Suzanne T Ortega
Biographic Data
| ID | 83176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne T Ortega |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne T |
| FAMILY NAME | Ortega |
| SIGNATURE | ORTEGA S T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rural-Urban Women's Experience of Symptoms of Depression Related to Economic Hardship
This study compares rural and urban women's experiences of depressive symptoms. Cross-sectional data were used from 623 women 55 years of age and older who were part of a randomly selected community based sample. Theoretical perspectives included individual stress and community context as explanatory factors contributing to differences in the proportion of women who identify having had the experience of symptoms of depression. Results of the anal…
Life satisfaction, self-esteem, and personal happiness among Mexican and African Americans
This study, using data from the Mexican Origin People in the United States: The 7 979 Chicano Survey and the National Survey of Black Americans, examines variation in religious participation and subjective quality of life across age and racial/ethnic groups. Results from multiple regression analyses demonstrate that Mexican and African Americans differ with respect to self‐esteem, happiness, and life satisfaction, even after controls for sociodem…
The Farm Crisis and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study of the 1980s1
This paper examines rural/urban differences and trends in mental health during the farm crisis of the 1980s in a large panel sample from a midwestern state. A community research perspective, which attributes differences to life styles, culture, and community context, is contrasted with an economic stress perspective, which focuses on individual differences in economic circumstances as determinants of rural-urban differences in mental health. Surv…
Age and Ethnic Variations in Attitudes Towards Older Persons, Family and Filial Obligations
Two major interpretations have been advanced to explain the frequent finding that ethnic elders have more extensive kin support networks than Anglo elders. Structural interpretations argue that the exigencies of poverty and ill health cause minorities to rely more heavily on family members for help than Anglos, whereas cultural explanations rest upon presumed differences in family values and attitudes. Despite the prominence of these two explanat…
Modernization, age structure, and regional context: A cross-national study of crime
Cross‐national research has yielded limited support for the Durkheimian‐modernization hypothesis that economic modernization increases the rate of crime. However, tests of the hypothesis have been flawed because (1) most research has assessed the criminogenic consequences of different levels of economic development rather than changes in development and (2) most studies have failed to control for the confounding effects of changes in the age stru…
Mirrors of Madness Patrolling the Psychic Border
This book is written not only (or even primarily) for sociologists, psychologists, or other service professionals, but also for curious and literate students and lay people. I have tried to make it accessible to the ordinary person. Most of all, it is written for those having direct experience of the psychiatric enterprise. The book as a whole is intended to show how psychiatric work creates patterns of interaction between the staff and residents…
Essentials of Sociology
This is a core text that presents a balanced, unbiased treatment of the essential concepts for introductory sociology. All the perspectives are given equal treatment. This text has always been respected for its admirable author team, scholarship and brevity. This edition will have a new emphasis on the process of doing sociology and integrating material across chapters to show the intersection of concepts. This new feature, entitled Intersections…
The Maturational and Role Perspectives on Aging and Self Through the Adult Years: An Empirical Evaluation
The role theory of aging and the maturational perspective differ with regard to whether aging is a problematic or positive process. This article looks at the self-concept and self-evaluation of men and women over the adult life course, using data from a large national probability sample. The evidence indicates that as persons age their self-concepts, while not qualitatively different from that of younger persons, contain more positive attributes,…
Religious Homogamy and Marital Happiness
Data from a representative sample of 1,070 married Protestants and Catholics were used to examine the relationship between religious homogamy and marital happiness. Although couples may vary in the extent to which they share religious views (e.g., beliefs, values), previous research has treated religious homogamy as a dichotomy; a couple is either homogamous or it is not. A partial explanation for this is that few studies have gone beyond the bro…
Race and Gender Effects on Fear of Crime: An Interactive Model With Age
While the literature on fear of crime is not wholly consistent, results generally indicate that blacks, women, and the elderly are the groups most fearful. In those instances where race, gender, and age have been simultaneously taken into account, studies have generally assumed that the relationships are additive. However, the gerontological literature suggests that age ofen interacts with other status characteristics in producing quality of life…
Crime and Older Americans
The Multidimensionality of Joining
By focusing on membership in voluntary associations in general, the question of whether correlates of affiliation vary by organizational type tends to have been neglected. This is a significant omission from the standpoint of describing the characteristics of "joiners." Additionally, most of what we know about the reasons for belonging has been inferred from observations of who joins. In this study, nine frequently identified correlates of volunt…
