Cultural consonance and psychological distress: examining the associations in multiple cultural domains |
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Authors: | William W Dressler Mauro C Balieiro Rosane P Ribeiro José Ernesto Dos Santos |
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Institution: | Department of Anthropology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA. wdressle@tenhoor.as.ua.edu |
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Abstract: | Cultural consonance is the degree to which individuals, in their own beliefs and behaviors, approximate widely shared cultural
models. In previous research in Brazil and the United States we found that higher cultural consonance in the cultural domains
of lifestyle and social support was associated with lower psychological distress. The aim of this paper is to expand on these
results in two ways. First, the measurement of cultural consonance has been improved through a closer link of cultural domain
analyses and survey research. Second, the number of domains in which cultural consonance has been examined has been expanded
to include—along with lifestyle and social support—family life, national identity, and food. We found that cultural consonance
in these five domains can be conceptualized as two latent variables of generalized cultural consonance, and that this generalized
cultural consonance is associated with lower psychological distress. These results continue to support the usefulness of cultural
consonance as a theoretical construct in the explanation of human social suffering. |
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Keywords: | cultural consonance cultural consensus analysis psychological distress culture theory Brazil |
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