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A holistic model for understanding and predicting depressive symptoms in african‐american women
Author(s) -
Taylor Jerome,
Henderson Delores,
Jackson Beryl B.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(199110)19:4<306::aid-jcop2290190403>3.0.co;2-z
Subject(s) - depressive symptoms , socioeconomic status , structural equation modeling , psychology , african american , marital status , clinical psychology , psychiatry , sociology , demography , computer science , anxiety , population , ethnology , machine learning
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.