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A Study of Mexican-American and Anglo-American Patients

ARNOLD MEADOW, PhD; DAVID STOKER, MA

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;12(3):267-277.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL, anthropological, and sociological studies have reported consistent differences between Mexican or Mexican-American and Anglo-American personality structures. Lewis^1-3 has published autobiographical studies of members of Mexico City families.^4,5 Rorschach patterns have been reported for the Mexicans in Tepozlan by Abel and Calabrisi⁶ and for Mexican-Americans by Kaplan.^7-9 Qualitative psychoanalytic descriptions of Mexican patients have been published by Ramirez,¹⁰ Ramirez and Parres,¹¹ and Iturriaga.¹² Finally, Diaz-Guerrero¹³ has constructed a modal portrait of the Mexican personality based on a questionnaire study.

If the personality differences described by these investigators do exist, they should be reflected in corresponding differences in psychopathology. Jaco's¹⁴ study of differences in incidence rates between Mexican-Americans and Anglo-Americans for hospitalized and nonhospitalized patients in the state of Texas provides some data in support of this hypothesis. The method of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
TUCSON, ARIZ

University of Arizona and Southern Arizona Mental Health Center.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug 10, 1964.

Reprint requests to Tucson, Ariz 85721 (Dr. Meadow).

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