Social Causes of Psychological Distress

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ISBN: 9780202307091 | 0202307093
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Copyright: 3/31/2003

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This work is an effort to move methodology closer to human concernswithout sacrificing the scientific grounds of research as such. Theauthors succeed admirably in this complex and yet worthwhile task. Thisis a work that could be helpful to those in all branches of the socialsciences that take up issues relating to inequality and the unevendistribution of the social goods of a nation.

Acknowledgments

vii

Part I INTRODUCTION

1 Introduction

(20)

Understanding the Connections between Social and Personal Problems

(4)

Preview

(16)

Part II RESEARCHING THE CAUSES OF DISTRESS

2 Measuring Psychological Well-Being and Distress

(31)

What Is Psychological Distress?

(7)

Diagnosis: Superimposed Distinctions

(18)

Conclusion: The Story of a Woman Diagnosed

(2)

Appendix of Symptom Indexes

(4)

3 Real-World Causes of Real-World Misery

(21)

Establishing Cause in the Human Sciences

(17)

Explaining Real Patterns

(4)

Part III SOCIAL PATTERNS OF DISTRESS

4 Basic Patterns

(55)

Community Mental Health Surveys

(1)

Socioeconomic Status

(7)

Marriage

(5)

Children at Home

(6)

Gender

(17)

Undesirable Life Events

112

(1)

Age

112

(17)

Discussion

129

(1)

5 New Patterns

130

(29)

Life Course Disruptions and Developments

131

(14)

Neighborhood Disadvantage and Disorder

145

(14)

Part IV EXPLAINING THE PATTERNS

6 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)

7 Alienation

171

(59)

Control

171

(39)

Commitment

210

(3)

Support

213

(6)

Meaning

219

(3)

Normality

222

(7)

Alienation: the Prime Stressor

229

(1)

8 Authoritarianism and Inequity

230

(23)

Authoritarianism

230

(12)

Inequity

242

(11)

Part V CONCLUSION

9 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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