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Class drift and schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Silverton L.,
Mednick S.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1984.tb01213.x
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , social class , psychology , class (philosophy) , psychosis , developmental psychology , psychiatry , political science , law , artificial intelligence , computer science
– This study is part of an ongoing analysis of 207 children with schizophrenic mothers (high‐risk subjects) and 104 low‐risk controls begun in 1962 by Mednick & Schulsinger. The purpose of this study was to examine class mobility in schizophrenics, using a prospective paradigm. In the present study, 14 high‐risk schizophrenics were matched with 14 high‐risk non‐schizophrenics and 14 low‐risk non‐schizophrenics on age, sex and social class origin. Groups were compared on highest class attainment and socio‐economic status in 1972. Results indicated that while high‐risk non‐schizophrenics were comparable in class attainment to low‐risk non‐schizophrenics, the high‐risk schizophrenics were downwardly mobile in comparison to their non‐schizophrenic high‐risk counterparts. The class drift hypothesis was thus supported.