Scientists, philosophers, and storytellers often question why human
beings appear to remain constant while existing in a state of
change at the same tune. Among those who explore and expose
dramatic conflicts between human stability and flux, the number of
behavioral scientists has remained relatively low - that is, until
Leo Srole followed the progress of a large cohort of people in his
Midtown Longitudinal Study. This statistical project was designed
to analyze mental health and assess human biological, social, and
psychological change. New York's Upper East Side was the study's
focus, a sociologically insular community, consisting of loosely
differentiated neighborhoods, with a population of generalizable
significance that transcended individual characteristics.
Midtowners, studied hi 1954 then reinterviewed in 1974, were the
subjects of analysis. After a twenty-year hiatus, Srole's eagerly
awaited findings and outcomes are available.Personal History and
Health by Ernest Joel Millman is a posthumous synthesis of Leo
Srole's seminal behavioral study. This book presents the principal
findings of MLS - with emphasis on adult mental health predictors,
not cause-and-effect relationships. Srole used such biophysical
correlates as gender and generation, mental health and history of
somatic disorders, and the statistical methods of multiple
correlation and regression analysis to predict average mental
health. Through this work, Srole's pioneering exploration of social
age and adult mental health - in particular how they differed for
the women and men of the Midtown Longitudinal Study - has been
completed. Personal History and Health is the conclusive,
long-range view of those changes.These are Srole's final
perspectives on mental health. As was characteristic of him, it is
not exploratory or confirmatory, nor does it declare conclusions;
rather, it raises questions. Millman offers an accessible yet
sophisticated presentation of sociomedical sampling and analysis in
language which may be understood by statistically unsophisticated
readers, placing all of the explanations, details, figures, and
tables in comprehensive statistical appendices. This book will
appeal to those in the mental health field, sociomedical
scientists, and those with interest in the socioeconomic correlates
of health status and/or social mobility in urban society.
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