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work_y5y2q3paajhdvhc6spuwwtibd4	John H. Hitchcock	Validating Cultureand Gender-Specific Constructs	2006.0	21	.pdf	application/pdf	7890	910	59	Despite on-going calls for developing cultural competency among mental health practitioners, few assessment instruments Previous work (Sarkar, 2003) suggested a number of gender-specific perceptions of mental health constructs within the target consider cultural factors in mental health programming (American Psychological Association [APA], 1990, 2003; Hall & Okazaki, 2002; (Anshell, Porter, & Quek, 1998; Bird & Harris, 1990; Block & Robins, Broader socio-cultural factors also play an important role in influencing mental health of individuals through the process of socialization. of gender role attitudes, beliefs/stereotypes, and gender-specific behaviors which contribute to the gender differences in mental health constructs (Sarkar, 2003). gender differences in mental health constructs in the context of culture combines the use of ethnographic and factor analytic methods to develop and test psychological instruments for students located in Sri Model of Mental Health (EDMMH; Nastasi et al., 2005) as the conceptual framework for investigating individual and cultural factors related to	./cache/work_y5y2q3paajhdvhc6spuwwtibd4.pdf	./txt/work_y5y2q3paajhdvhc6spuwwtibd4.txt