期刊
TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 53, 期 1, 页码 3-23出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1363461515589708
关键词
cultural scripts; culture; depression; somatization; symptoms; values
资金
- standard operating grant from Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Chinese somatization has been frequently discussed over the past three decades of cultural psychiatry, and has more recently been demonstrated in cross-national comparisons. Empirical studies of potential explanations are lacking, however. Ryder and Chentsova-Dutton (2012) proposed that Chinese somatization can be understood as a cultural script for depression, noting that the literature is divided on whether this script primarily involves felt bodily experience or a stigma-avoiding communication strategy. Two samples from Hunan province, Chinaone of undergraduate students (n = 213) and one of depressed psychiatric outpatients (n=281)completed the same set of self-report questionnaires, including a somatization questionnaire developed in Chinese. Confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that Chinese somatization could be understood as two correlated factors: one focusing on the experience and expression of distress, the other on its conceptualization and communication. Structural equation modeling demonstrated that traditional Chinese cultural values are associated with both of these factors, but only bodily experience is associated with somatic depressive symptoms. This study takes a first step towards directly evaluating explanations for Chinese somatization, pointing the way to future multimethod investigations of this cultural script.
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