Supports, stressors, and depressive symptoms in low-income mothers of young children.

Hall, Lynne A.; Williams, Connie A.; Greenberg, Rivka

doi:10.2105/ajph.75.5.518

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“…In women with onset of depression in London, 34 percent were rated as having an event which signaled entrapment in the context of ongoing difficulty, as compared with 3 percent, for example, who had an event signaling danger alone (Brown et al 1995). Another major risk group for depressive disorder is single mothers living in poverty (Hall, Williams, and Greenberg 1985;Orr et al 1989;Brown and Moran 1997;Heneghan et al 1998). For this group the analogue to the work environment may entail the same type of persistent time pressure and psychological demand as measured by the work environment variables analyzed above.…”

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Socioeconomic Status and Depressive Syndrome: The Role of Inter- and Intra-Generational Mobility, Government Assistance, and Work Environment

Eaton¹,

Muntañer²,

Bovasso³

et al. 2001

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

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This paper assesses the hypothesis that depressive syndrome is associated with socioeconomic status, using longitudinal data from the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Followup. Socioeconomic measures include those used in most studies of status attainment, as well as measures of financial dependence, non-job income, and work environment. Analyses include inter-and intragenerational mobility, and replicate the basic aspects of the status attainment process, as well as psychiatric epidemiologic findings regarding gender, family history of depression, life events, and depressive syndrome. But the involvement of depressive syndrome in the process of status attainment, either as cause or consequence, is small and not statistically significant. There are strong effects of financial dependence and work environment on depressive syndrome. The findings shed doubt on the utility of the causation/selection/drift model for depression, to the extent it is based on linear relationships and socioeconomic rank at the macro level, while lending credibility to socialpsychologically oriented theories of work environment, poverty, and depression.The relationship of socioeconomic status to psychiatric disorders is one of the most important aspects of the relationship of social structure to mental life, and one of the most consistent relationships in the field of psychiatric epidemiology.

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Socioeconomic Status and Depressive Syndrome: The Role of Inter- and Intra-Generational Mobility, Government Assistance, and Work Environment

Eaton¹,

Muntañer²,

Bovasso³

et al. 2001

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

161

105

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“…Ainsi, Hall et al (1985) ont mis en lumière le lien existant entre l'humeur dépressive de mères monoparentales et leur statut de sans-emploi, la présence de problèmes de logements et de revenus insuffisants. Bien que la direction des effets ne soit pas clairement évidente (effet de la dépression sur l'évaluation de la situation financière ou effet de la situation financière sur l'état dépressif), d'autres études prospectives (Catalano et Dooley, 1983) viennent appuyer l'hypothèse du stress économique comme révélateur ou déclen-cheur de difficultés psychologiques chez les parents.…”

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Lutter contre la pauvreté ou ses effets? Les programmes d’intervention précoce

Bouchard¹

2006

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La pauvreté ne correspond pas nécessairement à l'image de misère chronique et de résignation apprise et transmise de génération en génération ; cette image provient de ce que les services sociaux et de santé mentale accueillent et soutiennent principalement les familles à problèmes multiples, depuis longtemps aux prises avec cette condition de pauvreté. Pour une bonne partie des familles pauvres toutefois, cette condition est temporaire, et ce qui les distingue des non-pauvres est l'absence d'un revenu adéquat. Alors que les programmes d'intervention précoce ont fait la preuve que l'on pouvait intervenir préventivement auprès des enfants et des parents, et améliorer considérablement leur développement psycho-social, ils ne semblent pas avoir eu l'effet de diminuer, encore moins d'endiguer, la pauvreté elle-même. Ces programmes ont, pour la plupart, émergé d'une approche clinique orientée vers l'acquisition d'habiletés et de compétences par les individus touchés par la pauvreté. Les intervenants-es sont désormais invités-es à s'associer à celles et ceux qui tentent de modifier les conditions qui sont à la source même de la pauvreté.This article looks at poverty from the point of view that it does not necessarily correspond to the widespread image of chronic despair and resignation, acquired and transmitted from one generation to the next. The author argues such an image is produced by the fact that social and mental health services deal mainly with families at grips with multiple, long-standing problems. However, for most of these poor families, their condition is temporary. In fact, insufficient revenue is what distinguishes them from families that are not poor. While preventive programs show that early intervention is a proven approach towards considerably improving the psycho-social development of underpriveledged children and parents, little can be said about the effect of these programs on lowering, even less on eliminating, poverty itself. For the most part, these programs emerged from a clinical approach that encouraged poverty-stricken individuals to acquire new abilities and skills. The author concludes by promoting the need for more collaboration between those people offering the programs and those people who work towards changing the conditions at the root of poverty

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“…A higher score indicates a higher level of daily stress. High internal consistency of the index was reported, with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.83 [49].…”

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The Role of Difficult Childhood Behaviors on Intimate Partner Violence

Ashworth¹

2017

Acta Psychopathol

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Supports, stressors, and depressive symptoms in low-income mothers of young children.

Cited by 209 publications

References 34 publications

Socioeconomic Status and Depressive Syndrome: The Role of Inter- and Intra-Generational Mobility, Government Assistance, and Work Environment

Socioeconomic Status and Depressive Syndrome: The Role of Inter- and Intra-Generational Mobility, Government Assistance, and Work Environment

Lutter contre la pauvreté ou ses effets? Les programmes d’intervention précoce

The Role of Difficult Childhood Behaviors on Intimate Partner Violence

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