I focused my article on mental illness and people who receive low incomes rather than focusing strictly on the homeless population. My article is titled, “The Association Between Income Inequality and Mental Health: Testing Status Anxiety, Social Capital, and Neo-Materialist Explanations” in the journal “European Sociological Review.” The article was written by Richard Layte

Layte, Richard. “The Association Between Income Inequality and Mental Health: Testing Status Anxiety, Social Capital, and Neo-Materialist Explanations.” European Sociological Review 28, no. 4 (2012): 498-511. http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.redlands.edu/stable/23272534.

This article focuses on how ones income may affect their mental stability and state. The author created a series of 3 hypotheses that he wanted to test to see if any of them played  a factor in mental stability. For example, status anxiety to see if people who were in a lower income bracket had anxiety about their social status since they could not afford the same things/stress about money. The research question being asked is, “Does one’s income affect their mental state?” To test his theories the author would have to use two different types of data. He would use economic data and psychological trait data. To gather economic data that would require looking at records and acquiring someone’s current financial situation. To gather psychological data this would require in depth interviews and potentially surveys. To analyze this data one would use interval data for economic data and qualitative data for psychological data.