A prospective study of cultural consonance and depressive symptoms in urban Brazil

Dressler, William W.; Balieiro, Mauro C.; Ribeiro, Renata Perfeito; Santos, José Ernesto dos

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.06.020

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“…It was hypothesized that changes in cultural consonance would have their greatest impact on depression in the domain that was most highly shared. The cultural model of family life was most highly shared and, in turn, change in cultural consonance in family life over a 2-year period was the best predictor of change in depressive symptoms (Dressler et al, 2007b). This longitudinal association was examined in more detail recently to determine how much of the effect of cultural consonance on depression was mediated by perceived stress.…”

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Cultural consonance: Linking culture, the individual and health

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Preventive Medicine

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“…particularly in developing countries like Brazil, where social differences are striking. 28,29,38,39 When assessing clinical patients in Brazil, clinicians and policy makers must be aware that a share of the patients' suffering may stem from poor socioeconomic conditions, and thus interventions should not be strictly focused on the relief of symptoms by the use of medication, since the data indicate that it is important to implement planned psychosocial interventions. 17 An important potential limitation of our study is the recruitment method used.…”

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Evaluation of quality of life in adults with chronic health conditions: the role of depressive symptoms

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2010

Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.

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“…Low cultural consonance in a wider variety of domains, including family life, national identity and food, was associated with generalized psychological distress and depressive symptoms, independently of stressful life events. This was found both in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies (Dressler, Balieiro, Ribeiro, & dos Santos, 2007a, 2007b. The inability to put into practice widely shared models of how life is to be lived appears to be a stressful experience.…”

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Does perceived stress mediate the effect of cultural consonance on depression?

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The importance of appraisal in the stress process is unquestioned. Experience in the social environment that impacts outcomes such as depression are thought to have these effects because they are appraised as a threat to the individual and overwhelm the individual's capacity to cope. In terms of the nature of social experience that is associated with depression, several recent studies have examined the impact of cultural consonance. Cultural consonance is the degree to which individuals, in their own beliefs and behaviors, approximate the prototypes for belief and behavior encoded in shared cultural models. Low cultural consonance is associated with more depressive symptoms both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. In this paper we ask the question: does perceived stress mediate the effects of cultural consonance on depression? Data are drawn from a longitudinal study of depressive symptoms in the urban community of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. A sample of 210 individuals was followed for 2 years. Cultural consonance was assessed in four cultural domains, using a mixed-methods research design that integrated techniques of cultural domain analysis with social survey research. Perceived stress was measured with Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale. When cultural consonance was examined separately for each domain, perceived stress partially mediated the impact of cultural consonance in family life and cultural consonance in lifestyle on depressive symptoms. When generalized cultural consonance (combining consonance in all four domains) was examined, there was no evidence of mediation. These results raise questions about how culturally salient experience rises to the level of conscious reflection.

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A prospective study of cultural consonance and depressive symptoms in urban Brazil

Cited by 51 publications

References 9 publications

Cultural consonance: Linking culture, the individual and health

Cultural consonance: Linking culture, the individual and health

Evaluation of quality of life in adults with chronic health conditions: the role of depressive symptoms

Does perceived stress mediate the effect of cultural consonance on depression?

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