Title: Socioeconomic status and mental health - Wikipedia
Headings: Socioeconomic status and mental health
Socioeconomic status and mental health
Contents
Social causation
Research
Faris and Dunham (1939)
Hollingshead and Redlich (1958)
Midtown Manhattan Study (1962)
Downward drift
Research
Weich and Lewis (1998)
Isohanni et al. (2001)
Wiersma, Giel, De Jong and Slooff (1983)
Debate
Implications for schizophrenia
See also
References

Content: They found a remarkable increase of cases from the outskirts of the city moving inwards to the center. This reflected other rates of distributions, such as unemployment, poverty and family desertion. They also found that cases of schizophrenia were most pervasive in public housing neighborhoods as well as communities with higher numbers of immigrants. This was one of the first empirical, evidence-based studies supporting social causation theory. Hollingshead and Redlich (1958)
Hollingshead and Redlich conducted a study in New Haven, Connecticut, that was considered a major breakthrough in this field of research. The authors identified anyone who was hospitalized or in treatment for mental illness by looking at files from clinics, hospitals, and the like. They were able to design a valid and reliable construct to relate these findings to social class using education and occupation as measures for five social class groups. Their results showed high disproportions of schizophrenia among the lowest social group. They also found that the lower people were on the scale of social class, the likelier they were to be admitted to a hospital for psychosis. Midtown Manhattan Study (1962)
The study by Srole, Langer, Micheal, Opler, and Rennie, known as the Midtown Manhattan Study, has become a quintessential study in mental health.