The Psychosocial Costs of Development: Labor, Migration, and Stress in Bahia, Brazil
In: Latin American research review: LARR, Volume 17, Issue 3, p. 91-118
ISSN: 1542-4278
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).