Social Factors in Posthospital Adjustment
A Test of Alternative Models
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9890796 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeanne Ranek (corresponding author), Clagett G Smith |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-47 |
| Publication date | 1975-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001872677502800102 |
| OpenAlex | W2165159958 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
Five theoretical models gleaned from the literature on exmental patient adjustment are tested to determine their comparative predictive powers. The models include the medical, moralistic, anomie, labeling, and interactionist models. Findings suggest that a dynamic interactionist framework is more efficacious for predicting posthospital adjustment than other, more static models. Variables which predict best are ideology and behavioral expectations of significant others. These results substantiate the interpretation shared by interactionist theorists that definitions of social reality (e.g., mental illness) are constructed by, as well as influential in, everyday social interaction
Anomie · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy · Politics · Symbolic interactionism · Test (biology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Computer Science · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology
The mental patient comes home
The myth of mental illness
Stigma
The social construction of reality
Outsiders
Instrumental Role Expectations and Post-Hospital Performance of Female Mental Patients
The Role of the Mentally Ill and the Dynamics of Mental Disorder
Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion
Notes on the Sociology of Deviance
The Mental Patient
Accounts
Anomia and Differential Access to the Achievement of Life Goals
Social Integration and Certain Corollaries
Societal Reaction as an Explanation of Mental Illness
The First Year Out
Sociology of Deviant Behavior
Women after Treatment
Psychiatric and Social Attributes as Predictors of Case Outcome in Mental Hospitalization
Mental Illness and Deviant Behavior
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |