Understanding the Connections between Social and Personal Problems
3
(4)
Preview
7
(16)
Part II RESEARCHING THE CAUSES OF DISTRESS
Measuring Psychological Well-Being and Distress
23
(31)
What Is Psychological Distress?
23
(7)
Diagnosis: Superimposed Distinctions
30
(18)
Conclusion: The Story of a Woman Diagnosed
48
(2)
Appendix of Symptom Indexes
50
(4)
Real-World Causes of Real-World Misery
54
(21)
Establishing Cause in the Human Sciences
54
(17)
Explaining Real Patterns
71
(4)
Part III SOCIAL PATTERNS OF DISTRESS
Basic Patterns
75
(55)
Community Mental Health Surveys
76
(1)
Socioeconomic Status
77
(7)
Marriage
84
(5)
Children at Home
89
(6)
Gender
95
(17)
Undesirable Life Events
112
(1)
Age
112
(17)
Discussion
129
(1)
New Patterns
130
(29)
Life Course Disruptions and Developments
131
(14)
Neighborhood Disadvantage and Disorder
145
(14)
Part IV EXPLAINING THE PATTERNS
Life Change: An Abandoned Explanation
159
(12)
Conceptual History of Life Change and Stress
160
(3)
Contradictory Evidence
163
(3)
Variants of the Life Change Index
166
(3)
Alternative Concepts and Future Research
169
(2)
Alienation
171
(59)
Control
171
(39)
Commitment
210
(3)
Support
213
(6)
Meaning
219
(3)
Normality
222
(7)
Alienation: the Prime Stressor
229
(1)
Authoritarianism and Inequity
230
(23)
Authoritarianism
230
(12)
Inequity
242
(11)
Part V CONCLUSION
Why Some People Are More Distressed Than Others
253
(25)
Control of One's Own Life
253
(4)
The Importance of Social Factors
257
(3)
Genetics and Biochemistry as Alternative Explanations
260
(13)
What Can Be Done?
273
(4)
``Take arms against a sea of troubles''
277
(1)
Appendix: Description of Data Sets and Measures
278
(11)
Aging, Status, and the Sense of Control Survey
278
(4)
Community, Crime, and Health Survey
282
(1)
Illinois Survey of Well-Being
283
(2)
Life Stress and Illness Project
285
(1)
Women and Work Study
285
(2)
Work, Family, and Well-Being Survey
287
(2)
References
289
(24)
Index
313
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