George W Bohrnstedt
Biographic Data
| ID | 86898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George W Bohrnstedt |
| GIVEN NAMES | George W |
| FAMILY NAME | Bohrnstedt |
| SIGNATURE | BOHRNSTEDT G W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1571-284X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Mathematics identity and discrepancies between self-and reflected appraisals: Their relationships with grade 12 mathematics achievement using new evidence from a U.S. national study
Student-Teacher Racial Match and Its Association With Black Student Achievement: An Exploration Using Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling
This study examines student-teacher “racial match” for its association with Black student achievement. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to analyze 2013 National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) Grade 4 Reading Assessment data to examine interactions of teacher race and student race in their associations with student achievement ( N = 165,410 students, 23,710 teachers). Effects on Level 1 random slope parameters suggest t…
Statistics for social data analysis
A Review of the Background and History of the First Fifteen Years of Sociological Methods and Research
Making It Count Even More: A Review and Critique of Stanley Lieberson's Making It Count: The Improvement of Social Theory and Research
Gerhard Arminger, George W. Bohrnstedt, Making It Count Even More: A Review and Critique of Stanley Lieberson's Making It Count: The Improvement of Social Theory and Research, Sociological Methodology, Vol. 17 (1987), pp. 363-372
Common, Specific, and Error Variance Components of Factor Models: Estimation with Longitudinal Data
In the classic factor-analysis model, the total variance of an item is decomposed into common, specific, and random error components. Since with cross-sectional data it is not possible to estimate the specific variance component, specific and random error variance are summed to the item's uniqueness. This procedure imposes a downward bias to item reliability estimates, however, and results in correlated item uniqueness in longitudinal models. In …
High Tech in Social Research: Reply to Zeller
The Effects of Recalled Childhood and Adolescent Relationships Compared to Current Role Performances on Young Adults' Affective Functioning
George W. Bohrnstedt, Gene A. Fisher, The Effects of Recalled Childhood and Adolescent Relationships Compared to Current Role Performances on Young Adults' Affective Functioning, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 19-32
Use of Null Models in Evaluating the Fit of Covariance Structure Models
Evidence for extending the circumplex model of personality trait language to self-reported moods
We show that self-ratings by 141 undergraduates on 17 items form a circumplex that closely agrees with Conte and Plutchik's (1981) circumplex of personality traits. The order of items on a circumplex, generated by self-ratings following a here-and-now instruction set, scarcely differs from that of a circumplex representing the same ratings averaged over a 2-week period. The configuration becomes more elliptical as one moves from the state-like me…
Social Measurement: Current Issues
Explaining the relations among children's actual and perceived performances and self-esteem: A comparison of several causal models
New Developments in the Assessment of Reliability: The Linrel Program
A program is described that computes six reliability coefficients that reflect recent advances in the assessment of reliability. The program also outputs a variety of statistics, needed to compute the six coefficients, that are also useful for further item analysis. LINREL was designed to be portable and easy to use, and a detailed user's manual is available. A brief historical overview is given before program features are discussed
Modeling Social Interaction
Adult Perspectives on Children's Autonomy
Journal Article Adult Perspectives on Children's Autonomy Get access GEORGE W. BOHRNSTEDT, GEORGE W. BOHRNSTEDT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar HOWARD E. FREEMAN, HOWARD E. FREEMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar TOM SMITH TOM SMITH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 4, WINTER 1981, Pag…
Determinants of 1950-1970 Change in Illegitimacy Rates in Developed Populations
We use data on 23 populations, a linear regression model, and measures derived from aggregate-level theories to analyze 1950 to 1970 changes in age-specific illegitimacy rates. Illegitimacy rates in 1950 have strong net effects on 1970 levels in most age groups, but a population's 1950 age at marriage, economic growth rate, and change in the status of women have large and significant net effects on all 23 populations and on change in early 1950 m…
Attributions of ability and motivation in a natural setting
Social Science Methodology: The Past Twenty-Five Years
Level of Measurement: Once Over Again
