Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ359934
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1986
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Differential Perception of Life Crisis Events by Sex, Diagnosis and Ethnicity in Rural Mental Health Clients.
Swanda, Rex M.; Kahn, Marvin W.
Journal of Rural Community Psychology, (Special Issue on Prevention and Promotion) v7 n2 p63-68 Win 1986
Describes study in which 146 rural mental health clinic clients reported moderate to extreme stress levels for all demographic and diagnostic groupings. Indicates younger patients had higher stress levels than older and significantly different stress events differentiated alcoholic, male, and Hispanic-American patients. Discusses implications for prevention/intervention. (LFL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Alcoholism, Change, Clinical Diagnosis, Community Psychology, Coping, Crisis Intervention, Ethnicity, Individual Differences, Life Satisfaction, Mental Health, Mexican Americans, Rural Areas, Rural Population, Sex Differences, Stress Variables, Whites
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Support Staff; Practitioners
Language: English
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