Roger E Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger E Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 226 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Pre-Arrest/Booking Drug Control Strategies
Elements of a “pluralized” drug policy have been emerging in the United States that attempt to augment punishment with an emphasis on enhanced public health and therapeutic measures. While much of this reform involves compulsory treatment diversion, a “middle ground” to reform has involved the use of pre-arrest/booking strategies in support of harm reduction policies and noncompulsory treatment diversion. In this examination of the cities of Balt…
Do Parents Still Matter? Parent and Peer Influences on Alcohol Involvement Among Recent High School Graduates.
This study investigated the influences of peer and parent variables on alcohol use and problems in a sample of late adolescents in the summer immediately prior to entry into college. Participants (N = 556) completed a mail survey assessing peer influences (alcohol offers, social modeling, perceived norms), parental behaviors (nurturance, monitoring), and attitudes and values (disapproval for heavy drinking, permissiveness for drinking), and alcoh…
Community-Level Collaboration for Substance Abuse Prevention
Sense of community in neighborhoods as a multi-level construct
Sense of community is a compelling construct that allows psychologists to examine fundamental questions about how individuals are connected to and influenced by their most important social settings. This investigation uses an existing database of 2,409 residents of 21 neighborhoods in a Northeastern city to examine sense of community at the neighborhood level. The investigation used a cross-levels program to examine whether sense of community can…
Project Hope
A typology of prevention activities
Creation Through Death or Deception
Empowerment praxis in community coalitions
Community coalitions address a wide variety of community problems, espousing a community development processes that promotes individual and collective self‐determination. They offer a promising venue for the study of empowerment of individuals and organizations. This study utilizes data from members of 35 community coalitions organized for the prevention of alcohol and other drug problems to address the following questions: What individual charac…
Marquesan Myths
Der Olofat-Zyklus in der Erzähltradition Mikronesiens [The Olofat Cycle in the Narrative Tradition of Micronesia]
Kewa Tales
Patron Saints and Pagan Ghosts
Methodological Issues in Estimating Main and Interactive Effects
John W. Finney, Roger E. Mitchell, Ruth C. Cronkite, Rudolph H. Moos, Methodological Issues in Estimating Main and Interactive Effects: Examples from Coping/Social Support and Stress Field, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1984), pp. 85-98
Deficiencies in Social Support Among Depressed Patients
Roger E. Mitchell, Rudolf H. Moos, Deficiencies in Social Support Among Depressed Patients: Antecedents or Consequences of Stress?, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 438-452
Coping with domestic violence
This study suggests a conceptual framework for examining the impact of stress (i.e., level of violence), personal resources, social support, institutional responsiveness, and coping upon the psychological health (i.e., depression, mastery, and self-esteem) of battered women. Respondents were 60 women who had sought assistance from a shelter for battered women. Results indicated that increased levels of violence, minimal personal resources, lack o…
More Tales from Ulithi Atoll
Social support and well-being
Enhancement of individual and community competence
This paper presents an evaluation of a primary prevention program designed to enhance individual and community competence in older adult community workers and in community residents with whom they worked. A total of 22 community workers and 97 community residents participated in the study; 30 residents constituted as posttest-only control group. Pre-post changes included increased knowledge of community services among all participants, as well as…
Social networks and psychiatric clients
The study examines the extent to which characteristics of psychiatric clients (interpersonal problem-solving) and their families (family climate and family social resources) are associated with dimensions of clients' social networks (size and support). Respondents were 35 clients recruited from outpatient psychiatric clinics and the family members with whom they resided. The results revealed that individual and environmental variables were signif…
Problem‐solving, resource utilization, and community involvement in a black and a white community
This study examines differences in use of resource networks and experience of community life as a function of racial composition of community and individuals" roles in the formal service system. Interviews were conducted with service providers and civically active and inactive residents (n = 102). Members of the black community reportedfewer community strengths, more service-related community deficits, and a greater reliance on informal resource …
Argyle Boom
Task force report
Micronesian Ghosts and the Limits of Functional Analysis
