From culture to symptom: TestinG a structural model of “Chinese somatization”

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 3-23

  Zhou, Xiaolu ^a   Peng, Yunshi ^b   Zhu, Xiongzhao ^c   Yao, Shuqiao ^c   Dere, Jessica ^d   Chentsova Dutton, Yulia E ^e   Ryder, Andrew G ^f  

^a SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cultural scripts; culture; depression; somatization; symptoms; values

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE SOMATIZATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL PSYCHIATRY; CULTURAL VALUE; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STRESS; SOMATIZATION; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84954439651     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461515589708     Document Type: Article

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