William R. Catton’s scientific contributions

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Publications (2)

When Does Agreement with Organizational Values Predict Behavior?
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October 1962

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The American Catholic Sociological Review

Richard F. Larson

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William R. Catton

The sociological literature is rife with research results which seldom, if ever, contain impressively large correlation coefficients between the predictor variables and the predicted behavior. This paper, based on the results of one study, discusses some of the problems which confront researchers in their attempt to increase their success in predicting behavior. In addition, it suggests that one important way of contributing to the advancement of sociology is for sociologists to take unimpressive but statistically significant findings as a cue for deliberately conducting further inquiry aimed at determining whether it is the significance or the unimpressiveness of a finding which deserves attention.

Citations (2)

... The individual response rate was 43%; the team response rate was 85%. Nonresponse was analysed with the use of analysis of variance to compare differences between the first 50 and last 50 respondents' results (Larson and Catton, 1959), an approach which is said to give a probable direction of any non-response bias [5]. The results showed no significant difference between early and late respondents, which indicates low risk for non-response bias. ...

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Audit team equality and audit quality threatening behaviour
Can the Mail-Back Bias Contribute to a Study's Validity?
  • Citing Article

  • April 1959

American Sociological Review

Richard F. Larson

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William R. Catton

... Similarly, Bronfenbrenner (1960) wrote of "Personality and Participation: The Case of the Vanishing Variables." Several others in this period similarly pointed to the importance of personality and attitudes as dynamic variables that took us beyond social background/demographic variables in explaining volunteering or participation in associations (e.g., Copp and Clark 1956;Gough 1952;Harp 1959;Larson and Catton 1961). Smith (1964Smith ( , 1966 studied empirically the extent to which personality and attitude variables affected participation/volunteering in various associations in Chile. ...

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Conducive Motivations and Psychological Influences on Volunteering
When Does Agreement with Organizational Values Predict Behavior?
  • Citing Article

  • October 1962

The American Catholic Sociological Review

Richard F. Larson

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William R. Catton