Cultural contributions to adults' self-rated mental health problems and strengths: 7 culture clusters, 28 societies, 16 906 adults

William E Copeland; Masha Y Ivanova; Thomas M Achenbach; Lori V Turner; Guangyu Tong; Adelina Ahmeti-Pronaj; Alma Au; Monica Bellina; J Carlos Caldas; Yi-Chuen Chen; Ladislav Csemy; Marina M da Rocha; Anca Dobrean; Lourdes Ezpeleta; Yasuko Funabiki; Valerie S Harder; Felipe Lecannelier; Marie Leiner de la Cabada; Patrick Leung; Jianghong Liu; Safia Mahr; Sergey Malykh; Jasminka Markovic; David M Ndetei; Kyung Ja Oh; Jean-Michel Petot; Geylan Riad; Direnc Sakarya; Virginia C Samaniego; Sandra Sebre; Mimoza Shahini; Edwiges Silvares; Roma Simulioniene; Elvisa Sokoli; Joel B Talcott; Natalia Vazquez; Tomasz Wolanczyk; Ewa Zasepa

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Cultural contributions to adults' self-rated mental health problems and strengths: 7 culture clusters, 28 societies, 16 906 adults

William E Copeland, Masha Y Ivanova, Thomas M Achenbach, Lori V Turner, Guangyu Tong, Adelina Ahmeti-Pronaj, Alma Au, Monica Bellina, J Carlos Caldas, Yi-Chuen Chen, Ladislav Csemy, Marina M da Rocha, Anca Dobrean, Lourdes Ezpeleta, Yasuko Funabiki, Valerie S Harder, Felipe Lecannelier, Marie Leiner de la Cabada, Patrick Leung, Jianghong LiuSafia Mahr, Sergey Malykh, Jasminka Markovic, David M Ndetei, Kyung Ja Oh, Jean-Michel Petot, Geylan Riad, Direnc Sakarya, Virginia C Samaniego, Sandra Sebre, Mimoza Shahini, Edwiges Silvares, Roma Simulioniene, Elvisa Sokoli, Joel B Talcott, Natalia Vazquez, Tomasz Wolanczyk, Ewa Zasepa

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BACKGROUND: It is unknown how much variation in adult mental health problems is associated with differences between societal/cultural groups, over and above differences between individuals.

METHODS: To test these relative contributions, a consortium of indigenous researchers collected Adult Self-Report (ASR) ratings from 16 906 18- to 59-year-olds in 28 societies that represented seven culture clusters identified in the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavioral Effectiveness study (e.g. Confucian, Anglo). The ASR is scored on 17 problem scales, plus a personal strengths scale. Hierarchical linear modeling estimated variance accounted for by individual differences (including measurement error), society, and culture cluster. Multi-level analyses of covariance tested age and gender effects.

RESULTS: Across the 17 problem scales, the variance accounted for by individual differences ranged from 80.3% for DSM-oriented anxiety problems to 95.2% for DSM-oriented avoidant personality (mean = 90.7%); by society: 3.2% for DSM-oriented somatic problems to 8.0% for DSM-oriented anxiety problems (mean = 6.3%); and by culture cluster: 0.0% for DSM-oriented avoidant personality to 11.6% for DSM-oriented anxiety problems (mean = 3.0%). For strengths, individual differences accounted for 80.8% of variance, societal differences 10.5%, and cultural differences 8.7%. Age and gender had very small effects.

CONCLUSIONS: Overall, adults' self-ratings of mental health problems and strengths were associated much more with individual differences than societal/cultural differences, although this varied across scales. These findings support cross-cultural use of standardized measures to assess mental health problems, but urge caution in assessment of personal strengths.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Psychological Medicine
Early online date	19 May 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723001332
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 19 May 2023

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This article has been published in a revised form in Psychological Medicine [https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723001332]. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND licence. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © copyright The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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cross-cultural
international
syndromes
strengths
psychopathology
Adult self-report

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Copeland, W. E., Ivanova, M. Y., Achenbach, T. M., Turner, L. V., Tong, G., Ahmeti-Pronaj, A., Au, A., Bellina, M., Caldas, J. C., Chen, Y-C., Csemy, L., da Rocha, M. M., Dobrean, A., Ezpeleta, L., Funabiki, Y., Harder, V. S., Lecannelier, F., Leiner de la Cabada, M., Leung, P., ... Zasepa, E. (2023). Cultural contributions to adults' self-rated mental health problems and strengths: 7 culture clusters, 28 societies, 16 906 adults. Psychological Medicine, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723001332

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