Reflections from Indigenous Psychology on Emotional Disorders: A Qualitative Study from Iran

نویسندگان

1 دانشگاه فرهنگیان

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3 دانشگاه فرهنگیان

4 جامعه المصطفی العالمیه

5 دانشگاه فرهنگیان

6 دانشگاه معارف اسلامی

doi
10.22037/ijabs.v1i2.7951
چکیده

Introduction: Depression and Anxiety literature in Iran is suffering from the lack of culture/indigenous studies in assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of emotional disorders especially in Azeri ethnic zone, and still there is no comprehensive research on how Azeri speaking individuals percept and experience depression and anxiety. Current study is carried out in order to identify depression and anxiety dimensions in Azeri ethnic group with emphasis on dimensional classification of emotional disorders.