Marriage and Mental Illness: A Sex-Role Perspective
The Interaction of Structural Variables and Discretion in Individual Outcomes: The Case of Length of Stay for Mental Patients
There is a long history or debate concerning the relative effects of external variables and individual discretion on individual outcomes. Yet, few attempts have been made to specify their cumulative effects on individual outcomes. Using length of stay in mental hospitals as our outcome measure, and type of commitment as our discretion measure, results from regression analyses indicate that discretionary and external variables (i.e., positions in …
Chicano Aging and Mental Health
Socioeconomic Status and Mental Disorder: New Evidence and a Sociomedical Formulation
Despite numerous studies which show that socioeconomic status and mental illness are inversely related, it is possible that this relationship exists for some disorders but not others. Study of approximately 10,000 first admissions to state hospitals in one state covering the period 1956-65 shows an inverse relationship only for organic and schizophrenic disorders. In light of the etiological and predisposing factors that are involved in these two…
Race and Gender Effects on Fear of Crime: An Interactive Model With Age
While the literature on fear of crime is not wholly consistent, results generally indicate that blacks, women, and the elderly are the groups most fearful. In those instances where race, gender, and age have been simultaneously taken into account, studies have generally assumed that the relationships are additive. However, the gerontological literature suggests that age ofen interacts with other status characteristics in producing quality of life…
The Farm Crisis and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study of the 1980s1
This paper examines rural/urban differences and trends in mental health during the farm crisis of the 1980s in a large panel sample from a midwestern state. A community research perspective, which attributes differences to life styles, culture, and community context, is contrasted with an economic stress perspective, which focuses on individual differences in economic circumstances as determinants of rural-urban differences in mental health. Surv…
Modernization, age structure, and regional context: A cross-national study of crime
Cross‐national research has yielded limited support for the Durkheimian‐modernization hypothesis that economic modernization increases the rate of crime. However, tests of the hypothesis have been flawed because (1) most research has assessed the criminogenic consequences of different levels of economic development rather than changes in development and (2) most studies have failed to control for the confounding effects of changes in the age stru…
The Maturational and Role Perspectives on Aging and Self Through the Adult Years: An Empirical Evaluation
The role theory of aging and the maturational perspective differ with regard to whether aging is a problematic or positive process. This article looks at the self-concept and self-evaluation of men and women over the adult life course, using data from a large national probability sample. The evidence indicates that as persons age their self-concepts, while not qualitatively different from that of younger persons, contain more positive attributes,…
Religious Homogamy and Marital Happiness
Data from a representative sample of 1,070 married Protestants and Catholics were used to examine the relationship between religious homogamy and marital happiness. Although couples may vary in the extent to which they share religious views (e.g., beliefs, values), previous research has treated religious homogamy as a dichotomy; a couple is either homogamous or it is not. A partial explanation for this is that few studies have gone beyond the bro…
Socioeconomic Status and Mental Disorder: New Evidence and a Sociomedical Formulation
Despite numerous studies which show that socioeconomic status and mental illness are inversely related, it is possible that this relationship exists for some disorders but not others. Study of approximately 10,000 first admissions to state hospitals in one state covering the period 1956-65 shows an inverse relationship only for organic and schizophrenic disorders. In light of the etiological and predisposing factors that are involved in these two…
Life satisfaction, self-esteem, and personal happiness among Mexican and African Americans
This study, using data from the Mexican Origin People in the United States: The 7 979 Chicano Survey and the National Survey of Black Americans, examines variation in religious participation and subjective quality of life across age and racial/ethnic groups. Results from multiple regression analyses demonstrate that Mexican and African Americans differ with respect to self‐esteem, happiness, and life satisfaction, even after controls for sociodem…
Socioeconomic Status and Mental Disorder: New Evidence and a Sociomedical Formulation
Despite numerous studies which show that socioeconomic status and mental illness are inversely related, it is possible that this relationship exists for some disorders but not others. Study of approximately 10,000 first admissions to state hospitals in one state covering the period 1956-65 shows an inverse relationship only for organic and schizophrenic disorders. In light of the etiological and predisposing factors that are involved in these two…
Chicano Aging and Mental Health
The Interaction of Structural Variables and Discretion in Individual Outcomes: The Case of Length of Stay for Mental Patients
There is a long history or debate concerning the relative effects of external variables and individual discretion on individual outcomes. Yet, few attempts have been made to specify their cumulative effects on individual outcomes. Using length of stay in mental hospitals as our outcome measure, and type of commitment as our discretion measure, results from regression analyses indicate that discretionary and external variables (i.e., positions in …
