The relationships between major lifetime discrimination, everyday discrimination, and mental health in three racial and ethnic groups of older adults

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 587-594

  Ayalon, Liat ^a   Gum, Amber M ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural; discrimination; ethnicity; mental health; race

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PREJUDICE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959397469     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2010.543664     Document Type: Article

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