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Mental health of elderly Asians in Britain
— a comparison of Hindus from nuclear and extended families of differing cultural identities | | Author(s) | Sacha Guglani, Peter G Coleman, Edmund J S Sonuga-Barke |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 15, no 11, November 2000 |
| Pages | pp 1046-1053 |
| Keywords | Asian people ; Grandmothers ; Depression ; Adjustment ; Family relationships ; Extended families ; Comparison ; Redbridge. |
| Annotation | The psychological adjustment of grandmothers from 34 nuclear families and 36 extended families within British Hindu communities was compared, and the influence of cultural identity investigated, based on Asian Hindi schoolgirls aged 13-17 in the London Borough of Redbridge. Questionnaire measures were obtained for the following variables: cultural integrity, traditionalism, religious participation, ethnic identity, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem. Grandmothers were better adjusted in extended families than in nuclear families. This adjustment was in part mediated by the level of traditional belief within the family. Elders whose granddaughters had an exclusively "Indian" or "Hindu" ethnic identity were better adjusted than those whose granddaughters included a "British" ethnic identity. The study confirmed findings from earlier studies that grandmothers in extended families were significantly better adjusted in comparison to those from nuclear families. Ethnic identity of the adolescent, independent of its salience and commitment to the adolescent, had a significant relationship to the grandmother's mental health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001221215 A |
| Classmark | TKK: SW2: ENR: DR: DS:SJ: SJA: 48: 82LR |
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