STATUS INTEGRATION AND MENTAL ILLNESS.

Comments on the article "Status Integration, Social Stress and Mental Illness," by Walter T. Martin from the 1976 September edition of the "Journal of Health and Social Behavior" publication. Claim by Martin of accounting for the relationship between marital status and rates of admission to mental hospitals; Absence of any link between the theory and empirical issues between marital status and mental illness; Fallacy of the assumption of the dependence of interstatus role conflict in a status configuration on the number of people occupying the configuration.