Series consists of materials relating to the Stirling County Study, particularly progress reports, but also including clippings and survey documents. Also contains photographs and slides.
File contains a research proposal, progress report/speech, and several drafts of Trout's study on Yoruba fertility. File also includes a memo regarding Trout's summary of reliability for the 1961 Cornell-Aro study and several copies of the summary.
Item is a handwritten report with a preface attributing a large portion of the material "from a preliminary report on psychological testing prepared by Dr. Frank Freeman of Cornell University."
File contains a copy of the study "Psychophysiological reactions of a rural and suburban population in Taiwan" by Hsien Rin, Hung-Ming Chu, and Tsung-Yi Ling. Also contains correspondence between Hsien Rin and Jane Murphy and notes and data tables on modernization rates and number of children among respondents.
Subseries consists of revised analysis and evaluation materials for the 1961 and 1963 studies. Also includes correspondence on the projects and field notes with great detail on respondents' interviews and evaluations.
File consists of a memo from Jane Murphy to Cornell staff regarding an analysis of the reliability of literacy data among male Yoruba study subjects and its effects on future analysis.
File contains a summary of reliability tests made by comparing psychiatric and social data protocols of the Cornell-Aro study. Also includes a memo regarding Jane Murphy's study on literacy, sociocultural chance, and mental illness in rural Yorubans.
File contains an appendix (Appendix F) outlining procedures in comparing psychiatric evaluators' thought processes and conclusions surrounding the mental health of respondents of the Cornell-Aro study. File also includes information on analysis coding and a chart outlining mental health symptom statistics.
File contains 3 articles written by Alexander H. Leighton: "Mental health and the problem of cooperation between races and between nations," "Psychiatry and the health of the public," and "Reflections of a tender-minded radical."
File contains memoranda on psychiatric statistics and analyses and a guidebook for symptom evaluation information card coding. File also includes notes on psychiatric findings.
File contains an interim progress report for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project with reference to the National Institute of Health grant M-4506.
File contains preliminary research plans, a seminar report on psychological testing, a multiphase personality inventory, and an excerpt on psychoneurotic screening in the Army, all written or originating with M.L. Kohn (1928-2021), who may have been a graduate or post-doctoral student at Cornell, working under Alexander Leighton.
File contains notes on psychiatric symptoms and diseases present in Nigerian respondents, and on the respondents' beliefs regarding illness. Also contains notes between researchers sharing thoughts and findings. File also includes Jane Murphy's field notes from discussions of disease with respondents. File also contains a copy of the study "The psychiatric examination of native African patients" by Edward L. Margetts.
File contains a computer printout dataset of frequency distribution comparison between Jane Murphy's and Alex Inkeles' data. Also includes copies of several of Inkeles' published articles: "The fate of personal adjustment in the process of modernization," "The OM scale: a comparative socio-psychological measure of individual modernity," "Some social psychological effects and noneffects of literacy in a new nation," "The modernization of man," and "Making men modern: on the causes and consequences of individual change in six developing countries."
File contains printouts of computer code, datasets and statistics on respondents' occupations and economic status, and notes on coding education data. File also includes a copy of "Two factor index of social position" by August B. Hollingshead.
File contains printouts of computer code, graphs comparing the relationship between mental health and acculturation, and a study by Frederic Ilfeld titled "Acculturation levels and mental health of 120 educated Yoruba women."
File contains notes on and tables of psychiatric rating and impairment statistics. There is much comparison between Yoruba villages, Abeokuta, and Stirling County and analysis of respective physical and mental health symptoms and patterns.
Subseries consists of various statistical analyses done of data from the Yoruba studies, particularly in relation to education and male respondents. Memos, reports, publications, dataset printouts, and analysis manuals present.
File consists of a second draft of the handbook by Charles C. Hughes written as part of the Cornell-Aro study. File also contains a page of notes on indicators of disintegration.
File consists of a report by von Severus on the physical health conditions prevalent in Yoruba village to determine their eligibility in the 1961 Cornell-Aro study.