Contemporary Social Theory and the Sociological Study of Mental Health

Branaman, Ann

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-36320-2_5

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“…This instrument was specifically designed for experienced lay interviewers and was developed to advance the measurement of substance use disorders and other mental disorders in large‐scale surveys. Although evidence supports the contention that psychiatric nosology is shaped by sociocultural and political‐economic context, for example, shifting moral narratives and social norms, political struggles and economic interests (see Branaman , Conrad and Slodden , Horwitz , Wakefield ), the focus of the present study is not on the role of class relations in the social construction of depression and anxiety but rather on their prevalence and determinants as currently constructed.…”

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confidence: 73%

Anxious? Depressed? You might be suffering from capitalism: contradictory class locations and the prevalence of depression and anxiety in the USA

Prins

Bates

Keyes

et al. 2015

Sociology Health & Illness

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Despite a well-established social gradient for many mental disorders, evidence suggests that individuals near the middle of the social hierarchy suffer higher rates of depression and anxiety than those at the top or bottom. Although prevailing indicators of socioeconomic stratification (e.g., SES) cannot detect or easily explain such patterns, relational theories of social class, which emphasise political-economic processes and dimensions of power, might. We test whether the relational construct of contradictory class location, which embodies aspects of both ownership and labour, can explain this nonlinear pattern. Data on full-time workers from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (N=21,859) show that occupants of contradictory class locations have higher prevalence and odds of depression and anxiety than occupants of non-contradictory class locations. These findings suggest that the effects of class relations on depression and anxiety extend beyond those of SES, pointing to under-studied mechanisms in social epidemiology, e.g., domination and exploitation.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 73%

Anxious? Depressed? You might be suffering from capitalism: contradictory class locations and the prevalence of depression and anxiety in the USA

Prins

Bates

Keyes

et al. 2015

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…We anticipate that mothers who use higher quality child care will report fewer symptoms of depression, on average, than mothers who use lower quality child care. We base these expectations on stress process theory, viewing child-care quality as a proximate determinate of mental health and seeing depressive symptoms as an expected response to the daily stress of using child care that is not of high quality (Branaman, 2007). Plausibly, to the extent that a mother's perceptions of quality differ from those of independent observers, her self-perceptions will be more important.…”

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Child Care and Mothers' Mental Health: Is High-Quality Care Associated With Fewer Depressive Symptoms?

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Child Care and Mothers' Mental Health: Is High-Quality Care Associated With Fewer Depressive Symptoms?Finding high-quality child care may pose financial and logistical challenges and create ongoing emotional strains for some mothers. We use the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development to ask (a) are childcare settings that mothers select on the basis of their own perceptions of quality rated more highly by independent observers (and more often recommended by mothers to friends) than settings that mothers selected for other reasons? (b) Do mothers report fewer depressive symptoms when they use highquality care, as they perceive it, as assessed by independent observers and as indicated by their likelihood of recommending it? We find that mothers' reports coincide with independent observers' ratings in some respects but diverge

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“…The models remind us to recognize these social determinants even when stress exposure is the focal point of our studies (37), thereby offering a critical lens from which to question the assumption of all forms of "disordered behavior" as inherently "abnormal." In the face of extreme stress, distress can be seen as a potentially normal (albeit painful) response to the demands of life (38,39). Instead of the naive, stereotypical labeling of "Drunken Indians" (40) and their "dysfunctional" behaviors, we might view documented health disparities within Indigenous communities as expected, unjustifiable consequences of the systematic, intentional attacks on culture, environment, health, and healing.…”

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Advantages of Stress Process Approaches for Measuring Historical Trauma

Walls

Whitbeck

2012

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

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Despite growing attention to historical trauma (HT) as a key mechanism for documented Indigenous health disparities like alcohol abuse, the complexities of conceptualizing and measuring HT-related constructs have limited empirical tests of these relationships. In this article, we review the current evidence surrounding one HT measure: the Historical Loss Scale. In addition, we provide examples of the benefits of treating historical cultural losses as stressors within sociological and Indigenous stress process models of health.

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Contemporary Social Theory and the Sociological Study of Mental Health

Cited by 4 publications

References 48 publications

Anxious? Depressed? You might be suffering from capitalism: contradictory class locations and the prevalence of depression and anxiety in the USA

Anxious? Depressed? You might be suffering from capitalism: contradictory class locations and the prevalence of depression and anxiety in the USA

Child Care and Mothers' Mental Health: Is High-Quality Care Associated With Fewer Depressive Symptoms?

Advantages of Stress Process Approaches for Measuring Historical Trauma

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