Archives Catalogue

1965 - 1966 re-abstracting Yoruba manual

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 13
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a re-abstracting manual for the Yoruba study data to update the research goal to compare urban and rural mental health and limit bias in analysis. File also includes respondents' answers to health surveys and a memo regarding evaluation of Yoruba abstracts.

1967 meeting on Yoruba study

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 12
File
1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains materials from a meeting on the Yoruba studies, including charts and datasets demonstrating psychiatrist's agreement analysis and findings and ABCD analysis.

2001 and 2002 final report of the Center for Local and Regional Development, Klaksvik

MS-2-681, Box 24, Folder 11
File
2000-2002

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

A handbook for the psychiatric evaluation of personal data as developed by the Stirling County study and the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry / by Alexander H. Leighton and Dorothea C. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 17
File
1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a large handbook on psychiatric evaluation as written by Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton for the Stirling County study.

A study of resistance to psychiatric epidemiological interviewing among the Yoruba / by Zebulon C. Taintor

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 5
File
1962 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains documents relating to Taintor's study and two drafts of the full study text. Includes mental and physical health surveys and datasets, interview fieldnotes, and statistics and calculations. Also contains a letter from Laurel Hodgden regarding the usability of the data.

A survey of general physicians : manual for the psychiatric interview and use of the summary sheet : the Stirling County Study / Jane M. Murphy, PhD

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 2
File
1995

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File includes copies of "A Survey of General Physicians : Manual for Participating General Practitioners" and "Appendix A : Nomenclature and Classification in the Stirling County Study."

An assessment of mental health patterns in a Nigerian factory: the Nigerian Tobacco Co. study / by Karin Himmelstrand

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 21
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Two drafts of Himmelstrand's study analyzing the mental health of Nigerian factory workers.

Analysis of cultural change / by Fred Ilfield

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 5
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains printouts of computer code, and graphs and datasets analyzing socioeconomic acculturation of Yoruba women. File also includes three copies of Ilfield's study "Acculturation levels and mental health of 120 educated Yoruba women."

Canadian Commission for UNESCO Sectoral Commission on Natural and Social Sciences correspondence, reports, and membership lists

MS-2-186, Box 16, Folder 1
File
2000-2001

Part of Susan Sherwin fonds

Common medical diseases in Yoruba villages / by Sylvia von Severus

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 7
File
1960

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Domestic household composition among the rural Egba Yoruba / by Charles C. Hughes, David B. Macklin, Jane M. Murphy

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 10
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a copy of the study by Hughes, Macklin, and Murphy. Also contains compiled responses to the social data questionnaire.

Eskimo and Yoruba case vignettes for Alexander Leighton's APA paper on paranoid reaction

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 16
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of individual psychiatric respondent case summaries from the Nigerian and Alaskan studies.

Extra copies of crucial tables (C - A analysis)

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 3
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Financial report - work sheets

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 3
File
1963 - 1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains expense lists and financial documents and reports for the Social Science Research Council regarding the Role of Women study.

Gerald Klerman's research papers

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 8
File
1950

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains 7 research papers written by Gerald Klerman when he was a student of Alexander Leighton's.

Guttman scale for mental health and acculturation level analysis

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 1
File
[1966?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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."

Hollingshead scale for socioeconomic status analysis of urban women and their husbands

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 3
File
[1965 - 1966?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Method memos on sampling, data gathering, evaluations for 1961 - 1963 comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 1
File
1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a 22-page memo from Jane Murphy regarding research methods, sampling, and analysis of data from the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies.

Native conceptions of disease

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 5
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

NSP 571 - Canada, Sweden, Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 9
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Outline of the Stirling County study / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 12
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of an outline of the Stirling County study.

(part of) Stirling report #446 - Chapter III : community reactions

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 8
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for a chapter in a book about the Stirling County study.

Phyllis Geiss' research papers

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 10
File
1950

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research plans, study summaries, and stress map reports by Phyllis Geiss.

Progress report for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Psychiatric symptom patterns and disorders

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 15
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memoranda on psychiatric statistics and analyses and a guidebook for symptom evaluation information card coding. File also includes notes on psychiatric findings.

Published articles by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 4
File
1949 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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."

Reliability analysis between psychiatrists

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 14
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Reliability between psychiatric and social data

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 9
File
1961 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Reliability of data on literacy in Yoruba among men

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 9
File
1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Report #240 - Stirling County place names

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 18
File
1952

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Report #241 - Method book : public relations, 1953-1954, vol. 1

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 3
File
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Report #241 - Method book : public relations, 1954 - June 30, 1955, vol. 2

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 4
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Report #244 - Submissions and reports to province and Ottawa, volume 1

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 17
File
[1955?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Research design in the Stirling County study: a research program in social factors related to psychiatric health / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 13
File
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report to the Department of Health and Welfare regarding research methods of the Stirling County study.

Rin - Chinese women cross-cultural comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 22
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Robert Collis Jr.'s thesis materials

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 6
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of maps, graphs, and charts taken from Collis Jr.'s thesis outlining physical and mental health correlations.

Seminars on dynamic sociology

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 5
File
1938

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains reports and lecture scripts from the 1938 seminars on dynamic sociology.

Social and cultural aspects of fertility among the Yoruba women of Nigeria / by Grafton Trout

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 6
File
1964 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Stirling County study list of categories