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Peer reviewedCastro, Felipe G.; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1984
Interviews were conducted with 102 urban Mexican, Mexican American, and Anglo American women to examine health-illness beliefs in five health domains as related to acculturation level: folk and hot-cold beliefs, beliefs of responsibility and control over own health, and cardiovascular disease and stress-illness beliefs. Mexican-origin women mildly…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Anglo Americans, Beliefs, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedMindel, Charles H. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1980
A comparative investigation of extended familism among 455 Mexican Americans, Anglos, and Blacks living in an inner city indicated that Mexican Americans exhibited the highest level of extended familism and Anglos the least, and that Anglos moved away from the kin network while Mexican Americans and Blacks moved toward and within it. (DS)
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Extended Family, Family (Sociological Unit)
