David C Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8215-127X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Risk in New Sexual Relationships: Trajectories of Protection
How do sex risk and protection change over the course of a relationship? It is often claimed that protection generally declines over the course of relationships. This 3-year longitudinal study examines 412 new sexual relationships described by 126 adult participants and tests this claim. Analyses identify four relationship trajectories: only 15% of new sex relationships show a declining trajectory of protection; another 12% show only a temporary …
A comparison of network sampling designs for a hidden population of drug users: Random walk vs. respondent-driven sampling
Reasons People Give for Using (or Not Using) Condoms
Positive Relationships That Support Elder Health and Well-Being Are Grounded in Midlife/Adolescent Family
Family is potentially a major support system for people of all ages. It can become particularly important for elders. On the basis of a 25-year longitudinal study, this article explores the contributions of family system functioning at parents' midlife to elderly parents' physical and mental health. Findings support the significant influence of the quality of the midlife/adolescent family life cycle stage on later life relationships between elder…
Cavemen Among Us: Genealogies of Atavism from Zola's La Bête humaine to Chabrol's Le Boucher
Although critics have rightly linked Claude Chabrol's film Le Boucher (1969) to Zola's novel La Bête humaine (1890), the two have yet to be considered in the context of the century-long tradition of thought about atavism that informs them both. This article reconstructs that tradition, examining how Le Boucher 's modern-day caveman suggests twentieth-century cultural continuities with nineteenth-century notions of man's relation to his evolutiona…
Partner naming and forgetting: Recall of network members
The HIV transmission gradient: Relationship patterns of protection
The Experience of Family in Japan and the United States: Working with the Constraints Inherent in Cross-Cultural Research
Social scientists involved on cross-cultural research face a variety of challenges. This issue is discussed in the context of emic and etic approaches to research. A project illustrating some of these challenges is presented. A projective measure completed by each family as a group was used to capture the experience of family in Japanese and American families. Some culturebased hypotheses were confirmed, and an interesting serendipitous finding w…
Health, Social Support and Satisfaction with Health Outcome
This study investigates the effect of social support on health among a sample of drug users and nonusers who reside in high drug-use areas of Houston, Texas. Two models of support were tested and group comparisons were made between drug users and nonusers. Findings indicate no significant differences between drug users and nonusers in terms of receiving enacted social support. Both available and enacted support predicted satisfaction with support…
The relationship among psychological distress, employment, and drug use over time in a sample of female welfare recipients
In this study we examined the relationship over time among work experience, psychological distress, and illegal substance use in a sample of 534 women receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Study participants were interviewed at intake and at 4‐month intervals for a period of 2 years. Each interview recorded the number of hours worked in the previous 4 months and the use of powder cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamines du…
The role of gatekeepers in limiting HIV transmission
Describes how HIV and AIDS are carried and spread, particularly for high‐risk groups, but adds that it is not only behavioural but also those behaviours in conjunction with others. Employs figures and tables for added explanation and emphasis. Chronicles some individual case studies showing different “risk” behaviours and types of “unsafe” practices. Makes clear that the use of varied types of education are of major importance in the fight agains…
Relationships and diseases among drug users and nonusers
Japanese and U.S. Marriage Experiences: Traditional and Non-traditional Perceptions of Family
Structured home interviews with 99 U.S. and 60 Japanese families included a projective exercise in which families made pictures of the family. The marital relationship, as presented in that picture, was compared for the two samples. The data can be summarized with two overarching themes: similarity and tradition. A number of themes were similar for families in both cultures: the tendency to see the parents/mates as a unit, and to see them as clos…
Individual Religiosity, Moral Community, and Drug User Treatment
Some scholars have suggested that individual religiosity inhibits deviant behavior. Others have suggested that behavior is more responsive to the influence of religiously-oriented moral communities than to the religiosity of individuals. Still others have suggested that non-religious moral communities, such as sports teams or self-help recovery groups, are just as effective as religious moral communities. The current article examines the associat…
Centrality measures for disease transmission networks
Japan: The Childless Society
A Pilot Study of Client Progress in Short-Term Drug Abuse Treatment
