Prevalence of Neurosis in Women

Tonge, W. L.; Cammock, D. W.; Winchester, John S.; Winchester, Elizabeth

doi:10.1136/jech.15.4.177

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“…Examining General Health Questionnaire scores of 213 employed and 528 unemployed married women in an Australian community survey, Finlay-Jones and Burvill (1979) recorded no difference in minor psychiatric morbidity between the groups (20% and 18%, respectively, were identified as probable cases). Tonge, Cammock, Winchester, and Winchester (1961) analyzed records from a rural general practice in Britain to identify patients diagnosed as having anxiety and depressive reactions. Among married women under 60, slightly more of those who were employed were so diagnosed (12% compared with 7% of those who were unemployed; note that the authors have miscalculated some percentage values in Table 2).…”

Section: Groups 2 and 4 Together: Married Women In Generalmentioning

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Paid employment and women's psychological well-being.

Warr¹,

Parry²

1982

Psychological Bulletin

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Research by psychologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists is examined within a three-component conceptual framework. This suggests that the association between employment status and psychological well-being is mediated by a woman's occupational involvement, the quality of her nonoccupational environment, and (if she has a job) the quality of her employment relationship. These three features are operationalized at the group level and at the individual level to show that in certain circumstances psychological well-being is significantly associated with having paid employment but that this association is not a general one. For example, the relationship is strong for single women but rarely observed for married women in general; it is more likely to be found in groups of workingclass women than in middle-class samples. The conceptual framework is advocated for more sophisticated research in this area.

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Section: Groups 2 and 4 Together: Married Women In Generalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paid employment and women's psychological well-being.

Warr¹,

Parry²

1982

Psychological Bulletin

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100

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“…As a psychiatrist trained in Manchester, Lawton studied the problem of maladjustment as the cause of unemployment in men (Markowe et al, 1955a(Markowe et al, , 1955bHall and Tonge, 1963) and the incidence of neuroses among women (Tonge et al, 1961). 9 Here Tonge was part of a wider trend which interpreted improper adjustment to modern society as something within the individual and reflected in 'symptoms' evident to the expert.…”

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In pursuit of "the welfare trait": recycling deprivation and reproducing depravation in historical context

Lambert¹

2016

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Adam Perkins' The Welfare Trait outlines the most recent attempt to provide substance to the existence of an underclass, based on the idea of a shared 'welfare-induced', 'employment-resistant' personality amongst benefit claimants. Following in the footsteps of historian John Macnicol who went 'in pursuit' of the underclass, this article travels 'in pursuit' of the welfare trait by situating its claims in historical context through a comparison of the post-war study by William Tonge, Families without Hope, which sought to identify a common psychological maladjustment in 'problem families.' The common intention, methods and recommendations of the two studies underline their shared purpose: to transfer the social and policy problems associated with poverty from their socio-economic context and the culpabilities of the state to finding the problem in individual families, identifying their behaviour as problematic and proscribing solutions rooted around cultivating personal responsibility.

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Socio-economic status, employment and neurosis

Rodgers

1991

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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In a national sample of over 3,000 36-year-olds, neurosis was more prevalent in men of lower status as assessed by housing tenure but not occupational class, education or personal income. Symptoms were more frequent in the unemployed, especially those not seeking work. In women, rates did not differ by husband's occupational class but were higher for those in rented accommodation, with unskilled manual jobs, without paid employment, with poor qualifications and with unemployed husbands, the strength of associations being dependent upon family structure. Many of these associations were reduced or eliminated by adjustment for reported financial hardship. Accounts of mental health problems in unemployed men and in married women (especially with children) may have underestimated the importance of financial circumstances.

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Prevalence of Neurosis in Women

Cited by 4 publications

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Paid employment and women's psychological well-being.

Paid employment and women's psychological well-being.

In pursuit of "the welfare trait": recycling deprivation and reproducing depravation in historical context

Socio-economic status, employment and neurosis

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