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Papers by Anthony Marsella
Asian American and Pacific Islander Journal of Health, 1998
J Consult Clin Psychol, 1975
From results of testing 219 Ss on a battery of 20 cognitive tests, it is concluded that resistanc... more From results of testing 219 Ss on a battery of 20 cognitive tests, it is concluded that resistance to interference is a potentially viable diagnostic dimension in assessing the likelihood of serious personality disturbance, as well as in evaluating the seriousness of a current disorder.
Int J Soc Psychiatr, 1975
As part of a larger investigation of social/psychological stress and psychiatric adaptation in ur... more As part of a larger investigation of social/psychological stress and psychiatric adaptation in urban Manila, efforts were made to study the effects of goal-striving discrepancy stress in housing among Filipino men from different age groups and social classes. Goal-striving discrepancy stress is an organismic state characterized by tension and discomfort due to discrepancies between aspirations and achievements. Several studies have demononstrated that goal-striving discrepancy stress are asociated with psychiatric disorder. The present study focused upon the discrepancies between aspiration and achievements in housing among Filipino men. Housing constitutes one of man's basic problems in urban societies; however, in spite of the fact that housing is related to psychiatric adaptation, relatively few studies have been made of this problem. It is important to recognize that housing has numerous psychological implications for an individual. It is a symbol of social status and social acceptance and greatly influences an individual's view of himself and others. Some investigators have even suggested that housing may be construed as a symbolic representation of the mother-child relationship. For the present investigation, twelve housing characteristics considered to be important to Filipinos e. g., size, cost, location, ownership of land, etc., were derived and ninety-six Filipino males from different age groups and social classes were asked to indicate both their aspiration and their actual achievement for each of the twelve housing characteristics. Goal-striving discrepancies were obtained by subtracting the aspirational endorsements from the achievement endorsements. The discrepancy scores were then correlated with various psychiatric symptom patterns through factor analysis. Results of the investigation revealed profound social class differences in the amount of goal-striving discrepancy stress. ......
Measures of ethnocultural identity are used clinically and in research to increase sensitivity to... more Measures of ethnocultural identity are used clinically and in research to increase sensitivity to cultural variability among clients and research subjects. However, current measures of ethnocultural identity typically assess one's overall cultural heritage identification without considering differences in various domains of identity. This paper provides initial validation of an attitudinal scale to complement a previously published behavioral scale of ethnocultural identity for use with Asians and Pacific Islanders. Preliminary analyses of data from 504 university students in Hawai'i support the factorial structure and internal consistency of a seven-item attitudinal index. Early evidence of the validity of the attitudinal indices within a multi-index Cultural Identity Battery is provided.
Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology, 2009
This article reviews psychological research on Native Hawaiians conducted in the 19th through the... more This article reviews psychological research on Native Hawaiians conducted in the 19th through the 21st centuries. The rationale is to provide a historical orientation to this indigenous group, to increase awareness of the complexities of research about Native Hawaiians, and to draw attention to emerging issues, practices, and challenges of psychological research emphasizing indigenous health and well-being. This article lays a historical foundation for future research with a renewed emphasis on indigenous knowledge and its holistic view of psychology in relationship to the land, spiritual beliefs, cultural practices, language, and community.
Asian American and Pacific Islander journal of health, 1998
PURPOSE. The goal of this article is to present a measurement tool with potential utility for hea... more PURPOSE. The goal of this article is to present a measurement tool with potential utility for health care workers and mental health professionals who require a means of systematically assessing ethnocultural behaviors in the course of their professional clinical activities and decision making. METHODOLOGY. As part of a larger effort to develop a multidimensional, ethnocultural identification scale for clinical and research use, a cultural general 19 item selfreport behavior index entitled the Ethnocultural Identity Behavior Index (EIBI) was designed. The psychometrics of the EIBI were examined on a sample of 352 college students selfidentifying with an Asian American or Native Hawaiian ethnocultural group. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS. The data suggest that the EIBI has high internal consistency. Construct and concurrent convergent validity were also established for the EIBI through a comparison of the EIBI schores of immigrants and nonimmigrants, through correlations with...
Journal of clinical psychology, 1975
Handbook of Multicultural Mental Health, 2013
The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1974
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1975
Numerous studies have investigated personality correlates of performance on the Stroop Color and ... more Numerous studies have investigated personality correlates of performance on the Stroop Color and Word Test. With one exception, these studies have failed to identify any significant correlates between the two variables. The present study examined this relationship by administering the Stroop Color and Word Test, Cattell's 16 PF, and the Maudsley Personality Inventory to a sample of 210 college students. Results indicated no significant correlates existed between five different measures of Stroop Color and Word Test performance and the personality scales. It was concluded that the Stroop Color and Word Test has little relationship to measures of personality and may best be understood in terms of specific cognitive processes.