This paper is a pilot study of client progress in two short-term (23-day) drug abuse treatment programs. Client progress is defined as those changes in cognitive functioning, emotional well-being, and social support resources that are th proximate goals of drug abuse treatment. In this study, client progress was measured by changes in cognitive functioning, emotional well-being, and social support domains over the course of treatment. This pilot …
Experienced closeness and distance among family members
Parental validation and support in the development of adolescent daughters
An individuation process involving validation and a valuing process involving support act as mediating Processes between parent development and adolescent development
Marital Conflict Resolution: A Study of Strategies and Outcomes
Thirty white, middle-class, married couples were interviewed concerning the strategies each spouse used in attempting to resolve a number of actual conflicts experienced by each couple. Four types of strategies are examined: authority, control, influence, and manipulation. Findings show that husbands win most conflicts regardless of the strategies they or their wives employ. Controls for possession of strategy-relevant resources, area of responsi…
Unsafe at Any Margin: Interpreting Congressional Elections
Theories, Orientations, and Paradigms: Pluralism in Sociology
A distinction is made between the logical and empirical aspects of sociological theory. The logical aspects of a theory are denoted as its theoretical orientation. The scope of an orientation consists of those settings in which the orientation is alleged to apply. Within the scope empirically testable theoretical propositions may be derived. A theoretical orientation shared by a community of scientists is seen to correspond to the concept of para…
Individual Religiosity, Moral Community, and Drug User Treatment
Some scholars have suggested that individual religiosity inhibits deviant behavior. Others have suggested that behavior is more responsive to the influence of religiously-oriented moral communities than to the religiosity of individuals. Still others have suggested that non-religious moral communities, such as sports teams or self-help recovery groups, are just as effective as religious moral communities. The current article examines the associat…
A comparison of network sampling designs for a hidden population of drug users: Random walk vs. respondent-driven sampling
The role of gatekeepers in limiting HIV transmission
Describes how HIV and AIDS are carried and spread, particularly for high‐risk groups, but adds that it is not only behavioural but also those behaviours in conjunction with others. Employs figures and tables for added explanation and emphasis. Chronicles some individual case studies showing different “risk” behaviours and types of “unsafe” practices. Makes clear that the use of varied types of education are of major importance in the fight agains…
Relationships and diseases among drug users and nonusers
Japanese and U.S. Marriage Experiences: Traditional and Non-traditional Perceptions of Family
Structured home interviews with 99 U.S. and 60 Japanese families included a projective exercise in which families made pictures of the family. The marital relationship, as presented in that picture, was compared for the two samples. The data can be summarized with two overarching themes: similarity and tradition. A number of themes were similar for families in both cultures: the tendency to see the parents/mates as a unit, and to see them as clos…
Experienced closeness and distance among family members
Theories, Orientations, and Paradigms: Pluralism in Sociology
A distinction is made between the logical and empirical aspects of sociological theory. The logical aspects of a theory are denoted as its theoretical orientation. The scope of an orientation consists of those settings in which the orientation is alleged to apply. Within the scope empirically testable theoretical propositions may be derived. A theoretical orientation shared by a community of scientists is seen to correspond to the concept of para…
Theories, Orientations, and Paradigms: Pluralism in Sociology
A distinction is made between the logical and empirical aspects of sociological theory. The logical aspects of a theory are denoted as its theoretical orientation. The scope of an orientation consists of those settings in which the orientation is alleged to apply. Within the scope empirically testable theoretical propositions may be derived. A theoretical orientation shared by a community of scientists is seen to correspond to the concept of para…
Unsafe at Any Margin: Interpreting Congressional Elections
Marital Conflict Resolution: A Study of Strategies and Outcomes
Thirty white, middle-class, married couples were interviewed concerning the strategies each spouse used in attempting to resolve a number of actual conflicts experienced by each couple. Four types of strategies are examined: authority, control, influence, and manipulation. Findings show that husbands win most conflicts regardless of the strategies they or their wives employ. Controls for possession of strategy-relevant resources, area of responsi…
Parental validation and support in the development of adolescent daughters
An individuation process involving validation and a valuing process involving support act as mediating Processes between parent development and adolescent development
Experienced closeness and distance among family members
A Pilot Study of Client Progress in Short-Term Drug Abuse Treatment
