Citation

Kamis-Gould E, McGurrin MC, Mazel J. Eval. Program Plann. 1981; 4(1): 15-22.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0149-7189(81)90049-5

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The role of the individual's relationship to his environment has achieved central prominence in social science theory, but has not yet been adequately represented and measured through numerical methods. A variety of multivariate regression techniques have been proposed to incorporate individual and environmental level measures in a single regression equation. This article presents a special case of a contextual analysis model in which two sets of predictor variables are statistically treated to create a third set of predictor variables called congruence measures. Each of the three sets of predictor variables are then run separately in multiple regression equations against a fourth set of individual level outcome variables to determine the relative gain in predictive power of the congruence measures over the individual and environmental level variables when they are run alone. Martital status variables are used to illustrate and examine the model.