The Development and Use of a Gauge to Measure Social Stress in Three Mesoamerican Communities
- 1 January 1980
- Vol. 19 (1) , 111-127
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3773322
Abstract
The problem of the meaning of the folk illness known as susto, or soul loss illness, was addressed. A field instrument, the social factors questionnaire, was developed. It consists of a number of items uniformly arranged in sections for standard administration in the communities to be studied. It was designed to elicit responses over all the variable areas of social experience which might be relevant to the generation of social stress in the sample population. A positive association between social stress and the susto illness was demonstrated.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: