Whitbeck Les B, McMorris Barbara J, Hoyt Dan R, Stubben Jerry D, Lafromboise Teresa
Department of Sociology, 739 Oldfather Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0324, USA.
J Health Soc Behav. 2002 Dec;43(4):400-18.
American Indian adults are thought to experience significant depressive symptoms at rates several times higher than adults in the general population, yet we know very little about factors associated with depressive symptoms among this under studied group. Many researchers have argued that depressive symptoms are associated with conflicts between American Indian traditional cultural values, practices, and beliefs and those of the majority culture. This report, based on a sample 287 American Indian adults from the upper Midwest, takes into account two measures of cultural effects: perceived discrimination, as one indicator of culture conflict, and traditional practices, as a measure of cultural identification. The results indicate that discrimination is strongly associated with depressive symptoms among American Indian adults and that engaging in traditional practices is negatively related to depressive symptoms. Moreover, interaction effects between perceived discrimination and traditional practices indicate that engaging in traditional practices buffers the negative effects of discrimination among those who regularly participate in them.
据认为，美国印第安成年人经历显著抑郁症状的比率比普通人群中的成年人高出数倍，但对于这个研究不足的群体中与抑郁症状相关的因素，我们知之甚少。许多研究人员认为，抑郁症状与美国印第安传统文化价值观、习俗和信仰与多数文化的价值观、习俗和信仰之间的冲突有关。本报告基于来自中西部上游地区的287名美国印第安成年人的样本，考虑了文化影响的两个衡量指标：感知到的歧视，作为文化冲突的一个指标；传统习俗，作为文化认同的一个衡量指标。结果表明，歧视与美国印第安成年人的抑郁症状密切相关，而践行传统习俗与抑郁症状呈负相关。此外，感知到的歧视与传统习俗之间的交互作用表明，践行传统习俗可以缓冲那些经常参与传统习俗的人受到的歧视的负面影响。
