Anxiety
A review of the literature by Paradis, Hatch, and Friedman (1994) noted that the Epidemiological Catchment Area (ECA) study—a study with more than 18,000 participants—did not find any specific differences in the overall prevalence of anxiety within different cultural groups.
Both the ECA study and another group of researchers reported a higher prevalence of specific phobias (i.e., specific categories of anxiety) among African Americans than among Whites (D. R. Brown, Eaton, & Sussman, 1990; Paradis et al., 1994). However, the more recent large-scale studies (Beals et al., 2005; Harris et al., 2005; NIMH, 2008a) illustrate that anxiety rates are lower for African Americans and Hispanics relative to Whites, while the other two ethnic groups have similar rates of anxiety relative to Whites.
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