Edward H Fischer

Biographic Data

ID3889160
NAMEEdward H Fischer
GIVEN NAMESEdward H
FAMILY NAMEFischer
SIGNATUREFISCHER E H
AFFILIATIONSConnecticut Valley Hospital
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS33
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX2

  • Attitudes of Black, White, and Hispanic Community Residents Toward Seeking Medical Help

    Open AccessEllen A Dornelas, Edward H Fischer et al.ARTICLERace and Social Problems2014References: 22

  • Urban Ethnic Minority Women’s Attendance at Health Clinic vs. Church Based Exercise Programs

    Open AccessEllen A Dornelas, Roxanne R Stepnowski et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2007Cited by: 2References: 11

  • Alcohol and drug disorders among physically abusive and neglectful parents in a community-based sample

    Kelly J Kelleher, K Kelleher et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1994Cited by: 28References: 12

    OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to compare the frequency of substance use disorders and symptoms between adults reporting child physical abuse or neglect and individually matched control subjects in a community sample. METHODS. In a nested case-control study, 169 adults reporting physical abuse of a child and 209 adults reporting neglect of a child from 11,662 individuals successfully interviewed in a probabilistic survey in four commun…

  • Attitude toward Abortion and Attitude-Relevant Overt Behavior

    Edward H Fischer, Amerigo FarinaARTICLESocial Forces1978Cited by: 1

  • Reader takes issue with Fischer

    Edward H FischerARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1973

  • Consistency among Humanitarian and Helping Attitudes

    Edward H FischerARTICLESocial Forces1973

    Five attitudes were defined factorially from subjects' responses (n = 489) to a 91-item inventory covering a variety of altruistic themes and attitude objects. Helping, social-responsibility, and procriminal factors were moderately associated; nontraditional humanitarian (mainly sex progressivism) and pro-animal factors had weak, although significant, correlations with other attitudes. Women expressed greater altruism than men, except on nontradi…

  • Birth planning of youth

    Edward H FischerARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1972Cited by: 2References: 5

    This paper addresses the questions of whether the theoretically related variables concern and intention are linked empirically and to what extent: i.e. population concern and intention of limiting family size. Another purpose was to consider certain personality traits that may relate to birth planning. Likert-type scales were administered to 360 subjects (nurse trainees at an urban hospital students at Connecticut colleges and University of Hawai…

  • Who volunteers for companionship with mental patients? A study of attitude‐belief‐intention relationships 1

    Open AccessEdward H FischerARTICLEJournal of Personality1971

    S ummary 329 students were asked to join a companionship program for mental hospital patients. It was expected that the relationship between humanitarian attitudes and intention to participate would be stronger for subjects with benign beliefs than for subjects with unfavorable beliefs about patients The findings were (a) subjects’ intentions corresponded to their later joining ( p weakest for subjects with benign beliefs (upsetting the main hypo…

  • Orientations to seeking professional help

    Edward H Fischer, John I TurnerARTICLEJournal of Consulting and…1970

  • Ballooning population

    Edward H FischerARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1970