Howard B Kaplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3632776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard B Kaplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard B |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaplan |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLAN H B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor College of Medicine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 87 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 420 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 86 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Cumulative and Relative Disadvantage as Long-Term Determinants of Negative Self-feelings
We analyze the long-term effects of neighborhood poverty and crime on negative self-feelings of young adults. Cumulative and relative disadvantage explanations are tested with the interactive effect of (1) neighborhood and individual-level economic disadvantage and (2) neighborhood crime and economic disadvantage. Results from a longitudinal study following adolescents to young adulthood show that the development of negative self-feelings (a comb…
Mediating Mechanisms for the Intergenerational Transmission of Constructive Parenting
Based on a prospective longitudinal panel data set that was collected at three developmental stages-early adolescence, young adulthood, and middle adulthood- this study investigates marital satisfaction and educational attainment as mediating mechanisms as well as gender's moderating effect for the intergenerational transmission of constructive parenting ( N = 1,560). The results show that perceived satisfying experiences with parents during earl…
Self-Referent Constructs and Medical Sociology
A theoretical framework centering on four classes of self-referent constructs is offered as a device for integrating the diverse areas constituting medical sociology. Guidance by this framework sensitizes the researcher to the occurrence of parallel processes in adjacent disciplines, facilitates recognition of the etiological significance of findings from other disciplines for explaining medical sociological phenomena, and encourages transactions…
The Cycle of Deviant Behavior
The Cycle of Deviant Behavior
To conduct the study on criminal and antisocial behavior at the center of this volume, the authors devoted years to collecting data from a large community sample of first-generation subjects. Data were garnered throughout their early adolescence, twenties, and thirties as well as from these first-generation subjects’ biological children during their own early adolescence. The results of these studies have profound implications for future research…
School related stress in early adolescence and academic performance three years later
Adverse Social Comparison Processes and Negative Self-Feelings
Theoretically informed models are estimated that specify the direction of the relationship between social comparisons and negative self-feelings. The data are from three waves of an ongoing longitudinal study of adaptations to stress. Subjects are individuals who were tested in their middle teens (T3), mid-twenties (Time 4) and in their mid-thirties (Time 5). The models were estimated using both logistic regression and ordinary least squares regr…
Factors Influencing Change Behavior
Theoretically informed models are estimated that specify main and interaction effects of a general change to safer/healthier behavior. The subjects of this study are participants in an ongoing longitudinal panel study of adaptations to stress. The sample consists of a portion of those identified in their mid-twenties (Time 4) as at high risk for HIV infection and successfully reinterviewed. A matched group of those at Time 4 who were at low risk …
Role Stress and Aggression Among Young Adults
Using data provided by a panel of non-Hispanic white respondents, this study explored whether aggressive response to severe role stress during early adulthood depends on gender and on an adolescent history of aggression. Logistic regression analysis yielded these findings: Men who reported aggression during early adolescence were significantly more likely to respond to severe role stress with aggression during young adulthood, while men who were …
Organizational Innovation
This volume is the result of a three-year study that investigated the factors associated with the implementation of program changes in a nonprofit community welfare agency. It addresses factors such as administration behavior and perception, its effect on board members, mobility orientation, job satisfaction, and the prediction of program change and will be of interest to management in both the private and non-profit sector as well as students of…
Social Deviance
Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Deviant Behavior. 1. A Theory of Deviant Behavior. 2. Method. Part II: Deviant Behavior in Adolescence. 3. An Elaboration Strategy for the Study of Deviant Behavior. 4. Gender as a Moderator in Explanations of Adolescent Deviance. 5. Race/Ethnicity as a Moderator in Explanations of Adolescent Deviance. Part III: Deviant Behavior from Adolescence to Young Adulthood. 6. The Elaborate…
