Economic Antecedents of Mental Hospitalization: A Nineteenth-Century Time-Series Test

Dowdall, George W.; Marshall, James R.; Morra, Wayne A.

doi:10.2307/2137168

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“…The larger literature typically attributes the relationship to mechanisms in which economic hard times increase deviant behavior and thereby increase the population that meets the criteria for civil commitment [Barling and Handal, 1980;Bland et al, 1988;Brenner, 1967;Catalano and Hartig, 2004;Catalano et al, 1985;Dowdall et al, 1990;Kiernan et al, 1989;Marshall and Dowdall, 1982;Marshall and Funch, 1979;Stokes and Cochrane, 1984]. Epidemiologic research lends credence to this attribution.…”

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Unemployment and civil commitment: a test of the intolerance hypothesis

Catalano

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Shumway

et al. 2007

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We theorize that the reported association between economic indicators and the incidence of civil commitment for mental illness may result, at least in part, from reduced tolerance in the community for impaired behavior among minorities. Earlier work suggests that economically induced intolerance will be focused primarily on minority males. Based on this literature, we hypothesize that the median level of functioning among African-American males subjected to civil commitment will vary positively with earlier changes in the unemployment rate. The test applies Box-Jenkins methods to 156 months (August 1985-July 1998) of data from California. Consistent with theory, results support the hypothesis.

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Unemployment and civil commitment: a test of the intolerance hypothesis

Catalano

Snowden

Shumway

et al. 2007

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“…2. A recent analysis of data for the 19th century arrived at different findings from Brenner's (Dowdall, Marshall and Morra 1990). 3.…”

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Socioeconomic Status and Mental Illness in Japan*

Kikuzawa

1998

Int J Japanese Sociology

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Since the pioneering work of Faris and Dunham (1938), a number of studies in the United States have documented an inverse association between socioeconomic status (SES) and mental illness both at the aggregate and the individual levels, and both for the treated and the general population. However, there are few studies of whether this relationship holds in other countries. This study examines socioeconomic characteristics and mental illness in Japan, which has a very different social stratification system from that of the United States. It was found that, at the aggregate level, the “inverse” association between socioeconomic characteristics and the rate of treated mental illness does not hold in Japan. Instead, the relationship is curvilinear: mental illness is higher in districts with large numbers of blue collar and upper white collar workers than in districts with large numbers of lower white collar workers. The effect of SES on mental illness operates through economic stress embedded in the macro social context. Because different social structures lead to different patterns of economic stress, the inverse relationship between socioeconomic status and mental health cannot be assumed to hold in all countries.

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“…A study from the mid-1980s documented a higher incidence of suicide in the Rana district than in the rest of the county (37), but the relation between economic stress and unemployment, on the one hand, and suicide, on the other, is ambiguous (38,39). Brenner (40) has described how economic fluctuations influence hospital admissions, but owing to methodologic problems his assertions are questioned (41). Similar difficulties in the fisheries in the northern areas of the county (Lofoten) did not result in a corresponding increase in the use of psychiatric inpatient services.…”

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