Upward Mobility Potential Attitudes Toward Mental Illness and Working-Class Youth

Authors

Gary Rosenberg, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center
Honey A. Mendelson, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center

Abstract

The investigators were interested in assessing the relationship between upward mobility potential and attitudes toward mental illness. For the 147 male adolescents studied, it was hypothesized that those working-class youth who demonstrated a high predictability of future upward social mobility would score more liberally on the five factors of the Opinions about Mental Illness Scale than those working-class youth who demonstrated a low predictability of future upward social mobility. Through the use of the aforementioned scale, the Otis Quick Scoring Mental Ability Test and Zero Order Correlations, the hypothesized relationship was confirmed; i.e., the upwardly mobile group was significantly more liberal than the non-mobile group.

Recommended Citation

Rosenberg, Gary and Mendelson, Honey A. (1976) "Upward Mobility Potential Attitudes Toward Mental Illness and Working-Class Youth," The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 3: Iss. 5, Article 11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.1153
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol3/iss5/11