School Failure in Early Adolescence and Status Attainment in Middle Adulthood
Guided by a life-course perspective and using a longitudinal panel data set collected at three developmental stages (early adolescence, young adulthood, and middle adulthood), structural equation analyses specify how early school failure influences status attainment at midlife. The results demonstrate that years of education completed in early adulthood is not the only mediating pathway. Lower levels of mental health and higher rates of deviant b…
Adolescent Self‐Rejection and Adult Social Action
Objective . Theoretically informed models of the relationship between stigmatized personal identities and participation in collective social action are tested. Methods . Data from a longitudinal study of participants ( N = 4,169) followed between adolescence and the fourth decade of life are used to estimate structural equation models. Results . The data support hypotheses that perceived rejection during adolescence anticipates participation in s…
Substance Use‐induced Diminution of Violence
Although the literature supports a positive association between substance use and violence, scattered reports suggest a basis for predicting an inverse relationship. Using panel data (N = 2, 222) from subjects tested during early adolescence and three years later, we estimate structural equation models that specify within‐wave relationships between substance use and violence constructs, stability of these constructs over time, and lagged effects …
Intergenerational Transmission of Constructive Parenting
Past research on the intergenerational transmission of parenting concentrates on the continuity of harsh or abusive parenting, for the most part relying on retrospective reports of early upbringing. This study investigates the intergenerational transmission of constructive parenting using a 3-wave longitudinal data set that has spanned 2 decades, obtaining the respondents' contemporaneous reports in early adolescence, early adulthood, and middle …
Deviant Identity as a Moderator of the Relation between Negative Self-Feelings and Deviant Behavior
Informed by a general theory of deviant behavior, it was hypothesized that the positive effect of negative self-feelings on later deviant behavior would be observed only for youth who are not characterized by a deviant identity. Data from a panel of youths tested during early adolescence and retested 3 years later (N = 1,041) were used to estimate structural equations models. As hypothesized, for youths without a deviant identity, negative self-f…
Explaining the Gender Difference in Adolescent Delinquent Behavior
The extent to which mediating mechanisms account for the gender difference in delinquency was tested on a sample of 2, 753 adolescents studied across three points in time. Results using structural equations modeling showed that males are more likely to be involved in delinquent activities, partly because they are less bound to conventional values, more likely to be associated with delinquent peers, and report more adverse experiences with the aut…
Intervening Processes Between Adolescent Drug Use and Psychological Distress
The self-medication hypothesis suggests that individuals who experience high levels of psychological distress use drugs to relieve their pain. The extent to which this is the case (and to which people do feel better after using drugs) has had mixed support in the literature. The present analysis uses structural equation modeling of longitudinal data to explore how deviant disposition, deviant peers, and negative life events act as intervening var…
The impact of family structure during adolescence on deviance in early adulthood
Using three waves of panel data (N = 2,931), the authors estimated a structural equation model to test the direct and indirect effect of family structure during early adolescence on forestalling deviance in early adulthood. Family structure is hypothesized to affect young adult deviance through four intervening processes during adolescence: parent‐child relationship, commitment to conventional values, association with deviant peers, and subjectiv…
Negative social sanctions, self-derogation, and deviant behavior
This article reports the results of a multiple regression model that used longitudinal data (N = 2,545) to examine the interactive effects of negative social sanctions and self‐derogation on deviant behavior (net of the effect of earlier deviant behavior). The analysis was based on the notion that some of the apparently contradictory evidence surrounding the examination of the labeling perspective may lie in a failure of researchers to focus on t…
Reexamining Gender Differences in Circumstances Surrounding Initiation and Escalation of Binge Drinking
Hypotheses regarding gender differences in circumstances surrounding the initiation/escalation of binge drinking are tested in a sample of young adults from a general population. The circumstances are measured by six scales. Multiple regression analyses suggest a congruence between observed gender differences in circumstances surrounding initiation and escalation of binge drinking and the literature on gender‐related sociodevelopmental processes:…
Gender-related differences in circumstances surrounding initiation and escalation of alcohol and other substance use/abuse
We estimate a series of multivariate logistic regression models specifying the effects of gender and other variables on the initiation and escalation of alcohol and other substance use/abuse in a sample of young adults from a general population. After controlling for race, ethnicity, father's education, and a tendency to over‐ or underendorse statements, effects of gender on circumstances surrounding initiation/escalation of binge drinking, marij…
Drugs, Crime, and Other Deviant Adaptations
Adolescent Self-Rejection and Adult Political Activity
B. Mitchell Peck, Howard B. Kaplan, Adolescent Self-Rejection and Adult Political Activity: The Mediating Influence of Achieved Social Status, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Dec., 1995), pp. 284-297
A Longitudinal Analysis of Mediating Variables in the Drug Use‐dropping Out Relationship
Theoretically informed models estimate the temporal relationships between illicit drug use and dropping out of school, and the variables that mediate these relationships. Subjects are tested in the seventh grade (Time 1), in the eighth grade (Time 2), and during young adulthood (Time 3) (N=2,805). Models are estimated by using logistic regression. Time 1 drug use has a significant effect on not graduating from high school (measured at Time 3), co…
Pathways to Adolescent Drug Use
Howard B. Kaplan, Steven S. Martin, Cynthia Robbins, Pathways to Adolescent Drug Use: Self-Derogation, Peer Influence, Weakening of Social Controls, and Early Substance Use, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Sep., 1984), pp. 270-289
Explaining the Gender Difference in Adolescent Delinquent Behavior
The extent to which mediating mechanisms account for the gender difference in delinquency was tested on a sample of 2, 753 adolescents studied across three points in time. Results using structural equations modeling showed that males are more likely to be involved in delinquent activities, partly because they are less bound to conventional values, more likely to be associated with delinquent peers, and report more adverse experiences with the aut…
Intergenerational Transmission of Constructive Parenting
Past research on the intergenerational transmission of parenting concentrates on the continuity of harsh or abusive parenting, for the most part relying on retrospective reports of early upbringing. This study investigates the intergenerational transmission of constructive parenting using a 3-wave longitudinal data set that has spanned 2 decades, obtaining the respondents' contemporaneous reports in early adolescence, early adulthood, and middle …
Deviant Peers and Deviant Behavior
In an earlier analysis we estimated a model in which later deviance was explained by the direct positive effects of disposition to deviance and early deviance, the direct negative effect of self-rejection, and the indirect positive effects of self-rejection and early deviance. This analysis estimates an elaborated model which specifies, in addition to the above effects, the direct effect of association with deviant peers on later deviance. Devian…
Toward a general theory of psychosocial deviance
Self-Rejection and the Explanation of Deviance
Howard B. Kaplan, Robert J. Johnson, Carol A. Bailey, Self-Rejection and the Explanation of Deviance: Refinement and Elaboration of a Latent Structure, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Jun., 1986), pp. 110-128
Self-Rejection and the Explanation of Deviance
This paper estimates a model of the relationship between self-rejection and deviance, mediated by disposition to deviance, to examine the linear structural equations in data provided by a threewave panel study of junior high school students. The measurement models and latent structure more accurately reflect the theoretical basis of the postulated structure than do earlier multivariate analyses of panel data. The latent construct "self-rejection"…
Antecedents of Pregnancy among Unmarried Adolescents
Using data from 2158 young adults who were 1st surveyed as 7th grade students in a random half of the junior high schools in the Independent School District of Houston Texas in 1971 multivariate casual models were tested to predict out-of-wedlock adolescent pregnancy. Among the males having a girlfriend become pregnant is associated with school difficulties low parental socioeconomic status and high popularity. Among females pregnancy risk is rel…
Antecedents of Psychological Distress in Young Adults
Howard B. Kaplan, Cynthia Robbins, Steven S. Martin, Antecedents of Psychological Distress in Young Adults: Self-Rejection, Deprivation of Social Support, and Life Events, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Sep., 1983), pp. 230-244
Increase in self-rejection as an antecedent of deviant responses
Self-Attitudes and Deviant Behavior
Application of a General Theory of Deviant Behavior
The applicability of a general theory of deviant behavior to explaining drug use among junior high school students (N=3,148) is tested using data from a three-wave panel. The five-stage path model consists of eleven constructs measured at two points in time and one construct (drug use) measured at three points in time. The results of the analyses are consistent with the representation of drug use as the outcome of: (1) student's recognition of th…
