Sorting out the competing effects of acculturation, immigrant stress, and social support on depression: A report on Korean women in California

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 197, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 742-747

  Ayers, John W ^a,b   Hofstetter, C Richard ^b   Usita, Paula ^a,b   Irvin, Veronica L ^a   Kang, Sunny ^a   Hovell, Melbourne F ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Depression; Immigrant stress; Korean health; Social support; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; KOREA; MARRIAGE; MENTAL STRESS; OCCUPATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CALIFORNIA; DEPRESSION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KOREA; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350447254     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181b96e9e     Document Type: Article

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