This paper is a pilot study of client progress in two short-term (23-day) drug abuse treatment programs. Client progress is defined as those changes in cognitive functioning, emotional well-being, and social support resources that are th proximate goals of drug abuse treatment. In this study, client progress was measured by changes in cognitive functioning, emotional well-being, and social support domains over the course of treatment. This pilot …
Japan: The Childless Society
Centrality measures for disease transmission networks
Japanese and U.S. Marriage Experiences: Traditional and Non-traditional Perceptions of Family
Structured home interviews with 99 U.S. and 60 Japanese families included a projective exercise in which families made pictures of the family. The marital relationship, as presented in that picture, was compared for the two samples. The data can be summarized with two overarching themes: similarity and tradition. A number of themes were similar for families in both cultures: the tendency to see the parents/mates as a unit, and to see them as clos…
Individual Religiosity, Moral Community, and Drug User Treatment
Some scholars have suggested that individual religiosity inhibits deviant behavior. Others have suggested that behavior is more responsive to the influence of religiously-oriented moral communities than to the religiosity of individuals. Still others have suggested that non-religious moral communities, such as sports teams or self-help recovery groups, are just as effective as religious moral communities. The current article examines the associat…
Relationships and diseases among drug users and nonusers
The role of gatekeepers in limiting HIV transmission
Describes how HIV and AIDS are carried and spread, particularly for high‐risk groups, but adds that it is not only behavioural but also those behaviours in conjunction with others. Employs figures and tables for added explanation and emphasis. Chronicles some individual case studies showing different “risk” behaviours and types of “unsafe” practices. Makes clear that the use of varied types of education are of major importance in the fight agains…
Health, Social Support and Satisfaction with Health Outcome
This study investigates the effect of social support on health among a sample of drug users and nonusers who reside in high drug-use areas of Houston, Texas. Two models of support were tested and group comparisons were made between drug users and nonusers. Findings indicate no significant differences between drug users and nonusers in terms of receiving enacted social support. Both available and enacted support predicted satisfaction with support…
The relationship among psychological distress, employment, and drug use over time in a sample of female welfare recipients
In this study we examined the relationship over time among work experience, psychological distress, and illegal substance use in a sample of 534 women receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Study participants were interviewed at intake and at 4‐month intervals for a period of 2 years. Each interview recorded the number of hours worked in the previous 4 months and the use of powder cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamines du…
The Experience of Family in Japan and the United States: Working with the Constraints Inherent in Cross-Cultural Research
Social scientists involved on cross-cultural research face a variety of challenges. This issue is discussed in the context of emic and etic approaches to research. A project illustrating some of these challenges is presented. A projective measure completed by each family as a group was used to capture the experience of family in Japanese and American families. Some culturebased hypotheses were confirmed, and an interesting serendipitous finding w…
The HIV transmission gradient: Relationship patterns of protection
Partner naming and forgetting: Recall of network members
Cavemen Among Us: Genealogies of Atavism from Zola's La Bête humaine to Chabrol's Le Boucher
Although critics have rightly linked Claude Chabrol's film Le Boucher (1969) to Zola's novel La Bête humaine (1890), the two have yet to be considered in the context of the century-long tradition of thought about atavism that informs them both. This article reconstructs that tradition, examining how Le Boucher 's modern-day caveman suggests twentieth-century cultural continuities with nineteenth-century notions of man's relation to his evolutiona…
Positive Relationships That Support Elder Health and Well-Being Are Grounded in Midlife/Adolescent Family
Family is potentially a major support system for people of all ages. It can become particularly important for elders. On the basis of a 25-year longitudinal study, this article explores the contributions of family system functioning at parents' midlife to elderly parents' physical and mental health. Findings support the significant influence of the quality of the midlife/adolescent family life cycle stage on later life relationships between elder…
Reasons People Give for Using (or Not Using) Condoms
A comparison of network sampling designs for a hidden population of drug users: Random walk vs. respondent-driven sampling
Risk in New Sexual Relationships: Trajectories of Protection
How do sex risk and protection change over the course of a relationship? It is often claimed that protection generally declines over the course of relationships. This 3-year longitudinal study examines 412 new sexual relationships described by 126 adult participants and tests this claim. Analyses identify four relationship trajectories: only 15% of new sex relationships show a declining trajectory of protection; another 12% show only a temporary …
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (6 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (5 works)