Culture, personality, and behavior: a field study in Jerusalem.
In the setting of Jerusalem's Eastern-Jewish immigrant communities, the author tests the hypothesis that non-Western societies have a theory of disease causation which is at variance with a Western model. What emerges from participant observation, informal interviews, and a formal questionnaire supports the hypothesis, reveals changing attitudes over time, and identifies a category of disease-causation which merits further investigation. These observations may be valuable in the identification of epidemiological aspects of disturbed behavior associated with supernatural beliefs.
D000352:Africa, Northern; D001211:Asia, Western; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003469:Culture; D004194:Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D007585:Jews; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013483:Superstitions