Is There an Asian Idiom of Distress?. Somatic Symptoms in Female Japanese and Korean Students

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-38

  Saint Arnault, Denise ^a,b   Kim, Oksoo ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; KOREA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; KOREA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; WOMEN;

EID: 38149005572     PISSN: 08839417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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