In this transcultural study of symptom of depression, the authors compared symptom of depressive patients among 31 Chinese and 42 Korean-Chinese in Yanbien, China and 60 Korean in Seoul. Hamilton’s Rating Scale for Depression and Beck’s Depression Inventory were used for assessment Korean depressives manifested highest scores in depressive mood, dissatisfaction, guilty feeling and loss of work and interest, whereas Chinese manifested highest scores in loss of work and interest, loss of libido, insomnia, delayed insomnia, retardation, agitation and self-dislike. On the others, Korean-Chinese were prominent in the symptoms of agitation, self-dislike, retardation and hypochondriasis. The above findings suggest that Korean depressives are characterized by psychological symptoms and Chinese depressives are characterized by somatic symptoms. Korean-Chinese depressives intermediated between Chinese and Korean in terms of somatic/psychological continum. The above findings were discussed by cultural differences between Korea and China and cultural pleuralism of Korean-Chinese
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