The law of sociocultural demoralization

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1983 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Social Psychiatry, volume 18, pages 73-78 (issn: 0037-7813, eissn: 1433-9285,

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Authors: J M, de Figueiredo;

doi: 10.1007/bf00583991

pmid: 6867818

The law of sociocultural demoralization

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Abstract

Research in psychiatric epidemiology has consistently revealed that the mere exposure of a community to sociocultural change cannot be invariably associated with an increase in the prevalence of demoralization in that community. Rather, at a given rate of sociocultural change, the prevalence of demoralization is inversely associated with the sociocultural integration. This fundamental law of social psychiatry has important implications for health planning.

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Yale University
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Anomie, Mental Disorders, Humans, Models, Psychological, Social Change

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