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标题：Cultural Consonance, Religion and Psychological Distress in an Urban Community
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作者：William W. Dressler, H. J. Francois Dengah II, Mauro Campos Balieiro, José Ernesto dos Santos
期刊名称：Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto)
印刷版ISSN：0103-863X
电子版ISSN：1982-4327
出版年度：2013
期号：625
页码：151-160
出版社：Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters at Ribeirão Preto - USP
摘要：Cultural consonance is the degree to which individuals approximate prototypes encoded in cultural models. Low cultural consonance is associated with higher psychological distress. Religion may moderate the association between cultural consonance and psychological distress. Brazil, with substantial variation in religion, is an important society for the examination of this hypothesis. Research was conducted in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, using a mixed-methods design. Measures of cultural consonance were derived using ethnographic methods and then applied in a survey of 271 individuals drawn from four distinct social strata. Low cultural consonance was associated with higher psychological distress in multiple regression analysis (B = -.430, p