Talk:urbanicity

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urbanicity

Self promotion? Protologism? Nasty formatting. SemperBlotto 18:54, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

How could this formation not be redundant? --Connel MacKenzie 16:00, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

A substantial quantity of the use is in health-related or other scientific contexts. Also, it seems to have another sense, beyond the one given (?). At any rate, cleaned and given citations. — Beobach972 17:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

• 1972: Jerome Johnston, Jerald Bachman, Young Men and Military Service

  To assess this hypothesis, the urbanicity of a boy's place of residence was run against enlistment.

• 1996: Morton O. Wagenfeld, J. Dennis Murray, Dennis F. Mohatt, Jeanne C. DeBruyn, Mental Health and Rural America, 1980-1993

  Neff, J. A. & Husaini, B. A. (1987). Urbanicity, race and pyschological distress. Journal of Community Pyschology, 15, 520-535.

  In this study the authors present data from random samples of 645 rural white respondents, 398 rural black respondents, and 700 urban residents of Nashville, Tenn., that address urbanicity and race differences in depressive symptoms, psychophysiologic symptopms, and general well-being.

• 1997: Waltina Scheumann, Managing Salinization: Institutional Analysis of Public Irrigation Systems

  The risk of psychotic disorder in the population exposed to urbanicity alone was 1.59% (31/1946), the risk in those exposed to family history, broadly defined, alone was 3.01% ...

  Thus, between 60% and 70% of the individuals exposed to both urbanicity and family history had developed psychotic disorder because of the synergistic action of the two proxy causes.

• 2002: Heinz Häfner (ed), Risk and Protective Factors in Schizophrenia: Towards a Conceptual Model of the Disease Process

  A number of studies have associated urbanicity at birth or upbringing with schizophrenia risk.

• 2002: Robert A. Moffitt, Constance Forbes Citro, Michele Ver Ploeg, Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues

  For example, urbanicity is one of the most universal correlates of cooperation ...

 — Beobach972 17:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Comprehensively verified. Note that I've broadened the def to try and take in the sense of all the citations. Widsith 11:53, 13 June 2007 (UTC)