Nervios and dysphoria in Mexican American widows

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15216554
AutoresMargarita Kay (University of Arizona, autor de correspondencia), Carmen Portillo (University of Arizona)
Año1989
Volumen10
Número2-3
Páginas273-293
Fecha de publicación1989-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHealth Care For Women International (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07399338909515853
PMID2768095
OpenAlexW2149925472
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas20

One hundred widows participating in experimental research entitled Efficacy of Support Groups for Mexican American Widows were studied to learn how they express the loss of their husbands. Mourning practices, acknowledged symptoms of dysphoria, and somatic reactions were studied to learn if the syndrome of nervios subsumes their reaction to bereavement. In addition, their responses to instruments designed to measure depression, the Spanish version of the Beck Depression Inventory and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, were examined for correlation with nervios and relationships to Mexican American acculturation. Nervios seems to be a manifestation of dysphoria rather than a specific syndrome for these women

Acculturation · Anxiety · Beck Depression Inventory · Depression (economics · Dysphoria · Gender dysphoria · Gender identity · Immigration · Psychiatry · Clinical Psychology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology · Gerontology