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Americans View Their Mental Health, 1957 and 1976: Selected Variables (ICPSR 7949)
Released/updated on: 2005-11-04
Geographic coverage: United States
This data collection contains 262 comparable variables from AMERICANS VIEW THEIR MENTAL HEALTH, 1957 (ICPSR 3503) and AMERICANS VIEW THEIR MENTAL HEALTH, 1976 (ICPSR 7948). Investigators were interested in determining whether the 1957 descriptive findings remained stable or had changed by 1976, and whether relationships established between sex, age, education, marital status, well-being, role experience, problems, and methods of dealing with stress were replicated or altered in the 1976 results. Variables focus on various areas in which problems might arise, including marriage, parenthood, employment, and general social relationships. Information about leisure time, past and present physical and mental health, and motives for affiliation, achievement, and power were also sought.
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Americans View Their Mental Health, 1976 (ICPSR 7948)
Released/updated on: 2005-11-04
Geographic coverage: United States
Funded in 1975 by the National Institute of Mental Health, this data collection proposed to assess the quality of American life and to influence national policy aimed at enhancing mental health resources. This collection contains 262 variables that were also included in AMERICANS VIEW THEIR MENTAL HEALTH, 1957 (ICPSR 3503). The survey queried American adults on various areas in which problems might arise, including marriage, parenthood, employment, and general social relationships. Information about leisure time, past and present physical and mental health, and motives for affiliation, achievement, and power were also sought. In addition, extensive information was collected concerning help-seeking, the readiness of people to use professional help for mental health problems, the particular helpers they used, referral mechanisms, and evaluation of help received.
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Quality of American Life, 1971 (ICPSR 3508)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States
The purpose of this study was to survey Americans about
perceived quality of life by measuring perceptions of their
socio-psychological condition, their needs and expectations from life,
and the degree to which those needs were satisfied. The data were
collected via personal interviews from a nationwide probability sample
of 2,164 persons 18 years of age and older during the summer of 1971.
Closed and open-ended questions were used to probe respondents'
satisfactions, dissatisfactions, aspirations, and disappointments in a
variety of life domains, such as dwelling/neighborhood, local services
(e.g., police, roads, and schools), public transportation, present
personal life, life in the United States, education, occupation, job
history/expectation, work life, housework, leisure activities,
organizational affiliations, religious affiliation, health problems,
financial situation, marriage (including widowhood, divorce, and
separation), children/family life, and relationships with family and
friends. In addition to broad questions about satisfaction with each
of these domains and their importance to the respondents, specific
sources of gratification and frustration are explored. Other
questions focused on life as a whole and the extent to which
respondents felt they had control over their lives (e.g., rating of
various aspects of life, (dis)satisfaction with life, personal
efficacy, and social desirability measures). Personal data include
sex, age, race, ethnic background, childhood family stability,
military service, and father's occupation and education. Observational
data are included on housing and neighborhood characteristics as well
as respondents' appearance, intelligence, and sincerity. An
instructional subset of this study is also available (see ICPSR
INSTRUCTIONAL SUBSET: QUALITY OF AMERICAN LIFE, 1971 [ICPSR 7516],
also prepared by Campbell, Converse, and Rodgers.) It includes
questions representative of the major areas covered in the original,
longer survey. A related dataset, QUALITY OF AMERICAN LIFE, 1978
(ICPSR 7762), continues the survey conducted in 1971.