The affective reactions of housewives to community relocation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11043382
AutoresLinda L Viney (Macquarie University, autor de correspondencia), Patricia Bazeley (Macquarie University)
Año1977
Volumen5
Número1
Páginas37-45
Fecha de publicación1977-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-4392 • E-ISSN: 1520-6629
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/1520-6629(197701)5:1<37::aid-jcop2290050107>3.0.co;2-e
OpenAlexW1990707984
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas17

The affective reactions of two groups of housewives who had recently experienced relocation in a new community (in Australia) were compared. They revealed a pattern which was highly similar for the two groups, although they differed in socioeconomic status, as well as marital, education, vocational, and mental health status. The pattern featured feelings of loneliness and inadequacy and a need for cognitive mastery of the new environment, but also considerable positive feeling. For both groups, the impact of the loss of physical objects during the psychosocial transition was associated with outward-directed aggression, and the loss of personal and social objects was reflected in loneliness and in the expression of less positive feeling. The implications of these findings for community psychology were discussed.

Aggression · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Feeling · Loneliness · Marital status · Mental health · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Psychotherapist · Relocation · Socioeconomic status · Clinical Psychology · Community Health and Development · Homelessness and Social Issues · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology