Seeking Help for Illness
The Roles of Cultural Orientation and Illness Cognition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4228797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saw-Han Quah (National University of Singapore), George D Bishop (0000-0001-9372-606X, National University of Singapore) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 209-222 |
| Publication date | 1996-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/135910539600100205 |
| PMID | 22011705 |
| OpenAlex | W2090365630 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 23 |
A group of 112 Chinese Singaporean undergraduates and 109 of their parents completed a questionnaire on disease perceptions, help-seeking behaviour, Chinese cultural values and personal background. Analysis of these data using structural equation modelling indicated that individuals high in Chinese cultural orientation were more likely to describe diseases using Chinese health concepts and less likely to describe diseases in terms of physical causality or chronicity. Illness concepts, in turn, related to illness behaviour in that participants making greater use of Chinese health concepts were significantly more likely to state that they would seek treatment from a sinseh (practitioner of Chinese medicine) and less likely to go to an allopathic physician whereas participants tending to describe diseases as physically caused indicated greater likelihood of seeking help from an allopathic physician. Also, cultural orientation was positively related to seeking help from a sinseh, independent of its relationship to illness concepts
Causality (physics · Disease · Health care · Help-seeking · Illness behavior · Mental health · Orientation (vector space · Perception · Psychiatry · Sociology of health and illness · Structural equation modeling · Cultural Differences and Values · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Medicine · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Social Psychology
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Chronic Illness Beliefs and the Role of Social Networks among Chinese, Indian, and Angloceltic Canadians
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2011 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |