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Social class, parental social class, and social mobility in psychiatric patients and general population controls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

John Birtchnell
John Birtchnell
Affiliation:
Mental Health Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, and the M.R.C. Clinical Psychiatry Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, Sussex
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Synopsis

Previous studies have suggested that, because of the chronic and disabling nature of mental illness, psychiatric patients do not fare as well in their careers as they should do. In the present study the parental social class, the current social class and the social mobility has been compared in 2,861 male referrals to the psychiatric services in North-Eastern Scotland and 1,487 men randomly selected from the local population. Within the psychiatric sample similar comparisons have been made between diagnostic groups. In all three aspects of social class considered decade of birth was shown to be an important variable.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , May 1971 , pp. 209 - 221
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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