Open AccessUnemployment and foster home placements: estimating the net effect of provocation and inhibition.
Author(s) -
Ralph Catalano,
Samuel L. Lind,
Abram Rosenblatt,
C. Clifford Attkisson
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.89.6.851
Subject(s) - provocation test , unemployment , medicine , psychology , demographic economics , economics , economic growth , alternative medicine , pathology
This study sought, first, to explain and reconcile the provocation and inhibition theories of the effect of rising unemployment on the incidence of antisocial behavior. Second, it tested the hypothesis, implied by the provocation and inhibition theories, that the relationship between unemployment and foster home placements forms an inverted "U."