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Selected Works of Dana C. Jack
Contribution to Book
"I Don't Express My Feelings to Anyone": How Self-Silencing Relates to Gender and Depression in Nepal
Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World (2010)
  • Dana C. Jack, Western Washington University
  • Bindu Pokharel
  • Usha Subba
Abstract
In this chapter, drawing on interviews, focus groups, and quantitative findings from three studies in Kathmandu, Nepal, we explore the questions, does self-silencing associate with depression in a collectivist culture very different from Western, industrialized countries?
Keywords
  • Women's depression,
  • Depression and gender
Disciplines
Publication Date
2010
Editor
Dana C. Jack and Alisha Ali
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Citation Information
Dana C. Jack, Bindu Pokharel and Usha Subba. ""I Don't Express My Feelings to Anyone": How Self-Silencing Relates to Gender and Depression in Nepal" New YorkSilencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dana_jack/9/