Culture plays a vital role in directing, shaping, and modeling social behavior at both individual and group levels (Pandey, 1988).
“Culture should be regarded as set of distinctive, spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional features of society or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions, and beliefs”. (By the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO], 2002)
Relationship between Culture factors and mental disorder is a combination of how the person experience in a personal’s life and how they were raised like cultures differences and include parent child relationships independence and interdependence and their social-economic and political life and religion. Culture factors not only matters in mental health but also absolute part of it. Socio-economic effect on mental health
Researcher say being poor or poverty increased your chances in Schizophrenia. Society also rationalize your status (e.g. white society demonized black people that they were passive and meant for slavery, we know slavery related to two things having to do with violence and poverty. Scientists claim that black people are naturally hyper active, violent and aggressive.) Scientist some time becomes selection bias. The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
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Good family and their support can heal or protect person against mental illness. In Islam family roles are essential in Muslim life, both moral and ethical values. Ethnic group is result of cultures and social factors. In west, mostly now day’s people are suffering and stress is increasing due to broken families and divorces or single parenting which leads to child abuse, neglecting, drugs intake, loneliness and lower self esteem which can lead to variety of mental disorders. And higher risk in childhood