Perceived ethnic discrimination and depressive symptoms: the buffering effects of ethnic identity, religion and ethnic social network

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 679-688

  Ikram, Umar Z ^a   Snijder, Marieke B ^a   de Wit, Matty A S ^b   Schene, Aart H ^c,d   Stronks, Karien ^a   Kunst, Anton E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Depressive symptoms; Ethnic identity; Ethnic social network; Perceived ethnic discrimination; Religion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957967634     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-016-1186-7     Document Type: Article

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