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Community Attachment and Depression Among Residents in Two Rural Midwestern Communities 1
Author(s) -
O'Brien David J.,
Hassinger Edward W.,
Dershem Larry
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
rural sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.083
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1549-0831
pISSN - 0036-0112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1994.tb00532.x
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , rural community , mental health , community health , rural area , psychology , socioeconomics , geography , gerontology , environmental health , public health , psychiatry , sociology , medicine , nursing , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
The relationship between community attachment and depression is examined in a sample survey (N = 295) in two midwestern rural towns and their surrounding open‐country areas. When community attachment, a variable through which a rural resident's social integration into the local community affects mental health, was low, higher levels of symptoms of depression were observed. The economic viability of the local community was found to have a relationship to mean depression scores in the towns but not in the open‐country areas.