SOCIAL CAUSATION OF DEPRESSION - CRITIQUE OF WORK OF BROWN AND HIS COLLEAGUES

被引:106
作者
TENNANT, C
BEBBINGTON, P
机构
[1] MRC Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
[2] MRC Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill
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D O I
10.1017/S003329170001878X
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
Brown and his colleagues have presented evidence for the social origins of depression from results of 2 community surveys in Camberwell. This paper examines critically their methodology, conceptualization of variables, mode of argument and statistical techniques. Log-linear analysis of their published data fails to substantiate their differentiation of risk variables into vulnerability factors and provoking agents. © 1978, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.
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页码:565 / 575
页数:11
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