Sociocultural factors

Question 1

What are the 4 main sociocultural factors?

Answer 1

Life events, urbanicity, social isolation, ethnicity and discrimination

Question 2

What is life events?

Answer 2

Stressful traumatic life events been suggest to trigger onset of SZ, reason is unknown, linked to changes in NT levels in brain

Question 3

What did brown and birley find?

Answer 3

50% experienced major life event 3 weeks before s episode, 12% 9weeks prior

Question 4

What is urbanicity?

Answer 4

Urban living doesn’t suit evolutionary traits of humans, explain higher rates of MH disorders, increase of social stress could trigger SZ

Question 5

What did Van os et al find?

Answer 5

An increase in incidence of schizophrenia in people born in urban areas

Question 6

How do social isolation cause SZ?

Answer 6

Individual doesn’t get feedback on inappropriate thoughts and behaviours they have so nuture them and become resistant to change. Symptoms go unnoticed for long

Question 7

What did Jones et al find?

Answer 7

Longitudinal study, 5362, 30 cases diagnosed, more likely to show solitary play at 4 and 6 and at 13 rate themselves less socially confident