Srole was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants.
from Harvard University in 1933, after which he began studying with W. Lloyd Warner at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
He then began working with Eliot Chapple in Newburyport before transferring to the University of Chicago to complete his Ph.D. under Warner's supervision.
[5] Published in 1962, the study found that less than 20% of those surveyed were in good mental health, a finding that initially prompted doubts, but which was later accepted by other researchers.
[3][6] The American Journal of Psychiatry, for example, described the study as "a beacon to all future researchers", and its results were later used by a presidential commission to project national estimates.