3.2.4 Sociocultural Evaluation (Sch)

Question 1

What are the 3 aspects of the evaluation?

Answer 1

Mechanisms underlying urbanicity
Social isolation research support
Cause or effect

Question 2

(Mechanisms) general health is normally considered better where?

Answer 2

Urban areas compared to rural

Question 3

(Mechanisms) why might public health generally be better in urban areas?

Answer 3

Exposure to public health campaigns

Access to health care services

Question 4

(Mechanisms) if general health is better in urban areas what question is raised?

Answer 4

Why are schizophrenia rates higher

Question 5

(Mechanisms) McKenzie suggested higher levels do what are found in urban areas? What does this do?

Answer 5

Social capital

Might protect against stress

Question 6

(Mechanisms) what is social capital?

Answer 6

Who you know - social life allowing us to deal effectively with others

Question 7

(Mechanisms) it is unclear exactly how what works?

Answer 7

The mechanism underlying urbanicity

Question 8

(Mechanisms) what may lead to schizophrenia?

Answer 8

Single factor e.g. Stress

Or a complex interplay of factors

Question 9

(Social isolation support) research evidence provides support for what?

Answer 9

The theory of social isolation

Question 10

(Social isolation support) jones conducted a longitudinal study on who? What did they have in common?

Answer 10

5362 participants

All born a specific week in march 1946

Question 11

(Social isolation support) what is a strength of Jones sample?

Answer 11

Large and representative

Question 12

(Social isolation support) jones - how was childhood data gathered?

Answer 12

Prospectively

Question 13

(Social isolation support) Jones - between ages of 16-43 how many cases of schizophrenia were diagnosed?

Answer 13

30

Question 14

(Social isolation support) Jones - the individuals diagnosed were more likely to show what at age 4-6?

Answer 14

Solitary play preferences

Question 15

(Social isolation support) Jones - individuals diagnosed were more likely to do what at age 13?

Answer 15

Rate themselves as less socially confident

Question 16

(Social isolation support) Jones research suggests what about the social isolation theory?

Answer 16

That it is correct

Question 17

(Cause or effect) urbanicity - the theory says what causes schizophrenia?

Answer 17

Living in an urban area

Question 18

(Cause or effect) urbanicity - the social drift hypothesis says schizophrenia does what?

Answer 18

Reduces job opportunities
Reduces interaction
Decline in socioeconomic status

Question 19

(Cause or effect) urbanicity - social drift hypothesis with a decline in socioeconomic status what may you have to do?

Answer 19

More to cheaper areas to live which tend to be urban areas

Question 20

(Cause or effect) urbanicity - the social drift hypothesis suggests what?

Answer 20

That it’s schizophrenia that leads to living in urban areas

Question 21

(Cause or effect) urbanicity - Peterson and Mortensen reported individuals at high risk of schizophrenia reduced risk by doing what?

Answer 21

Moving to more rural areas

Question 22

(Cause or effect) urbanicity - what does Pederson and Mortensens research suggest?

Answer 22

Living in urban areas leads to schizophrenia

Question 23

(Cause or effect) social isolation - what does much research support?

Answer 23

Role of social isolation in schizophrenia

Question 24

(Cause or effect) social isolation - Os claimed who were at greater risk of schizophrenia?

Answer 24

Single people living in neighbourhoods with few other single people

Question 25

(Cause or effect) social isolation - Os research suggest social isolation is what?

Answer 25

A valid explanation for a cause of schizophrenia

Question 26

(Cause or effect) social isolation - rather than being a cause what might isolation be?

Answer 26

Early symptom of schizophrenia

Question 27

(Cause or effect) social isolation - Jones prospective study suggests what?

Answer 27

Social isolation causes schizophrenia

Question 28

(Cause or effect) ethnicity - what is not clear?

Answer 28

Exactly what it is about ethnicity that can put a person at higher risk of schizophrenia

Question 29

(Cause or effect) ethnicity - some think ethnic minorities are what of psychiatrists?

Answer 29

Suspicious and mistrustful

Due to past negative experiences with authority

Question 30

(Cause or effect) ethnicity - psychiatrists may interpret this behaviour as what?

Answer 30

Paranoid schizophrenia

Question 31

(Cause or effect) ethnicity - Boydell note incidence rates of schizophrenia in minority groups increased when?

Answer 31

When the proportion of ethnic minorities in the locality fell

Question 32

(Cause or effect) ethnicity - boydells research suggest social experience of isolation contributed to what?

Answer 32

The development of schizophrenia

Question 33

(Cause or effect) ethnicity - it is unlikely we will be able to asses the impact of ethnicity and discrimination until when?

Answer 33

We live in a society free of prejudice and bigotry

Question 34

(Cause or effect) social class - the theory suggests what?

Answer 34

Low class leads to schizophrenia

Question 35

(Cause or effect) social class - it is more likely schizophrenia leads to what?

Answer 35

Falling down the social ladder

Question 36

Conclusion - what would be a more comprehensive way to look at schizophrenia?

Answer 36

Diathesis stress model e.g. Genetics, other factors such as schizophrenogenic mother and sociocultural factors contribute