Anxiety Psychopathology in African American Adults: Literature Review and Development of an Empirically Informed Sociocultural Model

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 211-235

  Hunter, Lora Rose ^a   Schmidt, Norman B ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American psychology; anxiety; culture; physical illness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MENTAL DISEASE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PREJUDICE; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPING; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77649193782     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018133     Document Type: Article

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