Cultural model of vulnerability to distress: The role of self-construal and sociotropy on anxiety and depression among Asian Americans and European Americans

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-88

  Mak, Winnie W S ^a   Law, Rita W ^b   Teng, Yue ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; Asian American; depression; European American; self construal; sociotropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650004495     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022110361713     Document Type: Article

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