ABSTRACT
To this point we have been testing the basic propositions of MHIM2 by statistically modeling their adult mental health status using, in the case of 1954, only the biosocial predictors of Age level, Gender, Pa rental Socioeconomic Status (SES); and in the cases of 1974, also the predictors of our Midtowners’ level of SES in 1954 and their 1954 level of Mental Health. Our success in explaining adult mental health has been quite limited, but we have established a baseline for more complicated models which we draw from the basic propositions of MHIM2. Have we done so well that to introduce further biographical particulars into our model of adult mental health would be a needless complexity? Or, may adult mental health be viewed straightforwardly as a function of the Midtowners’ location in an increasingly irrational social system, as measured by their socioeconomic status, and possi bly also biosocial age and sex?
