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.

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."

A time to act : a proposal to restructure child and adolescent programs and services, Nova Scotia

MS-13-30, SF Box 66, Folder 4
File
1973

Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds

File contains a report written in 1973 by Alexander Murchison and Edward Newell regarding a restructuring of child and adolescent programs and services in Nova Scotia to "stimulate community and government interest, participation, and action for change."

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."

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.

Considerations and proposals regarding indicators of sociocultural disintegration in the Egba setting / by Charles C. Hughes

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 4
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry annual reports

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 6
File
1950 - 1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memoranda and annual reports for staff meetings of the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry.

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.

Draft reports and proposals related to health and welfare in Nova Scotia

MS-13-30, SF Box 66, Folder 1
File
1970-1975

Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds

File contains six reports, papers and proposals regarding child health, child welfare, and group homes in Nova Scotia, drafted between 1970-1975 by Alexander John Murchison and others.

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.

Group homes—let's get going : program papers from Annual Meeting of Nova Scotia Family and Child Welfare Association

MS-13-30, SF Box 66, Folder 3
File
1973

Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds

File also contains copies of presentations given at the 23 May 1973 meeting: "Why an Alternate Family? (The Child and the Group Home," by Alexander Murchison; "The Orphan and Society," by Jean Paton-Kittson; "Social Services and the Group Home," by Frank Capstick; "Democratic Perspectives on Group Home Supervision," by Ronald L. Smith; "Houseparents Forum," by Mr. and Mrs. Salvador Renaldo; "Public Relations in a Group Home Program," by A.S. Kyte; and "Funding of Group Homes," by Timothy T. Daley.

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.

Inkeles and Murphy data comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 16
File
1969 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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."

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.

Personality tests and psychoneurotic screening

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9
File
[1949?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

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

Reports and proposals related to group homes and child welfare in Nova Scotia

MS-13-30, SF Box 65, Folder 12
File
1969-1974

Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds

File contains 11 reports, papers and proposals regarding child welfare and group homes in Nova Scotia, drafted between 1969-1974 by committees of the Atlantic Child Guidance Centre and the Children's Aid Society of Halifax.

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