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Social Factors in Posthospital Adjustment: A Test of Alternative Models

Clagett G. Smith

Five theoretical models gleaned from the literature on exmental patient adjustment are tested to determine their comparative predictive powers. The models include the medical, moralistic, anomie, labeling, and interactionist models. Findings suggest that a dynamic interactionist framework is more efficacious for predicting posthospital adjustment than other, more static models. Variables which predict best are ideology and behavioral expectations of significant others. These results substantiate the interpretation shared by interactionist theorists that definitions of social reality (e.g., mental illness) are constructed by, as well as influential in, everyday social interaction.

Human Relations, Vol. 28, No. 1, 23-47 (1975)
DOI: 10.1177/001872677502800102


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