Malcolm P Cutchin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 366187 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Malcolm P Cutchin |
| NOMBRES | Malcolm P |
| APELLIDO | Cutchin |
| FIRMA | CUTCHIN M P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5407-465X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 544 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Pathways from neighborhood adversity to life satisfaction among older African American adults
Objectives Neighborhood adversity can erode residents’ well-being, including life satisfaction. Higher perceived neighborhood quality may be an avenue through which low neighborhood adversity is associated with elevated life satisfaction. Despite historical and ongoing racial residential segregation, pathways from neighborhood adversity and perceived neighborhood quality to life satisfaction remain underexplored in African American adults. Method…
Aging, place, and the life course of societies
Examining Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Coping and Stress Within an Environmental Riskscape
Perceived Social Support and Latent Herpesvirus Reactivation
OBJECTIVE: Perceived social support is consistently associated with physical health outcomes, and one potential physiological mechanism underlying this association is immune function. In this study, we tested both the main and stress-buffering effects of perceived social support on cellular immunity measured via latent herpesvirus reactivation. METHODS: Data were collected from a community-based sample of 1443 ethnically diverse adults between th…
Socioeconomic Status, Ecologically Assessed Social Activities, and Daily Cortisol Among Older Urban African Americans
Objectives: Higher socioeconomic status (SES) individuals report more social activities than their lower SES counterparts. Yet, SES and racial health disparities are often confounded. Here, we tested whether the frequency of engagement in social activities contributed to the association between SES and daily cortisol secretion among urban African American older adults. Methods: Ninety-two community-dwelling African Americans aged 55 years and old…
Commentary on The inescapable corporeality of occupation
This invited commentary responds to Bailliard, Carroll, and Dallman’s (2018) article introducing the relevance of key concepts of Merleau-Ponty to occupational science. That work is considered in relation to Dewey’s transactionalism, concluding that while Merleau-Ponty’s work provides invaluable insights into habit as a driver of occupation and the micro-level operation of social processes, Dewey more fully bridges between micro and macro underst…
Identity and home
Loss of Trust in the Neighborhood
The life course of neighborhoods and the trust placed in them appears to be intimately connected to the well-being of older African Americans. We therefore hypothesize that a fundamental pathway through which neighborhood stressors are experienced for older African Americans in United States "Rust Belt" cities is the multifaceted loss of trust in the neighborhood
The transactional perspective on occupation
Ten years after its introduction, the role of the transactional perspective in occupational science has grown. Although the perspective has been used for a variety of purposes, application remains primarily associated with qualitative modes of inquiry and within the domain of occupational science. We argue that the perspective has broader potential in empirical occupational science as well as in the fields of population health, health promotion, …
Foregrounding the transactional perspective’s community orientation
More than 10 years after our publication in this journal introducing the transactional perspective on occupation, we take the opportunity with others in this special issue to critically examine and suggest enhancements to the perspective. Here we lay the groundwork for what could be a new phase in the transactional perspective’s development by arguing for the value of its community-level orientation toward processes of occupation, inquiry, and pr…
Changing neighborhoods and occupations
Neighborhood characteristics are relevant to understanding occupations and associated outcomes, yet few empirical studies have focused on neighborhood as the unit of analysis when examining person-environment-occupation relationships. The purpose of this report is to begin addressing that gap. We present findings from a qualitative investigation conducted as part of a larger mixed methods study of 100 African-Americans aged 55 and older living in…
Filling in the gaps
Madsen and Josephsson’s rich account of ideas from John Dewey’s philosophical writings urges occupational scientists to understand occupation as “something that goes on ... because of a situation, not only by or because of the individual” (p. 12). Although many aspects of their article helpfully re-emphasize important points about pragmatism, occupation, and transformation, their article also suggests issues noted by other Deweyan scholars and om…
Using a Smartphone-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment Protocol With Community Dwelling Older African Americans
Our findings suggest using a smartphone-based EMA approach for data collection is feasible and has utility with older African Americans. We most likely enhanced adherence by testing, training, monitoring, and adapting the EMA protocol using input from older adults early in the EMA design process
Processes of developing ‘community livability’ in older age
New perspectives on old ideas
Predicting participation in meaningful activity for older adults with cancer
Transactional Perspectives on Occupation
Social geographies of African American men who have sex with men (MSM)
Transactional Perspectives on Occupation
The Art and Science of Occupation
This paper sketches a logic for occupation to create a more overt and cohesive basis for the related science. To do so, it recovers John Dewey's conceptualization of occupation from 1899, and it then expands that conceptualization through an analysis of three core dimensions of his later philosophy: empirical naturalism, instrumentalism, and aesthetic theory. The analysis suggests that Dewey's original view of occupation intended to incorporate h…
Allostatic load in an environmental riskscape
The socio-spatial neighborhood estimation method
Transactional occupations of older women aging‐in‐place
The increasing number of oldest‐old adults who ‘age in place’ in their home raises important questions about the relationships between place, occupation, and well‐being for that cohort. Much remains to be learned about how change in person and place are related to older adults’ occupations and how change and adjustments through occupation influence the meaning older adults experience through their lifeworlds. Using a multiple case study approach …
