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The scores of a ‘normal’ population of people aged between 40–65 years on the Somatic Scale of the MHQ psychoneurotic index have been found to be related to social class as well as age and sex. A hypothesis that scores would be higher in people from lower social classes was only partially borne out, the positive association being found in some age ranges but not in others.
Crisp et al. (Fri,) studied this question.