Interviewed 300 women in the Emirate of Dubai to study the effects of the radical social change in Dubai on the mental health of female nationals. It was hypothesized that attitudes and behaviors markedly at odds with traditional prescriptions would be associated with high rates of psychiatric morbidity. On the individual level, the association between psychiatric morbidity and the amount of social change reflected in the behaviors and views of the Ss was not significant. However, there was a significant association between morbidity and social attitudes and behaviors. At the community level, in contrast, the relationship between psychiatric morbidity and the social change was significant: there was more psychiatric morbidity in areas at the extremes of the social change continuum.