hard times and hurtful partners: How financial strain affects depression and relationship satisfaction of unemployed persons and their spouses
The process linking unemployment and economic hardship to depression and marital or relationship satisfaction in couples was examined. Using structural equation modeling, the authors tested models in which financial strain and partners' symptoms of depression influence the behavioral exchange of the couples in terms of social support and social undermining and, in turn, the effects of support and undermining on relationship satisfaction and depre…
Person-Environment Fit Theory: Conceptual Foundations, Empirical and Directions Future Research
Theories of stress have long recognized the importance of both the person and environment in understanding the nature and consequences of stress. Person constructs relevant to stress research include Type-A behavior (Friedman and Rosenman, 1959), locus of control (Rotter, 1966), hardiness (Kobasa, 1979), and coping styles (Menaghan, 1983). The environment has been construed as stressful life events (Rabkin and Struening, 1976), daily hassles (DeL…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (4 works) · Mental health (4 works)