About

Walton R. Johnson is a Professor of Africana Studies with a background in social anthropology. His training focuses on African Studies, Southern Africa, and social dominance. His field work has been primarily conducted in southern Africa, and he has published extensively on religion and social change, including works such as Worship and Freedom: A black American church in Zambia, African Christianity: Patterns of Religious Continuity, Inside the Mixed Marriage: Accounts of Changing Attitudes, Patterns and Perceptions of Cross-Cultural and Interracial Marriages, and Dismantling Apartheid: A South African Town in Transition. In recent years, he has been exploring the nature of social dominance in human societies and is completing a manuscript titled A Master Must Rule or Die, based on research conducted in the United States. Professor Johnson teaches courses on Africa and race relations at Rutgers University.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Medical education
• Psychology
• Family medicine
• Nursing

Selected publications

• Tratamiento de la obesidad en niños y adolescentes

  Pediatric Patient Education · 2023 · 4 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Medicine
  DOI

• The Determinants of Nursing Turnover: A Multi-Year Analysis

  Medical Research Archives · 2020 · 7 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Medicine
  • Nursing
  • Family medicine

             Using cross section random surveys (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016) of 7,000 nurses in California, we examine the influence of nursing demographics and four groups of self-reported determinants of nursing career-choice decisions: FAMILY CONCERNS (childcare, other family concerns, moving, and non-job illness), ECON (salary and benefits), STRESS (job stress, job illness, other job dissatisfaction, nurse job dissatisfaction, and lay off concerns), and OTHER group (travel, another occupation, and school).             For nurses leaving for at least one year of absence and then returning to nursing, the FAMILY CONCERNS were consistently rated most important by nurses, followed by a distant second by the equivalent STRESS and OTHER group influencers.  The ECON group rated least important.             The nurses permanently leaving the health care profession, FAMILY CONCERNS were once again rated most important during the first three years of our sample (2008, 2010, 2012), but then faded as STRESS and OTHER factors took over in relative importance.  

  DOI

Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01NS015281

  NIH · $594k · 1990

• NIH Grant R21NS044224

  NIH · $369k · 2005

Frequent coauthors

• Richard Butler

  74 shared

• Edward S. Stenroos

  Arcadia

  64 shared

• Alice Lazzarini

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  39 shared

• Marjorie L. Baldwin

  Arizona State University

  33 shared

• Roger C. Duvoisin

  31 shared

• Giuseppe Di Iorio

  University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

  27 shared

• Lawrence I. Golbe

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  27 shared

• Susan Ide

  27 shared

Labs

• Black Ecologies LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Social Anthropology

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