Religious Practice and Psychological Distress: ThE Importance of Gender, Ethnicity and Immigrant Status

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 657-675

  Jarvis, G Eric ^a   Kirmayer, Laurence J ^a   Weinfeld, Morton ^a   Lasry, Jean Claude ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caribbean; ethnicity; Filipino; gender; immigration; religious practice; Vietnamese; well being

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; JEW; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS GROUP; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX ROLE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TRANSCULTURAL CARE; URBAN POPULATION; VIET NAM; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 30744478206     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461505058921     Document Type: Article

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