The Multidimensionality of Joining
By focusing on membership in voluntary associations in general, the question of whether correlates of affiliation vary by organizational type tends to have been neglected. This is a significant omission from the standpoint of describing the characteristics of "joiners." Additionally, most of what we know about the reasons for belonging has been inferred from observations of who joins. In this study, nine frequently identified correlates of volunt…
Marriage and Mental Illness: A Sex-Role Perspective
Race and Gender Effects on Fear of Crime: An Interactive Model With Age
While the literature on fear of crime is not wholly consistent, results generally indicate that blacks, women, and the elderly are the groups most fearful. In those instances where race, gender, and age have been simultaneously taken into account, studies have generally assumed that the relationships are additive. However, the gerontological literature suggests that age ofen interacts with other status characteristics in producing quality of life…
Crime and Older Americans
Religious Homogamy and Marital Happiness
Data from a representative sample of 1,070 married Protestants and Catholics were used to examine the relationship between religious homogamy and marital happiness. Although couples may vary in the extent to which they share religious views (e.g., beliefs, values), previous research has treated religious homogamy as a dichotomy; a couple is either homogamous or it is not. A partial explanation for this is that few studies have gone beyond the bro…
Essentials of Sociology
This is a core text that presents a balanced, unbiased treatment of the essential concepts for introductory sociology. All the perspectives are given equal treatment. This text has always been respected for its admirable author team, scholarship and brevity. This edition will have a new emphasis on the process of doing sociology and integrating material across chapters to show the intersection of concepts. This new feature, entitled Intersections…
The Maturational and Role Perspectives on Aging and Self Through the Adult Years: An Empirical Evaluation
The role theory of aging and the maturational perspective differ with regard to whether aging is a problematic or positive process. This article looks at the self-concept and self-evaluation of men and women over the adult life course, using data from a large national probability sample. The evidence indicates that as persons age their self-concepts, while not qualitatively different from that of younger persons, contain more positive attributes,…
Mirrors of Madness Patrolling the Psychic Border
This book is written not only (or even primarily) for sociologists, psychologists, or other service professionals, but also for curious and literate students and lay people. I have tried to make it accessible to the ordinary person. Most of all, it is written for those having direct experience of the psychiatric enterprise. The book as a whole is intended to show how psychiatric work creates patterns of interaction between the staff and residents…
Modernization, age structure, and regional context: A cross-national study of crime
Cross‐national research has yielded limited support for the Durkheimian‐modernization hypothesis that economic modernization increases the rate of crime. However, tests of the hypothesis have been flawed because (1) most research has assessed the criminogenic consequences of different levels of economic development rather than changes in development and (2) most studies have failed to control for the confounding effects of changes in the age stru…
Age and Ethnic Variations in Attitudes Towards Older Persons, Family and Filial Obligations
Two major interpretations have been advanced to explain the frequent finding that ethnic elders have more extensive kin support networks than Anglo elders. Structural interpretations argue that the exigencies of poverty and ill health cause minorities to rely more heavily on family members for help than Anglos, whereas cultural explanations rest upon presumed differences in family values and attitudes. Despite the prominence of these two explanat…
The Farm Crisis and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study of the 1980s1
This paper examines rural/urban differences and trends in mental health during the farm crisis of the 1980s in a large panel sample from a midwestern state. A community research perspective, which attributes differences to life styles, culture, and community context, is contrasted with an economic stress perspective, which focuses on individual differences in economic circumstances as determinants of rural-urban differences in mental health. Surv…
Life satisfaction, self-esteem, and personal happiness among Mexican and African Americans
This study, using data from the Mexican Origin People in the United States: The 7 979 Chicano Survey and the National Survey of Black Americans, examines variation in religious participation and subjective quality of life across age and racial/ethnic groups. Results from multiple regression analyses demonstrate that Mexican and African Americans differ with respect to self‐esteem, happiness, and life satisfaction, even after controls for sociodem…
Rural-Urban Women's Experience of Symptoms of Depression Related to Economic Hardship
This study compares rural and urban women's experiences of depressive symptoms. Cross-sectional data were used from 623 women 55 years of age and older who were part of a randomly selected community based sample. Theoretical perspectives included individual stress and community context as explanatory factors contributing to differences in the proportion of women who identify having had the experience of symptoms of depression. Results of the anal…
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