Victims of the Great Depression: Self-Blame/Non-Self-Blame, Radicalism, and Pre-1929 Experiences

Public Griefs and Personal Problems: An Empirical Inquiry into the Impact of the Great Depression

“…Even among our rather well-insulated sample, the psychological fault-lines of the Great Depression can be discerned, but only when we look for them very hard: this is a finding congruent with that of Verba and Schlozman (1977), of Sternsher (1977), and, in spirit, of Lynd and Lynd (1937). These fault lines seem to have been products of stringency more than sudden reversal, and of perceived personal failure rather than disillusionment with one's economic circumstances or the system that engendered them.…”

“…"The American Dream" was anodyne, even at a moment in the Depression in which recovery was by no means comfortably achieved. Sternsher's (1977) synthesis of the findings of a number of the contemporary social-science inquiries into responses to the Depression arrives at a parallel argument: those most apparently driven by resentment of American capitalism were that minority of Depression victims who had earlier failed in, or been failed by, that economic system.…”

Country variations in depressive symptoms profile in Asian countries: Findings of the Research on Asia Psychotropic Prescription (REAP) studies

“…Research on the elderly showed that lower socioeconomic status is associated with more hospitalization, functional impairment, and chronicity of disease; but regardless of the income level, worse self‐rated health and insomnia are independently associated with depressive symptoms (Carvalhais et al ., ). In the lower income countries, there have been reports on the link between the poverty and the suicide, self‐blame, and guilt (Sternsher, ). Studies have shown that adolescents from lower income families or neighborhoods report higher rate of suicidal ideation (Dupéré et al ., ), and food insufficiency is more likely to increase the desire to have attempt suicide (Alaimo et al ., ).…”