Davod Mirzaei, Bibi Eshrat Zamani, Sayyed Hojat Mousavi
Determination and prioritizing of addiction prevention factors in delfan city, iran
Addiction & health
expectation chinese people present distress somatically central prediction cultural psychopathology subject considerable theoretical speculation time empirical studies infrequent yielded mixed results authors examined symptom presentation chinese n175 eurocanadian n107 outpatients using spontaneous problem report structured clinical interview symptom questionnaire methods 3 methods yielded crossculturally equivalent somatic psychological symptom subscales chinese outpatients reported somatic symptoms spontaneous problem report structured clinical interview compared eurocanadians turn reported psychological symptoms 3 methods relation culture somatic symptom presentation mediated tendency toward externally oriented thinking difficulties identifying emotions describing others differ significantly across cultures supporting nonpathological interpretation observed differences psychological symptom effects larger consistent somatic symptom effects studies confirmed ubiquity somatic presentations worldwide results suggest western psychologization may culturally specific chinese somatization