Predicting Levels of Latino Depression: Acculturation, Acculturative Stress, and Coping

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 256-263

  Torres, Lucas ^a  

^a Marquette University

Author keywords

acculturation; acculturative stress; active coping; depression; Latino mental health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STRESS; SYMPTOM;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952101279     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017357     Document Type: Article

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