The distinctions between nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio measurement were popularized by S. S. Stevens. Unfortunately, positions taken by Stevens have often been disseminated without criticism. One problem is the common assumption that 'ordinal' statistics are the best statistics to use for presumed noninterval continuous social variables, when, in fact, they use addition, subtraction, and division, which make the measurements interval by d…
Special Issue on Measurement
In this special issue of Sociological Methods and Research, we have assembled a set of essays that illustrate the state of the measurement art within sociology. Some of the papers are theoretical and others are applied. Our aims are two: to stimulate further theoretical research in the area of sociological measurement, and to provide the researcher with some practical applications. The growth in interest in sociological measurement is relatively …
"Are the Good Beautiful or the Beautiful Good?" The Relationship Between Children's Perceptions of Ability and Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness
Richard B. Felson, George W. Bohrnstedt, "Are the Good Beautiful or the Beautiful Good?" The Relationship Between Children's Perceptions of Ability and Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Dec., 1979), pp. 386-392
Housewives' Self-Esteem and Their Husbands' Success: The Myth of Vicarious Involvement
Anne Statham Macke, George W. Bohrnstedt, Ilene N. Bernstein, Housewives' Self-Esteem and Their Husbands' Success: The Myth of Vicarious Involvement, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Feb., 1979), pp. 51-57
The Reliability of Products of Two Random Variables
Use of the Multiple Indicators-Multiple Causes (MIMIC) Model
Explaining Premarital Sexual Intercourse among College Students: A Causal Model
Journal Article Explaining Premarital Sexual Intercourse among College Students: A Causal Model Get access Barbara Schulz, Barbara Schulz Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar George W. Bohrnstedt, George W. Bohrnstedt Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Edgar F. Borgatta, Edgar F. Borgatta Queens College, City University of NewYork Searc…
Observations on the Measurement of Change
A Quick Method for Determining the Reliability and Validity of Multiple-Item Scales
Validity, Invalidity, and Reliability
Sociologists almost always rely on fallible measuring instruments in attempting to estimate parameters. Recent work by Heise (1969) has shown how parametric estimates can be made with fallible data when one has three waves of panel data. However, when one has only crosssectional data, he must obtain multiple measurements on the same underlying true variable and use the correlations among the fallible measurements to make estimates of the paramete…
Robustness in Regression Analysis
This research was funded, in part, by National Institutes of Health grant No. 5-TO1-GM-01526. An earlier version of this paper was presented to a symposium, Methodology in Sociology, jointly sponsored by the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association and Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, June 1011, 1970. The authors are especially grateful to G. William Walster for his helpful comments on the earlier version of the paper
Adult Perspectives on Children's Autonomy
Journal Article Adult Perspectives on Children's Autonomy Get access GEORGE W. BOHRNSTEDT, GEORGE W. BOHRNSTEDT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar HOWARD E. FREEMAN, HOWARD E. FREEMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar TOM SMITH TOM SMITH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 4, WINTER 1981, Pag…
Student-Teacher Racial Match and Its Association With Black Student Achievement: An Exploration Using Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling
This study examines student-teacher “racial match” for its association with Black student achievement. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to analyze 2013 National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) Grade 4 Reading Assessment data to examine interactions of teacher race and student race in their associations with student achievement ( N = 165,410 students, 23,710 teachers). Effects on Level 1 random slope parameters suggest t…
Level of Measurement: Once Over Again
The distinctions between nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio measurement were popularized by S. S. Stevens. Unfortunately, positions taken by Stevens have often been disseminated without criticism. One problem is the common assumption that 'ordinal' statistics are the best statistics to use for presumed noninterval continuous social variables, when, in fact, they use addition, subtraction, and division, which make the measurements interval by d…
Some Limitations On Generalizability From Social Psychological Experiments
The experimental model has severe limitations that often are ignored by experimenters. The limitations are likely to account for the low level of external validity of experiments. Placing the model in the context of requirements for measurement emphasizes the limitations and suggests alternatives for improvements in the future
Use of the Multiple Indicators-Multiple Causes (MIMIC) Model
