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| Acculturation and manifestation of depressive symptoms among Korean-American older adults | | Author(s) | Y Jang, G Kim, D Chiriboga |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 9, no 6, November 2005 |
| Pages | pp 500-507 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Asian people ; Korea ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Evaluation ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Subjects in this study were 230 Korean-American older adults (mean age 69.8) in Florida. Given the cultural emphasis on modesty and self-effacement in traditional Korean society, the authors hypothesised that older Korean-Americans who were less acculturated in American culture, when compared to more acculturated ones, would be more likely to inhibit positive affects to depressive symptom reports. Using two validated measures of depressive symptoms, the short forms of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-SF) and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), different response patterns for low and high acculturation groups were identified. First, there was low comparability in the factor structures for both the GDS-SF and the CES-D across low and high acculturation groups. A differential item function (DIF) analysis based on partial correlations indicated that older people in the low acculturation group inhibited endorsing positive affect items; one item of the GDS-SF ("feel happy") and two items of the CES-D ("felt hopeful" and "was happy"). The findings suggest the substantial cultural influences in expressing emotions, especially those related to positive affects. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060202236 A |
| Classmark | TKK: 7DK: ENR: CT: 4C: 3F: 7T |
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