John W Lounsbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 641351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John W Lounsbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | John W |
| FAMILY NAME | Lounsbury |
| SIGNATURE | LOUNSBURY J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
An Examination of Learner Self-Direction in Relation to the Big Five and Narrow Personality Traits
The present study addresses the relationship between learner self-direction and other personality traits of college students when the traits represented by the five-factor model of personality are differentiated from narrow personality traits. Correlation and multiple regression analyses were used with a sample of 2,102 college students to examine the unique individual relationship between Big Five and narrow personality traits and learner self-d…
The Relationship Between Aggression and the Big Five Personality Factors in Predicting Academic Success
The focus of this study was to determine whether aggression adds incremental validity above and beyond the Big Five personality factors in predicting grades. An archival data analysis was used in this study. The data consisted of a sample of eighth grade students. The students completed the Personal Style Inventory Adolescent (PSI-A), which is a 120-item survey instrument designed to measure the Big Five personality factors and aggression. Result…
Identity and Personality: The Big Five and Narrow Personality Traits in Relation to Sense of Identity
Based on a sample of 2,092 college students, Sense of Identity was found to be significantly related to the Big Five traits (Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Extraversion, and Openness) as well as four narrow personality traits (Aggression, Optimism, Tough-Mindedness, and Work Drive). Results of multiple regression analyses indicated that after controlling for age, year in school, and sex, the Big Five traits accounted for 3…
The validity of physical aggression in predicting adolescent academic performance
Background. Aggression has a long history in academic research as both a criterion and a predictor variable and it is well documented that aggression is related to a variety of poor academic outcomes such as: lowered academic performance, absenteeism and lower graduation rates. However, recent research has implicated physical aggression as being predictive of lower academic performance.Aims. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of th…
An investigation of Big Five and narrow personality traits in relation to Internet usage
An Investigation of Personality Traits in Relation to Adolescent School Absenteeism
An investigation of psychological sense of community in relation to Big Five personality traits
In this study we examine the relationship between psychological sense of community (PSC) and Big Five personality traits as well as absences from school. Based on samples of 646 high school students and 355 undergraduate college students, PSC was significantly related to Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism in both samples and to Openness and Absences in the high school sample. Results of stepwise multiple regression an…
Collegiate psychological sense of community in relation to size of college/university and extroversion
A scale to measure psychological sense of community (PSC) for colleges and universities was developed. Based on responses of 198 undergraduate students, factor-analysis was used to derive a 14-item scale (coefficient alpha = .88), which was given to another student sample of 98 undergraduates (alpha = .90). This collegiate PSC scale was administered to another nonrandom sample of 1127 undergraduates (coefficient alpha = .92) from 27 colleges vary…
Leisure needs and vacation satisfaction
Following a classical approach to the conceptualization of human needs, we adapted Beard and Ragheb's (1983) Leisure Motivation Scale to measure expressed needs prior to a vacation and met needs following a vacation in four domains: social, intellectual, competence mastery, and stimulus avoidance. All four met‐needs measures were significantly related to vacation satisfaction. For men, levels of expressed intellectual and competence mastery were …
Vacation Discrepancy: A Leisure Motivation Approach
This study commented on Utecht and Aldag's (1989) vacation-discrepancy study. We adapted Beard and Ragheb's 1983 leisure motivation scale to the study of vacations. Using a person's vacation as a frame of reference, prevacation expectations and postvacation satisfactions were studied in a convenience sample of 40 working adults and 146 college students. High (.80 and above) coefficient alphas were observed for the Beard and Ragheb scales of Intel…
An investigation of life satisfaction following a vacation: A domain-specific approach
The relationship of a vacation to global and domain-specific life satisfaction was examined. Comparison of pre-and postvacation measures indicated an increase in global life satisfaction and a slight increase in satisfaction within the domain of money, but no significant change in the domains of marriagel/family, work, leisure, community, or outdoors/nature. Retrospective measures of domain and global vacation satisfactions increased the predicta…
Attribute Factors Associated With Work/Leisure Perceptions
