The Impact of Urbanization on Personality and Mental Health Sijuwade Philip O. School of Urban and Public Affairs University of Texas, Arlington, Texa Online published on 22 June, 2018. Abstract Personal disorganization, mental breakdown, suicide, delinquency, crime, corruption, and disorder, might be expected to increase in response to the greatersize, density, and heterogeneity of the urban population and the more rapid tempo of urban life. Such reasoning for a long time has been the conventional wisdom of urban sociology, although usually the early proponents had not backed their conclusions with empirical analysis. New empirical research has cast doubt on the validity of the theory that urban dwellers are any more prone to mental illness than rural dwellers, and the findings point to other sociocultural variables as potentially more significant than rural or urban residence as causative factors. This dimension of urban social systems contribute as heavily to an understanding of the quality of urban ecosystems-population, environment, technology and social organization. Top Keywords Mental Illness, Personality, Urbanization, Hospitalization, Ideal Type, Cosmopolitan. Top |