The role of 2 components of psychological disengagement (discounting and devaluing) in the relation between personal relative deprivation and self-esteem was explored in 3 samples of policewomen. Path analyses conducted with the 3 samples revealed that stronger feelings of personal relative deprivation resulted in stronger discounting of work evaluations, which in turn led to devaluing the impo...

To compare the effects of early monocular versus early binocular deprivation on the perception of global form, we assessed sensitivity to global concentric structure in Glass patterns with varying ratios of paired signal dots to noise dots. Children who had been deprived by dense congenital cataracts in one (n=10) or both (n=8) eyes performed significantly worse than comparably aged children wi...

produce a measure of relative differences in each country. The figure combines the data for neonatal and postneonatal mortality and shows that England and Wales have a steeper and more consistent gradient of mortality across social classes than Sweden. The width of the "steps" is proportional to each class's share of total live births. The differences in total mortality and its socioeconomic di...

OBJECTIVE To study the linkage between material deprivation and mortality from all causes, for men and women separately, in the capital cities of the provinces in Andalusia and Catalonia (Spain). METHODS A small-area ecological study was devised using the census section as the unit for analysis. 188,983 Deaths occurring in the capital cities of the Andalusian provinces and 109,478 deaths reco...