Bell R A, LeRoy J B, Lin E, Schwab J J
Community Ment Health J. 1981 Fall;17(3):203-13. doi: 10.1007/BF00757374.
The authors report data collected on 3674 subjects between 1970 and 1974 as part of an epidemiologic field survey of mental disorder in the southeastern United States, an area which was undergoing rapid sociocultural change. Rates of mental disorder, as measured by the Global Psychopathology Scale, are presented for various sociodemographic groups and are consistent with trends found in previous studies. Analysis of variance and multiple regression techniques are used to explore the relationships among awareness of social change, sociodemographic variables, and psychopathology. Low awareness of change is found to be consistently associated with low psychopathology scores across all socioeconomic groups. The authors postulate a "denial" or "filter" mechanism which may protect particularly vulnerable individuals from the psychic distress accompanying social change.
作者报告了1970年至1974年间对3674名受试者收集的数据，这些数据是美国东南部精神障碍流行病学现场调查的一部分，该地区正经历着快速的社会文化变革。通过全球精神病理学量表衡量的精神障碍发病率呈现给不同的社会人口统计学群体，并且与先前研究中发现的趋势一致。方差分析和多元回归技术用于探索社会变革意识、社会人口统计学变量和精神病理学之间的关系。研究发现，在所有社会经济群体中，对变革的低意识始终与低精神病理学得分相关。作者推测存在一种“否认”或“过滤”机制，该机制可能会保护特别脆弱的个体免受伴随社会变革而来的精神痛苦。
