Zippin D H, Hough R L
J Psychol. 1985 Mar;119(2):143-55. doi: 10.1080/00223980.1985.10542881.
The social context of reported stressful life events was examined as a determinant of psychiatric symptoms in four cultural groups: Anglo-Americans (n = 132), Mexican-Americans (n = 108), Mexicans in El Paso (n = 90), and Mexican nationals (n = 133). The perceived difference between life events experienced by the self and spouse or by the self and significant others constituted preliminary operational definitions of the social context of life events. Ten Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Interview (PERI) psychiatric symptom scales as well as a suicidal tendency scale and a hopelessness index constituted the measures of the dependent variables. The potential predictive value of the social contextual measures of life-event stress for mental health variables was generally supported by the findings. Results indicated a rank ordering of predicted effects, with Mexican nationals most susceptible to the psychological effects of the social context of life events and Anglo-Americans least susceptible.
研究了所报告的应激性生活事件的社会背景，将其作为四个文化群体精神症状的一个决定因素，这四个群体分别是：英裔美国人（n = 132）、墨西哥裔美国人（n = 108）、埃尔帕索的墨西哥人（n = 90）以及墨西哥国民（n = 133）。自我与配偶或自我与重要他人所经历的生活事件之间的感知差异构成了生活事件社会背景的初步操作性定义。十个精神疾病流行病学研究访谈（PERI）精神症状量表以及一个自杀倾向量表和一个绝望指数构成了因变量的测量指标。生活事件压力的社会背景测量指标对心理健康变量的潜在预测价值总体上得到了研究结果的支持。结果表明了预测效应的排序，其中墨西哥国民最易受生活事件社会背景的心理影响，而英裔美国人最不易受影响。
