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Social Factors and Mental Illness-Elliot Flashcards

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(blank) is the study of the distribution of health events, health behaviors, symptoms, and disease within and between specific populations, as well as their causes and consequences

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Epidemiology

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(blank) focuses on social factors that account for the distribution, causes and consequences of the same, such as social inequalities according to education, income and gender

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Social epidemiology

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(blank) is the study of social factors that account for group differences in the distribution of symptoms and cases of mental illnesses, as well as their causes and consequences

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Psychiatric social epidemiology

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Whats up with the estimates of the social distribution of mental illness via clinical studies?
Whats up with the estimates of social distribution fo mental ilness via population-based studies?

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  • it was an underestimation because it ony took into consideration people who were getting treatment,
  • had nonclinician interviewers who gave standardized surveys also which may lead to errors-> resulted in overestimation
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Why is standardized surverys both a good thing and bad?

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  • get reliable data

- cant ask follow up questions (determine whether grieving or depression etc.)

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Why are clinican diagnoses a good and a bad thing?

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well trained, but not standardized

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What is social selection or drift?

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mental ilness emerges in people in childhood,adolescents, young adulthood, and this mental illness inhibits them from achieving a desirable social class position. 
i.e drift into lower social class due to mental health problems
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What is this:
Mental illness (or mental health) predicts the social class position a young adult is able to achieve
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Social selection

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What is this:
Social conditions associated with social class position affect mental health status
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Social causation

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Evidence supports social selection with respect to (blank), but not the other major mental illnesses

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schizophrenia

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What are these questions trying to figure out:
What conditions of life are determined by social class position?
How are conditions of life (as determined by social class) related to the development of symptoms and diagnosis of mental illness?
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Social causation

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What is a mediator?

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an association between 2 things that explains their relationship

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13
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THe greater the education the less likely you will have (blank)

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mental illness

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14
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(blank) protects against mental illness via multiple pathways

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Education

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Education teaches a greater sense of (blank), which protects against mental illness by equipping individuals with the capacity to cope with life challenges proactively.

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personal control

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Education assists people in establishing a protective (blank) by exposing people to a diverse group of social contacts from which to develop a diverse, overlapping, far-ranging social network of resourceful friends and acquaintances

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social network

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Education enables people to develop (blank) that not only pay well enough to secure a comfortable standard of living, but increases the odds of enjoying a meaningful career that makes use of one’s talents and allows one to make a contribution to others

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meaningful careers

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18
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A given variable may be said to function as a (blank) to the extent that it accounts for the relation between the predictor and the criterion

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mediator

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In the social causation model of social inequality and mental illness, what is the predictor? what is the criterion?

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Social class position (education, income, occupational prestige)
Mental illness
20
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What are the key mediators in the social causation model of social inequaltiy and mental illness?

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all aspects of daily life that are determined by social class position, and in turn affect mental health

21
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How does income affect depression?

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The less amount of money you have the more likely you will be depressed EXCEPT for the highest income category has some increased depression levels

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How does income protect against mental illness via multiple pathways?

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  • Income helps secure necessities (secure life)
  • income helps with periodic crises (like bein temp laid off or divorced)
  • income allows for lesiure time and vaca
  • Income allows you to afford mental health treatment
23
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How does income improve marital quality?

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Higher income reduces day-to-day stress, thus indirectly improving marital quality

24
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Higher income buys access to peaceful living conditions in higher income neighborhoods where there is a regular police presence, plenty of green spaces, and opportunities to shop for healthy food and other services

T or F

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T

25
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People with relatively high education and income are more likely to enjoy…?

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  • comfortable and secure housing and adequate nutrition
  • predictable daily routines including leisure time and support for healthy behaviors
  • pleasant working conditions and positive relationships at work
  • an optimistic outlook commensurate with favorable life conditions
  • interpersonal interactions that reinforce their relatively high status
26
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People with relatively low education and income regularly face:….?

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  • Fear of eviction, if not homelessness
  • Hunger
  • Interpersonal conflict fomented by economic insecurity
  • Difficulty securing safe, high quality child care
  • Feelings of helplessness in the face of uncontrollable stressors
  • The continually enacted indignity of occupying a low social status
27
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A (blank) is a qualitative (e.g., sex, race, class) or quantitative (e.g., level of reward) variable that affects the direction and/or strength of the relation between an independent or predictor variable and a dependent or criterion variable

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moderator

28
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One powerful moderator that modifies the influence of social factors on mental health is

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GENDER

29
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Males are more likely to have what kind of mental disorders?

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conduct disorders and alcohol abuse

30
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Females are more likely to have what kind of mental disorders?

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  • anxiety
  • panic attack
  • major depression
31
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Due to emotional socialization, women are socialized to express (blank and blank) and concern about other people whereas men are socialized to express (blank and blank)

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sadness and anxiety

anger and ambition

32
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What are the gender differences between self-salience?

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women learn to favor others over themselves (help out other members of their families and their close personal network), whereas men learn to put themselves first.

33
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What are the gender differences between gender-specific stressors?

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Women tend to react emotionally more strongly to stressors in the private sphere whereas men tend to react emotionally more strongly to stressors in the public sphere

34
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What is the key points of gender stratification?

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-women have lower SES ie. have more stressors especially financial and stressors associated with single parenthood

35
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GIve me the keypoints of stigma and mental illness

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  • people think that people with mental illness are dangerous, incompetent
  • emphasis that it is biological
  • patients anticipate social rejection, internalize stigma and dont feel confident enough to get a good job so they have less money and employment
  • mental illness diagnosis gives you treatment but also gives pnt self-defeating behavior (i.e reduction in human capital)
36
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Does personal identity as an individual with a mental ilness, reduce or increase well-being?

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reduce

37
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Does Social identity as an individual with a mental ilness, reduce or increase well-being?

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Increases well-being

it increases in-group social support

38
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Being revealed as an individual with mental illness increases what?

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  • prejudice and discrim
  • centrality of mental illnes one’s personal identity
  • sociall identification w/ other individual who also have mental illnesses
39
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Experiences of prejudice and discrimination toward oneself on the basis of having a mental illness increases what?

What decreases?

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  • personal identity
  • alienation

-social identification is decreased

40
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Keeping one’s mental illness a secret protects against (blank and blank)

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prejudice and discrimination

41
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Revealing one’s mental illnes increase one’s odds of (Blank) with others who also have mental illness, from whom one may derive psychologically enhancing social suppot

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Socially identifying

42
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What do you need to have well-being with a mental illness?

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revealed + social identity + social support + well-being

43
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What does epidemiological data reveal?

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social patterns of metnal illness according to income, education and gender

44
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Social patterns of mental illness may be explained via (blank) and (blank)

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mediators (conditions of daily life determined by income and education)
moderators (gender)

45
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THe (blank) of mental illness detracts from emotional well-being and investment in human capital of individuals with mental illnesses, thus compounding the influence of social factors on mental illness.

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stigma

46
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UNR students who are diagnosed with mental illnesses benefit from the (blank) available to them from other individuals with mental illness. But are discouraged from identifying with said others because of their (Blank) of how the general public views people with mental illness

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social support

perceptions

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