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The Psychosocial Costs of Development: Labor, Migration, and Stress in Bahia, Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Naomar de Almeida-Filho
Naomar de Almeida-Filho*
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal da Bahia
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The social and psychological consequences of economic development have frequently been ignored in social science research in Third World countries, and most comprehensive analyses of the problem do not attach much importance to individual-level characteristics, such as the psychopathological outcomes of modernizing experiences. Migration and cultural change, which are closely related to the broader development process, traditionally have been viewed by social psychiatric research as independent variables associated with mental disorders (Murphy 1976).

Type
Research Article
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , 1982 , pp. 91 - 118
Copyright
Copyright © 1982 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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Financial support for the data collection and analysis were provided by grants from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA/PROPED) and the Rockefeller Foundation. Luiz Umberto Pinheiro and Vilma Souza Santana, of the Programa de Saúde Mental–FMUFBA, planned the survey and coordinated the data collection. I am grateful to Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Sherman James, and Gil Joseph, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for their criticisms and editorial help on an earlier version of this paper. I would also like to thank one of the anonymous LARR reviewers who gave many helpful suggestions for improving the manuscript.

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