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A holistic model for understanding and predicting depressive symptoms in african-american women

✍ Scribed by Jerome Taylor; Delores Henderson; Beryl B. Jackson

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Weight: 962 KB
Volume: 19
Category: Article
ISSN: 0090-4392
DOI: 10.1002/1520-6629(199110)19:4<306::aid-jcop2290190403>3.0.co;2-z

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✦ Synopsis

A holistic model for understanding and predicting depressive symptoms in a sample of 289 African-American women was evaluated. Using a structural equation methodology, life events, social support, physical health problems, and internalized racialism were significant predictors of depressive symptoms. Although neither marital status nor religious orientation had predicted inverse effects on depressive symptoms, we found that the effects of socioeconomic status and developmental status on depressive symptoms were mediated through these and other variables specified in the model.

Survey and clinical studies indicate that women are more vulnerable to depression than men (Baskin, Bluestone, & Nelson, 1981; Gordon & Ledray, 1985). Among women, Blacks are more vulnerable than Whites (Eaton & Kessler, 1981; Frerichs, Aneshensel, & Clark, 1981). Given the higher risk of depression for Black women, the aim of this investigation is to evaluate the extent to which a holistic model of mental health problems is applicable to the specific problem of depressive symptoms in this population.

Taylor and Jackson's (1990aJackson's ( , 1990b) ) holistic model for understanding and predicting general mental health problems in African-American women features two background variables (developmental status and socioeconomic status), one physical status variable (physical health problems), one family structure variable (marital status), two ideological variables (religious orientation and internalized racialism), one social variable (social support), and one stress variable (life events). This model, which has been useful in explaining and predicting alcohol consumption in African-American women (Taylor & Jackson, 1990a, 1990b), is structured around eight hypotheses.

Social support has an inverse effect on mental health problems (Beach, Arias,

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