Journal of Research in Personality, 2001
Teachers' personality assessments of over 2000 children were obtained by John M. Digman between 1... more Teachers' personality assessments of over 2000 children were obtained by John M. Digman between 1959 and 1967 in elementary schools on two Hawaiian islands. In July 1998, we began tracing these former students, who were now adults in the 40-to 50-year-old age range. Over a 2-year period, roughly 75% of the original sample has been located, and over 60% of those located have completed a survey of their personality attributes, health status and history, and health-related habits and practices. The most successful methods for tracing these individuals included This report is fondly dedicated to John M. (Jack) Digman: 1923Digman: -1998
Journal of Refugee Studies, 1992
Journal of Managerial Psychology, 2011
Purpose – This paper aims to reflect on the work of Virginia E. Schein and her paper “The functio... more Purpose – This paper aims to reflect on the work of Virginia E. Schein and her paper “The functions of work-related group participation for poor women in developing countries: an exploratory look.” Design/methodology/approach – Professor Schein traveled to Nicaragua, to lower-income settings, where she observed and recorded the experiences of women working in self-organized groups, and used those observations to
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1981
... It was hypothesized that depressed respondents would manifest significantly higher levels of ... more ... It was hypothesized that depressed respondents would manifest significantly higher levels of body-image dissatisfaction than nondepressed respondents, regardless of ethnicity and gender. The results supported the hypothesis. ...
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1975
As part of a larger investigation of social/psychological stress and psychiatric adaptation in ur... more As part of a larger investigation of social/psychological stress and psychiatric adaptation in urban Manila, efforts were made to study the effects of goal-striving discrepancy stress in housing among Filipino men from different age groups and social classes. Goal-striving discrepancy stress is an organismic state characterized by tension and discomfort due to discrepancies between aspirations and achievements. Several studies have demononstrated that goal-striving discrepancy stress are asociated with psychiatric disorder. The present study focused upon the discrepancies between aspiration and achievements in housing among Filipino men. Housing constitutes one of man's basic problems in urban societies; however, in spite of the fact that housing is related to psychiatric adaptation, relatively few studies have been made of this problem. It is important to recognize that housing has numerous psychological implications for an individual. It is a symbol of social status and social acceptance and greatly influences an individual's view of himself and others. Some investigators have even suggested that housing may be construed as a symbolic representation of the mother-child relationship. For the present investigation, twelve housing characteristics considered to be important to Filipinos e. g., size, cost, location, ownership of land, etc., were derived and ninety-six Filipino males from different age groups and social classes were asked to indicate both their aspiration and their actual achievement for each of the twelve housing characteristics. Goal-striving discrepancies were obtained by subtracting the aspirational endorsements from the achievement endorsements. The discrepancy scores were then correlated with various psychiatric symptom patterns through factor analysis. Results of the investigation revealed profound social class differences in the amount of goal-striving discrepancy stress. ......
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1988
This sub-study of the WHO Determinants of Outcome of Severe Mental Disorders research project was... more This sub-study of the WHO Determinants of Outcome of Severe Mental Disorders research project was aimed at characterizing the behavioral and expressive qualities of schizophrenia in two highly diverse cultures. Early research has indicated that the core elements involving affect, perceptual and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia are highly similar in form in most cultures of the world. Much of the cross-cultural literature emphasizes, however, strong differences in the ways in which schizophrenia is actually expressed and manifested in different settings. The basic methodology for psychiatric description and diagnosis in the WHO program was the Present State Examination. In five of the field centers a method for investigating the expressive quality and the social behavior of patients in their own communities through the eyes of significant others was applied. This method was then subjected to psychometric tests of cross-cultural applicability and found to be valid for comparing behavior across settings. The expressive patterns of the Indian and Nigerian patients were studied from two perspectives. Indian schizophrenics were described by family members as manifesting a more affective and "selfcentered" orientation; the Nigerian patients presented with a highly suspicious, bizarre, anxious quality to the basic behavioral pattern. The main features of pathology were in general accord with the descriptions of indigenous psychiatrists. The special qualities of the psychosis in the two cultures were interpreted against the background of traditional psychopathological and anthropologic theories concerning the psychodynamics and the influence of differing social conflictual themes in the two cultures. Analysis of psychopathology in this manner was found to enhance understanding of underlying mechanisms and the role of cultural conflicts in its expression.
