TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mirowsky,John
AU  - Ross,Catherine E.
TI  - Social causes of psychological distress
SN  - 0202307085 (casebound : alk. paper)
AV  - RC 455.4 M676s 2003
U1  - 155.9042 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Aldine de Gruyter
KW  - Stress (Psychology)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Estrés (Psicología)
KW  - Aspectos sociales
KW  - Psicología Social
KW  - Stress, Psychological
KW  - etiology
KW  - Affective Symptoms
KW  - Social Environment
KW  - Socioeconomic Factors
KW  - Stress
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Psychologie sociale
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index; pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- Understanding the connections between social and personal problems -- Preview -- pt. II. Researching the causes of distress -- 2. Measuring psychological well-being and distress -- What is psychological distress? -- Diagnosis : superimposed distinctions -- Conclusion : the story of a woman diagnosed -- Appendix of symptom indexes -- 3. Real-world causes of real-world misery -- Establishing cause in the human sciences -- Explaining real patterns -- pt. III. Social patterns of distress -- 4. Basic patterns -- Community mental health surveys -- Socioeconomic status -- Marriage -- Children at home -- Gender -- Undesirable life events -- Age -- Discussion -- 5. New patterns -- Life course disruptions and developments -- Neighborhood disadvantage and disorder -- pt. IV. Explaining the patterns -- 6. Life change : an abandoned explanation -- Conceptual history of life change and stress -- Contradictory evidence -- Variants of the life change index -- Alternative concepts and future research -- 7. Alienation -- Control -- Commitment -- Support -- Meaning -- Normality -- Alienation : the prime stressor -- 8. Authoritarianism and inequity -- Authoritarianism -- Inequity -- pt. V. Conclusion -- 9. Why some people are more distressed than others -- Control of one's own life -- The importance of social factors -- Genetics and biochemistry as alternative explanations -- What can be done? -- "Take arms against a sea of troubles" -- Appendix : description of data sets and measures -- Aging, Status, and the Sense of Control Survey -- Community, Crime, and Health Survey -- Illinois Survey of Well-Being -- Life Stress and Illness Project -- Women and Work Study -- Work, Family, and Well-Being Survey
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy035/2002011167.html
ER  -