File contains materials comparing and analyzing the differences between the role of Yoruba and Elmira women. Includes research notes, answer scales and criteria, socioeconomic and employment data, family dynamic information, and statistical analyses.
Subseries consists of datasets, research notes, and statistical analyses comparing psychiatric data from the Cornell-Aro Nigerian study to that from Stirling County and the Inuit communities of St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.
File contains research notes, respondent master lists, computer dataset printouts, and tables of statistics relating to respondent psychiatric data and symptoms.
File consists of a letter from Robert Edgerton of the University of California to Jane Murphy regarding publication of her paper "Eskimo and Yoruba women: cross-cultural studies of psychopathology."
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 includes Jane Murphy's fieldnotes and personal journals from June to September, 1963. Also includes compilations of respondents' answers to open-ended questions about education and the role of women in their communities.
File contains one blank copy of the final fourth draft of the social data questionnaire for community respondents. Questionnaire is in both English and Yoruba.
File includes statistics on the socioeconomic statuses of Cornell-Aro study respondents and information for the psychiatrist's random sampling results.
Item is a manuscript for James Clark's presentation at a Dalhousie History Department seminar in March 1985. The text discusses Norman Jellings Symons, a professor of psychology at Dalhousie during the 1920s who studied, taught and published articles related to Freudian theory.
Fonds contains photocopies of G.W. McQueen's letters to his mother and sister while he was attending Dalhousie University; G.W. McQueen's annotated textbook, Introduction to Anglo-Saxon (1875); and G.W. McQueen's notebooks from Professor Lawson's junior chemistry class (1876-1877) and Professor Lyall's psychology class (1877).
File contains data coding information, a research proposal for Trout's study, and a compilation of socioeconomic data relating to rural Yoruba women from the 1961 Cornell-Aro study.
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 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 HOS calculations, a copy of a psychiatric questionnaire, and HOS source card with marginals. Also includes correspondence between Alice Longaker, Veronica Shaw, Laurel Hodgden, and Jane Murphy discussing coding and psychiatric data.
File contains notes and information on villages in the Egba region of Nigeria. Also includes memos from Charles C. Hughes containing travel observations and village statistics.
File contains charts, calculations, datasets, and graphs tracking education and age. File also includes notes on the relationship between education level and mental health.
File contains notes, charts, and datasets tracking the occupations and education levels of the husbands of female study respondents. File also includes correspondence between researchers and Aro Hospital regarding education and migration statistics.
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 a manuscript for the introduction to Thomas Ling's book, "Mental Health and Human Relations in Industry." File also contains correspondence with Thomas Ling and publishers regarding the introduction.
File consists of letters, postcards, greeting cards, air letters, and other correspondence between Jane Murphy and numerous friends and acquaintances in Nigeria.
File largely consists of copies of Jane Murphy's outgoing correspondence. Also contains some original incoming letters and one outgoing letter by Charles C. Hughes.
File consists of a disassembled binder of Jane Murphy's interview fieldnotes from the 1961 Cornell-Aro study. Fieldnotes record respondents' answers to questions and provide further details on context. Respondents' joint psychiatric/health evaluation forms are tucked beside their corresponding fieldnotes.
