About

Roger Mitchell is an Associate Professor at NC State University within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. His broad research interests focus on the impact of psychosocial and contextual factors on health and health promotion, as well as the personal and ecological factors influencing the capacity to launch effective health-promotion efforts. He has studied access to and capacity to mobilize social support among various at-risk populations, including battered women and depressed patients. Mitchell has been involved in evaluating community-based approaches to the prevention of alcohol and other drug-abuse problems and assessing the effectiveness of community coalitions in implementing empirically based prevention programming. His expertise encompasses community prevention, health promotion, and the role of social support systems in health outcomes.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Business
• Sociology
• Public relations
• History

Selected publications

• Integration of Electric Power Infrastructure into the Drinking Water Shared Risk Framework: Prototype Development

  2022-04-29

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  An existing shared risk framework designed for assessing and comparing threat-based risks to water utilities is being extended to incorporate electric power. An important differentiating characteristic of this framework is the use of a system-centric rather than an asset-centric approach. This approach allows anonymous sharing of results and enables comparison of assessments across different utilities within an infrastructure sector. By allowing utility owners to compare their assessments with others, they can improve their self-assessments and identification of ?unknown unknowns?. This document provides an approach for extension of the framework to electric power, including treatment of dependencies and interdependencies. The systems, threats, and mathematical description of associated risks used in a prototype framework are provided. The method is extensible so that additional infrastructure sectors can be incorporated. Preliminary results for a proof of concept calculation are provided.

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• One hundred priority questions for landscape restoration in Europe

  Biological Conservation · 2018-03-18 · 106 citations

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• Framework for shared drinking water risk assessment

  International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection · 2018-10-25 · 8 citations

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• Posttraumatic Stress, Posttraumatic Growth, and Satisfaction With Life in Military Veterans

  Military Psychology · 2017-06-05 · 54 citations

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  Objective: Military veterans are more likely than civilians to experience trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research suggests, however, that some people who experience trauma, including veterans, report posttraumatic growth (PTG), or positive personal changes following adversity. In this study, we tested a comprehensive model of PTG, PTSD, and satisfaction with life in a veteran population, exploring the roles of challenges to core beliefs, types of rumination, sex, and time since event. Method: Data were collected via Amazon's Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing website, from veterans (N = 197) who had experienced a stressful event within the last 3 years (M = 16.66 months, SD = 12.27 months). Structural equation modeling was used to test an integrated conceptual model of PTG, PTSD, and satisfaction with life. Results: Results showed that challenge to core beliefs was directly associated with both deliberate and intrusive rumination. Deliberate rumination was positively related to PTG; intrusive rumination was positively related to symptoms of PTSD. PTG and PTSD, in turn, mediated the relationship between rumination styles and satisfaction with life; PTG was related to higher satisfaction with life; and PTSD was negatively related to satisfaction with life. Results failed to show differences on any model variables as a function of time since event or sex. Conclusion: Results indicate that the intentional facilitation of PTG may be a complementary and alternative option to the reduction of PTSD symptoms for improving satisfaction with life. Findings suggest that efforts to facilitate PTG should be focused on strategies for promoting deliberate rumination.

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• Framework for Shared Drinking Water Risk Assessment.

  2017-01-01 · 1 citations

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  Central to protecting our nation's critical infrastructure is the development of methodologies for prioritizing action and supporting resource allocation decisions associated with risk-reduction initiatives. Toward this need a web-based risk assessment framework that promotes the anonymous sharing of results among water utilities is demonstrated. Anonymous sharing of results offers a number of potential advantages such as assistance in recognizing and correcting bias, identification of 'unknown, unknowns', self-assessment and benchmarking for the local utility, treatment of shared assets and/or threats across multiple utilities, and prioritization of actions beyond the scale of a single utility. The constructed framework was demonstrated for three water utilities. Demonstration results were then compared to risk assessment results developed using a different risk assessment application by a different set of analysts.

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• A Meta-Analysis of Public Attitudes Toward Ex-Offenders

  Criminal Justice and Behavior · 2016-06-30 · 122 citations

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  Ex-offenders face barriers to community reintegration including negative attitudes held by members of the public. This meta-analysis summarizes the extant research on the correlates of public attitudes toward ex-offenders—namely, public, ex-offender, and community characteristics—and the moderating effects of sexual offense history. A systematic search of four databases (PsycINFO, Web of Science, National Criminal Justice Reference Service [NCJRS], and ProQuest Dissertation & Theses) identified 19 records, consisting of 9,355 participants. Results revealed small associations between correlate variables and attitudes, suggesting that people are more similar than different in their attitudes toward ex-offenders. Indeed, only political ideology, interpersonal contact, and sexual offense history emerged as significant correlates. Moderation analyses revealed differences in public attitudes toward ex-offenders based upon the year a record was produced. Findings reveal the need for additional research examining moderators of public attitudes toward ex-offenders and suggest that interventions should explore ways to incorporate interpersonal contact and reduce stigma related to criminal histories.

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• Comparative effectiveness research: the missing link in conservation

  2014-01-01 · 35 citations

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  SUMMARY This editorial highlights the deficit of studies that directly compare different conservation interventions for the same threat. Most studies test a single intervention (86% in Conservation Evidence), comparing it against a control that lacks the intervention. Such studies can provide evidence that a particular intervention is effective, but do not inform a practitioner whether that intervention is the best option relative to others. Comparing results from different studies is difficult, as outcomes depend on factors such as the site, species and method of measurement. We suggest that a key step to understanding the effectiveness of conservation interventions is to compare different interventions in the same context within studies. If widely adopted this could transform global conservation practice. We provide some guidance on how to design and conduct comparative studies.

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• Public Health Measures: Management of Food Safety in Food Service Sector

  Elsevier eBooks · 2014-01-01 · 2 citations

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• Conservation practice could benefit from routine testing and publication of management outcomes

  Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) · 2013-01-01 · 24 citations

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  Effective conservation requires a step change in the way practitioners can contribute to science and can have access to research outputs. The journal Conservation Evidence was established in 2004 to help practitioners surmount several obstacles they face when attempting to document the effects of their conservation actions scientifically. It is easily and freely accessible online. It is free to publish in and it enables global communication of the effects of practical trials and experiments, which are virtually impossible to get published in most scientific journals. The driving force behind Conservation Evidence is the need to generate and share scientific information about the effects of interventions.

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• The role of 'Conservation Evidence' in improving conservation management

  2012-01-01 · 18 citations

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  Effective global conservation will depend upon us learning from the experiences of those on the front line of conservation practice. In the chase for impact factors, many journals have moved away from what they often disparagingly refer to as ‘case studies’ and are looking for papers with greater generality. Interestingly, research shows there is very little relationship between impact factors and the usefulness of the research to conservation (Sutherland 2011). It is increasingly difficult to publish papers that simply test an intervention. We believe that conservation practice would be more effective in both cost and conservation outcome if evidence based interventions were used.

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Frequent coauthors

• John Stevenson

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  15 shared

• William J. Sutherland

  8 shared

• Paul Florin

  7 shared

• Paul Florin

  6 shared

• Oscar A. Barbarin

  University of Maryland, College Park

  5 shared

• Stephanie Prior

  Royal Veterinary College

  5 shared

• Rudolf H. Moos

  Stanford University

  4 shared

• Chris D. Thomas

  University of York

  4 shared

Labs

• Roger Mitchell LabPI