James Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 5193945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3664-2884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Meaning of work as a personal emergent power[?]
Research on the `meaning of work', especially concerning the Global South, is scarce.This paper aims to reduce this scarcity by applying critical realist meta-theory to the work and life history interviews of workers in Sri Lanka.A key discovery is that finding meaning in life through work is a personal emergent power and that, as such, it explains the way that individuals consciously manoeuvre their life-journeys towards a desired end -a modus v…
Exclusionary Logics
Contemporary academia features managerialism and neoliberal thinking, consequent of an increasingly dominant market logic. This article draws on interviews with disabled academics, line managers, human resources professionals, estates staff, health and safety staff, and trade union representatives, alongside university policy documents, to discuss the impact of this logic on the experiences of disabled academics. Understandings of disability acro…
Working it out
This article focuses on the workplace as a significant site of convergence between the disciplines of medical sociology and disability studies. As disability remains on the margins of sociological exploration and theorising relating to health and work, disabled workers remain on the margins of the workforce, subject to disproportionate rates of unemployment, under employment and workplace mistreatment. The article focuses on the experiences of pe…
Disability inclusive employment in urban Malawi
The paper presents interview data from Malawian government representatives, trade unionists, employers and people with disabilities from the country's largest cities Lilongwe and Blantyre. Findings relate to the gap between the discourse of employers and government officials and that of workers with disabilities. Firstly, we find a policy‐based assumption of a formalised workforce that is not representative of the predominantly informal disabled …
The kids are alert’
Employer monitoring of employees’ and job applicants’ social networking site ( SNS ) data is widespread and growing, but remains ethically, legally and efficaciously controversial. Examining this emergent source of tension in the employment relationship, this paper explores how Generation Y employees experience and perceive employer use and monitoring of SNS s, and whether employer‐related concerns influenced their online behaviour. A survey of 3…
Gender and Disability in Male‐Dominated Occupations
Evidence from male‐dominated sectors points to high levels of disability and the disabling nature of working environments. However, research of this nature assumes a medical model of disability that does not account for the social construction of disability or the lived experiences of disabled employees. Using data from seven focus groups ( n = 44) and semi‐structured interviews with professional transport employees with life‐long hidden ‘impairm…
I didn't feel like I was alone anymore’
The long‐term fracturing of the labour movement has led to increased attention to employee coping practices under new management practices and labour processes. However, the literature caters little for the recent rise of employees taking to social networking sites ( SNSs ), such as F acebook, to find ways to cope with the pressures of contemporary employment. To explore the self‐organised coping qualities of SNSs , interviews were conducted with…
In the end, you can only slag people off for so long’
The paper critiques the ideology perspective of employee cynicism, which emphasises imaginary power and the employee's dependency on corporate culture initiatives. In contrast to the ideology perspective, this study draws on the narratives of work blogs and interviews with bloggers to suggest that being cynical about work can also give an employee a sense of control and attachment to their own occupational or professional community, while providi…
Because I need somewhere to vent’
Employee resistance has traditionally been analysed as an activity that occurs in the work organisation. In recent years, new Internet communication technologies, such as blogs, have expanded the possibilities for employees to express conflict. This paper explores how these developments can add to our understandings of employee resistance to the labour process
Transnational Criminal Organizations, Cybercrime, and Money Laundering
WRITTEN BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT PROFESSIONAL FOR OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL IN THE TRENCHESThis book examines the workings of organized criminals and criminal groups that transcend national boundaries. Discussions include methods used by criminal groups to internationally launder money; law enforcement efforts to counteract such schemes; and new methods and tactics to counteract transnational money laundering.A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO FACETS OF INTE…
Evaluation of the efficacy and cost effectiveness of health education methods to increase medication adherence among adults with asthma
We randomized 135 adult asthma patients to a control group, and 132 patients to an experimental group which received a special health education intervention. Four adherence measures were documented at baseline and 12-month follow-up: correct inhaler use, inhaler adherence, medication adherence, and total adherence rating. Costs to routinely deliver the intervention were $32.03/patient. Experimental group patients exhibited a significantly higher …
Subjective symptomatology of asthma in an outpatient population
Characteristics of subjective symptomatology of asthma were examined within a group of 132 adult asthma patients receiving medical care in a university-based, ambulatory clinic setting. Patients responded to 36 symptom descriptions or adjectives associated with asthma which were included in a modified version of the Asthma Symptoms Checklist (ASC). A principal components exploratory factor analysis was conducted and five factors were identified. …
Psychosocial environments of black colleges
Validity of the Allied Health Aptitude Test in a Respiratory Therapy Education Program
