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.
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 memoranda on psychiatric statistics and analyses and a guidebook for symptom evaluation information card coding. File also includes notes on psychiatric findings.
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 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 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 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.
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 contains a research grant application submitted to the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to request funding for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in Nigeria.
File contains notes on respondents who showed resistance during their interviews. Resisters' responses, actions, and symptoms are listed. File also includes letters between Alexander Leighton and Veronica Shaw discussing how to process resisters' interviews and comparing psychiatrists' evaluations of their responses.
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.
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.
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.
File contains computer printouts of calculations for literacy statistics. Also includes copies of publications dealing with range tests: "Multiple range and multiple f tests" by David B. Duncan, "Extensions of multiple range tests to group means with unequal numbers of replications" by Clyde Young Kramer, and "Multivariate statistical programs" by Dean J. Clyde, Elliot M. Cramer, and Richard J. Sherin.
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.