Explaining the relations among children's actual and perceived performances and self-esteem: A comparison of several causal models
Use of Null Models in Evaluating the Fit of Covariance Structure Models
"Are the Good Beautiful or the Beautiful Good?" The Relationship Between Children's Perceptions of Ability and Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness
Richard B. Felson, George W. Bohrnstedt, "Are the Good Beautiful or the Beautiful Good?" The Relationship Between Children's Perceptions of Ability and Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Dec., 1979), pp. 386-392
How One Normally Constructs Good Measures
This article describes how following good measurement construction procedures result in normal variables, for which the use of nonparametric statistics would simply be inappropriate
The Effects of Recalled Childhood and Adolescent Relationships Compared to Current Role Performances on Young Adults' Affective Functioning
George W. Bohrnstedt, Gene A. Fisher, The Effects of Recalled Childhood and Adolescent Relationships Compared to Current Role Performances on Young Adults' Affective Functioning, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 19-32
Evidence for extending the circumplex model of personality trait language to self-reported moods
We show that self-ratings by 141 undergraduates on 17 items form a circumplex that closely agrees with Conte and Plutchik's (1981) circumplex of personality traits. The order of items on a circumplex, generated by self-ratings following a here-and-now instruction set, scarcely differs from that of a circumplex representing the same ratings averaged over a 2-week period. The configuration becomes more elliptical as one moves from the state-like me…
Determinants of 1950-1970 Change in Illegitimacy Rates in Developed Populations
We use data on 23 populations, a linear regression model, and measures derived from aggregate-level theories to analyze 1950 to 1970 changes in age-specific illegitimacy rates. Illegitimacy rates in 1950 have strong net effects on 1970 levels in most age groups, but a population's 1950 age at marriage, economic growth rate, and change in the status of women have large and significant net effects on all 23 populations and on change in early 1950 m…
Explaining Premarital Sexual Intercourse among College Students: A Causal Model
Journal Article Explaining Premarital Sexual Intercourse among College Students: A Causal Model Get access Barbara Schulz, Barbara Schulz Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar George W. Bohrnstedt, George W. Bohrnstedt Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Edgar F. Borgatta, Edgar F. Borgatta Queens College, City University of NewYork Searc…
The Reliability of Products of Two Random Variables
External Validity and Evaluation Research: A Codification of Problems
This paper delimits and explicates threats to external validity particularly problematic in evaluation research. Five categories of factors are discussed: selection effects, measurement effects, confounded treatment effects, situational effects, and effects due to differential mortality. The paper focuses on pointing up specific ways in which each of the factors threaten generalizability and possible solutions to the methodological problems prese…
Common, Specific, and Error Variance Components of Factor Models: Estimation with Longitudinal Data
In the classic factor-analysis model, the total variance of an item is decomposed into common, specific, and random error components. Since with cross-sectional data it is not possible to estimate the specific variance component, specific and random error variance are summed to the item's uniqueness. This procedure imposes a downward bias to item reliability estimates, however, and results in correlated item uniqueness in longitudinal models. In …
Housewives' Self-Esteem and Their Husbands' Success: The Myth of Vicarious Involvement
Anne Statham Macke, George W. Bohrnstedt, Ilene N. Bernstein, Housewives' Self-Esteem and Their Husbands' Success: The Myth of Vicarious Involvement, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Feb., 1979), pp. 51-57
Religious Affiliation, Religiosity, and MMPI Scores
The Work Components Study (Wcs): A Revised Set of Measures for Work Motivation
The present study, through reanalysis of earlier data and the analysis of data from a new sample, reports on the refinement of the Work Components Study (WCS). An earlier study yielded six scores but the present one suggests that one of them should be broken into two, yielding seven scores. It is shown that the internal consistency of these scores is satisfactory and that the scores are relatively independent of each other. Finally, the utility o…
Equality of Educational Opportunity. Supplemental Appendix
Persistence and Change
Religious Affiliation, Religiosity, and MMPI Scores
The Use of the Quick Number Test in the Prediction of Academic Performance
Observations on the Measurement of Change
A Quick Method for Determining the Reliability and Validity of Multiple-Item Scales
Social Mobility Aspirations and Fraternity Membership
