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From Social Class to Social Stress - New Developments in Psychiatric Epidemiology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
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From Social Class to Social Stress - New Developments in Psychiatric Epidemiology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
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The association between social class and psychiatric disorder has
been one of the central topics of socio-epidemiological research
since its inception. With remarkable consistency, numerous
investigations have demonstrated an inverse correlation between
social class and prevalence rates for most forms of
psychopathology. The debate on the interpreta tion of these
findings - social causation versus social selection processes -
continues to this day. Moreover, the question as to what the
psychoso cial processes are through which social class and
individual psychopa thology are mediated has remained mostly
unanswered. The concept of social stress may well provide new
insights in this regard. One should note, in particular, the
considerable conceptual and methodological progress made in life
event research. Recently, the first attempts have been made to link
the two concepts of social class and social stress. These
developments will be retraced in this book in the light of new
investigations. Descriptive epidemiological studies on the relation
between social class and psychiatric disorders form the point of
depar ture. Explicit reference is made to two classical studies in
psychiatric epidemiology: Faris and Dunham's Chicago study and the
New Haven study by Hollingshead and Redlich. Following on from
there, various approaches in analytical epidemiological research
are presented which attempt to determine whether - or, more
precisely, to what extent - social causation or social selection
processes can be said to be responsible for the higher rates of
psychiatric disorders in lower social strata."
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