R E S E A R C H R E P O R T Ethnic Differences in Clinical Presentation of Depression in Adult Women HECTOR F. MYERS University of California, Los Angeles, and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science IRA LESSER Harbor–UCLA Medical Center NORMA RODRIGUEZ Pitzer College CONSUELO BINGHAM MIRA Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science WEI-CHIN HWANG University of California, Los Angeles CHRISTINA CAMP DORA ANDERSON Harbor–UCLA Medical Center LUCY ERICKSON Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science MARCY WOHL Harbor–UCLA Medical Center • Hector F. Myers, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Department of Psychiatry, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; Ira Lesser, Christina Camp, Dora Anderson, and Marcy Wohl, Department of Psychiatry, Harbor–UCLA Medical Center; Norma Rodriguez, Department of Psychology, Pitzer College; Consuelo Bingham Mira and Lucy Erickson, Department of Psychiatry, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; Wei-Chin Hwang, Department of Psychology, UCLA. Christina Camp is now at the California School of Professional Psychology. This research is supported in part by National Institute of Mental Health Grant MH47913 to the Research Center on the Psychobiology of Ethnicity, Harbor–UCLA Medical Center, and by Na- tional Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant 1 P20 RR11145 to the Research Centers in Minority Institutions Clinical Research Center, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, and NIH Grant RR00425 to the NIH General Clinical Research Center, Harbor–UCLA Medical Center. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Hector F. Myers, Department of Psychology, UCLA, P. O. Box 951563, Los Angeles, California 90095-1563. E-mail: myers@psych.ucla.edu Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Copyright 2002 by the Educational Publishing Foundation Vol. 8, No. 2, 138–156 1099-9809/02/$5.00 DOI: 10.1037//1099-9809.8.2.138 138 This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers. This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.