Social causes of psychological distress /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hawthorne, New York :
Aldine de Gruyter,
[2003]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Social institutions and social change.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Researching the causes of distress
- Measuring psychological well-being and distress
- Real-world causes of real-world misery
- Social patterns of distress
- Basic patterns
- New patterns
- Explaining the patterns
- Life change: an abandoned explanation
- Alienation
- Authoritarianism and inequity
- Conclusion
- Why some people are more distressed than others
- Appendix: Description of data sets and measures.