Interracial Depressive Epidemiology in the Southwest
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1978
Abstract
This report is a replication of a recent study dealing with interracial depressive symptomatology in the South. The present study analyzes the depression characteristics of Mexican-American and black females living in a Southwestern city (N = 514) and essentially validates the earlier findings from the South after a period of rapid social change. When people become aware of better economic opportunities, the young, the old, the under- and uneducated, and the unemployed express more depressive symptoms when they realize there are some structural barriers to a better way of life. Marital status was not a good depression predictor among the poor who were studied, but social alienation helped predict personal depression in one out of every seven Mexican Americans.
Repository Citation
Quesada, G. M.,
Spears, W.,
& Ramos, P.
(1978). Interracial Depressive Epidemiology in the Southwest. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 19 (1), 77-85.
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