Dimensional analysis of behavior setting demands in a community residence for chronically mentally ill women

Perkins, David V.; Perry, Jonathan C.

doi:10.1002/1520-6629(198510)13:4<350::aid-jcop2290130404>3.0.co;2-6

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“…Twelve of these papers did not focus on behaviour settings, but rather used the theory to frame the empirical investigation that was undertaken in the paper-that is, as a means to explain a phenomenon without incorporating the theory into the investigation itself. The remaining 16 papers in this group used behaviour settings to conduct research exploring shared residential dwellings [25,95,96], urban green spaces [28,97], indoor public spaces (including a library [98], airport waiting areas [99] and transition spaces in universities [100]), community residences [101], streets [102][103][104] and entire towns [105,106]. There was also an interest in applying behaviour settings to encourage the use of public transport [107] and how humans interacted with thermoregulatory systems in buildings [108].…”

Section: Behaviour Settings and Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Substance abuse is highly correlated with environmental conditions, and this was investigated by Klassen [80] and Latkin et al [112]. Mental health was featured in two papers, where Eddy & Sinnett [113] looked at the use of different social settings by emotionally disturbed college students, while Perkins & Perry [101] investigated how highly structured community environments can help women with chronic mental illness in a long-term care facility. Two papers looked at restorativeness, that is, the extent to which an environment can promote restoration, via recovery from mental fatigue and stress.…”

Section: Behaviour Settings and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reclaiming behaviour settings: reviewing empirical applications of Barker’s behaviour settings theory

Avram,

Jones,

Lucas

et al. 2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Behaviour settings theory is the product of Roger Barker and Herbert F. Wright’s decades-long Midwest Field Station research programme. The theory followed from the demonstration that the best predictor of a person’s behaviour was the setting (i.e. location, timing and activity) in which their behaviour took place, rather than any individual trait (e.g. personality). Now little known in psychology, behaviour settings theory is often further obscured by being presented as a theory only, neglecting the clear methodology Barker provided for investigating the question: ‘What do people do in everyday life?’ This literature review takes a comprehensive look at Barker’s contributions both within and outside of psychology. The corpus comprises both theoretical and empirical articles; however, our primary interest is in the empirical articles. We describe the who, when and where of behaviour settings research over the past half-century, and we identify branches and neighbours of behaviour settings research (e.g. manning theory, behaviour mapping and activity settings theory). Primarily, however, we attempt to answer the following questions: (i) Are any of Barker’s tools for studying people in everyday settings being used currently? (ii) How accurately has Barker’s theory been explained, or his methods applied? (iii) Does such work contribute to behaviour settings theory in a meaningful way? This article is part of the theme issue ‘People, places, things and communities: expanding behaviour settings theory in the twenty-first century’.

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Section: Behaviour Settings and Designmentioning

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Section: Behaviour Settings and Healthmentioning

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Reclaiming behaviour settings: reviewing empirical applications of Barker’s behaviour settings theory

Avram,

Jones,

Lucas

et al. 2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…They also found that almost half use private (Medicaid) outpatient services, but one fourth receive no mental health services at all. A study based upon behavior setting theory found that a residential facility for mentally ill women exerted few behavioral demands upon the residents (Perkins & Perry, 1985). Lamb (1980) described adaptation by decompression as resulting when the patients forsake goals and live a restricted life characterized by inactivity, passivity, and avoidance of stimulation.…”

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Social skills training in board and care homes for the long-term mentally ill.

Taylor¹,

Dowell²

1986

Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal

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This article describes a study of the quantity and quality of social skills training in thirty proprietary board and care facilities for the long-term mentally ill in California. Virtually all operators reported providing skills training. However, the data suggest that few hours were devoted to skills training and that operators knew little about principles of rehabilitation. Since board and care and similar residential facilities are the principal source of rehabilitation for as many as 400,000 long-term mentally ill persons in the United States, the need is clear for policies and programs to stimulate rehabilitation services to persons residing in these facilities.

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“…Cited as an example of the proper model is the interesting and valuable study by Perkins and Perry (1985), which describes "demandingness" of settings as seen by leaders of those settings. This environmental property is then related to the behavioral capacities of individual setting occupants on the same dimensions.…”

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“…This concern for understanding the behavior of the individual also seems to underlie the insistence of the authors of this critique that any theory of human environments should rest on theoretical constructs that are operationally defined in terms that are commensurate with person-centered constructs so that direct assessment of personenvironment fit is possible (p. 356 and in later .discussion). Cited as an example of the proper model is the interesting and valuable study by Perkins and Perry (1985), which describes "demandingness" of settings as seen by leaders of those settings. This environmental property is then related to the behavioral capacities of individual setting occupants on the same dimensions.…”

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Commentary on Perkins, Burns, Perry, and Nielsen's “behavior setting theory and community psychology: An analysis and critique”

Schoggen¹

1988

J. Community Psychol.

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This commentary on the accompanying article by Perkins, Burns, Perry, and Nielsen (1988) recognizes it as an important contribution in developing a better awareness and understanding of the usefulness of Barker's behavior setting theory (Barker, 1968; Price, 1976; Wicker, 1979a) in addressing problems in community psychology. Issue is taken with the authors' person‐centered, heavily psychological orientation, which appears to have interfered with their understanding of behavior setting theory and research not concerned with the behavior or experience of the individual but rather with understanding the structure and functioning of the preperceptual, ecological environment of molar behavior. The laws governing the operation of the ecological environment are fundamentally different from and incommensurate with the psychological laws that govern individual behavior. Barker places behavior setting theory and research outside the domain of psychology and within the realm of eco‐behavioral science. Other issues considered in the commentary include the authors' criticism of the definition of community in behavior setting work, the crudeness of measures of behavior in standard behavior setting procedures, the claim that behavior setting research is concerned only with influences from settings to behavior and not the reverse, the inadequacy of behavior settings in understanding community change, and the dominance of form over function in behavior setting research.

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Dimensional analysis of behavior setting demands in a community residence for chronically mentally ill women

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Reclaiming behaviour settings: reviewing empirical applications of Barker’s behaviour settings theory

Reclaiming behaviour settings: reviewing empirical applications of Barker’s behaviour settings theory

Social skills training in board and care homes for the long-term mentally ill.

Commentary on Perkins, Burns, Perry, and Nielsen's “behavior setting theory and community psychology: An analysis and critique”

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