Culture, threat, and mental illness stigma: Identifying culture-specific threat among Chinese-American groups

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue , 2013, Pages 56-67

  Yang, Lawrence H ^a   Purdie Vaughns, Valerie ^a   Kotabe, Hiroki ^b   Link, Bruce G ^a   Saw, Anne ^c   Wong, Gloria ^d   Phelan, Jo C ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Chinese; Culture; Mental illness; Social cognition; Stereotypes; Stigma; Threat

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CULTURE; MENTAL HEALTH; PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL STIGMA; THREAT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VIGNETTE;

ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STEREOTYPING;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878138697     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.03.036     Document Type: Article

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