Zahner G E, Jacobs J H, Freeman D H, Trainor K F
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1993 Mar;32(2):378-87. doi: 10.1097/00004583-199303000-00020.
Parent and teacher symptom reports from two epidemiological surveys of 2,519 Connecticut children were used to study rural-urban differences in childhood psychopathology. Parents and teachers of girls in cities reported elevated total disturbance and social withdrawal. Parents of urban girls also reported higher rates of behavioral disturbance. For boys, urban excesses were primarily observed in emotional disturbance. Rural-urban variation was largely associated with economic and cultural differences between sites and not with urbanization per se. Findings suggest that certain assumptions about rural-urban differences in specific forms of psychopathology, such as delinquency, should be reevaluated.
来自康涅狄格州对2519名儿童进行的两项流行病学调查中的家长和教师症状报告，被用于研究儿童精神病理学中的城乡差异。城市中女孩的家长和教师报告称，其总体困扰和社交退缩程度有所升高。城市女孩的家长还报告了更高的行为障碍发生率。对于男孩而言，城市中的过度问题主要体现在情绪障碍方面。城乡差异在很大程度上与不同地点之间的经济和文化差异相关，而非城市化本身。研究结果表明，对于诸如犯罪等特定形式精神病理学中城乡差异的某些假设，应该重新评估。
