Mood, anxiety, and personality disorders among first and second-generation immigrants to the United States

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1028-1036

  Salas Wright, Christopher P ^a   Kagotho, Njeri ^b   Vaughn, Michael G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Immigrant; Immigrant paradox; Immigration; Mental health; Mood disorders; Personality disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MORBIDITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; UNITED STATES; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; MOOD DISORDERS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DATA COLLECTION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908250415     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.08.045     Document Type: Article

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