Jakubaschk J
Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Bern, Ostermundigen.
Nervenarzt. 1994 Sep;65(9):590-7.
The Old Order Amish are a conservative, anabaptistic religious community of Swiss origin in the USA. They practise absolute pacifism and lead a life free of hostility and aggression. Depression, however, is as much as three times more frequent in Amish populations. In order to study the possible relationship between hostility and depression, we investigated 43 Amish people, using the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory and the Beck Depression Inventory. As expected, the total hostility score was significantly lower and the depression score significantly higher in comparison to the normal population. The positive correlation between the two scores (0.45; p < or = 0.002) indicates that the hypothesized reciprocal relationship between hostility and depression is unlikely in the Old Order Amish.
旧秩序阿米什人是美国一个起源于瑞士的保守再洗礼派宗教群体。他们奉行绝对和平主义，过着没有敌意和侵略的生活。然而，阿米什人群中抑郁症的发病率高达正常人群的三倍。为了研究敌意与抑郁症之间可能存在的关系，我们使用布斯-杜克敌意量表和贝克抑郁量表对43名阿米什人进行了调查。正如预期的那样，与正常人群相比，敌意总分显著较低，而抑郁得分显著较高。两个分数之间的正相关（0.45；p≤0.002）表明，在旧秩序阿米什人中，敌意与抑郁症之间假设的相互关系不太可能成立。
