The chapter addresses the stigma associated with mental illnesses. It begins by
summarizing the development of thinking about labeling and stigma over the past half …

Work is a central activity and a principal source of identity for most adults, but it is also a
frequent source of distress. In this chapter, I show that job-related distress–or its opposite …

First Published in 1986. This book has two basic goals. The first goal is to present how
information is formed, used, channelled, and delivered in a number of different contexts and …

Unemployment has been shown to have wide ranging effects on physical and mental health.
This review looks to clarify the relationship between unemployment and mental illness …

Natural selection conserves mechanisms allowing women to spontaneously abort
gestations least likely to yield fit offspring. Small gestational size has been proposed as an …

Różnice w funkcjonowaniu psychicznym kobiet i mężczyzn są oczywiste. W potocznej opinii
kobietom przypisuje się właściwości związane z dbaniem o dobro innych ludzi (np. większą …

This study investigates the effects of housing quality on well-being by comparing a sample of
low-income women living in two different housing conditions: slum housing and public …

We investigate how risky health behaviors and self-reported health vary with the Dow Jones
Industrial Average (DJIA) and during stock market crashes. Because stock market indices …

An individual's income is generally positively correlated with his/her health. 1 Hence, it
seems natural to expect that health should move pro-cyclically with the economy. However …