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Iradj Siassi, MD; Guido Crocetti, PhD; Herzl R. Spiro, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1974;30(2):261-265.

Abstract
Psychiatrists, sensitized by recent publications describing "blue collar blues" among assembly-line industrial workers, may attribute their complaints of emotional distress to the stress of assembly-line environment.

A field survey of automobile workers engaged in production-line tasks reveals no more evidence of unrelatedness, loneliness, boredom, life-dissatisfaction, work dissatisfaction, or depression than among their spouses.

Where these phenomena occur, they are usually part of a broader pattern of emotional illness characteristic of diagnosed patients drawn from the same population. Mental health professionals should be cautious about stereotypes lest they impair their clinical judgment.

Author Affiliations
Piscataway, NJ

From the Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers Medical School, Piscataway, NJ.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 10, 1973.

Reprint requests to the Community Mental Health Center, Rutgers Medical School, University Heights, Piscataway, NJ 08854 (Dr. Spiro).

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