The geographic focus of this paper is officially designated as Truk District, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, East Caroline Islands. It consists of several coral atolls scattered about a complex atoll (see Map A). It is this complex atoll that is designated as Truk, although there is no specific island of that name, Truk being the English rendition of the Trukese word chuk, meaning mountain. As of 1971, the district population stood at 29…
A Motif-Index of Traditional Polynesian Narratives
This reference work analyzes and classifies the story themes of Polynesian myths, tales, and legends according to an internationally employed system developed by Stith Thompson in his Motif Index of Folk-Literature ( 1955-1958). Thousands of tales, including those from almost all of the major original collections from the Polynesian area, have been examined and their thematic contents cataloged in this work
The Folktales of Micronesia
Task force report
Coping with domestic violence
This study suggests a conceptual framework for examining the impact of stress (i.e., level of violence), personal resources, social support, institutional responsiveness, and coping upon the psychological health (i.e., depression, mastery, and self-esteem) of battered women. Respondents were 60 women who had sought assistance from a shelter for battered women. Results indicated that increased levels of violence, minimal personal resources, lack o…
Empowerment praxis in community coalitions
Community coalitions address a wide variety of community problems, espousing a community development processes that promotes individual and collective self‐determination. They offer a promising venue for the study of empowerment of individuals and organizations. This study utilizes data from members of 35 community coalitions organized for the prevention of alcohol and other drug problems to address the following questions: What individual charac…
Methodological Issues in Estimating Main and Interactive Effects
John W. Finney, Roger E. Mitchell, Ruth C. Cronkite, Rudolph H. Moos, Methodological Issues in Estimating Main and Interactive Effects: Examples from Coping/Social Support and Stress Field, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1984), pp. 85-98
Social networks and psychiatric clients
The study examines the extent to which characteristics of psychiatric clients (interpersonal problem-solving) and their families (family climate and family social resources) are associated with dimensions of clients' social networks (size and support). Respondents were 35 clients recruited from outpatient psychiatric clinics and the family members with whom they resided. The results revealed that individual and environmental variables were signif…
Problem‐solving, resource utilization, and community involvement in a black and a white community
This study examines differences in use of resource networks and experience of community life as a function of racial composition of community and individuals" roles in the formal service system. Interviews were conducted with service providers and civically active and inactive residents (n = 102). Members of the black community reportedfewer community strengths, more service-related community deficits, and a greater reliance on informal resource …
Deficiencies in Social Support Among Depressed Patients
Roger E. Mitchell, Rudolf H. Moos, Deficiencies in Social Support Among Depressed Patients: Antecedents or Consequences of Stress?, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 438-452
Enhancement of individual and community competence
This paper presents an evaluation of a primary prevention program designed to enhance individual and community competence in older adult community workers and in community residents with whom they worked. A total of 22 community workers and 97 community residents participated in the study; 30 residents constituted as posttest-only control group. Pre-post changes included increased knowledge of community services among all participants, as well as…
Pre-Arrest/Booking Drug Control Strategies
Elements of a “pluralized” drug policy have been emerging in the United States that attempt to augment punishment with an emphasis on enhanced public health and therapeutic measures. While much of this reform involves compulsory treatment diversion, a “middle ground” to reform has involved the use of pre-arrest/booking strategies in support of harm reduction policies and noncompulsory treatment diversion. In this examination of the cities of Balt…
The Folktales of Micronesia
Patron Saints and Pagan Ghosts
Micronesian Ghosts and the Limits of Functional Analysis
The geographic focus of this paper is officially designated as Truk District, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, East Caroline Islands. It consists of several coral atolls scattered about a complex atoll (see Map A). It is this complex atoll that is designated as Truk, although there is no specific island of that name, Truk being the English rendition of the Trukese word chuk, meaning mountain. As of 1971, the district population stood at 29…
Schiller's William Tell
IN A RECENT WORK On Friedrich Schiller, Frederick Ungar laments the dimming glory of a German Golden Age and the inexorable decline in popularity of Friedrich Schiller's greatest dramas, whose messages are as pertinent to our unsettled times as they were to the Napoleonic days which fathered them.' Though it is only too obvious that Schiller's voice of rational idealism becomes increasingly muted by the growing clamor of the present, the same can…
