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Psychiatric disorder and social environment; an outline for a frame of reference.

Alexander H. Leighton
- 01 Nov 1955 - 
- Vol. 18, Iss: 4, pp 367-383
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This article is published in Psychiatry MMC.The article was published on 1955-11-01. It has received 15 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social environment.

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The Health Opinion Survey: Technique for Estimating Prevalence of Psychoneurotic and Related Types of Disorder in Communities

TL;DR: An attempt to devise and standardize a psychological screening test for adults in rural communities, with a focus on the selection of persons for positions in academic, business, and military situations and the elimination of those not qualified according to the various specifications adopted.
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Perceived Life Satisfaction and the Organization of Personal Project Systems

TL;DR: In this paper, a new methodology for the systemic appraisal of personal project systems was utilized as an approach to understand perceived life satisfaction, which was shown to explain variability in reported life satisfaction in two separate, studies, one with a university sample, the other in a small community.
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The Impact of AIDS on a Gay Community: Changes in Sexual Behavior, Substance Use, and Mental Health

TL;DR: Progress made to date on a study of the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the gay community of New York City is described andcriptive trends over time are provided for both the health outcome variables and the stressor variables.
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Seasons of labor:: Family, Work, and Land in a Nineteenth-century Nova Scotia Shipbuilding Community

TL;DR: This paper examined the place of occupational pluralism in the adaptive family economy of rural shipyard workers in nineteenth-century Weymouth, Nova Scotia, and revealed certain economic and sociocultural features associated with pluralism, including larger family size, the use of land for farming and security of food production, and the importance of job location for participation in pluralist activities.
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