Mental Health Of Filipino Americans
The mental health of Filipino Americans is emotional and cognitive status of Americans of Filipino descent. Filipino-Americans utilize mental health services less than some Asian-American groups. Mental illness Suicide According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, young Filipino women are more likely to have suicide ideation than most minorities. Paradoxically, however, there are lower rates of committing suicide among Filipinos than Caucasians or other Asian groups. Lower rates of suicide in Filipino-Americans are attributed to the influence of Catholicism in Filipino culture and the availability of social support from extended family. Depression Depending on other identity markers such as sexuality and age, certain Filipino-American groups are estimated to have more or less depression rates than their Chinese-Americans counterparts. In cases where Filipino-Americans report higher rates of depressive symptoms than other Asians, this could be because Chinese ...
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Filipinos
Filipinos ( tl, Mga Pilipino) are the people who are citizens of or native to the Philippines. The majority of Filipinos today come from various Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups, all typically speaking either Filipino, English and/or other Philippine languages. Currently, there are more than 185 ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines; each with its own language, identity, culture and history. Names The name ''Filipino'', as a demonym, was derived from the term ''Las Islas Filipinas'' ("the Philippine Islands"), the name given to the archipelago in 1543 by the Spanish explorer and Dominican priest Ruy López de Villalobos, in honor of Philip II of Spain (Spanish: ''Felipe II''). During the Spanish colonial period, natives of the Philippine islands were usually known by the generic terms ''indio'' (" Indian") or ''indigenta'' ("indigents"). However, during the early Spanish colonial period the term ''Filipinos'' or ''Philipinos'' was sometimes used by Spanish writ ...
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