Scores on the Allied Health Aptitude Test and previous GPAs for 102 students were correlated with a dichotomous measure of their persistence and their GPAs in the Respiratory Therapy program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The multiple correlation for predicting grades was .62, and for predicting persistence was .47. These results are comparable to those obtained in other academic prediction studies and support the validity of this te…
Scale for Assessing Nurses' Attitudes toward Arthritis
Patterns of accomplishment among psychologists
Patterns of accomplishment among psychologists
Ecology of abortions in the United States since 1973
Validity of Locus of Control and Self-Esteem Measures in a National Longitudinal Study
This study examined the relationships of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 measures of locus of control and self-esteem to differential goal attainment in the areas of education, work, marriage, and fertility. Little evidence was obtained for the hypotheses that internal control and positive self-esteem further differential goal attainment, or that differential goal attainment furthers internal control and positive …
Education, work, and family formation in early adulthood
Train Buffs
Ecological characteristics of U.S. states and cities were correlated with measures of the geographic distribution of train buffs. As would be expected, state and city population size is the strongest correlate of the absolute number of train buffs. When number relative to population is considered, train buffs are concentrated in affluent cities and in affluent, urban states with primarily white populations and containing the outer fringes of metr…
The Human Ecology of the American Educational Research Association
acterized by their patterns of activities (Bailey & Mulcahy, 1972; Duncan & Schnore, 1959; Hawley, 1950). It frequently has been applied to the analysis of the geographic distribution of the members of various professions (Marden, 1960; Reskin & Campbell, 1974; Richards, 1977; Richards & Gottfredson, 1978). These studies have emphasized the health professions, however, so this study extends them by studying the geographic distribution in the Unit…
Geographic distribution of U.S. psychologists
Geographic distribution of U.S. psychologists
Personality Type for Physicians' Assistants and Associates Based on Vocational Preference Inventory
Weighted profiles for the Vocational Preference Inventory were computed for 74 students in the Health Assistant and Health Associate programs of the Johns Hopkins University School of Health Services. The three letter summary code was ISA, which is the same as the code for physicians. These results suggest the personality type assigned to these groups is similar
Because I need somewhere to vent’
Employee resistance has traditionally been analysed as an activity that occurs in the work organisation. In recent years, new Internet communication technologies, such as blogs, have expanded the possibilities for employees to express conflict. This paper explores how these developments can add to our understandings of employee resistance to the labour process
I didn't feel like I was alone anymore’
The long‐term fracturing of the labour movement has led to increased attention to employee coping practices under new management practices and labour processes. However, the literature caters little for the recent rise of employees taking to social networking sites ( SNSs ), such as F acebook, to find ways to cope with the pressures of contemporary employment. To explore the self‐organised coping qualities of SNSs , interviews were conducted with…
In the end, you can only slag people off for so long’
The paper critiques the ideology perspective of employee cynicism, which emphasises imaginary power and the employee's dependency on corporate culture initiatives. In contrast to the ideology perspective, this study draws on the narratives of work blogs and interviews with bloggers to suggest that being cynical about work can also give an employee a sense of control and attachment to their own occupational or professional community, while providi…
The kids are alert’
Employer monitoring of employees’ and job applicants’ social networking site ( SNS ) data is widespread and growing, but remains ethically, legally and efficaciously controversial. Examining this emergent source of tension in the employment relationship, this paper explores how Generation Y employees experience and perceive employer use and monitoring of SNS s, and whether employer‐related concerns influenced their online behaviour. A survey of 3…
Accuracy of interpersonal perception
Gender and Disability in Male‐Dominated Occupations
Evidence from male‐dominated sectors points to high levels of disability and the disabling nature of working environments. However, research of this nature assumes a medical model of disability that does not account for the social construction of disability or the lived experiences of disabled employees. Using data from seven focus groups ( n = 44) and semi‐structured interviews with professional transport employees with life‐long hidden ‘impairm…
Working it out
This article focuses on the workplace as a significant site of convergence between the disciplines of medical sociology and disability studies. As disability remains on the margins of sociological exploration and theorising relating to health and work, disabled workers remain on the margins of the workforce, subject to disproportionate rates of unemployment, under employment and workplace mistreatment. The article focuses on the experiences of pe…
A factor-analytic study of religious belief and behavior
Exclusionary Logics
Contemporary academia features managerialism and neoliberal thinking, consequent of an increasingly dominant market logic. This article draws on interviews with disabled academics, line managers, human resources professionals, estates staff, health and safety staff, and trade union representatives, alongside university policy documents, to discuss the impact of this logic on the experiences of disabled academics. Understandings of disability acro…
Education, work, and family formation in early adulthood
Physician Dominance and Location of Foreign and U.S. Trained Physicians
Cline and Richards' reply to O'Connor's methodological note
The generality of accuracy of interpersonal perception
The Prediction of Academic Achievement in a Protestant Theological Seminary
Accuracy of interpersonal perception
Predicting Academic Achievement in a College of Medicine From Grades, Test Scores, Interviews, and Ratings
