Tolerance for depression: Are there cultural and gender differences?

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 681-688

  Loewenthal, K M ^a   Macleod, A K ^a   Lee, M ^a   Cook, S ^a   Goldblatt, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural differences; Gender differences; Jewish; Protestant; Tolerance for depression

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; JEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTESTANTISM; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0036884652     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2850.2002.00530.x     Document Type: Article

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