- Subseries
- 1950 - 2018
Subseries contains manuscript materials, correspondence, research notes, and reviews regarding the publication of Alexander Leighton's novel "Come Near."
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- MS-13-86, Box 66, Folder 1
- File
- 1971 - 2013
File contains research, meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, conference schedules, and contact lists relating to a study on chemical herbicide and pesticide use in Vietnam. Also contains 4 colour postcards and 3 photos : b&w; 5 x 7 in.
- Series
- 1958 - 2010
Series contains materials related to the development of Alexander Leighton's book on the prevention of mental illness. Documents include manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, and copies of past publications.
- Series
- 1956 - 2002
Series is comprised of materials related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Research Project in the Western Region and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women. In the Cornell-Aro study, modeled on the Stirling County Study, Leighton’s team analyze the mental health trends of Nigerians living in both major cities and small rural villages via interviews, surveys, and observations. The Role of Women study may possibly be considered a ‘sub-study’ of the Cornell-Aro study, as it uses much of the same research material supplemented by new data. Materials present include correspondence, memoranda, datasets, research notes, fieldnotes reports, speeches, photographs, forms, applications, surveys and questionnaires, medical documents, affiliated studies, and comparative analyses.
- MS-13-86, Box 43, Folder 6
- File
- 1950 - 2000
File contains correspondence with or about Laila Shukry El Hamamsy. Also includes academic records, study participant information, a pamphlet on the American University at Cairo's Social Research Center, a curriculum vitae for Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Aziz El-Meligi.
Research and other relevant articles
- MS-13-86, Box 94, Folder 5
- File
- 1958 - 1990
File contains research notes and manuscript drafts. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's other articles on illness prevention and community development and rehabilitation.
- MS-13-86, Box 82, Folder 5
- File
- 1939 - 1990
File consists of communications, research notes, newspaper clippings, and boat racing information to be used in writing an article on the history of log canoes.
- MS-13-86, Box 94, Folder 4
- File
- 1958 - 1988
Fie contains research notes and manuscript drafts for Alexander Leighton's book on mental illness prevention. Also included related correspondence.
- MS-13-86, Box 53, Folder 24
- File
- 1951 - 1987
File contains correspondence with or about George Roper. Also includes a manuscript for "The teacher's role in relation to sociological and psychological stress," discussion transcriptions, and an outline for a case-finding device.
- MS-13-86, Box 43, Folder 10
- File
- 1987
File contains correspondence with or about Courtenay M. Harding. Also includes information on interpreting lifecharts and patterns of recompensation in schizophrenia.
- MS-13-86, Box 59, Folder 23
- File
- 1942 - 1982
File contains correspondence with or about William Foote Whyte. Also contains project and study summaries, Whyte's curriculum vitae, research reports, chapter manuscripts, research proposals, research plan outlines, and papers titled "Toward a new model for social research on health in Latin America" and "Developing the national survey for Peru: notes on planning discussion."
- MS-13-86, Box 83, Folder 4
- File
- 1974 - 1975
File contains research notes and plot and character development plans for Alexander Leighton's novel Lorenzo.
- MS-13-86, Box 58, Folder 6
- File
- 1952 - 1975
File contains correspondence with or about James S. Tyhurst. Also contains course materials, project outlines and proposals, curricula vitae, research notes, meeting transcriptions, case notes, and manuscripts.
- Subseries
- 1974 - 1975
Subseries consists of research notes, writing plans, manuscripts, and revisions for Alexander Leighton's novel Lorenzo.
Comparison of 1961 and 1963 data
- Subseries
- 1960 - 1972
Subseries consists of datasets, statistical analysis, and correspondence regarding sample comparisons from the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies.
- Subseries
- 1960 - 1972
Subseries includes data for and analyses of socioeconomic aspects of Yoruba women's lives (education, migration, social class, health, children, husbands, religion, family, etc.). The 1963 data seems to be part of another study, referred to in several files as "The 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women," that either piggybacked off the Cornell-Aro study or was somehow included as a sub-project.
Education and psychiatric disorders
- Subseries
- 1960 - 1972
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.
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 8
- File
- [196-]
File contains a research proposal for the project along with filled social data questionnaires and semantic differentials questionnaires. Also contains 8 photographs of Nigerian individuals.
Yoruba-Stirling data comparisons
- Subseries
- 1958 - 1969
Subseries contains datasets, computer printouts, notes, and analysis guidelines comparing psychiatric and social statistics from the Nigerian and Stirling County studies.
- MS-13-86, Box 97, Folder 8
- File
- 1964 - 1969
File contains applications for and correspondence regarding several grants, numbered MH 12892-06, MH-08180-02S1, MH 08180-01, and MH 02307-01. Also contains application feedback, project plans, and appendices.
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 4
- File
- [196-]
File contains case summaries for two patients (labelled case I and cased III) with background information and physical and mental health summaries.
Preparation of Yoruba food in Egba area / by Cecilia Akintunde
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 3
- File
- [196-]
File contains two copies of a document listing various traditional Yoruba recipes. Also contains a note on container sizes.
Notes on Stirling and Nigerian findings
- MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 11
- File
- [196-]
File contains tables, graphs, and charts comparing Nigerian and Stirling County data. Also contains notes and thoughts on analytics and data significance.
Frequency analysis of psychiatric disorders by social variables (corrected copy of SP #40)
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 9
- File
- [196-]
File includes statistics on the socioeconomic statuses of Cornell-Aro study respondents and information for the psychiatrist's random sampling results.