The generality of accuracy of interpersonal perception
The Validity of a Battery of Creativity Tests in a High School Sample
Use of a Biographical Information Blank in the Prediction of Achievement in High School Science
Reconceptualization of the Clinical and Statistical Prediction Controversy in Terms of Components of Accuracy of Interpersonal Perception Scores
Accuracy Components in Person Perception Scores and the Scoring System as an Artifact in Investigations of the Generality of Judging Ability
Cronbach (1955) has proposed that accuracy of person perception scores be divided into several components as follows: Total. Elevation, Differential Elevation, Stereotype Accuracy, and Differential Accuracy. In the present paper, hypothetical items are presented to illustrate the fact that the system used in assigning scores can artifactually reduce the Differential Elevation and Stereotype Accuracy components and in extreme cases cause them to d…
Cline and Richards' reply to O'Connor's methodological note
A factor-analytic study of religious belief and behavior
A Factor Analytic Study of the Self-Ratings of College Freshmen
A Description of Medical College Environments
Behavior is typically conceived as determined by an interaction between individual characteristics and the characteristics of the environment. Consequently, in recent years researchers in higher education have devoted considerable attention to the description of college environments. Pace and Stern (1958) developed the College Characteristics Index (CCI), a true-false inventory which measures 30 features of the environmental press of the college,…
Prediction of Choice of and Sugcess in Agriculture as a College Major1
Predicting Performance in a Combined Undergraduate and Medical Education Program
This study investigated the prediction of success in the six-year combined undergraduate and medical education program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Students enter this program directly from high school, and at the end of six years receive their bachelors and medical degrees simultaneously. In addition to the usual measures of academic success, criteria for this study included measures of personal development, participation in cultur…
Impact on Admission to a School of Medicine of an Innovation in Selection Procedures
This paper reports the impact on admission to the University of Missouri-Kansas City's 6-yr. combined baccalaureate-doctor of medicine program of an innovation in selection procedures. In 1973 and 1974, the school's Council on Selection de-emphasized high school academic performance but continued to consider extensive biographical and interview data. Significant differences emerged in the correlations of various selection criteria with the Counci…
A Fortran Program for Simulating Educational Growth With Varying School Impact
To facilitate empirical investigations of longitudinal methodology, a computer procedure was developed to generate artificial data in which true growth scores are known. This procedure simulates the results of the Educational Testing Service Growth Study that pertain to the relationships among scores on a test of academic potential and scores on a test of educational attainment administered on four occasions. Similarly, the procedure simulates th…
A Simulation Study of the Use of Change Measures to Compare Educational Programs
Artificial data were used to assess the correlation between several estimates of average student change in various schools and the “true” impact of those schools. Results indicate that all estimates involving pretest-posttest differences measure school impact with reasonable accuracy. It is important to measure change over the entire course of learning, however, and not just over the later stages of learning. The correlations between change score…
Impact of a Replacement Birth Rate on U.S. Adult Value Structure
Consequences of a replacement birth rate would include changes in the population age distribution. This study combined estimates of these age distribution changes with estimates of the relationship between age and values to yield estimates of the impact of a replacement birth rate on value structure. Results suggest that virtually no changes in value structure should occur solely as a consequence of a replacement birth rate
Personality Type for Physicians' Assistants and Associates Based on Vocational Preference Inventory
Weighted profiles for the Vocational Preference Inventory were computed for 74 students in the Health Assistant and Health Associate programs of the Johns Hopkins University School of Health Services. The three letter summary code was ISA, which is the same as the code for physicians. These results suggest the personality type assigned to these groups is similar
Physician Dominance and Location of Foreign and U.S. Trained Physicians
Geographic distribution of U.S. psychologists
Geographic distribution of U.S. psychologists
The Human Ecology of the American Educational Research Association
acterized by their patterns of activities (Bailey & Mulcahy, 1972; Duncan & Schnore, 1959; Hawley, 1950). It frequently has been applied to the analysis of the geographic distribution of the members of various professions (Marden, 1960; Reskin & Campbell, 1974; Richards, 1977; Richards & Gottfredson, 1978). These studies have emphasized the health professions, however, so this study extends them by studying the geographic distribution in the Unit…
Train Buffs
Ecological characteristics of U.S. states and cities were correlated with measures of the geographic distribution of train buffs. As would be expected, state and city population size is the strongest correlate of the absolute number of train buffs. When number relative to population is considered, train buffs are concentrated in affluent cities and in affluent, urban states with primarily white populations and containing the outer fringes of metr…
Validity of Locus of Control and Self-Esteem Measures in a National Longitudinal Study
This study examined the relationships of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 measures of locus of control and self-esteem to differential goal attainment in the areas of education, work, marriage, and fertility. Little evidence was obtained for the hypotheses that internal control and positive self-esteem further differential goal attainment, or that differential goal attainment furthers internal control and positive …
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