Cultural Models, Resilience, and Health (SMA) - Dressler

Cultural Models, Resilience, and Health (SMA) 

CHAIRS: SNODGRASS, Jeffrey G. (CO State U), DENGAH, Francois (USU), GRAVLEE, Clarence C. (UF), ANDREWS, Courtney and DRESSLER, William W. (U Alabama) 

DRESSLER, William W. (U Alabama) Cultural Consonance, Personal Agency, and Depressive Symptoms in Urban Brazil 

SNODGRASS, Jeffrey G. (CO State U) Ritual and Resilience among Indigenous Indian Conservation Refugees DENGAH, Francois (USU) Measuring the ReligionHealth Association: Using Cultural Consonance to Understand Mental Health Patterns among Pentecostals and Mormons 

ANDREWS, Courtney (U Alabama) Finding the Culture in Acculturation: Does Cultural Consonance Mediate the Health Effects of Acculturative Stress? 

GRAVLEE, Clarence C., VACCA, Raffaele, D’INGEO, Dalila, and MCCARTY, Christopher (UF) Vicarious Racism, Social Networks, and Racial Inequalities in Health 

BAGWELL, Andrew, SNODGRASS, Jeffrey G., DENGAH, Francois, and VAN OOSTENBURG, Max (CO State U) A Cultural Consonance Approach to Online Gaming Experience: Beyond Addiction and Disorder

 

ABSTRACT:

SNODGRASS, Jeffrey G. (CO State U), DENGAH, Francois (USU), GRAVLEE, Clarence C. (UF), ANDREWS, Courtney and DRESSLER, William W. (U Alabama) Cultural Models, Resilience, and Health. There is a growing body of literature demonstrating that individuals’ understanding of and consonance with cultural models are associated with health status, SESSION ABSTRACTS107 assessed in a variety of ways.  The papers in this session further explore these associations in a number of settings, including rural India, urban Brazil, and the United States.  A critical focus is on how knowledge of and consonance with cultural models contribute to individual resilience in the face of adversity.  The papers demonstrate the utility of a distributional model of culture in resolving fundamental questions in medical anthropology.

Session took place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 29 - April 2, 2016.