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1987
This study reports on the findings from a WHO sponsored cross-national investigation of life even... more This study reports on the findings from a WHO sponsored cross-national investigation of life events and schizophrenia. Data are presented from a series of 386 acutely ill schizophrenic patients selected from nine field research centers located in developing and developed countries (Aarhus, Denmark; Agra, India; Cali, Colombia; Chandigarh, India; Honolulu, USA; Ibadan, Nigeria; Nagasaki, Japan; Prague, Czechoslovakia; Rochester, USA). On a methodological level, the study demonstrates that life event methodologies originating in the developed countries can be adapted for international studies and may be used to collect reasonably reliable and comparable cross-cultural data on psychosocial factors affecting the course of schizophrenic disorders. Substantive findings replicate the results of prior studies which conclude that socioenvironmental stressors may precipitate schizophrenic attacks and such events tend to cluster in the two to three week period immediately preceding illness onset.
socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu
Background: Clifford R. O'Donnell, Ph. D., Professor of Psychology, University of Hawai'... more Background: Clifford R. O'Donnell, Ph. D., Professor of Psychology, University of Hawai'i, serves as Director of the Community and Culture Psychology Graduate Program. This Program received the American Psychological Association 2004 Honorable Mention Award for Innovation in Graduate Education in Psychology. Professor O'Donnell is a Scientific Board Member of The Melissa Institute for the Prevention and Treatment of Violence and of the Board of Directors of the Intermountain Centers for Human Development (AZ), and has ...
American Behavioral Scientist, 2000
The present article discusses historical, conceptual, and methodological issues associated with t... more The present article discusses historical, conceptual, and methodological issues associated with the cross-cultural measurement of personality. It documents the extensive debate and discussion that has emerged from the juxtaposition of the trait-situation, universalism-relativism, quantitative-qualitative, and anthropology-psychology polarities in the past decade. Following a discussion of these polarities, the present article concludes that the contending (and contentious) positions should be replaced
... For example, things that destroy the social fabric include the following behaviors: Hate (i... more ... For example, things that destroy the social fabric include the following behaviors: Hate (ina'ina) Jealousy (lili) Rudeness (ho ... Uquamairineq Hypnotic states, disturbed sleep, sleep paralysis, dissociative episodes and occasional hallucinations (Native Alaskans: Inuit, Yuit). ...
Asian American and Pacific Islander Journal of Health, 1998
J Consult Clin Psychol, 1975
From results of testing 219 Ss on a battery of 20 cognitive tests, it is concluded that resistanc... more From results of testing 219 Ss on a battery of 20 cognitive tests, it is concluded that resistance to interference is a potentially viable diagnostic dimension in assessing the likelihood of serious personality disturbance, as well as in evaluating the seriousness of a current disorder.
Int J Soc Psychiatr, 1975
As part of a larger investigation of social/psychological stress and psychiatric adaptation in ur... more As part of a larger investigation of social/psychological stress and psychiatric adaptation in urban Manila, efforts were made to study the effects of goal-striving discrepancy stress in housing among Filipino men from different age groups and social classes. Goal-striving discrepancy stress is an organismic state characterized by tension and discomfort due to discrepancies between aspirations and achievements. Several studies have demononstrated that goal-striving discrepancy stress are asociated with psychiatric disorder. The present study focused upon the discrepancies between aspiration and achievements in housing among Filipino men. Housing constitutes one of man's basic problems in urban societies; however, in spite of the fact that housing is related to psychiatric adaptation, relatively few studies have been made of this problem. It is important to recognize that housing has numerous psychological implications for an individual. It is a symbol of social status and social acceptance and greatly influences an individual's view of himself and others. Some investigators have even suggested that housing may be construed as a symbolic representation of the mother-child relationship. For the present investigation, twelve housing characteristics considered to be important to Filipinos e. g., size, cost, location, ownership of land, etc., were derived and ninety-six Filipino males from different age groups and social classes were asked to indicate both their aspiration and their actual achievement for each of the twelve housing characteristics. Goal-striving discrepancies were obtained by subtracting the aspirational endorsements from the achievement endorsements. The discrepancy scores were then correlated with various psychiatric symptom patterns through factor analysis. Results of the investigation revealed profound social class differences in the amount of goal-striving discrepancy stress. ......
