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The interrelationship between social class, early parent death, and mental illness1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

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

The study aims to determine (1) the extent to which parental social class influences the incidence of early parent death; (2) the effect of parental social class on the outcome of early parent death, in terms of vulnerability to adult mental illness; (3) whether early parent death affects the age of terminating full-time education; and (4) whether early bereaved subjects lag behind their non-bereaved contemporaries in social class status. The study shows that parental social class does influence the outcome of early parent death and that early bereaved subjects do lag behind in social class status.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , May 1972 , pp. 166 - 175
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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