Genre and Function in Eastern Carolinian Narrative
The Oedipus Myth and Complex in Oceania with Special Reference to Truk
Genre and Function in Eastern Carolinian Narrative
Oral tradition and micronesian history
(1970). Oral tradition and micronesian history: A microcosmic approach. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 33-41
Schiller's William Tell
IN A RECENT WORK On Friedrich Schiller, Frederick Ungar laments the dimming glory of a German Golden Age and the inexorable decline in popularity of Friedrich Schiller's greatest dramas, whose messages are as pertinent to our unsettled times as they were to the Napoleonic days which fathered them.' Though it is only too obvious that Schiller's voice of rational idealism becomes increasingly muted by the growing clamor of the present, the same can…
Micronesian Folklore and Culture Change
A Motif-Index of Traditional Polynesian Narratives
This reference work analyzes and classifies the story themes of Polynesian myths, tales, and legends according to an internationally employed system developed by Stith Thompson in his Motif Index of Folk-Literature ( 1955-1958). Thousands of tales, including those from almost all of the major original collections from the Polynesian area, have been examined and their thematic contents cataloged in this work
The Folktales of Micronesia
Micronesian Ghosts and the Limits of Functional Analysis
The geographic focus of this paper is officially designated as Truk District, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, East Caroline Islands. It consists of several coral atolls scattered about a complex atoll (see Map A). It is this complex atoll that is designated as Truk, although there is no specific island of that name, Truk being the English rendition of the Trukese word chuk, meaning mountain. As of 1971, the district population stood at 29…
Task force report
Problem‐solving, resource utilization, and community involvement in a black and a white community
This study examines differences in use of resource networks and experience of community life as a function of racial composition of community and individuals" roles in the formal service system. Interviews were conducted with service providers and civically active and inactive residents (n = 102). Members of the black community reportedfewer community strengths, more service-related community deficits, and a greater reliance on informal resource …
Argyle Boom
Social support and well-being
Enhancement of individual and community competence
This paper presents an evaluation of a primary prevention program designed to enhance individual and community competence in older adult community workers and in community residents with whom they worked. A total of 22 community workers and 97 community residents participated in the study; 30 residents constituted as posttest-only control group. Pre-post changes included increased knowledge of community services among all participants, as well as…
Social networks and psychiatric clients
The study examines the extent to which characteristics of psychiatric clients (interpersonal problem-solving) and their families (family climate and family social resources) are associated with dimensions of clients' social networks (size and support). Respondents were 35 clients recruited from outpatient psychiatric clinics and the family members with whom they resided. The results revealed that individual and environmental variables were signif…
Coping with domestic violence
This study suggests a conceptual framework for examining the impact of stress (i.e., level of violence), personal resources, social support, institutional responsiveness, and coping upon the psychological health (i.e., depression, mastery, and self-esteem) of battered women. Respondents were 60 women who had sought assistance from a shelter for battered women. Results indicated that increased levels of violence, minimal personal resources, lack o…
More Tales from Ulithi Atoll
Methodological Issues in Estimating Main and Interactive Effects
John W. Finney, Roger E. Mitchell, Ruth C. Cronkite, Rudolph H. Moos, Methodological Issues in Estimating Main and Interactive Effects: Examples from Coping/Social Support and Stress Field, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1984), pp. 85-98
Deficiencies in Social Support Among Depressed Patients
Roger E. Mitchell, Rudolf H. Moos, Deficiencies in Social Support Among Depressed Patients: Antecedents or Consequences of Stress?, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 438-452
Patron Saints and Pagan Ghosts
Kewa Tales
Der Olofat-Zyklus in der Erzähltradition Mikronesiens [The Olofat Cycle in the Narrative Tradition of Micronesia]
Marquesan Myths
Empowerment praxis in community coalitions
Community coalitions address a wide variety of community problems, espousing a community development processes that promotes individual and collective self‐determination. They offer a promising venue for the study of empowerment of individuals and organizations. This study utilizes data from members of 35 community coalitions organized for the prevention of alcohol and other drug problems to address the following questions: What individual charac…
A typology of prevention activities
Creation Through Death or Deception
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Public health (9 works) · Health psychology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)