Extra copies of crucial tables (C - A analysis)
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 3
- File
- [196-]
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
- 1960 - 1969
Subseries contains notes on data processing, data coding guidelines, and classification procedures.
Enlightenment data (includes residence in Big City and never used in Cornell-Aro book)
- MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 4
- File
- [196-]
File contains note on village enlightenment categories, tables of social data statistics, and code for enlightenment samples.
Yoruba-Stirling comparisons (RIDIT calculations)
- MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 8
- File
- [196-]
File contains charts comparing datasets and statistics from Yoruba villages and Stirling County. Also includes note on the 1961 to 1963 Nova Scotia re-survey sample and a memo regarding RIDITs for 1952 to 1962.
Alexander Leighton's 1968 re-evaluations (n=25) and 54 PJ analysis card and codebook
- MS-13-86, Box 17, Folder 6
- File
- [1968?]
File contains notes on re-evaluation of data from the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies, Also includes computer dataset printouts.
- MS-13-86, Box 97, Folder 11
- File
- 1965 - 1967
File contains grant applications, research proposals, and a final report for the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry.
Typology analysis for 1961 and 1963 Yoruba data
- MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 15
- File
- [1967?]
File contains typology notes and definitions, computer dataset printouts, and RIDIT value summaries for Yoruba data,
Definition of typology for Yoruba-Stirling comparisons
- MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 20
- File
- [1967?]
File contains notes on case classification definitions and criteria and computer dataset printouts of case typology statistics for Yoruba villages and Stirling County.
Hollingshead scale for socioeconomic status analysis of urban women and their husbands
- MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 3
- File
- [1965 - 1966?]
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.
Yoruba-Stirling comparisons (sex, integration, and age)
- MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 6
- File
- [1966?]
File contains charts, datasets, and notes comparing age and sex statistics from Yoruba villages and Stirling County.
Eskimo, Yoruba, and Stirling comparisons
- Subseries
- 1966
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.
Other studies for comparative analysis
- Subseries
- 1956 - 1966
Subseries contains other related psychiatric studies used for cross-cultural comparisons with the Cornell-Aro Nigerian study data.
National Institute of Mental Health
- MS-13-86, Box 97, Folder 6
- File
- 1965 - 1966
File contains budget documents, memoranda, notes, and correspondence regarding grant applications to the National Institute of Mental Health.
Rin - Chinese women cross-cultural comparisons
- MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 22
- File
- 1966
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.
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 18
- File
- 1961 - 1965
Files contains documents relating to the film "Mental Health Research in Nigeria" that was filmed during the 1961 Cornell-Aro study. Included are memos discussing the film's production and release, notes on filming scenes, a brochure for Cornell's program in social psychiatry, film production and narration notes, comments from researchers, and letters between researchers, librarians, and contacts in the Nigerian government. File also includes a publication called "African film bibliography 1965" by the Committee of Fine Arts and the Humanities of the African Studies Association.
- MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 9
- File
- [1965?]
File contains charts and datasets tracking demographic, social, and psychiatric statistics from Yoruba and Stirling Country respondents. Also contains notes on and memos regarding HOS coding for studying the role of women. Includes analysis cards for Stirling and Yoruba social and psychiatric data and master lists for sample coordination.
Statistical tests and RIDIT tables
- Subseries
- 1961 - 1965
Subseries consists mainly of datasets and calculations for socioeconomic value from the 1961 Cornell-Aro Nigerian data samples.
Nigerian photography and film information files
- Subseries
- 1961 - 1965
Subseries contains documents relating to the film produced about the 1961 Cornell-Aro study and to photographs taken during the study.
The Indiana 101 simulator for psychiatric symptoms and social factors analysis
- MS-13-86, Box 6, Folder 11
- File
- 1964 - 1965
File contains documents relating to the attemped Indiana IBM 101 simulator project for analyzing psychiatric symptoms and social factors. Includes communications between Jane Murphy, Veronica Shaw, and Grafton Trout of the Indiana University International Development Centre. Also includes IBM simulator dataset printouts and notes and memoranda regarding data migration processes. The project was never used.
Reliability between psychiatric and social data
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 9
- File
- 1961 - 1965
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.
Doctor comments on Yoruba women, sampling design, and plan for analysis
- MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 2
- File
- 1963 - 1965
File contains notes on sampling and analysis, information on Nigerian contacts, notes on tribal affiliation, and sample coding. Also contains transcriptions of Jane Murphy's interviews with Tol Asuni and T.A. Lambo regarding regional data samples. Also includes memos concerning psychiatric and social data samples, interview correspondence, and data evaluation.
Notes on symptoms after first round of evaluations
- MS-13-86, Box 6, Folder 7
- File
- 1964
File consists of Alexander Leighton's notes on respondents' health and survey answers after the first evaluation round.
Information on respondents' husbands' occupation and education
- MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 10
- File
- 1960 - 1964
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.
Notes on academic degrees and education in Nigeria
- MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 8
- File
- 1964
File contains research notes on the history of schools and public education in Nigeria. Comparisons are made between British and Nigerian degree systems. File also includes correspondence between researchers and the Nigerian Consulate in New York regarding Nigerian schooling and the place of women therein.
Murphy's 1964 analysis of characteristics of traditional and modern villages
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 15
- File
- 1960 - 1964
File contains notes on social and physical histories of several villages and criteria for distinguishing traditional from modern and integrated from disintegrated villages. Also contains charts compiling and comparing village data.
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 11
- File
- [1964?]
File consists of datasets and charts related to study respondent demographic statistics.
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