Nervios and dysphoria in Mexican American widows

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15216554
AutoresMargarita Kay (University of Arizona, autor correspondente), Carmen Portillo (University of Arizona)
Ano1989
Volume10
Fascículo2-3
Páginas273-293
Data de publicação1989-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHealth Care For Women International (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07399338909515853
PMID2768095
OpenAlexW2149925472
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências 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