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social causation influence; and (2) a component due to the differential impact of comparable stresses on people in different categories of various status dimensions. The analysis shows that differential impact is the more important determinant in relationships between social class, sex, and marital status and self-reported distress. Only in the comparison of whites to nonwhites is differential exposure the key determinant. The implications of these findings for our understanding of the social status-psychological distress relationship are discussed. A central problem to emerge from the study of sociodemographic correlates of mental disorder has been to explain why persons in certain disadvantaged social statuses have the
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