Measures of ethnocultural identity are used clinically and in research to increase sensitivity to... more Measures of ethnocultural identity are used clinically and in research to increase sensitivity to cultural variability among clients and research subjects. However, current measures of ethnocultural identity typically assess one's overall cultural heritage identification without considering differences in various domains of identity. This paper provides initial validation of an attitudinal scale to complement a previously published behavioral scale of ethnocultural identity for use with Asians and Pacific Islanders. Preliminary analyses of data from 504 university students in Hawai'i support the factorial structure and internal consistency of a seven-item attitudinal index. Early evidence of the validity of the attitudinal indices within a multi-index Cultural Identity Battery is provided.
Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology, 2009
This article reviews psychological research on Native Hawaiians conducted in the 19th through the... more This article reviews psychological research on Native Hawaiians conducted in the 19th through the 21st centuries. The rationale is to provide a historical orientation to this indigenous group, to increase awareness of the complexities of research about Native Hawaiians, and to draw attention to emerging issues, practices, and challenges of psychological research emphasizing indigenous health and well-being. This article lays a historical foundation for future research with a renewed emphasis on indigenous knowledge and its holistic view of psychology in relationship to the land, spiritual beliefs, cultural practices, language, and community.
Asian American and Pacific Islander journal of health, 1998
PURPOSE. The goal of this article is to present a measurement tool with potential utility for hea... more PURPOSE. The goal of this article is to present a measurement tool with potential utility for health care workers and mental health professionals who require a means of systematically assessing ethnocultural behaviors in the course of their professional clinical activities and decision making. METHODOLOGY. As part of a larger effort to develop a multidimensional, ethnocultural identification scale for clinical and research use, a cultural general 19 item selfreport behavior index entitled the Ethnocultural Identity Behavior Index (EIBI) was designed. The psychometrics of the EIBI were examined on a sample of 352 college students selfidentifying with an Asian American or Native Hawaiian ethnocultural group. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS. The data suggest that the EIBI has high internal consistency. Construct and concurrent convergent validity were also established for the EIBI through a comparison of the EIBI schores of immigrants and nonimmigrants, through correlations with...
Journal of clinical psychology, 1975
Handbook of Multicultural Mental Health, 2013
The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1974
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1975
Numerous studies have investigated personality correlates of performance on the Stroop Color and ... more Numerous studies have investigated personality correlates of performance on the Stroop Color and Word Test. With one exception, these studies have failed to identify any significant correlates between the two variables. The present study examined this relationship by administering the Stroop Color and Word Test, Cattell's 16 PF, and the Maudsley Personality Inventory to a sample of 210 college students. Results indicated no significant correlates existed between five different measures of Stroop Color and Word Test performance and the personality scales. It was concluded that the Stroop Color and Word Test has little relationship to measures of personality and may best be understood in terms of specific cognitive processes.
Journal of Research in Personality, 2001
Teachers' personality assessments of over 2000 children were obtained by John M. Digman between 1... more Teachers' personality assessments of over 2000 children were obtained by John M. Digman between 1959 and 1967 in elementary schools on two Hawaiian islands. In July 1998, we began tracing these former students, who were now adults in the 40-to 50-year-old age range. Over a 2-year period, roughly 75% of the original sample has been located, and over 60% of those located have completed a survey of their personality attributes, health status and history, and health-related habits and practices. The most successful methods for tracing these individuals included This report is fondly dedicated to John M. (Jack) Digman: 1923Digman: -1998
Journal of Refugee Studies, 1992
Journal of Managerial Psychology, 2011
Purpose – This paper aims to reflect on the work of Virginia E. Schein and her paper “The functio... more Purpose – This paper aims to reflect on the work of Virginia E. Schein and her paper “The functions of work-related group participation for poor women in developing countries: an exploratory look.” Design/methodology/approach – Professor Schein traveled to Nicaragua, to lower-income settings, where she observed and recorded the experiences of women working in self-organized groups, and used those observations to
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1981
... It was hypothesized that depressed respondents would manifest significantly higher levels of ... more ... It was hypothesized that depressed respondents would manifest significantly higher levels of body-image dissatisfaction than nondepressed respondents, regardless of ethnicity and gender. The results supported the hypothesis. ...
