Adult of Four Ethnic Groupsi Whites, Chinese, Japanese and '' Boat People ''

Kathleen M. Myers, James W. Croake and Abe Singh
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Kathleen M. Myers: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, WA 98195
James W. Croake: Residency Training in Family Therapy and Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavorial Sciences University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, WA 98195
Abe Singh: Private Practice Sandy, Utah

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1987, vol. 33, issue 1, 56-67

Abstract: The paper reports the first of adult fears according to ethnicity The Chinese endorsed greater fearfulness than the whites. This difference was more marked for the women than the men. However, the Chinese and Japanese, two well-acculturated Asian minorities, expressed no differences in their and Chinese living in two different sites demonstrated only small changes in their pattern of fears. By contrast, Vietnamese "boat people" expressed greatly increased total fearfulness as well as increased fear in all individual fear categories studied, However, unlike the Chinese and whites, sex had no effect on the "boat people's" fears. These results suggest that ethnicity influences overall fearfulness and the patterns of fears held by adults. Furthermore, sex and socioenviromental factors may interact with ethnicity to modify the pattern of these fears.

Date: 1987
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