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Direct linkMarsiglia, Flavio F.; Parsai, Monica; Kulis, Stephen – Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 2009
This study used baseline data from the Southwest sample of the Latino Acculturation and Health Project to examine whether familism and cohesion are related to problem behaviors in a sample of Mexican and Mexican-American adolescents in the Southwest United States. This study is important to practitioners and prevention and intervention researchers…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, At Risk Persons, Immigrants, Mexicans
Chilcott, John H. – 1986
Personal narratives were analyzed to determine if a pattern would emerge in the lives of Tucson, Arizona's successful Mexican American adults who had grown up in a traditional barrio without benefit of inherited wealth. Participants in the study were nominated as successful by their peers. Nominees who agreed to participate were given a life…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Biculturalism, Community Influence, Cultural Influences
Masten, William G. – 1983
It has been postulated that the result of the Mexican woman's inability to live up to the stiff requirements of her culture should show itself in depressive trends. These theories are often applied to the Mexican-American female as well. The aim of this study was to determine if acculturation is related to depression in Mexican-American females. A…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Images, Depression (Psychology)
Peer reviewedGonzales, Maria Diana; Montgomery, Gary T.; Fucci, Donald; Randolph, Elizabeth; Ezell, Helen; Garber, Norman; Leach, Edwin – Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, 2001
This study, with 53 Mexican-American infants, found that five predictors accounted for approximately 35 percent of the variance in receptive language at 12 and 22 months with average parental generation from Mexico (acculturation) and infant visual recognition memory accounting for 14 and 15 percent of the variance, respectively. No predictors…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Ethnic Groups, Expressive Language, Infants
Peer reviewedMarin, Gerardo; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1987
A 12-item acculturation scale developed for Hispanics correlated highly with the respondents' generation, length of residence in the United States, age at arrival, ethnic self-identification, and with an acculturation scale. Language use, media preferences, and ethnic social relations were the three factors accounting for 67.6 percent of the total…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Age Differences, Culture, Ethnicity
Download full textHirano-Nakanishi, Marsha J.; Diaz, R. Leticia – 1982
Little has been done to analyze the forces that predict whether high-risk students will stay in school or drop out. Current and retrospective data from 27 high-risk youths were studied to shed light on this problem and to suggest ways of improving educational services. The at-risk students were from low socioeconomic backgrounds, were Mexican…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Bilingual Students, Case Studies, Cohort Analysis