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1975
As part of a larger investigation of social/psychological stress and psychiatric adaptation in ur... more As part of a larger investigation of social/psychological stress and psychiatric adaptation in urban Manila, efforts were made to study the effects of goal-striving discrepancy stress in housing among Filipino men from different age groups and social classes. Goal-striving discrepancy stress is an organismic state characterized by tension and discomfort due to discrepancies between aspirations and achievements. Several studies have demononstrated that goal-striving discrepancy stress are asociated with psychiatric disorder. The present study focused upon the discrepancies between aspiration and achievements in housing among Filipino men. Housing constitutes one of man's basic problems in urban societies; however, in spite of the fact that housing is related to psychiatric adaptation, relatively few studies have been made of this problem. It is important to recognize that housing has numerous psychological implications for an individual. It is a symbol of social status and social acceptance and greatly influences an individual's view of himself and others. Some investigators have even suggested that housing may be construed as a symbolic representation of the mother-child relationship. For the present investigation, twelve housing characteristics considered to be important to Filipinos e. g., size, cost, location, ownership of land, etc., were derived and ninety-six Filipino males from different age groups and social classes were asked to indicate both their aspiration and their actual achievement for each of the twelve housing characteristics. Goal-striving discrepancies were obtained by subtracting the aspirational endorsements from the achievement endorsements. The discrepancy scores were then correlated with various psychiatric symptom patterns through factor analysis. Results of the investigation revealed profound social class differences in the amount of goal-striving discrepancy stress. ......
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1988
This sub-study of the WHO Determinants of Outcome of Severe Mental Disorders research project was... more This sub-study of the WHO Determinants of Outcome of Severe Mental Disorders research project was aimed at characterizing the behavioral and expressive qualities of schizophrenia in two highly diverse cultures. Early research has indicated that the core elements involving affect, perceptual and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia are highly similar in form in most cultures of the world. Much of the cross-cultural literature emphasizes, however, strong differences in the ways in which schizophrenia is actually expressed and manifested in different settings. The basic methodology for psychiatric description and diagnosis in the WHO program was the Present State Examination. In five of the field centers a method for investigating the expressive quality and the social behavior of patients in their own communities through the eyes of significant others was applied. This method was then subjected to psychometric tests of cross-cultural applicability and found to be valid for comparing behavior across settings. The expressive patterns of the Indian and Nigerian patients were studied from two perspectives. Indian schizophrenics were described by family members as manifesting a more affective and "selfcentered" orientation; the Nigerian patients presented with a highly suspicious, bizarre, anxious quality to the basic behavioral pattern. The main features of pathology were in general accord with the descriptions of indigenous psychiatrists. The special qualities of the psychosis in the two cultures were interpreted against the background of traditional psychopathological and anthropologic theories concerning the psychodynamics and the influence of differing social conflictual themes in the two cultures. Analysis of psychopathology in this manner was found to enhance understanding of underlying mechanisms and the role of cultural conflicts in its expression.
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1987
This study reports on the findings from a WHO sponsored cross-national investigation of life even... more This study reports on the findings from a WHO sponsored cross-national investigation of life events and schizophrenia. Data are presented from a series of 386 acutely ill schizophrenic patients selected from nine field research centers located in developing and developed countries (Aarhus, Denmark; Agra, India; Cali, Colombia; Chandigarh, India; Honolulu, USA; Ibadan, Nigeria; Nagasaki, Japan; Prague, Czechoslovakia; Rochester, USA). On a methodological level, the study demonstrates that life event methodologies originating in the developed countries can be adapted for international studies and may be used to collect reasonably reliable and comparable cross-cultural data on psychosocial factors affecting the course of schizophrenic disorders. Substantive findings replicate the results of prior studies which conclude that socioenvironmental stressors may precipitate schizophrenic attacks and such events tend to cluster in the two to three week period immediately preceding illness onset.
socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu
Background: Clifford R. O'Donnell, Ph. D., Professor of Psychology, University of Hawai'... more Background: Clifford R. O'Donnell, Ph. D., Professor of Psychology, University of Hawai'i, serves as Director of the Community and Culture Psychology Graduate Program. This Program received the American Psychological Association 2004 Honorable Mention Award for Innovation in Graduate Education in Psychology. Professor O'Donnell is a Scientific Board Member of The Melissa Institute for the Prevention and Treatment of Violence and of the Board of Directors of the Intermountain Centers for Human Development (AZ), and has ...
American Behavioral Scientist, 2000
The present article discusses historical, conceptual, and methodological issues associated with t... more The present article discusses historical, conceptual, and methodological issues associated with the cross-cultural measurement of personality. It documents the extensive debate and discussion that has emerged from the juxtaposition of the trait-situation, universalism-relativism, quantitative-qualitative, and anthropology-psychology polarities in the past decade. Following a discussion of these polarities, the present article concludes that the contending (and contentious) positions should be replaced
... For example, things that destroy the social fabric include the following behaviors: Hate (i... more ... For example, things that destroy the social fabric include the following behaviors: Hate (ina'ina) Jealousy (lili) Rudeness (ho ... Uquamairineq Hypnotic states, disturbed sleep, sleep paralysis, dissociative episodes and occasional hallucinations (Native Alaskans: Inuit, Yuit). ...