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Some effects of positive life events on community mental health
Author(s) -
Zautra Alex,
Simons Lynn Stanley
Publication year - 1979
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/bf00894385
Subject(s) - salt lake , mental health , citation , wright , library science , health psychology , tempe , center (category theory) , psychology , sociology , gerontology , media studies , public health , history , medicine , art history , psychiatry , computer science , nursing , paleontology , chemistry , pathology , structural basin , crystallography , biology
Measures of positive and negative events were derived from a life-event inventory to test the predictions of an equilibrium model and a positive mental health model of psychological well-being. These measures were related to indicators of individual and community well-being with data obtained through a household survey of 454 residents. Residents who reported more negative events also reported more psychological distress and less positive adjustment. Positive events were associated with reports of positive adjustment. An analysis of census tract scores on life events revealed that the relative absence of positive events in census tracts was associated with higher service utilization rates to the community mental health center serving those tracts. The number of negative events was unrelated to service rates for census tracts but was related to several demographic indicators of well-being.