title: Discrimination of emotional States amongst the tamils.
abstract: Leff has concluded from his analysis of the JPSS Study that the emotions of anxiety, depression and irritability are poorly discriminated amongst the population using non-Indo-European languages. The present author after analyzing similar data from the ICMR Multicentred Collaborative Study of Factors Associated with the Course and outcome of Schizophrenia that the Tamil population using Tamil, a non-Indo-European language is able to discriminate these emotions as well as the brethren speaking Hindi of lndo-European origin.
authors.affiliation: No 30, 23rd Cross Street, Basant Nagar, Madras - 600 090.
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authors.lastname: Somasundaram