SOC363H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Multidimensional Scaling, American Psychiatric Association, Observational Error
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Distress: an unpleasant subjective state, takes 2 major forms: Depression and anxiety each take 2 forms: mood: feelings such as the sadness of depression or the worry of anxiety, malaise: Depression and anxiety are related in 2 ways: 1. Maps of their social high and low zones are similar: 2. A person that suffers more from one usually suffers more from the other (not necessarily at the same time) Measure distress by asking questions about depressed and anxious mood and malaise: count the number of symptoms a person reports. More symptoms = more severe the problems. Almost all mental patients suffer from depression or anxiety. Langer"s index: way of screening individuals for further psychiatric evaluation and possible treatment: greatest success in comparing the level of psychological distress in different segments of the population. Early studies used to ask about malaise but current studies ask about mood: 2 observations drive this shift:
