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Social class bias of suicide prevention volunteers
Author(s) -
Gordon Robert H.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00878978
Subject(s) - citation , health psychology , psychology , class (philosophy) , library science , sociology , medicine , public health , computer science , artificial intelligence , nursing
This study investigated the influence of a suicidal client's social class on suicide prevention volunteers' evaluation of a telephone conversation between a suicidal client and a volunteer: 32 suicide prevention volunteer Ss rated an artificially constructed transcript of a segment of a call to a suicide-and crisis-intervention service on 16 suicide and personality scales. One-half of the Ss rated the transcript appended with a lower-class social history, defined mainly by education and income; the other half rated the same transcript appended with a middleclass social history. The evaluations of the caller were not influenced by the caller's social class, except for two scales assessing intellectual functioning and emotional disturbance, on which the lower-class caller was rated more negatively than the middle-class caller. Concern about the care and treatment of psychological problems in lower-class persons has been a hallmark of community mental health. The concern has been motivated by data indicating that lower-class patients are accepted into psychotherapy relatively less often than middle- or upper-class patients (Brill &

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