Assessment and comparison of culturally based explanations for mental disorder among Singaporean Chinese youth

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-17

  Mathews, Mathew ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

explanatory models; mental disorder; religion; Singaporean Chinese

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION; SINGAPORE; SUPERSTITION;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BUDDHISM; CHINA; CHRISTIANITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHIES; SINGAPORE; SUPERSTITIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951615613     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764008096853     Document Type: Article

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