Depression, gender, and help-seeking among Arab/Middle Eastern North African (MENA) Americans: The role of enculturation.

IF 3.8 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED Journal of Counseling Psychology Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI:10.1037/cou0000734

Katherine Sadek, Germine H. Awad

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The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which depression severity, gender, acculturation, and enculturation are associated with help-seeking attitudes among Arab/Middle Eastern North African (MENA) Americans. A hierarchical linear regression was conducted with a sample of 296 Arab/MENA participants (154 women and 142 men). After controlling for pertinent demographic variables, depression severity was negatively associated with help-seeking. Further, there was a significant three-way interaction between depression severity, gender, and enculturation on help-seeking attitudes. For women with higher levels of depression symptoms, higher levels of enculturation were associated with less positive help-seeking attitudes; conversely, higher levels of enculturation for men were associated with more positive help-seeking attitudes. These results have significant implications for clinicians working with Arab/MENA American populations. Practitioners should be aware of acculturation and enculturation processes as well as the ways in which depression symptom severity may influence engagement in treatment differentially for Arab/MENA women and men. Future research is needed to examine the mechanisms underlying these relationships. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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阿拉伯/中东北非（MENA）裔美国人的抑郁、性别和求助：文化适应的作用。

本研究旨在探讨抑郁症的严重程度、性别、文化适应和文化涵化与阿拉伯/中东北非（MENA）裔美国人的求助态度之间的关系。我们对 296 名阿拉伯/中东北非参与者（154 名女性和 142 名男性）进行了分层线性回归。在控制了相关的人口统计学变量后，抑郁严重程度与求助呈负相关。此外，抑郁症严重程度、性别和文化程度对求助态度的影响存在明显的三方交互作用。对于抑郁症状较严重的女性来说，文化程度越高，求助态度越不积极；相反，男性文化程度越高，求助态度越积极。这些结果对从事阿拉伯/美尼亚人群工作的临床医生具有重要意义。临床医生应该意识到文化适应和文化包涵的过程，以及抑郁症状的严重程度可能对阿拉伯/美尼亚女性和男性参与治疗产生不同影响的方式。未来的研究需要对这些关系的内在机制进行研究。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有）。

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Journal of Counseling Psychology Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Counseling Psychology® publishes empirical research in the areas of counseling activities (including assessment, interventions, consultation, supervision, training, prevention, and psychological education) career development and vocational psychology diversity and underrepresented populations in relation to counseling activities the development of new measures to be used in counseling activities professional issues in counseling psychology In addition, the Journal of Counseling Psychology considers reviews or theoretical contributions that have the potential for stimulating further research in counseling psychology, and conceptual or empirical contributions about methodological issues in counseling psychology research.