Mental health, crime, and social welfare rates: a view of human attrition in Alberta, Canada from the perspective of the community

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dc.contributor.authorWood, Donald William
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-15T18:23:30Z
dc.date.available2009-07-15T18:23:30Z
dc.date.issued1983
dc.description.abstractThis study examines human attrition, variously defined, at the community level under differing social contexts. Using Rage (1972) as a basis for the selection of community level attributes, between community differences in levels of human attrition were examined. Three separate hypotheses were examined and evaluated in terms of the degree of support mustered from data gathered on communities (N = 175) in the Province of Alberta, Canada. These hypotheses posited that: a positive relationship would exist between rates of social change and rates of human attrition; an inverse relationship would exist between indicators of human attrition and indicator's of the community's ability to absorb the shock of social change; and, that the indicators of human attrition would be positively associated with one another. Social change was found to be negatively associated with measures of human attrition. This finding was explained in light of the normative expectations of this rapidly growing area of Canada, and in terms of the selectivity of inmigration existing within the resource development sector. The extent of human attrition was found to be weakly, but negatively, associated with community level indicators. This was taken to indicate that other factors may be more influential than the community in the "buffering" of the negative aspects of rapid social change. Finally, the various measures of human attrition (crime, mental disorder, unemployment, and social service assistance) were not seen to be closely related to one another. This was seen to indicate the multifaceted nature of the concept of human attrition.
dc.description.degreePh.D.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/10280
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.relationTheses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Sociology; no. 1743
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dc.subjectMental illness--Social aspects
dc.subjectSocial indicators
dc.subjectCrime
dc.subjectPublic welfare
dc.subjectMental health
dc.titleMental health, crime, and social welfare rates: a view of human attrition in Alberta, Canada from the perspective of the community
dc.typeThesis
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dcterms.spatialAlberta

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