Sociosomatic theory in Vietnamese immigrants' narratives of distress
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Abstract
We examined the symptom experience and illness explanations of Vietnamese immigrants to Canada through narratives collected during a study of pathways and barriers to mental health care. The narratives presented two culture-related explanatory models: phong thâp and uâ't u'ć. Common elements in the narratives of those who suffered from uâ't u'ć were experiences of injustice and indignation, along with the persistent inability to denounce these injustices because of the sufferer's social status. In contrast, phong thâp - an explanation analogous to rheumatism - was a socially acceptable way to describe distress that was attributed to depletion of energy, cold and environmental effects. Talk about phong thâp also served as an idiom of distress that permitted older people to express negative feelings about their life situation in Canada in a socially acceptable way. The contrast between these models throws into relief the complex interaction of explanatory models and idioms of distress in the co-construction of narratives of distress.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".