Showing papers by "Nan Lin published in 1979"

Locus of control and symptoms of psychological distress among Chinese-Americans.

Abstract: A sample of Chinese-Americans in the District of Columbia was drawn to examine the relationship between the locus of control, the personality factor, and two indices of symptoms of psychological distress. The findings indicated that the externals scored higher on symptomatology than did the internals. A multivariate analysis further compared the predictive utility of locus of control with other determinants of psychiatric symptoms, i.e., sex, marital status, SES, kinship and friendship tie, and amount of life change. The evidence showed that locus of control is an important determinant of Chinese-Americans' symptomatology. It accounted for a greater proportion of the variance in the two indices of psychological distress than did the other independent variables.

APPENDIX D – Research Studies in Patterns of Scientific Communication: II, The Role of the National Meeting in Scientific and Technical Communication*

Abstract: We describe the results of a comprehensive study of scientific/technical communication associated with eleven national meetings which were sponsored by nine physical-, social- and engineering-science disciplines. Three groups of meeting participants were studied: authors (persons who presented papers) attendants (sample of persons who were present at these paper-presentations), and requestors (sample of persons who requested copies of these papers). The results showed that the national meeting is the first public announcement of a large portion of current research findings in any discipline and much of the information-exchange behaviour encountered at the meeting is intrinsically exploratory. The meeting presentation itself usually constitutes an interim report since most material presented there ultimately finds its way into the journal literature. Some discussion is presented of the relationship of the information-exchange activities to characteristics of meeting participants.

APPENDIX E – Research Studies in Patterns of Scientific Communication: III, Information-Exchange Processes Associated with the Production of Journal Articles*

Abstract: The two studies described in this article focus on information-exchange associated with material published in journal articles. In the first study we concentrate on the prepublication information-exchange activities of article authors, from the time their work first reached a report stage until it was published. The results of the second study, related directly to the articles studies in the first one, and the results of the first study have been combined so that we could discuss how scientists assimilate and use information contained in these articles when this information is also disseminated via informal media prior to its appearance in journal articles. The findings are discussed in light of questions they raise about the function of current journal articles.

APPENDIX C – Research Studies in Patterns of Scientific Communication: I, General Description of Research Program

Abstract: This article is the first in a series which describes the general procedures and some findings of over 70 studies which we conducted from 1966 to 1971 on the information-exchange activities of over 12,000 scientists and engineers in a sample of nine physical, social and engineering sciences. We designed the studies so that (1) the full spectrum of scientific communication media could be explored, (b) the various studies were coupled in order that data obtained from one study could be directly related to those obtained from other studies, (c) the scheduling of the studies was conducted in real time in order that the same body of information could be followed from its inception to its final integration into the general body of scientific knowledge, and (d) the same studies were conducted for all nine disciplines being studied in order that genuine comparisons could be made among them. The data are now stored on machine-readable magnetic tapes and will be made available to scholars in the field of information science.