BACKGROUND There are large variations in mental health prescribing in UK populations. However the underlying reasons for these differences, which may be related to differences in prevalence, cultural expectations or practical difficulties in access to treatment, remain uncertain. METHODS Linear modelling was used to investigate whether population characteristics or access to primary care acco...

Latin-American Journal of Fundamental Psychopathology on Line, 4, 2, 185 192 This study aims to understand the meaning of the lived experience of depression in Brazil, Chile, and the United States, focusing on possible cultural variations that could contribute to its cross-cultural understanding. Between 2001 and 2004, 72 adults with either depression or with clinical records of depression (n=3...

The present study examines the underresearched topic of bicultural identity; specifically, we: (1) unpack the construct of Bicultural Identity Integration (BII), or the degree to which a bicultural individual perceives his/her two cultural identities as "compatible" versus "oppositional," and (2) identify the personality (Big Five) and acculturation (acculturation stress, acculturation attitude...

Previous findings in cultural psychology indicated that East Asians are more likely than North Americans to be attentive to contextual information (e.g., Nisbett & Masuda, ). However, to what extent and in which conditions culture influences patterns of attention has not been fully examined. As a result, universal patterns of attention may be obscured, and culturally unique patterns may be wron...

This study explored how personality and cultural variables influence subjective well-being (SWB) in two different U.S. ethnic groups: Asian Americans and European Americans. Structural equation modeling analyses supported a hypothesized culture→ personality model of SWB, in which the cultural syndromes of individualism and collectivism predict variations on personality dispositions (Big Five), ...

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion, benefited from enhanced assimilation, lower cultural diversity and, thus, more intense accumulation of ...