Gift T E, Harder D W, Ritzler B A, Kokes R F
Am J Psychiatry. 1985 Dec;142(12):1447-9. doi: 10.1176/ajp.142.12.1447.
Much attention has been focused on the advantages enjoyed by white males in the general society. Are they similarly advantaged in a psychiatric population? Two hundred seventeen patients from two demographically heterogeneous catchment areas admitted to inpatient care during a 1-year period were interviewed using standardized procedures; 80% of the original sample was available for follow-up 2 years later. Race and sex showed no consistent pattern of relationships with psychiatric symptoms, disability, and outcome; being both white and male was not advantageous in terms of any of the characteristics examined.
许多注意力都集中在白人男性在一般社会中所享有的优势上。在精神科患者群体中他们是否也有类似的优势呢？在一年时间里，来自两个人口统计学特征各异的集水区的217名住院患者接受了标准化程序的访谈；两年后，原始样本中有80%的人可供随访。种族和性别与精神症状、残疾及预后之间未呈现出一致的关系模式；就所考察的任何特征而言，身为白人男性并无优势。
