Are culturally specific measures of trauma-related anxiety and depression needed? The case of Sri Lanka

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 791-800

  Jayawickreme, Nuwan ^a   Jayawickreme, Eranda ^b   Atanasov, Pavel ^c   Goonasekera, Michelle A ^d   Foa, Edna B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Culture; Depression; Idioms of distress; PTSD; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENN RESIST PERADENIYA WAR PROBLEMS QUESTIONNAIRE; PERCEPTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; PTSD SYMPTOM SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SRI LANKA; VALIDATION STUDY; WAR;

ADULT; ANXIETY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SRI LANKA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84874457423     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027564     Document Type: Article

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