Moving to a Continuing Care Retirement Community
Herpesvirus reactivation and socioeconomic position
BACKGROUND: Elevated antibodies to latent herpesviruses have been demonstrated to be a reliable marker of diminished cellular immunity and recently have been associated with low socioeconomic position (SEP) in older adults. Extending these observations in a community-based study over a wide age range would provide an important new direction for investigating mechanisms underlying poor health outcomes in individuals with low SEP. METHODS: Anti-her…
Geographical Gerontology
The process of mediated aging-in-place
Occupation as Transactional Experience
Occupational science uses various concepts to denote occupation as residing within the individual. That is, despite recognizing the role of a context for the individual and her or his occupation, occupational scientists have continued to implicitly or explicitly create a dualistic view of person and context (environment). The dualism creates a problem for understanding occupation as well as the relationship of person and context. In this paper we…
Allostatic Load Among Non-Hispanic Whites, Non-Hispanic Blacks, and People of Mexican Origin
Our findings expand on recent research from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey with respect to ethnicity and allostatic load. Our results are consistent with the healthy immigrant hypothesis (i.e., newer immigrants are healthier) and the acculturation hypothesis, according to which the longer Mexican immigrants reside in the United States, the greater their likelihood of potentially losing culture-related health-protective effec…
Becoming "at Home" in Assisted Living Residences
Findings support a transactional interpretation of assisted living as home. The relationship between place attachment to one's community and full integration into assisted living is more complex than currently acknowledged
John Dewey’s metaphysical ground-map and its implications for geographical inquiry
The Art and Science of Occupation
This paper sketches a logic for occupation to create a more overt and cohesive basis for the related science. To do so, it recovers John Dewey's conceptualization of occupation from 1899, and it then expands that conceptualization through an analysis of three core dimensions of his later philosophy: empirical naturalism, instrumentalism, and aesthetic theory. The analysis suggests that Dewey's original view of occupation intended to incorporate h…
Physician retention in rural communities
Community and self
Transaction versus Interpretation, or Transaction and Interpretation? A Response to Michael Barber
(2006). Transaction versus Interpretation, or Transaction and Interpretation? A Response to Michael Barber. Journal of Occupational Science: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 97-99
The need for the “new health geography” in epidemiologic studies of environment and health
Transactional occupations of older women aging‐in‐place
The increasing number of oldest‐old adults who ‘age in place’ in their home raises important questions about the relationships between place, occupation, and well‐being for that cohort. Much remains to be learned about how change in person and place are related to older adults’ occupations and how change and adjustments through occupation influence the meaning older adults experience through their lifeworlds. Using a multiple case study approach …
Ethics and geography
Action theories for occupational science
Occupational scientists have argued that occupation implies action, but they have not produced sufficient analyses of action theories as potential bases for understanding occupation. We describe this situation and the corresponding need to theorize action as a necessary step for more carefully and powerfully conceptualizing occupation. To begin addressing the problem and need, we provide an analysis of two theorists, John Dewey and Pierre Bourdie…
Virtual medical geographies
Telemedicine is an innovation that is changing the geography of medical care provision. Regionalization of care is one important type of geographical change resulting from the implementation of telemedicine technology. This paper introduces a range of issues bound up with telemedicine and medical care regionalization and offers a geographical conceptualization of those issues through a synthesis of ideas from several literatures. It begins by pro…
Allostatic load in an environmental riskscape
A Deweyan case for the study of uncertainty in health geography
Processes of developing ‘community livability’ in older age
The socio-spatial neighborhood estimation method
Environmental hazards and stress
BACKGROUND: Substantial research has suggested that exposure to environmental health hazards, such as polluting industrial activity, has deleterious effects on psychological and physiological well-being. However, one gap in the existing literature is comparative analysis of objective and subjective exposure's relative association with various measurable outcomes of exposure. METHODS: These relationships were explored within a community sample of …
Moving to a Continuing Care Retirement Community
Foregrounding the transactional perspective’s community orientation
More than 10 years after our publication in this journal introducing the transactional perspective on occupation, we take the opportunity with others in this special issue to critically examine and suggest enhancements to the perspective. Here we lay the groundwork for what could be a new phase in the transactional perspective’s development by arguing for the value of its community-level orientation toward processes of occupation, inquiry, and pr…
Filling in the gaps
Madsen and Josephsson’s rich account of ideas from John Dewey’s philosophical writings urges occupational scientists to understand occupation as “something that goes on ... because of a situation, not only by or because of the individual” (p. 12). Although many aspects of their article helpfully re-emphasize important points about pragmatism, occupation, and transformation, their article also suggests issues noted by other Deweyan scholars and om…
Loss of Trust in the Neighborhood
The life course of neighborhoods and the trust placed in them appears to be intimately connected to the well-being of older African Americans. We therefore hypothesize that a fundamental pathway through which neighborhood stressors are experienced for older African Americans in United States "Rust Belt" cities is the multifaceted loss of trust in the neighborhood
The transactional perspective on occupation
