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Mexican Culture and its Emotional Contradictions
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Belief in external control is a socially transmitted conception of reality that characterizes some populations more than others and has consequences for the emotional quality of life. Studies of the relationship between cognitive orientations and psychological well-being find that belief in external control is associated with distress, and cross-cultural studies of cognitive orientations find that Mexicans and Mexican Americans are more likely than Anglos to believe in external control. As a result, we would expect that persons of Mexican heritage are more distressed than Anglos. However, community mental health surveys find either no differences in distress between Mexicans and Anglos or that Mexicans are less distressed. We explain this apparent inconsistency. Mexican culture has contradictory effects of the two major forms of distress. Mexican heritage increases depression because of its association with belief in external control, but it decreases anxiety.
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- Authors
- Mirowsky, J., & Ross, C. E.
- Venue
- Journal of Health and Social Behavior
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1984-03
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 2
- ISSN
- 0022-1465 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2318816953
- Cited by
- 195
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 7.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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