As a departure from previous approaches to the study of work/leisure definitions, perceptions of work and leisure were studied with respect to an activity relatively consistent in terms of task characteristics (high school and college/university basketball). Task attributes which distinguished perceptions of involvement as work, leisure or both were examined, with effects observed for scholarship, gender and year in school. The results are consis…
Five-Year Stability of Leisure Activity and Motivation Factors
This study examined the five-year stability of leisure participation and motivation factors among 139 community residents. As measured by a list of 113 leisure activities based on the Leisure Activities Blank (McKechnie, 1975), 5 participation factors comprising sports/recreation, easy living, domestic, organizational, and intellectual activities showed five-year stability coefficients ranging from.44 to.71. Six factors measuring motivations for …
Dual-Career Couples and Geographic Transfer: Executives' Reactions to Commuter Marriage and Attitude Toward the Move
This study investigated four factors predicted to influence executive decision making concerning geographic transfers when married employees are involved. One hundred and fifty-one executives completed a series of "inbasket" decision-making tasks which described geographic transfer situations. Their ratings of geographic transfers were found to be significantly affected by the couple's attitude toward the move and the presence of commuter marriag…
Performance Evaluation: A Case for the Use of Consensus Ratings
Data from a sample of government research scientists were used to compare the psychometric properties of pooled and consensus ratings of job performance. It was hypothesized that consensus ratings would possess less halo and leniency error and greater validity than would pooled ratings. The findings supported the halo hypothesis and partially supported the validity hypothesis. Given the severity of the “criterion problem” in validation research, …
An Investigation of Factors Associated with Vacation Satisfaction
We factor analyzed specific vacation satisfactions and examined overall vacation satisfaction in relation to demographic, work-related, and vacation-related variables. Data were obtained from 129 respondents to both pre- and post-vacation questionnaires. Five vacation satisfaction factors were revealed. Overall vacation satisfaction was most strongly related to satisfaction with relaxation and leisure, and also significantly related to satisfacti…
Changing expectations: A longitudinal study of community attitudes toward a nuclear power plant
Initial and 5-year follow-up interviews were conducted with 213 residents of the host community for a nuclear power plant. The purpose was to determine possible changes in attitudes toward the plant and expectations about potential outcomes associated with construction. Large negative changes in attitudes toward the plant were noted and were accompanied most notably by decreased expectations of positive outcomes. The structure of the expectations…
Work and Nonwork Sources of Satisfaction in Relation to Employee Intention to Turnover
This study focused on job satisfaction and nonwork satisfaction in relation to intention to turnover. Based on findings of a “spillover” relationship between work and leisure and on previous resear
Community mental health ideology presented in high school health textbooks: A content analysis
A comparison of expectations of volunteers, children, and parents in a big brother-big sister program
The expectations of individuals involved in a relationship have long been regarded as important to the initiation and continuance of that relationship. This study examined the expectations regarding the benefits, time and money spent, and duration of the relationship between the volunteer and the single parent family involved in a Big Brother—Big Sister agency. The expectations of the volunteers, parents, and children of the 18 randomly chosen Bi…
An analytic review of research in community psychology
A content analysis was conducted on all 478 empirical articles published from 1973 through 1978 in the American Journal of Community Psychology and the Journal of Community Psychology. Results indicate a substantial emphasis on policy analysis/research and program evaluation. The delivery of mental health services was extensively researched; however, a wide diversity of other topics such as work, substance abuse, and attitudes toward mental illne…
Community psychology: Boundary problems, psychological perspectives, and an empirical overview of the field
Dimensions of interorganizational interaction in social service agencies
The problem of interorganizational interaction was reviewed in terms of organizational structure and process, organizational size, and domain consensus between organizations. In order to determine the relationship between these factors and interorganizational interaction, interview data were gathered from personnel in a sample of 27 social service agencies. Cluster analysis results indicated a strong relationship between relationships of goal/tas…
The relationship of avowed life satisfaction to public acceptance of and expectations about a nuclear power plant
As part of a longitudinal study of the social and psychological effects of a nuclear plant in Hartsville, Tennessee, this study examined the relationship between avowed life satisfaction and acceptance of a nuclear plant and perceptions about the likelihood of its potential effects. Subjects were 288 residents of the Hartsville area who were privately interviewed in August, 1975. Results indicated no differences between respondents with low- and …