Ten years after its introduction, the role of the transactional perspective in occupational science has grown. Although the perspective has been used for a variety of purposes, application remains primarily associated with qualitative modes of inquiry and within the domain of occupational science. We argue that the perspective has broader potential in empirical occupational science as well as in the fields of population health, health promotion, …
To Stay or Not to Stay
An important aspect of primary care physician availability is the retention of physicians once they have located. While retention has been under‐researched compared to recruitment, it is especially important in rural areas where physician shortages already exist. This study reports the results of a retention survey completed by 132 primary care physicians in rural eastern Kentucky. The survey sets up an objective, hypothetical retention scenario …
General practitioner distribution and population dynamics
Physician retention in rural communities
Community and self
Virtual medical geographies
Telemedicine is an innovation that is changing the geography of medical care provision. Regionalization of care is one important type of geographical change resulting from the implementation of telemedicine technology. This paper introduces a range of issues bound up with telemedicine and medical care regionalization and offers a geographical conceptualization of those issues through a synthesis of ideas from several literatures. It begins by pro…
Ethics and geography
A Deweyan case for the study of uncertainty in health geography
Becoming "at Home" in Assisted Living Residences
Findings support a transactional interpretation of assisted living as home. The relationship between place attachment to one's community and full integration into assisted living is more complex than currently acknowledged
The process of mediated aging-in-place
Occupation as Transactional Experience
Occupational science uses various concepts to denote occupation as residing within the individual. That is, despite recognizing the role of a context for the individual and her or his occupation, occupational scientists have continued to implicitly or explicitly create a dualistic view of person and context (environment). The dualism creates a problem for understanding occupation as well as the relationship of person and context. In this paper we…
Transaction versus Interpretation, or Transaction and Interpretation? A Response to Michael Barber
(2006). Transaction versus Interpretation, or Transaction and Interpretation? A Response to Michael Barber. Journal of Occupational Science: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 97-99
Landscapes of Risk
Several hurricanes and industrial explosions in 2005 brought increasing public attention to the risk inherent in the location of US petrochemical facilities. The upper Texas Gulf Coast is home to a significant cluster of petrochemical industries including some of the largest refineries in the United States. Residents live, play and work in the shadow of petrochemical towers. While the petrochemical industries have brought jobs and economic develo…
The need for the “new health geography” in epidemiologic studies of environment and health
John Dewey’s metaphysical ground-map and its implications for geographical inquiry
Geographical Gerontology
Action theories for occupational science
Occupational scientists have argued that occupation implies action, but they have not produced sufficient analyses of action theories as potential bases for understanding occupation. We describe this situation and the corresponding need to theorize action as a necessary step for more carefully and powerfully conceptualizing occupation. To begin addressing the problem and need, we provide an analysis of two theorists, John Dewey and Pierre Bourdie…
Perceived health change in the aftermath of a petrochemical accident
BACKGROUND: Little research has been conducted on changes in perceived health after an industrial accident. Using data from an ongoing survey on stress and health in a petrochemical complex in Texas City, Texas, the associations of a petrochemical accident with perceived health changes were examined. METHODS: The mean changes in perceived mental and physical health across pre-accident, within-accident, and post-accident categories were compared. …
Environmental hazards and stress
BACKGROUND: Substantial research has suggested that exposure to environmental health hazards, such as polluting industrial activity, has deleterious effects on psychological and physiological well-being. However, one gap in the existing literature is comparative analysis of objective and subjective exposure's relative association with various measurable outcomes of exposure. METHODS: These relationships were explored within a community sample of …
Allostatic Load Among Non-Hispanic Whites, Non-Hispanic Blacks, and People of Mexican Origin
Our findings expand on recent research from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey with respect to ethnicity and allostatic load. Our results are consistent with the healthy immigrant hypothesis (i.e., newer immigrants are healthier) and the acculturation hypothesis, according to which the longer Mexican immigrants reside in the United States, the greater their likelihood of potentially losing culture-related health-protective effec…
Transactional occupations of older women aging‐in‐place
The increasing number of oldest‐old adults who ‘age in place’ in their home raises important questions about the relationships between place, occupation, and well‐being for that cohort. Much remains to be learned about how change in person and place are related to older adults’ occupations and how change and adjustments through occupation influence the meaning older adults experience through their lifeworlds. Using a multiple case study approach …
Moving to a Continuing Care Retirement Community
Herpesvirus reactivation and socioeconomic position
BACKGROUND: Elevated antibodies to latent herpesviruses have been demonstrated to be a reliable marker of diminished cellular immunity and recently have been associated with low socioeconomic position (SEP) in older adults. Extending these observations in a community-based study over a wide age range would provide an important new direction for investigating mechanisms underlying poor health outcomes in individuals with low SEP. METHODS: Anti-her…
Allostatic load in an environmental riskscape
The socio-spatial neighborhood estimation method
Transactional Perspectives on Occupation
Sociology (31 obras) · Medicine (27 obras) · Psychology (27 obras) · Gerontology (17 obras) · Geography (14 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Occupational Therapy Practice and Research (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Epistemology (10 obras) · Social science (10 obras)