Sara Staats
Biographic Data
| ID | 5855178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Staats |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Staats |
| SIGNATURE | STAATS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University Newark |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Perceived Best Ages for Cats, Dogs, and Humans: Comparisons across Species, Human Age, and Human Gender
In addition to chronological age, humans perceive themselves and others as possessing several different functional ages. We extended the boundaries of research on perceived age concepts to cats and dogs, asking people to report on the best physical, mental, emotional, and social ages for cats and dogs. We found that emotional age was the oldest of the best ages and that physical best age was the youngest perceived best age for humans, cats, and d…
The Hero Concept: Self, Family, and Friends who are Brave, Honest, and Hopeful
The concept of the hero is pervasive and enduring, extending across time, culture, and age. Although an influential schema, the hero has not been empirically examined in depth. Heroic exemplars given by students and community members were examined, and the hypotheses that individuals with high Heroism scores are more hopeful and report higher Coping than individuals with low Heroism scores were also tested. Participants reported similar depiction…
Reasons for Companion Animal Guardianship (Pet Ownership) from Two Populations
The purpose of this study is to extend and replicate previously published results from a random probability sample of university faculty. The sample assessed reasons given for companion-animal guardianship (owning pets) and for belief in the beneficial health effects of owning pets. In this replication and extension design, these two non-random samples responded to the same questionnaire items as those addressed to university faculty. Results ind…
Sources of Happiness and Stress for College Students: A Replication and Comparison over 20 Years
The advancement of positive psychology is dependent upon measures of happiness, both globally and in specific contexts. Data are presented on two measures of sources of college students' happiness from two samples. Testing of the two cohorts (Ns=258, 68) was separated by 20 years. Measures for both samples had acceptable psychometric properties. There was an increase in college students' self-reported happiness across the 20-year period in the ra…
Sources of Happiness and Stress for College Students: A Replication and Comparison Over 20 Years
Situated Empathy: Variations Associated With Target Gender Across Situations
The aim of this study is to present a situated measure of empathy where person features such as gender of target and respondent vary within particular social contexts. The Empathy Situation Reaction Scale (ESRS; Manulik, Kelley, White, & Staats, 2004) has good psychometric properties for three different types of situations. Situations were associated with a much larger empathy effect size than gender of respondent. Gender differences on the ESRS …
The Miller-Rada Commitment to Pets Scale
Commitment to pets is introduced and defined. Commitment to pets overlaps the construct of attachment to pets but adds to our developing understanding of the human-animal bond. Commitment is operationalized as a resolve to keep a pet in spite of challenges that require expenditures of personal resources. The Miller-Rada Commitment to Pets Scale measures commitment, has high internal consistency, demonstrates construct validity, and correlates wit…
Student well-being: Are they better off now
Hoping for the Best: The Future Time Perspective
Empirical research on hope, expected effect and future time perspectives has employed a variety of different time frames. This research note contends that the effect of these time frames, frequently established by temporal instructions, merits further investigation. The present research compares four sets of time frame instructions with college students in the mid-west of the USA. Results indicate a significant increase of hope across the three s…
A brief report on hope in peace and war, and in good times and bad
Discriminating positive and negative aspects of pet interaction: Sex differences in the older population
Hope and happiness: A comparison of some discrepancies
Hope: An affective cognition
Perceived Sources of Stress and Happiness in Married and Single College Students
Individual interviews were conducted with 34 married and 34 single college students concerning their perceived sources of stress and happiness as university students. While no significant mean differences in marital status or sex were observed in data from the interview or four inventories, significantly more sources of school happiness than of school stress were perceived by both married and single students. Perceived sources of school stress we…
Students' Perceptions of Parents' Locus of Control
Students' Perceptions of Parents' Locus of Control." The Journal of General Psychology, 109(2), pp. 269–270
Associates by Age, Sex, and Method to Aggressive Words with Double Meaning
Associates for 12 words with at least one aggressive meaning were obtained from 80 middle-aged and 92 college individuals using the word-association method. A second sample of 120 individuals (30 in each of 4 age-sex groups) used the same words in a sentence. A general correspondence of the primary associates across age, sex, and method was observed. The sentence method appeared to be a more sensitive indicator of age-sex differences than the wor…
Serial Recall and Position Cue in the Verbal Maze
2 verbal mazes differing in number of alternatives per choice were employed in Exp. I. The number of alternatives significantly affected acquisition but not retention. In Exp. II, 3 groups of Ss learned a 4-alternative, 8-choice maze. Retention was tested under conditions of recognition, serial recall, or cued serial recall. Results indicated that cues including the position of the correct alternative did not provide an advantage over serial reca…
Drive Summation in a Water Maze
Studies on “Response by the Rat to Environmental Change”
Reasons for Companion Animal Guardianship (Pet Ownership) from Two Populations
The purpose of this study is to extend and replicate previously published results from a random probability sample of university faculty. The sample assessed reasons given for companion-animal guardianship (owning pets) and for belief in the beneficial health effects of owning pets. In this replication and extension design, these two non-random samples responded to the same questionnaire items as those addressed to university faculty. Results ind…