An analysis of topic areas and topic trends in theCommunity Mental Health Journal from 1965 through 1977
An Investigation of Factors Associated with Vacation Satisfaction
We factor analyzed specific vacation satisfactions and examined overall vacation satisfaction in relation to demographic, work-related, and vacation-related variables. Data were obtained from 129 respondents to both pre- and post-vacation questionnaires. Five vacation satisfaction factors were revealed. Overall vacation satisfaction was most strongly related to satisfaction with relaxation and leisure, and also significantly related to satisfacti…
Five-Year Stability of Leisure Activity and Motivation Factors
This study examined the five-year stability of leisure participation and motivation factors among 139 community residents. As measured by a list of 113 leisure activities based on the Leisure Activities Blank (McKechnie, 1975), 5 participation factors comprising sports/recreation, easy living, domestic, organizational, and intellectual activities showed five-year stability coefficients ranging from.44 to.71. Six factors measuring motivations for …
An investigation of psychological sense of community in relation to Big Five personality traits
In this study we examine the relationship between psychological sense of community (PSC) and Big Five personality traits as well as absences from school. Based on samples of 646 high school students and 355 undergraduate college students, PSC was significantly related to Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism in both samples and to Openness and Absences in the high school sample. Results of stepwise multiple regression an…
Leisure needs and vacation satisfaction
Following a classical approach to the conceptualization of human needs, we adapted Beard and Ragheb's (1983) Leisure Motivation Scale to measure expressed needs prior to a vacation and met needs following a vacation in four domains: social, intellectual, competence mastery, and stimulus avoidance. All four met‐needs measures were significantly related to vacation satisfaction. For men, levels of expressed intellectual and competence mastery were …
Attribute Factors Associated With Work/Leisure Perceptions
As a departure from previous approaches to the study of work/leisure definitions, perceptions of work and leisure were studied with respect to an activity relatively consistent in terms of task characteristics (high school and college/university basketball). Task attributes which distinguished perceptions of involvement as work, leisure or both were examined, with effects observed for scholarship, gender and year in school. The results are consis…
Work and Nonwork Sources of Satisfaction in Relation to Employee Intention to Turnover
This study focused on job satisfaction and nonwork satisfaction in relation to intention to turnover. Based on findings of a “spillover” relationship between work and leisure and on previous resear
An Examination of Learner Self-Direction in Relation to the Big Five and Narrow Personality Traits
The present study addresses the relationship between learner self-direction and other personality traits of college students when the traits represented by the five-factor model of personality are differentiated from narrow personality traits. Correlation and multiple regression analyses were used with a sample of 2,102 college students to examine the unique individual relationship between Big Five and narrow personality traits and learner self-d…
An Investigation of Personality Traits in Relation to Adolescent School Absenteeism
Dual-Career Couples and Geographic Transfer: Executives' Reactions to Commuter Marriage and Attitude Toward the Move
This study investigated four factors predicted to influence executive decision making concerning geographic transfers when married employees are involved. One hundred and fifty-one executives completed a series of "inbasket" decision-making tasks which described geographic transfer situations. Their ratings of geographic transfers were found to be significantly affected by the couple's attitude toward the move and the presence of commuter marriag…
An analysis of topic areas and topic trends in theCommunity Mental Health Journal from 1965 through 1977
The validity of physical aggression in predicting adolescent academic performance
Background. Aggression has a long history in academic research as both a criterion and a predictor variable and it is well documented that aggression is related to a variety of poor academic outcomes such as: lowered academic performance, absenteeism and lower graduation rates. However, recent research has implicated physical aggression as being predictive of lower academic performance.Aims. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of th…
Community mental health ideology presented in high school health textbooks: A content analysis
The Relationship Between Aggression and the Big Five Personality Factors in Predicting Academic Success
The focus of this study was to determine whether aggression adds incremental validity above and beyond the Big Five personality factors in predicting grades. An archival data analysis was used in this study. The data consisted of a sample of eighth grade students. The students completed the Personal Style Inventory Adolescent (PSI-A), which is a 120-item survey instrument designed to measure the Big Five personality factors and aggression. Result…
An experimental comparison of two community-based drug abuse treatment programs
