Table 3.
Frequency and illness attribution of classes of causes in the Turkish community
| Mean % classed to cause | ||||||
| Number of Items | Mean % of sample believing this | Cross-item range of % of sample | Somatic Illness (S) | Mental Illness (M) | Mental & Somatic (MS) | |
| NATURAL CAUSATION | ||||||
| Stress | ||||||
| INFECT: Infection/Infestation | 4 | 58.3 | 28.4 – 88.1 | 69.0 | 2.0 | 23.2 |
| PHTR: Physical Stress | 15 | 72.1 | 28.2 – 91.2 | 62.8 | 6.6 | 27.4 |
| PSTR: Psychological Stress | 10 | 66.0 | 37.8 – 88.5 | 13.4 | 62.9 | 21.4 |
| LITR: Life Events/Circumstances Stress | 17 | 59.6 | 27.9 – 76.1 | 3.7 | 68.2 | 25.1 |
| Organic and Accident | ||||||
| ORGAN: Organic Deterioration | 23 | 66.6 | 21.9 – 76.1 | 55.5 | 11.3 | 29.4 |
| ACCID: Accident Plus (Accidental Causation/Overt Human Aggression/Constitution/Inheritance) | 9 | 67.7 | 30.4 – 88.5 | 32.8 | 14.3 | 48.8 |
| SUPERNATURAL CAUSATION | ||||||
| Mystical Causation | ||||||
| FATE | 5 | 13.0 | 1.4 – 33.1 | 24.3 | 26.8 | 39.2 |
| OMEN: Ominous Sensations | 2 | 22.0 | 19.1 – 25.0 | 7.8 | 53.2 | 29.0 |
| CONTA: Contagion | 3 | 9.5 | 3.4 – 19.6 | 34.3 | 29.9 | 16.6 |
| RETA: Accidental Mystical Retribution | 5 | 8.8 | 3.6 – 18.7 | 24.6 | 42.4 | 16.2 |
| RETN: Non-accidental Mystical Retribution | 12 | 16.2 | 7.9 – 29.1 | 12.8 | 57.0 | 23.0 |
| Animistic/Magical Causation | ||||||
| MAGIC: Animistic/Magical | 9 | 15.5 | 8.8 – 12.2 | 11.1 | 42.9 | 33.2 |
| METAPHYSICAL CAUSATION | ||||||
| META: Metaphysical | 5 | 47.1 | 37.8 – 51.8 | 66.0 | 2.7 | 25.7 |