INCREASE IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ANOMIE AS A RESULT OF RADICAL AND UNDESIRABLE CHANGE EXPECTANCY

SUPPORTS HYPOTHESES DERIVED FROM ANOMIE THEORY THAT THE ANOMIC STATE OF THE INDIVIDUAL INCREASES IN THE PRESENCE OF EVENTS LEADING TO EXPECTATION OF RADICAL AND UNDESIRABLE CHANGE IN HIS LIFE, AND DECREASES ONCE SUCH EVENTS ARE REMOVED. SIGNIFICANT MEAN DIFFERENCES IN ANOMIE WERE FOUND WHEN DATA WERE COLLECTED PRIOR TO AN ORDER TO CLOSE A VETERANS ADMINISTRATION DOMICILIARY, RIGHT AFTER THE ORDER, AND AFTER THE ORDER WAS RESCINDED. SS WERE DOMICILIATED WAR VETERANS, EMPLOYEES AT THE AFFECTED DOMICILIARY, MEMBERS OF A COMMUNITY WHOSE ECONOMY LARGELY DEPENDED ON THE DOMICILIARY, AND RESIDENTS OF A NONAFFECTED COMMUNITY.