An experimental comparison was made of the drug abuse treatment effectiveness of a halfway house and a community lodge program. Drug abusers, mainly heroin addicts, were randomly assigned to one of the two programs. After a three-month follow-up period, no significant differences between the two conditions were observed on four outcome variables: number of reinstitutionalizations, number of jailings, time spent in the program, and percentage of d…
Supervision and Consultation Conflicts in the Day-Care Licensing Role
Two types of conflict between supervision and consultation components in the professional day-care licensing role are examined. The results of interviews with providers of care indicate that licensers do not appear to use their supervisory role to force acceptance of consultation recommendations or suggestions. The data partially confirm the hypothesis that an orientation toward consultation is associated with a lower level of supervision of stan…
Community attitudes toward a proposed nuclear power generating facility as a function of expected outcomes
This study examined the relationship between attitudes toward a proposed nuclear power generating facility and the outcomes expected to accompany it. In a survey of 350 residents of a small rural community, approximately 2/3 expressed favorable attitudes toward the proposed nuclear plant. A principal components factor analysis of the anticipated likelihoods of outcomes of the plant revealed five factors: hazards, economic growth, lower costs, soc…
Community psychology: Boundary problems, psychological perspectives, and an empirical overview of the field
Dimensions of interorganizational interaction in social service agencies
The problem of interorganizational interaction was reviewed in terms of organizational structure and process, organizational size, and domain consensus between organizations. In order to determine the relationship between these factors and interorganizational interaction, interview data were gathered from personnel in a sample of 27 social service agencies. Cluster analysis results indicated a strong relationship between relationships of goal/tas…
The relationship of avowed life satisfaction to public acceptance of and expectations about a nuclear power plant
As part of a longitudinal study of the social and psychological effects of a nuclear plant in Hartsville, Tennessee, this study examined the relationship between avowed life satisfaction and acceptance of a nuclear plant and perceptions about the likelihood of its potential effects. Subjects were 288 residents of the Hartsville area who were privately interviewed in August, 1975. Results indicated no differences between respondents with low- and …
An analysis of topic areas and topic trends in theCommunity Mental Health Journal from 1965 through 1977
An analytic review of research in community psychology
A content analysis was conducted on all 478 empirical articles published from 1973 through 1978 in the American Journal of Community Psychology and the Journal of Community Psychology. Results indicate a substantial emphasis on policy analysis/research and program evaluation. The delivery of mental health services was extensively researched; however, a wide diversity of other topics such as work, substance abuse, and attitudes toward mental illne…
A comparison of expectations of volunteers, children, and parents in a big brother-big sister program
The expectations of individuals involved in a relationship have long been regarded as important to the initiation and continuance of that relationship. This study examined the expectations regarding the benefits, time and money spent, and duration of the relationship between the volunteer and the single parent family involved in a Big Brother—Big Sister agency. The expectations of the volunteers, parents, and children of the 18 randomly chosen Bi…
Work and Nonwork Sources of Satisfaction in Relation to Employee Intention to Turnover
This study focused on job satisfaction and nonwork satisfaction in relation to intention to turnover. Based on findings of a “spillover” relationship between work and leisure and on previous resear
Community mental health ideology presented in high school health textbooks: A content analysis
Changing expectations: A longitudinal study of community attitudes toward a nuclear power plant
Initial and 5-year follow-up interviews were conducted with 213 residents of the host community for a nuclear power plant. The purpose was to determine possible changes in attitudes toward the plant and expectations about potential outcomes associated with construction. Large negative changes in attitudes toward the plant were noted and were accompanied most notably by decreased expectations of positive outcomes. The structure of the expectations…
An Investigation of Factors Associated with Vacation Satisfaction
We factor analyzed specific vacation satisfactions and examined overall vacation satisfaction in relation to demographic, work-related, and vacation-related variables. Data were obtained from 129 respondents to both pre- and post-vacation questionnaires. Five vacation satisfaction factors were revealed. Overall vacation satisfaction was most strongly related to satisfaction with relaxation and leisure, and also significantly related to satisfacti…
Performance Evaluation: A Case for the Use of Consensus Ratings
