Socioeconomic Status and Mental Illness: Tests of the ...

Socioeconomic Status and Mental illness : Tests of theSocial Causation and Selection HypothesesChristopher G. Hudson, PhDSalem State CollegeThis study Tests several hypotheses about the underlying causal structure of the inverse correlationbetween Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Mental illness . It does this through the analysis of alongitudinal statewide database on acute psychiatric hospitalization in Massachusetts for the fiscalyears 1994 2000 as well as supplemental census data. The modeling strategy used techniques ofstructural equation modeling and found that SES impacted directly on rates of Mental illness aswell as indirectly through the impact of economic hardship on low and middle income of the most consistently replicated findings inthe social sciences has been the negative relationshipof Socioeconomic Status (SES) with Mental Illness: The lower the SES of an individual is, the higher ishis or her risk of Mental illness .

SES–mental illness correlation is a specific outcome of stressful economic conditions, such as poverty, unemployment, and housing unaffordability. Hypothesis 2: Family fragmentation. The in-verse SES–mental illness correlation is a func-tion of the fragmentation of family structure and lack of family supports.

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