A STEREOTYPE has the fraternity pin as a key to obtaining a successful job on completion of college. For example, a recent study on a large university campus indicated that a sizeable number of persons believed that fraternities directly contribute to the attainment of a desirable job.' The purpose of this paper is to determine whether one's aspirations are related to whether or not he joins a fraternity upon arrival on the college campus. Is the…
Validity, Invalidity, and Reliability
Sociologists almost always rely on fallible measuring instruments in attempting to estimate parameters. Recent work by Heise (1969) has shown how parametric estimates can be made with fallible data when one has three waves of panel data. However, when one has only crosssectional data, he must obtain multiple measurements on the same underlying true variable and use the correlations among the fallible measurements to make estimates of the paramete…
Robustness in Regression Analysis
This research was funded, in part, by National Institutes of Health grant No. 5-TO1-GM-01526. An earlier version of this paper was presented to a symposium, Methodology in Sociology, jointly sponsored by the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association and Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, June 1011, 1970. The authors are especially grateful to G. William Walster for his helpful comments on the earlier version of the paper
An Item Analysis Package for Likert Scales
How One Normally Constructs Good Measures
This article describes how following good measurement construction procedures result in normal variables, for which the use of nonparametric statistics would simply be inappropriate
Causal Models in the Social Sciences
Some Limitations On Generalizability From Social Psychological Experiments
The experimental model has severe limitations that often are ignored by experimenters. The limitations are likely to account for the low level of external validity of experiments. Placing the model in the context of requirements for measurement emphasizes the limitations and suggests alternatives for improvements in the future
External Validity and Evaluation Research: A Codification of Problems
This paper delimits and explicates threats to external validity particularly problematic in evaluation research. Five categories of factors are discussed: selection effects, measurement effects, confounded treatment effects, situational effects, and effects due to differential mortality. The paper focuses on pointing up specific ways in which each of the factors threaten generalizability and possible solutions to the methodological problems prese…
Continuities in the Language of Social Research
Use of the Multiple Indicators-Multiple Causes (MIMIC) Model
Explaining Premarital Sexual Intercourse among College Students: A Causal Model
Journal Article Explaining Premarital Sexual Intercourse among College Students: A Causal Model Get access Barbara Schulz, Barbara Schulz Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar George W. Bohrnstedt, George W. Bohrnstedt Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Edgar F. Borgatta, Edgar F. Borgatta Queens College, City University of NewYork Searc…
The Reliability of Products of Two Random Variables
"Are the Good Beautiful or the Beautiful Good?" The Relationship Between Children's Perceptions of Ability and Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness
Richard B. Felson, George W. Bohrnstedt, "Are the Good Beautiful or the Beautiful Good?" The Relationship Between Children's Perceptions of Ability and Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Dec., 1979), pp. 386-392
Housewives' Self-Esteem and Their Husbands' Success: The Myth of Vicarious Involvement
Anne Statham Macke, George W. Bohrnstedt, Ilene N. Bernstein, Housewives' Self-Esteem and Their Husbands' Success: The Myth of Vicarious Involvement, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Feb., 1979), pp. 51-57
Attributions of ability and motivation in a natural setting
Social Science Methodology: The Past Twenty-Five Years
Level of Measurement: Once Over Again
The distinctions between nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio measurement were popularized by S. S. Stevens. Unfortunately, positions taken by Stevens have often been disseminated without criticism. One problem is the common assumption that 'ordinal' statistics are the best statistics to use for presumed noninterval continuous social variables, when, in fact, they use addition, subtraction, and division, which make the measurements interval by d…
Special Issue on Measurement
In this special issue of Sociological Methods and Research, we have assembled a set of essays that illustrate the state of the measurement art within sociology. Some of the papers are theoretical and others are applied. Our aims are two: to stimulate further theoretical research in the area of sociological measurement, and to provide the researcher with some practical applications. The growth in interest in sociological measurement is relatively …
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