Data from a sample of government research scientists were used to compare the psychometric properties of pooled and consensus ratings of job performance. It was hypothesized that consensus ratings would possess less halo and leniency error and greater validity than would pooled ratings. The findings supported the halo hypothesis and partially supported the validity hypothesis. Given the severity of the “criterion problem” in validation research, …
Five-Year Stability of Leisure Activity and Motivation Factors
This study examined the five-year stability of leisure participation and motivation factors among 139 community residents. As measured by a list of 113 leisure activities based on the Leisure Activities Blank (McKechnie, 1975), 5 participation factors comprising sports/recreation, easy living, domestic, organizational, and intellectual activities showed five-year stability coefficients ranging from.44 to.71. Six factors measuring motivations for …
Dual-Career Couples and Geographic Transfer: Executives' Reactions to Commuter Marriage and Attitude Toward the Move
This study investigated four factors predicted to influence executive decision making concerning geographic transfers when married employees are involved. One hundred and fifty-one executives completed a series of "inbasket" decision-making tasks which described geographic transfer situations. Their ratings of geographic transfers were found to be significantly affected by the couple's attitude toward the move and the presence of commuter marriag…
An investigation of life satisfaction following a vacation: A domain-specific approach
The relationship of a vacation to global and domain-specific life satisfaction was examined. Comparison of pre-and postvacation measures indicated an increase in global life satisfaction and a slight increase in satisfaction within the domain of money, but no significant change in the domains of marriagel/family, work, leisure, community, or outdoors/nature. Retrospective measures of domain and global vacation satisfactions increased the predicta…
Attribute Factors Associated With Work/Leisure Perceptions
As a departure from previous approaches to the study of work/leisure definitions, perceptions of work and leisure were studied with respect to an activity relatively consistent in terms of task characteristics (high school and college/university basketball). Task attributes which distinguished perceptions of involvement as work, leisure or both were examined, with effects observed for scholarship, gender and year in school. The results are consis…
Vacation Discrepancy: A Leisure Motivation Approach
This study commented on Utecht and Aldag's (1989) vacation-discrepancy study. We adapted Beard and Ragheb's 1983 leisure motivation scale to the study of vacations. Using a person's vacation as a frame of reference, prevacation expectations and postvacation satisfactions were studied in a convenience sample of 40 working adults and 146 college students. High (.80 and above) coefficient alphas were observed for the Beard and Ragheb scales of Intel…
Leisure needs and vacation satisfaction
Following a classical approach to the conceptualization of human needs, we adapted Beard and Ragheb's (1983) Leisure Motivation Scale to measure expressed needs prior to a vacation and met needs following a vacation in four domains: social, intellectual, competence mastery, and stimulus avoidance. All four met‐needs measures were significantly related to vacation satisfaction. For men, levels of expressed intellectual and competence mastery were …
Collegiate psychological sense of community in relation to size of college/university and extroversion
A scale to measure psychological sense of community (PSC) for colleges and universities was developed. Based on responses of 198 undergraduate students, factor-analysis was used to derive a 14-item scale (coefficient alpha = .88), which was given to another student sample of 98 undergraduates (alpha = .90). This collegiate PSC scale was administered to another nonrandom sample of 1127 undergraduates (coefficient alpha = .92) from 27 colleges vary…
An investigation of psychological sense of community in relation to Big Five personality traits
In this study we examine the relationship between psychological sense of community (PSC) and Big Five personality traits as well as absences from school. Based on samples of 646 high school students and 355 undergraduate college students, PSC was significantly related to Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism in both samples and to Openness and Absences in the high school sample. Results of stepwise multiple regression an…
An investigation of Big Five and narrow personality traits in relation to Internet usage
An Investigation of Personality Traits in Relation to Adolescent School Absenteeism
Identity and Personality: The Big Five and Narrow Personality Traits in Relation to Sense of Identity
Based on a sample of 2,092 college students, Sense of Identity was found to be significantly related to the Big Five traits (Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Extraversion, and Openness) as well as four narrow personality traits (Aggression, Optimism, Tough-Mindedness, and Work Drive). Results of multiple regression analyses indicated that after controlling for age, year in school, and sex, the Big Five traits accounted for 3…
Psychology (27 works) · Social Psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Big Five personality traits (8 works) · Personality (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Extraversion and introversion (7 works) · Medicine (7 works)