Hope: An affective cognition
The Miller-Rada Commitment to Pets Scale
Commitment to pets is introduced and defined. Commitment to pets overlaps the construct of attachment to pets but adds to our developing understanding of the human-animal bond. Commitment is operationalized as a resolve to keep a pet in spite of challenges that require expenditures of personal resources. The Miller-Rada Commitment to Pets Scale measures commitment, has high internal consistency, demonstrates construct validity, and correlates wit…
Discriminating positive and negative aspects of pet interaction: Sex differences in the older population
Student well-being: Are they better off now
Hope and happiness: A comparison of some discrepancies
Studies on “Response by the Rat to Environmental Change”
Drive Summation in a Water Maze
Serial Recall and Position Cue in the Verbal Maze
2 verbal mazes differing in number of alternatives per choice were employed in Exp. I. The number of alternatives significantly affected acquisition but not retention. In Exp. II, 3 groups of Ss learned a 4-alternative, 8-choice maze. Retention was tested under conditions of recognition, serial recall, or cued serial recall. Results indicated that cues including the position of the correct alternative did not provide an advantage over serial reca…
Associates by Age, Sex, and Method to Aggressive Words with Double Meaning
Associates for 12 words with at least one aggressive meaning were obtained from 80 middle-aged and 92 college individuals using the word-association method. A second sample of 120 individuals (30 in each of 4 age-sex groups) used the same words in a sentence. A general correspondence of the primary associates across age, sex, and method was observed. The sentence method appeared to be a more sensitive indicator of age-sex differences than the wor…
Perceived Sources of Stress and Happiness in Married and Single College Students
Individual interviews were conducted with 34 married and 34 single college students concerning their perceived sources of stress and happiness as university students. While no significant mean differences in marital status or sex were observed in data from the interview or four inventories, significantly more sources of school happiness than of school stress were perceived by both married and single students. Perceived sources of school stress we…
Students' Perceptions of Parents' Locus of Control
Students' Perceptions of Parents' Locus of Control." The Journal of General Psychology, 109(2), pp. 269–270
Hope: An affective cognition
Hope and happiness: A comparison of some discrepancies
Discriminating positive and negative aspects of pet interaction: Sex differences in the older population
A brief report on hope in peace and war, and in good times and bad
Hoping for the Best: The Future Time Perspective
Empirical research on hope, expected effect and future time perspectives has employed a variety of different time frames. This research note contends that the effect of these time frames, frequently established by temporal instructions, merits further investigation. The present research compares four sets of time frame instructions with college students in the mid-west of the USA. Results indicate a significant increase of hope across the three s…
Student well-being: Are they better off now
The Miller-Rada Commitment to Pets Scale
Commitment to pets is introduced and defined. Commitment to pets overlaps the construct of attachment to pets but adds to our developing understanding of the human-animal bond. Commitment is operationalized as a resolve to keep a pet in spite of challenges that require expenditures of personal resources. The Miller-Rada Commitment to Pets Scale measures commitment, has high internal consistency, demonstrates construct validity, and correlates wit…
Situated Empathy: Variations Associated With Target Gender Across Situations
The aim of this study is to present a situated measure of empathy where person features such as gender of target and respondent vary within particular social contexts. The Empathy Situation Reaction Scale (ESRS; Manulik, Kelley, White, & Staats, 2004) has good psychometric properties for three different types of situations. Situations were associated with a much larger empathy effect size than gender of respondent. Gender differences on the ESRS …
Sources of Happiness and Stress for College Students: A Replication and Comparison over 20 Years
The advancement of positive psychology is dependent upon measures of happiness, both globally and in specific contexts. Data are presented on two measures of sources of college students' happiness from two samples. Testing of the two cohorts (Ns=258, 68) was separated by 20 years. Measures for both samples had acceptable psychometric properties. There was an increase in college students' self-reported happiness across the 20-year period in the ra…
Sources of Happiness and Stress for College Students: A Replication and Comparison Over 20 Years
Reasons for Companion Animal Guardianship (Pet Ownership) from Two Populations
The purpose of this study is to extend and replicate previously published results from a random probability sample of university faculty. The sample assessed reasons given for companion-animal guardianship (owning pets) and for belief in the beneficial health effects of owning pets. In this replication and extension design, these two non-random samples responded to the same questionnaire items as those addressed to university faculty. Results ind…
The Hero Concept: Self, Family, and Friends who are Brave, Honest, and Hopeful
The concept of the hero is pervasive and enduring, extending across time, culture, and age. Although an influential schema, the hero has not been empirically examined in depth. Heroic exemplars given by students and community members were examined, and the hypotheses that individuals with high Heroism scores are more hopeful and report higher Coping than individuals with low Heroism scores were also tested. Participants reported similar depiction…
Perceived Best Ages for Cats, Dogs, and Humans: Comparisons across Species, Human Age, and Human Gender
In addition to chronological age, humans perceive themselves and others as possessing several different functional ages. We extended the boundaries of research on perceived age concepts to cats and dogs, asking people to report on the best physical, mental, emotional, and social ages for cats and dogs. We found that emotional age was the oldest of the best ages and that physical best age was the youngest perceived best age for humans, cats, and d…
Psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (8 works) · Happiness (6 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)