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London Jewish women were sampled from “middle-” and “ultra”orthodox synagogue membership lists, and measures of well-being and distress, together with information on demographic and other factors, were obtained from 121 of them. For the whole sample, correlates of depression and well-being related to the wife-and-mother roles, and generally resembled the correlates that have been found in other groups of women, although the Jewish women with fewer dependent children were the more depressed. The two groups of women differed on a number of demographic characteristics, which might explain the slightly lower levels of distress and dissatisfaction in the ultraorthodox. For the middle-orthodox group, happiness relates to marriage, whereas for the ultraorthodox, happiness relates to integration into their community.
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Loewenthal, K., Amos, V., Goldblatt, V., Mullarkey, S. (1994). Some Correlates of Well-being and Distress in Anglo-Jewish Women. In: Brown, L.B. (eds) Religion, Personality, and Mental Health. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2696-3_12
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