Deviant behavior and self-enhancement in adolescence
A Longitudinal Analysis of Mediating Variables in the Drug Use‐dropping Out Relationship
Theoretically informed models estimate the temporal relationships between illicit drug use and dropping out of school, and the variables that mediate these relationships. Subjects are tested in the seventh grade (Time 1), in the eighth grade (Time 2), and during young adulthood (Time 3) (N=2,805). Models are estimated by using logistic regression. Time 1 drug use has a significant effect on not graduating from high school (measured at Time 3), co…
Decomposing the Reciprocal Relationships between Academic Achievement and General Self-Esteem
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Psychosocial Predictors of Enlistment in the All-Voluntary Armed Forces
School Failure in Early Adolescence and Status Attainment in Middle Adulthood
Guided by a life-course perspective and using a longitudinal panel data set collected at three developmental stages (early adolescence, young adulthood, and middle adulthood), structural equation analyses specify how early school failure influences status attainment at midlife. The results demonstrate that years of education completed in early adulthood is not the only mediating pathway. Lower levels of mental health and higher rates of deviant b…
Deviant Identity as a Moderator of the Relation between Negative Self-Feelings and Deviant Behavior
Informed by a general theory of deviant behavior, it was hypothesized that the positive effect of negative self-feelings on later deviant behavior would be observed only for youth who are not characterized by a deviant identity. Data from a panel of youths tested during early adolescence and retested 3 years later (N = 1,041) were used to estimate structural equations models. As hypothesized, for youths without a deviant identity, negative self-f…
Social Class and Self-Derogation
The frequently stated hypothesis of an inverse linear between social class and self-derogation has received little empirical support. It is proposed that this situation is explained by the nature of the between social class and self-derogation. That is, conditions which are assumed to characterize the general populations do not actually hold; and, the is observed only for those segments of the population for which the conditions do hold. Four suc…
Mediating Mechanisms for the Intergenerational Transmission of Constructive Parenting
Based on a prospective longitudinal panel data set that was collected at three developmental stages-early adolescence, young adulthood, and middle adulthood- this study investigates marital satisfaction and educational attainment as mediating mechanisms as well as gender's moderating effect for the intergenerational transmission of constructive parenting ( N = 1,560). The results show that perceived satisfying experiences with parents during earl…
Stability of Psychological Symptoms
We integrate aspects of coping response, impaired ability, and motivational explanations for the causes and consequences of drug abuse, all which were cast previously as competing or alternative paradigms. We projected a model of 1) continual daily drug use as a consequence of early adolescent psychological symptoms and 2) continual daily drug use as an influential variable in maintaining or exacerbating these symptoms over the young adult life-c…
Escalation of Marijuana Use
Howard B. Kaplan, Steven S. Martin, Robert J. Johnson, Cynthia A. Robbins, Escalation of Marijuana Use: Application of A General Theory of Deviant Behavior, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 44-61
Sequelae of Self-Derogation Predicting from a General Theory of Deviant Behavior
School related stress in early adolescence and academic performance three years later
Role Stress and Aggression Among Young Adults
Using data provided by a panel of non-Hispanic white respondents, this study explored whether aggressive response to severe role stress during early adulthood depends on gender and on an adolescent history of aggression. Logistic regression analysis yielded these findings: Men who reported aggression during early adolescence were significantly more likely to respond to severe role stress with aggression during young adulthood, while men who were …
The Concept of Institution
On the premise that a concept should imply a procedure that facilitates the collection and analysis of a class of data, the concept of institution is re-evaluated. Three types of traditional definitions are found wanting. The restated concept centers around the idea of a complex of stable status-role relationships that is concerned with a particular area of activity. This concept implies a procedure for the delineation and description of institut…
Emotional Illness and Interaction Process
Informal patient groups on an open psychiatric ward are identified and described by observational and sociometric techniques. The structures and functions of these groups are studied in relationship to those of more formal patient groups. The leadership clique functioned as a governing, staff-value supporting, and quasi-socializing agency, The dissident clique permitted withdrawal of about-to-be-discharged patients from institutional values but a…
Social Interaction and GSR Activity During Group Psychotherapy
In an interpretation of the group therapy situation as a complex stimulus field, 37 therapy sessions were studied with reference to the nature of the association between a physiological parameter (GSR) and dimensions of social interaction. The group, consisting of a nurse-therapist and two schizophrenic patients, was observed and coded in terms of 11 social categories. The social behavior of the group and its component members was correlated with…
Affective Orientation and Physiological Activity (GSR) in Small Peer Groups
The relationships that comprise small groups of peers present to the participants a web of interpersonal attractions, repulsions, and indifferences. In the present investigation it was hypothesized that, when a strong affective orientation (positive or negative) exists between members of a group, the affective response of these members to the pattern of interpersonal activity in the group will covary, and this covariation of affective response wi…
Psychosomatic Research
Familial responses to stress
The Recognition of Mental Illness in London
A Decade Later
Self-Derogation and Psychosocial Adjustment
The present investigation sought to verify hypotheses relating to the relationship between self-derogation and selected indices of psychosocial adjustment derived from theoretical statements, clinical observations, and empirical studies (of narrowly defined populations) in the general area of self-attitudes. It was hypothesized that self-derogatory attitudes would be related to reports of psychophysiological manifestations of anxiety, depressive …
Social and psychological correlates of drug abuse
Social Class and Self-Derogation
The frequently stated hypothesis of an inverse linear between social class and self-derogation has received little empirical support. It is proposed that this situation is explained by the nature of the between social class and self-derogation. That is, conditions which are assumed to characterize the general populations do not actually hold; and, the is observed only for those segments of the population for which the conditions do hold. Four suc…
Self-Derogation and Childhood Broken Home
Findings are reported regarding the relationship between the level of self-derogation of adult subjects and the prior experience of a broken home during childhood. Data were collected by survey research methods from a sample (N=500) of the adult population of Harris County (including the city of Houston), Texas. The data were analyzed to determine the particular characteristics of the broken home situation (those relating to resultant living arra…
The Brief Mast
The authors report an abbreviated version of the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST). They hypothesized, on the basis of previously published data, that scores based on ten of the questions of the MAST would be as effective in discriminating between alcoholics and nonalcoholics as scores based on all 25 questions. The responses of 60 alcoholic and 62 nonalcoholic psychiatric patients supported their hypothesis.
Toward a general theory of psychosocial deviance
Sex-related correlates of adult self-derogation
Screening Tests and Self-Identification in the Detection of Alcoholism
Howard B. Kaplan, Alex D. Pokorny, Tom Kanas, Gary Lively, Screening Tests and Self-Identification in the Detection of Alcoholism, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Mar., 1974), pp. 51-56
Understanding the Social and Social-Psychological Antecedents and Consequences of Psychopathology
Howard B. Kaplan, Understanding the Social and Social-Psychological Antecedents and Consequences of Psychopathology: A Review of Reports of Invitational Conferences, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Jun., 1975), pp. 135-151
Increase in self-rejection as an antecedent of deviant responses
Black Self-Derogation and Residential Mobility
total adult population of Harris County (inclnding Houiston) Texas. Snbjects with higher self-derogation scores in 1966 at the time of a snrvey of tle sample were significantly less likely to change residence over the next four-year period than subjects with lower self derogation scores. In conjunction with an earlier finding, support is provided fir a v'ien of the reciprocal influence betuween the two variables such that antecedent selflderogati…
Introduction to 'Recent Developments in the 'Sociology of Mental Illness
Howard B. Kaplan, George J. Warheit, Introduction to "Recent Developments in the `Sociology of Mental Illness'", Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 16, No. 4, Special Issue on "Recent Developments in the `Sociology of Mental Illness'" (Dec., 1975), pp. 343-346
Sequelae of Self-Derogation Predicting from a General Theory of Deviant Behavior
The Sociology of Mental Illness
Self-attitudes and deviant behavior
Self-derogation and suicide—II
Self-derogation and suicide—I
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