Culture
shapes the subjective meaning of trauma and pain and this, in turn, influences
symptom expression (Cohen, 1998). The rituals, values, and norms associated
with culture guide perception and individual responses, including psychiatric
symptoms (Schubert & Punamaki, 2011).
Differences in individual and cluster-level
PTSD symptoms and other comorbid symptoms could lead to differential relations
between symptom clusters cross-culturally. For example, one study using a
sample of Hispanic, non-Hispanic Caucasian, and African American survivors of
sudden physical injury found that the Hispanic group reported higher levels of
overall posttraumatic distress, and also different patterns of symptoms(Marshall,
Schell, & Miles, 2009).
It has been analyzed in a study that Asian
Americans will have higher current somatization symptoms than White Americans,
which will be associated with greater PTSD severity. (Kelly, 2015)
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